October 31, 2025 • 29 mins
On this episode we go back in time to 1984 and meet the newest Gremlin, Gizmo, and break apart all the spectacular builds that make up this set. Want to add this to you collection? Get your own Gizmo HERE!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Shut up and welcome to the Bricks King Podcast, where
I'm gonna bend your year about Lego, review those amazing
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bricks and plastic and discuss what is new and up
and coming around the Lego world. I'm your Minifi ghost Match.
Let's build on it. Welcome he and everybody. How are
you doing today? Doing good, feeling good? It's always good
to know. I'm doing quite well myself. And today we
are doing our Halloween episode. And boy oh boy, I
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have been waiting for this set to finally release, to
finally build it, to finally get to talk about it
because it's iconic. It falls under the vein of Halloween.
Ish can also fall under Christmas because there's you know,
the holiday season, the setting, can you know, put it
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in that in that vein, But we're putting it out
here at the Halloween season because it's just fitting. It's yeah.
So anyway, what we are talking about is we are
talking about the new Lego ideas Gizmo. That's right, Gizmo.
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If you don't know who Gizmo is, you don't know
what Gizmo is comes from a film from nineteen eighty
four called Gremlins. So Gremlins was a film about these
little these tiny little creatures that were brought back from
I can't even remember somewhere. This inventor he had gone
overseas in this little trader's village, traders market and found
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this thing. And so the one thing is you cannot
get it wet, do not let it get wet, and
you don't let it get wet. So they're called Maguay.
I think this is Maguay. And so there's a few
films from it. Obviously Gremlin's being the bigger, most I'm sure,
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higher grossing film. I actually went back, and I've seen
the movie countless times, but I went back and I
didn't realize Steven Spielberg from Jurassic Park, Magic and Et
and all kinds of other things was an executive producer
on this film, which I thought was kind of interesting
and a little fun fact for you. Because of the violence,
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the violent scenes in this film, they actually created the
PG thirteen category. This was the a few weeks after
the movie was released, that is when the Motion Picture
Association of America and PAA came out and they created
this new PG thirteen rating. So little fun fact to
put in the back of your brain. There and pulled
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out whenever you so choose to use it at some
point in time. But because this is a Lego Ideas project,
it was created by an inventor, an inventor, a designer,
a somebody that's a diehard of the Lego brick and
created this and I think it's I think it's awesome.
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The user I we I'm not great with some of
these names, but obviously his name on the Lego Ideas
site is Tarum Tarma. There we go, Tararma tr a Uma.
So that user, that creator on the Lego Ideas forum
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created this thing. It became a project. It is Lego
Ideas number sixty nine if you're keeping track, because they
are all individually numbered, each individual not each individual set
that comes out, but each individual project that gets chosen
by the design team to turn into a set. So
let's go ahead and talk about the giz Gizmo is
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a fun little build, you too. The main thing here
is I when I got the box, I was kind
of like, okay, this is cool. I was expecting him
to be pretty large. You know, the box is pretty
decent size, and then you know, you start tearing through bags.
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I believe there's is it ten. No, I'm thinking of
something else. I don't maybe it is ten. I think
it is ten. Anyway, So you start tearing through the
bags and uh, you start to realize, Okay, this is
not going to be as big as I thought. It's
going to be a little bit smaller, which is not
a bad thing at all. So somebody that I talked to,
one of my great close friends I had sent a
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message to, and uh, I was telling her about this,
and I said, hey, hey, this little deal, this little
guy here. I was just gushing about him, and you're
gonna hear it come out here in a little bit.
But he's about the size of a ferbie. So you
have two options when he build him. You can have
him standing up or sitting down. So there's two different
steps in there. So when you get to that step
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in the booklet, it's gonna say do you want him
standing up or do you want him sitting down. If
you want him standing up, go to this page. If
you want him sitting down, go to this page. So
you can only build one at a time, but they
do give you enough pieces to be able to choose
which one you want. Now you can't, you don't have
enough pieces to create two sets of legs. It's essentially
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just creating a different mechanism for the legs to attach.
So I said, hey, he's about the size of a Ferbie. Now,
if you recall Ferbie, he was a toy from the
nineties and it wasn't super tall. It's roughly about that size,
so I don't know what eight inches tall somewhere around there.
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Of course he's a little bit wider because his massive years,
but that is fine. But I went with the sitting
down version. I didn't build the standing up. Didn't really
have a desire to. I wanted him sitting down because
I want to put him on my shelf where he
has been. But he's gonna go back on my shelf
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after this episode because he looks absolutely adorable. Now, Gizmo
does come with two accessories. So the first accessory that
he comes with and then we'll talk about the build.
The first accessory comes with are the three D glasses
that are in the film. So Gizmo just a little, quick,
little build of three D glasses. They do not attach
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to his face. He cannot hold them. Okay, his arms
do not go up far enough to be able to
hold them onto his face due to the sheer size
of his rather large head, so you can get them close.
They do kind of sit on the bridge of his nose.
You could probably finagle this with a few extra pieces.
