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Extra Pieces - LEGO® Conversations & Perspectives

Richard Jones and Jay Ong

Jay (jaysbrickblog.com) and Richard (ramblingbrick.com) are both passionate LEGO® Fans, and run their own blogs discussing their experiences, reviewing LEGO® Sets and looking at trends. Join them as they have a chat about what they are looking at, and thinking about, in the world of LEGO bricks.

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01:01:36

S5E7 - Extra Pieces: Book Nooks, Nike, One Piece and...

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2025/06/18

We are back: both life and LEGO have intervened, and there is a lot going on!Richard Jones (Ramblingbrick.com) and Jay Ong (Jaysbrickblog.com) discuss recent LEGO releases, upcoming conventions, and dive deep into several new sets, including Nike collaborations, One Piece anime sets, and Book Nooks. Its event season: Richard is off to Japan Brick Fest, while Jay will be heading to the new Chinese AFOL Networking event in August A lot has happened since our last episode, including: Details of the

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00:40:47

S7E4 - S07 E04 Extra Pieces: Brickvention 2025

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2025/04/22

Welcome Back to Brickvention 2025.While Jay is away in Japan attending Star Wars Celebration, the time has come to catch up with interviews we held on the convention floor at Brickvention 2025, here in Melbourne, Australia back in January. We had visitors from all over Australia and all round the world attending Australia’s Premier LEGO Fan Event. Here are conversations with a few of them.… We hope you enjoy this episode. If you do, please leave a 5-star review on your chosen podcast player: it

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00:58:59

S7E3 - Extra Pieces: 10354 The Shire

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2025/04/04

10354 The Lord of the Rings: The ShireAnd we are back. We’d like to thank you for your your ongoing support, but if you are a first time listener - Welcome. After a chat about Jay’s upcoming trip to Star Wars Celebration, we launch headlong into a discussion about 10354 The Lord of the Rings: The Shire. The latest LEGO® ICONs set to depict a location from The Lord of the Rings was released this week, and we both had the chance to put it together and gather some thoughts. Richard’s initial thought

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00:55:27

S7E2 - Extra Pieces: Pokémon!

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2025/03/21

Gotta Catch 'Em All!Welcome back. We'd like to start by apologizing for the long time between episodes: Life gets in the way sometimes. Jay is really excited about the LEGO Group's announcement of their ongoing partnership with Pokémon Company International from next year. He's been collecting the cards and playing the games since the first generation was released in 1996. https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/lego-pokemon-sets-officially-announced-coming-2026/ Richard is possibly a little too old to have

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01:00:34

S7E1 - Extra Pieces: Happy New Year, Tudor Corner...

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2025/01/14

Happy New Year: Welcome to 2025.Episode NotesWelcome back after the...’ break’. Well, it was a break from podcast recording, anyway. We hope you got some great LEGO®sets for Christmas. Pardon the quality of Richard's voice. It is getting much better! While we are getting ready to attend Brickvention in Melbourne next weekend, we look at some of the January Releases. The new modular building, 10350 Tudor

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00:59:42

S06E09 Extra Pieces: Insider Weekend/Black...

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2024/11/27

We're approaching the End of the Year! Amidst the LEGO Insiders Weekend and Black Friday shopping madness, Richard and Jay discuss some of the big launches coming soon, including new 2025 sets!Sets discussed include: 10335 The Endurance LEGO Minifigures Series 27 Lunar New Year 2025 sets LEGO Ideas Minerals DIsplay revealed 10359 Fountain Garden and more! We hope you enjoy the episode. We love your feedback: please leave a review or comment on your favourite podcast platform, or get in touch

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00:56:00

Extra Pieces in Denmark! Chatting with AFOLs at LEGO...

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2024/10/13

Extra Pieces in Denmark for Fan Media Days 2024!Richard and Jay are back from our pilgrimage to Denmark for Fan Media Days 2024! We recount our experiences at Fan Media Days, however most of the juiciest things we saw can't be discussed yet for obvious reasons. We were lucky enough to attend AFOL Day at the LEGO House, which kicks off Skaerbaek Fan Weekend. Richard was on the ground at Skaerbaek speaking and we both spoke to a bunch of lovely people that we met on the ground! This episode contains

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00:53:52

S6E7 - Extra Pieces: The Legend of Zelda, The...

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2024/09/17

September's Super LEGO sets!Welcome back! This is Richard and Jay's final episode recorded in Australia before we both head off to Billund, Denmark for Fan Media Days 2025. We'll be interviewing and chatting to LEGO Designers, so let us know if there's any specific questions you'd like us to ask! In today's episode, we cover some of the recent September 2024 releases! Sets discussed include: LEGO Legend of Zelda: Great Deku Tree 2-in-1 The Nightmare Before Christmas Harry Potter: The Burrow 71486

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01:08:51

S6E6 - Extra Pieces: Awesome August - Technic,...

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2024/08/09

Extra Pieces: Awesome August - Technic, Dungeons and Dragons, JawsWelcome back to the Extra Pieces, bringing you the latest views and reviews from Jay's Brick Blog and the Rambling Brick. Today we kick off by considering the newLEGO® Technic 42174 Emirates Team New Zealand AC75 Yacht, the Team New Zealand entry in the 2024 America's Cup, due to get underway at the end of August. Richard gets nostalgic over Australia's victory in 1983 and the declaration by our Prime Minister that it would be

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00:56:22

Extra Pieces: Japan Brickfest; Robot World; Technic...

