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LEGO 2015 New York Toy Fair Press Releases

February 12, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The 2015 New York Toy Fair is starting this weekend and LEGO has released four press releases today about the company’s growth last year as well as some themes we can expect to see at the Toy Fair. According to one of the releases, there will be a whopping 313 sets displayed at the American International Toy Fair which is the largest collection displayed so far including LEGO Elves and LEGO Star Wars.

We pretty much know about everything that will be shown at the event but one thing that’s notable on the press release is LEGO finally acknowledging The Simpsons Series 2 Collectible Minifigures (71009) which will be released in May and the Halloween-themed Series 14 Collectible Minifigures in September. So far both waves have only been rumors including the leaked image of the Halloween Monster minifigures which have since been taken down. As usual, I would guess that the minifigures will not be shown there but the boxes will be shown.

As mentioned before, we will be there indirectly as Chad from Brick Fest Live will be sending us images and videos to upload throughout the event. Our coverage will be starting around 7am EST/4am PST on Saturday, February 14.

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New York Toy Fair 2015 Coverage This Weekend

February 10, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

This Valentine’s Day weekend, the 2015 New York Toy Fair will be starting and members of the press will be able to get a close-up look at some of the upcoming toys you can expect to see later this year. On Saturday, select invited members to the LEGO booth will get an even earlier access to the booth before the show officially opens. This also means that we will finally get to see images of the Summer 2015 sets of LEGO Jurassic World, Star Wars, and Super Heroes, just to name a few, which photography was previously prohibited at the other toy fairs earlier this year. Unfortunately, The Brick Fan won’t be in attendance but we are teaming up with Chad from Brick Fest Live/Your Creative Friends to hopefully bring you some awesome images and videos throughout the event. Our coverage is scheduled to start at 7am EST/4am PST so stay tuned.

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BrickUniverse 2015 LEGO Convention Next Month

February 10, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Last November, we reported that a new LEGO convention called BrickUniverse will be happening in next month. If you plan on attending, here’s a little reminder to purchase your tickets for the public days or if you want to attend all four days, you can also register in time for the end of next month. Some of the perks for attending all four days of the convention include:

Fan Zone: with creations built by LEGO builders of all ages. Four day convention attendees can display their creations here.
BIONICLE Activities: with remote control LEGO tanks and robotics.
Model Gallery presented by The Brick Show: with select LEGO models and collections from The Brick Show’s personal collection.
BKNY Bricks: a gallery of works by award-winning LEGO artist Johnathan Lopes.
Challenge Area: where different challenges and learning sessions throughout the day.
Building Zone: with thousands of LEGO bricks.
Creations for Charity: stand with LEGO products for sale with all proceeds from the stand going the to charity. There will be a charity auction on Friday (3/27).
Two separate Market Areas: with over twenty different vendors selling an array of LEGO products.
No Starch Press Reading Area: with some of the best LEGO books published by No Starch Press for attendees to muse over.
Seminars: including How to Sticker Your MOCs by Jacob Unterreiner, LEGO Ambassador Network by LEGO Community Manager Kevin Hinkle, and a panel on the online LEGO community lead by representatives from The Brick Show, Brickipedia, … Continue

Introducing Brick Classifieds – A New LEGO Marketplace to Buy and Sell LEGO Items

February 5, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

If you’ve ever visited BrickPicker before, you would know that you can get gauge the value of your LEGO sets by using their tools. Our friends Jeff and Ed have now started a new marketplace that you can use to sell your LEGO products. It’s called Brick Classifieds. It’s another avenue that you can use to sell your items besides on BrickLink, BrickOwl, eBay, or Amazon just to name a few. You may have probably seen their ad that’s been up on our sidebar for a few weeks now.

If you’ve ever bought or sold LEGO products before, you know that it could be a difficult process to deal with. Brick Classifieds tries to make that process a simpler one. It’s sort of a classified ad to sell your items. What makes a little unique is that some of the sellers are also BrickPicker members which has their own community of collectors and investors there. Member of the forums there are pretty cool and the mods run a pretty tight ship. You don’t have to be a member of BrickPicker to buy and/or sell items on Brick Classifieds but there are some valuable information that you can use such as set value. Also with every item listed, it’s required to have an actual photo of the item because stock photos are not allowed.

