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Make your Lunar New Year Festival set a true centrepiece in your collection with our integrated light kit. An ice-sculptor wielding a chain saw, who has just finished making a penguin, completes the details on the right-hand side of the model. The opalescent panels do a decent job, but at certain angles, they look quite murky and dark but does the job well to make it look like a smooth sheet of ice on the lake. It’s a more elegant way to communicate ice than using transparent white or blue elements. The set, along with 80108 Lunar New Year Traditions, is available at LEGO.com in Europe from today and in the USA and Canada from 10th January. An ice slide is positioned under the arch: perfect for the daredevil granny sitting in a chair fitted with skates to launch herself down. Such a chair is not something I've come across, but perhaps they are a thing in China.
Grandma, however is the coolest – she doesn’t let age nor her inability to properly ice skate get in the way, with her very own accessible ice skating chair to zip around on the ice.My guess would be that LEGO wants all the pieces in colors to match. They don't anyways but LEGO might want that." The most noteworthy new element is the 1x6x5 panel in 'milky white shimmer' colour number 360, officially named Transparent Opal. There are 18 of them in the set. The other Ice Planet torso is worn by the elderly fisherman who's paired it up with a fur-lined hat. Low quality transparent pieces actually work well for ice. I'm generally not a fan of spending large numbers of pieces on ground (looking at you, new road tiles) but here the ground is an integral part of the experience. This set is also versatile in how you can use it - Chinese traditional theme, City theme, or Winter Village. Every feature in this set has been considered from a lighting perspective, including lighting up the shop door lanterns, illuminated ice sculpture, as well as spotlights for the photo frame and strip lighting for the ice skating area. Watch the ice sculpture lights twinkle with our custom effects board.
It makes excellent use of all that space to create a bustling and lively winter scene, with a large ice skating rink the centerpiece of the build. This female vendor, who also has a new hairpiece, is selling... actually I'm not sure quite what! Chocolate candy-floss? Either way, it’s fantastic to see LEGO finally give Ice Planet some long-overdue love – and it couldn’t be a more perfect set than this.Here’s the completed set, which takes up quite a large footprint thanks to the base, which measures almost 40cm wide, and 26cm deep.
The conifer in the corner looks great and uses techniques I don't think I've seen in an official set to create the typical shape of such trees. Of course, the torso is no good if you want to create a “pure” Tiger Costume Minifigure – which is where the 2020 Halloween Build a Minifigure Tiger Cub‘s torso comes in handy! Keepability [3] – Unless you integrate this to your Winter Village, I can see this one being dismantled and harvested for parts when there’s a need to free up space.Beneath the arch is an icy slide that sends you all the way to the frozen lake. It’s quite a cool (geddit) nod to the Harbin Ice Festival, which also has these massive icy slides. It’s a neat little build but you cannot tell me that it isn’t a nod to Perry the Platypus, from Phineas and Ferb! The plant pieces are made from plant based plastics, the other pieces aren't. So LEGO clearly has two different plastics being used for parts already.
As a set, once you get pass the frozen lake, with its 18 opalescent panels, you’re left with a large display piece that is also very interactive and playable, which makes it a great choice for parents with kids, or those that enjoy setting up different scenes with minifigures. Another cool detail I like is near the steps to the frozen lake, where you have these lovely bushes which snow-covered leaves. These 3-leaved elements come in white for the first time, and look resplendent next to the green leaves. The dad is an avid photographer, and has brought his DSLR with a flash to the Ice Festival to take some happy snaps. This clip, 78257 PLATE 1X1 W/ 2 SHAFTS DIA. 3.2, has previously only been found in 10279 Volkswagen T2 Camper Van. There are plenty of other transparent clear parts that tend to be fairly rare in it too. Unfortunately, they are the new 'milky' type so don't look as clear and clean as the older polycarbonate ones. However, I suspect it's the new plastic formulation that has enabled parts with clips and bars to be made in clear colours."If I experienced such issues with sets from alternative manufacturers at least I could say ok, that's what you get for paying much less, but from a company whose claim used to be "only the best is good enough" and where you pay premium prices, such issues are unacceptable.
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