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2024/07/20

Welcome back. This prolonged break has been brought to you by travel and winter sickness!Richard went to visit Japan Brickfest in Kobe on the second weekend in June. Some of his highlights include: @fukutaku10‘s amazing phoenix and dragon Orchestra by Sachiko Akinaga Masao Hidaka's monorail Great Ball contraption Check out Planet AFOL on Youtube for coverage of the entire event. Once Richard saw a life-size Gundam outside a shopping centre, he came to realise that 60421 Robot World was

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00:47:03

Extra Pieces: Barad Dûr - a slice of life in Mordor

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2024/05/20

Barad Dûr: A Slice of Life in MordorWelcome back to another special episode of Extra Pieces! Today's episode takes us to the Land of Mordor, where the shadows lie, any by shadows, we mean a 5,471-piece 73cm tall Barad-Dur LEGO set, that's due to be released on the 1st of June! Last year, we dedicated an entire episode to Rivendell, and we felt like we had to do the same for Barad-Dur, lest we upset the Dark Lord Sauron, so here's a deep geeky dive into all things Barad-Dur, Tolkien and the Lord of

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00:47:38

Extra Pieces: May the 4th and LEGO Summer 2024 Previews

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2024/05/04

Episode NotesWell, that was an unexpected hiatus: no sooner did we get the last episode up onto the inter webs, and Jay went on holiday! We are back, well partially! We are back! Well, partially: Richard is out of town at a conference, and it was from the hotel bedroom that he recorded this episode. In case you got any weird background noises, or the episode just doesn’t quite sound the same. It's May which means that a whole heap of 2nd half 2024 sets just got revealed! In this episode, we discuss

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00:46:35

S6E2 - Extra Pieces: Dungeons and Dragons

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2024/03/28

Series 6 Episode 2Episode Notes Welcome Back: We apologise again for a slightly extended break: in this episode, you can hear the full story why. It’s not what you might expect! In this episode: Jay talks us through the long-awaited 21438 Dungeons and Dragons: A Red Dragon’s Tale set that was revealed a few weeks ago.

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00:56:32

S6E1 - S6E1: Extra Pieces: March Madness!

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2024/03/04

Welcome Back to Series 6 and a little bit of March Madness - there are so many new sets out this month, we have almost lost track! https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/buying-guide-every-new-lego-set-march-2024/ In this episode, we take a closer look at some new releases, and accidently overlook others. NEW LEGO Animal Crossing: Is it the Spritual successor to

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00:48:03

S5E10 - Extra Pieces: LIVE! at Brickvention 2024.

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2024/02/01

Extra Pieces Live! Expect audio anomalies galore as Jay and Richard record an episode in front of a live audience on Convention Day (January 19th) at Brickvention 2024, in Melbourne Australia. Not only is it our first live episode, it's also the first time we have recorded an episode while being in the same room, during daylight hours! We talk about life as LEGO Bloggers, as a hobby or profession; the joy of reviewing LEGO, stickers, no stickers, Space and we share our advice for fledgling Content

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00:56:47

S5E9 - Extra Pieces: Happy New Year: Roses, Andrea’s...

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2024/01/13

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Extra Pieces episode of 2024! January has flooded us with plenty of new releases, and Jay and Richard discuss some of them in this new episode. We will be at Brickvention 2024 in Melbourne, Australia and are looking forward to saying hi if you're there! Tickets for Brickvention are available online: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/brickvention-2024-australias-premier-lego-fan-event-tickets-693986160287 Here are some of the sets we discussed in the

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00:59:38

S5E8 - Extra Pieces: LEGO 2024 Previews Friends,...

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2023/12/13

Extra Pieces: LEGO 2024 Previews Friends, City, Creator, SPACE! Welcome back to another episode of Extra Pieces. As we close out the year, we're turning our eyes towards 2024 and the new year and the past week has seen most of the January 2024 releases revealed, and it would appear that there is space for everyone! In today's episode, we cover some of the newly revealed sets coming in the new year: LEGO City, Friends, Creator and DreamZzz as well as explore what the new Space strip that has appeared

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S5E7 - Extra Pieces: Black Friday 2023: Avengers;...

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2023/11/29

Welcome back to podcast. By the time you have listened to this Black Friday will be but a distant memory. In this episode we discuss the virtues of the reimaginined 40601 Majisto's Magical Workshop - celebrating 30 years since the debut of the Dragon Knights and the first appearance of Majisto the Wizard. You can read Richard's review of this set, and checkout his attempts to replicate the back of the box builds based on the original.

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01:09:14

S5E6 - Extra Pieces: Tiny Botanicals, Modular Museum...

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2023/11/09

Extra Pieces: Modular, Botanicals, Chinese New Year and More Welcome back: In this episode we consider some of the Big Philosophical Questions: There’s a new Modular and Botanical to be released in December - not January as we have become accustomed. Is it my imagination, or are Christmas and New Year starting sooner than usual? The silly season (for LEGO news) is now underway, with new reveals and deals coming along on a daily basis... Reveals and Reviews: LEGO Botanicals 10639 Tiny Plants - to be

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00:51:19

S5E5 - Extra Pieces: Animal Crossing: New Horizons...

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2023/10/19

Animal Crossing: New Horizon sets revealed. Welcome back: Podcast episodes can be like buses. You see none for ages, and then several arrive all at once. This week, Jay and Richard unpack the reveal of the Animal Crossing New Horizons sets, the first official reveal of new sets for 2024. We look at the history of the game and the contents of the upcoming sets and discuss whether or not they bear a passing resemblance to Fabuland... For some strange reason, we completely overlook Sylvanian Families

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