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Turmoil and Drama on LEGO CUUSOO

August 21, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

As you may have read last week, I did a couple of posts here to help spread the news about BrickQueen’s Jurassic Park projects on LEGO CUUSOO, the Jungle Explorer T-Rex Encounter and the Triceratops Encounter. Besides the Jurassic Park projects, she also had a couple of Super Heroes sets that were doing pretty good as well such as her Killer Croc’s Lair project which was about to hit 5,000 supporters. Well I have some sad news to report. It appears that her account has been banned/suspended and all the projects were deleted and it wasn’t something she has done wrong. She has released a video (below) explaining what happened. It was stated in the video that another user recently posted another Jurassic Park project and has been flagging BrickQueen’s projects and also rallying his “supporters” to flag her projects as well.

We’ve had many projects that had the similar concepts and ideas going on simultaneously on CUUSOO before but we’ve never seen this happen. The video also goes on to explain that she has gotten personal messages from various individuals saying terrible things and it absolutely sickens me that people would go that far to ruin someone else’s hopes and dreams. You can hear the pain in her voice as she tries to explain the situation. The pain of something that you worked very hard on and it going down the drain by forces not of your control. We are all LEGO fans here, are we not? We’re here to support the creators and … Continue

10,511 Piece LEGO Video Game Characters Mosaic For Sale

August 21, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

A seller by the name of Mytemporaryshop on Etsy is selling a 10,511 piece LEGO mosaic that features many SEGA and Nintendo video game characters for a small sum of $4,823.93. The mosaic was created on 15 large grey baseplates and is measured at 75″ x 45″. The profits that the seller receives will go towards their friend’s school project in Africa so it’s a nice little donation for a great piece of work. If you have a couple grand to spare and have some space on your wall, why not pick up it up and have a LEGO masterpiece hanging on your wall.

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Red Clay School District Sets Guinness World Record For Tallest LEGO Tower

August 19, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The Red Clay Consolidated School District in Wilmington, DE have set the Guinness World Record for the tallest LEGO tower at 112 feet, 11 and 3/4 inches. The tower was created using more than half a million bricks and weighed in at almost a ton. The project started in March and took students throughout the summer to finish their section of the tower and today was completed around 6:45pm at John Dickinson High School. There were 28 schools in the district that worked together to create the mammoth structure. All the bricks that were used were not from school funds but with donations from all over the world. The previous world record was set in Prague, Czech Republic in September 2012 and was at 106 feet and 7 inches. Portions of the record setting tower will now be given to individuals who donated $25 or more towards the project and some will be going back to the schools for educational purposes. The remaining bricks will be sold and the funds will be going back to the Red Clay district for school activities.

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Red Clay Consolidated School District LEGO Tower Fest

August 17, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Last month, we reported that the Red Clay Consolidated School District in Wilmington, DE will be trying to set a Guinness World Record for the tallest LEGO tower. As of Thursday, construction has already started and the tower was at about 40 feet. The completion of the tower will be held on Monday, August 19th at 5pm during “LEGO Tower Fest” at John Dickinson High School. Tower Fest runs from 5pm to 8pm and will have many games and activities for kids and their families. Our buddies over at Your Creative Friends will be there to cover the event as well so if you’re attending, drop by and say hi.

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BTTF – Doc Brown’s GMC Value Van With Small Delorean on LEGO CUUSOO

August 15, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Masashi Togami and Team BTTF have published their latest project on LEGO CUUSOO, the Back to the Future – Doc Brown’s GMC Value Van with Small DeLorean. This project recreates the scene in the original BTTF movie where Marty McFly meets up with Doc Brown at Twin Pines Mall and where Doc reveals the DeLorean Time Machine for the first time. The set consists of Doc’s multi-stop truck as well as a smaller 6-studded DeLorean that is able to fit inside the van. The minifigures included are Marty and Doc wearing their radiation suits and Einstein. Accessories include the video camera that Marty uses to record the whole event and plutonium for the DeLorean.

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LEGO Responds to SDCC 2013 Exclusive Minifigure Giveaway

August 1, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

This whole week, I’ve been following FBTB’s discussion about the LEGO exclusive minifigure giveaways at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con. To give you a backstory of the situation, there were individuals who thought that the whole giveaway was rigged. There were attendees who noticed various things that the LEGO staff was doing that was suspicious and made it seem that the giveaway was not a legitimate giveaway such as staff giving people raffle tickets from the bags while having the “winning” tickets in their hands already for when kids go by. Also, people claim that the staff already knew the winning raffle ticket numbers before they were handed out. An attendee also listed more things that made it seem like the raffle was fixed. As a result, a LEGO public relations person has responded to the accusations that the attendees brought up:

Regarding the SDCC minifigure raffle, we can assure you that, contrary to the speculation, the giveaway was in no way rigged or predetermined. After several years at SDCC where minifigure giveaways have left room for improvement, we did implement a new system this year, which was then adapted at the request of the SDCC organizers. Many of the things that are being discussed online about the manner in which we conducted the raffle are not based in fact.

We acknowledge and regret that there were crowd control issues on Thursday, but those were rectified, and the new process for the raffle ran smoothly for the remainder of the show. We did not

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To Azog or Not To Azog

July 27, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

You may have heard by now but there was a mysterious Azog given away randomly at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. Nobody knew when it was given away since it was just handed out by casual clothed employees. Only 100 of Azog was given out and the exclusiveness of it has driven the prices on the minifigure to unheard of amounts on eBay.

As of this writing, there are at least $13,000 worth of Azog minifigures that have already been sold on eBay, including one that sold for $299.95 which is a steal compared to the others. Although another fairly exclusive minifigure have been going for a lot, Mr. Gold, none have match the highest Azog minifigure at $1750. For the completists, this amount is most likely unattainable and their collection will now have a blemish. The difference is that there are 5000 Mr. Gold minifigures compared to only 100 of Azog.

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The question is, who is to blame for the absurd amounts that they’re going for? Is it LEGO’s fault for giving out the exclusively exclusive Azog and limiting them to 100 and only attendees had a chance to get it or is it the sellers greediness that has made the prices so inflated?

Some may say that the blame goes to LEGO because they gave it out to random attendees and the people who couldn’t go will never have a chance to get it. Others say that it’s the sellers’ fault because … Continue