Month: February 2024

Set 71237: Aquaman Fun Pack (2016)

What an absolute turd of a LEGO set. The minifigure is the only highlight. The set doesn’t even come with proper building instructions; you have to find those online. You can build three different vehicles from the loose parts, but I could only be bothered with the first one: Aqua Watercraft. I don’t even know what that tablescrap of parts is supposed to be.

Box for LEGO Dimensions set 71237 Aquaman Fun Pack. Box depicts Aquaman in his signature orange and green outfit plus some random underwater vehicle.
Instruction manual and two bags of LEGO pieces for LEGO Dimensions set 71237 Aquaman Fun Pack.
LEGO minifigure of Aquaman in his signature orange and green outfit holding a golden trident on the left and some weird orange and green underwater scooter on the right.

LEGO Dimensions

Remember when LEGO tried to emulate Nintendo’s amiibo™ figures? Ah yes, LEGO Dimensions. For some reason I have four. I must have purchased them at deep discount to harvest them for parts, but they’ve been gathering dust on a shelf since 2016. They’re probably the oldest unbuilt sets in my collection[1].

Four different boxed sets of LEGO Dimensions Fun Packs: Aquaman, Back to the Future, Doctor Who, and Ninjago's Master Wu.

[1] Not strictly the oldest unbuilt sets, but the ones I’ve held the longest.

Set 60300: Wildlife Rescue ATV (2021)

I picked up this small LEGO City set for the monkeys, which were new for 2021. Now I want to add them to my Eldorado Fortress setup. You get an ATV featuring wheels that turn on both axles, a small drone, a simple tree, a minifigure, two monkeys, a scorpion, a banana, and two pieces of poop for the monkeys to fling. Later I might try making some retro space rovers using the wheel parts from this set.

Box for LEGO City set 60300. Box depicts a 4WD vehicle, a flying drone, a minifigure, a tree, two monkeys, and a scorpion.
Instruction manual and two bags of LEGO pieces for LEGO City set 60300.
LEGO ATV with a drone on the back, a minifigure in a helmet and holding a clawed pole for animal handling, a tree, two monkeys, and a scorpion.

LEGO Wall of Shame

My LEGO Wall of Shame (all the sets I bought and haven’t built). I put away all the children’s games we haven’t touched in 5+ years and decided to fill this bookcase next to my desk with all (most) of the LEGO sets I need to build. I’m hoping this will prompt me to finally get around to building them. Let’s see how many are still there one year from now.

White IKEA bookcase with four shelves. Three of the four shelves are filled with unopened LEGO sets I need to build. The fourth shelf has my D&D books and dice.