I never understood people complaining about repetition. They complained about the 4 legs of the at-at, like what did u think was gonna happen?

I went to bed after completing bag 7 or 8 last night. I’m finding the build surprisingly more enjoyable than I expected. I had to buy this set for the building experience, given its uniqueness, but wasn’t sure if it’d be tedious or not. I’m very happy to say that so far, it definitely is not. As far as your point that, for the price, you can buy a premium globe- that can be said about most, or many Lego sets. I can buy a detailed diecast toy car instead of a Speed Champions set, but then I wouldn’t experience the enjoyment of building it myself. I already own a nice earth toned globe for educational and reference purposes. This isn’t meant to be for that: it’s a rendering, inexact by the nature of the materials used in its design.

im confused why people would complain about the building experience being repetitive, or the landscape being a bit inacurate. Its a Lego ball. What did they expect?

The light reflecting on the panels in the end section is so satisfying!

Always going to love the 100% random mini figure appearances

Just think about the alien invasion mocs that could be used with this

Good point about map distortion. Dave Barry used to joke about how so many maps show Hawaii and Alaska in boxes right off the coast of California, he didn't know where they really were for years. Also, we need to build a high-speed train to New Zealand, because that long flight is horrible 😉😃

I wouldn't say Canada is portrayed smaller than the US here. You have to remember the shape of southern Canada and the maritimes etc is a continuation of the shape of the US. imo the designer put way too much significance on Britain compared to anywhere else. Like they sacrificed France, Iberia, and Italy (one quarter circle tile? There's no reason to separate Tunisia and Italy that far, they're very close) but not Britain.

It's a pretty interesting novelty. A LEGO globe. And I like the recent development of having life-size LEGO objects, like the botanical collection and vintage camera, which I have. But yeah, at 200 dollars it's a bit much.

Good, well rounded review, Jang. Thank you for mentioning map distortion in general and the suggestion for dealing with the gaps effectively. I appreciate the colours used and the smoothness of the globe's movement, but it's not for me for the very reasons you said. I did enjoy watching you build it on Twitch tho. That was fun!

Very professional review, as usual, taking into consideration every side, every implication of the product.

With a few adjustments to the landmasses, mine turned out fantastic! Shifted some coastlines, updated a few countries (looking at you, Europe), added some elevation (white pieces for mountain ranges), and now it's a display piece in my living room.

This is great, but now I seriously want Lego to make the discworld on a similar budget/part count. It's a little bit niche, but I think it would make for a fun display piece as well.

I don't know about anyone else, but with Lego I often have a compulsive urge to compress my lego sets every now and then, to tighten the pieces. Just watching this video, I know I couldn't own this as I would always feel like it was too loose and needed squeezing back together.

Somalia sticks out far too much, and New Zealand being about 1/6 of Australia just makes me want to laugh.

I bought this the other week and am blown away by it. I understand the criticisms of this (repetitive build, gaps and unrepresentative countries) but I genuinely believe this is one of the best display pieces lego had made. From a display distance these issues are rarely an issue. 9/10 piece for me. As a bonus you can always modify the various landmasses yourself with pieces not too expensive to acquire.

They need to do a Death Star with building techniques like this

The fact that light can peek through the gaps has not really been addressed elsewhere so I'm glad you went to it in detail. The zoetrope effect comparison makes sense to me. You even provided a good workaround as well. For all the imperfections of the other territories I'm impressed they managed to get Singapore right by using an actual 1x1 round tile. Geographically, it resembles a rhombus that's longer than it is tall, but for the purposes of scale, the dot metaphor has been in use forever. It would've been a bonus for comedy if they had used a red tile instead of a green one.

Thank you Jang for continuing to use your “classic” background music :D

Great set! Thanks for the in-depth review.

They should have included a flat Earth as an alternative build on the back of the box

I think the people who want this in their lives will be happy with it. It's not for me, but I feel no need to criticize it. It looks better/more cohesive from farther away, kind of like an impressionist painting, so if you want it as decoration (and celebration of Lego) in your home, not as a study aid, it should be fine for that (none of that is meant as a criticism of your review, btw - I think you're on point). Have you seen some of the AFOL elaborations of this that Lego has been posting? They're pretty cool and remind me of what some people did with the Adidas shoe set.

