Reuse your old LEGO^® bricks to find and build new creations

For those that missed my live build of the X-Jet, here's a quick review summary of the set.

Celebrating with your family surely is a common tradition in (probably) all cultures. This new set takes a special look at this tradition in China on the Spring Festival as final (15th) day of the new years celebrations. In China many people work away from their families and that's why the family reunion during the new years celebrations is an very important cultural aspect for those. For that, the reunions even are factored in for the planning of construction sites or other projects. From February 10th 2024 until January 28th 2025 its the Year of the Dragon, which influenced this set, too.

In these opening I usually make some terrible pun or riff of a quote from the sets subject matters. Today though I'm not gonna do that. Today bad Dad jokes and puns are avoided in my intro. However regarding the rest of my review, it is inevitable.

Farming equipment is not new to Technic. One of the very first Technic sets, even before the theme got its official name, is 851-1 Tractor. In the following year, some more tractors were released, and the 8862-1 Backhoe Grader from 1989 had a harvester for a b-model. It would take until 2006 for the next farm set: 8281-1 Mini Tractor, and more followed. In 2022, we got the first John Deere set, with 42136-1 John Deere 9620R 4WD Tractor, with 42157-1 John Deere 948L-II Skidder appearing the next year. And now we have the 3rd set in the series: 42168-1 John Deere 9700 Forage Harvester, a harvester in a similar scale to the 42136-1. Let's start building.

Birds! If you read my White Rabbit review, you are probably aware I am a fan of our feathered friends, especially Australian variants; so I was pretty excited to get my hands on this set. I had a pet budgie growing up (parakeet for you Americans 😉) who was blue, so a blue Aussie bird LEGO set aimed at adults? Yes please! Lets see if it lives up to my high expectations.