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Two New LEGO Disney Sets Coming!

LEGO announced two new sets this morning, both with some interesting creative twists. Details below.

Meet your favorite Disney heroines at the #43215 LEGO Disney Enchanted Treehouse! This amazing LEGO Disney set is ready for you to have a magical time exploring and going on endless adventures. Do some reading, take a canoe ride, dance, hone your warrior skills, search for hidden treasure – the list is endless! You can do anything you can imagine with 13 beloved characters in this incredible tree house!

Inspire kids aged 7 and up to new heights of imaginative play with the #43215 LEGO Disney Enchanted Treehouse set. The tree house model measures 9.5 in. (25 cm) high, 14 in (36 cm) wide, and 5 in. (13 cm) deep and comes with 1,016 pieces. It has a 2-level tree house, waterfall, zip line, 13 LEGO mini-doll figures, plus lots of accessories and features including a cave hidden behind the waterfall and a secret staircase in the tree house.

As they build, kids can enjoy an easy and intuitive adventure with the LEGO Builder app, zooming in and rotating models, and tracking progress. This set sparks creative storytelling and helps grow kids’ confidence as they play with beloved characters. The set works for group play and can be added to other LEGO Disney sets (sold separately) for more fun.

This premium set is packed with characters, including Disney’s Mulan, Raya, Elsa, Moana, Tinker Bell, Alice, Wendy, Belle, Tiana, Anna, Pocahontas, Princess Jasmine, and Mirabel, and makes a fun gift to impress Disney fans of any age. Prices are as follows: 169.99 EUR/149.99 GBP/259.99 AUD/1599.0 CNY/3899.9 TRY/71990.0 HUF/159.99 USD/209.99 CAD. Available starting on June 1st at the LEGO Disney section of the Online LEGO Shop.

Show off your creativity and your favorite Disney characters! The imaginative #43221 LEGO Disney 100 Years of Disney Animation Icons set lets you pick the characters you love and create a collage to display on your wall. It includes 72 icons, 12 of which can be built at once. You can also create another icon to set in a small desk frame and display – along with an exclusive Disney Mickey Mouse artist minifigure – wherever you like!

Captivate fans and kids aged 6 and up and inspire Disney decoration creativity with the #43221 LEGO Disney 100 Years of Disney Animation Icons set. The set features 12 8×8 plates, a picture frame and hanger elements, and loads of tiles to build up to 12 icons at once, plus an exclusive Disney’s Mickey Mouse minifigure and building instructions with extra inspiration. As they build, kids can also enjoy an easy and intuitive adventure with the LEGO Builder app. They can zoom in and rotate models in 3D, save sets, and track their progress.

The framed collage with hanger measures over 11 in. (28 cm) high and 12.5 in (32 cm) wide and comes with 1,022 pieces. It’s easy to swap icons in and out of this fun wall display to mix it up at any time. This Disney wall art decor set helps boost kids’ creativity and ingenuity as they create and display their favorite characters in picture form. It’s also great for group play and can be added to similar LEGO Disney sets (sold separately) to expand the art display. Prices are as follows: 54.99 EUR/89.99 AUD/549.0 CNY/49.99 GBP/1299.9 TRY/59.99 USD/79.99 CAD/20990.0 HUF. Available starting on June 1st at the LEGO Disney section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? How do you like these new LEGO Disney sets? Are you planning to get either of them? Or both? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below!

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Brick Breakdown: LEGO Disney Up House

(Written by William)

The #43217 LEGO Disney Up House got two reactions from me when I first heard about its release. I really wanted it, but I was worried it will be too big and complex, and thus expensive. I got lost in the many adult-oriented sets LEGO has been putting out in recent years, and my budget ran thin. Turns out, the Up House is much smaller than I expected, and thus reasonably priced. But then I had a new worry, would this set live up to my expectations as an adult builder? After all, it’s recommended for ages 9 and up.

The Up House, of course, is more abbreviated than larger models, but I found myself engaged with the building experience all the way through. Plus, it really felt like LEGO designers didn’t take any shortcuts with large pre-moulded parts. You can see this plainly given the wide range of bright colors used in the house’s walls. And even the accessories, like Russell’s overstuffed backpack and Carl’s cane, are brick-built. On top of all this, LEGO designers even managed to use some interesting building techniques. We’ll be getting into those in a moment.

Overall, I think the biggest concern adult fans will have with this set is that it may leave them wanting more; more balloons, more house, even more balloons… you get the idea. This might prompt people to purchase several copies of the set for themselves to create expansions. And considering all the useful parts and vibrant colors, this set will also make an ideal parts-pack. The downside of this is that you may have a hard time finding the set in stores. Even at the Online LEGO Shop, it’s currently shown as temporarily out of stock. But if you like it, hopefully, you can get your hands on it and have a truly “Up” lifting experience.

