These components were great for the simpler effects, like headlight flicker and rooftop lights but fell a little short for what was needed to really capture that awesome siren look! What's a little extra time to wait in the short term, when the siren effect will live on forever right? They had first tried using more traditional components, like the trusty emergency and pulse boards. If there’s one thing that we’re passionate about here at Light My Bricks, it’s producing the absolute best quality light kits on the market, even if they take a little extra time to hit the shelves sometimes! Our designers got their wish and they set about designing an all-new sequence board to give ECTO-1’s famous sirens the authentic effect they deserved. This would push the release date back and we already had hungry LMB fans asking us when our kit would be ready! So while our designers had plenty of experience in the ghost-busting-automobile world, at the time of the Expert Creator ECTO-1’s release they were neck-deep in several other lighting projects! Now that the updated, upscaled Cadillac was sitting here in front of them, they realised how much potential this set truly had! A quick meeting was called and the case was made to develop some brand new components to really match the level of detail packed into the set. Long time Light My Bricks fans will be familiar with LEGO Ideas 21108 Ghostbusters ECTO-1 and LEGO Ghostbusters ECTO-1&8. Our designers had had a rough idea on what they wanted to do since the set’s announcement, building on past ECTO-1 projects. Once the build was complete it was time to get serious about lighting.
We won’t spoil it for those who haven’t built their set yet, but let’s just say there are several interesting build techniques used here to achieve all the wild and wacky details and interactive components. Not surprising due to the size of the car, ECTO-1 now has a simple Technic frame to support the finished product, which made complete sense once we got deep into the build. All up we spent about five hours in total building the famed (and now somewhat battered) automobile. Makes sense considering the amount of detail included, as well as the age of the original films. The anticipation was just too much! Once it did arrive we tore right into those swiss cheese bags we’ve come to love, 23 in total! Noted that this set has received the slick black box treatment with an 18+ age range. The morning that the office received a courier notification, alerting us to the imminent arrival of our set, we could hardly get any work done. This new set was seemingly released out of nowhere late last year, to many LEGO fans delight! It’s not the first time we’ve seen the classic Cadillac in LEGO form (more on that later) but this is certainly the most impressive version we’ve seen to date! Boasting 2352 pieces in total and measuring a massive 22.5cm high, 47cm long and 16cm wide, creating ECTO-1 at this enormous scale has meant LEGO has been able to really pack in the detail! It’s an incredible set!
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