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I had looked into it. It's pretty simple. It's not
very complex. Some plate pieces that you can use that
have a ninety degree angle on them can surely because
you have a few studs right above the eyebrows in
the front that could allow you to do that, and
the backside of the glasses are anti studs, so you
can just you know, stud it onto there. Another piece
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that he comes with is a little splat tile here
of a water piece, and like I mentioned, you cannot
get your mag why wet, You just can't do it.
They spontaneously repopulate, not spontaneously combust. They repopulate, which creates
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a pretty big problem. I'm not going to go into
details of the film. If you haven't seen it, I'm
not spoiling it for you. At this point, you've had
forty plus years to go watch it. So but you
get this little water tile, and the cool thing is
you can actually put it on his back. There is
a spot on his back with two studs and it
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can stay right there. You don't have to worry about
losing it, and you can just pretend, you know, maybe
he gets wet, maybe he doesn't, but anyway, you do
have that tile for it. So the main coloring here
we have the brown and white, and then we have
the peach the peach ish color for his feet, his hands,
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and parts of his ears and Eyelid's mouth. Knows, that
kind of thing. One of the things that you will
notice now again, this is going to be somewhat of
a symmetrical build for a lot of this because left arm,
right arm, left leg, right leg pretty much similar. The
interesting thing about it is you do a lot of
studs on the side building here. We have it with
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the ears, we have it with the different parts of
the face. So you build one section of the head,
you build a section of the face, you build a
top section of the head. You have your main focus
structure on the inside, and then you attach things, you know,
just kind of plates on the outside and tiles and everything.
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You attach an assembly pretty much. Now. The only difference
is some of the things that we have talked about
in past episodes for years, where you kind of have
just a structure, a frame. Almost like if you think
about Technic and some of the cars that Technic have,
and you have this Technic structure and then you kind
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of smack a frame onto it, or not a frame,
you smack your your decoration, your your doors, your sheathing
on the outside of it, whatever. You don't really have
that here. To a degree, you do. But what I
noticed going through building is you actually have more of
this stuff that is on the xterior, like the fur
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and the hair or whatever, is actually kind of weirdly
incorporated into the main s structure of the build. It
does still stud on to a certain degree, but it
felt less like you were just kind of here's a great,
for instance, a great idea of this. Okay, if you
buy somebody a gift for let's say Christmas or their birthday, whatever,
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you have the box, then you have to wrap it right.
Usually on a lot of sets that have a structure
on the inside, you just wrap it with the wrapping
paper right the outside. Gribbling and stuff like that. You
have that here, It's just not as severe. It felt
more like things were interconnected to the main structure than
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what they appear now. As I said, it's not going
to be completely like that with everything. Uh, but I
definitely felt like that more so with like the legs,
the head especially, and then even parts of the body. Now,
one of the fascinating things about this is this guy
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is really really really heavy. He's really really heavy. He's
probably got about a thousand pieces worth of girth to him.
The set in total has eleven hundred and twenty five pieces,
but again you have the extra pieces that are used
for the separate set of leg structures to attach to
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the body. So about a thousand bricks of different shapes
and sizes going too, making this one of the things
that I noticed about this that made me extraordinarily happy.
You don't see ugliness. You don't see the backsides of plates.
You don't see these you know, technic pins that are
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different colors that shouldn't be there. There is none of it.
That is what makes this design so exquisitely beautiful in
its own right, just due to this shear fact that
you do not have all these miscolored pieces out of place,
out of position, that do not belong there. Everything matches
the color that it should be, and that is that
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is phenomenal to know, the only thing that you would
notice would be is if you lift him up underneath
his butt is he would have You can see the plates,
the backside of the plates underneath that's essentially where his
legs would go if you're going to stand him up
all right. There's two axle pin connectors down there for
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him to be able to do that. So his legs
in this position, his legs just actually, believe it or not,
they just clip in. There's two clips that hold onto
a bar, so his legs can wiggle back and forth
just a little bit. They don't really do much of anything.
They don't really go up and down or anything like that.
You can't wiggle his toes unfortunately. But he's got a
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little furry piece as clipped on next to his what
I would assume is his big toe, so you have
that there could move that. It almost looks like a
like a thumb of a sort. It's not, it's meant
to be the fur his arms. His arms can swing,
they can swing up and down just ever so slightly.
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And then what you can do with the hands, The
wrist moves, the thumb and the two fingers move and
the fingers are different length than the thumbs, which is
a nice little nice little deal as well. And like
I said, there's nothing out of place here. We have
the peach colored underside for his palm. Not an antistud.
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It's a two by two inverted round tile, which is great.
I love it so where the arms can move up
and down just a little bit, the hands in and
out at the wrist, His ears can go up and down,
they can go forward and backward. You've got the little
furry pieces that are brick built around his ear just
in front to give it depth, texture, more realism, that
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can be moved. Well. They can be moved as well.
His eyebrows don't really move up and down all that much.
The assembly once it goes into place, there is just
slight play in the way that it is connected, but
it is not meant to be moved up and down.
His eyelids don't move as well, they are locked into place.
His mouth and his little nose here, none of that
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moves as well. But his head. His head can spin.
His head can spin quite a good distance. Now, I
don't think you want to do anything freaky. You're not
gonna be able to do anything freaky because his head
is not going to spin three hundred and sixty degrees.
