The LEGO Thread

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

 

The Firm (1993). Two person household - Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, no children. Cruise is hardly ever at home because he's so busy with his new job (even before stuff starts happening). The LEGO set is from 1992. Tripplehorn's character is clearly an AFOL.

[Jurassic Shark 15,564]

Fun film!

[Stark 761]

I haven’t bought Rivendell yet I’m not ready for LEGO to release another LOTR set!

[Mr. Breathmask 623]

On 31/12/2023 at 12:32 AM, Marian Schedenig said:

 

The Firm (1993). Two person household - Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, no children. Cruise is hardly ever at home because he's so busy with his new job (even before stuff starts happening). The LEGO set is from 1992. Tripplehorn's character is clearly an AFOL.

 

I have that set. It was one of my favourites as a kid. Still have it.

[Jurassic Shark 15,564]

 

 

[Ollie 1,353]

I have the 2nd release of the Ultimate Millennium Falcon sitting here but haven't been able to build it yet. 

 

Part of it is that my mom knew I wanted it and and before she passed, set aside the funds for me to get it. 

 

I also have the smaller Falcon I built 8 years ago and an x-wing my daughter got me for my birthday last year.

 

 

 

On 6/6/2023 at 2:36 PM, Marian Schedenig said:

 

I did write down some instructions on a piece of paper when I took it apart again some 25+ (more like 30, possibly) years ago. I probably still have it hidden away in a box somewhere…

 

 

I *adored* that train as a child, always wanted to have it. It was always too expensive, though. My first train stuff was an assortment of various 4.5V (battery) and 12V bits and pieces I "inherited" from an older kid - all the blue tracks with white sleepers you mentioned, although with the powered centre rail. Pretty sure most of it came from this set. I later got several sets from the 80s train range (with the grey tracks), though never a full train set (and never one of the newer transformers; the few grey 12V remote switches I had were hooked up to the old blue transformer with wires). I think the first new train set I got (as a present for what I think is the first Christmas I remember) was the 7810 Push-Along Steam Engine, so I'm very fond of the near-exact anniversary replica LEGO released a few years ago:

 

 

I believe I had several of these engines in the 70's. I had a huge box full of the lego tracks, when they were the blue rails and white ties. Plus quite a few of the older sets, like the station and a cargo depot. plus I had quite a few of the individual  rail cars and I had a battery operated passenger train set too.

 

 

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

 

"Assemble the Minion!"… Official April Fools' from LEGO:

https://www.lego.com/en-at/themes/despicableme/about

 

The overall idea isn't anything special, but the execution is wonderful.

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

 

[The Score Cleaner 8,438]

Lego Zelda is coming!!!!

 

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/05/lego-unveils-great-deku-tree-2-in-1-zelda-set-pre-orders-now-available

[Romão 2,434]

On 31/05/2023 at 8:35 PM, Marian Schedenig said:

This seems as good a time as any to finally start the thread I've been meaning to start for years. LEGO IDEAS has just announced an upcoming set based on Jaws:

 

 

 

Updating on this, here are images of the official set:

 

 

 

 

 

The minifigs look particularly terrific

 

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

Excellent. And they even used proper Jaws music for the teaser this time:

 

…the Instagram post even reads: "Da-dum…da-dum…da-dum, da-dum da-dum….etc 🦈"
https://www.instagram.com/p/C89UWEYI45D/

 

Looks smaller than the original Ideas submission. But much better!

[CatastrophicJones 69]

Oh man, I hadn't realized this site had a thread about Lego, I only just got back into it myself a few short months ago and have already dropped a little more than I'm comfortable admitting on several sets, including Rivendell, Barad Dur, The Avengers Tower, Notre Dame and the really cool Retro Radio...

 

That Jaws set looks amazing. Though I kinda wish they had included the blonde swimmer as an extra minifig after seeing the ad lego put up, but I'm really pleased they used the actual music instead of some generic copycat stuff this time.

