LEGO and the Chinese New Year: all the sets dedicated to the Lunar New Year
LEGO and the Chinese New Year
LEGO took the opportunity of the fourth edition of the China International Import Expo in Shanghai to present the new sets of the Chinese New Year 2022. Inaugurated in 2019, the new series of thematic sets dedicated to the celebrations of the Chinese New Year is becoming decidedly substantial, allowing fans of bricks and lovers of oriental atmospheres to start thinking and designing dioramas and scenes of and with Asian landscapes. What do you think, do we want to take a look at these fantastic sets?A bit of history
Anyone who follows the events of the brick closely, yes will certainly remember the baillame of 2019 when, with a decision considered somewhat questionable by the whole community of Danish brick enthusiasts, the LEGO Group decided to put three specific sets for sale in the APAC market only (China, rest of Asia and Oceania) for the area itself on the occasion of the Chinese New Year, that is the Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner set "(80101), the Dragon Dance set (80102) and the Dragon bat race set (80103), now all withdrawn from sale and therefore recoverable only on the secondary market (bricklink.com, Amazon, eBay etc). Literally submerged by an avalanche of protests from the global community, the LEGO Group Management announced that starting from May 2019, ALL regional sets (i.e. created specifically for a specific "geographic" market) would be made available for everything else. of the world through lego.com, the official and direct e-commerce site of LEGO (better known as the LEGO Shop) after no more than 4-6 months from the sale in the reference market. Thanks to this decision, it was possible to obtain the Dragon bat race set (80103) simply by accessing the Italian LEGO Shop, instead of turning to the secondary market or to relatives, friends or colleagues who for some reason had to go to China, Asia or Australia / New Zeland.if (jQuery ("# crm_srl-th_culturapop_d_mh2_1"). is (": visible")) {console.log ("Edinet ADV adding zone: tag crm_srl-th_culturapop_d_mh2_1 slot id: th_culturapop_d_mh2"); } For 2020, something must have happened on the upper floors of the LEGO Group headquarters in Billund (Denmark), because in the text of the scheduled launch announcement published on December 26, 2019 and relating to two new sets of the Chinese New Year theme, it was already included and expected the launch of the same sets in the rest of the world starting from the following 10 January 2020, so well in advance of the 4-6 months "promised" the previous year.
For this 2021 just started , perhaps also taking into account the logistics problems and the various travel restrictions imposed globally by the pandemic, things went even better: not only the new ones arrived on our Italian lego.com already on January 1st, but the usual two LEGO System sets has been added a third DUPLO 2-in-1 set, which allows you to build both an apartment section and a kindergarten classroom.
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LEGO # 80101 New Year's Eve Dinner (2019) LEGO # 80102 Dragon Dance (2019) LEGO # 80103 Dragon Boat Race (2019) LEGO # 80104 Lion Dance (2020) LEGO # 80105 Chinese New Year Temple Party (2020) LEGO # 80106 Nian's Story (2021) LEGO # 80107 Spring Lantern Festival (2021) LEGO DUPLO # 10943 Childhood House (2021) LEGO # 80108 Lunar New Year Traditions (2022) LEGO # 80109 Lunar New Year Ice Festival (2022)
The 2019 sets
Three sets arrived on the shelves on the occasion of the inauguration of the new theme. The first two remained exclusive to the Asian market until retirement, the third also arrived on Italian lego.com and it was therefore possible to buy it as a normal set.LEGO # 80101 Christmas Eve Dinner New Year
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LEGO # 80102 Dance of the Dragon
The set allows you to reproduce the traditional Chinese celebration of the New Year's Eve dinner. Beautiful details are part of the set: a dining room that includes a rotating dining table topped with a banquet of traditional food items, chairs for the rotating minifigures, family photo stickers, year of the pig sticker. The bookcase and TV are buildable buildable. Includes 6 new minifigures: mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, girl and boy. Among the accessories we find the traditional red gift bag and the elements of the spring roll. Once built, the house will have an open front and a front garden. Pieces included: 622.
LEGO # 80103 Dragon Boat Race
The set allows you to reproduce the traditional boat race of the Dragon Boat Festival. The set includes 2 dragon boats, a buildable dock with a food stall, a spectator area and a judge's stand, as well as buildable goal posts. Each boat includes a dragon head with its mouth that opens and a posable tail, 3 seats for the rowers minifigures, space for the helmsman and the drummer. Small wheels protrude from the bottom of the boats to make them run ... dry. There are 15 minifigures included in the set. Pieces included: 643.