It's gonna spin until it hits a lock point. But
it's nice. It feels solid, it feels like it's not
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going to break if you were to manhandle it ever
so slightly. It's just not It's really not gonna be
a problem. The eyes, his eyes are shields. They are
the shields that are kind of the bubble shields, and
they have a bar in the back. The eyes are printed,
and they are I don't know who the designer was
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on that side of it. You have, you know, your
design team that comes together and they design the actual
set themselves. Then you have the team that does the instructions.
You have the team that does the graphic designs, like
it's stickers or prints or stuff like that. The eyes, I, y'all,
I cannot tell you how perfect they look. They are
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spot on to him from the film. I've never seen
a recreation of an eye of a character done this
well in a print with anything, ever, Lego and anything
for this price point, I've never seen like that. Now, obviously,
if you have like a collector statue of like of
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a gizmo or something like that, obviously it's going to
be captured much better than what you would for something
for one hundred and ten bucks, which is what this is.
It's just I'm just blown away by how well they
were able to manage the design, the colors, just everything
about it is just perfect. He actually looks alive. I've
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got a Magway, I've got my Mogwai. He's my little
buddy here, and I'm not gonna let him go anywhere.
You can't have him. You gotta get one of your own. Anyway,
back to Gizmo, He's gotta think of him as almost
like a little teddy bear. It's kind of roughly around
the size of it is another good comparison as well,
depending on how you put the legs, it really doesn't matter.
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He still feels like a teddy bear. Feels like you
can hold him up to your face, like, ah, little Gizmai,
you're so cute. There's just something about it that I'm truly,
honestly blown away by. The design team knocked it out
of the park, from the head to the eyes, to
the ears, being able to move to the perfect coloring,
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to I mean, there's only a few studs sticking out
on this thing at all at all. And when you
go through the instructions. One of the things that you
really start to understand is how dense this building structure
really is. It's not like you've got a skeleton underneath here.
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It's a dense build. Everything is really tightly packed solid.
And you don't have this fear of if I go
and I do this and I mess with this, this
is going to break off. It doesn't happen. It does
not happen whatsoever. You know. Take the arms for instance,
So what I did is I pulled off one of
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his arms. When you take off the arm, all it
is is attached to is an axle, so you have
an actual receptor and then you have your axle that
has a pin on the other side of that little
axul piece. When you look at the underside of the arm,
like I said, recall, if you recall I said that
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all of this stuff is it feels like a where
you kind of have your wrapping paper on the outside
of this gift. It looks like it, but it's built in. Okay,
the exterior part of his arm on the top and
the bottom of his arm where you have the little
fur in the different colors with the brown and the white,
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you can see where the hand clips into place, and
then you see how everything else is assembled and connected.
It is all locked into place. It's not just let's
go ahead and build this and smack it on. Here's
some studs to click it into place. It's not like that.
It's a complete solid structure of its own. And I
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cannot stress enough how important that is to this build.
Because if he were to fall off of your desk, Okay,
I have concrete floors in my house. They were intentionally.
We intentionally did concrete four floors because of animals and
the ability to clean is much easier in general. Plus
I like the look of it. If he were to
fall right now from a few feet up down to
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the concrete floor. Yes, there are gonna be pieces that
break off. An ear is gonna pop off, probably a
leg because it's just pinned clipped in. But for the
most part, I'm not gonna lose too much of him
because everything is built around a central base. Doesn't matter
what the assembly is. His leg will pop off, but
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the entire leg is not gonna break apart. The leg's
just gonna fall off. I might lose a toe, that's okay.
You don't need all your toes anyway. But the idea
that the fact that you have something that is so rigid,
but at the same time doesn't display all of these
technic ball joints or mixe ball joints or different colored
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the dark bluish gray and the dark gray and the
light bluish gray. You don't have all of that. You
don't have all of those nasty things sticking out. There's nothing.
And that's why I said it. With it being so rigid,
you don't have to rely on all those little technic,
little type pieces and different connections to get the arms
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to move or the legs or whatever. Now, one thing
I thought about with this, and I'm sure there's somebody
out there. I'm sure there's one of you awesome people
out there that can figure this out. But I thought
it would be really cool if there was a way.
Now this would probably take another five six hundred pieces
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and probably upsize it a little bit, but a way
to be able to put a mechanism in his back,
whether it be on the back of his head or
on his back, kind of like almost like a ventriloquist dummy,
to make his mouth move. I thought that would be
such a cool thing to have the bottom jaw move.
I thought that'd be so neat. I am not of
the proper brain structure to be able to build something
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like that, but maybe you are in there. You can
take my idea and run with it. I give you permission,
so your Maguai, your gizmo. I would love to see
another character, especially one of the bad guys, one of
his many, many, many Bad Brothers film. I would love
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to be able to see it. Stripe Stripe would be perfect.
Stripe is the main bad dude, the bad little guy
in the film. I would love to be able to
see him become a Lego set as well. I don't
know if there's a Lego Ideas project out there or not,
but I think it would be really fun if another team,
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like the Icons team, would jump on board and say,
you know what, let's go ahead and do this. Let's
go ahead and make his counterpart. I think. I think
that would be extraordinarily fantastic to pair them next to
each other, good versus evil. You know that that whole
idea Stripe, you know, with his crazy mohawk'd be absolutely awesome.
