The Best LEGO Set To Hit The Shelves In Decades…

This LEGO set will go down in history as the one that satisfied every fan’s needs.

Attila Vágó
Bricks n’ Brackets
5 min readNov 3, 2022

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Classic LEGO is back, and it’s better than ever! I have been a long-time advocate of many of LEGO’s newer sets, the newer pieces, themes, even some of the display sets. Anyone, pragmatic and realistic enough, understands that the Danish toymaker has only two choices: make money or go bust. Certain decisions had to be made over the years for the latter to be avoided. That’s not to say, however, that The LEGO Group has not made mistakes along the way. I have been just as harsh a critic of their gigantic sets at even higher prices. But I am a fan after all, and I’ll give credit when and where credit is due, and in 2022 LEGO managed to pull off something quite unexpected — it launched a few 90-Year Anniversary sets, among which the Galaxy Explorer, paying homage to the Classic 497 LEGO Galaxy Set from decades ago.

Fans of the “good ol’ bricks” of yesteryear tend to always harp on about one thing and one thing alone — too many custom bricks. To…

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Attila Vágó
Bricks n’ Brackets

Staff software engineer, tech writer, author and opinionated human. LEGO and Apple fan. Accessibility advocate. Life enthusiast. Living in Dublin, Ireland. ☘️