Blocks Book of Retro LEGO Sets Volume 2
Posted by Huw,
Here's the press release for a new book from the Blocks team:
Blocks magazine is following up last year’s super popular stocking filler with the Blocks Book of Retro LEGO Sets Volume II – in time for Christmas! What better time to relive your brick-building childhood than over the holiday?
It’s absolutely packed with retro content focusing on the beloved LEGO sets that so many fans grew up with, including Adventurers, Western, Aquazone, Space, Castle, Pirates, Fabuland, Technic and more.
The Blocks Book of Retro LEGO Sets is available to pre-order now at blocksmag.com – if you order now, it will arrive in plenty of time for Christmas! It will start shipping towards the end of October.
Blocks Book of Retro LEGO Sets Volume II contains ALL NEW content you have never read before. As a special issue, it is not included in a Blocks subscription.
If you grew up with LEGO sets – or if you discovered them in adulthood and are curious about what you missed out on – then the Blocks Book of Retro LEGO Sets Volume II is for you. It includes spotlights on classic sets, brand-new interviews with the people who worked at the LEGO Group in the 1980s and 1990s, instructions to build modern versions of vintage models, a peek inside the hidden vault in the LEGO headquarters and Q&As with talented fans who are keeping the classics alive.
The Blocks Book of Retro LEGO Sets Volume II is a packed 132-page special magazine containing:
- The story of LEGO Adventurers and LEGO Fabuland
- All-new interviews as Jan Hatting, Steen Sig Andersen, Steen Kyster, Johnny Pinholt Thorsen and Ole Toft share their previously untold stories
- Inside the hidden LEGO vault in Billund, Denmark
- Focus pages on specific sets from the 1980s and 1990s
- Instructions for building all-new models inspired by retro LEGO sets
- Q&A interviews the fans keeping the vintage themes going with new creations
- How fan demand is driving the return of Castle
- More nostalgia than you can shake a LEGO box at!
Blocks also has a regular monthly magazine for LEGO fans – and if you subscribe at blocksmag.com in print, before December 24, 2024, then you’ll be entered into a prize draw to win £3,000 worth of LEGO products. One lucky winner will get an enormous prize haul to keep them building well into 2025!
Everyone who subscribes to the regular print edition by December 23, 11.59pm (UK time) will be in with a chance of winning (existing subscribers will automatically be entered into the prize draw as long as their subscription is active at the closing time).
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I completely missed the first one! It looks very interesting
@myth said:
"I completely missed the first one! It looks very interesting"
They apparently still have the first one for sale as well.
https://blocksmag.com/product/blocks-book-of-retro-lego-magazine/
Isn't this just old articles republished?
@Brickulator93 said:
"Isn't this just old articles republished?"
Hey! Last year's edition was reprints of existing content (which is still new to those who haven't read it!) – this year though it's all new content :D
Adventurers is considered retro now? Oof, that aged me
I not buy cus its not USD
Combine this detail with the visual dictionaries it be a perfect book.
@Brickalili said:
"Adventurers is considered retro now? Oof, that aged me "
For me, retro is pre-minifigures!
Is it possible to see the inside of the books (few pages maybe) somewhere?
Instructions for building all-new models inspired by retro LEGO sets - they should be releasing these ... and other retro inspired sets if they take the time to design them!
I enjoyed the first volume (apart from the fact it got mangled up in mail). Looking forward to this one.
Just bought both books as I'm running out of things to read on the bog and trying to read this site on a mobile ('cell' to the colonies) throws up more adverts than a series on Amazon Prime....
@Belboz said:
"Just bought both books as I'm running out of things to read on the bog and trying to read this site on a mobile ('cell' to the colonies) throws up more adverts than a series on Amazon Prime...."
Log in and you won't see them, as you have surely found out seeing as you're logged in to post your comment :)
@Huw said:
" @Belboz said:
"Just bought both books as I'm running out of things to read on the bog and trying to read this site on a mobile ('cell' to the colonies) throws up more adverts than a series on Amazon Prime...."
Log in and you won't see them, as you have surely found out seeing as you're logged in to post your comment :)"
Good idea but can't be ar*ed typing the whole auto-generated shebang into the mobile (cell)
:-)))
Just FYI, one of the 2 'books' arrived today in just a thin plastic covering envelope. Needless to say it was not in the best shape. Very unimpressed. Would rather they charge shipping and it arrives pristine than give free shipping and it arrives tattered and torn. FFS!
@sjr60 said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Adventurers is considered retro now? Oof, that aged me "
For me, retro is pre-minifigures!"
For me, retro goes from the introduction of minifigs up to when Lego started throwing anything and everything at the wall to see what stuck around the turn of the millennium. Before that is vintage, like with the Vintage Set of the Week.
@TheOtherMike said:
"Before that is vintage, like with the Vintage Set of the Week."
I don't consider 'vintage set of the week' to be vintage.
Cellulose bricks, waffle bottom plates, and no wheels other than on their HO scale cars. (although I know Samsonite held on to the first two a bit longer).... or maybe just wooden!