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His scary face, man, I would love to see it,
but alas that's probably not gonna happen. So uh, let's
get to some of the important things we touched on
a minute ago, about a couple of minutes ago. So
the set number on this we didn't kick it right
out of the gate two one, three, six one. It
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has one one hundred and twenty five pieces, as I
had mentioned earlier, retails for one hundred and ten bucks here,
one hundred euros over the sea and ninety British pounds.
So I personally, this is a this is I mean,
it just came out in the beginning of October, where
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you know, you're it's all but Halloween. Where is Halloween
at this time? I would love to think, Well, I
can tell you right now, this for me is definitely
on my top ten list of set for the year
because of everything that it has to offer, everything that
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it has to offer. But that aren't you. It's it's
just a little character that can sit there. You're right,
But everything about the build is perfect. There's not one
thing that I have noticed on this build that I'm like,
I wish this could have been better. There's nothing. I
told you the one thing that I would have loved
to see, but that's not that's not really practical, and
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then that changes, the structure, that changes, and you have
a little lever in the back, and somebody's going like,
I don't like that lever in the back. Oh stupid,
You're right, It's just me. I would love to see
it just because I would have fun, you know, pretending
like he's talking, having his mouth move, you know, saying
some funny things, you know. But without a doubt, this
is the top ten. This is on my top ten
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lists for the best sets of twenty twenty five. The
Ideas team has knocked it out of the park. I
I just don't know. The IC guys are on it.
You have Christopher Stamp who's running, not running, but is
a big part of spe not Speed Champions. He was
Speed Champions. Does Lego City? Now? Lego City has been
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knocking it out of the park hardcore. The Ideas folks
have been slaying the rest of everybody at the headquarters.
They are putting folks to shame, aren't there now? Some
of the projects they have selected, I've kind of, you know,
myself included a lot of people have looked at some
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of the projects that got selected over the last year,
two years, whatever, and kind of like with a furrowed
brow of like, are you serious? Why? I don't get it?
What did you see here? Why choose this? And they
give their reasoning and that's fine, But there are some
things I'm just like, yeah, I don't think so. I know.
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There are folks that are completionists for lego ideas. It's
really tough to be a completionist. When you come across
something you're like, oh God, that's hideous, don't I don't
know what I'm gonna do with that. I don't. I
don't know what I'm gonna do with that. But this,
you know what to do with it. You can kick
Gremlins on and you can watch it on Halloween, or
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you can wait till Christmas time, because it is a
kind of like Dieharded die Hard is it's a Christmas movie?
No it's not. Yes it is. And it is a
Halloween thematic, you know, backdrop idea to it, with the
premise being kind of dark and evil to a certain degree,
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good versus evil, you know, good triumphs. But it is
definitely a Christmas movie. I will fight you to the death,
So gizmo my score. I need you. I need you
to sit down, and I need you to relax a minute,
because I'm about to blow your mind. I'm gonna give
gizmo a perfect ten, a ten on design, a ten
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on aesthetic, a ten on just every single thing about it.
The build, the structure of it, the uniqueness, the absolute
gorgeous design of the eyes. Oh you said already about
the eyes. The eyes are done perfect. They could not
have done anything better than what they did. The perfect
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hue of the perfect shades on the eyes. I'm giving
it a ten for a lego design, what they had
to work with, the parts that they had to work with,
I'm giving it a ten. I think this is the
first time I've ever given anything a ten. And I'll
stand on it, and I will I will. I will
stand at a podium and debate whomever about every aspect
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of my gizmo. And the cool thing is, I don't
have real big hands, but I can palm in s head.
I can palm his little body, bounce him like a basketball.
So yeah, for me, it's a perfect win across the board.
If you're curious about it, if you're interested, go check
it out. Pick him up yourself. One hundred and ten
bucks isn't too bad. One hundred euros really not that bad.
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You know. The price is right on par for the
amount of pieces you're getting, not really getting anything that's big,
chunky anything. You're getting just a bunch of different types
of pieces to throw in here. But if you're looking
for a home run, hitter, something a little bit different,
something you want to put on a shelf, this is it.
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I'm telling you, this is it. So add it to
your add it to your one list, your wish list,
and make it happen during the holiday season for yourself
or any other time. It just it just really fits.
So that is going to wrap up the episode. I
hope you guys enjoyed it. I had a blast talking
about Gizmo and his perfect, awesome design. So we will
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have our There are Lego eided ideas, things that are
going to be releasing the I almost said drawing. The
upcoming of the selections of this last review period are
due any day now. So I think they're being announced
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on Halloween. Maybe not, maybe I'm wrong, but they're coming
up any day now. We will have an episode with
that running down what it is. There's some heavy hitters
in there. We'll talk about who got in, we'll talk
about who didn't, maybe who got snubbed, and who maybe
should have gotten in, and maybe who should have been
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left out. But we'll have to wait and see what
those turn out to be. Anyway, you have things to do.
I've got to go put my gizmo back on his
shelf and keep him away from the water. You guys,
have a very safe and happy Halloween. Make sure you
eat plenty of candy, make sure you check for pins
and poisons. I'm just kidding. That's not a thing anymore.
