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More Human Than Human? LUMIBRICKS Protein Farm Living Quarters Review

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LUMIBRICKS Blade Runner 2049 Protein Farm Living Quarters 23002 — Review Grab yours here! “It’s a protein farm. Wallace design.” — Sapper Morton I was always going to be biased with these models. Not only am I getting an excellent quality brick set, with amazing lighting and quality design, I'm getting a set based on a series of films I absolutely adore. Following K's Spinner, the Protein Farm Living Quarters is the second part of the Blade Runner 2049 collection for me. I loved the Spinner, so I was really looking forward to this one. And honestly, this was the right scene for LUMIBRICKS to build. It's dirty, weathered, cluttered and atmospheric. It's not the neon-soaked Blade Runner location you might immediately expect them to go for, but that's actually part of why I like it. There is so much here that suits what LUMIBRICKS does well. At 2,400 pieces, this is also a very different proposition to K's Spinner. This is a proper building with a dev...
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IAMBRICK Corner Store & Izakaya Review - Five Hours Disappeared — And That Says Everything

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IAMBRICK Corner Store & Izakaya Review Get yours here The IAMBRICK Corner Store & Izakaya is a 1,745-piece, two-storey Japanese-inspired building, with a corner store downstairs and izakaya restaurant above. It's open-backed, which makes sense for this particular model as there's a definite play element to it. You also get an 8-wide Azure Night Runner car, two characters, 52 printed elements and integrated lighting with four light points. It measures around 25.5cm wide, 25.5cm deep and 25cm tall. A decent-sized model, but still something you can comfortably build in an afternoon. There's quite a lot here.  Packaging & Unboxing  The packaging is good quality. I really like the box art and there's a quality feel to the whole thing. I do have an issue with how the sets are packaged for delivery. They tend to be packed very tightly inside the shipping cartons without much additional protection. This one arrived with a large ho...
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Another Cottage? Thankfully, This One Has a Pumpkin

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LUMIBRICKS Autumn Farmhouse 16013 Get yours here! I've built a lot of Lumibricks sets now and one of the things I've come to appreciate is just how different they can be. The Manga Shop had that slightly grubby cyberpunk city look. The Film Studio Tower was huge and all about presence. The Dutch Windmill brought a mechanical element into the mix. The Autumn Farmhouse is something completely different again, and I really enjoyed building it. At 1,557 pieces it isn't huge, certainly compared with some of the Lumibricks sets I've reviewed, but there's plenty packed into it. You have the farmhouse itself surrounded by crops, pumpkins, animals, trees and loads of smaller details. It's basically a pumpkin spice latte in brick form. Packaging Lumibricks packaging is consistently good. Everything is well presented and organised and feels like a quality product before you've even started building. My usual criticism remains the amount ...
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