LEGO Wizarding World Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle (71043) Now Available for VIPs
The new LEGO Wizarding World Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle (71043) is now available for purchase on LEGO [email protected] for VIP members. The 6,020 piece set costs $399.99 and it was also available for pre-order at LEGO Brand Stores where you put down a $40 deposit and you are guaranteed to get a set when it releases in stores in a few hours. Depending on how many pre-orders the stores took, they may also have them available for people who didn’t pre-order. It will be available for the general public on September 1.
I’m still working on my review of the set as it took a while to build during my spare time but I’ll have it up as soon as possible. Please use our links to make your purchase as it does help support the site.
LEGO Creator Free Fall Tower (10267) Listing for 2018?
Here’s something interesting that was just sent my way earlier today. According to Brickmerge.de, there’s another LEGO Creator amusement park set that is supposedly coming out this year with the Free Fall Tower (10267). It interesting because we’ve already gotten an amusement park set this summer with the Roller Coaster (10261) and they usually release once a year so twice a year will be really surprising. If it is a legit listing, we probably won’t see it until summer of next year but LEGO could drop a bombshell on us.
Another thing to note is that LEGO usually calms down on the direct-to-consumer set announcements from October to December, at least from the past few years, so it’ll be really surprising to see another larger set coming out this year. The next D2C sets that are rumored to be releasing this year are in September with the LEGO Star Wars Cloud City set and the LEGO Creator Winter Village set.
What do you guys think of a Free Fall Tower set that is listed to be released this year? Do you think it’s a bit too much since we’ve already gotten the Roller Coaster not too long ago? Personally, I don’t think it’s anything verifiable at this time since this is the first I’ve heard of it.
**Via Eurobricks**
LEGO Architecture Las Vegas (21047) Review
Earlier this year, it was revealed that there was going to be a LEGO Architecture Las Vegas (21047) set but as we know by now, it was delayed due to the tragedy late last year at one of the original hotels in the set. Fast forward eight months and LEGO decided to swap out one of the hotels as well as changing out the box printing and a few pages out of the instruction booklet. There’s no details of the price but counting the parts in the back of the booklet, there are 501 pieces unless I calculated wrong. The contents of the box include five unnumbered bags and the instruction booklet.
LEGO Wizarding World Newt’s Case of Magical Creatures (75952) Review
J.K. Rowling’s newest series of movies for the the Wizarding World kicked off in 2016 with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. To much dismay of LEGO fans, there were no LEGO system sets that were produced for the movie which was interesting however there some LEGO Dimensions sets but they weren’t the same. Fast forward to this year and LEGO has revived the Harry Potter theme with the Wizarding World tie-in and there is finally a Fantastic Beasts set that is worth waiting for with Newt’s Case of Magical Creatures (75952). The set has 694 pieces and retails for $49.99. The contents of the box include four numbered bags, a bagged wing for the Thunderbird, a small sticker sheet, and two instruction booklets.
LEGO Ideas Fiat 500 F Achieves 10,000 Supporters
The Fiat 500 F project by saabfan is the latest one to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. It is a detailed replication of the 1968 Fiat 500 F and it has 1,157 pieces. There are some play features that are included such as opening hood, trunk, and doors, a sunroof, a removable luggage rack, and more.
This is saabfan’s second project to get 10,000 supporters with his first one being the NASA Apollo Saturn V (21309) that is now on store shelves. The project now joins a number of other projects in the Second 2018 Review Stage including the SpaceX Falcon Heavy, International Space Station, SpaceX – The Ultimate Collection, Steamboat Willie, M&M’s Chocolate Candy Dispenser, Rolls-Royce UltraFan – The Ultimate Jet Engine, and Peugeot 205 Turbo 16.
LEGO Wizarding World Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle (71043) Designer Video
The LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle (71043) releases in a few days for VIP members and they have just released the designer video for the set. LEGO designer Justin Ramsden and graphics designer Crystal Fontan talk about some of the features and details of the mini Hogwarts Castle. One of the Easter eggs for the set is the 6,020 piece count as it is one of Justin’s first LEGO sets with the Magic Shop (6020). Check out the video below.
LEGO Star Wars Summer 2018 Amazon Sales
Amazon has some good sales going on for some of the older LEGO Star Wars sets that you may be interested in. I’ve listed only a few notable ones but check the link above to see more sets that are now more reasonably priced.
Y-Wing Starfighter (75172) – $43.99 / 27% off
Kylo Ren’s TIE Fighter (75179) – $49.00 / 39% off
Bounty Hunter Speeder Bike Battle Pack (75167) – $11.99 / 25% off
Captain Rex’s AT-TE (75157) – $96.18 / 20% off