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Pretty sure it wasn't a thing. But anyway, have a
happy and safe Halloween, and we'll be seeing you on
the next one. Until we meet again. I'm your minifait
ghost mac Let's boat on it.
Shut up and welcome to the Bricks King Podcast, where
I'm gonna bend your year about Lego, review those amazing
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bricks and plastic and discuss what is new and up
and coming around the Lego world. I'm your Minifi ghost Match.
Let's build on it. Welcome he and everybody. How are
you doing today? Doing good, feeling good? It's always good
to know. I'm doing quite well myself. And today we
are doing our Halloween episode. And boy oh boy, I
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have been waiting for this set to finally release, to
finally build it, to finally get to talk about it
because it's iconic. It falls under the vein of Halloween.
Ish can also fall under Christmas because there's you know,
the holiday season, the setting, can you know, put it
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in that in that vein, But we're putting it out
here at the Halloween season because it's just fitting. It's yeah.
So anyway, what we are talking about is we are
talking about the new Lego ideas Gizmo. That's right, Gizmo.
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If you don't know who Gizmo is, you don't know
what Gizmo is comes from a film from nineteen eighty
four called Gremlins. So Gremlins was a film about these
little these tiny little creatures that were brought back from
I can't even remember somewhere. This inventor he had gone
overseas in this little trader's village, traders market and found
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this thing. And so the one thing is you cannot
get it wet, do not let it get wet, and
you don't let it get wet. So they're called Maguay.
I think this is Maguay. And so there's a few
films from it. Obviously Gremlin's being the bigger, most I'm sure,
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higher grossing film. I actually went back, and I've seen
the movie countless times, but I went back and I
didn't realize Steven Spielberg from Jurassic Park, Magic and Et
and all kinds of other things was an executive producer
on this film, which I thought was kind of interesting
and a little fun fact for you. Because of the violence,
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the violent scenes in this film, they actually created the
PG thirteen category. This was the a few weeks after
the movie was released, that is when the Motion Picture
Association of America and PAA came out and they created
this new PG thirteen rating. So little fun fact to
put in the back of your brain. There and pulled
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out whenever you so choose to use it at some
point in time. But because this is a Lego Ideas project,
it was created by an inventor, an inventor, a designer,
a somebody that's a diehard of the Lego brick and
created this and I think it's I think it's awesome.
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The user I we I'm not great with some of
these names, but obviously his name on the Lego Ideas
site is Tarum Tarma. There we go, Tararma tr a Uma.
So that user, that creator on the Lego Ideas forum
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created this thing. It became a project. It is Lego
Ideas number sixty nine if you're keeping track, because they
are all individually numbered, each individual not each individual set
that comes out, but each individual project that gets chosen
by the design team to turn into a set. So
let's go ahead and talk about the giz Gizmo is
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a fun little build, you too. The main thing here
is I when I got the box, I was kind
of like, okay, this is cool. I was expecting him
to be pretty large. You know, the box is pretty
decent size, and then you know, you start tearing through bags.
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I believe there's is it ten. No, I'm thinking of
something else. I don't maybe it is ten. I think
it is ten. Anyway, So you start tearing through the
bags and uh, you start to realize, Okay, this is
not going to be as big as I thought. It's
going to be a little bit smaller, which is not
a bad thing at all. So somebody that I talked to,
one of my great close friends I had sent a
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message to, and uh, I was telling her about this,
and I said, hey, hey, this little deal, this little
guy here. I was just gushing about him, and you're
gonna hear it come out here in a little bit.
But he's about the size of a ferbie. So you
have two options when he build him. You can have
him standing up or sitting down. So there's two different
steps in there. So when you get to that step
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in the booklet, it's gonna say do you want him
standing up or do you want him sitting down. If
you want him standing up, go to this page. If
you want him sitting down, go to this page. So
you can only build one at a time, but they
do give you enough pieces to be able to choose
which one you want. Now you can't, you don't have
enough pieces to create two sets of legs. It's essentially
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just creating a different mechanism for the legs to attach.
So I said, hey, he's about the size of a Ferbie. Now,
if you recall Ferbie, he was a toy from the
nineties and it wasn't super tall. It's roughly about that size,
so I don't know what eight inches tall somewhere around there.
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Of course he's a little bit wider because his massive years,
but that is fine. But I went with the sitting
down version. I didn't build the standing up. Didn't really
have a desire to. I wanted him sitting down because
I want to put him on my shelf where he
has been. But he's gonna go back on my shelf
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after this episode because he looks absolutely adorable. Now, Gizmo
does come with two accessories. So the first accessory that
he comes with and then we'll talk about the build.
The first accessory comes with are the three D glasses
that are in the film. So Gizmo just a little, quick,
little build of three D glasses. They do not attach
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to his face. He cannot hold them. Okay, his arms
do not go up far enough to be able to
hold them onto his face due to the sheer size
of his rather large head, so you can get them close.
They do kind of sit on the bridge of his nose.
You could probably finagle this with a few extra pieces.
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I had looked into it. It's pretty simple. It's not
very complex. Some plate pieces that you can use that
have a ninety degree angle on them can surely because
you have a few studs right above the eyebrows in
the front that could allow you to do that, and
the backside of the glasses are anti studs, so you
can just you know, stud it onto there. Another piece
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that he comes with is a little splat tile here
of a water piece, and like I mentioned, you cannot
get your mag why wet, You just can't do it.
