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Month: November 2012 (Page 1 of 10)

LEGO City Helicopter Arrest (60009) Review

LEGO City Helicopter Arrest (60009)

The new LEGO City 2013 sets are are now for sale at LEGO stores, Shop@Homeicon, and other major retail stores. The Brick Fan is teaming up with Your Creative Friends to bring you reviews of LEGO sets from many different themes starting with LEGO City. Be sure to subscribe to their channel as well as our email subscription to the right for the latest reviews of the 2013 sets.

Today, we bring you the LEGO City Helicopter Arrest (60009)icon. The set contains 352 pieces and retails for $49.99, which comes to about $0.14/piece. The set includes 5 minifigures: 2 burglars, 1 Elite Police pilot and 2 Elite Police officers. Check out Your Creative Friends’ video below for more details and the play features of the set.

LEGO City Helicopter Arrest (60009)icon

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LEGO Galaxy Squad Space Swarmer (70700) Review

LEGO Galaxy Squad Space Swarmer (70700)

The new LEGO Galaxy Squad sets are now available in stores and the LEGO Galaxy Squad Space Swarmer (70700)icon set is the first set in the inital wave. The set contains 86 pieces and retails for $11.99 about $0.14/piece. The set contains two minifigures: the Alien Beetle and the Galaxy Squad’s Robot.

The Alien Beetle has a green exoskeleton printing on both the torso and the legs. It’s head is one big piece with four large black eyes. It’s accessory is a gray sonic gun with a pink stud in the front.

The Robot is on the blue squad and has some nice printing on both sides of the torso. The headpiece is shaped very well for a robot. It has a brick-built blaster with scope as well as a jet pack for accessories.

The main part of the set is the Space Swarmer. It looks similar to a large beetle. The majority colors of the Swarmer is bright green and red. The cockpit opens up to sit the Alien Beetle inside. The wings are able to flap much like a beetle’s. The main function is that it has a grabbing action to capture the Robot.

Check out Your Creative Friends’s video for more details of the Space Swarmer.

LEGO Galaxy Squad Space Swarmer (70700) – $11.99icon

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New LEGO Technic Sets Now Available on Shop@Home

The new LEGO Technicicon sets are now available at LEGO and LEGO Shop@Home. All orders over $99 until December 18, 2012 will have FREE shipping.

Hovercraft (42002)

LEGO Technic Hovercraft (42002) – $19.99icon

Race across land and sea in the ultra-realistic LEGO® Technic Hovercraft!

Race over land, water, mud and ice in the all-new Hovercraft! No terrain is too hostile for this highly realistic LEGO® Technic model, featuring such authentic details as a cool racing design, spinning rotor blades and an engine with real moving pistons! Build action-packed racing at its very best! This 2-in-1 model is ready to take on any outdoor adventure. Rebuilds into a super agile Plane with a spinning rotor and working piston engine.

•Features cool racing design, spinning rotor blades and moving engine pistons
•Race your friends!
•Spin the rotor!
•See the pistons move!
•2-in-1 model: Rebuilds into a Plane with a spinning rotor and working piston engine
•Measures over 3″ (9cm) high, 7″ (18cm) long and 3″ (8cm) wide
•Plane measures over 3″ (8cm) high, 10″ (26cm) long and 8″ (22cm) wide

Mini Backhoe Loader (42004)

LEGO Technic Mini Backhoe Loader (42004) – $24.99icon

Dig into LEGO® Technic building with the Mini Backhoe Loader!

Make any job easier with the iconic Mini Backhoe Loader! This 2-in-1 LEGO® Technic model features loads of realistic details, like raising/lowering front arm and tipping front bucket, articulated steering raising/lowering/turning backhoe. Construct and create with the 2-in-1 Mini Backhoe Loader that’s modeled after the real thing! Rebuilds into a tough Telehandler with working steering, raising boom and a tipping shovel.

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LEGO Galaxy Squad Sets Now Available on Shop@Home

All of the new LEGO Galaxy Squadicon set are now available at LEGO and LEGO Shop@Home. There is still FREE shipping for orders over $99 so now is a great time to get them especially when Christmas is less than a month away.

