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 Nike collaboration have been revealed, including Brick-built Nike Dunk set releasing in July https://ramblingbrick.com/2025/05/29/first-lego-x-nike-products-revealed/ https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/lego-nike-43008-dunk-products-revealed/

The reveal of sets related to the series ‘One Piece ’- ostensibly the Netflix version, but also closely related to the Manga and Anime. https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/seven-new-lego-one-piece-sets-revealed-for-august-2025-with-pre-orders-open-now/ https://ramblingbrick.com/2025/06/05/eight-one-piece-sets-revealed-preorder-now/

And a discussion of the newly released Book Nooks. https://jaysbrickblog.com/reviews/review-lego-10367-balrog-book-nook-lotr/ https://ramblingbrick.com/2025/05/29/10367-lego-the-lord-of-the-rings-balrog-book-nook-set-review-and-lighting-experiments/

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 helps get the word out. We love your feedback - you can send an email to extrapiecespod@gmail.com We look forward to catching up again soon.

And 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 (as well as the tale of how he discovered The Lord of the Rings) can be read here: https://ramblingbrick.com/2025/03/26/a-long-awaited-party-10354-the-shire-revealed/ If you are on the fence about purchasing the set, you can listen to our thoughts about its strengths and weaknesses. We had the chance to catch up with Model designer Kenyon Brady and Graphic Designer Ashwin Visser, a small part of the overall team that designed this set, at the Fan Media days in Billund last year. It was great to hear their insights into the set, and understand some of the thinking that went into the final design of the set. You can read our reviews on our blogs at Jay’s Review: https://jaysbrickblog.com/reviews/review-lego-10354-the-shire-bag-end/ Richard’‘s Two part review: https://ramblingbrick.com/2025/03/28/10354-the-shire-minifigures/ https://ramblingbrick.com/2025/04/02/10354-the-shire-part-2-the-build/

Of Course, there is a gift with purchase: possibly the darkest scene depicted in a LEGO set - 40761 Sméagol and Déagol. You can read our reviews here: https://ramblingbrick.com/2025/04/03/40761-the-lord-of-the-rings-smeagol-and-deagol-hands-on-review/ https://jaysbrickblog.com/reviews/review-lego-40761-smeagol-and-deagol-gwp/

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