![]() It enters with a $149.99 price tag and will be exclusive to LEGO’s retail and online stores. LEGO’s latest Ideas creation, the Medieval Blacksmith set, will be officially available starting next month on February 1. There’s also a new LEGO blacksmith minifigure who is joined by a Medieval archer. Even though the designs have been slightly tweaked from the original appearances all those years ago, they’re fully decked out in the nostalgic knight regalia you’d expect. The set includes a total of four figures, two of which are new versions of the Classic Castle’s Black Falcon Knights. LEGO is also drawing inspiration from one of its classic themes here with the minifigure selection. To round out the build, there is also a brick-built horse-drawn cart. And then on the top, there is a highly-detailed roof with stacked shingles technique that really pulled off the medieval theming. Moving up to the second floor, there’s a kitchen and seating for the included figures. On the ground floor, you’ll find where all of the actual blacksmithing happens, with a light-up forge and other accessories. The model mainly centers around the building itself, which is comprised of three furnished floors. Stacking up to 2,164 pieces, the latest Ideas creation channels plenty of theming from the Middle Ages in order to recreate a brick-built Medieval Blacksmith shop. Now nearly two years later, the kit is officially launching onto store shelves. The new Medieval Blacksmith set has been in the works for quite a while now, with us first highlighting the model back in 2019 in our monthly LEGO Ideas showcases. We last saw the LEGO Ideas team unveil its Sesame Street creation back in October of last year, but it’s back today with a look at the newest addition to its collection of fan-inspired builds. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2020LEGO gets Medieval with new Blacksmith set Overall and expensive but of course brilliant set. I don't mind that because it forces children into using their fingers more and helps dexterity. There are plenty of parts many of which are small and fiddly. If you think your kids are ready to start building then this is a great set to start with. What it lacks which, will add another fifteen quid are a couple of base plates upon which the small people in your life can build their creations. Of course LEGO is expensive and this set is simply a start. On line of course as the virus prevents direct contact. They have used this every day and I can see the spark of creativity building. This process took a few hours and away they have gone. The Bubs got this last week and since then they have taken small steps needing a bit of encouragement where they basically commissioned their dad to make stuff to taking over the manufacturing duties completely. It's an almost overnight transformation and because of that we figured that LEGO would now be the ideal next step.Īnd this is the case. Suddenly they are obsessed with colouring and drawing along with making things. I also - along with my wife - noticed that our grandchildren had reached a tipping point. This means they tend to be put together and taken apart to make other things rather than the more complex and individual sets where there is a temptation to make the main item and then never break it down again. I'm ranting, I know, but to my mind as a fairly successful engineer I really do see that more practical and hands on toys help more.Īnyway, I bought this set because it is a general set of all purpose bricks. I learned the basics which is far more important and things like LEGO and Meccano are far more important tools in stimulating small brains than intelligence sucking computer programs. Not once have I ever felt that I missed out as a child by not having a computer which, to be fair were not around. I can use CAD and I have worked on complete control systems. You can tell me until purple in the fact that children need to have them but I would disagree completely. Mostly not fulfilled but I did learn to love making stuff partially because of these small and deadly to the bare feet, bricks.Īnd despite being an engineer in a high tech world I have a passionate hatred of computers as learning tools. I'm an engineer and as a child loved LEGO for it's ability to let me indulge my manufacturing dreams. It wasn't hard to persuade me to be honest. Over the years I have, despite being a bloke of some obstinacy, come to understand when a suggestion becomes an order. Naturally when this kind of advice is given by The Boss, one either does it with speed or one learns the error of one's ways. I bought this set for my grandchildren on the instigation of my wife - She Who Must Be Obeyed - who decided that it was time for our twin grandchildren, a boy and a girl of 5 3/4 to learn how to make stuff.
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