You can definitely see the inspiration from the 10143 Death Star II

I would not like people to miss the "legotonic plates" phrase in the video. Respect

Avid LEGO builder and collector here, and to my surprise, the globe ended up ranking as one of my favorite building experiences. Although not as detailed as a real globe of the same price, something about building a sphere and the Earth out of LEGO was indescribably satisfying for me.

I like maps and think a Lego globe is really cool and I sometimes buy a set just to have fun building it if the price to parts ratio is OK. This has OK price to parts ratio, perhaps not the best parts selection but a building experience that while better than the world map still seems pretty boring, so I think I'll pass unless I find it for a very good price. I have a feeling it could be made better with a 1 plate thick on the side construction, but it would never be much better. I agree with Jang: It's a cool idea that doesn't quite work however much I want it to.

Legotonic plates hahahaha. San Anbrickas gap :)

I enjoyed the idea of placing / crumpling tissue paper inside the set. I was thinking it's would be cool to have a mix of red and yellow tissue inside to represent the core / mantle. That would work best with a magical everlasting LED within. Or a remote controlled LED of variable color output. For night!

Amazing video

When I built mine and started to put it on the stand, I was maneuvering it into place and was having great difficulty doing so. As I moved the globe it dropped into its position on the stand...I wasn't expecting it to do that and my life flashed before my eyes.

I like your idea of stuffing the inside of the globe with black tissue paper. I will definitely be doing that with my set.

LEGO posted photos today on their IG of different variations of it and the one had different cryptids and anomalies placed all around it and it was amazing. Big foot minifig in Canada, UFO in Nevada area, rounded studs for Lochness in Scotland area, Kraken in the ocean, it was amazing

As a Star Wars fan, this makes me excited for a lego Death Star in the future. I wouldn’t even be mad if they used this exact same build technique for it

Nice disco ball.

I love the idea, I'm a big fan of the work of Disneybrick (the fan designer) 's work, but I really just don't feel like the end product is good enough. Many times with Ideas Lego will completely redesign the fan idea, making it much better in most cases. Here, they used the exact same structure Guillaume used, even making it less refined and detailed. Kinda sad, this could've been one of my favorite ideas sets...

Hotdog gang! Watching you build this and bringing the hotdog boys over was so much fun ! See you next stream !!

Reasonable argument however I too feel this has been specifically designed/marketed towards people who simply want to build a novelty display piece out of Lego more so than any kind of educational piece. Falls into the same category as I think the typewriter, and guitar which aren't so much functional but highly displayable. Personally I'd just build this to display/spin rather than worry care about the accuracy. Though as a RISK enthusiast I think it would be an fun idea to swap out the colors to match the continents on the board.

As you were spinning it at the end I realised it looks better spinning - your mind fills in the blanks where the Lego limitations are. I wonder how easy it might be to motorise that.

Pretty neat, but too expensive. Is there much room to add a 1x1 for elevation spots?

Can you easily change/move the “earth” nameplate so it’s on the other side (so the globe tilts the other way and the brown arm will be on the right)?

Thanks for this review.

Hmmm. How awesome would a Death Star set be with this design, could there even be playable interior behind the slices? Price would be through the roof though

Absolutely agree with your point of "this is what Lego Ideas is about." Globe, Ship in a Bottle, Old Fishing Store, etc. Not that licensed sets don't hold value, but the core concept of Ideas is fans' original Lego ideas, not a Lego-fied version of someone else's ideas.

Tissue paper is a great idea. I was thinking of a few partially inflated balloons.

Pretty interesting earth global set, Like it.

I would like to build this for sure, there's a definite coolness factor in building something unusual for Lego but is just like a household object. However, that's also the major problem that's become more and more noticeable the last couple of years and I felt has been sealed with this set as well as other household object based sets like the Fender Stratocaster set. Like you said, if you wanted a nice globe showpiece on your desk, you can get significantly fancier looking globes for much less or even smaller ones that may be plain and aren't Lego builds, but more solid and significantly cheaper. The same for the Fender set, because although a Fender Stratocaster is hugely expensive, you can still get a moderately decent electric guitar. I dunno, I felt that ever since building the Playable Piano 18 months ago, sets like these give some rather cold feelings for how very seriously toned they are, probably due to the 18+ tone and branding. Like you said, it's a nice looking Lego build and set for sure, but there's plenty other better valued sets out there for much less than this.

