Questions tagged [theme]
Questions about sets in a specific theme.
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What different series are or have there been designed primarly for girls?
My daughter loves to play with LEGO sets but she is really wants to play with pink or 'girl' LEGO. I have ordered a few of the new LEGO Friends sets but I was wondering what other LEGO themes' have ...
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Why doesn't LEGO bring back old series as they were "in the day"
As many of you probably can tell, LEGO has been rehashing old series and giving them a new twist (eg. Rock Raiders -> Power Miners, or whatever its called). Why doesn't LEGO actually make some of ...
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Which brands (fictional and non-fictional) have appeared in the Town/City theme?
A few years ago I wrote an article about the fictional organisation logos found in the City theme.
I'd quite like to revisit this, as I'm sure I must have missed some. I also only focused on the ...
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List of prototype or unreleased themes
I recently discovered the unreleased "Seatron" theme as I was looking around for building ideas. After some searching, I also found the unreleased Europa theme which seems to be set in the 1700s and ...
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Which subtheme did the "Space Monorail" sets come under?
Many years ago I remeber attending a model railway exhibition and one of the railways was a Lego monorial that looked very "space" based. I've found 6990 (Monorail Transport System) and 6991 (Monorail ...
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Looking for sets to use as components of a 1930s - 1940s European city
I'm planning to build a 1930s / 1940s European city (like Paris, London, Prague, ...).
As buildings, I'm currently going for modulars that could pass for pre-1950 European buildings, possibly with ...
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Why did they cancel Mars Mission?
Does anybody know why LEGO canceled the Mars Mission line? It was so good and I almost had everything! I don't wanna buy off eBay because that can get expensive. I liked it a lot!
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What is the history of the Marvel license between LEGO and Mega Bloks?
I just recently learned that LEGO had the license to do Marvel themed blocks back in 2003. When the Iron Man films came out, Mega Bloks produced several Marvel-themed sets. Now LEGO apparently has ...
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What happened to "LEGO Service"?
In the 1990s, besides the main sets, there were some supplementary sets that were basically just parts collections. At least in Germany, these were offered under the name "LEGO Service", and listed in ...
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What is LEGO Xtra?
I've seen a number of small polybags in stores branded LEGO xtra. What are these?
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Index of the City sets by category
I'm running trough bricklink, peeron and brickowl, but I can't find a "good" (I mean 'fitting my idea') index to browse across city sets.
Is there a kind of list like
vehicle
cars
trucks
planes
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I have set from Agents theme yet the database doesn't contain my set
I started to sort my LEGO when I realized that I still have most of one of the set I bought so I tried to search the net for the set name. However, the database of LEGO wiki and BrickSet didn't have ...
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What year did the minicon "micro BrickCon" first appear at "BrickCon"?
It seems like minicons (a minicon is a LEGO display consisting of minilander figures looking at miniland scale tables populated by microscale MOCs) are popping up everywhere lately.
The last known ...
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What is the difference between Star Wars UCS and Master Builder Series?
In the press release for Betrayal at Cloud City (75222) it was noted that this set was part of the Star Wars Master Build Series. What is this? Does this replace the Star Wars Ultimate Collector ...
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What went in the orange cylinders from Mars Mission?
While sifting a bin of LEGO's that I received as a gift I found this strange orange cylinder:
I was able to determine that it was part 58947pb01, the "Cylinder 9 x 4 x 2 Tapered with Flat Bottom, Pin ...
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Were there any non "misson-x" sets from the LEGO Alpha Team Range (as in with the PC Game)?
In the LEGO Alpha Team Range, there's "Mission: Deep Sea" and "Misson: Deep Freeze", but were there any sets in the same "theme" as the computer game (and the same characters)?
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M-Tron spaceships complete list
In a old LEGO box lost in my garage I found pieces and instructions of various M-Tron models:
6811 Pulsar Charger
6833 Beacon Tracer
6877 Vector Detector
6896 Celestial Forager
6923 Particle Ionizer
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How do I find a set in a bunch of jumbled up pieces
So my mum bought a LEGO set on eBay a while ago and it didn't come with instructions or a box so we didn't know how to build it but since then it has been jumbled up with a whole bunch of other pieces ...