LEGO Galaxy Squad Space Swarmer (70700)

LEGO Galaxy Squad Space Swarmer (70700) – $11.99icon

Zap the alien buggoid before he nabs the Galaxy Squad’s robot!

The evil alien buggoid is buzzing around in his Space Swarmer. Don’t let him capture the Galaxy Squad robot sidekick with the ship’s grabber mouth! Help him to blast away from the buggoid’s sonic gun with his jet pack! Get to safety, then aim and fire the blasters to stop that swarming space critter! Includes 2 minifigures with weapons: alien buggoid and robot sidekick with a jet pack.

Includes 2 minifigures with assorted weapons: alien buggoid and robot sidekick
Features grabber mouth, opening cockpit, moving wings and poseable legs
Also includes jet pack, alien sonic gun and a blaster
Dodge the Space Swarmer’s grabber mouth!
Blast that bug!
Dodge the beams of the alien sonic gun!
Measures over 1″ (4cm) high, 5″ (14cm) long and 3″ (10cm) wide

LEGO Galaxy Squad Swarm Interceptor (70701)

LEGO Galaxy Squad Swarm interceptor (70701) – $19.99icon

Swat the alien flyer with the split-function Swarm Interceptor!

An armed and dangerous alien mosquitoid is speeding this way on a space flyer! Stop that creepy crawler with blue team leader Solomon Blaze and the split function Swarm Interceptor! When the action gets too hot for one Galaxy Squad ship, split the Swarm Interceptor into 2 fierce fighting

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LEGO CUUSOO Space Marines! Achieves 10000 Supporters

After almost a year since the Space Marines! project by NickRoyer was submitted to LEGO CUUSOO, the project has finally reached the 10000 supporters needed to be considered to be an official LEGO set. The Space Marines are loosely based on the Galaxy Patrol Collectible Minifigures so there wouldn’t be an issue with licensing or any Intellectual Property (IP) issues either. The theme also could also fit in with the new Galaxy Squad sets but these are totally separate themes so LEGO might not want to have both themes selling at the same time. From what we’ve seen in the past, Space themed LEGO sets do sell really well so it would be beneficial for all parties involved but that’s up to the LEGO Jury to decide. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens after the review. Congratulations to Nick for this amazing achievement! Below is the official LEGO comment.

Congratulations on 10,000 Supporters, NickRoyer, GreenLead, and CrashSanders!

2012.11.29

Space Marines is a fun concept, well thought out, and with broad-based support. You’ve done a great job of presenting it concisely with a lot of possibilities. Further it is a great example of a high quality concept refined over time into something that looks like it has real potential as a LEGO product.

Congratulations on achieving 10,000 supporters. We now officially advance this project to the Review phase.

What happens now?
This project moves from the Idea stage to the Review stage. A “LEGO Review Board” composed of designers, product managers, and other key

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LEGO Galaxy Squad High Quality Images

Hoth Bricks has posted high quality images of all the LEGO Galaxy Squad sets. I’m really liking all the minifigures in the sets and the vehicles aren’t that bad looking. This looks to be a hot theme for the younger audience because Space themed sets usually sell very well on the market.

LEGO Galaxy Squad Space Swarmer (70700)

LEGO Galaxy Squad Space Swarmer (70700)

LEGO Galaxy Squad Swarm Interceptor (70701)

LEGO Galaxy Squad Swarm Interceptor (70701)

LEGO Galaxy Squad Warp Stinger (70702)

LEGO Galaxy Squad Warp Stinger (70702)

LEGO Star Galaxy Squad Space Mantis (70703)

LEGO Star Galaxy Squad Space Mantis (70703)

LEGO Galaxy Squad Vermin Vaporizer (70704)

LEGO Galaxy Squad Vermin Vaporizer (70704)

LEGO Galaxy Squad Bug Obliterator (70705)

LEGO Galaxy Squad Bug Obliterator (70705)

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