Category: LEGO Miscellaneous (Page 41 of 47)

What’s This Mysterious LEGO Store Passport?

January 6, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

It looks like something new is coming soon to LEGO Brand Stores. A reader by the name of Michael emailed me some images of a Passport that employees at the Frisco, TX store was handing out to kids. It looks like there are stamps that kids can get for attending the Monthly Mini Model Builds as well as LEGO Club Meetings. It looks like there’s also spots to get it stamped at different LEGO Store locations throughout the world. There’s no details of any incentives to having the Passport fully stamped but it’s something to try and achieve. Plus it adds more interaction between the stores and kids who participate. I’ll try to get more information about this LEGO Store Passport when I head out later today.

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New LEGO Minifigure Box Set (5004077) Found

December 30, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Over on TaoBao, where many new 2015 minifigures have shown up recently, is a new LEGO Minifigure Set (5004077) which is similar to the one that was available at Target a few weeks ago. The second box again includes different minifigures from four different themes including LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes, LEGO Ninjago, LEGO Legends of Chima, and LEGO City.

From the images provided, we get a new character in the DC Comics line with Lightning Lad. He is the founding member of the Legion of Super-Heroes which was inspired by Superboy who was in the last box.

For the Ninjago minifigure, we get Kai in a new outfit. This version of him is different from the ones that we will be getting in the 2015 sets.

On the Legends of Chima side, we get another version of Sir Fangar from the Sabre-Tooth Tiger Tribe.

Finally for the City minifigure, we get someone in a scuba outfit which looks like it’s someone from the Exploration subtheme that will be coming out next summer.

Overall, there’s no details yet on how to obtain this second LEGO Minifigure Set (5004077) but my guess is that it’ll probably show up at Target like last time. Although Lightning Lad isn’t a pretty major character in the DC Universe, he is someone new in the LEGO Universe which collectors will covet. We’ll let you know if/when the set becomes available.

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LEGO Subscription Box – BrickSwag December 2014 Review

December 29, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

I recently received the December 2014 Brick Builders Club but didn’t have time to review it due to my abnormal work schedule but it’s still December so let’s see what we got this month.

The first thing you see when you open up the box is the guaranteed exclusive t-shirt that you get every month. This month’s shirt is a winter based shirt with some minifigures in an ice cube tray with the caption “Chill Out.”

The next items are the Funky Fig cards designed by The Mad Stacker. Again, there are five collectible cards that feature various minifigure characters in Garbage Pail Kids style. The groups that these cards belong to are the Champion Chumps and the City Slickers.

Next are some stickers which again are winter-based and shows some different designed brick-built snowflakes.

The next item in the box is courtesy of The Brick Show with their battery-powereed Black Street Lamp with Yellow Light. This allows you to creates scenes that give a warmer light. Although it is not an official LEGO product, it is compatible with LEGO bricks. You can also order this item at The Brick Show Shop for $6.99.

As usual, we also get a Brick Builders Club Parts Pack with items from Brick Warriors. The items included in the pack are a pair of crutches which are still attached to the plastic that you break off, an English Longbow, a Quiver, a Plague Doctor Hat, a Lizardman Shield, and a Magic Wand. The total cost of the Parts Pack … Continue

LEGO Year of the Sheep (40148)

December 28, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

According to the Lunar Calendar, February 19, 2015 will begin the Year of the Sheep on the Chinese zodiac and to commemorate this event, LEGO will again be releasing a set based on the holiday. The 2015 Year of the Sheep (40148) will include the pieces to create a sheep and is also packaged inside a small red envelope which you can use to give money to others as part of the Chinese tradition.

LEGO did something similiar back in 2013 with the Year of the Snake (10250) but it wasn’t available outside of Asia. It may seem that next year’s set will follow the same pattern.

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CUUSOO BRICK Launches Today

December 17, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

BrickLink has launched another platform for users to submit and share their MOCs that aren’t commercialized, CUUSOO BRICK. From what I’m reading, it is similar to what LEGO Ideas is about except for some little differences.

Users submit their MOCs and other users vote on it and if it gets 100 votes, a CUUSOO BRICK Award is given and it goes under review. Then CUUSOO BRICK will contact the original creator and asks if they would like the project to be distributed or provide building instructions. If the original creator approves, the project can be purchased on the BrickLink MOC Shop with building instructions and parts. Both the original creator and the user who recommended the MOC will get royalties based on the sales of the project. Read the official press release below:

BrickLink and CUUSOO Jointly Create a LEGO Publishing Platform

California, USA and Tokyo, Japan – December 17th, 2014 – BrickLink MOC Shop and CUUSOO teamed up to create a new platform that will publish custom LEGO models created by LEGO fans. Since 2000, BrickLink has facilitated the trade of bricks all around the world as a LEGO marketplace. CUUSOO Systems has previously operated what is now called LEGO Ideas (with The LEGO Group), supporting aspiring creators from around the world get their products manufactured.

The collaboration to launch will lower the threshold for MOC production in efforts to increase user-generated LEGO creations available for consumers. Users will be able to discover new MOC projects on CUUSOO collected from anywhere on the Internet

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LEGO 2014 Employee Gift Revealed: LEGO HUB Birds (4002014)

December 11, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you don’t know, people who are lucky enough to work at LEGO are able to get some snazzy gifts that are not available to anyone else unless you find them on the secondary market. Brickset has uncovered the 2014 LEGO employee gift which has already shown up on German eBay, the LEGO HUB Birds (4002014). This 487 piece set features five different birds including a robin, crane, swan, eagle, and another bird that I can’t identify. This set would go great with the upcoming LEGO Ideas Birds (21301) set which will be available to everyone on January 1st. I’m also curious to what LEGO HUB is about. If you’re a LEGO employee, please comment below if you know what LEGO HUB is.

Update: The Hubs are the different LEGO offices throughout the world and the birds represent the national birds of each country: Robin (UK), Crane (China), Swan (Denmark), Eagle (USA), and Crimson Sunbird (Singapore).

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Free BrickJournal Issue from TwoMorrows Publishing

December 4, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you ever wanted to check out what BrickJournal is about, TwoMorrows Publishing has you covered. They are offering a FREE full PDF copy of BrickJournal Issue 10 through their website that you can download. Although this is the March/April 2010 issue, there’s still a lot of great content you can read through and takes you back through memory lane. Some of the content includes a behind the scenes look at the then-new LEGO Atlantis sets and underwater MOCs.

If you’re not familiar with BrickJournal, it was created by our good friend Joe Meno and is one of only two LEGO magazines here in the US with the other being Blocks. If you like what you see, why not subscribe as TwoMorrows is offering a special deal until December 31st.

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