Expect the Mobile Lab to retail at $59.99 The truck is accompanied by a waterfall scene, a fancy kayak, and what looks like a scary man-eating plant. What better way to do it than with 60160 Jungle Mobile Lab? The lab looks robust enough to survive the rainforest, with a nicely-built rollcage around the cab window. Once you’ve explored the site, you need to analyse your findings. The set contains 813 pieces and will retail at $119.99
2017 lego sets city update#
UPDATE (June 1): The summer wave of LEGO City Jungle sets is now available.įirst up, the biggest set in this new theme: 60161 Jungle Exploration Site features a jungle temple, a crashed plane, a helicopter, an exploration truck, and a cool little amphibious vehicle. You can find the sets at the LEGO Architecture section of the Online LEGO Shop.Continuing our coverage from New York Toy Fair, here’s a look at the new LEGO City Jungle sets, all coming out this June. So, give it a try! And if you need something to start with to build your own tiny cities, you might consider checking out the LEGO Architecture collection, particularly the LEGO Architecture Skyline Series. So, whether you have lots of LEGO parts, or only a handful, you have an opportunity to build entire worlds. As you will see, none of his work is very large or use a lot of pieces, but are more focused on thoughtful selection of parts and colors, careful posing, and excellent photography. Jeff shares many other wonderful LEGO creations (both micro-scale and minifigure-scale) under his Instagram profile. While industrial buildings are not decorative in nature, their maze-like complexity and sheer bulk does give a sense of awe.” Massive brick buildings loomed overhead like the great temples of antiquity. He shares: “If you can overlook the smog, hard labor, and environmental catastrophes of the Industrial Age, the era was a rich source of architectural wonders. Going back to the past, Jeff pays homage to the Industrial Age. The micro-city worked on by minifigs really puts the size into perspective it looks big, but it is actually very tiny. Jeff took advantage of lots of little pieces and accessories with interesting designs like binoculars, frying pans, gears, clips, wheels, propellers, lightsaber hilts, and jackhammers. Just to show that even though the end result looks carefully planned, the design process is actually a mixture of experimentation, vision, and happy little accidents (as Bob Ross would say).Ĭontinuing to progress into the future, the city above is from the distant future, with even more modern, almost alien shapes. He says that “it was like chicken scratches slowly taking the form of a balanced drawing”. Over time, the haphazard constructions evolved into what you see here. Jeff shares that he gathered in a pile all the curved pieces he had, and just started putting them together. Jeff also built a couple of fully futuristic cities, using mostly white and turquoise rounded shapes, surrounded by some green pieces to represent landscaping.
Also, don’t miss the tiny trains both on the overhead bridges and underground! Notice that many of the structures are simply stacked plates, but because of the careful choice of colors and some decorations, they really come alive.
They all feature a central canal with a suspension bridge, surrounded by high-rise buildings. The next three vignettes are variations of similar cityscapes, with a mix of both classic and modern style architecture.
Once creating the loops of the highway, the city naturally grew around it. Jeff said he first saw the new tiles in the LEGO lettering contest by New Elementary (see: Lettering with LEGO Using New Tile Shapes), and he immediately imagined them as elevated highways in a micro-scale city. The futuristic city on the first picture above was built on a 20×20 stud base, and was inspired by the new curved tile pieces. I was so impressed with Jeff’s creations, that I thought to share some of them with you here as well. Recently, the BrothersBrick featured the work of LEGO fan Jeff Friesen (see: Time to Travel to Beautiful Cityscapes), who is not just a master of micro-building, but an expert at using shape and color. And, of course, there are many examples of micro-building from the LEGO fan community.
2017 lego sets city series#
LEGO themselves runs a series of tutorials for building on a small scale (see links at the end of this post), and the LEGO Architecture line is a good example of what can be achieved on a small scale with relatively few pieces. Micro-building doesn’t require having a lot of parts, but it is more about thoughtful placement and clever usage of the pieces you already have. This is one of the reasons I like to regularly feature examples of micro-building with LEGO. Sometimes those new to the LEGO hobby and people with a smaller LEGO collection get a little discouraged when they see the impressive large displays and dioramas of other LEGO fans.
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