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[nobbyiscool]

Oh wow - I just saw this on Jay's brick blog, so I guess it's a new announcement?

This is quite beautiful! Very displayable, and a cute little hybrid between the art pieces and the botanicals.

I'm quite certain I'll be buying this at some point!

Vincent van Gogh – Sunflowers 31215 | Art | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop AU

Recreate Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers with LEGO® bricks

www.lego.com

 

[Capital Power]

Oh wow - I just saw this on Jay's brick blog, so I guess it's a new announcement?

This is quite beautiful! Very displayable, and a cute little hybrid between the art pieces and the botanicals.

I'm quite certain I'll be buying this at some point!

Vincent van Gogh – Sunflowers 31215 | Art | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop AU

Recreate Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers with LEGO® bricks

www.lego.com

Yep, it's on the Lego site, available 1 March.

Vincent van Gogh – Sunflowers 31215 | Art | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop AU

Recreate Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers with LEGO® bricks

www.lego.com

Neese you need to see this .

 

[Neese]

Oh nice. Much better than that fugly Mona Lisa.

 

[Neese]

I'm through bag 12 now... which means I'm through bag 11, the 2nd one that I had to order PAB pieces for.

They've had me order some duplicates, including some particularly annoying ones that aren't cheap pieces (like a spare rowing oar.)

That's ok though. I'm very happy to have overcome the issues, and that I have all the missing pieces in one go, without needing a re-order or a visit to a PAB wall. It took longer than it should've - it was over 3 weeks of back and forth with Lego before I found someone who could locate a piece list - but I'm stoked.

Might put the stickers on it, prioritise a new cabinet, and find some new acrylic shelving...

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Oh nice. That's a lot bigger than the Seinfeld one I have.

 

[Forward Press]

MY F***ING WALLET, THIS IS A MUST HAVE.

Ahem, on a related note I saw it in person last year. Incredibly privileged because getting tickets for the Van Gogh Museum is difficult and I had a few moments, by myself, to contemplate it, admire the brushstrokes, and photograph it from mere inches away.



It truly is a landmark work and I am glad I can assemble it in Lego form.

 

[Forward Press]

Oh nice. Much better than that fugly Mona Lisa.

Just finished that, it was indeed a bit underwhelming but considering the original itself is also quite muted in terms of colour and composition, I think Lego did they best they could.

$300 is a lot of money but it's worth it from what I can tell.

 

[Neese]

MY F***ING WALLET, THIS IS A MUST HAVE.

Ahem, on a related note I saw it in person last year. Incredibly privileged because getting tickets for the Van Gogh Museum is difficult and I had a few moments, by myself, to contemplate it, admire the brushstrokes, and photograph it from mere inches away.

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It truly is a landmark work and I am glad I can assemble it in Lego form.

I was like a kid in a lolly shop at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.

 

[nobbyiscool]

I finished this off today during the first session of the cricket. After all the dramas I had, what a relief to have it finished and complete.

The good:

• it looks great, I watched a couple of episodes while building it yesterday and the accuracy is incredible.
• as someone who doesn't do many builds like this, I really enjoyed how they have all this different furniture, and they try and make them all slightly different builds. There's not a lot of repetition. Things like the curtains and all the shelving were quite new to me as well.
• there's some proper laugh out loud storyline elements of it, which I wasn't expecting.

I'd spent most of this build thinking I was going to keep it, and regretting that I hadn't put the stickers on it, but,

The bad:

• it doesn't really "fit" with my display, it's so different to everything else I have.
• it's quite flimsy, which limits where I can display it
• it's kind of exactly the wrong size in all aspects. It's too tall to put an acrylic shelf on top of, and build up. The girls apartment is set back a little further than the guys, which means if you factor in it's "display footprint", it takes up more space than it needs to. I think if I had an acrylic box, it would need to be too big to be able to build on top of.

I really wanted to build Endurance next, but I have nowhere to put it. I need to decide whether I'm selling Friends apartments, or investing in another cabinet that I don't have space for, or getting an entirely new cabinet that's a size upgrade/replacing the current one. Maybe a trip to Ikea to assess the potential damage next week...

(the Sunflowers announcement reminded me that I still have Great Wave in my wardrobe. I'll probably build that in the meantime while I'm on a hot streak, it's much easier to display from a space perspective.)

 

[Capital Power]

Saw Endurance built at the store today. Looks very impressive. Very pleased I picked that up with the lifeboat.

 

[Neese]

nobbyiscool Great Wave was nowhere as fun to build as Starry Night. It's fun and looks good but the Van Gogh was brilliant to build.