afol fun for everyone (as long as you're 18+ LOL)
Initially I was inspired by the minifigure head on the back of a LEGO City police set. It just screamed crazed Jack. I created the fig using all LEGO pieces (no custom stuff this time).
I still haven’t done the MOC I want to do with this fig. But while trying to coming up with a winter village scene for our SnailLUG display I started working on this hedge maze. I like how it came out. And it doesn’t look bad in the winter village either.
We Grouches prefer the holidays after they are over.
These little builds are kind of addicting.
I did another build of what my plans are for the holiday.
Sitting around with my cats reading a book and watching the yule log on TV.
This may not be completely accurate as I also intend to watch Wonder Woman 1984 and The Mandalorian while building some LEGO sets.
Happy Holidays everyone.
Over on Instagram @BrickFamBuilds has a contest for #holidayhabitats.
Loads of people are building and sharing theirs. They are rather easy to construct but being able to contain your story to a small foot print is challenging.
You are building on an 8×8 plate which is reduced to a 7×7 area once you build the walls. (They are designed to be stacked or attached to each other. )
Here are my first two entries into the minifig habitats. Be kind these are the very first ones I have ever done.
First up we have Scrooge and the ghost of Christmas Future visiting his grave.
Then I did the Grouch that stole Christmas.
Head over to IG and check out #holidayhabitats for more of these fun little builds and maybe make some of your own.
This is just a small look at the GWP items from the last round of holiday offerings.
First we got the awesome Charles Dickens set over Black Friday weekend. (Review coming)
Then we got these three. Two of which were in store only.
The Frozen set was a gift with a $50 Frozen purchase. BB-8 was free with any Star Wars purchase over $40 and the Skater set was with any purchase over $150.
Awesome giveaways from LEGO. Individual reviews will be coming.
For those looking for awesome winter figures the skaters have nice sweaters on.
Brickheadz these days seem to be relegated to holiday sets only. Just about the time people were catching on to them LEGO kills them.
O well. Lucky Cat is a sitting figure where most of the Brickheads seem to be standing.
This is the first one I have built that has had a movement feature his hand goes up and down, but only a very little bit.
All kitties should have tails even stubby little ones like a manx. This guy is tailless and sad.
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 .
I have been working on my holiday cards (late as usual — this is why they are more often than not digital cards rather than physical cards).
The miniature TV with the yule log video is from TinyCircuits.com (not an ad). I also did this as a brief video so folks can see that the TV was actually playing.