Review: 40699 Retro Record Player GwP for LEGO® Insiders Weekend

As well as 40700 Winter Holiday Train which I reviewed earlier this week, the LEGO® Insiders Weekend includes a second Gift with Purchase (GwP) with a higher threshold. 40699 Retro Record Player is available to LEGO Insiders from midnight 23 November 2024 until end Sunday 24 – along with Double Points on all purchases.

Pick a Brick: Christmas cutoff dates, and List Upload rollout

The exciting updates from the LEGO® Pick a Brick (PaB) team keep coming thick and fast! Read on for further country rollouts of their recent platform updates in time for LEGO Insiders Weekend on 23 and 24 November 2024, as well as the Christmas cutoff dates for receiving Bestseller elements. 

Revealed: Formula 1® joins multiple LEGO® themes in 2025

LEGO® Speed Champions, LEGO® City, LEGO® DUPLO® and LEGO® Collectables are teaming up with Formula 1® to drive the excitement of the racetrack to your home. In January, March and May 2025, new waves of LEGO sets will launch that feature all ten F1 teams.

Review: 21350 Jaws from LEGO® Ideas

Growing up near many of the Massachusetts shooting locations for 1975's Jaws, my interest was understandably piqued when The LEGO Group announced development of a set based on the film. Now, just a year-and-a-half after that announcement, I'm excited to examine the final set and the parts it contains. Fortunately, almost all of these elements are now available for purchase via the LEGO® Pick a Brick service, if desired in quantity.

Parts review: 10335 Endurance from LEGO® Icons

Set sail and head towards the South Pole with LEGO® Icons 10335 Endurance. After the massive Titanic LEGO set in 2021, this is the next historical ship to release on a Black Friday. While significantly smaller and with fewer parts than its predecessor, it is a worthy contender for LEGO set of the year. In this first article, we are investigating the parts from which the Endurance is made.

After-Party Fest: Kev Levell's MOCs

One of my favourite LEGO® activities is a good old New Elementary parts festival. I love taking part, for a number of reasons. A bundle of lovely new parts arrive, supplied in the kind of quantities that would be prohibitively expensive for me to acquire in any of the normal ways. There are elements I perhaps might not gravitate to buying, and that's a nice challenge to face. There's a shared experience with fellow builders in the creation of MOCs that generally surprise and delight, both from my own build table and those of my co-contributors. They have become rarer in recent years and that too makes them a sweet experience. In short, even as a regular contributor to New Elementary, it's a privilege and an honour to be included.

Review: 40700 Winter Holiday Train GwP for LEGO® Insiders Weekend

Several Christmas-themed LEGO® trains, both big and small, have appeared over the years and this coming holiday season brings us 40700 Winter Holiday Train, a new Gift with Purchase (GwP) available to LEGO® Insiders beginning on 23 November 2024 – along with Double Points.

Revealed: 77037 Aloy & Varl vs. Shell-Walker & Sawtooth from LEGO® Horizon Adventures™

The LEGO Group have revealed set 77037 Aloy & Varl vs. Shell-Walker & Sawtooth, a tie-in with the LEGO® Horizon Adventures™video game that released 4 days ago. We also have some pictures of it from Fan Media Days in Billund in September, including new moulds created for the set! 

Pick a Brick: Germany and UK get upload option plus more new features

Yet more exciting news from the LEGO® Pick a Brick online development team! The ability to upload a wish list, which premiered in North America recently, has now been rolled out to the UK and Germany... with even more new features included than before.

2024 Skærbæk workshop and After-Party Fest: introducing the elements

New Elementary ran a building workshop at Skærbæk Fan Weekend in September 2024. During the event, attendees were tasked with making something using 10 elements released in the last 12 months as seed parts; we will show you some of the results in due course, but first up, it's our turn! We rounded up some of the reclaimed seed parts from the workshop to run one of our "parts festivals", and dispatched them to a couple of our regular contributors: Kev Levell and Caz Mockett, and one of the workshop attendees, Nathan Don as a guest builder.

So, welcome to After-PartyFest! For our first instalment, Tom Loftus introduces all 10 elements and to take a closer look at those that have escaped New Elementary's analytical eye so far. 

Review: 71485 Mateo and Z-Blob the Knight Battle Mech from LEGO® DREAMZzz™

A big mech calls for a big name and 71485 Mateo and Z-Blob the Knight Battle Mech is certainly a long one for this 1333-piece set. Though I can't help but think simply going with Mateo and Z-Blob the Knight Mech would have been enough. Surely 'Knight' and 'Mech' suggests battling is a given, right? We might never know, but by reading this article you will know if this LEGO® DREAMZzz™ set is worthy of the Round Table of New Elementarian Knights. 