They spontaneously repopulate, not spontaneously combust. They repopulate, which creates
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a pretty big problem. I'm not going to go into
details of the film. If you haven't seen it, I'm
not spoiling it for you. At this point, you've had
forty plus years to go watch it. So but you
get this little water tile, and the cool thing is
you can actually put it on his back. There is
a spot on his back with two studs and it
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can stay right there. You don't have to worry about
losing it, and you can just pretend, you know, maybe
he gets wet, maybe he doesn't, but anyway, you do
have that tile for it. So the main coloring here
we have the brown and white, and then we have
the peach the peach ish color for his feet, his hands,
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and parts of his ears and Eyelid's mouth. Knows, that
kind of thing. One of the things that you will
notice now again, this is going to be somewhat of
a symmetrical build for a lot of this because left arm,
right arm, left leg, right leg pretty much similar. The
interesting thing about it is you do a lot of
studs on the side building here. We have it with
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the ears, we have it with the different parts of
the face. So you build one section of the head,
you build a section of the face, you build a
top section of the head. You have your main focus
structure on the inside, and then you attach things, you know,
just kind of plates on the outside and tiles and everything.
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You attach an assembly pretty much. Now. The only difference
is some of the things that we have talked about
in past episodes for years, where you kind of have
just a structure, a frame. Almost like if you think
about Technic and some of the cars that Technic have,
and you have this Technic structure and then you kind
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of smack a frame onto it, or not a frame,
you smack your your decoration, your your doors, your sheathing
on the outside of it, whatever. You don't really have
that here. To a degree, you do. But what I
noticed going through building is you actually have more of
this stuff that is on the xterior, like the fur
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and the hair or whatever, is actually kind of weirdly
incorporated into the main s structure of the build. It
does still stud on to a certain degree, but it
felt less like you were just kind of here's a great,
for instance, a great idea of this. Okay, if you
buy somebody a gift for let's say Christmas or their birthday, whatever,
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you have the box, then you have to wrap it right.
Usually on a lot of sets that have a structure
on the inside, you just wrap it with the wrapping
paper right the outside. Gribbling and stuff like that. You
have that here, It's just not as severe. It felt
more like things were interconnected to the main structure than
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what they appear now. As I said, it's not going
to be completely like that with everything. Uh, but I
definitely felt like that more so with like the legs,
the head especially, and then even parts of the body. Now,
one of the fascinating things about this is this guy
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is really really really heavy. He's really really heavy. He's
probably got about a thousand pieces worth of girth to him.
The set in total has eleven hundred and twenty five pieces,
but again you have the extra pieces that are used
for the separate set of leg structures to attach to
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the body. So about a thousand bricks of different shapes
and sizes going too, making this one of the things
that I noticed about this that made me extraordinarily happy.
You don't see ugliness. You don't see the backsides of plates.
You don't see these you know, technic pins that are
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different colors that shouldn't be there. There is none of it.
That is what makes this design so exquisitely beautiful in
its own right, just due to this shear fact that
you do not have all these miscolored pieces out of place,
out of position, that do not belong there. Everything matches
the color that it should be, and that is that
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is phenomenal to know, the only thing that you would
notice would be is if you lift him up underneath
his butt is he would have You can see the plates,
the backside of the plates underneath that's essentially where his
legs would go if you're going to stand him up
all right. There's two axle pin connectors down there for
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him to be able to do that. So his legs
in this position, his legs just actually, believe it or not,
they just clip in. There's two clips that hold onto
a bar, so his legs can wiggle back and forth
just a little bit. They don't really do much of anything.
They don't really go up and down or anything like that.
You can't wiggle his toes unfortunately. But he's got a
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little furry piece as clipped on next to his what
I would assume is his big toe, so you have
that there could move that. It almost looks like a
like a thumb of a sort. It's not, it's meant
to be the fur his arms. His arms can swing,
they can swing up and down just ever so slightly.
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And then what you can do with the hands, The
wrist moves, the thumb and the two fingers move and
the fingers are different length than the thumbs, which is
a nice little nice little deal as well. And like
I said, there's nothing out of place here. We have
the peach colored underside for his palm. Not an antistud.
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It's a two by two inverted round tile, which is great.
I love it so where the arms can move up
and down just a little bit, the hands in and
out at the wrist, His ears can go up and down,
they can go forward and backward. You've got the little
furry pieces that are brick built around his ear just
in front to give it depth, texture, more realism, that
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can be moved. Well. They can be moved as well.
His eyebrows don't really move up and down all that much.
The assembly once it goes into place, there is just
slight play in the way that it is connected, but
it is not meant to be moved up and down.
His eyelids don't move as well, they are locked into place.
His mouth and his little nose here, none of that
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moves as well. But his head. His head can spin.
His head can spin quite a good distance. Now, I
don't think you want to do anything freaky. You're not
gonna be able to do anything freaky because his head
is not going to spin three hundred and sixty degrees.
