“Lego Group Introduces 1967 Ford Mustang Set” by S.M. O’Connor

Lego System A/S (doing business as The LEGO® Group) announced in Billund, Denmark on February 22, 2019 that it would be introducing a 1967 Ford Mustang set in the LEGO® Creator Expert Range on March 1^st. Developed in partnership with the Ford Motor Company, the new Creator Expert Ford Mustang model is based on a 1967 Fastback Mustang.[1]

Lee Iacocca and Donald N. Fey (1923-2010) oversaw development of the Ford Mustang I concept car, which led to the Mustang product line. The Mustang set the mold for so-called pony cars: affordable American muscle cars. The 40,000-square-foot Mustang Owners Museum opened in Concord, North Carolina on Friday, May 3, 2019.

Comprised of 1,471 pieces, The LEGO® Group describes the model in Ford Mustang (Set #10265)Ford Mustang (Set #10265) as a “nostalgic muscle car [that] comes complete with working steering, dark-blue bodywork, white racing stripes, bonnet scoop, printed Mustang grille badge, GT emblems, and 5-spoke rums with road gripping tyres.”[2]

The model is more than three inches (ten centimeters) tall, thirteen inches (thirty-four centimeters) long, and five inches (fourteen centimeters) wide. It features the instantly-recognizable Mustang feral horse logo and is customizable because of optional add-ons.[3] The LEGO® Group stated, “Customization options include a supercharger, rear ducktail spoiler, beefy exhaust pipes, front chin spoiler and a nitrous oxide tank for an authentic muscle car build experience.”

The model allows owners to store items in the trunk and to lift the hood to reveal a detailed replica big block 390 V8 engine with battery, hoses, and air filter detailing. The LEGO® Group stated, “The rear axle of the car can be lifted too for an extra-mean look, the doors can be opened and the roof panel removed to give access to the detailed interior with classic seats, radio, working steering and a mid-console gearshift.”

A printed mustang grille badge, GT emblems and a selection of license plates add the final touches to this extraordinary LEGO Creator Expert model!

James Berard, Design Lead for the LEGO® Creator Expert Line, stated, “The Ford Mustang is one of the most iconic, symbolic cars in history – and to bring this fan favourite muscle car to life in brick form, with this level of customisation, has been exhilarating. We can’t wait to see our LEGO and Ford Mustang fans’ own cretaions when they get their hands on this new set.”[4]

Jim Owners, Mustang Marketing Manager, stated, “There are few cars on the road that are as instantly recognizable as the Ford Mustang, and it’s exciting to see the iconic car’s combination of design and heritage come through in this LEGO set.”

Figure 1 Credit: The LEG® Group Credit: The Ford Mustang model in the LEGO® Creator Expert Range’s Ford Mustang (Set #10265) is 3” (10cm) tall, 13” (34 cm) long, and 5” (14 cm) wide.

This set is for adults and teenagers sixteen years of age and older. The LEGO® Creator Expert set Ford Mustang is available directly from LEGO® Shops and online via https://shop.Lego.com/en-US/product/Ford-Mustang-10265. The list price is $149.99.

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ENDNOTES

[1] A fastback is a car body style that has a single slope from the rooftop to the back bumper. This is as opposed to a coupé or convertible or sedan.

[2] The press release used the British spelling of tires.

[3] A mustang is an example of a feral horse, not a wild horse. It is certainly not a pony.

[4] The press release LAO used the British spelling for favorite and customization.

The Field Museum of Natural History in March, 2018

The Field Museum of Natural History’s entrance pavilions are at opposite ends of Stanley Field Hall, which has a north-south axis. The two porticos (porches) are each reached by two successive flights of stairs.

Both porticos of The Field Museum of Natural History are flanked by two small porches, which each have two caryatids (columns in the shape of maidens). On the facade, the wings are adorned with a colonnade of attached fluted Ionic columns. The building’s fluted Ionic columns have volutes (spiral-scroll-shaped crowns).

Each portico of The Field Museum is tetrastyle in antis with double-ranked fluted Ionic columns capped by volutes. An entablature crowned by a pediment rests atop the columns. The continuous frieze in each case is relatively plain. The wave-themed acroteria that crown the pediments are borrowed from the Palace of a Fine Arts, which housed The Field Museum until 1920 and now houses the Museum of Science and Industry.

The Field Museum of Natural History isn’t “just” a museum. Visitors can watch scientists at work through windows at the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice DNA Discovery Center’s Pritzker Laboratory.

Mrs. Charles (Laura) Schweppe, a daughter and co-heiress of John Graves Shedd, the former partner of Marshall Field I who succeeded him as president of Marshall Field & Company, and who, under the guidance of Stanley Field founded the Shedd Aquarium, donated an exhibit of 100 bronze sculptures by Malvina Hoffman to The Field Museum. They represent every race, nation, and tribe in the human family (more or less). On January 9, 1933, the first group, Unity of Man, went on display.

In addition to the four figures Henry Hering (1874-1949) made for the corners of Stanley Field Hall, he also made the twelve plaster round lion head shield escutcheons that line it. These are replicas of the marble round lion head shield escutcheon he made for the pediment of the facade of The Field Museum of Natural History.

Christmas at Chicago’s Union Station

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a POLAR EXPRESS display in the Great Hall of Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a closeup of the THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is the headlamp of THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Union Station Company rail car loaded with super-size gifts is part of THE POLAR EXPRESS mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Union Station in downtown Chicago has emblems of Amtrak, Metra, and historic railroad companies whose routes they now operate like Burlington.

Cinemas sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) Helped Design

This is the Pickwick Theatre Building, an Art Deco movie palace and office building erected in downtown Park Ridge, Illinois in 1928.

The architects were Roscoe Harold Zook and William F. McCaughey. Sculptor Alfonso Iannelli, who also worked on the Adler Planetarium, contributed to this building.

In recent years, the Vlahakis family, who’ve owned the building for 50 years, have been able to turn the building into a multiplex by adding smaller theaters around the original auditorium. The latest one, with a screen four times the size of the one in the auditorium, will open in time to screen INFINITY WARS in May, if all goes well.

The Catlow Movie Theater is a cinema that opened in downtown Barrington, Illinois in 1927. The Tudor Revival style of architecture is not confined to the facade of the cinema. As with the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, Illinois, sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) played a role in the design and decoration of The Catlow Movie Theater.