Set 2020
For 2020, the news have had an even better launch process than in 2019: the two new sets made available on the Italian version of lego.com as of January 10. LEGO # 80104 Lion Dance
The set allows you to reconstruct with bricks the famous Chinese tradition of the Lion Dance, the symbolic dance of good luck. The set includes the model of 5 lion figurines, which can be placed on a stage with podiums to recreate the dance. The set also includes a stage for percussionists with a fantastic mechanized percussion function. There are 8 minifigures included in the set, including lion-dancers and a man dressed as a mouse to celebrate the Year of the Rat. Accessories for the minifigures include the traditional red greeting scroll, red globe, cabbage, calligraphy brush and rocket-shaped firework. Pieces included: 882.
LEGO # 80105 Chinese New Year Temple Party
With this set it will be possible to recreate the festive celebrations of the Chinese New Year Temple Festival. The set includes a beautifully decorated Chinese temple, stalls with a wide and colorful range of barbecue dishes, candies, toys, vases and pasta figurines, all completed by 14 minifigures. Authentic elements, such as “Fu” decorations, greeting scrolls, red envelopes and “paper” windmills lead us to know and learn Chinese traditions. Pieces included: 1,664.
I Sep 2021
Excellent results in terms of sales? Travel restrictions due to Pandemic? The reason for the choice is unknown, but for 2021 the three new sets of the Chinese New Year theme have arrived on our Italian lego.com starting from January 1st!
LEGO # 80106 History of Nian
The set allows you to play Nian's story legend. The set includes a typical Chinese-style mansion complete with traditional decorations and buildable fireworks, firecrackers, hanging lanterns and Chun Lian banners. Added to the scene is the buildable and posable Nian creature, a snowman and 6 minifigures, including a grandfather, grandmother, 3 children and a person in an ox costume to celebrate the Year of the Ox.
LEGO # 80107 Spring Lantern Festival
The set is in addition to the previous ones of the Chinese New Year theme and reproduces the Spring Lantern Festival in a buildable brick version. It includes a reproduction of a typical Chinese public garden with moon gates, pavilion, pond and bridge and an ox-shaped lantern, illuminated by a LEGO light brick, to celebrate the Year of the Ox. The reproduction of the garden includes buildable details such as typical lanterns and traditional Chun Lian banners.
LEGO DUPLO # 10943 The childhood home
The set introduces preschoolers to 2 important events: the Chinese New Year celebrations and the first day in kindergarten. It contains the DUPLO elements to build 2 different alternative designs to each other: the house where the child lives and the typical classroom of the kindergarten. Children will then be able to stage the family traditions of the Chinese New Year (exchanging red envelopes, eating ravioli, etc.), or they will be able to recreate the daily routines of the nursery.
The 2022 sets
The two new sets dedicated to the celebrations of the Chinese New Year 2022 are already available on Italian lego.com.
LEGO # 80108 Lunar New Year Traditions
It is a modular set that shows the family traditions of the Lunar New Year. The six buildable scenes can be linked together in various ways and each scene reproduces one of the characteristic and typical activities of the holidays: shopping at the market for the party banquet, creating lucky decorations, cleaning the house while waiting for friends and relatives , visit the grandparents, the exchange of red envelopes "Hongbao". A "special" module contains the minifigure of the Chinese God of Prosperity, complete with the traditional red packet and a gold bar. The set can be built by 6 people at the same time: the instructions are separated into 6 different instruction booklets, one for each of the 6 modules that make up the set itself, so that the whole family can share the building experience. There are 12 minifigures included in the set: the God of Wealth, a salesman with his stall, a couple, a man, a girl and a family of 6: dad, mom, grandfather, grandmother, little girl and boy. >
LEGO # 80109 Lunar New Year Ice Festival
The set looks in effect inspired by the well-known Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. The set features a highly detailed winter scene with brick ice lake, equipment rental shop, sweet potato vendor cart, photo booth, Chun ice sculpture, vending machine, penguin sleigh, ski slope, snowy tree and much more. It is also part of the set with the Minifigure disguised as a tiger to celebrate the Year of the Tiger (2022)! The most particular details are the large opalescent elements used to make the skating rink and the cardboard of the character of the Zodiac Tiger to be used for selfies, in addition to the cart that sells roasted chestnuts, a delicacy as popular in China and Asia as it is here from us in the winter. There are 13 minifigures included in the set: a sweet potato seller, an ice sculptor, a mom, a dad, children and a penguin and various others. Do we even have a hint of Perry the Platypus?
