These are the instructions for building the LEGO The LEGO Movie Creative Ambush that was released in 2014. BI 3004/48 - 70812V29 BOOK 1/2 [4.46 Mb] BI 3004/48 - 70812V39 BOOK1/2 [4.46 Mb] BI 3017 / 48 - 65g-70812V29 BOOK 2/2 [5.92 Mb] BI 3017 / 48 - 65g-70812V39 BOOK 2/2 [5.94 Mb]Construct a wacky Wild West saloon battle craft with wing-mounted shooting cannons, boosters and more in Creative Ambush. Take off and play a tune on the piano as you drop bombs in the robot’s way and protect the civilians. And it’s kebabs away and last orders for the Micro Manager with the flying kebab stand! Use your creative skills to build a flying kebab stand with control levers, jet wheels, side boosters and tasty kebab flick missiles. Includes 4 minifigures: Kebab Bob, Sudds Backwash, Rootbeer Belle and Executive Ellen.Hotukdeals FS Forum is changing, please check here to find out how this will impact your activity and to continue trading.Lego Movie Creative Ambush 70812 @ ArgosMovieLegoCreativeArgos dealsArgos discount codeQuote
From now until December 20th at Target stores, there are two great sets on sale for 40% off. The Lego Movie Creative Ambush (70812) is $23.99 (was $39.99) and the Star Wars Umbaran MHC (75013) is $29.99 (was $49.99). There are both excellent sets and you can't beat the price. You're reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and the best sets in the web. As you probably know already, The LEGO Movie line of sets is full of interesting 2-in-1 builds; turn an ice-cream truck into an ice-cream shooting machine, a plumber’s van into a flying flusher, a garbage-truck into a scary chomper… All of this transforming fun is based on the story of The LEGO Movie and is really what LEGO is all about; let your imagination out of the box of what’s supposed to be possible, and build some creative and crazy contraptions! I would say that these are in fact some of the best LEGO sets that have come out in recent years. From The LEGO Movie line-up there are a couple of sets however that are clearly transformations from their “normal” state to mechs and flying machines, instructions are not provided for the normal model. T
his includes the #70812 The LEGO Movie Creative Ambush set, and the #70813 The LEGO Movie Rescue Reinforcements. I guess the idea here is to allow LEGO fans to try to build the alternate models themselves, and there has been many attempts to do this – you can find them on various LEGO forums and picture-sharing sites. One of the more challenging models to transform into it’s normal state is the fire-mech from the #70813 The LEGO Movie Rescue Reinforcements set. The mech itself is a large and complex model, and although it clearly looks like it was transformed from a fire-truck, it is not immediately obvious of how to make it into a truck again. It requires quite a bit of tinkering – which is of course fun and makes you think! 🙄 So far the best transformation I have seen for this model was done by JANG, who shares his transformed fire-truck on his YouTube channel. He actually took the challenge quite seriously and only used parts from the fire-mech itself, leaving the Micro Manager and the Windmill Helicopter intact. (T
he Windmill Helicopter in this set is another fun build that you can attempt to transfer back into a regular windmill.) In the video above JANG shares the details on how he transformed the fire-mech and the challenges he ran into. His fire-truck looks good, isn’t it? The video should help you to visualize what the fire-truck could look like if you have this set already and decide to rebuild the fire-mech. I encourage you to give it a try and see what you can do. (If you don’t have this set yet, you can find it at the Online LEGO Shop.) What do you think? Do you have any of The LEGO Movie 2-in-1 sets? Have you built both versions of the models? And have you tried building alternates for the sets where secondary instructions are not provided? Feel free to share your own experiences with these fun LEGO sets in the comment section below! 🙂 And you might also like to check out The LEGO Movie section or select from the following related posts: We're sorry, but the Web address you've entered is no longer available.
Search our product catalog: We have a LEGO® Movie set review and alternate build from Rod Gillies today. Under his Flickr pseudonym 2 Much Caffeine, Rod's well known for his steampunk builds and his microscale - in particular his elegant Star Wars microscale. Rod contributed to the recent LEGO Play Book but is also a published author of two steampunk novels. Rod decided that the bizarrely-named 70812 Creative Ambush looked sufficiently steampunky for him to take on. Normally if you’re reviewing a LEGO set based on a movie, you’d want to see the film first so you’d have an idea of the scene represented. Not a problem here, as I assume the set is an exact recreation of what will be onscreen in The LEGO Movie. Let’s be clear on one thing: this set is completely bonkers. It features a steampunk biplane fashioned from bits of a Western-style saloon, being menaced by a sinister robot and a flying kebab van. If this is a sign of what we should expect from the movie when it opens, then we’re in for a hell of an ABS-based ride.