Buying off of Brick Classifieds is pretty straightforward and similar to other secondary markets like BrickLink and eBay. The buyer adds items to their cart and pays with Paypal. The items will … Continue

LEGO at the 2015 Nuremberg Toy Fair

January 27, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 31 Comments

The toy fair season is in full swing and we had some tidbids of the Summer 2015 LEGO sets at the 2015 London Toy Fair last week. Tomorrow continues the goodness with the 2015 Nuremberg Toy Fair where we can finally get some long-awaited images of the various sets. We’ve already seen offcial images of some of the sets like the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Avengers: Age of Ultron sets so we’re going to be focusing more on some of the more anticipated stuff like the rest of the LEGO Scooby-Doo sets and the LEGO Jurassic World sets.

Updated with images from various Twitter users.

Promo Brick has provided some images for the LEGO Architecture as well for the LEGO Series 14 and Simpsons Minifigures.

More images from Twitter.

More images via Ukonio.de. It was noted that the LEGO Scooby-Doo and LEGO Star Wars sets were displayed but photography was prohibited.

Update: Some images have been removed at the request of the original creator of the images even though we gave credit and exposure. We will never link to that site ever again for future Toy Fairs. If you want to see some close-up pictures of the sets, Spieletest has some nice videos on our other post.

LEGO Architecture

Later this year LEGO will be releasing a third LEGO Architecture set, the Louvre (21024). It will be available in September for €59.99.

LEGO BIONICLE

LEGO City

The tram from the new LEGO City Town Square (60097) was displayed where you can also … Continue

Advisory Notice: Regarding Leaked Summer 2015 Images

January 25, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 14 Comments

It’s that time when we start seeing images for the Summer 2015 LEGO sets but it’s also the time when we start seeing leaked images that are watermarked with the “Confidential” stamp. These images are usually from catalogs that retailers have and they’re itching to share sets that are coming out later this year. Publishing and distributing of these images are not allowed by LEGO although it doesn’t stop people from doing it.

The watermarked imaged images are pretty low quality and usually doesn’t reflect the final product although there are similarities between them. Yes, I have seen the images that have come out the past couple of days for various themes but please do not leave those links in our comment sections. I will be deleting them and if there are repeat offenders, I will be banning them from commenting. I’ve already had to delete a quite few of them already the past two days or so and will be continuing to delete them if I see them on my posts. Read more on LEGO’s policy of these images over on Brickset.

Other sites might be posting them or to the links with the images to get more traffic or whatnot but I’m not about that. I want quality posts that give quality to the readers, not showing off low quality images that’s hard to see the details. I have no direct relationship with The LEGO Group but I do respect their policies. Patience is virtue and the official images will be released in … Continue

The Brick Fan Turns 3 Years Old

January 22, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 16 Comments

With all the LEGO news that came out this week, I totally forgot all about the date that happened this past Sunday, The Brick Fan turned three years old. The past year has been quite a journey and what a journey it was. What stared out as a hobby site literally became a full-time job last year and it was pretty cool to say the least. Again, I won’t be posting any site stats but you can check out the recap of what happened in 2014 here.

Like with many of these kinds of posts, I would like to sincerely thank all the readers that come by. Whether you’re here for just a certain article post or if you’re a regular reader, thank you. To everyone that have emailed me or commented about anything, thank you. I do enjoy responding to comments and to give people more information about a certain set or minifigure that they may not know about is a good feeling. I believe sharing knowledge is important to the success of anything and this site is my way of sharing what I know.

I’ve made a lot more friends as well as acquaintances the past year and it’s somewhat in part because of this site. It’s actually been a wild ride last year because I met so many new people from everyone at Philly Brick Fest, which was my first LEGO convention, to the people behind the scenes of various LEGO sites like BrickLink. It sounds weird but LEGO not only connects … Continue