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A look back at the 2021 musical that paired stage performers with a firefighter and let a child lead the way into LEGO’s New York flagship.
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From one side, the Inferno is a pirate ship. Walk around it and the hull gives way to the chain of encounters that brought the Goonies aboard.
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Set 10360 puts two aircraft on one stand. A change at the shuttle’s tail connects that familiar silhouette to the California flights that tested how an orbiter would land.
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The offset cockpit of LEGO’s 2025 Renegade leaves room for another story: what happens to the spaceship when the crew goes to ground?
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The opening displays at Fifth Avenue and Leicester Square left space for an extra character beside Captain America or William Shakespeare.
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The 5,363-piece Monsterverse model arrives November 27, with a fan-design history and a separate launch gift that need their own space.
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Set 31213 offers a choice between printed eyes and blank pieces, exposing the challenge of turning a softly painted face into distinct plastic shapes.
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Chris McVeigh’s autumnal centerpiece looks organic because its structure solves a very practical problem: how to assemble flowers pointing in different directions.
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Set 10338 was designed at the same scale as Optimus Prime. Its smaller stature gives the pairing a character relationship, not just another yellow model.
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Before Grand Piano became a LEGO Ideas display piece, its fan designer wanted a way to show young musicians what happens beneath the lid.
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The 2016 Ideas car shows the less visible work between a fan’s convincing replica and a model another builder can assemble.
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A sitting blue pot and a standing yellow one changed the relationship between LEGO’s botanical models and the people building them.
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The MP4/4 model and Ayrton Senna minifigure share a box, but their separate displays leave room for both the machine and its human history.
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The fan designer’s 2019 account reveals how a familiar cartoon became a playable house—and why some details survived the redesign.
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The long name on set 10337 identifies a specific chapter of Lamborghini history, while its opening bodywork turns a poster silhouette into an inspectable model.
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