Lego 21315 – Pop-Up Book

Lego has just unveiled a new Ideas set, totally different from everything, the Pop Up Book. This new concept is considerably big, eight hundred and fifty nine pieced and features a buildable book with two scenarios that includes four mini-figures (Little Red Riding Hood, Grandmother, the Wolf, and the Giant), a micro-figure and some nice details to enjoy.

The base of those scenarios are two old fairy tales: Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk, whose respective parts can be built separately and then attached to the book, one at a time. Personally, it’s not my concept of Lego, but I must say that the book, when closed, looks absolutely beautiful.

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LEGO Harry Potter- Characters of the Magical World

What a tremendous book for next Christmas. The Characters of Magical world is an interesting and nice detailed encyclopedia about all the mini-figures of Harry Potter’ sets launched since the beginning of the theme. It focuses not only in the mini-figure itself, but also gives a reasonable explanation of the character.

With almost hundred and fifty pages it gives a complete view of all figures present not only in the new sets but also in the older ones. It is basically divided in seven parts, just as the number of movies: The Philosopher’s stone, The chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, the goblet of fire, the order of the Phoenix, the half blood prince, and the deathly Hallows.With Christmas nearby, Continue reading

Lego Book Revised

Lego Book has recently been expanded and fully revised by Dorling Kindersley and besides all the fun, ideas and models that always have been included since 2009, it has now new dozens of pages with interesting things about the more recent themes such as Ninjago, Friends and Lego Games among others. Unfortunately the new version doesn’t have the smallest book, Standing Small, that in some countries included one mini-figure.

The Book is quite interesting and is full updated. It is easy to find some models and texts (these are usually rather small, giving more space to detailed pictures) about Monster fighters and Lord of the Rings. Besides all the news, the book has also a bunch of nostalgic pictures of themes and sets that are no longer on sale.On the other hand, it is also easy to go back a couple of decades ago Continue reading