Just on those stickers – there are an eye-watering 47 to apply across 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum’s 2,708 pieces, but they almost all make sense in the context of the set.
Bar perhaps the decals (or the extent of them, at least), we could have written exactly the same about 10278 Police Station, 10297 Boutique Hotel and so on. The Sanctum’s unique exterior architecture is realised through novel use of both classic and newer elements interior furniture is anchored to walls in increasingly clever ways, offering both decorative and structural purpose and inside and out the building is littered with details, mini-builds and stickers that bring the entire scene to life. You’ll be doing your fair share of brick stacking across what’s a surprisingly breezy build (split over a whopping 18 bags), but like the best modular buildings, 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum blends the basic building blocks of LEGO design with intricate and engaging techniques, inventive solutions and expert part manipulation.Įssentially, it’s all the most enjoyable elements of putting together a modular building, distilled and funnelled through a superhero lens. Well, maybe ‘stack’ is not the right word – not really.
So how does the official version stack up? This is a build many of us have wanted for years – and some of us have even had a go at ourselves. But if ever there was a concept that seemed simultaneously like an enormous challenge and an open goal, it’s surely a modular version of the Sanctorum.
That’s a lot of pressure to place on a single set, and particularly in a theme that’s frequently driven by its minifigures (at least for the adult market). First, it’s already been done so many times in the fan community, especially in the wake of 2018’s 76108 Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown (also designed by Justin Ramsden, as luck would have it) second, it doesn’t enjoy the same design freedoms that allow the LEGO Group’s traditional modular buildings to flourish as they do – there’s an existing template to work from, where accuracy and authenticity are paramount and third, it still needs to be consistent with other modular buildings despite those limitations – especially if you want it to successfully land with its multiple target demographics. The challenge with turning the Sanctum Sanctorum into a modular building – the clear design brief for 76218 – is threefold. LEGO: Available now - LEGO Marvel 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum build. Theme: LEGO Marvel Set name: 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum Release: August 1, 2022 LEGO Marvel 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum set details.
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