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Philly Brick Fest 2014 Groupon

October 16, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you’re thinking of attending Philly Brick Fest on April 26-27, 2014, you’ll be glad to know there is a Groupon going for the LEGO event. There are limited quantities available so if you want to get a great deal, better hurry. There are currently four options to choose from:

$40 for one-day festival entry and exclusive T-shirts for two (a $77.30 value)
$60 for one-day festival entry and exclusive T-shirts for three (a $115.95 value)
$80 for one-day festival entry and exclusive T-shirts for four (a $154.60 value)
$100 for one-day festival entry and exclusive T-shirts for five (a $193.25 value)

In addition to seeing all kinds of LEGO creations, there will also be plenty of vendors selling their products as well. To learn more about Philly Brick Fest 2014, feel free to read up on the event here or head over to the official site for more details.

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Classic Toy Museum LEGO Minifigure Trading Event

October 15, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you’re in the Burlingame/San Mateo/San Francisco area on Saturday, October 26th, we have something that may interest you. Gary Doss, the Curator of the Classic Toy Museum, has reached out to us to tell you about a LEGO Minifigure Trading Event they are holding at the museum. Bring in any of your duplicate minifigures and trade them with other visitors at the museum to build up your collection. You can make some new friends as well as get new minifigures that you may not have before. Head over to http://www.CharacterFavorites.com or call 650-347-2301 for more information. The event is held at 214 California Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010 at the Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia from 1pm-2pm. During the trading event, you will also have free admission to the museums.

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LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 1-11 Compendium 2nd Edition

October 10, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Back in August, Michael Bradford released the first edition of his LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 1-11 Compendium. It had tons of information about the Collectible Minifigures from Series 1-11 as well as the Team GB ones. Today, he has contacted me telling me about an update to his informative PDF about the LEGO minifigures. The 2nd Edition has updated information of the sale data as well as valuation of the new Series 11 minifigures. There are also many new facts and also a few surprises hidden throughout the Compendium. To download the 2nd Edition Compendium, head over to our Google Drive page and click the download button to get your own copy.

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Bricks on the Dollar/Clutch Factor LEGO Giveaway

October 10, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

From time to time, we here at The Brick Fan like to cross-promote other sites in the LEGO community. Chris over at Bricks on the Dollar has recently started his YouTube channel and wants to promote it by doing a giveaway. If you don’t know what Bricks on the Dollar/Clutch Factor channel is about, Chris shows you which LEGO sets can be parted out for maximum profit if you’re a seller. The prize for the giveaway will be the LEGO CUUSOO Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine (21103). Shipping is also included so you don’t have to pay for anything.

To enter, head over to YouTube and create a video telling Chris that it is your entry to the giveaway. Also, describe why you like the Bricks on the Dollar channel and include this link in the description of your video. After that, send a personal message to Chris telling him the link to your own video. That’s it! It may seem a little complicated but it’s pretty easy to follow. The contest ends on October 26th so you have a few weeks to enter. If you’re a BTTF fan, you’ll know that the date is when Marty goes back in time in the original movie. Good luck!

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Project Swapfig Round 2 – Fight!

October 1, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Back in April, we did a post promoting Project Swapfig on Kickstarter. The project was started by Drew Maughan, aka SilentMode, to help bridge the gap for minifigure traders. The site allows people to trade away their unwanted LEGO minifigures for ones they want or need. Unfortunately, the Kickstarter project didn’t meet its goal.

Fast forward to today, Drew has decided to start another crowdfunding campaign for Project Swapfig but this time, it is on Zequs. Some differences from the original Kickstarter project is that the target is at £1500 instead of £3000 and has a longer duration. One thing that is similar is that there are certain rewards that you can get for pledging a certain amount. Head over to Zequs to see what Drew has to offer including a Gold SwapFigure.

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Brick Owl Hit With Cease and Desist Letter From BrickLink

September 26, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Back in the early part of June, BrickLink was sold to the founder of Korean game company Nexon, Jung-Ju Kim. At the end of the same month, Brick Owl officially opened as another LEGO trading platform. Since the announcement, there hasn’t been any concrete updates for the upcoming BrickLink 2.0. Yesterday, Brick Owl announced that they have received a Cease and Desist letter from BrickLink and were demanded to immediately cease providing their services altogether. This includes using BrickLink’s unique numbering and naming systems as well as the sync feature which extracts data from BrickLink to display on Brick Owl. To me, this pretty much sounds like BrickLink is claiming the exclusive rights to all their data including the naming and numbering system and wants Brick Owl to shut down completely.

However, to counter the C&D letter, Brick Owl will be implementing some changes to their site which includes, removing BrickLink names and numbers from the site. The BrickLink Sync feature also will be disabled on September 28th.

There have been many discussions on whether BrickLink’s catalog was free to use without restrictions but it looks like a corporate giant is putting their proverbial foot down on competitors even though they encouraged competition as they stated on their TOS changes. Keep up with all the happenings over on Brick Owl here.

**Via The Brick News**

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Official LEGO Documentary Coming in 2014

September 17, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Today, Deadline has revealed that The LEGO Group in conjunction with Global Emerging Markets (GEM) will be creating an official feature-length documentary film called Beyond The Brick: A LEGO Brickumentary. They have partnered up with Oscar-winner Daniel Junge (Saving Face) and Oscar-nominated Kief Davidson (Open Heart) to shoot a film to take a deeper look into the company and the impact of the bricks on today’s culture, art, and education. The documentary will also take a look at not only younger builders, but Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOLs), LEGO convention attendees, artists, and famous LEGO fans too. Brendan Kiernan and Justin Moore-Lewy will be producing the documentary and is slated to be released early 2014.

LEGO bricks are everywhere, and this documentary is an examination of their footprint in our global community. The LEGO brick has transcended language, politics, age, race, art, science and technology – all through its ability to draw out the basic human need to create and share. – Jill Wilfert, VP of Licensing and Entertainment for The LEGO Group

A few years ago, there was a very well made short video called AFOL: A Blocumentary that takes a look into the world of a couple of AFOLs from the Pacific Northwest. You can watch that video below.

AFOL A Blocumentary from AFOL on Vimeo.

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