As its title suggests, this is an ideas book that provides inspiration* for your own LEGO models.

    It’s A4-ish in size and about 200 pages long, with superb photos on clean white backgrounds surrounded with snippets* of text. It makes a superb coffee-table book.

    It’s divided into six chapters which set the theme for the models within: Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Town and Country, Out of this world, In Days of Old, A World of Adventure and Make and Keep.

    Most pages feature a main model and variations* of it. The book doesn’t contain* instructions for any models, but usually shows enough pictures of them to be able to reverse-engineer them if you want to. However, that’s not the idea really, the models are intended to inspire your own creations.

    Perhaps the best thing about the book is that most of the models have been created by AFOLs (adult fan of LEGO), the majority of whom are Brickish Association members: Barney Main, Tim Goddard, Duncan Titmarsh, Andrew Walker from the BA, and Debrah Higdon and Sebastiaan Arts. They have done a great job, and it’s interesting to see that they have sometimes used building techniques that LEGO set designers probably wouldn’t.

    Should you buy this book? If you build with LEGO bricks then yes, this is for you. (SD-Agencies)