[Romão 2,434]

Higher resolution pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ollie 1,353]

Ok, I’m getting this. Somehow…

 

Here’s a little short from Lego.

 

 

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

36 minutes ago, Ollie said:

 

They should have had him say "Smile, you son of a brick" at the end. And included the shooting star in the set.

 

9 hours ago, CatastrophicJones said:

Oh man, I hadn't realized this site had a thread about Lego, I only just got back into it myself a few short months ago

 

Kiss your savings goodbye.

 

9 hours ago, CatastrophicJones said:

Though I kinda wish they had included the blonde swimmer as an extra minifig

 

Chrissie will be easy to put together from existing minifig pieces.

[Jurassic Shark 15,564]

6 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

Chrissie will be easy to put together from existing minifig pieces.

 

She doesn't even need legs.

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

20 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

She doesn't even need legs.

 

[Maglorfin 214]

23 hours ago, Romão said:

Higher resolution pictures:

 

 

 

I haven't been that excited about a LEGO set ever since they announced the Home Alone house!  I'll be getting this immediately when it comes out; I've already made a reservation at my local LEGO store. 

[Holko 11,671]

Just thought of the fact that this set has virtually everything you'd need to remake the entire second half of the movie! All that's missing is scuba gear, pieces to make the entire cage, and more extensive ocean and shore backdrops. Maybe some alternate hairs if you really want to be close.

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

I found a Bear McCreary minifig:

https://brickset.com/minifigs/hp500/professor-igor-karkaroff-white-jacket

 

[CatastrophicJones 69]

6 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

I found a Bear McCreary minifig:

https://brickset.com/minifigs/hp500/professor-igor-karkaroff-white-jacket

 

 

Someone needs to tag him in a tweet and show him 😂

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

6 hours ago, CatastrophicJones said:

Someone needs to tag him in a tweet and show him 😂

 

Already did that. He liked it, but nobody else did:

 

[Ollie 1,353]

UPS had a surprise for me when I got home today. 

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

Had it for a week. I hope I finally get around to building it this extended weekend.

 

Meanwhile, a new set was announced:

https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/6e21d7aa-7751-4f19-9fed-f2500018cf5b/application/919f709d-f746-45d3-b583-088dea50e37f

 

This would be an ideal opportunity for a sound brick. Then Goldsmith would have at least one thing over Williams in the LEGO World.

[Yavar Moradi 3,939]

Where's the announcement that Gizmo is advancing to be an actual Lego Ideas set?

 

Meanwhile, here's a cool Ideas set that's definitely coming early next month...

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/disney-tim-burton-s-the-nightmare-before-christmas-21351?age-gate=grown_up

 

Yavar

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

45 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:

Where's the announcement that Gizmo is advancing to be an actual Lego Ideas set?

 

Ah sorry, that's what I get for linking to the official LEGO site, but not noticing that that link wasn't the new one.

 

I got it from here:

https://brickset.com/article/112655/ideas-competition-winners-announced!

 

This is the official announcement:

https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/2c75bca8-4192-4a03-a4de-750733ab5868

 

So yes, Gizmo will be an official set, it's just my link that was outdated.

 

45 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:

Meanwhile, here's a cool Ideas set that's definitely coming early next month...

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/disney-tim-burton-s-the-nightmare-before-christmas-21351?age-gate=grown_up

 

That looks like a very cool design, but luckily I have no interest in that franchise. Every LEGO set that I'm not actively interested in is a relief.

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

I noticed a few surprising details when building this year's Winter Village set, so I made a thing…

 

It's stitched together from individual Instagram stories, hence a) the format and b) the crappy transitions - seamlessly concatenating Instagram videos with audio isn't as trivial as I thought (the problem is that some of the clips have animated arrows and thus download with 30 fps, while the rest is static images with 1 fps, and trying to get both kinds into a single video without format changes or timing issues turned out to be too complex for a late night session).