It's gonna spin until it hits a lock point. But
it's nice. It feels solid, it feels like it's not
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going to break if you were to manhandle it ever
so slightly. It's just not It's really not gonna be
a problem. The eyes, his eyes are shields. They are
the shields that are kind of the bubble shields, and
they have a bar in the back. The eyes are printed,
and they are I don't know who the designer was
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on that side of it. You have, you know, your
design team that comes together and they design the actual
set themselves. Then you have the team that does the instructions.
You have the team that does the graphic designs, like
it's stickers or prints or stuff like that. The eyes, I, y'all,
I cannot tell you how perfect they look. They are
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spot on to him from the film. I've never seen
a recreation of an eye of a character done this
well in a print with anything, ever, Lego and anything
for this price point, I've never seen like that. Now, obviously,
if you have like a collector statue of like of
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a gizmo or something like that, obviously it's going to
be captured much better than what you would for something
for one hundred and ten bucks, which is what this is.
It's just I'm just blown away by how well they
were able to manage the design, the colors, just everything
about it is just perfect. He actually looks alive. I've
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got a Magway, I've got my Mogwai. He's my little
buddy here, and I'm not gonna let him go anywhere.
You can't have him. You gotta get one of your own. Anyway,
back to Gizmo, He's gotta think of him as almost
like a little teddy bear. It's kind of roughly around
the size of it is another good comparison as well,
depending on how you put the legs, it really doesn't matter.
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He still feels like a teddy bear. Feels like you
can hold him up to your face, like, ah, little Gizmai,
you're so cute. There's just something about it that I'm truly,
honestly blown away by. The design team knocked it out
of the park, from the head to the eyes, to
the ears, being able to move to the perfect coloring,
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to I mean, there's only a few studs sticking out
on this thing at all at all. And when you
go through the instructions. One of the things that you
really start to understand is how dense this building structure
really is. It's not like you've got a skeleton underneath here.
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It's a dense build. Everything is really tightly packed solid.
And you don't have this fear of if I go
and I do this and I mess with this, this
is going to break off. It doesn't happen. It does
not happen whatsoever. You know. Take the arms for instance,
So what I did is I pulled off one of
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his arms. When you take off the arm, all it
is is attached to is an axle, so you have
an actual receptor and then you have your axle that
has a pin on the other side of that little
axul piece. When you look at the underside of the arm,
like I said, recall, if you recall I said that
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all of this stuff is it feels like a where
you kind of have your wrapping paper on the outside
of this gift. It looks like it, but it's built in. Okay,
the exterior part of his arm on the top and
the bottom of his arm where you have the little
fur in the different colors with the brown and the white,
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you can see where the hand clips into place, and
then you see how everything else is assembled and connected.
It is all locked into place. It's not just let's
go ahead and build this and smack it on. Here's
some studs to click it into place. It's not like that.
It's a complete solid structure of its own. And I
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cannot stress enough how important that is to this build.
Because if he were to fall off of your desk, Okay,
I have concrete floors in my house. They were intentionally.
We intentionally did concrete four floors because of animals and
the ability to clean is much easier in general. Plus
I like the look of it. If he were to
fall right now from a few feet up down to
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the concrete floor. Yes, there are gonna be pieces that
break off. An ear is gonna pop off, probably a
leg because it's just pinned clipped in. But for the
most part, I'm not gonna lose too much of him
because everything is built around a central base. Doesn't matter
what the assembly is. His leg will pop off, but
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the entire leg is not gonna break apart. The leg's
just gonna fall off. I might lose a toe, that's okay.
You don't need all your toes anyway. But the idea
that the fact that you have something that is so rigid,
but at the same time doesn't display all of these
technic ball joints or mixe ball joints or different colored
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the dark bluish gray and the dark gray and the
light bluish gray. You don't have all of that. You
don't have all of those nasty things sticking out. There's nothing.
And that's why I said it. With it being so rigid,
you don't have to rely on all those little technic,
little type pieces and different connections to get the arms
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to move or the legs or whatever. Now, one thing
I thought about with this, and I'm sure there's somebody
out there. I'm sure there's one of you awesome people
out there that can figure this out. But I thought
it would be really cool if there was a way.
Now this would probably take another five six hundred pieces
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and probably upsize it a little bit, but a way
to be able to put a mechanism in his back,
whether it be on the back of his head or
on his back, kind of like almost like a ventriloquist dummy,
to make his mouth move. I thought that would be
such a cool thing to have the bottom jaw move.
I thought that'd be so neat. I am not of
the proper brain structure to be able to build something
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like that, but maybe you are in there. You can
take my idea and run with it. I give you permission,
so your Maguai, your gizmo. I would love to see
another character, especially one of the bad guys, one of
his many, many, many Bad Brothers film. I would love
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to be able to see it. Stripe Stripe would be perfect.
Stripe is the main bad dude, the bad little guy
in the film. I would love to be able to
see him become a Lego set as well. I don't
know if there's a Lego Ideas project out there or not,
but I think it would be really fun if another team,
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like the Icons team, would jump on board and say,
you know what, let's go ahead and do this. Let's
go ahead and make his counterpart. I think. I think
that would be extraordinarily fantastic to pair them next to
each other, good versus evil. You know that that whole
idea Stripe, you know, with his crazy mohawk'd be absolutely awesome.
