LEGO Ideas Old Fishing Store (21310) Review
The Old Fishing Store project by Robert “RobenAnne” Bontenbal was listed on LEGO Ideas on December 8, 2015 and it only took 44 days for it to achieve 10,000 supporters. Ten months after that, it was announced that it will become an official set which was revealed only a few months ago. It has then evolved to the largest LEGO Ideas set (21310) coming in at 2,049 pieces and will retail for $149.99. The scheduled release date for it will be September 1 at LEGO Brand Stores and on [email protected].
LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V (21309) Available on Amazon
If you’ve been waiting for the LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V (21309), Amazon has some available for purchase. The only weird thing is that it’s available at normal price of $119.99 with Frustration-Free Packaging. Don’t know how that would work since it’s just a box but there you go. Not sure how many are in-stock but [email protected] has been out of stock for a while so this is your best chance to get one. Go, go, go!
The LEGO Ninjago Movie NINJAGO City (70620) Now Available on [email protected]
The LEGO Ninjago Movie Ninjago City (70620) is now available for early access purchase for VIP members on [email protected] The $299.99 set has 4,867 pieces and is one of the largest sets LEGO has produced and probably one of the best sets released this year. We’ll have our review of Ninjago City once our review copy comes in the mail but feel free to enjoy it in the meantime.
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Enjoy endless role-play fun in NINJAGO® City, a hugely-detailed 3-level model connected by a sliding elevator. Level 1 features a traditional fish market, house, a bridge over a stream, and a fishing boat. The second level has a modern fashion store, comic book store, crab restaurant with ‘crab-grilling’ function and cash-dispensing ATM. The vertical city is topped off with Lloyd Garmadon and Misako’s apartment, a rooftop sushi bar with sushi conveyor belt, and a radio tower. This action-packed THE LEGO® NINJAGO MOVIE™ set also includes 16 minifigures and Sweep the maintenance robot.
-Includes 16 minifigures: Jay, Kai and Lloyd Garmadon (each with new-for-August-2017 high school outfit decoration), Green Ninja Suit, Misako, Jamanakai Villager, Sally, Ivy Walker, Konrad, Severin Black, Tommy, Guy, Juno, Mother Doomsday, Shark Army Gunner and Officer Noonan, plus Sweep the maintenance robot.
– Features a 3-level model (each level lifts off for easy play) connected by a sliding elevator, plus a traditional fishing boat.
– Level 1 features a bridge, sewer outlet, stream with translucent-blue and translucent-green water elements, sliding elevator with room for a minifigure, traditional fish market with fish and crab elements, house with dining room and bedroom with sliding screen doors and foldout ‘solar panels’, Sweep the maintenance robot’s service station with assorted tool elements, and a taxi stand with telephone element.
– Level 2 features a modern fashion store with 2 mannequins and assorted NINJAGO® product elements, a construction site with a bonsai tree, a comic book store with brick-built sign, cashier desk, comic book stand with assorted elements including collectible NINJAGO training cards, a crab restaurant with brick-built crab entrance sign and oven with ‘crab-grilling’ function, a cash-dispensing ATM, 15 bank note elements (ATM can dispense up to 13), and a movie poster display stand with 4 interchangeable movie poster elements.
– Place the uncooked crab element in the oven, turn the dial and open the oven to reveal a cooked crab element.
– Press the handle behind the ATM to dispense bank note elements.
– Level 3 features a radio tower, modern rooftop sushi bar with sushi conveyor belt function and brick-built food, bathroom with sliding door, and brick-built puffer fish and squid sculptures, Lloyd Garmadon and Misako’s apartment with an opening window, bunk bed, kitchen unit and attic space for the Green Ninja Suit minifigure.
– Turn the dial to activate the sushi conveyor belt.
– Weapons include Jay’s chain with spike and Shark Army Gunner’s fish flame.
– Recreate and role-play exciting THE LEGO® NINJAGO® MOVIE™ scenes.