Pick a Brick: surprise early release of December elements

Christmas comes early! LEGO® Pick a Brick have added hundreds of new elements to the service today – taking us all by surprise! These are new elements from August 2024 sets, which were going to be added next week.

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New parts: January 2025 LEGO® Monkie Kid and LEGO® Chinese Traditional Festival sets

Earlier this week at the China International Import Expo, the LEGO Group unveiled three new LEGO® Lunar New Year/ Spring Festival sets – some launching on 25 December 2024 in most countries in the Asia Pacific region and worldwide on 1 January 2025 – and two new LEGO® Monkie Kid sets launching 1 January.

As is usual for these themes, these sets feature a wealth of interesting new molds, recolored parts, and printed elements. Let’s take a peek at 80065 Erlang’s Celestial Mech, 80066 Mythical Creature Qilin, 80116 Trotting Lantern, 80117 Good Fortune, and 40813 Lucky Cat to see what the new year has in store!

Pick a Brick update: How to download your cart

The development team at LEGO® Pick a Brick have released another awesome update to the service that LEGO builders have been asking for: you can now download a list of the elements in your shopping cart.

Review: 71814 Tournament Temple City from LEGO® NINJAGO®

71814 Temple Tournament City is the largest set in the 2024 LEGO® NINJAGO® lineup, and as a substantial set of 3489 pieces, it has plenty of interesting parts to talk about. Many of them are now available from LEGO® Pick a Brick (PaB), where you can buy them in bulk.

Review: 76289 Thor vs. Surtur Construction Figure from LEGO® Marvel

76289 Thor vs. Surtur Construction Figure takes its cues from 2017's Thor: Ragnarok. The giant fire demon, Surtur was predicted to destroy Asgard and is depicted here as a large-ish construction figure.

From an initial look, the parts are pretty, but I'm not sure everything about this set is going to Ragna-rock my world!

What are the new LEGO® parts in November 2024 sets?

I've created a list showing all 43 new LEGO® elements appearing in new sets in November 2024, with links to which sets they come in so you can check for the ones you might be interested in. And for those of you who instead prefer our list of sets showing which contain the most new elements, click here.

Review: Cerebro Gift with Purchase from LEGO® Marvel

From midnight Friday 1 November 2024, two new LEGO® sets come with their own Gifts with Purchase (GwP) only for LEGO® Insiders: set 21353 The Botanical Garden comes with 5009005 Entrance Gate, and set 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion comes with the subject of today's review, 5009015 Cerebro.  

Let's roll with Professor Charles Francis Xavier to find out if his mind-enhancing machine is a big ball of fun, or sends us into a coma.

Review: 42177 Mercedes-Benz G 500 PROFESSIONAL Line from LEGO® Technic

LEGO® Technic is having a strong year, with loads and loads of cars to enjoy. We’ve had sportscars, racecars, supercars and F1 cars in various scales. All of these have one thing in common: they need tarmac to drive on. To go off trail, we need something special, and that’s where today’s set comes in. Set 42177 Mercedes-Benz G 500 PROFESSIONAL Line sure seems to have the right look, so let's take it for a drive.

LEGO® Pick a Brick: element removal and addition for November/December 2024

It's coming to that time of year when LEGO® Pick a Brick remove thousands of elements from the service, and today we have that list – as well as a very small list of new elements added on Tuesday 29 October 2024.

Gift with Purchase update for late October and early November

A new Gift with Purchase, Books Are My Passion, begins Monday 28 October 2024 and there are more GwP offers from Friday 1 November.

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Review + MOC: 71481 Izzie's Dream Animals & 71483 The Never Witch's Nightmare Creatures from LEGO® DREAMZzz™

The first wave of LEGO® DREAMZzz™ underlined the building toy component of the theme by having different builds achieved through partial deconstruction of the first build and then adding to it with an alternate set of instructions. This idea is taken to the next level in the August 2024 wave with sets 71481 Izzie's Dream Animals and 71483 The Never Witch's Nightmare Creatures. 

With these sets only a minor part of the structure is shared between the alternative builds. Like in LEGO® Creator sets, 3 designs are offered for the price of 1 (at least in theory). How do these designs fare, what interesting parts do they consist of and what did they inspire me to build?

Contest: Mind that Banana

Entry form and T&Cs

In celebration of the awesome elements in the Peely Bone set, we are running a building contest with 7 great LEGO® Fortnite prizes!

