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LEGO Launches New Minisite Called Remake

July 28, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Yesterday, LEGO launched a new minisite called Remake which is pretty much a site to provide building instructions to create alternative models using official LEGO sets. The are seven different fan designers who will be helping out with the site including Attila Baranyai, Bertrand Lequy, Jason Allemann, Nicola Lugato, Peter Szabo, Tomas Vit, and Youngil Kim.

The alternate builds are separated in full and partial remakes. The full remakes use a majority of the parts from the official sets while the partial remakes only use some of them. Each build gives you a small description of what it is as well as the parts list and the instructions which you can download as a PDF file. Currently, Remake only has builds from some LEGO City sets.

You may wonder why LEGO released Remake since there is already Rebrickable which does almost the same thing. Natham Thom from Rebrickable released a blog post today explaining that he actually had a hand in helping create the new website although it was released not fully complete. LEGO has released a statement regarding why the site isn’t complete.

As you might have heard and seen, we launched a new site on LEGO.com called LEGO® Remake. The intention with this site is to provide older children with creative inspiration to what alternative builds they can make with existing LEGO® sets.

In order to provide the inspiration, we reached out to 7 amazing fan designers through Nathan Thom, the owner of Rebrickable. The Rebrickable website inspired the LEGO Remake project and over

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LEGO Shop@Home Update (Switzerland)

July 28, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has been making changes to Shop@Home and today they unveiled a new update to the site for Switzerland. These updates will be coming to other countries in the future but you can play around with the Swiss version in the meantime. LEGO has also provided us with a survey to provide feedback about the new updates.

So far to me, the new Shop@Home update is a little smoother and loads a little faster since it uses Bootstrap for the coding. One thing I really don’t like about it are the huge banners since they take up a lot of real estate and many people do not like scrolling down. Plus the products page doesn’t show as many products so you have to scroll down more to see them all. I feel that many of you may not like the change since the current site is more than adequate for their needs.

Again, feel free to send feedback to LEGO about what you think about the new LEGO Shop@Home update.

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MOC Nation Service Launches Today

July 12, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Here’s something that may be of interest to some of the readers. The guys over at a new site called MOC Nation: Designer LEGO Creations has reached out to us to let you know about their launch today. It’s basically a site for LEGO fans to purchase sets designed by other builders while builders themselves are able to create some income from their designs. MOC Nation will source the parts as well as create the instructions for the set and shipping them out. Check out the press release below.

MOC Nation Launches to Bring LEGO® Enthusiasts’ Dreams to Life, Offers Kits to Recreate Limited-Edition Designer MOCs at Home

Casting custom LEGO® creations as works of art, new website brings designs from top independent LEGO® designers to fans around the world

Aliso Viejo, CA — MOC Nation (https://mocnation.com), a website for lovers of LEGO®, design, and maker art, launches today to showcase and sell kits of the best independent designer LEGO creations from around the world. A MOC (“My Own Creation”) is an original work of art built with authentic LEGO bricks and parts. MOC Nation handpicks unique creations from top MOC designers, features them on the website, and offers kits containing all of the elements and instructions needed to recreate the MOCs at home.

The MOC Nation website uses rich photography and a video view to showcase the MOCs. The designs are rated by level of difficulty to build, and “playability,” ranging from display-only to fully playable. Most MOC Nation kits contain between 150 and 900

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LEGO Minifigures Entering Jupiter’s Orbit Tomorrow

July 3, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Tomorrow night, the NASA Juno spacecraft will finally be entering Jupiter’s orbit after a five year journey. Onboard the Juno are some LEGO minifigures that were created as part of a partnership between NASA and The LEGO Group to inspire children to pursue science and engineering.

The minifigures are made out of a special space-grade aluminum and they represent some important mythological and science figures which includes the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno, and Galileo Galilei. Jupiter is holding a lightning bolt as he is the god of the sky and thunder. Juno holds a magnifying glass to signify her search for the truth. Galileo holds a miniature planet of Jupiter as well as a telescope.

The LEGO minifigures will not be returning to Earth as they will be intentionally dropped into Jupiter’s atmosphere after the Juno probe orbits the planet for a year.

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The Brick Fan June 2016 Monthly Recap

June 30, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

June is pretty much over and it was a pretty busy month for LEGO news. Here are some of the top LEGO news posts from the month.

LEGO Creator London Bus (40220) Polybag Revealed – A new LEGO Creator Mini London Bus (4022) set showed up on LEGO’s servers and it was revealed on the August 2016 Store Calendar that will be available with purchases of $75 or more.

LEGO DFB – The Mannschaft Minifigure Series (71014) Completely Sold Out – After only a month on the European market, The LEGO DFB – The Mannschaft Minifigure Series (71014) has been sold out at LEGO Stores and on Shop@Home Europe and there are no plans to produce any more.

LEGO DFB German National Football Team Minifigure Series (71014)

Some LEGO Dimensions Series 2 Expansion Packs Revealed – Ahead of the Series 2 LEGO Dimensions announcement, Amazon revealed some of the expansion packs that will be included.

LEGO Dimensions Year 2 Content Officially Announced – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment officially announced their lineup for Series 2 of LEGO Dimensions which includes new IPs such as Sonic The Hedgehog, Adventure Time, The A-Team, Mission Impossible, E.T., The Goonies, Knight Rider, The Powerpuff Girls, Gremlins, Beetlejuice, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and the new Ghostbusters team.

LEGO Ideas Third 2015 Review Winners Announced – The Third 2015 Results for LEGO Ideas were announced and the Beatles Yellow Submarine and the Apollo 11 Saturn V will become official LEGO Ideas sets in the near future.

LEGO Creator Volkswagen Beetle (10252) Officially Announced – LEGO announced the next direct-to-consumer … Continue

Brickworld Chicago 2016 World of Lights

June 26, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Brickworld Chicago 2016 is over but one of the more spectacular things to see is the traditional “World of Lights” event that takes place. If you’re not familiar with World of Lights, it takes place after the public is gone and the lights are turned off. The only source of light are from the builds that have lights included.

The Brick Show has taken photos and video of some of this year’s builds for BrickWorld Chicago which you can check out below.

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Disney to Air Frozen Northern Lights LEGO Animated Shorts

June 21, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Disney has announced there will be four new LEGO animated shorts that will be coming to the Disney Channel based on the upcoming Frozen Northern Lights story starting in November. There will also be a TV special to present the shorts that will be airing around Thanksgiving time. The shorts will feature the original voice cast of the first Frozen movie including Kristen Bell (Anna), Idina Menzel (Elsa), Jonathan Groff (Kristoff), and Josh Gad (Olaf).

It’s not that surprising that LEGO is teaming up with Disney again to produce content for Frozen as they’ve already released a few sets based on the popular movie.

Thanks to Jeff for the email heads-up.

*Via USA Today**

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