Neat.

To me this is the epitome of the Ideas line. It’s unique, amazing and eye-catching to display in your home. Such an innovative build that I can’t wait to get!

Looks nice, but AU$320 nice? Ooft.

Yep that's a globe

Really cool but I would have used a brighter blue... anyway, nice model!

We need a Death Star mod of this set

Glad to see Australia (as well as Tasmania and New Zealand) recognised by Lego for once!

Often various maps leave off New Zealand for some reason.

I am however very disappointed in the 'Europe' section. It is not recognisable at all. Only the British Isles look remotely like the subject matter, which is only because they are an island. Italy is probably one of the most recognisable landmasses, but here I don't even know where it is.

In saying that, the overall look of the globe is really nice and I'm glad they made it as round as possible. However, the AU price of $319.99 is far too expensive. This new Australian price of $300 + a random $20 is just dumb and a clear example of ANZAC (Australia & New Zealand Auxiliary Cost). The Yanks got their modular price bumped up to $200 US, the Australian price should be $300 at most. An extra $20 is also just a really weird number, just do $300 or $350!

I need to build a mini ISS to put in orbit…..

That's very cool, quite beautiful and unique. Trying to work out how much white there is for Antarctica, but can't quite tell.

This is something I'll definitely get, and is far more up appealing to me than the last few ideas sets (which my wallet had appreciated until now).

Interestingly I'm currently trying to re-learn the ```````````195/197 countries on the planet for a bit of fun, sadly surprising how many I have forgotten since Geography.

it's nice and innovative, but not something i'd buy personally. nowhere near enough wheels, engines, lasers, minifigs, horses or goats.

if it turns out it's geologically correct on the interior and you can display it 'open/section' that could potentially change my mind.

I could be wrong, but I don't think flat-earthers will appreciate this set.

The continent including Australia is called Oceania so a miss there.
Also the arctic circle goes through Sweden, Norway, Russia, Finland and Canada so everything should be moved futher north. Even Iceland should be moved one stud to the north.

I love how the overall shape and look of the planet itself is reminiscent of the Rebuild the World campaign, albeit in a more muted color scheme. Too bad they didn't use a red dot for Singapore but a green one. (This sentence is entirely facetious.)

@LJ_McGowan said:
"I could be wrong, but I don't think flat-earthers will appreciate this set."
There's always 31203.

Nope, sorry. I like the idea but the result is unsightly. Besides, for that money you can buy a real vintage globe.

"with printed names of the continents and oceans that glow in the dark"

What a strange feature...?

@MVives said:
""with printed names of the continents and oceans that glow in the dark"

What a strange feature...?"

Embarrassingly, it took me until your comment to realise how wrong I read this the first time... the 'glow in the dark' probably refers to the labels and not the oceans themselves, huh.

Anyone else wnst one just to go next to their 10143? That would make quite the display haha.

Seriously though, I'm very impressed with the roundness and level of detail at this scale. Yes, a few of the landmasses aren't well defined, but I struggle to see how it could be improved without drastically increasing the size. I think any larger would be quite inconvenient. Owners of any of the Lego Death Stars are surely aware of how impossible it is to find a shelf to hold a massive Lego sphere. Actually, a Death Star II model at this scale would be fantastic, relatively affordable and the amount of new greebling pieces and wedge plates would undoubtedly make it far cleaner and more detailed than the original.

Looks nice from far but a globe where Italy cannot be recognized at all is a bad globe. I like the effort but the result is quite disappointing. And for that price tag you can get the luxury++ edition of a real globe.

@Brickchap said:
"I am however very disappointed in the 'Europe' section. It is not recognisable at all. Only the British Isles look remotely like the subject matter, which is only because they are an island. Italy is probably one of the most recognisable landmasses, but here I don't even know where it is.
"
Same. I think it doesn’t help that Europe is most recognisable from its fiddlier bits rather than being a big slab of land, and those haven’t translated too well to the scale

in this project I see 580 elements and not 2500 ... and the price should be 80-100 euro not 200. I definitely will not buy.
Is it a piñata filled with 1x1 elements inside?

I see no evidence of a Southern Ocean label. Pretty much all geographers, globes, and maps label this as a unique ocean now so it seems strange that Lego didn't include it. That being said, perhaps they did, but all of these photos very poorly represent the bottom half of the globe.

Australia as a continent ? Wow how could they let that happen ?

I wouldn't have bought it anyway but I like how it's totally customable : you can change the layout if you're not happy with it, you can add depth, change the colours, etc.

Europe is very ugly, Italy is not recognizable as big as Greece and with not islands, France is missing, Iberian Peninsula is stretched.

Lego is hemispherist. The whole thing is upside down.

Yet another boring glorified display piece that you just build once, and leave it on a shelf to gather dust. I am kind of tired of so many sets like this, honestly...

