hello everyone this is the Lego ideas
pop-up book based upon the fans
submission from two fans who worked
together and their last names are
immortalized on the front of the book
there although strangely they're swapped
I think Grant Davis was the initiator of
the project I am very happy to say right
from the start that this is a print not
a sticker on this huge 8 by 16 tile
there I was very worried when I first
pulled out an 8 by 16 tile from the box
that this came in and it did not have
any decoration on it because I thought
it was going to be another situation
like the plaques on the ultimate
collectors series really large sets that
Lego makes we're yet to put this huge
sticker on there I don't like putting
huge stickers on things and it's really
nice that they provided the the printed
versions here it's also nice that they
have the back of the book I didn't think
they were gonna do the back of the
outside cover quite so nicely but it is
finished up well so we've got a fully
tiled over surface on the outside
studs appearing on the top just to just
to let you know that it's Lego I like
that I like the fact that Lego is is not
ashamed of their their studs on their
their pieces but there is a lot of
tiling here and this whole thing opens
up and the big deal about it is that it
is indeed a pop-up book and the way this
works is just so simple and so smooth
the way the head--it that it all occurs
and that's that's all down to the fan
designers work which is just it's just
great it it just does the job and it's
it's very very simple there's no illegal
building there's no questionable
building involved here none of the
pieces are ever under any stress as far
as I can feel everything fits together
very nicely there's a little bit of a
side-to-side play there which is
perfectly fine I don't have any issue
with that the thickness of the actual
front of the the building here the house
the cottage I suppose is
is mostly to studs through most of it
and you can open up the door you can
open up the shutters over here and the
level of detail here is very nice it's
just missing figures at this point
fortunately they do include some figures
with the set and I'll show you those in
more detail obviously this one is
representing the story of Little Red
Riding Hood and she's going to visit her
grandma but grandma could also be
replaced with a wolf who's dressed up in
grandma's clothing very nice figures and
I said we'll look at those a little bit
later on taking a little bit more detail
they also have some detail of the
interior here now this is a little bit
simplified or simple but at least
there's some detail there and the nicest
thing to me is the fact that the bed is
set up to actually accommodate a figure
within it so you can put grandma or the
wolf in there I think see Effie Effie
the arms are down then it's just gonna
look like she's sitting up which is a
pretty proper look actually but if you
want to put her in there farther then
just pull the arms up a bit more and
yeah that's that's pretty cool I like to
see beds that are actually able to
accommodate someone many times they go
does not do that right in the past they
have not done that they've started to do
it and I hope to see that trend continue
a little fireplace that is lit there
that's the only thing that's missing a
little bit smoke coming out so pretty
nicely done here and this is designed to
be transformed to cover a second-story
as well a different children in the
story these inserts can be easily pulled
out like so and these things here could
also be pulled out now I'm gonna replace
all this with something else
that goes there this goes right here get
that in place then this is going to slot
right in just get snapped into place and
this comes down right there and this is
based on the story of Jack and the
Beanstalk and look at how much this one
fold so this is actually a little bit
more impressive to me from a mechanical
perspective because of that string
that's connected that pulls the the
Giants house up into the sky again it's
all very smooth it closes up completely
this one is missing the the closure at
the end the little strap that was
included in the fan model submission
that was really nice to hold it together
but I mean on display I mean obviously
it stands up on its own doesn't really
need to be held together but I think
that just was a nice little thing that
was there originally that is missing
from this version so here here we've got
a microscale landscape rather than going
with mini fake scales so you're looking
at the sides of hills and they're clouds
around and forest and you know human
built structures they even have this
windmill up on the cliff over here you
can spin up the vanes there you can also
turn that around although I believe it
does need to be fairly close to this
orientation in order to fit when
everything is folded up no problem there
you got the stairs going up here and
then the Beanstalk
doesn't look half bad the Technic lift
arms don't look that great but most of
it's covered up with parts that makes
sense and then all the way up the top
you've got this house this is actually
dark as your for the top there and they
include in the set the giant himself and
he can stand right there at the stoop
just in front of the stupa and that is a
minifig scale giant with a nano fig for
Jack taking a closer look at those two
we get good prints for each that's a
pretty good level of detail for that
