LEGO Ideas Pop-Up Book 21315

I'm 60 year old retiree w a smashed wrist requiring wrist plate w 5 screws. I bought this set (my first LEGO set) to help me get my fingers working again. Such a great experience. I made a few changes. I prefer name plates on spine. It is a joyful set beautifully crafted. I'm shopping for more brickheadz now. I forgot how much I enjoyed LEGO until now.

The assembly of this book and the two pop-up stories in the set is an especially engaging experience. A playfully designed instruction book showcases the fan designers and LEGO designers of the set, and gives a little history on pop-up books. Using hinges and swivels, the pop-up mechanic is expertly pulled off in brick form and is just as fascinating. The two story inserts are playful in design, highly interactive, and they spark new ideas. They demonstrate two uses of scale; Red Riding Hood has a pop-up cottage, and Jack & the Beanstalk has a pop-up mountain valley village in micro-scale, and a rising beanstalk in the background. The mechanical movement is impressive yet simple. These inserts give rise to more ideas for pop-up vignettes. I recently finished designing my own Star Wars scene insert and since the ideas are endless, so might be my own collection of custom story inserts.

This was my introduction to Lego Kits. Oh my! So much fun. Loved getting to read all about the development and background of this set and I really enjoyed doing it. I marveled at the mechanism of the popup! So great! And it is two books in one. Though I am partial to Red Riding Hood, the beanstalk is amazingly constructed!

this is such a cool lego set i love the design of the book

Simply put, the ability to build a new scene makes this one of the most dynamic sets. I almost want a bookshelf full of them, all with different scenes.

The only Lego model I have ever bought two of upon release. Always loved pop up books and these are no exception. I built one and my wife the other. Always find the builds captivating and the finished product impressive.

I LOVE this set. I haven't made it up yet but I have seen the video reviews and know it's going to look great. I really, really hope that Lego listen to the people who have suggested further expansions with other stories. , or perhaps a whole box of 'Story Bricks' where you have a box like the classic Lego box but filled with pieces to help you to build any story you wanted. This set is so different which is one of the reasons I like it so much.

A playfully designed instruction book, becomes more and more beautiful with every brick you add to it. The two story inserts are playful in design, highly interactive, and they spark new ideas. Always find the builds captivating and the finished product impressive. Really awesome (my first LEGO set).

I love everything about this set. I think it's such a great idea and in fact I hope that LEGO will create some mini sets to change out the story in the book in the future. Because I like it so much and think that all the stops were pulled out for this set except for a couple of areas, I am going to be extra critical... LEGO, I feel like you could have sprung for some more dark green bricks. Instead using black in places where you can see the color on the front and back covers in two spots and along the bottom, the green really would have made this 100%. I swapped out the two black 1x1 bricks with the two studs that could be seen on the front and back for green ones and in the spaces that were left empty because I stole the green ones from, I put in a couple of gray ones that I had (those are hidden by the large plates on the front and back cover. However they can be seen when the book is open. A better alternative, though. However along the bottom where there are black 1x2 bricks with front facing studs, I had to leave them because I don't have dark green ones in my collection of LEGO. Is it really terrible? No, but this and one other set are my absolute favorite sets ever so I was being really picky. Really awesome that it made it into the LEGO Ideas line and so thrilled to have it :)

the box was taped when i received it. it said new. taped boxes are not new. this happens waaaaaay too many times with items from walmart.