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LEGO Technic Powered Up Components to be Sold Individually

May 29, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has announced that you will be able to buy certain LEGO Powered Up components that were found in various Technic sets separately starting on June 1. This allows builders to further enhance their builds without having to invest in a whole set just to get the parts.

A message from Gaute Munch, Director Product Technology (Product owner of Powered UP)

For the past two years we have been in dialog with Ambassadors here on the LAN about Powered Up. The feedback that you have shared has been greatly appreciated. It has been insightful but also pleasure to work and brainstorm with different AFOLs around the world on Powered Up. If you are a member of a Recognized Community, thank you.

Today, we are excited to share the news below with you. We are even more excited to know what your plans are? Are there existing sets you are already excited to modify? Are these going straight into your MOCs? It is almost time for show-and-tell!

Great News on Powered Up Components!

Until now our LEGO® Technic™ Powered Up components have only been available to buy as part of the sets and we know that some of you have been interested in having the electronic components available to be sold separately.

Powered Up components are the hubs, motors, lights, sensors and control handsets that can help builders bring their LEGO models to life. The components can be used to add motorized movement and light features to models, and control them through the Powered UP App.

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LEGO House to Reopen on June 22

May 27, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Now that places are starting to open back up, LEGO has announced that the LEGO House will be reopening next month on June 22. There will be some changes that will take place when it reopens which you can read below. For those who are unable to attend, LEGO will be also continuing the LEGO House @ Home streaming activities.

LEGO House re-opens on June 22

We are so pleased to announce that LEGO® House is now opening again. From 22 June 2020, LEGO House will once again be buzzing with life and cheerful guests!

However, it is important to stress that the opening-up of LEGO House will be gradual and controlled and with a very limited number of guests every day to be able to keep the physical distance needed according to the health authorities.

To visit LEGO House all guests must book a ticket in advance at www.LEGOHouse.com – this also applies to annual pass holders.

New initiatives

LEGO House has made some important choices in terms of hygiene, so that guests can have a safe experience in LEGO House:

We know that hand hygiene is the most important factor in terms of mitigating the spread of infection. Therefore, we are doing all that we can to ensure the best possible conditions for optimum hand hygiene in LEGO® House with many hand sanitiser dispensers available in all the zones. Moreover, we are encouraging all guests to take care of themselves and to ensure they maintain good hand hygiene.

General cleaning at LEGO House has

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LEGO Recognized AFOL Networking Events Update

May 25, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Jan Beyer over on the LEGO Ambassador Network has released a statement regarding the AFOL Networking Events that are supposed to be going on around the world. Due to the Covid-19 situation, there have only two events (Bricks LA/Bricks Cascade) that happened because they were held before everything shut down. Jan has given his thoughts on the ANE for 2020 that have not been cancelled yet (BrickFair Virginia/Skærbæk Fan Weekend/BrickCon). He also talks about some ANE that have gone virtual but that is no replacement for physical events.

Dear all, I hope you are all safe and healthy and have time to spend on your LEGO hobby.

Today I like to give you an updated about the situation regarding AFOL Networking Events in the current Corona Virus pandemic.

Due the never seen before circumstances unfortunately only 2 ANE (Bricks LA and Bricks Cascade) in early 2020 could happen. Since mid March all ANEs are cancelled due to governmental or local restrictions for physical meetings and larger gatherings.

This is of course understandable but hits the organizers and participants as well as the AFOL Community quite heavy.

We do our best to be as supportive as we can be to the cancelled ANE but of course it is a very sad situation and we are right now all very uncertain how the future for large physical gatherings looks like.

There are still 3 ANE left for the remainder of 2020 (Brick Fair Virginia, Skærbæk Fan Weekend and BrickCon) which are not cancelled yet and we all cross

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The Brick Fan RLFM Days 2020 Update

May 23, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The 2020 Recognized LEGO Fan Media Days is coming up next week and we are wrapping up some of the questions we’ll be asking the LEGO Designers for various themes. We have an update on one of the topics that we will be attending which is the Confidential New Product. We can now confirm that it will be the new LEGO Brick Sketches that were just revealed a few days ago. We’ll be chatting up with Chris McVeigh on this topic so send in questions that you may have for him below. We’ll be finalizing the questions probably Monday or Tuesday so get them in while you can on the topics below.

• Minifigures
• Element Design
• LEGO Ideas
• LEGO Brick Sketches

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LEGO Chief Marketing Officer Julia Goldin Shares Message to LEGO Fans

May 23, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Over on the LAN, LEGO Chief Marketing Officer Julia Goldin has shared a message with the LEGO community. She has taken time to reflect on the current global situation and shares how the AFOL community is important to her and to LEGO in general, especially the events that are supposed to be going on around the world. It’s nice to see higher ups take time to make candid videos and sharing their thoughts.

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Adam Savage Does LEGO Sorting

May 21, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you know Adam Savage from Tested/Mythbusters, you would know that he’s a big LEGO fan. His recent video on his Tested channel lets you see how he sorts his collection. Since he’s more of the hands-on DIY kind of person, he doesn’t resort to the usual storage solutions like Akro-Mils but instead he goes and builds his own system. On the same note, Brickset has been interviewing members of the LEGO community of how they do their storage which are some pretty good reads and it gives ideas on how to improve on your storage system.

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LEGO Ideas Releases More Video Call Backgrounds

May 14, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

A few days, LEGO released some video backgrounds for those who are telecommuting and today, LEGO Ideas has also released some that are created by the LEGO community. For the past few weeks, they did an activity called “Create a Custom Background for fans to submit their own builds for various occasions. They have gathered a good number of them and have put them all in a Google Drive so you can download them. They will continue to add to the list so keep checking back for new ones.

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