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The Sun LEGO Promotion

January 10, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Brick Fanatics is reporting that The Sun newspaper will be having a LEGO giveaway, mostly likely some of the polybags that have been reported. Brick Fanatic’s member, Adwil24, tweeted the first image of the promotion from The Sun a few days ago. Over on the Sun’s promotions page, it states to “Smile in the face of winter blues with The Sun’s Big Smile Giveaway. Family fun and amazing offers to keep us all smiling through ’til spring.” This probably means that there will soon be giveaways throughout winter until March when spring ends. More updates will be available as news comes.

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End of 2012 Updates at The Brick Fan

January 1, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 4 Comments

After coming out of the “Dark Ages” in late 2011, I decided to start a blog just writing about the LEGO sets that I purchase but under a different URL. There were some complications with the URL so I had to change the blog name. On January 18, 2012, The Brick Fan URL officially went live. The site started off slow with very small traffic coming through, like all beginning sites do. We decided to shift our focus from reviewing just what we purchased to more general news in addition to reviews. It wasn’t until San Diego Comic Con 2012 when the site started to pick up and an uptrend of traffic ever since.

We’ve had a great year in 2012 on the blog, much more than I’ve ever expected. The site had 589,000 pageviews from 377,000 unique visits. All of this would not have happened without our loyal readers and we thank you. We’ve also had the pleasure to connect with a lot of amazing people in the LEGO community.

So what does this all mean? It means that we have bigger visions for next year and in the future. We have some things that we plan on rolling out, which some of you might be excited to see. We would also like your suggestions on how to improve the site such as what you like to see more or less of. Just fill out our contact form and give us your suggestions.

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Inside Look at the LEGO Office in Denmark

December 12, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

If you’ve wondered what the LEGO office in Billund, Denmark looked like, now you can. Toxel.com has posted a few images of what the development department looks like. The office was designed by Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord and has many modern yet fun features including the slide from the upper level. What a neat place to get your creative juices flowing! Check out Toxel.com to see more images of the LEGO office.

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Disclosure Policy

November 30, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The Brick Fan started out as a “fan site” but is now operated as a business which is funded by affiliate marketing and by advertising.

Who Runs the Site

The Brick Fan is owned and operated by Allen Tran

How Affiliate Marketing Works

When you make a purchase or, sometimes, carry out some other action as direct result of clicking on a link at The Brick Fan, we will receive a small commission.

When you click on a link that goes to third party sites like Amazon, Shop@Home, eBay, etc. and purchase something, we will receive a commission. How much we get depends on the merchant and is only a fraction of the purchase price.

Advertising

There are advertisements that are spread out on The Brick Fan in the form of Google Adsense ads as well as Amazon ads.

From time to time we may publish news articles about our affiliate partners concerning promotions, offers, new products and so on. The links in these articles are also affiliate links.

Occasionally manufacturers and publishers send us items to review. We will clearly state at the bottom of the review that the items were sent to us for the purpose and the results are our own opinions and are not paid for positive reviews.

Our Merchants

As of May 2018 we work with the following merchants:

LEGO
Amazon
eBay
Target
Walmart
Ript Apparel
TeeFury
Gamestop
Best Buy

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The Most Expensive LEGO Brick

November 28, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Brick Envy has acquired the rarest and most expensive LEGO brick in existence and is selling it for a mere $14,449.99. This 2×4 brick is made of 14 caret solid gold and weighs in at 25.65g. The brick is stored in it’s original custom box that is embossed with the older LEGO logo and sits on a velvet interior.

This masterpiece was given to LEGO employees at the Hohenwestedt, Germany factory who had 25 years of employment as well as exclusive business partners of LEGO. Only one or two of these rare pieces were given out from 1979-1981 so only a few exist in the world. Working anywhere for 25 years is a big milestone and LEGO rewarded their employees very nicely for their anniversary.

If you have $14,500 laying around and want to own one of the rarest LEGO bricks ever, head over to Brick Envy and snatch up this beauty.

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My “Brick” Friday Experience

November 23, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

I arrived at the Fashion Valley LEGO Store in San Diego about 30 minutes before the “Brick” Friday midnight opening. The line wasn’t as long as I thought unlike the nearby stores that had lines of 50+ people waiting for their openings. While waiting, I had a nice, friendly chat with a few people about different LEGO sets and the state of LEGO at this point in time.

As the doors opened, there wasn’t a mad rush but I did see a lot of people grabbing the LEGO Star Wars 2012 Advent Calendar (9509), which was 50% off, as well as the Winter Village Cottage (10229). I only had two items left on my list so far to purchase, the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Quinjet Aerial Battle (6869) and the LEGO Star Wars Palpatine’s Arrest (9526).

As the I checked out, the Quinjet was 10% off and I was given a chance to choose a scratch-off card for a discount on an item. I picked out a 10% card so that went towards Palpatine’s Arrest. As part of the promotion, I received the LEGO Christmas Holiday Set (3300014) for free. There was also a promotion for a Holiday Pick-A-Brick box but the cashier almost forgot about it and I had to ask for it.

Later in the morning, I was browsing on Amazon to see what was on sale on Black Friday. I found some books that had massive discounts and I’ve been wanting to get them. I purchased The LEGO Book, the LEGO … Continue

Retiring Soon Filter on LEGO Shop@Home

November 11, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Many people including LEGO investors wonder when a certain set is reaching their end-of-life and will be retired. LEGO Shop@Home has now added an extremely useful “Retiring Soon” filter to help you find sets that will be gone in the near future. There are currently 8 sets in the list and it is certainly a page to return to in the future.

**Via Brickset**

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