LEGO Round-Up – Vintage Cars and Modern Art

Do you dream of hitting the racetrack and inhaling the fumes from a classic car from the golden age of the American automobile? Or perhaps you prefer to travel to a quiet modern art gallery using green, eco-friendly transport?

Collectors will soon be able to indulge their love of sports cars with the release of the LEGO Icons Corvette 10321 on 4th August 2023 (1st August for VIPs), while curators of stylish experimental art will also be able to hang the LEGO Modern Art 31210 set on their walls from 1^st August 2023. Both sets offer a very different aesthetic, with plenty of detail and intelligent design features.

Join us as we take a look at what the new sets have to offer…

LEGO Icons Corvette – 10321

£129.99

The 1961 Corvette cabriolet sports car is one of the most eye-catching examples of the American Dream in sports car form, hailing from the USA post-war boom when every teen wanted to look like Elvis Presley or Audrey Hepburn in a bright red roadster.

One of the last “solid-axle” generations of cars, the 1961 Corvette featured distinctive twin taillights and a detachable bonnet for the car to be used in an open-top or a closed-convertible configuration. All these features are replicated on the LEGO collectable-scale version of the iconic vehicle.

Removing the hard-top roof reveals detailed car interiors, including a brake, clutch, accelerator pedals, gear stick, radio rear-view mirror and more. The car also features a detailed engine with a spinning radiator fan and working tie-rod steering.

With its sleek, vintage-styled exterior and vivid colour, this is certain to be a prized collectable for fans of classic cars to display at home – it would also make a fantastic gift for car enthusiasts new to LEGO creations.

LEGO Modern Art – 31210

£44.99

This latest release from the LEGO Art theme offers something entirely different. It allows builders to design their own example of modern abstract art using a colourful array of oddly shaped LEGO elements, including rectangles, triangles, and circles.

As per the above image, there are limitless ways to arrange the bricks to form different artistic journeys. This high-brow immersive art collectable mimics the style of famous abstract paintings such as Wassily Kandinsky’s Composition VII or Piet Mondrian’s Composition With Red, Blue and Yellow, and it is good to see collectors given the opportunity to create something unique and thought-provoking to hang at home.