Holiday Main Street (10308) is the latest set in the LEGO® Winter Village Collection. This is the largest set in the collection to date, just edging out Winter Village Cottage (10229), Gingerbread House (10267), and Santa’s Visit (10293). Holiday Main Street is the perfect hub for the other village-based sets like the Winter Village Fire Station (10263) and Winter Village
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The Loop Coaster (10303) is the latest set in the Fairground Collection and is sure to give you a sense of excitement with the tallest free-fall in the park. This is the second coaster since the very popular Roller Coaster (10261) from 2018. However, the double loop coaster is a first from LEGO® and utilizes a variety of design techniques.
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From October 1 – 13, 2022, the LEGO® Group will offer a new gift-with-purchase (GWP). The set features a desert island and is called Ray the Castaway (40566). This offering comes from LEGO® Ideas and results from a contest held in summer 2021. Brothers David and Diego Escalona created the entry. The LEGO® Group sent True North Bricks a pre-release
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LEGO® Friends is not my forte. I have not built many items from the theme, and most Friends sets I’ve purchased have been for parts. However, when the opportunity arose to review a larger set from Heartlake City, I figured: why not? The Main Street Building (41704) looks very much like a city-growing set AFOLs might be interested in. Additionally,
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HAPPY BATMAN DAY!!🦇Welcome Bat (back) to our last day of Batman Week. I hope you have enjoyed our look at Batman sets this week. For today’s final review I am bringing you one last look at the Jim Lee Batman Collection. This one’s the biggun’ – the triple size ultimate Batman portrait made by combining three sets. Part II, the
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It’s Batman Week at True North Bricks! We’re celebrating International Batman Day which takes place on September 17 this year. So far, we’ve seen Frank’s collection of Minifigures from the LEGO® Batman Movie, the Jim Lee Batman collection based on the comic books, and the Batmobile Tumbler from the Dark Knight Trilogy. Today, we jump to a more recent imagining
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Who’s ready for more Caped Crusader goodness? Today I continue my look at the Jim Lee Batman Collection (31205) with Part II. For Day 4 of Batman Week, we’re returning to the LEGO®️ Art theme and my second of three reviews for this set. My first review was for the single portraits of Batman, The Joker and Harley Quinn. As
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It is Batman Week 2022 here at True North Bricks. We are celebrating the upcoming International Batman Day on September 17 with new Dark Knight themed content each day this week. Today, we take a closer look at the Batmobile Tumbler (76240) set. This epic kit accurately recreates Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy Batmobile. Interestingly, it was one of two
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Welcome to Day 2 of Batman Week fellow Bat-Fans. Today’s Bat goodness is my review of the Jim Lee Batman Collection (31205) from LEGO®️ Art. Like the other sets in the theme, you have the option to create multiple images from one box. For this particular collection, five images are possible with either one, two or three copies of the
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Welcome to Batman Week everyone! This Saturday, September 17th marks Batman Day 2022. You know, Batman Day? The most beloved superhero holiday of the year? Where we all gather on moonlit rooftops to read comics and brood by gargoyles? Alright, maybe it’s not that universal a day – not yet anyway. But we here at True North Bricks are big
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