I wonder if the design would have been better served by creating the land masses entirely out of dots, like the flat World Map set. Potentially a way to make it more accurate? I don't know, might not work at this scale. Also I wonder if there is any potential to motorize the spin? Possibly the mass of it is too heavy though.

I’ve been building this the past few days. JUST finished it like 5 minutes ago. Waited to watch this until I finished it. I haven’t watched the whole video yet, but I have mixed feelings on this set. I think it looks pretty good as a display piece, especially from further away when you see it up on a shelf or something. With that said, I really didn’t enjoy the build much at all. It’s very repetitive, and I understand that it has to be, but man it got tedious towards the end. Even the stand was pretty repetitive too. It is built pretty well for what it is and I understand why it has to be so repetitive but it just got old for me. There’s not much I haven’t enjoyed building but if this ever fell off my shelf and broke, it would never get built again by me. I am tempted to hook a couple motors up to this and get some good gear ratios going and see how fast I can get it spinning. 😂 I’d also love to see someone make a flat earth out of this that spins around on the stand like if you put a pizza on it, if that makes sense. 😆 Overall, I do like it, I just didn’t enjoy the build. I don’t care about the “accuracy” of it, I think they did as good as they could with the size of this, and it is a cool display piece. Maybe once I put a couple motors on it I’ll like it even more.

I don't think they could have done better with existing parts, but I was really hoping they would create new plate shapes, like a pentagon and hexagon, something that can tessellate a sphere properly. Imagine an UCS solar system, a more rounded Death Star, and all kinds of domes and hemispheres in other sets that would really benefit from being able to fit pieces closer together on a sphere.

One of my favorite sets that I built this year. The price is a little high. Maybe $150 would be a fair value. I do love that it has no stickers and a great instruction book.

Always so cool 😎 with yout reviews ! You must have the greatest sounding voice on youtube right now ;-) ! About the globe, i myself bought it, was so excited when it came out, havent opened it, im a bit dissapointed that you didnt really like it but i def agree with what you are saying … just from a personal opinion of yours , is this set after it gets discontinued do you think is going to be a good investment ? Reason ik asking is because i might just keep it closed and sell it after all the negative reviews out there ….. beautiful set though but not accurate ;-)

I think everybody wants the death star 1 made using the same build now

Would like to see Lego make a Death Star this size.

Jang, I think I speak for a lot of your Canadian viewers when I wish you would include Canadian prices as well! LEGO often has wild swings of the US->Canadian conversion!

I feel like that they're going to use this basic construction for a future Death Star

Something in me says: gottahaveit, with the prints and special tiles and all. But the more sensible me says, nah, you have other goals for your money, not a good spot to put it, and needing to retrofit it with the black paper is not what i think i want from a display lego-set. That needs to be finished after completing the build instructions. Thank you for the black paper idea and the balanced review!

If I can find this set for at least -25% off, then I will definitely pick it up. The close details are a bit rough, but looking at it from far away, everyone will know what it represents.

I want to see someone make a custom Death Star MOC based on this

Interestingly it seems the closer to the equator the most accurate the continents look, as happens with most other 🌍 projections.

I actually really like this set. I think the complaints are a little strange, because Lego as a medium is inherently not perfect at representing everything. This has been shown in many models over the years. If you go into looking at the globe knowing it is a "Lego-ification", you're bound to enjoy it more.

review was awesome.

Agree 100 percent! For that money you get a nice faux antique globe with a glass bulb and hand-laminated maps plus a real wooden stand. The type design looks weird to me with it's fake Art Nouveau vs. Medieval handwriting style. A conventional Times-like font would have been better and perhaps the labels should perhaps be tan with black writing and silver nail heads to give the impression of being nailed on after the fact.

The only globe you can buy that is still relevant in 10,000 years as you can change it to match continental drift or rise of sealevel when needed :-)

If they make special pieces for all the country. That would be awesome. And of cause impossible : (

I think there's going to be a lot of earth quakes due to those weak plates.

Is Lego planning to do a flat earth version as well? They need to cover their bases 🙂

I dont think overall it’s a bad set, it’s an interesting concept but that $200 price tag is too much for the actual value you get as a display piece

Maybe they could have set up fabric in the interior to block out the light? Easy enough to set up yourself, bit this thing costs 200 dollars.