The set allows you to reconstruct with bricks the famous Chinese tradition of the Lion Dance, the symbolic dance of good luck. The set includes the model of 5 lion figurines, which can be placed on a stage with podiums to recreate the dance. The set also includes a stage for percussionists with a fantastic mechanized percussion function. There are 8 minifigures included in the set, including lion-dancers and a man dressed as a mouse to celebrate the Year of the Rat. Accessories for the minifigures include the traditional red greeting scroll, red globe, cabbage, calligraphy brush and rocket-shaped firework. Pieces included: 882.
LEGO # 80105 Chinese New Year Temple Party
With this set it will be possible to recreate the festive celebrations of the Chinese New Year Temple Festival. The set includes a beautifully decorated Chinese temple, stalls with a wide and colorful range of barbecue dishes, candies, toys, vases and pasta figurines, all completed by 14 minifigures. Authentic elements, such as “Fu” decorations, greeting scrolls, red envelopes and “paper” windmills lead us to know and learn Chinese traditions. Pieces included: 1,664.
I Sep 2021
Excellent results in terms of sales? Travel restrictions due to Pandemic? The reason for the choice is unknown, but for 2021 the three new sets of the Chinese New Year theme have arrived on our Italian lego.com starting from January 1st!LEGO # 80106 History of Nian
The set allows you to play Nian's story legend. The set includes a typical Chinese-style mansion complete with traditional decorations and buildable fireworks, firecrackers, hanging lanterns and Chun Lian banners. Added to the scene is the buildable and posable Nian creature, a snowman and 6 minifigures, including a grandfather, grandmother, 3 children and a person in an ox costume to celebrate the Year of the Ox.
LEGO # 80107 Spring Lantern Festival
The set is in addition to the previous ones of the Chinese New Year theme and reproduces the Spring Lantern Festival in a buildable brick version. It includes a reproduction of a typical Chinese public garden with moon gates, pavilion, pond and bridge and an ox-shaped lantern, illuminated by a LEGO light brick, to celebrate the Year of the Ox. The reproduction of the garden includes buildable details such as typical lanterns and traditional Chun Lian banners.
LEGO DUPLO # 10943 The childhood home
The set introduces preschoolers to 2 important events: the Chinese New Year celebrations and the first day in kindergarten. It contains the DUPLO elements to build 2 different alternative designs to each other: the house where the child lives and the typical classroom of the kindergarten. Children will then be able to stage the family traditions of the Chinese New Year (exchanging red envelopes, eating ravioli, etc.), or they will be able to recreate the daily routines of the nursery.
The 2022 sets
The two new sets dedicated to the celebrations of the Chinese New Year 2022 are already available on Italian lego.com.LEGO # 80108 Lunar New Year Traditions
It is a modular set that shows the family traditions of the Lunar New Year. The six buildable scenes can be linked together in various ways and each scene reproduces one of the characteristic and typical activities of the holidays: shopping at the market for the party banquet, creating lucky decorations, cleaning the house while waiting for friends and relatives , visit the grandparents, the exchange of red envelopes "Hongbao". A "special" module contains the minifigure of the Chinese God of Prosperity, complete with the traditional red packet and a gold bar. The set can be built by 6 people at the same time: the instructions are separated into 6 different instruction booklets, one for each of the 6 modules that make up the set itself, so that the whole family can share the building experience. There are 12 minifigures included in the set: the God of Wealth, a salesman with his stall, a couple, a man, a girl and a family of 6: dad, mom, grandfather, grandmother, little girl and boy. >
LEGO # 80109 Lunar New Year Ice Festival
The set looks in effect inspired by the well-known Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. The set features a highly detailed winter scene with brick ice lake, equipment rental shop, sweet potato vendor cart, photo booth, Chun ice sculpture, vending machine, penguin sleigh, ski slope, snowy tree and much more. It is also part of the set with the Minifigure disguised as a tiger to celebrate the Year of the Tiger (2022)! The most particular details are the large opalescent elements used to make the skating rink and the cardboard of the character of the Zodiac Tiger to be used for selfies, in addition to the cart that sells roasted chestnuts, a delicacy as popular in China and Asia as it is here from us in the winter. There are 13 minifigures included in the set: a sweet potato seller, an ice sculptor, a mom, a dad, children and a penguin and various others. Do we even have a hint of Perry the Platypus?
