#lego belville

[daily-lego-sets]

LEGO Belville:

Fairy Island

Set: 5861

2003

Pieces: 105

[dollcommercials]

Lego Belville Dolls Commercial (1994)

[annies-scrapbook]

finally retrieved my old lego collection from my mom's house! looking through it today, i found a belville set that had originally belonged to my sister, and i'm realizing how much i missed out by never getting into belville. when i was a kid i first came across the belville theme on the lego website where it was cordoned off (along with the scala theme) in a special "girls" section of the site - with the clear implication that all the other lego themes weren't for girls. tiny proto-feminist annie did not like that one bit, and refused on principle to engage with a theme that had such sexist marketing. (i was equally pissed when bionicle won an award for "best boy toy", but i figured that, since that was coming from an external party, and the lego company wasn't deliberately advertising bionicle as being only for boys, it was still politically acceptable for me to play with bionicles. besides, i had major gender envy for gali.)

anyway, belville is like a fairytale princess sort of theme, and it's adorable?? it's got like, giant flowers with lanterns strung between them, and snaills delivering the mail, and just all around cute cottagecore vibes. i'm pretty sure i would have loved it when i was a kid, if it hadn't been for the sexist marketing. i know it was a theme that was designed to primarily appeal to girls, but they could have just let it speak for itself as a whimsical fantasy theme and find its audience that way, instead of beating you over the head with Gender Roles. truly the 90s and 00s were a dark time.

[mareliini]

You'll never guess what arrived in the post

Dismembered her instantly

[batri-jopa]

Since my nieces are 7 and almost 6 I think I'm finally ready to let them play with my precious childhood lego sets

[tuzi-arts]

[prettyheartentangle]

Lego Belville (1998-2007)

[appealingtonobody]

from the lego catalog

[confessions-official]

I can't believe how STUPID some people are girls Lego is NOT something modern. Lego Scala Lego Barbie dolls 90s, Lego paradisa girls lego Lego Belville YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS IF YOU THINK LEGO FRIENDS IS SEXIST. IT JUST DISAPPEARED AFTER THE 90s AND HAD AN UNEXPECTED RETURN LEGO FRIENDS. STUPID STUPID STUPID PEOPLE I'M DOING THIS IN CAPSLOCK BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL IGNORANT STUPID.

 

[universe-of-peoples]

I’m not usually one to call people fake fans, and I’m generally against the whole “fake fan” idea… but if you’re a LEGO fan and you feel the need to push down any figure type that’s not a minifigure, are you even a real LEGO fan?

Minidolls are very pretty and allow for types of creativity that minifigures lack. That’s not to say that minifigures are bad (not at all!), just that minifigures and minidolls each have their benefits and drawbacks, and I think they complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses very well.

Brick-build figures allow for figures to be built in any size and shape, with TONS of customizability that standard figure and doll types lack. The limit of a brick-built figure is the limit of your imagination.

Older figure and doll types have come and gone (such as Belville, Scala, Bionicle, Technic, etc), and (some more than others) may have gone for good reason, but they’re still really cool and interesting. Personally, I’m fascinated by all the weird and obscure stuff LEGO has tried over the years.

In my experience, to love LEGO is to appreciate all of LEGO, even if your preference is in one specific area. Don’t yuck other people’s yum, and don’t criticize LEGO for using figure types that aren’t your preference! (Esp if your preference is minifigures. Your preference has been the norm for literal decades. You don’t need to complain about other people finally getting their preference used more. Fr reads like privileged kids complaining ngl. Insert Gravity Falls meme “you’re only getting ONE pony this year 😭😭😭”)

[daily-lego-sets]

LEGO Belville:

Flora's Bubbling Bath

Set: 5837

2002

Pieces: 29

[bluenpinkcastle]

LEGO Halloween and Spooky sets

I had hoped I would be able to start posting every day again for Halloween but that just didn't happen, as life tends to get in the way. So instead, I will share my research for all things Spooky or Halloween related: The main "spooky" lines are Monster Fighters from 2012 (with nine sets and four polybags), Scooby Doo from 2015-2016 (with five sets and one polybag), and the Hidden Side from 2019-2020 (with 21 sets, two polybags, and nine foil packs).

2007-2009 was the Fantasy Era castle series, which included 11 sets of minifigures versus trolls (5614, 5615, 5618, 7036, 7037, 7038, 7040, 7041, 7048, 7078, 7097), eight set of minifigures versus skeletons (7009, 7029, 7079, 7090, 7091, 7092, 7093, 7094), 1 chess set of minifigures versus skeletons (852001), three minifigure versus trolls battle packs (852271, 852701, 852702), one battle pack of minifigure skeletons (852272), one minifigure versus the undead tic tac toe game (852132), and one giant chess set of minifigures versus trolls AND skeletons (852293).

In 2010, the Collectible MiniFigure (CMF) series 14 (71010) was all "spooky" elements which included a wolf guy, zombie pirate, monster scientist, wacky witch, plant monster, specter, zombie cheerleader, tiger woman, gargoyle, skeleton guy, monster rocker, zombie business man, banshee, square foot, and spider lady. Other "spooky" minifigures could the zombie from CMF 1 in 2010 (8683), the zombie Captain America from 2021 Marvel CMF series (71031), the zombie dancer, slime singer, and vampire bassist from 2021's Vidiyo Bandmates (43108), the cute little devil and the spooky boy from CMF 16 in 2016 (71013), and the spooky girl from CMF 12 in 2014 (71007). Additionally, there have been several Build A Minifigure (BAM) minifigure elements at LEGO stores throughout the years, including a Halloween Trio from 2018 (BAM2018-3) and Halloween Minifigures from 2020 (BAM2020-3).

