Today the LEGO Group reveals a stunning homage to one of the most beloved football teams in the world — the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, a faithful replica of the home of Real Madrid. Special thanks to the LEGO Group for providing this set for review 10299 Real Madrid Santiago Bernabeu Stadium – Set Details At 5876 pieces, this iconic stadium and landmark is now the 8th largest LEGO set of all time, and follows 2020’s Old Trafford, and 2021’s Camp Nou as the third Creator Expert football stadium where LEGO shines the spotlight on the architectural side of these meccas to football clubs.

LEGO's new 5,876 piece set, which is 6 inches tall and 18 inches wide when assembled, is a tribute to the stadium's classic design, including its imposing concrete facade and four famous corner towers. LEGO

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books – great if you enjoy building with someone else, and I really found this quite beneficial as it greatly removes much of the repetition of the build, if you’re able to share the load with someone else. The LEGO stadium sets have settled on building the pitch first, and so we have our playable field done in just one bag. One could imagine a foosball game happening atop this base, if the scale was right. Toni Kroos, German international and Real Madrid midfielder, has previously appeared in Minifigure form and so comes along on the build, though he seems to have kept his DFB uniform on. (Please note that Mr. Kroos is not included in the set; the minifigure is from the 2016 German National Football Team series.) The LEGO® Real Madrid – Santiago Bernabéu Stadium][1set coincides with the club’s 120th anniversary and the 75th anniversary of the iconic grounds. The impressive set features over 5,800 pieces and has been designed to be the ultimate display piece for Real Madrid C.F. and LEGO fans — and to symbolise the spectacular pride felt by fans watching a match take place at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium. Authenticity and sense of scale are key factors in this recreation, so that builders can truly feel the atmosphere of this dazzling and vast stadium. This set allows builders to bring the much-loved home base of Real Madrid into their own home for years to come.” Each quadrant of the stadium can be built independently, with only a few steps at the end of each half to connect them together. Book 2 even starts over at step one, something I haven’t seen recently as LEGO switched away from sub-assemblies with their own numbering. While the set doesn’t have the Build Together branding, it’s easy to have two people building, one with each book – and given the similar structures of each quarter, it lessens some of the repetition as well.

If the words El Clasico, Galacticos, Zinedine Zidane, Alfredo Di Stefano, Florentino Perez don’t mean anything to you, or if you live in a country where football is called soccer, this set likely isn’t for you. My wife graciously did most of the heavy lifting with this set, building about 70% of the set while I was at work today, and somehow, we managed to finish it in time to take some photos (although not with natural sunlight as I prefer), and smash out this review. Real Madrid Santiago Bernabeu Stadiumwill be released on1 March 2022 on LEGO.comor your local LEGO Store. The build was a mixed bag – at 5876 pieces, it makes it the 8th largest LEGO set of all time, so you really do need to take your time with it, to make the most out of it. You build the Bernabeu in quadrants, ending with the roof, before connecting them all together with the use of Technic axels to keep them each half in place.

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The Santiago Bernabéu is a stadium that for its enormity in both architectural design and footballing history is held in awe, by fans and players the world over. It’s a longstanding home of legends and stars and a venue that has played host to some of the most spectacular teams the game has seen. So you heard something from your milkman's, cousin's, friend's brother-in-law that these sets weren't selling well. If only they'd told Lego as well, then they could have saved all that time and effort on making another one. And I'm sure Lego would used this information rather than any data they have on sales."