As Mariah Carey says religiously every single December – “It’s tiiiime!” As we kick off the last month of the year and the holiday season, this LEGO build adds exactly the right spice to everyone’s lives. Why buy a generic snow globe from Hallmark when you could make your own, asks The Brick Artist – the designer behind the Christmas Snow Globe currently gathering momentum on the LEGO Ideas website.
We’ve covered LEGO snow globes before on this website, but none of them designed to be as dynamic as this MOC (My Own Creation). The Brick Artist’s build actually features a rotating element, allowing the globe to spin on its own axis like a tiny fidget toy. Inside, the globe features a decked out Christmas tree complete with baubles, stars, and a shimmering snowflake tree topper. Underneath the tree are the usual suspects, gifts like a wooden train, the nutcracker, a toy rocket, and a remote-controlled airplane.
Designer: The Brick Artist
The build looks fairly simple, with a base decorated with snowflakes and wreaths, capped off with a rotating platform which houses the Christmas tree encased in the clear orb. The Brick Artist hasn’t detailed the part-count, but it’s probably in the 200-400 brick-ballpark, making it easy to assemble and perfect for kids, adults, or even Santa and his elves.
The way the tree rotates is using a rotary crank on the back that probably activates a pair of bevel gears that cause the upper half to spin on a central axis. There’s no music element here, although that would probably seal the deal as a pretty fun Christmas toy. However, the joy of this MOC isn’t in the experience as much as the journey of building your own snow globe from scratch.
The drill with this MOC is like every other one we’ve written about. It’s a fan-made creation that currently exists only on LEGO’s Ideas website – an online forum where people build and share their own LEGO creations and have the broader community vote for them. The only way this build becomes an official LEGO box set is if it crosses the 10,000 vote mark, and then gets approved by LEGO’s internal team after a review period. If you want to see that happen, head down to the LEGO Ideas website and cast your vote for this brickset!
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