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Table Of Content

• The kitchen and basement
• The LEGO Group reveals fan-designed set based on the house from the all-time festive classic movie, Home Alone
• Sorry, the house building song will be stuck in your head after watching this delightful fan-animation
• LEGO's Holiday Truck Tour to Click With SoCal Brick Buffs
• Famous Scenes and Play Features

Also included is a microfigure trophy to stand in for the problematic “Lawn Jockey” statue that keeps getting hit by the Little Nero’s Pizza delivery guy in the movie. The van is well designed, but that crate of loot is a little hard to get in and out of the back. It can be done, but it can end up a little more dramatic than probably intended.

The kitchen and basement

Other bits of décor include the front door, “feather trap” fan, grandfather clock, and dining room table and chairs. The clock feels like it could be re-homed into almost any LEGO family setting. Note the uneaten plate of “highly nutritious microwavable macaroni and cheese” on the table, too. The dining area on the right side of the first floor has a short set of stairs in front of an oddly open gap instead of windows.

The LEGO Group reveals fan-designed set based on the house from the all-time festive classic movie, Home Alone

The texture on the wall is well done, making use of those new reddish-brown masonry bricks. Other interesting pieces include a clear dome/astronaut helmet,  stop-shafts (only the second appearance in white for this new element), and curved corner slopes and windows. Another important recolor is the introduction of masonry bricks in reddish brown. The instructions are packaged in their own bag, along with the two sticker sheets. There’s no cardboard backer or other reinforcing material, but it appears to be packed into the sub-box before the part bags, so it’s pretty well braced against the sides. The bags are split into two groups, with steps 1-11 and the instructions packaged in a separate white box.

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Sorry, the house building song will be stuck in your head after watching this delightful fan-animation

The second floor is built on a much more modest bed of overlapping plate. The landing at the top of the stairs is built next to the stairwell that will lead to the attic. The rear has a variety of windows, and another play feature plunger-knob. When they say you “will be moved” through the space, they mean it — a lot of the time you are being grabbed by someone from behind and forced through an area, several times while a hood is held down over your head.

Buzz’s bedroom is also awash in what I assume are Home Alone 2 Easter eggs, including a heart-in-a-safe and a stickered toy catalog for Duncan’s Toy Chest. There’s also a super-hero poster on the door For Oleksii Storozhuk no.1 – that’s got to mean something, too, right? Also in the room are Buzz’s BB-gun and a framed picture of his girlfriend, a joke that really hasn’t aged well. Pulling on it removes a supporting rod under the hinged shelves, letting them fall forward. When locked in place there’s a bit of droop to the top shelf, but it’s not super-noticeable. Construction starts on the McCallister home with a solid foundation that contains some simple Technic gearing.

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But for some reason, I always worry about what the house might look like through their eyes and what opinions they might be forming about me if things are a bit chaotic. Kevin’s sled is also present here, and there’s a cool play feature baked in to re-create the iconic scene of him sliding down the stairs. The roofs are pretty simple, made out of white bricks, punctuated by dormer windows. The white roof gives it a heavily snowed under look, but isn’t completely accurate as the roof is meant to be grey. One of the highlights of the set is that it’s the first set to introduce these masonry bricks in brown – there are 143 in total scattered across the walls of the McCallister House.

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Where both minifigures shine is in the alternate face department – where Kevin has his signature “shocked” face, and Kate has her “I just left my son Home Alone” look, where she darts up from her seat on the plane. Here’s Kevin and his mum, Kate, who famously left Kevin behind and only realised midway on the flight to Paris. Both minifigures are decent representations of their on-screen counterparts, relying on their outfits instead of face prints to bring them to life. I REALLY like Home Alone’s instruction manual, and consider the creative and design direction to be one of the best of the LEGO for Adults. Unlike typical LEGO instruction manuals which have the set photo on the front, we’re instead treated to Kevin McCallister’s hand-drawn battle plan – lovingly re-created of course. At 3,955-pieces, and with a sticker price of US$250 / AU$400, the LEGO Home Alone set is a sizable set, amongst the biggest released in 2021, and is a satisfyingly complete homage to the classic Macaulay Culkin film.