LEGO DISNEY UP HOUSE – VERTICAL STRUT

When I first hear about this set, my first thought was, “I wonder if I can hang it to display it?” Turns out, you can. And based on the header for this section, you even get an idea of how it can be done.

For the most part, this house is built pretty much like your standard LEGO building. In fact, some of the walls are less interlocked than we normally see. So, how in the world could this hold up to being dangled? It all comes down to one of the last structural elements you add to the house.

Over the course of the build, there are a couple of LEGO Technic pins that stick out the backside of the building. Then you attach a long interlocked section to these pins to form a chimney. This will also be where you build the tower of balloons. But if you look closely, this feature also gives the house some unique characteristics.

First, it connects the first and second floors together. This lends the whole construction some much-needed stability. Second, it is centrally located along the longest section of the house. Sure, it is in the back so it’s not balanced front to back, but it is balanced side to side. Finally, the very top of the chimney is reinforced with multiple brackets and tiles securing the model in multiple directions. For all intents and purposes, this long interlocked section represents a handle you can hold.

The result is a chimney you can tie some fishing line onto and lift without being worried it will fall apart. Keep in mind that the front may sag a bit, but since this is the prettier side of the house, that probably won’t bother people all that much.

This is what a single vertical strut can offer a small creation. By changing the orientation of the pieces from up and down to side-to-side, the strain goes directly to the parts themselves instead of their connection points where they are designed to come apart. It’s a clever feature that gives fans more display options along with more play features.

LEGO UP HOUSE – CURVING WALLS WITH SLOPES

Anytime a building comes with a curved window, I pay attention. I like nontraditional curves in my models. For the most part, LEGO designers will use a hinge connection and then add some sort of pillar to fill in the gaps. However, this time, the bay window has a much more solid appearance.

This is all thanks to the use of slopes and the degrees at which they slope. If you ever shopped for LEGO on a secondary marketplace like BrickLink.com, you may have noticed that for slopes the degree of angle is added for identification. In this case, the cheese wedge-type slopes offer a 30-degree plane compared to their flat side. So, how is this helpful?

Well, if you know how much of an angle you want to bend, you can use the appropriate number of slopes to achieve this angle. For example, this window starts at one wall, curves around, and makes a full half circle. In other words, it makes a 180-degree turn. Now, take your 30-degree mini-slopes and divide them into 180. This gives you 6. That means you will need six instances of these slopes to turn that full 180 degrees. Sure enough, this window/wall section is comprised of three wall segments. Each segment has two slopes, one on the left and one on the right. Altogether, that makes the six angled elements we need.

But wait, what if you want to try a different angle? Let’s say you just want to round a corner. That would only be 90 degrees. By using the same 30-degree slopes and dividing them into 90, you’d see we’d only need three. Now let’s look back at the bay window in this set. Notice how the middle section is flat to us? It represents a 90-degree turn from the left and right walls. Additionally, look to those segments attached to its right and left. They each have two sloped edges and the middle segment has one. This means there are the 3 segments needed to form the 90-degree turn.

However, there are some complications in using this technique. You will have to figure out what method you will use to hinge various segments together. This has its own issues of figuring out how far to stick out the edges. And this level of design is going to change based on your model. The good news is you have some idea as to what slopes might help you achieve when you’re building curved walls.

LEGO UP HOUSE – FINAL THOUGHTS

As I mentioned at the beginning, when I first heard that the Up House was going to be released, I was concerned. I figured it will be yet another massive set I didn’t have a budget for. So, I kind of kept my head down and tried not to think about it. But this meant that I missed the official announcement with all the details and pricing information. And when I did find out those details, I was worried that it wasn’t going to be a fulfilling building experience. Turns out, my worries were unfounded. LEGO found an excellent blend of good design and affordability.

You can find nifty builds like the gramophone that uses a special hat to form the horn on the player. And there are even larger techniques that are interesting like the two I mentioned above. And I found the accessories for both Russel and Carl to be absolutely charming. On the down side, the set has a fair number of stickers, many of them on round tiles, which are trickier to apply. Next, the house is more or less a façade of a building and not a full house. This may lead many to buy multiple copies of the set so they can build something larger. And finally – and this is something I’ve already heard from many LEGO fans – there are enough balloons. I know LEGO designers didn’t add more because there was just no place to attach them, but I fully expect to see modified models with a lot more balloons. In the video below, I will discuss the set in a bit more detail.

All in all, this is a great model for $60 USD. It is much better than the $200+ price tag I was bracing for, given the recent influx of large and expensive sets. I think this size and price makes it available for most everyone. My only concern is that it may be a bit hard to find since it will be a day one buy for many. I guess you’ll just have to remain vigilant like Doug the dog and… Squirrel! If you want to check it out, visit the LEGO Disney section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? How do you like the LEGO Disney Up House? And what do you think of the techniques we discussed? Feel free to share your thoughts and own reviews in the comment section below!

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