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.