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LEGO Ideas 21371 Wallace & Gromit | Set Preview

Now that’s a cracking set LEGO! This – in all of its wonderful likeness – is the brand new LEGO Ideas 21371 Wallace & Gromit!

Based on a fan suggestion via the LEGO Ideas platform, 21371 recaptures the world’s favourite plasticine stop-motion duo in their magnificent motorcycle-and-sidecar from the 1995 short film masterpiece ‘A Close Shave’.

Constructed from just over 1,000 pieces, 21371 doesn’t feature the sidecar’s optional extras, but it does include several easter eggs from the movie franchise including crackers, wool, and a diamond, plus two posable figures which are perhaps the most wonderful LEGO have ever created, even if being British we’re legally obliged to say that.

Expected to cost $99.99 / €99.99 / £89.99 21371 is perhaps our favourite movie-licensed set of all time, and you can get hold of Wallace and Gromit from October 1st.

Not Even Wensleydale?

1995’s Oscar winning ‘A Close Shave’ was the third instalment in the wonderful ‘Wallace & Gromit’ series, and it brought Shaun the Sheep to screens for the first time, a clay animal who’s now possibly more famous than the duo that uncovered him.

The movie also featured a rather brilliant chase scene, with Wallace & Gromit in their trusty motorcycle and sidecar fitted with a few choice modifications.

Recreating the famous motorbike is grubaluk of Flickr, who has rebuilt both the bike and characters wonderfully from Lego bricks. That’s not all though, as like Wallace’s bike in the movie, grubaluk’s model has a few secrets hidden inside, chiefly one of the most brilliant remote control systems we’ve ever seen.

Watch the video below to find out why, and you can see all the images at grubalek’s photostream via the link above.

YouTube Video

A Close Shave

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This magnificent motorcycle and sidecar from previous bloggee redfern1950s probably has nothing to do with our favourite plasticine duo, but it’s close enough to allow us to tenuously include this link! You can see more of redfern’s gorgeous bike at his photostream via the link above.