Review: 10370 Poinsettia from LEGO® Icons Botanical Collection

Charming festive display piece or stunning parts pack? LEGO® Icons Botanical Collection 10370 Poinsettia is both! One third of its 608 parts are rare or exclusive, all of which are integral to the plant's striking bracts, plentiful foliage and sturdy woven-basket flowerpot.

Revealed: 21353 The Botanical Garden from LEGO® Ideas

On 1 November 2024, LEGO is releasing the next fan-inspired LEGO® Ideas set: The Botanical Garden! This set is based on a fan design by Valentina Bima (Goannas89), which reached the required 10,000 supporter milestone back on 9 January 2023, and was announced as a future set in the results of the First 2023 Review last December. 

21353 The Botanical Garden will undoubtedly appeal to a lot of builders not only for its stately display presence and detailed construction, but also for its outstanding variety of useful plant-building elements. Without further ado, let’s put on our gardening gloves and dig in!

Review: 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion from LEGO® Marvel

LEGO® Marvel is taking us back to school in the next 18+ set 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion. This highly anticipated set contains 3093 pieces and a host of new mutant minifigures. Read on to see if this LEGO version of Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters makes the grade...

Revealed: Cerebro GwP and 76294 X-Men: X-Mansion set from LEGO® Marvel

On 1 November 2024, LEGO® Marvel are releasing a huge X-Mansion set with 10 minifigures and over 3,000 pieces! Five of the 10 characters are new in LEGO form, although not all necessarily made from new elements. We've spotted a few new recoloured pieces in the set as well.

Also available to LEGO Insiders from 1 to 7 November (while stocks last) is a Gift with Purchase (GwP) of the movie version of Professor Charles Xavier inside the Cerebro machine. Read on to see both models, or check out our more detailed review of the X-Mansion's LEGO construction and new pieces!

Pick a Brick: new upload feature now live in North America

LEGO® Pick a Brick have added a wonderful new feature to the platform today, only in the USA and Canada as a beta test. You can now upload a file with the IDs and quantities of your desired pieces, then add them to your cart in one click!

Review: 76290 The Avengers vs. The Leviathan from LEGO® Marvel

We are reviewing another August LEGO® Marvel release today, 76290 The Avengers vs. The Leviathan. The set features a foe of furiously fantastic proportions to fight, and of course a couple of superheroes from the Marvel universe ready to do battle!

Bakery GwP and LEGO® Insiders double points from 15 October 2024

Starting from midnight tonight Tuesday 15 October 2024, LEGO® Insiders get double points on purchases until end Sunday 20 October! There are also new Gifts with Purchase (GwPs) until 25 October, including some for all shoppers.

Moulding LEGO® mini-doll legs

We recently came across a new LEGO® element. They look somewhat macabre and perhaps more akin to something from John Carpenter's The Thing than LEGO.

The elements in question appears to be mini-doll legs that are moulded in pairs. The double-ended legs started a discussion here at New Elementary about mini-doll leg moulding processes and the timing of printing. Read on to hear our theories.

LEGO® parts 5533 & 5608: Column of Bubbles and Florence Flask

Today I'm taking a look at new LEGO® chemistry set elements released in June 2024, which have just become available on the Pick a Brick service today along with some 900 other June elements.

 

There are two moulds: a column of bubbles and a round-bottomed flask, each of which comes in two different colours. 

LEGO® Pick a Brick improvements in Europe, Australia and New Zealand

As a result of more warehouse space in Poland, LEGO® Pick a Brick have just made a massive upgrade to the platform (but not in North America, which remains the same, as it is not served by the Polish facility). 

Marco, Loose Bricks Manager at The LEGO Group, shows photographs of the installation of the new Pick a Brick warehouse space in Poland.

In Europe, Australia and New Zealand, all "Standard" elements are in the process of being moved to "Bestseller" and soon there will be no more Standard elements. There is no concrete information as to whether the same changes will happen in North America in the future.

LEGO® Pick a Brick: new elements in October 2024

New LEGO® pieces from June 2024 sets were added to LEGO® Pick a Brick on Wednesday, 9 October and we have the full list for you.

It's a massive list of nearly 900 new moulds and recoloured, printed and returning pieces from one of the biggest months of the year, so there's bound to be a bunch of stuff to add to your parts collection.  

