71489 Cooper's Gaming Controller Jet is one of the sets released on 1 January 2025 as part of LEGO® DREAMZzz™ season 3.
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This is the last of my individual LEGO DREAMZzz set reviews, and 71489 Cooper's Gaming Controller Jet is definitely worth a closer look.
“Come on and fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away”
Heartlake City Airlines flies all over the world, and its passengers bring back exotic new elements from their travels for you to enjoy. So fasten your seatbelts as we go on a journey.
It's time to hit the books with LEGO® Ideas newest set, 21355 The Evolution of STEM, based on an Ideas submission from fan designer Daniel Bradley who kindly lent us some insight into the set.
The Evolution of STEM celebrates science, math and history with a collection of mini models bursting from the pages of a brick-built encyclopaedia. Without further ado let's book it to the new elements!
LEGO® Disney 43266 Cinderella's Dress is one of two new 'dress' sets revealed earlier this year, the other being 43262 Maleficent's and Cruella De Vil's Dresses.
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We have this set for early review as there's a useful new mould in this set, along with some new prints and recolours. Even if Disney Princesses are not your thing, read on, as new elements always bring excitement.
We have already taken a in-depth look at all the new elements found in January 2025's LEGO® DREAMZzz™ sets but there's plenty still to see, as I continue my individual set reviews.
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Next up for review is 71490 Izzie and Bunchurro the Gaming Bunny; a set that has some new moulds, a new print and quite a few recolours. Is it worth the price tag?
Revealed last month, 21062 Trevi Fountain is the next landmark from LEGO® Architecture. Tim was able to see the set in person and interview LEGO Designer Mary Wilson during the LEGO® Fan Media Days last year, and now I have a pre-release copy to examine in detail for you.
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Set 21062 Trevi Fountain is available to pre-order now in advance of its 1 March 2025 release, but first let me transport you to a sunny day in Italy, to build, as they do in Rome.
LEGO® Spring Festival set 80116 Trotting Lantern is the largest of the 2025 Chinese Traditional Festival releases. I have already reviewed 80117 Good Fortune and the accompanying Gift with Purchase 40756 Lucky Knots, as well as a thorough run-down of all of the new and interesting parts in these sets, so I won't be going over the new elements in any detail here. Instead, I will give you a flavour of the build experience of this set.
These sets released in October 2024, and many of their new elements arrived on LEGO Pick a Brick earlier this week. Check out the recoloured elements and new moulds on New E's list of new PaB elements for February!
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71497 Cooper's Tiger Mech & Zero's Hot Rod Car is the largest of the LEGO® DREAMZzz™ sets released in January 2025. Time to build a tiger mech or a red flyer or a flying tiger creature... All will become clear!
In our second part of set reviews from the LEGO® Friends January 2025 wave we visit several locations in Heartlake City that offer food in various forms, starting with a small ice cream truck and ending in an idyllic cottage a beekeeper calls home. While enjoying the sustenance we'll explore the new elements these sets provide.
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The first individual January 2025 set from LEGO® DREAMZzz™that we will take a closer look at is 71491 Mateo with the Z-Blob Action Race Car. Those eye-catching new tyres were calling to us, but anyone with arachnophobia should tread onwards with care.
I have already compiled a comprehensive list of all the new and interesting elements in the LEGO® Chinese Traditional Festival sets which were released on 1 January 2025, but today I'm looking specifically at the construction of 80117 Good Fortune.
LEGO® Lunar New Year (aka Chinese Traditional Festival) sets have become increasingly popular since their introduction in 2019. As well as two new releases this year – 80116 Trotting Lantern and 80117 Good Fortune, which I recently looked at the new parts of and shall be reviewing in full very soon – we also get a Gift with Purchase (GwP) in this theme, 40756 Lucky Knots. Now I'm going to take a closer look at the set itself.
Between 1 and 7 January 2025, all purchases of the LEGO® Icons 10350 Tudor Corner set will receive 40757 Corner Kiosk as a free gift with purchase (GwP), while stocks last – and it already appears to be sold out in some countries.
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There has never been a LEGO® Botanicals polybag; but in 2025 there will be a LEGO Botanicals paper-based bag! It seems that polybags are so 2024 and next year's small impulse sets will be stored in something else. I like this change – the grainy print of the paper section feels more appropriate to this set. It's a bit like the seed bags sold to gardeners.
We start off the reviews for the LEGO® Friends January 2025 wave with the biggest set in the line-up. Together, let's hop on our bike and inline skates to potter some clay and wash out any resulting stains in the laundromat, before enjoying a cup of tea with locally sourced honey while watching the cats play with yarn. Oh, and look at the new baby!
In July, I reviewed LEGO® Botanicals sets 10368 Chrysanthemum & 10369 Plum Blossom. They were pronounced to be two of the Four Gentlemen: a set of traditional plants in East Asian culture. The remaining two are bamboo and orchid. Those flowers are less straightforward to make into LEGO sets: orchid because it already appeared in sets 10311 Orchid and 43237 Isabela's Flowerpot (review of 43237 by me, again), and bamboo because it's basically some sticks, and thus not interesting… or so we thought.
On 1 January 2025, sets 10343 Mini Orchid and 10344 Lucky Bamboo will be available, and today I am going to see if they are worthy successors to the first pair – both of which got good marks from me.
