Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion

[Shiva]

The X-Men Mansion, standalone building. Even when it does have conneting points.

[Westbrick]

The official reveal of the ideas botanical garden looks very nice. I like the GWP, but could live without it. The question is, do I wait for a discount. If anyone in the UK knows, how likely is it to have a discount later next year? (Will it be sold by John Lewis, or other retailers?) I waited to see if the Family Reunion Celebration would get one and almost missed out completely! 

[Lego Nostalgia]

49 minutes ago, Westbrick said:

The official reveal of the ideas botanical garden looks very nice. I like the GWP, but could live without it. The question is, do I wait for a discount. If anyone in the UK knows, how likely is it to have a discount later next year? (Will it be sold by John Lewis, or other retailers?) I waited to see if the Family Reunion Celebration would get one and almost missed out completely! 

I'm not sure if it's an exclusive to lego.com or not, big sets like that rarely go on sale unless it comes to Smyths then you'd have to wait a few months maybe for it to go on sale for a small bit off

You can always use VIP Points if you have a good few

Amazon Germany has great deals too sometimes, The Notre Dame is 170 euro instead of 230 and the Milky Way is 150 euro instead of 200

Anyone else feel like the Botanical Garden lacks something ? IDK if it's just me but I feel like there isn't enough flowers/trees

Looks nice though

Edited October 23, 2024 by Lego Nostalgia

[Roebuck]

37 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Anyone else feel like the Botanical Garden lacks something ? IDK if it's just me but I feel like there isn't enough flowers/trees

Looks nice though

I will wait for reviews, but could maybe have more plants on the inside

[PK82]

I like the Botanical Garden way more than the Mansion. Integration in a modular setup should be fairly easy. Maybe at the end of a street:

Corner Building - Botanical Garden
Curved Road Plate - Botanical Garden

[Chris10]

Really not sure what to make of the GWP, given that it doesn’t seem to have anywhere obvious to connect to the main build.

 

For starters the path is a different width to the front and rear paths on the main build, plus it’s also on a normal plate rather than a base plate so won’t be the correct height either.

Am I missing something?

[Lego Nostalgia]

When do we think the B&B Modular will be revealed ? December ?

[Lion King]

22 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

When do we think the B&B Modular will be revealed ? December ?

As far as i rmember, Brick Clicker mentioend it might be January 1. If it’s true, i guess we will have offical picture around Black Friday.

[Westbrick]

10 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

You can always use VIP Points if you have a good few

I’m almost ashamed to admit this but I’ve never used any of them, which I know is TOTALLY not the point, but I just like having them. I tell myself one day I will ‘spend’ them but let’s see…

I think on the top down photo of the botanical garden, they’ve removed most of the interior/plants. There seems to be enough of them in the other photos.
 

I’ve just seen the ‘books are my passion’ GWP, and that makes me more tempted to bite the bullet for a 1st November purchase if it hasn’t run out! I’ve bought a few of the bigger sets (lighthouse, Modulars, etc.) from John Lewis in the UK as they periodically do 20% off, so it’ll be interesting to know if they’ll be selling this botanical garden. 

[Undi3sss]

Love the Botanical Gardens set, I don’t use the connection pins so it’ll be easy to integrate, but I’ll prioritise the X-Mansion to go with my other Marvel Modulars first. With how crazy expensive Lego is getting; I might just get the Friends Botanical Gardens and make my own modular for cheaper. Other than the Dolls I think the set is better, the cherry blossom and pond are really nice. 

[Lego Nostalgia]

5 hours ago, Westbrick said:

I’m almost ashamed to admit this but I’ve never used any of them, which I know is TOTALLY not the point, but I just like having them. I tell myself one day I will ‘spend’ them but let’s see…

I think on the top down photo of the botanical garden, they’ve removed most of the interior/plants. There seems to be enough of them in the other photos.
 

I’ve just seen the ‘books are my passion’ GWP, and that makes me more tempted to bite the bullet for a 1st November purchase if it hasn’t run out! I’ve bought a few of the bigger sets (lighthouse, Modulars, etc.) from John Lewis in the UK as they periodically do 20% off, so it’ll be interesting to know if they’ll be selling this botanical garden. 