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His scary face, man, I would love to see it,
but alas that's probably not gonna happen. So uh, let's
get to some of the important things we touched on
a minute ago, about a couple of minutes ago. So
the set number on this we didn't kick it right
out of the gate two one, three, six one. It
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has one one hundred and twenty five pieces, as I
had mentioned earlier, retails for one hundred and ten bucks here,
one hundred euros over the sea and ninety British pounds.
So I personally, this is a this is I mean,
it just came out in the beginning of October, where
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you know, you're it's all but Halloween. Where is Halloween
at this time? I would love to think, Well, I
can tell you right now, this for me is definitely
on my top ten list of set for the year
because of everything that it has to offer, everything that
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it has to offer. But that aren't you. It's it's
just a little character that can sit there. You're right,
But everything about the build is perfect. There's not one
thing that I have noticed on this build that I'm like,
I wish this could have been better. There's nothing. I
told you the one thing that I would have loved
to see, but that's not that's not really practical, and
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then that changes, the structure, that changes, and you have
a little lever in the back, and somebody's going like,
I don't like that lever in the back. Oh stupid,
You're right, It's just me. I would love to see
it just because I would have fun, you know, pretending
like he's talking, having his mouth move, you know, saying
some funny things, you know. But without a doubt, this
is the top ten. This is on my top ten
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lists for the best sets of twenty twenty five. The
Ideas team has knocked it out of the park. I
I just don't know. The IC guys are on it.
You have Christopher Stamp who's running, not running, but is
a big part of spe not Speed Champions. He was
Speed Champions. Does Lego City? Now? Lego City has been
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knocking it out of the park hardcore. The Ideas folks
have been slaying the rest of everybody at the headquarters.
They are putting folks to shame, aren't there now? Some
of the projects they have selected, I've kind of, you know,
myself included a lot of people have looked at some
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of the projects that got selected over the last year,
two years, whatever, and kind of like with a furrowed
brow of like, are you serious? Why? I don't get it?
What did you see here? Why choose this? And they
give their reasoning and that's fine, But there are some
things I'm just like, yeah, I don't think so. I know.
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There are folks that are completionists for lego ideas. It's
really tough to be a completionist. When you come across
something you're like, oh God, that's hideous, don't I don't
know what I'm gonna do with that. I don't. I
don't know what I'm gonna do with that. But this,
you know what to do with it. You can kick
Gremlins on and you can watch it on Halloween, or
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you can wait till Christmas time, because it is a
kind of like Dieharded die Hard is it's a Christmas movie?
No it's not. Yes it is. And it is a
Halloween thematic, you know, backdrop idea to it, with the
premise being kind of dark and evil to a certain degree,
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good versus evil, you know, good triumphs. But it is
definitely a Christmas movie. I will fight you to the death,
So gizmo my score. I need you. I need you
to sit down, and I need you to relax a minute,
because I'm about to blow your mind. I'm gonna give
gizmo a perfect ten, a ten on design, a ten
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on aesthetic, a ten on just every single thing about it.
The build, the structure of it, the uniqueness, the absolute
gorgeous design of the eyes. Oh you said already about
the eyes. The eyes are done perfect. They could not
have done anything better than what they did. The perfect
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hue of the perfect shades on the eyes. I'm giving
it a ten for a lego design, what they had
to work with, the parts that they had to work with,
I'm giving it a ten. I think this is the
first time I've ever given anything a ten. And I'll
stand on it, and I will I will. I will
stand at a podium and debate whomever about every aspect
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of my gizmo. And the cool thing is, I don't
have real big hands, but I can palm in s head.
I can palm his little body, bounce him like a basketball.
So yeah, for me, it's a perfect win across the board.
If you're curious about it, if you're interested, go check
it out. Pick him up yourself. One hundred and ten
bucks isn't too bad. One hundred euros really not that bad.
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You know. The price is right on par for the
amount of pieces you're getting, not really getting anything that's big,
chunky anything. You're getting just a bunch of different types
of pieces to throw in here. But if you're looking
for a home run, hitter, something a little bit different,
something you want to put on a shelf, this is it.
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I'm telling you, this is it. So add it to
your add it to your one list, your wish list,
and make it happen during the holiday season for yourself
or any other time. It just it just really fits.
So that is going to wrap up the episode. I
hope you guys enjoyed it. I had a blast talking
about Gizmo and his perfect, awesome design. So we will
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have our There are Lego eided ideas, things that are
going to be releasing the I almost said drawing. The
upcoming of the selections of this last review period are
due any day now. So I think they're being announced
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on Halloween. Maybe not, maybe I'm wrong, but they're coming
up any day now. We will have an episode with
that running down what it is. There's some heavy hitters
in there. We'll talk about who got in, we'll talk
about who didn't, maybe who got snubbed, and who maybe
should have gotten in, and maybe who should have been
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left out. But we'll have to wait and see what
those turn out to be. Anyway, you have things to do.
I've got to go put my gizmo back on his
shelf and keep him away from the water. You guys,
have a very safe and happy Halloween. Make sure you
eat plenty of candy, make sure you check for pins
and poisons. I'm just kidding. That's not a thing anymore.
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Pretty sure it wasn't a thing. But anyway, have a
happy and safe Halloween, and we'll be seeing you on
the next one. Until we meet again. I'm your minifait
ghost mac Let's boat on it.
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