Category: LEGO Books (Page 34 of 37)

LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side Emperor Palpatine Minifigure Fully Revealed

June 19, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

We’ve been seeing bits and pieces of the exclusive Emperor Palpatine minifigure from the upcoming LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side book from DK Publishing. Today, there’s a couple of new images coming out of Eurobricks of the complete minifigure. For this version of Palpatine, he wears a black robe with printing on both the torso as well as the legs. He has a double-sided head and wears a black hood. You can now pre-order LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side on Amazon and it’ll be released in August.

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LEGO Legends of Chima: Character Encyclopedia Exclusive Minifigure Revealed

June 11, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Hoth Bricks has revealed that the exclusive minifigure that will be in the LEGO Legends of Chima: Character Encyclopedia will be Firox from the Phoenix Tribe. Firox is a new character that has been introduced this year to Chima along with Fluminox, Flinx, Foltrax, and Frax.

The Character Encyclopedia features all the characters of Chima and includes details about each of them. The book also takes a look into the vehicles, locations, and weapons from the world of Chima. The Encyclopedia will be available in August.

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LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side Emperor Palpatine Head Revealed

June 5, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Last month, we reported that the exclusive minifigure for the LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side will be Emperor Palpatine. There’s now a report on Brickset that Palpatine will have a double-sided head which you can see below. The head was posted on Bricklink by someone who was able to get a hold of the minifigure. Now we just need to see the legs and the hair/head piece and we’re good to go. LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side will be available in August.

LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side Emperor Palpatine

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LEGO Ninjago: Ninja Vs. Nindroid Activity Book with Minifigure

May 25, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

There’s a new book by Scholastic that is called LEGO Ninjago: Ninja Vs. Nindroid Activity Book. The book is similar to LEGO: The LEGO Movie: The Piece of Resistance in which it features a minifigure and this version includes a Zane minifigure. The book consists of 32 pages and retails for $8.99 and is slated for release on August 26. The book is now available for preorder on Amazon.

Calling all ninja! LEGO(R) Ninjago continues to be a blockbuster.

The action continues with all your favorite ninja! This book is packed with stories, games, and activities about the Masters of Spinjitzu. Comes with a minifigure of Zane, the White Ninja!

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LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side Exclusive Minifigure Revealed

May 10, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

There is now information of the exclusive minifigure that is in the new book by DK Publishing, LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side. Over on the forums of Imperium der Steine, a user by the name of marc.hb has revealed that the minifigure included with the book will be Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious which was seen in an image of the German cover of the book. Although there is no images yet of the minifigure, there was an image a few months back on Eurobricks of a new torso for Palatine which is very similiar to the one seen in Episode 3 of the Microfighters video (see below). You can also see that the torso has tan hands. Will we also get those hands with the minifigure in the book? We’ll have to see when DK reveals the minifigure. So it looks like we’ll be seeing a new Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious LEGO minifigure. How do you guys feel about that?

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LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded Book Tour

May 10, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded national book tour with co-author of the book, Jason Fry, is going on right now and the first event of the tour was held at Philly Brick Fest a few weeks ago. Yesterday, I had the chance to attend the one here locally in San Diego.

This leg of the book tour was held at the Carlsbad City Library and the turnout was pretty good. There were activities that children could do such as coloring pages and watching animated Star Wars movies. There were also people dressed up as various Star Wars characters so kids can take a picture with them. The main attraction at the event was in the auditorium where Jason talked about the book and had a Star Wars trivia game. Kids who answered correctly were given a limited edition Jason Fry trading card. At the end of the presentation, Jason had a book signing where I had my book signed by him. If you followed my social media sites, you would’ve seen that I posted a picture a few weeks ago of an exclusive print that was also signed at PBF.

Overall, it was a pretty cool event and it was great meeting Jason again. The book tour will last until the end of the month so check out the schedule to see where Jason will be at next. You can also read my review of The Visual Dictionary here.

Got Jason Fry to sign the new #LEGO #StarWars Visual Dictionary. Great to have met him again.

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LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded Review

May 8, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Back in 2009, DK Books released the LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary by Simon Beecroft. The book comprised of images and facts of LEGO Star Wars sets up to that point. It’s been five years since that book has been published and many more sets have been released since then. This year marks the 15th Anniversary of the LEGO Star Wars theme and what a better time to release a new edition of the book aptly called the LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded. The book retails for $21.99 and contains 144 pages. Simon Beecroft returns as the author of the Visual Dictionary and Jason Fry joins as the co-author.

LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded

Cover

Like all other LEGO DK reference-type books, the Visual Dictionary is hardcover and has a holographic shine on the front and back of the book. It now features the iconic bounty hunter, Boba Fett, who replaces Darth Vader who graced the cover in the previous book. The lower right-hand corner has a window that shows the exclusive minifigure of the book, Luke Skywalker.

Minifigure

To commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the LEGO Star Wars theme, DK went back to its roots and has included the yellow skinned Luke Skywalker minifigure. This version of Luke pays homage to the one that was in the Landspeeder from back in 1999. Although there are similarities between the two, this new Luke has updated printing on the torso and legs. The back also has printing which the original version did not have. There’s been … Continue