Jim

REVIEW - HISPABRICK MAGAZINE KIOSK INTRODUCTION Last year I was asked if I wanted to be the Eurobricks person to maintain contact with HispaBrick Magazine. I had never met Lluis or Jetro in person, but of course I was eager to maintain our good relationship with this great magazine. Due to some random events, I got to meet both Lluis and Jetro in Billund last year (2017) during the LEGO Fan Media Days. Turns out they are just as annoy...uhmmm.....friendly as they are online It's nice to meet people with the same, or even more, passion for the LEGO brick as myself or our own Eurobricks members. This month marks the 10th Anniversary of HispaBrick Magazine and they decided to design a commemorative set for this event. Being the contact sometimes pays off, because I was asked if I was interested in reviewing the set. Of course I was excited to see what the set was all about and do a little review. It isn't the most elaborate reviews of all time, but it's written with lots of respect for the team behind HispaBrick Magazine. Before you dive in the review, here's the link to the topic about HispaBrick Magazine 030. SET INFORMATION Set number: 1001 Set name: HispaBrick Magazine Kiosk Number of pieces: 249 THE BOX The box show that it's the 10th Anniversary Set and apparently I am one of the 50 proud owners of this unique set. Unless all the boxes show 38 of 50 The back tells us a bit about the history of the magazine in Spanish and English and it shows us the complete part list of the set. CONTENTS OF THE BOX The box contains: 1x Big bag filled with most of the parts. 1x Disclaimer note 1x Green 16x16 baseplate 1x Green 16x8 baseplate 1x Stickers sheet I wonder how HispaBricks customer service is?! Lucky for me, the set was 100% complete! The sticker sheet contains all the covers of the past magazines! How cool is that?! I do see a lot of familiar MOCs on those covers. I really love the one with that cool life sized Mindstorms Robot made by Jim from Eurobricks. Yeah, that's probably never going to happen SPECIAL PARTS The set contains three very special printed parts: The first HispaBrick Magazine printed, with the alien from the arvo brothers on the cover HispaBrick Minifig Torso HispaBrick 2x2 Tile PART LIST Here's the complete part list of all the bricks used in this set. Which more or less boils down to these parts: THE BUILD You start by building the kiosk booth, which shows a computer screen for the register and a wonderfully designed coffee machine. You can't read a great magazine without a great coffee to go along with it The roof of the kiosk is made by using an interesting building technique. You basically lay the two windows on the top of the building as a roof. They can be easily removed. There's a fresh coffee waiting for you on the counter. How about getting the latest edition of HispaBrick Magazine and reading it on the bench next to the kiosk. The backdoor of the kiosk...."Employees Only"! This lovely set doesn't consist of the kiosk alone. You can also rent a bike. And you don't even need to go to a front desk, it's fully automated. Connecting the bike to the rack is very cleverly done, using the Technic plate with hole to connect to the headlight part of the bike. COMPLETED MODEL Taddaaaa....the completed model. I haven't used the stickers on the two magazines, because I wanted to keep the sheet as new. The photographer is reading the latest edition... ...while the girls is fooling around with her skateboard. Isn't this the cutest set ever. I really like it and it will definitely look good in a bigger LEGO city display. One final shot of the set. CONCLUSION I like to express my special thanks Jetro and Lluis for sending me this set. I absolutely love it and I am very proud own it, and to have contributed to the the 10th Anniversary of HispaBrick Magazine. I wish you guys all the luck in the future and hopefully I will be writing another review in 5 or 10 years. Take care!

Warmest Congratulations to HispaBrick from all of us here at Eurobricks for reaching such a milestone with your wonderful publication! Ten years strong is a fabulous achievement! We’re so pleased to join you in the celebrations and we wish you many more decades of success and look forward to continuing our collaborations. With our very best wishes from your friends at Eurobricks.

I really don't get it. A few years ago people were complaining about models being covered with panels and nowadays people are complaining about holes in Technic models. To be frank; you are complaining about a lot of things lately. I recommend you change your attitude a bit. You can state your negative opinion, but you don't need to do this over and over again.

I'm glad you are seeing it in a broader perspective

Hehe.

Actually...due to some communication discrepancies, I do not have the set yet. However, I have seen the rear and it looks @allmembers: I won't disclose more information than this, so please don't ask. By the way; I am also a bit disappointed that the box image got leaked. I know it's unevitable at some point, but I really wished it would have been a big moment for all of us next Friday.

Do not post leaked images on this forum.

Agreed! Agreed!

I have only one comment for now (and till the 1st of June).....wait till you see the rear Jim out!

I am not sure when I will be starting the next contest, but I reckon we will do a small one for fun in the summer and a bigger one at the end of the year. I reckon will have more time/motivation to build when the days get shorter.

HispaBrick Magazine 030 is out! It’s our anniversary! In this edition of HispaBrick Magazine we celebrate our 10th Anniversary with a couple of surprises. To celebrate the occasion, we offer you the article on Alien by the arvo brothers that we published in our first issue and that you have asked to be published in English. We also interview Carlos Méndez, the AFOL who proposed the idea of HispaBrick Magazine ten years ago. Some distinguished personalities in the AFOL world and from the LEGO Company have congratulated us on our anniversary. You will also find a timeline of the ten years of the magazine and interviews with the current staff members. In addition, we proudly present a set that was specially designed for the occasion: 1001 - HispaBrick Magazine Kiosk. Andrea Valcanover shows us how to build a beautiful tree, Pau Padrós explains the secrets behind Modular buildings, we interview the LEGO Technic team and we offer you a report of our latest event in Mungia (Bilbao). Of course we also have tutorials, reviews, and our usual sections, including the comic strip Desmontados, and Benny celebrating our anniversary in his space station. Keep an eye on our Facebook page over the next few days. We have a few surprises in store for you! HispaBrick Magazine can be downloaded free of charge in Spanish and English, so... download your copy now and celebrate our 10th Anniversary with us! DOWNLOAD HBM030 Here's the link to download past issues of the magazine.

Ahhh okay, that makes sense.

Thank you for posting here. I do love the tree btw. Glad you didn't take it out.

When it comes to building you are no noob at all You made it to the frontpage.

Our noob-poster, but definitely not-so-noob-builder @ranghaal has created this unconvential Earthquake in Cologne MOC. Make sure to check it out, but beware of the gaps in the road

Wow! Very nice work. Moving it to Licensed though, since it's based on Frozen.

We have two topics for the series 18 minifigures. There's no need for a third topic. I will close this topic. You can pick one of the other two to continue the discussion. Besides that, this feels more like promoting your channel, since you are making similar posts on other media. I have removed the link.

Joining EB to promote your Ideas project WITHOUT providing any information in this topic, is not very good conduct. You can put a link to your Ideas project, but at least show us some pictures and give us some information about the project.

Very nice work!! I love it. But can you please make sure to embed images no wider than 1024 pixels? Thanks! PS if you correct them, I might be able to do some extra promotion

Thanks, that makes sense.

Does anyone know when this set will be available? Maybe I will venture into the Train theme a bit, to find out the details

The last contest was sponsored by TLG We still have annual support for contests, however not unlimited. But we also get "care packages" which contain Technic sets, which I can use as I see fit. So, we still have enough options. PS I know what you are referring to. The prizes indeed got cancelled due to some warehousing stuff, but at the end we did get the prizes and they were booked on the 2017 budget, so it was all good. Almost...one of the sets got lost, but that was sorted recently. I will merge this topic with the Contest Discussion topic.

There is no such thing as a spare Chiron Don't know yet. We'll see

And I am planning to run a contest with the Chiron as a prize as well