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My 5 year old has been having a blast both with the set, and I also used this as an opportunity to introduce the movie to her, which she thoroughly enjoys thanks to the family-friendly physical humour. Here’s a look at the basement, and the furnace, which at first is something that terrifies Kevin, but as he builds his courage, by the end of the movie, he is no longer afraid of it. It has a travel guide to New York, with the Statue of Liberty on it, as well as a personal Easter Egg to designer Antica Bracanov – who hails from Croatia, and wanted to subtly incorporate the Dalmatia region into the build. The kitchen is stuffed to the brim with references, with pizza boxes from Little Nero’s pizza, and a refrigerator with magnets and postcards on it. You’ll also be able to spot Buzz’s tarantula, which is freakishly large when compared to the minifigures! Buzz’s room upstairs is packed with a heap of detail – I love this nod to Duncan’s Toy Chest, the New York toy store from Home Alone 2 on his desk.

Famous Scenes and Play Features

This Ideas set was designed and submitted by fan Alex Storozhuk. Obviously a big fan of the Home Alone movie, Alex used an online blueprint for the McCallister’s house, as well as the film itself, to build the initial model in LEGO Digital Designer and Studio 2.0. He focused on keeping things as close to the original plan as possible, while also keeping things to scale. As the festive season draws in, the LEGO Ideas Home Alone set is designed to provide the ultimate holiday at home together and a unique building experience. Split into an Advent Calendar-like 24 build bags, you can build the iconic house in sequence with the movie, starting with meeting the robbers and their van and ending with Kevin’s reunion with his mum, Kate. Where the set truly shines is its immaculately detailed interiors, and play features baked in, which are allowed to shine with its dollhouse design.

The front of the home is built on hinged panels allowing access to the interior. A line of inset shots along the bottom call out some of the movie moments you can recreate, as well as showcasing that the different floors are modular. The minifigures shown in the main photo complete the cast, with Kevin’s mom arriving at long last. The build is fun and engaging, with plenty of play features all too often bypassed by other “adult” LEGO offerings lately.

He had such a quiet voice that I could barely hear him, but I caught something about it not actually being a suicide, and something about “all the egg sacs” they found in his face. I listened and nodded politely in the way you do when you’re at a noisy bar and can’t really hear what the other person is saying. Then he started to sing his friend’s favorite song — Kyu Sakamoto’s “Sukiyaki,” to which I happen to know the words. The second time was when I pushed through the wrong curtain and accidentally arrived at the decompression lounge (sponsored by Dos Equis) a few rooms early. I was quickly redirected by an attendant, but due to my getting lost, and the aforementioned knee injury, I was a little out of the proper existential mind-set in the final leg of the maze.

There’s also a gumball machine that I spotted in the background of the movie set, and a fold-out bed. In the film this had a more tacky 70’s plaid pattern, but I don’t object to the upgrade to a more glorious teal coloration. It’s fun to note that while all three bed builds all feature pulled back covers, each has a slightly different building style.

It’s a quick build without too much complexity, but once again it a solidly-designed model with some fun techniques. The ladder build is nice, and the treehouse itself is roomy while still maintaining a tiny footprint. This is a new door element for LEGO, and one  that I suspect we’ll see pop up in a lot of future sets. The Technic gears are solid and didn’t seem prone to jamming while I was testing things. The front edge of the house has the windows to the basement, a bit of Hollywood magic, as we’ll see that the “actual” basement is build separately. I instinctively backed toward the other end of the couch and started to feel something crawl across my arm.

The portraits scattered across the house are a clever way to weave in the McCallister clan and those that didn’t have the privilege to be turned into LEGO minifigures. Without further ado, here’s a non-exhaustive list of all the references, booby traps and notable scenes you can re-create from the movie. With the walls open, it gives you a great view of the detailed interior and rooms. This is arguably, my preferred way of displaying the set as it allows the interiors (which are the highlight of the set) to truly shine. The ingenious design of the McCallister House lies in its ability to open up the front walls, swinging outwards and, transforming the set into a Home Alone dollhouse.