A few weeks ago, DK sent in one of their upcoming books with Great LEGO Sets: A Visual History
Great LEGO Sets starts off with a visual timeline of some of the important events and key developments in LEGO set history. If you’re a newer LEGO fan, you probably didn’t know that some of the best LEGO sets came out in the 1980s like Blacktron and Futuron including the Monorail Transport System (6990). A few years after that, M-Tron was released as a new LEGO Space subtheme.
The next chapter gives an in-depth description of how a LEGO set is made. A few LEGO designers also chime in to give some information on the whole development process including Mark John Stafford and Jamie Berard, just to name a few. It’s a very interesting chapter of how a set goes from an idea to being on store shelves.
After that, we get to the meat of the book where it starts going in-depth of some notable sets from LEGO’s history. The sets are divided in chapters by decades starting from the 1950s to 2015. For each set, there’s either a one or two page spread detailing some specifics and why they make it a great set. There is a sub-section called the Guided Tour where it shows some key features of the sets. Another section is called Brick by Brick and … Continue
and right on the front, it shows the exclusive minifigure to be a Zombie Skateboarder. Unfortuantely, there are no images of that particular minifigure at this time.
.
but will focus on the sets instead.
which contains 200 pages and will be available on September 1. This book will be similar to 
and the 
which will give you more building ideas and techniques to create your own masterpiece.
