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LEGO San Diego Comic Con 2012 Shazam Minifigure VIP Sweepstakes Coming in February

January 16, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

After many months, it looks like there will be some new rewards available soon on the LEGO VIP Reward Center. On the LEGO Ambassador Network, it has been stated there will be new sweepstakes every month and starting in February, they will be giving away the exclusive 2012 San Diego Comic Con Shazam minifigure. VIPs can enter by redeeming 50 VIP points, up to a max of 15 entries, and the winner will be drawn randomly. Future minifigure sweepstakes will include a signed LEGO Star Wars minifigure and an exclusive Marvel character.

They have also teased on some other rewards that will be coming soon including designer signed Imperial Star Destroyer (75252) sets and signed Star Wars Visual Dictionary copies.

Reward Centre-specific items, we are looking to kick off our first Exclusive minifigure sweepstake in February with a 2012 San Diego Comic-Con “Shazam!” minifigure where people from the following countries are allowed to participate***. VIP Members can enter the competition by redeeming 50 VIP points (up to a maximum of 15 entries) with the winner being drawn at random (postcard entries applicable where local law dictates).

The Rewards team intend to operate these sweepstakes every month starting 10th February and running until 2nd March for Shazam! Upcoming minifigure sweepstakes will include a signed Star Wars minifigure and an exclusive version of a Marvel character.

With regards to other items upcoming on the Reward Centre (dates to be confirmed) are designer-signed Imperial Star Destroyer sets and designer-signed Star Wars Visual Dictionary copies.

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The LEGO Group Extends Strategic Partnership with Tencent

January 14, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Group extends strategic partnership with Tencent – Providing more creative and safe digital play experiences for Chinese children

The LEGO Group and Tencent announced today that the two companies have renewed their memorandum of understanding (MoU) to further strengthening and expanding their strategic partnership in digital play experiences for Chinese children.

In the next two years, the two parties will deepen collaboration in areas including video, game and digital child safety, and explore opportunities to collaborate in areas of digital social community, intellectual property and corporate social responsibility.

Paul Huang, Senior Vice President of The LEGO Group and General Manager of LEGO China, said, “We are delighted to renew our strategic partnership with Tencent. In the past two years, we have worked closely with each other and achieved impressive results in video, game and digital child safety. What’s more important is that they have been welcomed by Chinese children and families. Through the extended partnership, we will be able to offer more creative and safe digital play experiences for children in the country.”

Steven Ma, Senior Vice President at Tencent Holdings, said, “Tencent has always been committed to safeguarding children’s digital safety and allowing them to have fun in the digital world. We are excited to be able to continue promoting children’s development through innovation in technologies. With the renewal of our partnership, we will continue to protect children’s digital safety while creating more quality digital play content for children, so as to stimulate their interests in and imagination for technology.”

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LEGO Masters Celebrity Guests Revealed

January 9, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Fox has revealed the celebrity guests that will be appearing on themed-episodes of the upcoming LEGO Masters TV show. The lead judge will be LEGO designer Jamie Berard and joining him will be LEGO celebrity fans Terry Crews, Mayim Bialik, Nicole Byer, Phil Lord, and Chris Miller.

CELEBRITY LEGO® FANS JOIN HOST WILL ARNETT ON NEW UNSCRIPTED COMPETITION SERIES “LEGO MASTERS” PREMIERING WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, ON FOX

Special Appearance by BB-8, C-3PO and R2-D2 in a “Star Wars™”-Themed Episode

New competition series LEGO® MASTERS has announced celebrity guests, including Mayim Bialik, Terry Crews, Nicole Byer and “The LEGO Movie” writers and directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. These special guests will join host Will Arnett throughout the show’s premiere season, debuting Wednesday, Feb. 5 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), immediately following the Season Three time period premiere of THE MASKED SINGER (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), on FOX.

Actress and producer Mayim Bialik (“The Big Bang Theory”) will help the contestants pair LEGO-building expertise with their knowledge of the universe in a space-themed episode.

