A fan submission that cleared the Ideas vote in 2024 has grown into a 5,363-piece kaiju, which says something about how much the designers enjoyed themselves. The interesting bit is how far the official model departs from the original fan build. Keep your minifig city well back from the display shelf.

Not a MOC, but the infrastructure under a thousand of them: the metal-railed 9V track that powered LEGO trains for years and now tarnishes in attic bins. A deep dive in the restoration spirit, which is to say cleaning, testing and coaxing current back through old rails. Anyone with a box of grey track knows why this matters.

A city that spent centuries on wooden piles now arrives on a baseplate, which is arguably the more stable foundation. The review weighs the usual question for a flagship Icons set, namely whether it earns its price, and that free water taxi is doing some quiet lobbying. Still cheaper than a week on the Grand Canal, the reviewer notes, with fewer pigeons by our own estimate.

A fan design that survived the Ideas gauntlet and came out the other end as a tall column of atomic breath. The interesting question isn't whether it's big, it's whether bricks can do a single frozen moment of drama rather than a mere statue. Town owners may wish to review their insurance.

A franchise this old and this loved should have been buried in fan builds years ago, and yet the author could find just one Zelda model besides his own at a recent BrickFair. A nice snapshot of a niche filling in, with an official LEGO designer among the early offenders.

SNOT, for the uninitiated, is studs not on top, and it is where LEGO building stops being a stack and starts being geometry. Thinking in cubes sounds like the right mental trick, since a brick's odd proportions are the whole difficulty. Only the title and the picture are in hand, so go in expecting technique rather than a set review.

An insect-shaped flying machine would be enough for most builders; this one turns around to reveal a greenhouse in the back. Notice the parts usage: a chrome Scala trophy and the new Technic bicycle wheel segments, doing duty as wings. Dragonfly by way of Kew Gardens.

A premise so good it barely needs the build, but the build holds up anyway: look at how the shaping around the cockpit tapers away into the hull. For anyone who birds, note that this is a rodent revenge fantasy aimed squarely at raptors. We remain neutral, and watch the skies.