Hi everyone :o) This is Justin and today we're going to look at
LEGO® Ideas set 21302 - The Big Bang Theory!
This is a really nice set. The scene that
this sets out is absolutely gorgeous
and it includes so many authentic details
from the show.
We've got two white boards, one telescope, the bookshelves at the back
we've got the sofa, the rug and
the desk,  we've got the DNA structure
and the minifigs have so much detailing they really do look great.
So let's go
ahead and take a look at the box!
I think LEGO® has tried hard to give this
set a real premium feel to it and this
shows right from when you open the box because
it has got that lovely premium feel that
the LEGO® Architecture sets have and you
can actually open this without damaging
the box because it has a flip lid
rather than having the pieces that you
have to push through to break the seal.
The box itself is very nice and on the
front you get a display of what the set
looks like when it's all built together.
At first glance you might not notice a
lot of the detail that's in there but you
can see on the back there's a picture of
the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
and you can see a rocket on top of the
bookshelf. Then you can see the
books in the bookshelf as well.
There's also a wireless in there a,
couple of trophies and there is a
desk lamp which was a really
nice surprise when I built that. There  a couple
of takeout food cartons, a telescope and there  is
even a pet dog included in this set!
Taking a look at the back of the box we
get three pictures from different angles
within the scene. You get seven mini
figures included in this set and they
have a lot of detail - these are really nice minifigures!
Going
left to right,  we've got Bernadette then
we've got Howard with a rocket and if
you look at the middle picture you can
actually see that rocket on top of the
bookshelf.
Next up is Penny, then Leonard who is
holding a trophy which you can see
on the first picture on top of the
bookshelf.
Then we've got Sheldon and his signature
jumper or sweater.
Amy is holding a newspaper and
lastly there is Raj with a pet dog and I think
Raj's hairpiece is really good.
The instruction booklet has a premium quality feel to it as well.
On the front we get a picture of the
completed set but
if you have a flick through it, as well
as getting instructions on how to
build the set as you go along, you also
get some information about the
characters and a bit of background about the
show. On the back page you get some information about the two designers
that came up with this set and you also
get some info about
the LEGO® Ideas series itself.
You do get a lot of spare pieces with
this set ...
I actually got all of these here! These are leftover as spares  and that shows
just how much detail goes into
building a set like this.
There are lots of small, detailed pieces. There are some whiteboard markers
and some kitchen pieces, transluscent pieces, taps, cutlery and LEGO® Technic bricks.
There is a spare trophy in the middle
there and we've got a lot of yellow plates.
A nice surprise in this set was they
included a brick separator as well!
Let's take a look at the minifigures. First up is Bernadette and Howard,  the happy couple!
I don't really like what Bernadette is
wearing as a top but her trousers are
nice and detailed and I actually really
like what Howard is wearing.
I think his red top is really cool!
It is nice that he's got a little belt and I
think his hairpiece is really nice as well.
If we turn them around there's not
really much going on at the back but
if i take the hair pieces off you can see the alternate faces that
each of the minifigures have. All seven of
the minifigures have an alternate face with
one side being happy and the other side being
some kind of negative expression.
Next up we've got Leonard and Amy. Leonard is super smart with a high IQ of 173
and he got his PhD at the age of 24! 
Amy, of course, is the slightly
awkward one who has a
"relationship agreement" with Sheldon.
I think they capture the awkwardness
of this character quite well but again i
prefer Leonard, I just think his overall
outfit is much cooler and
it just looks better as a minifigure and I like the
detailing with the
glasses and his hair piece.
I think all the guys in this set have
really good hair pieces for some reason.
With the girl's, the hairpiece is looking
a bit too thick or a bit too long ...
... they just don't really suit the minifigures.
Again, on the back there's not all that much going on. There's a little bit of a hoodie
there for Leonard and Amy has got a bit
of printing on the back of her top
as well but if i take the hair pieces
off so we can have a look
we can see that Leonard has quite a
happy face and Amy's is OK but
I'm not quite sure that this face
captures her awkwardness quite as well
as it shows in the program itself.
Here's the gorgeous Penny - the streetwise neighbor who lives across the hall
and Harry Potter fan Raj. I think
the hairpiece looks so much better Raj.
I think this is a really good headpiece 
and I will probably put this on some
other minifigures. The hairpiece for
Penny just looks like plastic so no wonder
she's got quite a unhappy expression on
her face! but i think that what she is
wearing actually looks pretty good.
