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LEGO Senior Designer Marcos Bessa Appears on Denmark’s Got Talent

February 10, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you’ve been following LEGO Senior Designer Marcos Bessa on social media, you would know that he has a very interesting life inside and outside of The LEGO Group. Within the company he’s designed many popular LEGO sets from the SHIELD Helicarrier (76042) to the most recent Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters (75827) and many more in between. Outside of the company, he’s very passionate about music and recently, he has appeared on Denmark’s version of the Got Talent series and has been very impressive not only with the audience but with the judges as well. Check out some of his performances below.

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LDraw All-In-One-Installer 2015-02 Now Available

February 1, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Willy over at LDraw has informed us that an update on the new All-In-One-Installer is now available to download.

LDraw All-In-One-Installer 2015-02 now available

An updated version of the LDraw[1] All-In-One-Installer, in short AIOI, has been released.

The AIOI supports Windows XP (Home and Pro), Windows Vista or higher (all versions). On 64-Bit Operating Systems it will install in the “Program files (x86)” folder. The Installer will NOT run on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT Ver 4, 2000, or XP below SP2.
It contains the following changes:

Upgraded to LDraw Parts Library 2015-02
Upgraded to LPub3D 1.3.4.591.2
Upgraded to LDCad 1.5
Added LSulpt 0.5.0
Added tons of OMR-Models
Lets you decide the location of the LDraw parts library
You can download the AIOI from:

Home Help Get Started LDraw All-In-One-Installer

Many thanks to all the programmers who contributed to this release.

[1] LDraw is an open standard for LEGO CAD programs that allow the user to create virtual LEGO models and scenes. You can use it to document models you have physically built, create building instructions just like LEGO, render 3D photo realistic images of your virtual models and even make animations.

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More LEGO Summer 2016 Information Imminent with Upcoming Toy Fairs

January 23, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Starting tomorrow, toy fair frenzy begins with the London Toy Fair and a few days later, the Nuremberg Toy Fair will be kicking off as well. During these times, we’ll be getting detailed information about the upcoming summer 2016 LEGO sets like their pricing and piece counts and whatnot. Usually at the London Toy Fair, pictures aren’t allowed but we do get in-depth info from LEGO fan sites that are able to attend. I’ll be compiling the information given into a singular post similar to what I did last year.

Later on the in the week, the Nuremberg, aka German Toy Fair, will be going on and this is the fair where we get our legit first images for the summer 2016 sets. Again, I’ll have to rely on our colleagues from across the pond to provide these images which I’ll then put what I can in another post.

Stay tuned in the next week or so to get some juicy information about the summer 2016 LEGO sets.

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LEGO Responds to Report of LDD No Longer Being Supported

January 21, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

In an update to the news yesterday that LEGO was no long supporting the LEGO Digital Designer (LDD), LEGO Community Support Senior Manager Tanja Friberg has given a clarification on the popular program. Many fans were surprised it was said that LDD was no longer supported but that technically isn’t the case.

LEGO will still continue to support LDD with its functionality but the only difference is that there will not be automatic updates of the elements to the program, however new elements will be added from time to time. There’s no word on when these updates will occur.

Dear Ambassadors, I hope this will help clarify a bit of the confusion and misunderstanding from our end regarding LDD. TLG will remain committed to digital building going forward, in regards to LDD, this means that we will continue to support the current functionality. We will not be doing automatic updates on elements, however elements will continue to be added from time to time. Unfortunately we cannot ensure that all elements are made available. I can see that the message has spread widely in the community since Kevin’s statement and I hope that you will assist us in spreading this message as well. Thank you!

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LEGO No Long Supporting LDD

January 20, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

There’s been much talk on various forums about getting some updates for the LEGO Digital Designer (LDD). Recently, we’ve been updated on the status of the popular program and it looks like LEGO will not be supporting it. However for those who use the program to plan your builds, there are still other programs out there to use including LDraw, Mecabricks, Bricksmith, and SR 3D Builder.

Good Afternoon everyone, I’ve just touched base with one of our Digital Product Specialists within the Consumer Services team. A business decision has been made to no longer allocate resources towards the LDD program / initiative. For now, the program will continue to be offered to anyone interested in utilizing it but please do not expect any updates regarding functionality, the adding of new LEGO elements or glitch fixes. We have decided to pursue other digital experiences. Although this may not be the answer you were hoping for, I hope this information will be of use to your RLUG members. Thank you for your time and continued support for the LEGO Brand and hobby.

**Via Brickset**

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10th Anniversary Contest on Brickipedia

January 4, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Soupperson1 over on Brickipedia has gotten in touch to let me know about a contest they are holding to celebrate their 10th anniversary. There are some awesome LEGO prizes that are up for grabs for the winners.

First place
70604 Tiger Widow Island
70313 Moltor’s Lava Smasher
60113 Rally Car

Second place
70312 Lance’s Mecha Horse
71306 Pohatu – Uniter of Stone
70599 Cole’s Dragon

Third place
60117 Van and Caravan
70331 Ultimate Macy
41111 Party Train

Head on over to the contest page to see how to enter. There will be new tasks every day contest will run until January 29.

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The Brick Fan 2015 Recap

January 1, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Well 2015 is in the books and it was another successful year on The Brick Fan so let’s take a look at what happened last year. Prepare to be inundated with statistics so let’s do a little recap of some of the numbers for the site last year. As you can see from the graph below, we saw another increase in traffic last year which went up for about 60% compared to the 2014. Subsequently, other metrics increased accordingly including first-time visitors which went up 56% while returning visitors went up 70%.

There were also some traffic milestones that were achieved in 2015. We finished the year with 17.5 million page views with October 11 being the highest recorded traffic day with 105,085 page views with a majority of it being for the official 2016 images post. That day also gave the most of active number of users on the site with 779. Unless somehow a post goes viral, I doubt that I’ll see a number that high anytime soon. Finally, we ended the year with December being the most visited month of 2015.