Wowbagger
The Infinitely Prolonged
The LEGO Group has put out many haunted house sets before, all in the name of fun and stuff (this Creator set is probably the best one: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/haunted-house-10273 )... But, this is ridiculous! As we enter the second quarter of 2021, LEGO is going to be releasing the first wave of their Legends of the Spirit Realm collection, designed for collectors 18 and up. Sets, so far, seem to include:
The Amityville Horror House - This includes a front facade of the house. It is not a full house model, but it does seem to have some decor on the inside part, including a couple of ghosts. But, it ALSO includes minifig depictions of Ed and Lorraine Warren, if you can manage to believe it! Ugh.
The Transcendental Meditation chamber, with what looks like a minifig depiction of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, complete with a fancy name plaque for him, and a rig to make figures look like they're flying in a weird, bouncy sorta way. This was an insanely stupid idea to come up with!
The Legends of Ramtha, with a minifig depiction of J.Z. Knight. But, I find this to be particularly funny: It actually comes with a couple of different parts for different versions of Ramtha, the "ancient warrior", in order to cover all of the various inconsistencies in how he was described by Knight, over the years. You get to build your own canon Ramtha, apparently, because his author can't even get him straight! Is that not a joke?!
The ONLY set that actually looks like it might be kinda fun, if and when it becomes available, is the Winchester Mystery House! This is a full house model, meaning it has outer walls on all sides, and is not merely a facade. When you open it up, there seems to be a lot of interesting ways you can reconfigure the "maze" interior of each floor! This would actually be so cool, unlike those other crazier, more shameful ideas.
There are NO Uri Gellar nor Sylvia Browne sets, yet. But, who knows what we can imagine would be in the second wave?!
More details can be gleamed from their official preview video, if you are interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2942BB1JXFk
I, for one, think would be rather unwise, risky, and reckless for LEGO to ever promote stuff like this, among other synonyms for those words.
The Amityville Horror House - This includes a front facade of the house. It is not a full house model, but it does seem to have some decor on the inside part, including a couple of ghosts. But, it ALSO includes minifig depictions of Ed and Lorraine Warren, if you can manage to believe it! Ugh.
The Transcendental Meditation chamber, with what looks like a minifig depiction of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, complete with a fancy name plaque for him, and a rig to make figures look like they're flying in a weird, bouncy sorta way. This was an insanely stupid idea to come up with!
The Legends of Ramtha, with a minifig depiction of J.Z. Knight. But, I find this to be particularly funny: It actually comes with a couple of different parts for different versions of Ramtha, the "ancient warrior", in order to cover all of the various inconsistencies in how he was described by Knight, over the years. You get to build your own canon Ramtha, apparently, because his author can't even get him straight! Is that not a joke?!
The ONLY set that actually looks like it might be kinda fun, if and when it becomes available, is the Winchester Mystery House! This is a full house model, meaning it has outer walls on all sides, and is not merely a facade. When you open it up, there seems to be a lot of interesting ways you can reconfigure the "maze" interior of each floor! This would actually be so cool, unlike those other crazier, more shameful ideas.
There are NO Uri Gellar nor Sylvia Browne sets, yet. But, who knows what we can imagine would be in the second wave?!
More details can be gleamed from their official preview video, if you are interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2942BB1JXFk
I, for one, think would be rather unwise, risky, and reckless for LEGO to ever promote stuff like this, among other synonyms for those words.
