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LEGO Store Calendars Going Paperless Starting in July

May 27, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

It looks like LEGO is making another change that may impact the way you shop at LEGO Stores. You may have received the same email this morning as they have announced that the LEGO monthly store calendar will be going paperless starting in July. I know some of you collect the calendars but most of us just like to have one physically to look at.

I can already see a small problem with this new change. Because the store calendars only show the in-store events for those who still use them, I have a feeling that there will be less people attending them because they have nothing to go on to see what will be happening unless the employees keep reminding them or blogs post about them. Just a quick poll, how many of you actually go to the LEGO Store page to look at the calendar or the in-store events?

Also with the LEGO store calendars going digital in a few months, hopefully they post the current month as well as the month after because that’s what the stores have been doing since forever.

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LEGO Blade Runner 2049 Spinner Free Building Instructions

May 14, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

It was about a month ago when I reported that Carter Baldwin will be joining LEGO later this year on their Super Heroes design team and he has now provided instructions for his LEGO Spinner from Blade Runner 2049 for free. They are now available over on Bricks on the Dollar and you can build your own using parts from your collection. While you’re at it, make sure you check out some Carter’s other builds that are available for purchase.

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LEGO Ninjago Minifigure Pack (40342) Official Images

May 13, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

There are now official images of the LEGO Ninjago Minifigure Pack (40342) which have been uploaded to LEGO’s servers. There are four minifigures in this pack and they include Clutch Powers, Kai, Pyro Snake, Ice Samurai. There are also various weapons for the characters and also a small weapons rack included as well.

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LEGO Mystery Midnight Opening Event at Leicester Square on May 15

April 26, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has teased a mystery midnight opening event at the flagship Leicester Square LEGO Brand Store. The event will be held on Wednesday May 15 from 12:01am-3am local time. Looking at the image above, there’s a classified folder but there is a clue from the photo that is paper clipped on. If you look closely, it looks like the photo shows the top of the head of somebody. I don’t know about you but it sort of looks likes the head of Mike from Stranger Things so that means the opening event could be the rumored LEGO Stranger Things theme that I talked about last month. We here in the US could also see something released that same day at LEGO Stores and on Shop@Home. We shall see.

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Lepin Factories Raided and Boss Arrested

April 25, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Depending on what time zone you’re in, this is either some early morning news or late night news. The Shanghai Police has announced on their Weibo that they have successfully raided a few Lepin factories and the boss, surnamed Li, has been arrested. If you didn’t know, LEGO has been taking legal action against the company for almost three years and even though they supposedly won an infringement case against them last year, Lepin was still producing counterfeit sets.

According to the post, there were three warehouses raided, four people arrested, including Li, and police confiscated 90 production molds and 630,000 finished products ready to be sold which equated to more than 200 million yuan (~$30 mil USD). You can check out more images of the raid in the link above.

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LEGO Regional Exclusives to be Widely Available After May 1

April 24, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

This year, LEGO has released a number of regional exclusive sets including the 2019 Chinese New Years ones for the Asian regions, The LEGO Movie 2 BrickHeadz from Target and Walmart, as well as the Star Wars Celebration Darth Vader Bust also from Target. Many of you have voiced your concerns over these exclusives and it looks like LEGO has finally listened.

Tormod over on the LAN has posted a brief statement about future region exclusives and it says that sets released after May 1st will be widely available at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home for a limited time after launch (3-6 months). This should give enough time for those who actually want an exclusive to be able to get them with ease without going through the secondary market. There’s still products that will be truly exclusive such as gift-with-purchase promo items, LEGOLAND, LEGO House, LEGO Inside Tour, and Comic Con items. This means that it looks like a lot of us will be able to get the recently revealed Dragon Boat Race (80103) without jumping through hoops.

What do you think of this massive change that LEGO is putting in place?

Dear AFOL Community,

It has become apparent to us at the LEGO Group that you are dissatisfied with the recent launches of regional exclusive products. We’ve received a lot of feedback on the LEGO festival products to mark the Chinese New Year (sets 80101 and 80102), the LEGO The Movie 2 Brickheadz (41634, 41635,41636 & 41637) in the US as well as the

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LEGO to Release LEGO Braille Bricks for Visually Impaired Children

April 24, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

In a press release sent out early this morning, LEGO has announced that they will be releasing LEGO Braille Bricks to help visually impaired children to learn through play with LEGO bricks.The LEGO Braille Bricks will be molded with the same number of studs used for individual letters and numbers in the Braille alphabet, while remaining fully compatible with the LEGO System in Play. Check out the full press release below.

THE LEGO FOUNDATION AND LEGO GROUP TEAM UP WITH BLIND ASSOCIATIONS TO PILOT LEGO® BRAILLE BRICKS AND DEVELOP CHILDREN’S BREADTH OF SKILLS

Motivated by stories and ideas from blind people around the world, the LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group will pilot a grassroots innovation that can help blind and visually impaired children learn through play using LEGO® bricks.

Paris, France April 24: Today, the LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group will announce their support of a pioneering project that will help blind and visually impaired children learn Braille in a playful and engaging way using Braille customised LEGO® bricks. The project, LEGO Braille Bricks, will be unveiled today at the Sustainable Brands Conference in Paris, France.

The concept behind LEGO Braille Bricks was first proposed to the LEGO Foundation in 2011 by the Danish Association of the Blind and again in 2017 by the Brazilian-based Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind. It has since been further shaped in close collaboration among blind associations from Denmark, Brazil, UK, and Norway and the first prototypes are now in those same countries for concept testing.

“With thousands of audiobooks

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