LEGO has several Minecraft sets which fall into the mildly spooky realm, including the Zombie Cave (21141), Big Fig Pig with Baby Zombie (21157), Pumpkin Farm (21248), and the Steve, Zombie, and Pig Foil Pack (662101), as well as a Minecraft BrickHeadz Zombie (40626). LEGO produced four Ghostbuster sets (10274, 21108, 75827, 75828), four Dimensions sets (71228, 71233, 71241, and 71242), and one BrickHeadz (41622).

Some of the sets not part of main themes include the Belville Witch's Cottage from 1999 (5804), the Studio's Vampire's Crypt from 2002 (1381), the Adventure Designer Kit from 2013 (20214), the Haunted House from 2020 (10273), and the Ideas Hocus Pocus Sanderson Sisters' Cottage (21341).

Additionally, LEGO has produced a variety of smaller, holiday builds for things like pumpkins, monsters, shops, and accessory kits. You can find most of those builds by going to places like Rebrickable or BrickLink and using key search terms such as Halloween, pumpkin, witch, vampire, monster, witch, etc., which will give you a long list of Halloween-related builds (3047, 3731, 7831, 7832, 7836, 10696, 11003, 31038, 40012, 40013, 40014, 40020, 40021, 40032, 40055, 40070, 40090, 40104, 40122, 40203, 40260, 40272, 40351, 40422, 40423, 40493, 40497, 40562, 40570, 40608, 561410, 561610, 561910, 850487, 850936, 853607, 854049).

Whew! That's quite the list! Maybe next year, I'll be in a better position to post pictures of all those sets :)

[jalopeura]

i dreamed i was walking home from some event or whatever, and there was a big yard sale happening in front of the building. i looked at the stuff and one lego set caught my eye - it was a belville lego set i hadnt seen before (heres a visual idea for those not familiar with the series), but what caught my eye especially was one of the figures on the box cover

it was....emet-selch. in lego figure form. with a wife and two kids. on a beach holiday.

it was a used set so i asked the seller if i could look inside to make sure all the pieces were there and she said yes. i wasn't really interested in most of hte lego set, but i did want to check if he was actually there, and and indeed! lego emet-selch was there, although his head, arms, and legs had all been detached from the torse piece

so i bought the thing (it would have come bundled with a bunch of woollen socks in various childrens sizes but i donated those right back to the seller). the seller told me she was doing this sale for womens day and i was possibly the first person who had bought anything all day, and she was already starting to pack up

(and then, in the dream, i rushed to write up what i had just experienced, because i just Had to tell the world)

[tuzi-arts]

I bought LEGO part 45024pb01c01 lol

[autumnrory]

i’ve gone through my old lego sets and noted everything that was missing and there are basically 3 big sets and then each one has some little ones that are connected but are their own separate thing but there’s still stuff in the container, some of which i know is not lego, but others that do not go with any of these and i have no idea where they do go to. i absolutely could’ve gotten rid of another set when we had garage sales but i’m gonna scour the other belville things online and see if i can figure anything out

[uncommon-etc]

I know right! What depresses me most is that so many of these posts come from people in their late teens and early 20s (why so cynical already young un's?) who aren't even old enough to remember what life was like before the tories.

I'll be the first to say that I've liked, and trusted, nearly every Labour leader since 1935 except Blair. I'd trust that man as far as I could throw him, and I'll never forgive him for throwing away the goodwill of a significant portion of the electorate on a stupid war in the middle east which destabilised a whole region. The PFI stuff wasn't so great either, but...

I had just started school when Blair won the landslide in '97, and from then until I left school the year the tory-libdem coalition arrived to stamp on all my dreams of an affordable university education, things actually did get better.

We went from being taught in prefab huts where the roof leaked and there was no heating in the winter, to shiny new school extensions with double-glazing and textbooks that weren't 20 years out of date. Because teachers could afford new books, we could read texts by contemporary authors, including those under-represented on the current curriculum, instead of just reading Of Mice and Men for two years like schools do today.

Though the rightwing press did everything they could to demonise benefits claimants, the process was still relatively humane. You could speak to an actual human on the phone at your local jobcentre, and they would show you a list of local vacancies, instead of telling you to go away and sign up for Universal Credit online and come back in five weeks when you were destitute. If someone needed to claim JSA or ESA, they weren't penalised for doing so, and a couple claiming either could get about £800 a month, and housing benefit to cover their rent.

My hometown had five libraries, many public attractions like museums, art galleries, and botanical gardens were completely free, because they were heavily subsidised. Three of those libraries have closed now and the others have had to start charging for DVD rentals, meaning expensive foreign films that those on low incomes could never afford in HMV are still out of reach.

And, being Scottish, I got to watch as we got our own parliament for the first time, an actual seat of power that wasn't 500 miles away from the lives and experiences of everyone I knew. I actually attended a debate there in 2009 about whether devolution had been a success. This was because under the last labour government, state schools had debate teams, and swimming pools, and trips to places other than the local rubbish dump or abbatoir. There was no assumption that just because your parents weren't paying for your education that you deserved less than the children of the rich.

I know that everyone who had a half-decent childhood can have their judgement clouded by nostalgia, but it isn't just white malteasers and belville lego that I miss about the 00s, it's having a government that actually fixed things for the people who paid their salaries.

(Also if you were born between 2002 and 2011, the government literally set up a trust fund for you and put a grand into it, if you didn't know this, go and check right now, it was one of the first things the tories scrapped when they got into power, but you can still claim yours even if your parents never paid anything extra into it.)

Buzzing for a general election. Not so buzzing that every social media timeline is going to be filled with middle-class white girly pops saying 'Labour are no better' whilst the over 4 million children living in poverty in the UK right now might like the option of finding out xoxo