Unfortunately with this face it looks
like she's got a bit of a black-eye but
I assure you she hasn't! Once again on the
back absolutely nothing exciting going
on and if i take those off we can see
the alternate faces that you get for
each of these. As you can see Penny is
doing her quite shocked face and Raj
looks a bit forlorn... he looks a bit like he's deciding he's had enough is sighing!
Last up is Sheldon and a pet dog.
I'm not sure who the dog belongs to.
I think it is Raj but I thought it was
cool so I put it up last with Sheldon  because Sheldon is my
favorite character
He's a really smart guy and it says here he is originally from East Texas and a child
prodigy! He started college at the age of
11 and received his first doctorate at the
age of just 16, and today he's a top
theoretical physicist at Caltech!
I really like this minifigure, I
think his outfit is really good.
Obviously his hair piece ...
... again I am going to say is good. In fact this set has the best hair pieces for the
minifigures I've seen on LEGO® in quite a while. He's wearing
his signature top which is true to the
show and
on the back there's not much going on
at all. There's may be a little bit of
printing there but unfortunately I don't
think his hair piece looks good from the
back as compared to some of the other
other minifigures in this set, and
obviously that little dog looks cute
from any angle so I turned him around as
well :o) Let's just have a look
at the second face for Sheldon. I
think that suits him quite well I think
that kind of pursing of the lips
lips i's a good expression and I think
it represents Sheldon pretty much true
to the show.
So now we've had a good look at the
minifigures let's take a look at the
scene itself.
This is the living room that will be
familiar to any fans of the show and this
is where the main activity in the show
happen. There's lots of authentic
details in here and
it really is quite impressive. Let's get
the back of the building out the way and
have a look at that first.
This is the back of the building and
I actually like it a lot!
I think it is very plain but it's also
very clean and that's not always
something you see on LEGO® sets - quite
often the back of buildings will have
different colors as a side effect of constructing some of the
internal elements but in this case it's
very clean, it's all the same color and
it's nicely polished off. It has got
a classic build to it as well so if you
want to know how to build a strong wall
or to represent one in your own
scenes then I'd say this is a pretty
good way to do it
Also remember that this is not an
outside wall this is an interior wall of
the hallway and this is the door which
marks the entrance to the apartment. You
can open it and
get a nice view into the apartment. 
The detail in this set is really
impressive and I really enjoyed building it.
Even just opening the door like that
frames a photo really well because you
get that nice lamp bang in the middle of
the door frame. The other wall to the set
which is perpendicular to
the longer one that we just looked at I
think is an outdoor wall. I'm not
entirely sure if there's a terrace or
something in the show but this looks
really nice as well.
I like the brickwork that they put
on there.
I think it does look good but if you
know these brick pieces you know that
the other side of them have a
slightly more brick like design on.
In this case they face internally so
you get that nice American apartment
look and you get a nice texture on the
internal side of the scene which is
obviously the one that you can look at
the most.
We get a nice view through that window and you can position a
minifigure in there.
I've got Sheldon working away on the
computer :o) and it just shows how much detail
has gone into this set. There's so much
playability, you could set this up with
little role-plays or you could even take
some photos and get some really cool
shots of the scene.
This is the front of the building and
through this doorway we get a nicely
framed shot of Sheldon working at his
desk and you can see the lamp there
as well. That is actually
quite a simple build but it looks really,
really nice. In the background, if
I change the focus just a little bit you
can see the DNA structure which again is
an interesting build and we will take a look
at that in a minute.
Going back to the foreground
again we've got some kind of intercom and
some kind of light piece.
Let's take a quick look at the DNA
structure which I pulled out into the
front of this scene. It is pretty
interesting how this is made ...
... it is just a white pole in the middle
which is fixed onto a round piece but
then either side we've got these blue
and red tap pieces and these are kind of
stacked up alternately and then twisted
around slightly, and that kind of forms
an abstract of the helix shape
of a DNA model.
Here's the desk lamp piece that fits on Sheldon's desk.
It is quite a simple build - just a cone with a gun piece and then a clip
and a yellow stud to represent the bulb on it, but just looking at it you can
see straight away that this looks exactly like a desk lamp.
This is one of the things in this set
that really made me go WOW! as i was
building it.
Let's take a closer look at the back
wall. The bookshelf is really nice!
I really like how they've done this. The
only thing I find a little bit strange
is if you look at the books that are
lined up here
they almost look like they're floating
because there's a little gap
underneath them.
