The celebrations will be in various quarters: The movie is back in theaters for a limited engagement, after teasing the re-release on Instagram. A limited number of theaters will be screening the five Twilight movies, one film per night for five nights, starting on October 29. The screenings also include a bonus roundtable with some of the folks involved, including Stephenie Meyer.
I think this is genius, honestly. In time for Halloween, and for a much-needed dose of nostalgic dopamine. Also, the first movie is tree porn.
I know other outlets are planning anniversary coverage, but one unexpected source of Twilight delight: Lego®!
I was taking a tour through the catalog, and thinking “Wow, there are a lot of new sets I’m digging.”
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Y’all know about my love of How to Train Your Dragon, right? There’s a Toothless:
Lego Icons: Toothless – $70I feel there is a strong chance I’m going to want this for my very own.
And there’s a Gameboy™, which members of my household will covet:
Lego Gameboy: $60.Please note: there isn’t actual game play on this model. There are tiles that look like gameplay screens – I had to scroll and double check because I was confused how a functional Lego Gameboy was $60 – it’s not functional. BUT IT IS VERY COOL.
And then I got to the back pages of the catalog.
EVERYONE is going to want this.
THE CULLEN HOUSE IS A LEGO SET!
Twilight: The Cullen House – $220
“It’s a house, Sarah,” you might be thinking. “Lego® has plenty of those! There’s even an Italian Riviera scene where I could stage a recreation diorama of the BezoChez Merger and toss protest ducks and Bezos on a surfboard into the water!”
No, wait, that’s what I would do with the Italian Riviera set.
But yes, it is a house. BUT IT IS SO MUCH MORE.
It’s a Lego Ideas build, which means it was designed by a fan, LobsterThermidore, and uploaded for community voting. (Definitely read the descriptions – they’re hilarious).
This proposed build reached 10k votes, which means Lego folks took a look and said, “YES. THAT IS THE ONE.”
And I mean, honestly, that is the only right answer.
I am not exaggerating when I said the more I looked at it, the harder I chortled in complete delight.
Y’all.
First, this part is very important: the Minifigures™:
EDWARD CULLEN WITH SPARKLE EFFECT?!
SPARKLE EFFECT??!!
And look, I even took my glasses off and looked close-close-close up, and in the images, I cannot discern any sparkle. Grumpypants, yes. Sparkle, not so much.
Sparkle Effect Edward is grumpy and playing the piano with Regular Degular Bella.
Sparkle Effect Edward is grumpy watching Regular Degular Bella looking through his record collection.
Sparkle Effect Edward is grumpy in the kitchen with his Minifig Family — look at the size of that SPOON Cullen has in his “hand.” Is Sparkle Effect Edward about to get smacked? It was Rosalie who broke the bowl.
Even upon close examination of the image files, I can spot no sparkle.
Maybe this is a thing you can only appreciate when you own it? This Reddit user posted an album and…is that the sparkle effect? It looks more like a dermatology appointment is needed asap.
Setting aside Sparkle Effect Edward’s Alleged Sparkle Effect, I did notice three other things.
First, get a load of the hair on the Jacob minifig! I think it’s the same hair piece as Regular Degular Bella, but in black:
Second: you can build Jacob as a somewhat-articulated wolf:
The wolf looks bigger than Bella’s Dad’s truck. Pity he can’t ride in the back.
But finally, the part that sent me right off the edge of the chair I was sitting on:
IN A TREE!
Sparkle Effect Edward and Regular Degular Bella IN A GD TREEEEEEEE.
I don’t know why this cracked me up so much but I had to clean my glasses I was cry-laughing so hard. Even now I’m laughing.
Forget the house, the truck, the wolf, the Sparkle Effect Edward.
THEY ARE IN THE TREE.
Honestly, LobsterThermidor, if you thought of this, I offer you major applause.
Some of LT’s original ideas were stellar, and I don’t know if they’re part of the official set, like the “custom printed 1×1 tiles representing each book cover as wall art in the living room (or…dying room?)”
LOOK at that. Little Lego Minifigure arms holding an apple?!
And folks on Reddit noticed other “Easter eggs” hidden in the released design – references to deleted scenes, and odd items that were requests from Meyer, for example.
I just love everything about this, really. Every time I look at it, it makes me laugh. I even pulled the pages out of the catalog to save – spontaneous snort-laughter is in limited supply.
Are you going to climb a tree – I mean, buy this Lego set?