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LEGO Masters Looking for Builders for Series Two

January 17, 2018 / / 0 Comments

The hit UK show, LEGO Masters, is back for a second series and they are now looking for builders to appear on the show. If you’re not familiar with what LEGO Masters is about, it’s basically a building competition for amateurs and contestants’ builds are judged in a number of categories. One of the judges is LEGO’s Vice President of Design, Matthew Ashton. The only bad news is that you have to be a resident of the UK or Ireland to apply. Now if the US can get a similar show…

Age 18+: https://tuesdayschild.wufoo.eu/forms/kfn2ldw0yjwl10/
Under 18: https://tuesdayschild.wufoo.eu/forms/z1mc8riu0tlfrig/

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The LEGO Group Announces Partnership with Tencent

January 15, 2018 / / 0 Comments

The LEGO Group has announced that the company is partnering up with one of China’s biggest tech companies, Tencent, to develop safe digital content and platforms for children in the country. LEGO has been expanding more into the Asian market the past few years and this partnership allows the LEGO and Tencent to create games, videos, and a social media network for children in China. The partnership will look to bring LEGO Life to China as well as publication and operation of the online operation system for LEGO BOOST. This move also allows LEGO to bring brand awareness to China, which unfortunately, is ripe with imitators. Check out the full press release below of LEGO’s partnership with Tencent.

THE LEGO GROUP PARTNERS WITH TENCENT TO EMPOWER CHINESE CHILDREN IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

The partnership will bring safe digital LEGO® experiences to Chinese children and seeks to increase the awareness of digital safety among children and parents in China

With more children spending time in the digital landscape, safe online play experiences have become a vital issue for parents and society in China. The LEGO Group and Tencent have a mutual understanding of the issue – and the importance of digital child safety. The two companies today announced a partnership to collaborate across a broad range of digital content and digital platforms to provide Chinese children with fun, creative and most importantly safe digital LEGO® experiences.

Julia Goldin, Chief Marketing Officer of the LEGO Group, says ”Our most important purpose is to inspire children and help them

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LEGO Ideas Moments in Space Building Contest

January 15, 2018 / / 0 Comments

LEGO Ideas Moments in Space

Remember back in September of last year when LEGO asked the community on ideas for future Gift-with-Purchase items? It looks like LEGO Ideas is doing the same thing with a building contest called LEGO Moments in Space. In this contest, they want you to create some small to mid-sided space designs with the size smaller than 16×16 studs.

The grand prize winner will have your model adapted into an exclusive Gift-with-Purchase set for LEGO Brand Stores, LEGOLAND and LEGOLAND Discover Centers, and for Shop@Home, a $250 LEGO shopping spree, and a collection of last year’s GWP sets including 40252 VW Mini Beetle, 40251 Mini Piggy Bank, 40253 Christmas Build Up 2017, 40254 Nutcracker, 30611 May the 4th 2017, 30607 Super Heroes Excl. GWP 17, 40220 London Bus, 40221 Fountain, 40222 Christmas Build-up and 40223 Snowglobe.

There are also ten runner up winners who will get a $125 LEGO shopping spree as well some GWP items including 40251 Mini Piggy Bank, 40223 Snowglobe and 40253 Christmas Build Up 2017.

Head on over of the LEGO Ideas challenge page to submit your entry. The deadline to enter is February 9, 2018 at 6:00 a.m. EST.

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LEGO Digital Designer 4.3.11 Update Now Available

January 12, 2018 / / 10 Comments

LEGO Digital Designer

A few days ago, I reported that LDraw had just updated the parts list on the software and it looks like LEGO Digital Designer has also updated their software as well. The latest version (4.3.11) includes updates to the parts list from the past year which includes over 400 pieces. You can download LDD directy for both Windows and Mac OS.

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LEGO to be Featured in The Toys That Made Us

January 10, 2018 / / 22 Comments

One of the shows I’ve been enjoying on Netflix is the new documentary series, The Toys That Made Us. They’ve already shown a couple of episodes featuring some important toy lines including Star Wars, Barbie, He-Man, and G.I. Joe. I was talking to a few friends and was wondering if LEGO was going to be an episode since it was a revolutionary toy back in the day. I was skeptical because there’s so many other toys that were made in the past that may have been more popular than LEGO and it may not have made the cut.

Well it looks like I don’t have to worry about LEGO not becoming an episode because it looks like the company will be featured in one of the upcoming episodes of season two. It’ll be a while for the episode to air on Netflix because they’ve stated on their Facebook Page that it will be about four months before the show resumes.

In other news, it looks like they may have gotten some shots from Bricks LA this past weekend because I see fellow SandLUG member Miro Dudas being featured in one of their photos. I wonder if they have also taken a trip to Billund for some shots of the LEGO headquarters for the episode as well.

**Via Polygon**

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LEGO Star Wars Ahch-To Island Training (75200) Review

January 7, 2018 / / 2 Comments

LEGO Star Wars Ahch-To Island Training (75200)

The new 2018 LEGO Star Wars sets are now available and one of the sets that I was looking forward to getting was the Ahch-To Island Training (75200). The set consists of 241 pieces and retails for $29.99 which is typical for these small-to-medium sized licensed sets. There will be some minor spoilers as the movie has been out for a while now.

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LDraw.org 2017-01 Parts Update Now Available

January 6, 2018 / / 0 Comments

Willy over at LDraw has let us know that they have updated their parts list and is now available to download. If you’re not familiar with LDraw, it is a good software to use for MOC design and planning and is a little different than LEGO Digital Designer. It’s a bit more advanced than LDD and it also has a lot more older parts to choose from than with LDD. You can also design your own building instructions if you desire.

The 2017-01 LDraw Parts Update has been now been released. This adds 717 new files to the core library, including 509 new parts and 33 new primitives. This update also includes updated versions of the colour configuration files (LDConfig.ldr and LDCfgalt.ldr) thanks to Willy Tschager and Magnus Forsberg.

Thanks are of course due to all the part authors who created or corrected parts for this release, including several first-time authors. The reviewers also play an important role in keeping files moving through the Parts Tracker and deserve just as much credit.

You can preview the new parts in 2017-01 here, download the zip-file update or Windows install package here. Alternatively you can use the LDView menu option File | Check for Library Updates… to install the update.

The LDraw Team

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