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

Last year I was too lazyshort on time, but this year I put up a LEGO winter village again:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

There's a new fan vote open for a fan-designed 90s nostalgia set to become an official LEGO set, and if the utterly brilliant X-Files entry doesn't win, I'll be really angry:

https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/d4936684-8870-4055-834e-6d85b0914dd8

 

[Jay 43,886]

WTF is this?

 

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

58 minutes ago, Jay said:

WTF is this?

 

I think it's Eugene Victor Tooms.

[Romão 2,434]

On 11/02/2025 at 5:15 PM, Jay said:

WTF is this?

 

 

23 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

I think it's Eugene Victor Tooms.

 

Indeed

[Jay 43,886]

I knew it was Tooms in the opening, I'm asking about the weird sack looking thing in front of it

[The Score Cleaner 8,438]

3 minutes ago, Jay said:

I knew it was Tooms in the opening, i mean the weird sack looking thing in front of it

I thought it was like a turkey or something at first!

[Thor 9,323]

Eugene Victor Tooms.....such a Stephen King name.

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

I knew it was Tooms in the opening, I'm asking about the weird sack looking thing in front of it

 

Let's hope it wins the vote, gets produced, and that the sack survives the official LEGO redesign - then the building instructions might explain it.

[CatastrophicJones 69]

On 11/02/2025 at 12:01 PM, Marian Schedenig said:

There's a new fan vote open for a fan-designed 90s nostalgia set to become an official LEGO set, and if the utterly brilliant X-Files entry doesn't win, I'll be really angry:

https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/d4936684-8870-4055-834e-6d85b0914dd8

 

 

Oh man, while I love this and X-Files, as amazing as it is that Jumanji board seems like the clear winner to me. Honestly it's a shame they're not gonna do all five, they all deserve to be made into sets. Also nice to see a relic from Bionicle made it into that Buffy one lol

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

For some reason, despite all their licenses, LEGO usually use generic music rather than John Williams stuff for their Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc. set adverts.

 

This time they've put the real thing:

https://www.instagram.com/lego/reel/DGfrucDP7aU/

 

 

 

 

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

Death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth!

[Romão 2,434]

11 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

Death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth!

 

 

Where are those instructions from, Marian?

[Holko 11,671]

Seems to be this one: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-3/1127/Forest-Stronghold

[Romão 2,434]

Ah, makes sense, as the inventory wasn't uploaded yet and I couldn't trace by chcking the sets that had that hare figure

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

1 hour ago, Holko said:

Seems to be this one: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-3/1127/Forest-Stronghold

 

Indeed. Just arrived the other day, and once finished I think it'll make a nice place to put the new Creator 3-in-1 dragon.

[Tallguy 6,177]

I'm only here in case they get Star Trek.

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

6 minutes ago, Tallguy said:

I'm only here in case they get Star Trek.

 

Rumours are they got it. But nothing official (yet?), apparently.

[Tallguy 6,177]

8 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

Rumours are they got it. But nothing official (yet?), apparently.

 

On the one hand I hope it's awesome. OTOH I'm not paying Millennium Falcon prices for an Enterprise. I didn't even pay Tomy Enterprise prices for an Enterprise.

[Marian Schedenig 10,832]

25 minutes ago, Tallguy said:

On the one hand I hope it's awesome. OTOH I'm not paying Millennium Falcon prices for an Enterprise. I didn't even pay Tomy Enterprise prices for an Enterprise.

 

Just wait until thy release a $1,000 Borg Cube with 500 pieces for constructing the cube frame and 9,000 pieces for greebling.

[Tallguy 6,177]

29 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

Just wait until thy release a $1,000 Borg Cube with 500 pieces for constructing the cube frame and 9,000 pieces for greebling.

 

Not even a little interested. But a K't'tinga class with that level of detail would make me sad that I wasn't that rich.