LEGO® Minifigures are soon heading off to the moon on board the Artemis I mission. Consequently, we are celebrating with Space Week! We’re publishing a new space-themed article each day this week. Today, we take a look at the Lunar Research Base (60350). In case you didn’t know, the Artemis missions aim to establish a base on the surface of
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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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Hot on the heals of yesterday’s first two 2022 Advent Calendars reveal, we now have details on two more. Head on over to the official site and you will find listings for the City and Friends calendars. And just like prior years, you will get a lovely selection of mini builds and minifigures/mini-dolls. Unlike the licensed ones, these two themes
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Water Police Detective Missions (60355) is one of three new sets in the new City sub-theme “Missions” that I will review for True North Bricks. All three sets are now available! Over this past week I also reviewed Wild Animal Rescue Missions (60353) and Mars Spacecraft Exploration Missions (60354). Before picking one of these sets up, make sure you are
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Mars Spacecraft Exploration Missions (60354) is one of three new sets in the new City sub-theme called “Missions” that I will review for True North Bricks. And it is available now! I reviewed Wild Animal Rescue Missions (60353), the first set in this sub-theme, a few days ago. Missions sets require a free app in order to play with them
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Wild Animal Rescue Missions (60353), part of the new City sub-theme called “Missions”, is now available. This review will cover both the set and the free app that is required to play. This set is part of the first wave of this new sub-theme that includes two other sets. These include Mars Spacecraft Exploration Missions (60354) and Water Police Detective
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Back in Bargain Bricks, Episode 8, we took a look at the Utility Shuttle (60078). I acquired it at a good cost in a bin of bricks I purchased off of Facebook Marketplace. The set was not complete, but even with the Bricklink orders I placed, it still only cost me $8.26. Incidentally, I love the City theme space sets.
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Three new summer 2022 City sets have come to light. Online retailers have shared specifics of these kits already. However, the LEGO® Group now officially released images and details about the new sets. City Missions are coming on June 1 in Canada. Comparatively, most other City sets release in August. Additionally, they offer a brand new build experience based on
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Seventeen new summer 2022 City sets were revealed this morning by retailers in Europe. Additionally, pricing information popped up at some Canadian retailers too. Consequently, we’ve got a lot to look at today, and there are a number of interesting items here too. Fans of the Stuntz theme get a second wave. We also get some farm related kits with
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When I was emerging from my dark ages, the City theme was taking one of its sojourns into space. I was on a tighter budget and was buying buildings to create a city at the time. Consequently, despite wanting space sets, I did not buy many. I managed to score the Spaceport on liquidation. However, I missed out on other
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