LEGO 80109 Moon New Year Ice Festival Chinese New Year Set Lunar New Year Ice Festival

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Tiger suit guy looks splendid in his outfit which features a new tiger headpiece. I'm not quite sure what the print on his chest is supposed to represent, but it certainly doesn't look like a tiger's coat. Three other children are included which, like most of the other figures in set, utilise generic modern-day torsos that can be put to good use in your own LEGO city. Another standout feature this snow-topped tree, which cleverly uses a mix of white and green leaves to create the effect. Y'know, there's really no reason to accept the made-up talking point that the opalescent parts are "low quality" when their translucent color is due to a deliberate glitter additive and not impurities or any other quality defect. Just because certain persistent complainers assume that any change Lego makes must have been a matter of cost-cutting doesn't make it true." But here, in common with the likes of 80106 Story of Nian and 80107 Spring Lantern Festival, we have been provided with the entire scene, one that everything except the vendor selling the strange brown stuff fits on. Doing so has no doubt had a considerable impact on the price, but I think it's a price worth paying.

While there are some great new elements, such as 18 of these new opalescent panels, the build was quite bland. 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. The parts made of plant-based plastic are only made of plant based plastics, and that plastic replaced another plastic that was used previously. The use of two transparent plastics would introduce a new plastic without substituting it for another or getting rid of another type of plastic, which would be not only less sustainable environmentally but far more expensive." Coolness [3] – Icy cold, but outside of being a large frozen lake, there isn’t much here to shout about. Except Commander ColdIn the front is a printed panel with a map, and poster, with a thermometer, and a fun illustration of a mum and child having fun on the ice. But hey, if you're happy to pay ever higher prices for ever worse quality, by any means do so. I'm not trying to stop you. TLG is happy to take your money. 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. Here's a line-up of all four lunar new year mascot minifigs that have been produced so far. We can look forward to a rabbit in 2023.

Try the same thing with polycarbonate windscreens. You can take ten or more behind one another and still see through them perfectly. Impossible with the new material This light kit includes 21 individual LEDs - all set to complement the wide variety of gorgeous details such as the frozen lake, ski slope, and chun ice sculpture. minifigures are provided to bring the set to life, including a man in tiger suit and two with an updated Ice Planet torso.

New parts and recolours

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! Okay, I'm looking at those parts and... I don't see the problem? They look clear to me. Maybe not exactly identical to how parts looked when they were polycarbonate (they seem to refract light a bit more, making the edges of parts in particular stand out a little more than on older parts), but not objectively worse in any sense. The minifigures are one of the bright spots of the set, with 13, you’re instantly given a massive influx of characters, and I like that there are varied roles and occupations, and not just visitors. The most visually striking part of the build is this stunning arch, made entirely out of transparent blue elements.

If it were produced primarily for the western market we'd probably just be provided with the building, the arch, the tree and the other subassemblies, then be expected to lay them out on the table separately and imagine the space between them is an ice rink. The ice arch takes centre stage in the set, and it looks spectacular, not least because it's rare to see so many transparent parts in sets nowadays, which of course includes all the aforementioned new ones. This piece of plastic card is the only brand-new part, if you can call it that, and one that's not likely to be used in any other set. It's printed on both sides. The set contains a large number of recoloured parts, and also some that have been introduced only recently. The sets's inventory was published today, so it's now possible to determine the unique parts easily.This clip, 78257 PLATE 1X1 W/ 2 SHAFTS DIA. 3.2, has previously only been found in 10279 Volkswagen T2 Camper Van.