NINJAGO® City measures over 24” (63cm) high, 12” (31cm) wide and 16” (42cm) deep.
– Traditional fishing boat measures over 1” (4cm) high, 3” (10cm) long and 1” (3cm) wide.
LEGO Ideas Old Fishing Store (21310) Available at LEGOLAND California
If you can’t wait for the LEGO Ideas Old Fishing Store (21310) to become available at LEGO Stores and on [email protected], you may want to head on over to LEGOLAND California if you live close to it. I’ve been told that they have it for sale early at The Big Store. It’ll officially be released on September 1 and there are some The LEGO Ninjago Movie promos but there’s also a chance that it’ll sell out very quickly so you’ll have to weigh the pros and cons of getting it at LEGOLAND.
Thanks to Charlie for the heads up.
LEGO Releases Video of Mystery LEGO Star Wars Set
LEGO has revealed yet another cryptic tweet, in the form of a video, of a big LEGO Star Wars that is coming October 1. This time it is a video showing a debris of bricks as a set is being assembled and eagle-eyed readers can probably figure out what it is. You can even see BB-8 flying through the debris of bricks.
This is the third teaser of a mystery set following the box and instruction booklet from previous weeks.
LEGO’s title on Facebook basically tells you in the title of what it is.
Get ready! #LEGOStarWars is assembling its biggest set yet! 😱 We just can't wait for October 1st! @starwars pic.twitter.com/bG5bYgHDv8
— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) August 15, 2017
LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V (21309) Back on [email protected] Again
The LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V (21309) is now available again on [email protected] but who knows for how long. The availability of this set has been scarce but as of this time, the set can be added to the cart and you’ll also be getting the LEGO Iconic Cave (5004936) as a promotional item.
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Update: And just like that, it’s temporarily gone again. I’ll update when it comes back.
LEGO Star Wars R3-M2 (40268) Polybag Review
Way back in January, it was revealed that there was a new LEGO Star Wars polybag with R3-M2 (40268). It had a little stand with a backing that is different from your standard minifigure polybags. There was little to no detail on its availability except for it showing up at LEGOLAND California back in March and a recently showing up at Toys R Us.
I was able to purchase it for $5.99 online before the page was taken down. It was also reported that they can be found in store but they do have a street date of August 26. You may get lucky and be able to purchase it but there’s a high chance that you won’t be able to purchase until then.
Minifigure
R3-M2 is a very obscure astromech droid that has only appeared shortly in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The body has your typical LEGO droid pattern with the main notable differences being the large bold stripes as well as the brown and tan coloring. The back of the torso and both legs have no printing at all however according to the one in The Disney Collection 2016 Droid Factory 4-Pack, R3-M2 is supposed to have a brown stripe going down the back. The dome is trans-black with a silver ring at the base with some brown panels throughout.
Stand
R3-M2 comes with a stand that also has a backing card. The stand itself uses the black 3×4 that sits on top of a small build that uses a 1×4 brick with studs on the side for the name plate. Unfortunately, it uses a sticker but they polybag would’ve cost a little more if it had a printed name plate. There are also some bricks with holes that utilizes some Technic pins. This is used to connect a series of these polybags together with the next one being the Scarif Stormtrooper (40176) which will be available in September.
The background card is attached to the base using a couple of Technic axles. It has the LEGO Star Wars logo with the background showing a scene from the hanger on Yavin 4. There’s also the LEGO copyright which is sort of off-putting. Once R3-M2 is on the stand, you can only see a little part of it.
Results
The LEGO Star Wars R3-M2 (40268) polybag is a welcome change to the usual minifigure polybags we’ve gotten in the past. The stand is what makes it unique as it is intended to connect with other polybags for a larger display. Again, the next one in this series will be coming on Force Friday 2 at LEGO Stores and on [email protected]
R3-M2 itself is an unique minifigure and is only obtained in this particular polybag. It’s availability is still somewhat sketchy but it was found at Toys R Us. It may seem that it’ll be free with a certain purchase, most likely with a LEGO Star Wars purchase.