I'm not really sure how they could
work around that because it's actually
the studs that are under there. I guess
they could have put maybe a flat plate
on there but
I'm sure they made the right decision... it
was just a little weird I noticed
that when I was building it.
I like the ornaments going across the
top of bookshelf.
I'm not entirely sure what all of them
are but I'm pretty sure that this rocket
belongs to Howard. I'm not sure who's the
trophies are or even what this this is
here actually but it looks very nice and I'm
sure it's authentic to the show as well.
I really like the printed piece at
the back of the Golden Gate Bridge too.
You'll be pleased to know there's only
two stickers that are included in this set!
One of those goes on the back of the
door here and the other one ...
... to be honest I'm not sure what the other
one is I still haven't figured it out
yet but the other one is situated right
here.
if you know what that is maybe you
could let me know in the comments below!
I guess it's maybe a radiator or
some kind of rail. If we take a
look at the set from this angle you can
see in the foreground that you get a
telescope piece. Now this is really nice
as well so let's just take a quick look
at that!
It's quite a simple build but it is
nicely done. The only thing I don't like
is the use of this black stud at the
bottom which is
just to raise that cone plate up slightly so that it
can fit on the studs below.
There's a lot of familiar parts in there
but it also has a lot of playability. You
can have a lot of fun with your minifigures playing with some
role play or perhaps taking some
photos. You can take some really nice
shots with the accessories that come with
this set. The main focal point in the living
room is the sofa, armchair and the
table area and in the scene that comes with
this set we've got a couple of takeaway
cartons on the table. You also get some
little knives and forks and cutlery and
plates and things (those are a lot of the
yellow pieces that we saw in the spare
parts earlier).
It seems that everybody is hanging out
having take-out and just
generally having a good time!
I really like the rug. I'm not sure if
it is particularly authentic to the TV
show but the rug on the floor is
a really nice design. One thing that i
did make a mistake with here is on the
sofa at the back ...
... if you look at the left arm-rest I've
actually used a tile piece which is
the wrong color!
I'm not actually sure if LEGO® left out
the correct color piece but
I can't find it anywhere! I thought it
might be in one of the bookshelves but
I can't find it so I'll just use
that one for now and I guess I'll have to
order one from LEGO® at some point.
Now this is not all because we also get a couple more accessories which I'll
quickly got over now!
One of them is an armchair which again
is nicely done.
If you look at the base it is just 4 cone
pieces and then on the sides
it has got some "bricks on the side"
building ... ("studs not on top" I believe is the correct term)
... just to make the arm rests on the
sides but i think this is a really nice
chair.
One thing i don't like about this
set, and this is probably my biggest
gripe, is that they give you two accessories - one of them is this chair the other one is
a whiteboard
but they don't fit inside the set! I
just think that they could have made the
set a little bit wider to accommodate
those two pieces rather than having the
set the size that it is and then having these
extra pieces which you
you can play with ... I mean ... there's a lot
of playability there ...
... it's just that if you're going to use
this for a display set then what are you
supposed to do with these extra pieces
you know, so I'm not too happy about that
but I think the rest of this set is
fantastic.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the
whiteboard. This is the extra white board that
you get with this set. You do actually
get two - the other one is in the
background. If i change the focus
slightly maybe you can see it?
It is just behind the DNA model but this
whiteboard here is a second one that you
get. What i really like about this is
that 1) it is a printed piece so you don't
have any annoying stickers on there but
2) they also give you a set of marker pens!
This marker pen is fantastic! The tip of it is actually a little
rubber piece which is a really nice
touch and you get
four of these in
different colours!
I was really impressed when
I saw that!
I think it is pretty obvious that I really like this set.
Normally I prefer the Creator series and
the modular buildings because
I like the detail that's
involved in those but this set, although
it is smaller than I expected it to be, has
so much detailing and
there are so many authentic pieces that
are relevant to the show, and the seven
minifigures are really good too.
This is a really good value set and you
don't have to be a fan of the show to
like it and I think that is
what i like most about it. 
It is really good in that there's a
lot of playability if you're a fan of
the show but there is also the display
factor of this set - it really is absolutely beautiful!
I like the bookshelf at the back and
I like that there's so many minifigures
to play around with and that you can position
them however you like.
I've got mine with Sheldon at the front and I've got them all eating their
take-out at the back ...
... but yeah - I like this, it is really good!
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