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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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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True North Bricks’ Space Week concludes today with a look at the largest set in the 2022 City NASA inspired lineup. Those of you who’ve been following along all week know that Space Week celebrates the launch of the Artemis I mission. Four LEGO® Minifigures boarded the shuttle and are now on their way to the Moon! The rocket that
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Lunar Space Station (60349) is one of the LEGO® sets released in early 2022 to coincide with the launch of Artemis I. In case you’ve been living in a hole, the Artemis missions mark humanity’s first manned missions to the moon since 1972. Of course, Artemis I has no human crew. It is more of a systems check before Artemis
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Vroom Vroom and buon giorno AFOLs!!! Today I bring you my review of the Technic Ferrari Daytona SP3 (42143)! Join me in the passenger seat as we take a look at this incredible set. I’m extra excited to talk about this because it is my first ever Technic set – and what a way to start! With almost 4,000 pieces
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In Episode 9 of Bargain Bricks, we took a look at Droid Escape (9490), a Star Wars set from 2012. I acquired the kit is a bulk bin of LEGO® bricks that I found for a good price on Facebook Marketplace. As far as I know, the LEGO® Group has produced three versions of this set to date. This one
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