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• We Went There: Achieving Peak Los Angeles at Lana Del Rey’s Hollywood Forever Concert October 20, 2014
• The LEGO Group reveals fan-designed set based on the house from the all-time festive classic movie, Home Alone
• Spring Animal Playground ​ ​
• Lego Creator 3 in 1 Flowers in Watering Can Building Toy, $24
• ‘Home Alone' LEGO House Available Just In Time for the Holidays

Kevin can zipline to his backyard treehouse to foil the robbers. We restrict the limit a household can buy in order to be fair to all of our fans. If you’ve already reached that limit through previous orders your entire order may be cancelled. It was darker here, and my eyes didn’t adjust right away, but as soon as I had been sat down I felt something large and soft bump against my right shoulder.

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Other bits of décor include the front door, “feather trap” fan, grandfather clock, and dining room table and chairs. The clock feels like it could be re-homed into almost any LEGO family setting. Note the uneaten plate of “highly nutritious microwavable macaroni and cheese” on the table, too. The dining area on the right side of the first floor has a short set of stairs in front of an oddly open gap instead of windows.

The LEGO Group reveals fan-designed set based on the house from the all-time festive classic movie, Home Alone

The LEGO Ideas Home Alone set is instantly recognisable, perfectly capturing the grand McCallister family home, and is also packed with features that tell the story of Kevin’s holiday antics. As well as the exterior, the interior layout is true to the movie and includes the ground and first floor, kitchen, basement and attic. A new opening mechanism opens up the house for full enjoyment; the walls separate in the middle to open sideways and fully reveal the interior, while the roof also opens upwards. In addition, the set comes complete with the main characters of the movie in LEGO minifigure form, including; Kevin, robbers Harry and Marv, the old man Marley – and Kevin’s mum Kate.

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And here’s a zoomed out shot of the dining room, which also shows off the statuette, that revolves in sync with the Michael Jordan cutout train. Tucked in the corner of the dining room is the large fan, ready to blow a giant pile of feathers into intruders. Each floor can also be easily separated, allowing you to access and peek into each room and section of the house from above, just like a modular. In the back of the van is a crate with a pearl gold trophy and tap – loot from the houses that the Wet Bandits have hit.

Make the holidays even more fun with new LEGO® Ideas Home Alone

Buzz’s bedroom is also awash in what I assume are Home Alone 2 Easter eggs, including a heart-in-a-safe and a stickered toy catalog for Duncan’s Toy Chest. There’s also a super-hero poster on the door For Oleksii Storozhuk no.1 – that’s got to mean something, too, right? Also in the room are Buzz’s BB-gun and a framed picture of his girlfriend, a joke that really hasn’t aged well. Pulling on it removes a supporting rod under the hinged shelves, letting them fall forward. When locked in place there’s a bit of droop to the top shelf, but it’s not super-noticeable. Construction starts on the McCallister home with a solid foundation that contains some simple Technic gearing.

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Coolness [4] – Very impressed to see a licensed LEGO Ideas set that doesn’t hold back. 90s nostalgia is also trendy right nowKeepability [3] – Licensed LEGO Ideas sets usually hold their value well, and Home Alone has a special place in many people’s Christmas memories, so I can see this set ageing well. Fans of the beloved Pixar movie Up will want to get their hands on this Lego set. Included in the 598-piece kit is the front of the house from the film, four interior rooms, several balloons, accessories, and three minifigures, including Carl Fredricksen, Russell, and Dug.

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Inside the rubbish bin, is a stickered tile with Kevin’s flight tickets hidden inside. To lean in on the Christmas vibe, there are Christmas string lights strewn across the front, as well as festive wreaths on the door and lamps. The dining room is decorated with a wreath and candles, but man, I hate those chairs. These chairs have an interesting build technique, but the execution is just awful.

Also included is a microfigure trophy to stand in for the problematic “Lawn Jockey” statue that keeps getting hit by the Little Nero’s Pizza delivery guy in the movie. The van is well designed, but that crate of loot is a little hard to get in and out of the back. It can be done, but it can end up a little more dramatic than probably intended.