@Lego_Mouse said:
"To me this is the epitome of the Ideas line. It’s unique, amazing and eye-catching to display in your home. Such an innovative build that I can’t wait to get! "

Absolutely and wholeheartedly agree!

I think it looks great. Everyone complaining about how their country isn't rendered correctly needs to get over themselves and understand that this is a model of a whole freaking planet, of course it's not going to be 1:1 accurate. It's awfully expensive, but I'll have to see the insides before I can judge whether it's overpriced or not. I suspect there's a lot of structure in there.

@LegoDavid: It's not a glorified display piece, it is LITERALLY a display piece. That's its whole purpose. If you don't want it, there's dozens of sets with awesome action features you can buy instead, Ninjago and Monkie Kid are particularly good for that.

@LegoDavid said:
"Yet another boring glorified display piece that you just build once, and leave it on a shelf to gather dust. I am kind of tired of so many sets like this, honestly... "

You are free to take it apart after building it and use the pieces for something else.

Not sure what could be done at this scale and with available Lego parts to give better definition to coastlines and the shape of countries?

Seems a bit harsh to criticise for that…….

@LegoDavid said:
" @DoonsterBuildsLego said:
" @LegoDavid said:
"Yet another boring glorified display piece that you just build once, and leave it on a shelf to gather dust. I am kind of tired of so many sets like this, honestly... "

You are free to take it apart after building it and use the pieces for something else. "

I mean let's be real here, not that many people who will buy this is will actually be taking it apart though... That's one of the problems with those super big and expensive sets."

What's wrong with that? Let people enjoy things the way they enjoy them.

I collect globes and I collect Lego, so a no brainer day one purchase for me.

Y'all talking about how Europe looks, but you can clearly see the boot that is Italy. Uncanny!

As for the set as a whole, it looks well done. The shaping is spot on. The coloring is not necessarily what I would have chosen, but it works overall.

I think for the price and piece count (even though likely a lot of smaller pieces internally) it seems reasonable, but do I need another $200+ set to sit on a shelf? Likely not. Especially since the globe I have on my shelf already is a better suited color for the room.

But I'm sure once it is near end of life, I will scramble to find one because today me and future me don't seem to agree on things.

@LegoDavid said:
"Yet another boring glorified display piece that you just build once, and leave it on a shelf to gather dust. I am kind of tired of so many sets like this, honestly... "

Crap in a bottle, crapwriter, piano (nonfunctioning), globe. These sets are just objects made out of LEGO bricks for the sake of saying they can be made out of bricks. No mystical LEGO charm here that is present in sets like Barracuda Bay and the Treehouse.

These types of sets wouldn't be as bad if they took the lower price point Ideas sets instead of the $200+ ones (ship in a bottle is ok in this regard). The market must treat them well since they keep releasing these types of sets.

@Ottozone said:
" @LegoDavid said:
"Yet another boring glorified display piece that you just build once, and leave it on a shelf to gather dust. I am kind of tired of so many sets like this, honestly... "

Crap in a bottle, crapwriter, piano (nonfunctioning), globe. These sets are just objects made out of LEGO bricks for the sake of saying they can be made out of bricks. No mystical LEGO charm here that is present in sets like Barracuda Bay and the Treehouse.

These types of sets wouldn't be as bad if they took the lower price point Ideas sets instead of the $200+ ones (ship in a bottle is ok in this regard). The market must treat them well since they keep releasing these types of sets."

Honestly we could do with far fewer of these kinds of comments that assume that anything that doesn't appeal to your particular preferences are automatically "crap". Like, I loved Pirates of Barracuda Bay and the Treehouse. I also loved the Typewriter, and in my opinion simulating functionality that complex in a life-size prop felt just as "mystical" as building a minifigure-scale scene like one of those other sets. What you get out of a build, and how you choose to display and/or play with it, is not the be-all and end-all of what the Lego experience can or should be. In fact, part of why these kinds of projects succeed on Ideas is that they represent something so different from the kinds of things Lego has produced in the past, and thus can appeal to a different audience than traditional minifigure-based playsets would.

I also feel like your assumption that these sets are "taking" price points that could otherwise go to other sorts of Ideas sets has little grounding in reality. A couple years ago, Ideas sets didn't exist at price points like this whatsoever. The introduction of more expensive Ideas sets in recent years has typically accompanied projects that require a larger price point in the first place (such as Voltron, which had to split into separate robot builds, or Barracuda Bay, for which the size was dictated in part by the boat hull pieces necessary for the ship, or a set like this where the scale is an approximation of life-size). And clearly the selection of sets like this or the Typewriter has not prevented more "traditional" playsets like Barracuda Bay or last year's Medieval Blacksmith from being selected and produced.