I have been wanting this set forever. Just for the goats. LEGO needs to make more goats.
Bag 1 has all the wonderful animals in it. The grey horse, I believe, is also only in this set as well.
This was a fun build and rather easy. Monty Python’s Holy Grail kept running through my head.
I have the other village set too. Will be doing that one soon as well.
Biggest problem with this set was that every time I put a brown piece on the model instead of the classic LEGO click I heard a distinct crack and sizzle of the plastic cracking.
The 1×1 brown bricks were the worst followed closely by the plates (any size). See the close up image below.
Kingdoms Village Raid Bag 1Animals in bagsBag one done.Bag two windmill completed.Back of the windmill.
Every brown brick cracked. Bag three gives us half the barn.Bag four completes the barn and the set.Another goat shot.
I picked up some parts in the BAM (build a minifigure) area of the store the other night when we were at the adult (yeah right) build. I was hoping for the Winter/Valentine’s parts I have been seeing on the web (penguin, pink elephant head piece, pink torso with red heart, heart shaped glasses head, ice king). But no such luck.
I did get some black scottie dogs, charcaol kitty, dude in suit with bowler hat, and a few left over elves.
Once I was home and playing with them I noticed on the back of the cat the odd placement of the sprue mark (the piece of plastic that is left attached when the parts are molded).
It is at the exact spot of a cat’s anus. Yup, LEGO has unknowingly given us cat butt.
The scottie dog did not have this ossue as the sprue was on his back.
I am probably going to have to paint one. Just because.
This year EVERYONE gets to celebrate Chinese New Year with LEGO. In the past these sets were exclusives to the Asian Pacific regions. Not any more thanks to LEGO sticking by their statements from last year of no longer doing regional exclusives. This doesn’t include their in house exclusives nor the comic con exclusives (don’t even get me started with those)
Today’s the day the sets are available on LEGO.com [affiliate link]. Go get ’em!
LEGO’s press release about the sets can be found below.
Celebrate the Chinese New Year with LEGO® Lion Dance and Traditional Temple Fair
Billund, 05 November 2019: Today, the LEGO Group revealed its 2020 Chinese New Year sets – Lion Dance and Chinese New Year Temple Fair. The launch follows on from this year’s popular sets: Dragon Boat Race, Dragon Dance and Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner, the first LEGO® products created to mark the festivities.
The Lion Dance set vividly reproduces a well-loved scene of the Spring Festival and is sure to evoke fond memories of the traditional festival. The set features 5 beautifully decorated small lion figurines and a percussionists’ stage with an awesome drumming function. An accompanying temple gate is decorated with LEGO tiles featuring traditional patterns. The set also comes complete with 8 minifigures including lion dancers and a man in rat costume to mark the Year of the Rat. Additional accessory elements such as the red ‘best wishes’ scroll, red orb, cabbage, calligraphy brush and a rocket firework are included to inspire unlimited role-play.
The Chinese New Year Temple Fair set captures a beloved event often seen in towns and cities throughout China around the lunar new year. The set includes stalls displaying a vast, colourful array of LEGO versions of authentic items you would find at a Temple Fair. Everything from barbecue dishes to candy, toys, vases and dough figurines are lovingly re-created ion LEGO form. The set also includes 14 minifigures. Eagle-eyed LEGO fans will notice that the family from last year’s Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner set make an appearance, continuing the story of their Spring Festival celebrations.
LEGO Product designer Markus Rollbühler, designed the sets to be as authentic as possible: “We were incredibly thorough with our research when designing the sets. For the Chinese New Year Temple Fair, we looked closely at the types of things vendors sell in the market stalls and all of the various goods on offer.” It was also important that children could act out scenes to make the sets come alive: “Both sets include amazing minifigures and details to encourage role play. The Lion Dance set comes with many interesting play features. For example, you can fully pose the lions and you can also open and close their mouths to help recreate the spectacular dances we all know and love.” Markus explains.
The two new LEGO® Chinese Traditional Festival models will be ready to discover in China and Asia Pacific markets from December 26, 2019 and the rest of the world from January 10, 2020.
Here are images of all the minifgures featured in both sets. The duplicate figures are just showing both sides of the dual heads and not actually two figures. See above photos for reference .
Fun build at the LEGO store tonight. But I thought it was for adults (well 15+). There were a bunch of under 15 kids there. Doubt they would let me show up for the dragon build.
This is the first build I have done at the store that has included a minifigure.
This is going to look good with the bookstore.
Apparently our store did not get the right parts as we did not have 1×6 plates in sand blue, but were rather given those in dark bluish grey.
Please Note: Even a build done in the LEGO store still has cat hair on it! Boris goes every where with me. LOL.
This set has 86 pieces and comes with a Zorri Bliss minifigure.
Y-wing minified. Pew pew pew.
No face! What!? No! The Zorii Bliss minifigure doesn’t have a face! We see some of her face in the movie, so I do wish LEGO would have stepped up and given us an actual head here.
WotNo! takes the little ship for the swoosh test and he says it zooms.
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Not normally a fan of Ninjago, but I thought the Arcade Pod was an interesting enough concept to give it a try. It is fun how all the pieces fit nicely into the pod and you can take them with you anywhere.
I don’t normally apply stickers but this set screamed apply the stickers so I did. (I am also horrible at applying them, which is why I don’t usually do it.)
Inside the arcade pod. We were testing how to move stuff around so he could hold his guitar while inside there.
Unlike the previous round pods (which I have hated from the inception), these lend themselves to being more than a small container. Removing the pieces from the pod is so much easier than previous pods as well.
Me in the arcade pod.WotNo! trying out arcade pod.