Some of the stickers don’t take advantage of the foil, but things like the refrigerator door and mirror certainly are improved by it. Uploaded to YouTube on April 25, this cute and impressive Lego recreation was made by YouTuber Lego Crow and they claim it’s their “biggest project yet! ” And I believe them, as this video features practically every moment and detail from the original housebuilding scene from RDR 2. Actually … yeah, in a kind of basic, existence-precedes-essence way. The experience and its design are pretty minimalist, so you’re forced to think a lot about your body moving through a narrative-free, contextless space.

There’s a neat play feature built into it, where the iron is placed in a chute on the upper kitchen level – flicking a lever, drops it downstairs, flying into Marv’s face to inflict some pretty serious burns. In many ways, it sets the stage the build, making you feel like you’re about to commence building all the booby traps, and getting the house ready for the Wet Bandits. There’s a four-poster bed, a nightstand with a (stickered) digital alarm clock, and a printed 1×1 popcorn box brick. The lamp is also a fun design, with a 2×2 flower as part of the shade.

On the opposite side of the level, the bathroom set is coming together. The callbacks here are a wrapped toothbrush, silver-foil stickered mirror, and a bottle of shaving balm. From the back there are a few necessary concessions – the big hole in the dining room wall that we mentioned earlier, some Technic connection points around that gap, and the plunger knob at the top of the stairs.

The front of the home is built on hinged panels allowing access to the interior. A line of inset shots along the bottom call out some of the movie moments you can recreate, as well as showcasing that the different floors are modular. The minifigures shown in the main photo complete the cast, with Kevin’s mom arriving at long last. The build is fun and engaging, with plenty of play features all too often bypassed by other “adult” LEGO offerings lately.

The Treehouse is pretty simple, with a skull and crossbones flag hanging. I was really impressed by the use of droid arms for the ladder. To really illustrate how large the McCallister House is, here’s the set sandwiched in between the Modular Police Station and Santa’s Visit. Marv’s alternate face, with an iron burned on his face is just perfect, and contender for one of the best minifigure faces of 2021. Last but certainly not least we have Marv Murchins and Harry Lime minifigures. Self-styled as the Wet Bandits, these two bumbling thieves are the true stars of the Home Alone franchise, and provide the comic-relief as their hair-brained scheme to rob the McCallister House comes undone.

My 5 year old has been having a blast both with the set, and I also used this as an opportunity to introduce the movie to her, which she thoroughly enjoys thanks to the family-friendly physical humour. Here’s a look at the basement, and the furnace, which at first is something that terrifies Kevin, but as he builds his courage, by the end of the movie, he is no longer afraid of it. It has a travel guide to New York, with the Statue of Liberty on it, as well as a personal Easter Egg to designer Antica Bracanov – who hails from Croatia, and wanted to subtly incorporate the Dalmatia region into the build. The kitchen is stuffed to the brim with references, with pizza boxes from Little Nero’s pizza, and a refrigerator with magnets and postcards on it. You’ll also be able to spot Buzz’s tarantula, which is freakishly large when compared to the minifigures! Buzz’s room upstairs is packed with a heap of detail – I love this nod to Duncan’s Toy Chest, the New York toy store from Home Alone 2 on his desk.

Where both minifigures shine is in the alternate face department – where Kevin has his signature “shocked” face, and Kate has her “I just left my son Home Alone” look, where she darts up from her seat on the plane. Here’s Kevin and his mum, Kate, who famously left Kevin behind and only realised midway on the flight to Paris. Both minifigures are decent representations of their on-screen counterparts, relying on their outfits instead of face prints to bring them to life. I REALLY like Home Alone’s instruction manual, and consider the creative and design direction to be one of the best of the LEGO for Adults. Unlike typical LEGO instruction manuals which have the set photo on the front, we’re instead treated to Kevin McCallister’s hand-drawn battle plan – lovingly re-created of course. At 3,955-pieces, and with a sticker price of US$250 / AU$400, the LEGO Home Alone set is a sizable set, amongst the biggest released in 2021, and is a satisfyingly complete homage to the classic Macaulay Culkin film.