Review + MOC: 71480 Logan the Mighty Panda & 71479 Zoey's Cat Motorcycle from LEGO® DREAMZzz™

Do you remember the ancient fable about a race between a cat and a panda? The one where the cat could turn into a motorcycle but the panda with bamboo guns was nevertheless still faster? No? Well may this LEGO® DREAMZzz™ review will shed some light on their story.

What are the new LEGO® parts in October 2024 sets?

I've created a list showing all 453 new LEGO® elements added in October 2024, with links to which sets they come in so you can check for the ones you might be interested in. And for those of you who instead prefer our list of sets showing which contain the most new elements, click here.

Review: 10340 Wreath from LEGO® Botanical Collection

Even at a glance, it's clear 10340 Wreath aims to combat the winter blues with a whole forest of green and some zesty orange slices. Let's see what else the latest entry in the LEGO® Icons Botanical Collection has to offer.

October 2024 LEGO® sets available

Here comes October, and it is a great month for LEGO® parts in sets at this time of year! 

But don't be confused by all the options... check out our recent reviews for deep-dive parts and construction analysis.

    

Review: 40728 Brite Bomber GwP from LEGO® Fortnite™

The Battle Bus has one more passenger! 40728 Brite Bomber is a LEGO® BrickHeadz Gift with Purchase from 1 to 7 October 2024.

Parts review: LEGO® Fortnite™ October 2024 sets

For nearly three decades LEGO® bricks have appeared in video game form, and more and more often we're now seeing the reverse. The latest entertainment behemoth to make the leap from console to brick is Fortnite, which received an all-LEGO mode in December 2023. Now, the physical half of this bilateral collaboration between The LEGO Group and Epic Games is dropping into our world.

Review: 10339 Santa's Post Office from LEGO® Icons Winter Village

New LEGO® elements are always at the top of our Christmas list here at New E! Let's see what goodies Santa has delivered us in this year's Winter Village installment, 10339 Santa's Post Office.

Review : 76781 Wednesday & Enid's Dorm Room from LEGO® Wednesday

We’re finishing off the LEGO® Wednesday sets with the title character's living quarters featured in 76781 Wednesday & Enid's Dorm Room. The tenants have very different styles and their dark meets colorful personalities are on display in their shared room. Let's find out if the clashing styles will result in a comprehensive build.

Review : 76780 Wednesday Addams Figure from LEGO®

Wednesday is a spin-off TV series, following the daughter from The Addams Family as she’s sent to a special school for outcasts. She’s a girl who sees the world with a healthy dose of sarcasm and speaks her mind with a love for the macabre. The second season is expected to premier on Netflix in 2025 and, to prepare us, LEGO is releasing 3 sets based on the show in October 2024. 

I’ve already had a quick look at the LEGO® BrickHeadz™ set 40750 Wednesday & Enid, and today we’re taking a look at 76780 Wednesday Addams Figure. Snap your fingers twice and enter Nevermore Academy with me.

Review: 10391 Over the Moon LEGO® Pharrell Williams set

The LEGO® Pharrell Williams collaborative set 10391 Over the Moon was revealed earlier this month in advance of the October release of the film Piece by Piece, an animated biopic directed by Academy Award® winner Morgan Neville.

A gold-adorned space shuttle and a pile of minifigure heads certainly caught our attention when the set was announced, so read on to find out more.

Review: 76924 Mercedes-AMG G 63 & SL 63 from LEGO® Speed Champions

LEGO® Speed Champions 76924 Mercedes-AMG G 63 & Mercedes-AMG SL 63 comes with several recolours, exclusive prints and two builds that couldn't be more different from each other – aside from the fact they're both cars, of course!

Review + MOC: 43247 Young Simba the Lion King from LEGO® Disney™

The June 2024 LEGO® Disney™ set 43247 Young Simba the Lion King is another example of an adult-oriented product based on a children's character. In addition to being a large model of the cartoon lion cub, this set is a treasure trove of Bright Light Orange pieces, also known as Flame Yellowish Orange, or Keetorange as I like to say. So what is this set worth to a builder who has never seen The Lion King?

Review: 40694 River Camping Adventure GwP from LEGO® Friends

From tomorrow Monday 16 September, set 40694 River Camping Adventure is the gift with purchase with select LEGO® themes. Here’s your early look at what this cute LEGO® Friends set contains!

Review: 31213 Mona Lisa from LEGO® Art

It's time to crack the LEGO® Da Vinci Code! The new Mona Lisa LEGO® Art set hides not only a mysterious smile but also many recoloured elements to re-imagine the famous painting in bricks. And by the way, the frame puts all previous gold rushes in the shade. Let's have a closer look at the colour layers while the paint is still fresh.