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LEGO Icons Shelby Cobra 427 S/C (10357) Officially Announced

June 12, 2025 / Princess Gonzales / 0 Comments

LEGO has officially revealed a new set perfect for the car enthusiast in your life or for the loved one who just loves to assemble LEGO, the LEGO Icons Shelby Cobra 427 S/C (10357). The set has 1,241 pieces and is priced at $159.99 and will be available for purchase on July 1.

Other than it being a LEGO version of the iconic Shelby Cobra 427 S/C, the assembled car has working steering function with opening doors, boot, and bonnet. The set also includes a detailed engine bay toolbox that fits into the boot, fire extinguisher that can be mounted between the seats, $100 bill element, and trophy.

Deloitte Employees Can Now Buy LEGO Using Company Money to Boost Well Being

June 11, 2025 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

As we know by now, LEGO has been used as a hobby to relieve stress and boosting morale. Professional service network Deloitte has recently updated their benefits to include LEGO. The company offers its employees a $1,000 well-being subsidy to spend on things to improve their life and their updated policy in June has added LEGO to the list.

Pretty much all employees that are not interns, contractors, or employees that are on leave are eligible to buy up to $1,000 on LEGO on the company’s dime, if they so choose. LEGO’s most expensive set is still the LEGO Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon (75192) coming in at $850 and Deloitte employees can now get it pretty much for free. It’ll be cool to see other companies adopt something for employees even if it’s not $1,000.

**Via Business Insider**

BrickLink Designer Program Series 5 Production Runs Revealed

June 11, 2025 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The BrickLink Designer Program Series 5 pre-orders went live yesterday and BrickLink did a new thing with this series by making more sets available for fans. They didn’t say how many of each set was the maximum number produced but a reader over on our Reddit page yesterday was able to figure it out. If you look at the source code for each of the sets, you can see the code of the maximum number of sets that will be produced.

Adventure in Transylvania had the highest “adjustment” as the it had a maximum of 40,000 sets but was later bumped up to 50,000. The Thieves of Tortuga started of with 30,000 sets but was later adjusted to 40,000. Mushroom Village and Popcorn Wagon were at 34,000 but it has since been decreased back to 30,000. The Antique Shop didn’t change from the original 30,000. There’s still a possibility that the latter three could get bumped up but we shall see.

This is very interesting as it seems that LEGO/BrickLink is trying to predict how popular each set is and either the devs are manually adjusting the numbers or there’s some code that automatically changes them according to how popular a set is.

As of this post, all of the sets have been funded with Adventure in Transylvania being the closest to selling out at about 90%. Popcorn Wagon is next with about 80% of the stock depleted. The Thieves of Tortuga follows with about 75%.

LEGO One Piece Pre-Orders Closed for Some Sets

June 11, 2025 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The upcoming LEGO One Piece theme has proven to be extremely popular among the millions of fans as some of the sets that had pre-orders available are now closed. Last week when LEGO officially announced the theme, pre-orders for all the sets went live.

As of a few days ago, pre-orders for The Going Merry Pirate Ship (75639) and The Baratie Floating Restaurant (75640) have been cut off on the LEGO Shop. They should be available again on August 1 when the sets launch. You can also pre-order on Amazon but I would wait and see if LEGO has any unannounced gift with purchase items planned for the release since it is a major theme for the company.

LEGO Ideas My Neighbor Totoro Achieves 10,000 Supporters

June 11, 2025 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

My Neighbor Totoro by Brickasso99031 is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build is based on the iconic Hayao Miyazaki Studio Ghibli movie and it features Chibi Totoro, Chu Totoro, and Totoro standing at the bus stop.

The project joins The Fortress of Bellinzona, Jumping Spiders, Planet Express Headquarters, Modular Medieval Village, Pantheon 124 AD, The Circus, Clippy, Monsters, Inc. – Boo’s Door Scream Floor, This is Fine, Ariane 6 on ELA 4 – Complete Version, GLaDOS from Portal 2, Botanical Terrariums, Samurai Castle, Working Modular Fairground, Roman Forum, Vintage Rotary Phone, and The Hourglass as the ones to reach the Second 2025 Review Stage.

Photo by Owen Billcliffe • owenbphoto.com

LEGO Celebrates World Play Day 2025

June 10, 2025 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

For this year’s International Day of Play, The LEGO Group has announced they are putting the world in “play mode” by transforming urban cities into playful immersive experiences. The cities targeted for this initiative include Boston, Berlin, London, and Shanghai and for World Play Day, LEGO has enlisted a global crew of creators to help bring these ideas to life.

The LEGO Group celebrates World Play Day by inspiring kids to reimagine urban spaces for play

• A new global study from the LEGO Group reveals that nearly 7 in 10 parents don’t feel their city offers sufficient safe and accessible play spaces designed for children.

• The research also uncovered that 1 in 3 children feel adults designing urban environments don’t consider their needs or preferences. To help change that, the LEGO Group has been running a global Build the Change challenge, inviting children to reimagine their cities through play.

• On International Day of Play the LEGO Group is putting the world in ‘play mode’ by demonstrating how kids’ ideas have the power to transform cities. Urban spaces in Boston, Berlin, London and Shanghai will be transformed into playful immersive experiences for kids and families.

• The LEGO Group is committed to turning these playful visions into lasting impact, sharing children’s ideas with urban planners and policymakers, including at the UN’s headquarters in New York City, to advocate for kid-centric city design.

• The LEGO Group has teamed up with world-renowned 3D street artist Joe Hill to reveal what a truly playful city looks

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BrickLink Designer Program Series 5 Pre-Orders Live

June 10, 2025 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The BrickLink Designer Program Series 5 pre-orders are now live and crowdfunding will run until June 24, while supplies last. There is a minimum of 3,000 pre-orders required to produce the set and in the past, there was a maximum of 30,000 sets made. BrickLink has updated their wording for Series 5 and it says they have teamed up with LEGO to make more sets available so maximum number of sets made is actually unknown. You can use the links below to add the sets to the LEGO Shop shopping cart directly. There is still a limit of two copies of each set per household and you can earn Insiders points on them.