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LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle, The Flagship Leviathan (21313) Teaser

January 4, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

There hasn’t been much information about the upcoming LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle, The Flagship Leviathan (21313) since it was announced as the winner of the Third 2016 Review Stage until now. According to Promobricks, the German LEGO Store flyer for January/February has revealed a teaser for the set which shows a blueprint outline for it. There has been rumors that the release date of the set is January 17 but there’s been no confirmation of that. The official reveal of the set should be coming any time now so stay tuned for that.

LEGO BrickHeadz SDCC 2017 Spider-Man & Venom (41497) Winner Announced

January 3, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

A few weeks ago, I ran a contests to give away a copy of the SDCC 2017 exclusive LEGO BrickHeadz SDCC 2017 Spider-Man & Venom (41497) and the contest is now over. There were 8,525 total entries and the random winner chosen by by the Rafflecopter widget is:

Kaitlyn L from Yorkshire, UK

Congratulations to Kaitlyn and they’ve already responded with their address. I’ll be shipping the set out in a few days. Stay tuned as we hope to have more contests and giveaways throughout the year.

LEGOLAND California LEGO Ninjago – Master of the 4th Dimension Premiere Date

January 3, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

LEGOLAND LEGO Ninjago - Master of the 4th Dimension

LEGOLAND California has sent over a press release regarding the new 4D film, LEGO Ninjago – Master of the 4th Dimension. It will premiere will be during LEGO Ninjago Days weekend on January 12. Check out the new trailer and press release below.

LEGOLAND® CALIFORNIA RESORT KICKS OFF 2018 WITH NEW EXCLUSIVE 4D FILM, “LEGO® NINJAGO® – MASTER OF THE 4TH DIMENSION”!

4D Film Premieres January 12 and Weekend Continues with LEGO® NINJAGO® Days January 13 & 14

CARLSBAD, Calif. (January 3, 2018) – Ready, set, NINJAGO® time! The new 4D film, “LEGO® NINJAGO® – Master of the 4th Dimension”, opens exclusively at LEGOLAND® California Resort on Jan. 12 and will roll out at LEGOLAND® Parks and LEGOLAND® Discovery Centers nationwide throughout 2018. The 12 minute, 4D experience will play throughout the day at LEGO Showplace Theater in the Park.

Kids can join their favorite NINJAGO heroes at a very special dojo training session exclusively at the family theme park! Guests can become part of the 4D action as Master Wu prepares the ninjas to take on the teachings of the mysterious ‘Scroll of the 4th Dimension’ but disastrous consequences strike and Kai, Nya, Lloyd, Zane and Cole find themselves in a whole heap of trouble for not only them, but the whole universe!

In celebration of the all new 4D animated adventure, the weekend continues with LEGO® NINJAGO® Days Jan. 13 & 14. Guests are invited to join in the LEGO NINJAGO fun at the family theme park and meet some of their favorite LEGO

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New LEGO Ninjago Sons of Garmadon Turbo (30532) Polybag Revealed

January 2, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

LEGO has uploaded the building instructions for a new LEGO Ninjago Sons of Garmadon set with the Turbo (30532). The set is basically a sort of a Mighty Micros set featuring Lloyd’s go-kart and it doesn’t look too bad. Lloyd is in his Wu Cru black outfit which is exclusive to this polybag. I can see builders creating each of the ninjas’ own go-karts with their respective colors and weapons. There’s no word yet on the availability of the polybag at this time.

**Via Brickset**

LEGO Star Wars DJ (40298) Polybag to be Available at Toys R Us

January 2, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 3 Comments

A few weeks ago, I talked about a new LEGO Star Wars: The Last Jedi DJ (40298) polybag that has shown up. It looks like it will be available at Toys R Us as some readers here and on Reddit have them a little early before the release date. They were available for purchase for $4.99 each but I’m guessing they are part of an upcoming promotion. I’ll have to confirm that when I go back to work in a few days.

DJ (40298) is similar to some of the recent LEGO Star Wars minifigure polybags like R3-M2 and the Scarif Stormtrooper (40176) in which they have a connectible stand along with a background card. I’ll let you guys know in a few days when the promo at TRU is running and the requirements to get it.

60 Years of the LEGO Brick (40290) Building Instructions Now Available

January 2, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The 60 Years of the LEGO Brick (40290) set will be available at the end of January but you can now download the building instructions for it early. The nice thing about seeing the instructions early is because you also have the parts list. Fortunately, the set doesn’t seem to have any exclusive pieces besides the new 2×4 printed 60th anniversary 2×4 tile. However, there are some fairly rare new pieces like the 1×3 plate with with studs and the 3×3 black plate, just to name a few.

As I mentioned before, the 60 Years of the LEGO Brick (40290) set will be available from January 28 – February 14 with a purchase of $125 or more at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home.

*Via Brickset**

The Brick Fan 2017 Recap

January 2, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 3 Comments

2017 is now over and that means we can now take a look at the website traffic here on The Brick Fan as well as other miscellaneous stats. We ended the year at 9,081,785 page views which is a 3% drop from 2016 while unique visits went down 4%.

As for the numbers per month, we averaged about 756,000 page views per month with January being the busiest month due to the Toy Fair news. This year’s Toy Fairs will be at the end of the month so I expect traffic will spike in February instead of January. Our highest recorded day was February 18 as we hit just under 60,000 page views for the New York Toy Fair coverage.

Some other random high traffic days include:

– January 3: New Rumors of LEGO Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon Coming

– April 22: LEGO Creator Fairground Carousel (10256) Rumored for June Release

– May 1: LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Thor: Ragnarok Box Art Images

– August 31: LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon (75192) Officially Announced

For our social media pages, we didn’t really grow that much in terms of followers for some of the traditional sites like Facebook and Twitter. I’m actually not sure why it didn’t grow as much as I expected since I am pretty active on them. For Facebook, we ended the year at 12,936 likes (14% increase from 2016) while on Twitter, we had 7,343 followers (8% increase).

As for Instagram, we actually ended right at 10,000 … Continue