Figgy in particular but not too bad with
the printing on the torso for the giant
as well with the goose in his is a
jacket pocket yes coat pocket and also a
giant golden egg in a sack there and you
can see all of the the small scale
things that are attached to him with the
huge barrels which looks small and then
he's got a couple of minifig skulls on
there as well which are probably in a
different scale but it looks pretty good
it almost feels like a shame that they
don't now put printing along the sides
of minifigs because so much of this
feels like it needs to continue around
the sides I'm fine with it but it would
have been even better with a little bit
more there no secondary face for this
minifigure though so what you see there
is what you get from the Little Red
Riding Hood story this is at least the
second version that we've gotten of the
title character from Lego previously in
one of the collectible minifigs series
they did this grandma visitor which is a
very similar looking figure in many ways
but the new one is definitely updated in
many ways as well it has a lot more
detail as the skirt piece on there and
the hood is different the hood is
actually a recolor of the one that was
used for one of the lloyd features from
the Ninjago movie and I think it works
really well here with the different
colors on it I think the skirt piece
stands out a little bit too much it just
has so much spread it's so wide I wish
that it was a little bit closer to the
legs but it has really really nice
decoration on it for sure claim all the
way around this is a soft cape piece
very nice printing on the back of the
torso did not expect that at all
it's much better than I could possibly
ask for and the head underneath there is
one that we've seen a number of times up
to this point the basket is in the
slightly orangish yellow the fire
orangish yellow I believe the colored or
yellowish orange and there are a couple
of cookies in there as well just printed
pieces the 1 by 1 round tiles two of
them identical and finally here we have
Grandma
the wolf in grandma's clothing both
figures are included with all pieces to
make them complete and the poor wolf
tried to put grandma's clothing on
carefully but with the sharp claws just
ended up causing a lot of incidental
damage that was not intentional
whatsoever the wolf's head we got
previously for one of the collectible
minifigures series as well but this is a
new print for it complete with the
glasses the spectacles AG full-on
glasses I guess that have been broken in
the center and also a little bit of
lipstick applied there and there's a
little bit of print on the wolf version
that you can't see with the head on
there it's a very nice headpiece I think
that it's very appropriate for this
character but let me just pull this off
so you can see the rest of the detail
under there they did all of it and they
even did it on the front so you get the
collar even though you don't see that
normally I appreciate the attention to
detail and how complete it is it's it's
full complete work done by the graphic
designer I have to be honest I think the
exterior of this book looks ten times as
good as the original fan submission so I
really appreciate the pride that the
Lego designers put into this in in
pushing beyond what they even had to
start with by a good margin and
especially with the graphic design were
curating that looks great and I
appreciate the fact that they put the
fan designers names on here not the not
the Lego designers names you know just a
nice bit of respect there I also
appreciate the fact that they kept the
overall structure and mechanism very
close to the original fan submission and
especially this right here is very close
I mean there are a number of things that
have been changed aesthetically and I
think that the original submission had
more foliage around the the structure
and also around the base as well it's a
little bit a little bit plain relative
to that and all of this open space in
the front is well it's open space and
especially on the jacobeans book
version it's very plain there but all
told I think that the some of the work
between the fan designers and the Lego
designers has provided something to LEGO
fans and potentially even folks who
aren't Lego fans yet who might just see
this package on a store shelf and be
like wow that looks great and what a
cool novelty and how cool it is to see
this thing open up it just provides
great value I think
and speaking of value in particular the
press part ratio on this thing is
fantastic so there's really not a lot
that I can think to criticize about this
most of it is good and honestly the only
thing that I wish was better really wish
was better the spine I wish that had a
at least a single printed piece at least
just something with a a single initial
or something on it so that when the the
book is placed into a bookshelf or on a
bookshelf it's like this you know then
it would look cooler as it is it looks
very nice just presented on a desk or
something or if you have the the front
cover facing out towards you but when
it's placed in like this it just doesn't
doesn't do it justice to what all is
they're really cool set though very
happy that this was produced this is a
perfect use of the Lego ideas platform
in my opinion and I'm glad that it has
become available to purchase thank you
very much for watching the video hope
you enjoy this I'll talk to you again
soon
you
