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Brickworld Chicago 2020 Cancelled

April 28, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The folks at Brickworld has announced that Brickworld Chicago 2020 which as scheduled to be held in June. With the COVID-19 situation still not fully contained yet, large gatherings are still ill-advised and it is affecting a lot of events worldwide. As a result, Brickworld held a virtual event a few weeks ago which was very successful. Registration fees for Brickworld Chicago will be honored for next year and those who did register will be given access to the virtual events for rest of the year.

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The LEGO Group Announces Partnership with Universal Music Group for New Products Coming in 2021

April 26, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Group and Universal Music Group has announced a new global partnership to expand children’s creative play through music. There will be a new theme coming in 2021 that will utilize music in hopes of inspiring a new generation of musicians. Check out the press release below.

THE LEGO GROUP AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP JOIN TO EXPAND CHILDREN’S CREATIVE PLAY THROUGH THE POWER OF MUSIC

Exclusive global partnership encourages the world to be more playful with an innovative music initiative, combining passion for music with the iconic LEGO® System in Play.

Billund, April 27, 2020 – The LEGO Group today announced an exclusive global partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s leading music-based entertainment company, that will enable children around the world to explore their creativity through play, by expressing themselves through music.

The partnership is based around the development of a new suite of LEGO® products launching in 2021, created to encourage and inspire the next generation of musicians, creatives and fans. This positive and playful initiative aims to reinforce child development and harness the mental and creative benefits of music and LEGO play.

As the global industry leader, UMG shapes culture around the world through the power of music. UMG brings both local and global superstars, along withan unrivalled catalog of recorded music and publishing, covering all genres and languages, to the LEGO Group programs.

Equally, the LEGO Group, which has worked to inspire and develop children through play since 1932, adds to the partnership, solid experience in innovating and developing play

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LEGO to Shut Down Sohobricks in May

April 24, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Last year when LEGO acquired BrickLink, they also got Sohobricks as part of the deal. Unfortunately, a large investment in resources would be needed to sustain the business and to run it efficiently. Therefore, LEGO has decided to shut down Sohobricks at the end of May. BrickLink is still a priority for the company and they will continue to work on that platform and will be sharing updates when possible.

In December 2019 we bought Sohobricks as part of our acquisition of Bricklink. Since then we have been working closely with the Sohobricks team to understand their business and operations. As part of this review, we found that a very significant investment would be needed to create a sustainable business and upgrade manufacturing operations to run efficiently and meet our operational standards.

Unfortunately, such a large investment is simply not commercially viable. As a result, we have made the extremely difficult decision to close Sohobricks from the end of May 2020. We will now focus on supporting Sohobricks’ employees. There are currently 34 people working in the business and we will provide them with financial packages that reflect their years of service and are above the statutory requirements. We will also offer a professional outplacement service that will provide financial advice and assistance in finding a new job.

We would like to thank the Sohobricks team for all that they have done. We know this will be a difficult time for them and we are committed to doing what we can to help them through this.

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LEGO House Exclusives to be Available on Shop@Home

April 24, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

LEGO has sent over an announcement saying that some LEGO House exclusives will be made available on LEGO Shop@Home in May. The LEGO House (21037) will be available worldwide but the Tree of Creativity (4000026) and the LEGO House Dinosaurs (40366) will only be available in the UK, Germany, and Ireland and will be sold at the original DKK equivalent cost. We’ll let you know once these become available.

LEGO House exclusives to be sold via www.LEGO.com

The Covid-19 situation is closing down many great activities, and LEGO® House has had to extend its closing period until further notice. To continue to offer a little bit of the LEGO House atmosphere to all our fans, we have therefore decided to make the three existing LEGO House exclusive sets available via www.LEGO.com

The three products are:

LEGO House Set. 21037. (Launched September 2017)
Tree of Creativity. 4000026. (Launched March 2018)
LEGO House Dinosaurs. 40366 (Launched April 2019)

The items will be sold at the same, or locally equivalent, RRP that we sell the sets for in the LEGO House.

We are planning to have the sets available on www.LEGO.com from early May, 2020. The LEGO House Tree of Creativity and LEGO House Dinosaurs are on limited distribution to UK, DK, and IE only and we expect to have a purchase limit for each customer. Please notice that this is a limited time offer until LEGO House re-opens and the sets are only available while supplies last. As the LEGO House Tree of Creativity is a discontinued set,

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LEGO and Universal Pictures Sign Five Year Movie Partnership Deal

April 23, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Group and Universal Pictures has completed a five-year exclusive deal for development, production, and theatrical distribution for more LEGO movies. This comes off the news from late last year when the deal with Warner Bros. ran out and talks with Universal started up.

LEGO Head of Entertainment Jill Wilfert will be producer on all LEGO movies released by Universal. Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich will also produce on the next LEGO-themed movie.

**Via Deadline**

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Changes Coming to LEGO Powered Up

April 20, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Powered Up team has released a statement regarding the Powered Up app and what we can expect to see in the future. They have been taking feedback from the LEGO community and have been making changes to the features that will affect both kids and adults who use it.

Dear AFOLs and Powered Up users,

First of all, we want to thank you for being AFOLs and users of Powered Up. Your feedback is always highly valued and vital to our future roadmap and vision of LEGO® Powered Up.

The LEGO® Powered Up app has a wide spectrum of users. From kids using the app as a remote control for their LEGO trains, bat mobile, or their own creations, to really technical users building
amazingly advanced LEGO models, and everyone in between.

We aim to please the entire spectrum of users, without forcing anyone into a one-size-fits-all. We aim to lower the floor so that kids can easily get started with the app. We aim to widen the walls and offer different ways of coding and controlling LEGO models. We aim to raise the ceiling to remove limits for our most advanced users.

This means that when we launch something new, it isn’t always for everyone. Lately, we have launched a few very advanced features (Handset and LPF1 support). We realize that these are way too advanced for kids, but this is not for them – yet. These features is our way of trying to raise the ceiling and making new things possible with

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New Member Added to LEGO Certified Professional Program – April 2020

April 20, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Last week, LEGO announced on the LEGO Ambassador Network that have added a new LEGO Certified Professional to the LCP Program. Korean builder Jae Won Lee has been moved from the Entry Program to the main LCP Program.

If you’re not familiar with what a LEGO Certified Professional is, they are individuals who work with LEGO on their own projects and are recognized by LEGO as trusted business partners. If you watched this past season of LEGO Masters, you may have seen stuff built by Nathan Sawaya who is also a LCP here in the US. You can check out the list of LCPs here.

I’m thrilled to let you know that the Korean LEGO Certified Professional (LCP) Jay has moved from the LCP Entry Program into the LCP program. We are really happy about that as it has been a great pleasure working with Jay in the past two years. He is very excited to continue the LCP journey together with us.

Currently there are 21 LCPs in the program of which 3 LCPs are in the Entry Program and 18 LCPs are in the LCP program.

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