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If you received a free LEGO set with one of your future purchases what would it look like? What would the theme be? How about the colors and the elements used? Right now, the LEGO Ideas team is calling on all LEGO builders to design a unique and captivating Gift-With-Purchase set that will wow fans around the world. Whether it’s a miniature creature, a whimsical vehicle, a charming character, or anything else you can imagine, the sky is (almost) the limit! The LEGO Ideas team wants to see your ingenuity shine as you craft a set that not only delights with its build but also captures the essence of LEGO magic and your dreams.

Your submissions should use between 150-250 elements in order to be accepted in this challenge. Submissions should not be based on or reference old LEGO sets or any third-party intellectual property. It’s time to think out of the box!

The challenge will consist of three phases: Submission Phase – Create and submit your entry before the 24th of April, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST. Judging Phase – LEGO Ideas judges review the entries and choose the entries for the Fan Vote by the 30th of April, 2024. Voting Phase – Fans will be invited to show their support for the designs, and the votes collected will decide the submission which will become a future LEGO Gift-With-Purchase set. Voting will run from the 30th of April, 2024 – 7th of May, 2024. Winners Announcement – The LEGO Ideas team will share the results of the Fan Vote on LEGO Ideas no later than the 16th of May, 2024!

The grand prize winner of this contest will get the exclusive opportunity to have your model transformed into a new LEGO Ideas Gift-With-Purchase set and receive 10 copies of the final set. On top of that, they will also receive the following: #21348 LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale, #21347 LEGO Ideas Red London Telephone Box, #21346 LEGO Ideas Family Tree, #21345 LEGO Ideas Polaroid OneStep SX-70 Camera, and #40712 LEGO Icons Micro Rocket Launchpad. Runner-up winners will each receive the following #21348 LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale, and #40712 LEGO Icons Micro Rocket Launchpad.

To read all the details and rules of the contest and to submit your own entry, visit the LEGO Ideas contest page. And to see all the currently available LEGO sets originally designed and submitted by LEGO fans, visit the LEGO Ideas section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? How do you like this LEGO Ideas contest? Are you planning to participate? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below!

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LEGO Dungeons & Dragons Set Video-Reviews

There has been a lot of excitement for the upcoming #21348 LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale set both by Dungeons and Dragons fans as well as LEGO Castle fans.

The set features a buildable tavern with a removable roof and an upper level for easy access, a dungeon and a tower, plus a poseable Cinderhowl the Red Dragon figure that can be wrapped around the tower. The set also includes six minifigures – four brave adventurers, an innkeeper, and a dragonborn – plus lots of monster figures, including a beholder, an owlbear, and a displacer beast. The tower, tavern, and dungeon build in this 3,745-piece building set measures over 19 in. (48 cm) high, 14.5 in. (37 cm) wide, and 12 in. (30 cm) deep. Another nice feature is that the set comes with four booklets with building instructions for different parts of the set so you can build with your D&D group.

Although the set is super exciting, it comes with a very high price tag of $359.99. This means that LEGO fans will need to make careful financial decisions. In situations like this, I like to turn to trusted LEGO reviewers to help me analyze the plusses and minuses of a particular set.

This past weekend I found a helpful early review of the set by Solid Brix Studios featuring all the features and play-functions and comparisons to similar sized sets. I have included the video-review below so we can discuss the set in more detail.

I also wanted to share a second video-review by former LEGO designer Tiago Catarino, who focuses on the game feature of the set (yes, it also functions as a D&D adventure game specifically developed for this set by the Wizards of the Coast team).

As you can see, there is a lot to like about the #21348 LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale. But as pointed out in the video, the price is definitely on the higher side. I’m sure D&D fans will be getting it anyway, because this is the first, and perhaps only LEGO Dungeons & Dragons set, but if you’re more of a castle fan, sticking with the non-licensed LEGO Castle sets is a better bargain. There will be a Dungeons & Dragons Minifigure Series coming later this year, so if you like them, you can always add those to your castle displays.

The set is going to be available for LEGO Insiders starting on April 1st, and for everyone else on April 4th. If you want to check out the details you can visit the LEGO Ideas section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? Are you excited for the LEGO Dungeons & Dragons set? Are you planning to get it? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below!

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