Previously I’d been a little meh about the whole idea of the movie, but now I genuinely can’t wait to see what madness LEGO has in store. On to the build…we’ll start with the robot known as the Micro Manager. This looks like the simplest thing in the set, but it’s a genuinely fun and surprisingly complex build. I was taken aback at the level of SNOT technique employed in an official set, especially one which I assume to be targeted at a younger audience. The robot’s feet in particular are a triumph of 'sideways building' – oddly so, as I can think of ways to create the same shape using regular studs-up techniques and pieces. However, I’m not complaining, as the method used means we get more of the recent bracket pieces, and four of the cool new doughnut tiles (Element ID 6055313 | The robot also includes a half-dozen 1X1 rounds in the relatively new Flat Silver [BL]/Silver Metallic [TLG] shade, which should get the spacers and steampunks out there excited – other builders’ mileage may vary.
Next up, the flying kebab van. Let’s just read that again – “the flying kebab van”. Even without the stickers applied, it’s obvious the flying machine is a kebab van. It even has a play feature of a large chunk of kebab meat – the typical “Elephant’s Leg” – rotating in front of a grill. It reminds me of floating food trucks from cyberpunk classics like Blade Runner or Fifth Element. Not having seen the film, it feels strange having something from such a different genre/style in there alongside the biplane. Maybe it will make better sense when the movie comes out. The build itself results in a good solid creation. There’s a couple of nice touches – frying pans for headlights and the construction of the kebab meat itself – but the techniques employed are tame in comparison with the other vehicles and there are no pieces that stood out for me, although the 3X3X2 truncated cone appears here in Reddish Brown for the first time ever (Element ID 6063444 |
I got excited for a moment when I thought I spotted a three-long lightsaber blade in Reddish Brown, but it turned out to be a piece of tubing. Still useful maybe, but not as interesting as I initially thought. The flying machine is eminently swooshable once built, and it’s got some nice moving parts to fiddle with in the wings, engines and 'the meat'. But for me, it’s the weakest part of the set. On to the main event – the biplane. Just imagine the design challenge here: “We want you to make a plane which looks like it’s been scavenged from the scraps of a Western saloon.” Not a brief I’d fancy receiving. The designer has pulled it off admirably – it’s recognisably a plane, and a cool one too, yet its 'saloon heritage' is also clear. I enjoyed putting this together. The use of the Technic connection for the wing attachment makes for a sturdy 'off the grid' angle, one which lines up nicely with the slanted plates, adding a lot to the final look. Also smart was the method used to mount the cannon between the wings, something I will steal for use in steampunk MOCs.
We get some more SNOT building around the tail, and a little honky-tonk piano – one of the details that evokes the 'transformed saloon' feel. It’s fun to build and looks good. I was disappointed with the biplane’s engine design. The aircraft needs a bigger prop for a start, and other features feel tacked-on. In particular, the pistols as engine greebles and the grey exhaust pipes are poorly-used. They’re easy to knock out of alignment when you’re swooshing the plane, and then the prop won’t turn – irritating. A couple of the biplane's parts come in new colours: in Dark Brown there's the 2X4X2/3 curved slope (Element ID 6064187 | Design ID 88930) but sadly only one, but there are four 2X2X2 round support stands in Reddish Brown (Element ID 6064182 | There’s some not-new-but-nice elements in the biplane including some Dark Brown 2X2 round plates, and in Dark Tan [BL]/Sand Yellow [TLG] there are palisade bricks and 2X2 plates with pins. Personally, I’ve not seen many of the 1X2 modified plates with a technic hole, so I was pleased to pick up a couple of those.
The minifigs deserve a shout-out here. The kebab guy is okay and if you build City it’s nice to get new occupations in minifig form. I do like his kebab-logo redneck cap. It’s always good to get more female minifigs, and here you pick up two: a Western saloon mistress who’d also work well in Castle settings, and a modern-day businesswoman. Without a doubt, the star of the set is the dapper gent with the bowler hat (in Reddish Brown for the first time ever). If you’re into Western or steampunk, this little chap might become your new favourite minifig. I genuinely love this guy. Another thing worth mentioning is the sticker sheet. Normally I don’t look twice at stickers but there’s some good stuff here, useful in a variety of settings: dart boards, wood effect strips, saloon signs, modern sandwich shop blackboards, and a nice page of sheet music. We’ll turn a blind eye to the “Octan’s Tasty Meat” stickers – the less said about those the better. In summary, this is a cracking set which I would heartily recommend.