Beautiful book: LEGO Birds, the bricks fly

Did you like the set LEGO Ideas 21301 Birds marketed in 2015? Do you want to continue the fun and ornithological experience offered by this box? I have what you need.

Glénat is offering the French version of the book this year Birds from Bricks by Thomas Poulsom, who is as you know the creator of set 21301, and this book is a rather logical and successful extension of what the box offered in its time.

Over the 144 pages, you will be able to discover how to assemble fifteen new species of birds that will join the blue jay, the hummingbird and the robin from the LEGO Ideas set.

Northern Cardinal, Common Blackbird, Passerine Nonpareil, Peruvian Cock-de-Roche, Scarlet Macaw, Moseley's Penguin, Red-crowned Cossyphus, Blue Tit, Canary Island Serin, Lapwing, European Kingfisher, North Pacific Albatross, Miro Crimson, Kakapo and Sulfur-crested Cockatoo, these new buildable birds come from all over the world.

Was a French version of the work really essential since it is above all a book of instructions? I think so.

Each species is presented on a dedicated page with information that allows you to go a little further than the simple accumulation of models to build. This is not off-putting or encyclopedic, the author just gives some essential information about each species so that you can wow your friends. At the end of the book, the author even tells you how to put together a perch model that can showcase some of these new species.

The real strength of this book is that these models are really complementary to those in set 21301. It is not a simple interpretation by a third-party author of the techniques and ideas implemented by Thomas Poulsom.

The latter had resources beyond the LEGO Ideas project and he thus makes the fans of his creations benefit from them. If you go to the end of the concept, you can proudly line up 18 different bird species on your shelves.

For those who are wondering, the identification stickers of the different species with their scientific names present in the LEGO Ideas set are not provided. you will have to create them yourself if you wish to harmonize your extensive collection of birds.

In short, this book should excite fans of LEGO, ornithology and beautiful models. It will also be a rather well designed tool to allow the youngest to discover some species of birds in a fun way.

Only downside, of a technical nature, some steps of the instructions are a bit complex to decipher, you will have to be very careful. The building instructions are condensed into a few pages for each model and they are not broken down to the extreme like those typically produced by LEGO.

Unfortunately, the LEGO Ideas 21301 Birds set (initial retail price € 44.99) is no longer available from LEGO. If you want to acquire it as a starting point for this trip to the land of birds, you will have to turn to the secondary market (on bricklink for example) where you can still find it at a reasonable price.

The work is currently in preorder from amazon with availability announced for October 18. Gather the set and the book and you get a really original gift to put under the tree at the end of the year, with long hours of assembly and discovery ...

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