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A tiny Mario can stand beside Peach’s Castle. A much larger electronic Mario can search the same scene for secrets. The 2021 set makes room for both.
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The Medieval Town Square gives shield painters, cheesemakers and a tax collector enough work to sustain a castle story of their own.
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Hergé drew a spacecraft recognizable from across a launch site. A fan-designed LEGO model also makes room for what the travelers see.
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Two earlier designs had already earned 10,000 supporters apiece. For the model LEGO ultimately produced, Lewis reconsidered how much of Scranton he needed.
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In Denmark and England, builders working with hospitals found different ways to let children explore a scan before it was their turn.
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The 2021 anniversary model makes room for both heroic history and the ordinary places that give a fictional city life.
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A retrospective look at how set 76252 balances a graphic silhouette with a working miniature Batcave.
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Leclerc’s red helmet and Hamilton’s yellow version use personal markings and minifigures to give Ferrari fans a different kind of display.
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The 1,403-piece Shrek display combines a movable ogre and donkey with a small Puss in Boots, while BrickHeadz offers a different cast.
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For the season of Día de Muertos, the story behind José Miguel Medina Pérez’s design matters as much as its flowers and butterflies.
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The 2022 Botanical set gives each plant its own container, making the arrangement an ongoing part of the model.
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The 2023 Super Mario display model uses an adjustable mouth, stalk and leaves to turn a familiar enemy into a small character sculpture.
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A retrospective look at how the 2023 Technic model separates a mechanical representation from a motorized racing toy.
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The 2021 set combines two contrasting interiors with removable connections and props drawn from different points in the sitcom.
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The fan-designed apartment uses ordinary furniture and tiny props to preserve the situations that made a television comedy memorable.
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