There’s not a lot of people that haven’t heard of Home Alone. It’s a classic full of scenes that will result in belly laughter, even after countless times of rewatching it. For a lot of people, it represents precious childhood memories, of Christmas & holidays spent with family.

I didn’t spend my childhood in America. I grew up in the perpetual summer (only alternating between sunny and rainy days) of the Phillippines, with no real pine trees in sight nor perfectly white fresh fallen snow on the ground. Nor did I need a Christmas sweater. But when I first watched Home Alone even then, I knew it will be one I will remember forever. It might have been the fact that I watched it with the cousin I grew up with when I was living with my aunt (who I really think of more as my younger brother) and that we were crying literal tears and holding our bellies as we howled with laughter. It might have been because it was a window to a world of Christmas we didn’t have, in a place we weren’t in. It might have been the secret desire to spend a day home alone coming up with crazy shenanigans. Or maybe simply because even then, I was in love with Christmas and the season of cheer & friendship & togetherness it brings, a season of happy endings.

So when LEGO announced that they are releasing the first-ever Home Alone LEGO set, I could not add to cart quickly enough.

I’m glad, too. Because it is now out of stock on the LEGO website, I don’t know when it’s coming back, but I can rest assured that I will have mine completely built by Christmas.

#NotAnAd – but I’ve included the link to the official LEGO website where you can get it, once it’s back in stock. I also noticed that the Shop Disney website is going to have it back in stock by Dec. 1 so I’m including a link for that below as well.

• Home Alone LEGO set on LEGO.com – $249.99
• Home Alone LEGO set on Shop Disney for $274.99 – I don’t know why it’s more?? Are they charging $30 to reserve a preorder spot???

To date, this is the biggest LEGO set I own. I only recently started getting into LEGOs. I knew about them when I was a kid and I think I remember having random color blocks around, but I don’t think it occupied my attention long enough for me to create a pattern of my own. So when I got into F.R.I.E.N.D.S about a year ago now I think, and found out about the Central Perk set (1070 pcs), I was introduced to the lovely niche of LEGO building for adults. Since then, I’ve also built The FRIENDS Apartments (2048 pcs) and the Seinfeld set (1326 pcs).

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Home Alone is a much more ambitious LEGO project for me, with 24 sets of bags, totaling 3955 pcs which is almost double The Friends Apartments set. I started it a couple of days ago, and I’ve completed 5/24 steps so far.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4 & 5

That’s it for now, I will make sure to report back when I make more progress!

Thank you for reading, I always appreciate it! <3