I kinda feel like there's something missing though, it seems so empty inside, needs more flowers and trees imo

[Roebuck]

7 hours ago, Undi3sss said:

pond

The bigger set could have included one as well, could have made room for it inside maybe 🤔

[AllanSmith]

https://jaysbrickblog.com/reviews/review-lego-21353-the-botanical-garden-2024/

[Lion King]

I think I will skip Botantical Garden set but i can’t decide on it yet 

[Shiva]

I think it looks great. Sadly I would have, nowhere? to display it, possibly. + it does cost a bit.

[Hive]

The Botanical Gardens look nice, but I'm still somewhat disappointed. I'm not convinced that it looks that much better than 2x the veeeery similar Friends Botanical Gardens. I guess I just expected more.

[PK82]

After reading two reviews, I'm sold on the Botanical Garden. May wait a bit and see if price goes down or double VIP, but I've already ordered all necessary parts (road plate with curve and parts for sidewalk) to integrate it in my city.

Edited October 25, 2024 by PK82

[Arjo]

I had written off the botanical garden on expected price alone. After seeing the finished product though, I am quite tempted. It is a double edge sword in that in my mind’s eye I see it and the museum integrated into an “exhibition road” with a nice park to go with it… would be stunning… for whomever has enough space to pull it out. Not my case so I will probably skip it. TLG will keep cranking sets vying for attention and real estate so the FOMO I experienced a few years back coming out of my dark ages is now gone. It is impossible to keep up and there will always be a next best set to help you forget those you left in the rearview mirror. Oh well.

[hikouki]

5 hours ago, PK82 said:

After reading two reviews, I'm sold on the Botanical Garden. May wait a bit and see if price goes down or double VIP, but I've already ordered all necessary parts (road plate with curve and parts for sidewalk) to integrate it in my city.

Would be interesting to see also how the GWP would integrate.

[NewTown]

On 10/24/2024 at 11:08 PM, Hive said:

The Botanical Gardens look nice, but I'm still somewhat disappointed. I'm not convinced that it looks that much better than 2x the veeeery similar Friends Botanical Gardens. I guess I just expected more.

Agreed. Especially after all the effort I went through making a 2x Friends MOC/MOD garden.

[Lion King]

Have anyone noticed there were missing banner pieces for Natural History Museum set? I just finished building mine today and I noticed that there are NO banner pieces at all. It surprised me both banners are not there so I went to make a “missing piece” order…

[jus1973]

17 hours ago, Lion King said:

Have anyone noticed there were missing banner pieces for Natural History Museum set? I just finished building mine today and I noticed that there are NO banner pieces at all. It surprised me both banners are not there so I went to make a “missing piece” order…

That’s quite unusual I would have thought, since it’s the only printed plastic sheet.  I know it sounds daft, but have you double checked it’s not wedged into the instruction book, or the paper folder somewhere. I’ve had a few times when this was the case.

[Lion King]

13 minutes ago, jus1973 said:

That’s quite unusual I would have thought, since it’s the only printed plastic sheet.  I know it sounds daft, but have you double checked it’s not wedged into the instruction book, or the paper folder somewhere. I’ve had a few times when this was the case.

My sister and i did look through the instruction book nd paper folder. We also searched for them around the room we bbuilt it in.  Not sure how they disppeared. She and i assumed those banner pieces might be stowed away among the numbered plastic bags toward the end. 

[jus1973]

3 hours ago, Lion King said:

My sister and i did look through the instruction book nd paper folder. We also searched for them around the room we bbuilt it in.  Not sure how they disppeared. She and i assumed those banner pieces might be stowed away among the numbered plastic bags toward the end. 

Hmm.  I’m trying to remember.  I think they were in with the instructions.  I’m sure TLG will send a set out.  When my wife accidentally binned the half used set of UCS falcon stickers, they sent me them, no bother.

[nikhkin]

It's been a while since I built it, but the banners were packed somewhere "safe" to prevent them from bending. They were either in with the instructions, or in their own cardboard sleeve.