I understand where they were going with the color choices, however, it would’ve been more interesting if the designer chose a tan and brown look.

It is pricey for what it is. Its appeal for us is as a base to have some easy-modded fun with it, to display as a 'trip memory-souvenir' by marking places we have been and want to go, and maybe do some other fun display things with minifigs. Of course anything beyond small markings will inhibit continual rotation, but that creative aspect of things is gonna make this a fun little shared project for my wife and me. But yeah: $200 spent here isn't nearly as creatively fun nor build-satisfying as a Modular building.

At least with those gaps the North American zone won't need changing once the San Andreas fault spilts open!

I said this on stream, but this globe just clicks with me. It’ll look great in my house and I have a nice shelf for it! The only thing I don’t like is the price. Prices, while high, are justified by the play value or collector value of a set. As this set offers neither, $200 is asking a lot.

Yeah on a regular map, the more towards the poles you get the more squished the proportions are. South America is actually that long, it almost touches Antarctica

could have done without the black stroke around the text. would have much prefered blue/green/tan tiles than glow in the dark ones also

Anyone know if Jang has ever said anything about the 2 Friends sets or the Seinfeld set? I'd love reviews from him but for Central Perk, I feel like it's been so long that he probably won't do it and I'm just curious he's ever said how he feels about them

Hey jang :)

The cracks 😭

Based on how much JANG spins it in the last 2 mins, it’s at least a decent fidget spinner lol

Where’s the seamless white background? What is this?

You guys think the "random" Jang minifig ever gets lonely that he lives in the review room away from all the other figs?

I understand that the labels for geographical regions vary by country, but I do feel like Lego could have at least included one extra tile with the name "Oceania" for those who prefer that name.

Honestly the light bleed through the model isn't really that bad. You only see it when a window (which you shouldn't be doing anyways) is behind it, after that you can't really see much.

Definitely looks better from a distance, but they definitely tried their best.

jangs backround is missing one thing, transformers.

I'm disappointed it's not the Death Star :)

The last five or so minutes of this video was disappointing. I love your videos and appreciate your honest thoughts and reactions. That said, I feel you went off the mark on this one. It isn’t meant to be a high quality globe. It’s LEGO and it’s for people who like looking at LEGO things. And it is okay that it looks like LEGO. LEGO isn’t supposed to look “real.” Some very talented people can design something that looks super “real” out of LEGO, but that shouldn’t be the measure of every set forever and ever amen.

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But when you spin it, the light hits it like a disco ball. A $200 disco ball.

I like the idea, but I agree that it’s really not an educational tool. It feels like it exists just because it can, not because it should.

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I always wanted this as a set but unfortunately Lego put it way out of my price range :(

Maybe if they tried to make it even smaller it would’ve worked better

I feel like the set would have done better if it had come out after the world map, the world map is more detailed than this when it comes to overall shape of land

There should’ve been an option to build it flat for all the flat-earther Lego fans out there

Lego Galactus set when?

Agreeing with you … I didn‘t buy it but I saw it in the Lego store window. Don‘t even really think its pretty. Honestly … 200 dollars for Lego yes, but not for this

Legotonic plates 😆

Hello, Jang! I wanted to say I disagree a bit with the review on this one - or, rather, maybe I just disagree with the conclusion. Much of the criticisms are pretty objective and on point, but I really actually LIKE many of the same elements that you criticize. I find the finished model almost confrontationally, uncompromisingly "Lego," and that's a huge part of the fun, for me. I like the crude caricaturing, the abundance of visible studs, the landmasses you have to squint a bit at to see the proper shapes, and even the gaps that let you see through or notice the inner working. From a distance, it almost looks like a low-poly count object in an old 3D game, up close, it's so "Lego" it kind of screams "fun," to me. I think the designer did about the best they could for what this is (though I do agree that there could have been better designs for some of the printed tiles - which was probably the artist assigned to it, not the designer's fault) and love giving it a spin from time to time. I have it sitting in the "classy" corner in my gaming room along with the ship in a bottle set and antique jewelry drawer/music box that belonged to my grandmother, and it's quickly become a joy to have there. I really like that there are somewhat "adult" themed sets that are almost bewilderingly realistic - I have so much positivity for the botanical line - but I'm really happy with how bricky this one is, too.

What in the world is this set!?

What is going on with Italy? 😂😂😂