Terry Crews (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) steps in to help Arnett encourage the contestants in a “Good vs. Evil” challenge that has major implications on the competition moving forward, while Nicole Byer (“Nailed It!”) comes to set to facilitate great LEGO storytelling in a “Story Book”-themed episode.

“Star Wars” fans will not want to miss some extra special guests in the “Star Wars”-themed episode of LEGO MASTERS, during which Arnett and guests BB-8, C3PO and R2-D2 challenge the contestants to build their own droids and replicate iconic scenes

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What Classic LEGO Set Would You Like to See Reissued?

January 7, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

It is now 2020 and many of us have been fans of LEGO for many years, some of you even decades. Each year LEGO releases brand new sets and sometimes even new themes, whether it be in-house IP or licensed ones. This is all fine and dandy especially since LEGO’s main audience are kids but what about the adults?

We also are builders but for some of us, we are also collectors. If you’re a collector like I am, I like nostalgia. I like the old stuff that remind me of my childhood. LEGO has released some new sets that harken back to some original sets like the Taj Mahal (10256) and Carousel (10257) but that’s about it for the larger sets. The most recent thing were the LEGO Star Wars – 20th Anniversary Edition sets which were pretty decent.

Fans have been asking for LEGO to do more stuff like this for years but they haven’t budged that much. The hype in recent years is that other toy companies have been releasing new products that resemble the old school toys from our childhood. These companies include NECA, Super7, and Hasbro and they have taken strides to release toys like the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Thundercats, and Transformers Reissue figures, respectively, and fans have been eating them up like hotcakes. If LEGO would do something similar, there would surely be a market for it.

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LEGO at the 2020 London Toy Fair

January 6, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

It’s already that time when con season will be kicking off soon and the 2020 London Toy Fair will be happening in a few short weeks. LEGO will be attending the event this year and according to the exhibit floor map, LEGO will be again taking up the Olympia Room as well as having a booth on the floor.

For this year, the London Toy Fair will be introducing media badges for both press as well as for influencers so maybe we’ll see some LEGO fan media from across the pond attending this year and if we’re lucky, see some details about future LEGO sets.

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The Brick Fan 2019 Recap

January 1, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

It seemed that 2019 went by extremely fast and we’re already into the new year. That means that we can now take a look back at some of the statistics and other things that happened on The Brick Fan last year. This is probably one of my favorite times of the year simply because I like to see how my numbers stack up to previous years and also assess what I can do to improve.

We ended the year with 22,534,938 page views which is 51% more than in 2018. I’m not sure why the massive increase but I’ll gladly take it. As a result, unique views and first time visitors also dramatically increased as well.

One thing that is curious is that October’s traffic dropped a lot and I’m not sure why. There were 87 posts during the month which is on par compared to the other months of the year.

Our biggest traffic day was on November 19 with 121,434 page views. This was during the time when images of the 2020 sets started surfacing online. We finished off the year with 932 posts which is a bit more than previous years.

On to social media counts, we’re still slowly growing on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Facebook now has 15,845 followers (11% increase), Twitter has 9,513 followers (18% increase), and Instagram has 15,254 followers (16% increase). The subreddit now currently has 404 readers subscribed. No that is not a page error for you programmers.

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LEGO Steve Harvey Bust Spiked by Gronk

January 1, 2020 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

If you didn’t watch the New Year’s Eve coverage last night on Fox, there was a segment featuring former New England tight end Rob Gronkowski along with Steve Harvey as well as a LEGO bust of Steve. It didn’t take long for things to derail as Gronk spikes the bust to Steve’s surprise. I can’t really tell if Steve’s reaction is legitimate or not but it’s a shame that the bust got smashed up. I can’t imagine how long it took designers to create it and if they knew that was going to happen. Anyways, Happy New Year to everyone and it’s time to get out there and build those new LEGO sets!

Gronk spiked Lego Steve Harvey and Harvey was NOT happy.

Harvey: “I don’t want to work with him no more.” 😂pic.twitter.com/FxCUKTG2LY

— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) January 1, 2020

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