Month: July 2016 (Page 1 of 11)

New Summer 2016 LEGO Sets Now Available for Purchase

July 31, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 9 Comments

It’s August 1st and there are a lot of new long-awaited summer 2016 LEGO sets available for purchase from DC, Marvel, Star Wars, Ninjago, City, Technic, Friends, and Elves. The main promotion is the FREE exclusive LEGO Creator Mini London Bus (40220) with purchases of $75 or more, while supplies last, which runs until August 15.

Batman: Scarecrow Harvest of Fear (76054) – $59.99

Batman: Killer Croc Sewer Smash (76055) – $79.99

Spider-Man: Web Warriors Ultimate Bridge Battle (76057) – $99.99

Spider-Man: Ghost Rider Team-Up (76058) – $19.99

Spider-Man: Doc Ock’s Tentacle Trap (76059) – $39.99

Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum (76060) – $29.99

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum (76060)

Tanker Truck Takedown (76067) – $29.99

Rebel Combat Frigate (75158) – $109.99

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LEGO Star Wars, City, Friends 2016 Advent Calendar Official Images

July 31, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

I’ve been waiting for a while to post about this but now is a good time as ever to post them since some readers do need a heads up in case they miss it later on. There are now official images of the three LEGO 2016 Advent Calendars from Amazon France and I’ll upload the descriptions when they’re available. As for the release date, if LEGO follows the same trend from previous years, they will be available on September 1. There will be spoilers below so if you’re looking forward to opening the advent calendars, I would advise you not to click the spoiler tags or read any further.

LEGO Star Wars 2016 Advent Calendar (75146)

LEGO City 2016 Advent Calendar (60133)

LEGO Friends 2016 Advent Calendar (41131)

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LEGO Nexo Knights Panel at San Diego Comic Con 2016

July 30, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

At the last LEGO panel of San Diego Comic Con 2016, we had a panel for LEGO Nexo Knights. It was moderated by LEGO marketing director Brian Bowler and the panel consisted of Tommy Andreasen (showrunner) and Mark Hoffeimeir (writer) as well as design manager Melissa Pickering, and senior designers Samuel Johnson and Mark Stafford. Also appearing as a guest was the voice of Jestro, Vincent Tong.

Like with the LEGO Ninjago panel, the first half of the panel consisted of LEGO showing off early concept art of some of the sets and its inspirations for the Fortrex, Mecha Horse, the King’s Mech, and Clay’s Rumble Blade. As part of their process, LEGO designers go through a number of builds before settling on the final product for release.

While showing off some of the main characters of the theme, it was revealed that Aaron Fox is named after Michael J. Fox and uses a hoverboard like Marty McFly in Back to the Future II. Also it was noted that the voice of the Book of Monsters is sort of a tribute to Stan Lee and if you’ve watched the show before, you can kind of hear it.

Next up, they showed off a clip which also gave an exclusive SDCC 2016 Snake Den Nexo Power. After the clip, it was revealed that the new season of LEGO Nexo Knights will be premiering on August 13 on the Cartoon Network.

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LEGO Ninjago Panel at San Diego Comic Con 2016

July 29, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

A lot of you have asked about a recap of the LEGO Ninjago panel at San Diego Comic Con 2016. I did sort of a live tweet during the event but I’ve finally had some time to do a post about it. First the panel did sort of a recap of Season 6: Skybound and they asked fans who Nya should end up with and get got a lot of feedback and went with Jay. They also showed a lot of the early concept images of some of the sets with lots of test builds.

Then they talked about when LEGO Ninjago will be returning to Cartoon Network which was revealed to be on October 29 with the first episode called “Day of the Departed.” Here they showed a two or so minute clip of the episode and it showed the ninjas riding in their respective vehicles and Cole suddenly starts to vanish as he is still a ghost and begins to crash as the screen fades out.

Next up, they teased the next adventure which will be called “The Hands of Time.” They did not elaborate on this so that left us wondering what it’s about.

During the Q&A session, it was stated that The LEGO Ninjago Movie will be talk about more next year so there’s no new info on that. As for next season, it was hinted that there will be more skeletons as well as maybe a new element coming. Also someone asked if we will be seeing Sensei Garmadon again and … Continue

LEGO BIONICLE to be Discontinued at End of 2016

July 29, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 8 Comments

You may or may not have read about it this morning but today marks a sad day in the LEGO community as LEGO has announced that LEGO BIONICLE will be discontinued at the end of 2016 after a two year run.

LEGO BIONICLE was pretty popular when it came back in 2015 and the CCBS community was back in full swing with the revival. There’s no mentioning on why LEGO has decided to end the theme but safe bets are due to lack of sales. LEGO did mention that the final wave of BIONICLE sets will be coming to Europe and North America but will not be released in Asia and the Pacific markets. This usually happens when themes or subthemes are ending such as LEGO Legends of Chima and the LEGO Star Wars Planets sets.

THE CONCLUSION OF “THE JOURNEY TO ONE” MARKS THE END FOR LEGO® BIONICLE® GENERATION 2

Fans, today we have to share the news with you that we have made the tough decision to discontinue LEGO® BIONICLE® at the end of 2016. NETFLIX has just started streaming the final two episodes of “The Journey to One” the ending of which, will put an end to any speculation about the future of LEGO® BIONICLE®.

With the 2015 relaunch of LEGO® BIONICLE®, we set out to revive a childhood favorite of fans worldwide, and bring it to a new group of children who were too young to have known and played with LEGO® BIONICLE® Generation 1. From your wonderful feedback over the last

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LEGO Ideas Modular Construction Site Achieves 10,000 Supporters

July 29, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

The Modular Construction Site by ryantaggart is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The project features a fully functional crane and is able to attach to a corner modular. The project also proposes some minifigures including a crane driver, financier, architect, bricklayer, two glaziers, a painter, a tiler, and two labourers.

The Modular Construction Site now joins Voltron – Defender of the Universe, Spaceballs – Eagle 5, The Addams Family Mansion, the Merchant’s House, the Large Hadron Collider, and LEGO Observatory – Mountain View as the projects that qualify for the Second 2016 Review Stage.

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New LEGO Brand Store Opening in San Diego

July 29, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

As I mentioned yesterday on the September 2016 LEGO Store Calendar, San Diego will be getting a new LEGO Brand Store at the Westfield UTC. There are now details about the grand opening of the store in La Jolla. As usual with store openings, there will be free gifts when making purchases over a certain threshold. The main gift is the LEGO Brand Retail Store (40145) on Saturday, 9/17 and the exclusive LEGO Minifigure Set on Sunday, 9/18.

Celebrate the Grand Opening of the LEGO Store at Westfield UTC San Diego!

September 16 – 18
11am – 6pm
4545 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego

Help a real LEGO Master Builder construct a HUGE model of Lloyd from LEGO Ninjago–made entirely out of LEGO bricks! You’ll receive a certificate of acheivement for helping us build!

PLUS, be one of the first 400 customers each day to make a qualifying purchase at the LEGO Store
and you will receive one of these exclusive gifts:

Friday, September 16: FREE LEGO Backpack with a purchase of $50 or more

Saturday, September 17: FREE Limited-Edition LEGO Store Set with a purchase of $99 or more

Sunday, September 18: FREE Exclusive LEGO Minifigure Set with a purchase of $50 or more

Offers valid while supplies last only at the LEGO Store at Westfield UTC San Diego. Limit one per customer. See a Brick Specialist for details.