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Back in July during Disney’s D23 Expo, it was announced that there will be a new LEGO animated special called LEGO Marvel Super Heroes – Guardians of the Galaxy: The Thanos Threat. Apparently it has been showing on the Marvel HQ YouTube channel and the last episode of the five part series has aired. There’s no word whether the complete episode will be airing on TV or not but in the meantime, you can watch all five episodes below.
Continuing on today’s build for the LEGO Seasonal Christmas Build Up (40253), we have something that you may not think is Christmas related but it certainly is. For today, we get a really good looking steam tractor. We can see that with the ice cream piece that’s on top of it. On the back of it, there’s also a rake on the back that uses some teeth pieces. I really do this this build and hopefully we’ll have more of them for the rest of the set.
Onwards to Day 8 of the LEGO Seasonal Christmas Build Up (40253) and today we have something that fits the winter theme pretty well. This miniature igloo is an okay build utilizing a lot of shite cheese slopes to get the angles. The use of the 2×2 round jumper plate is also a good choice. The only strange thing is that the igloo is on blue plates so it may seem that it is floating on water.
These have been floating around the internet for a while but there are now official images of the 2018 LEGO Super Heroes Mighty Micros sets coming out of Italian shop Mattoncinifamosi. There are six in this wave, three from LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes and three from LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. Some things that are nice to see are the return of blue version of Nightwing and a lighter colored outfit for Supergirl.
Today kicks off the weekend with another round of Double VIP Points at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home. This is probably the best time to do some last minute Christmas shopping and you can get a re-release of the LEGO Creator London Bus (40220) with purchases of $75 or more. To make the promotion more juicer, you can also get The LEGO Ninjago Movie Keychain with purchases of $35 or more as well as the VIP Set (40178) with purchases of $125 or mroe. There are quite a few of the 2018 LEGO sets available already so there’s a bigger selection of products to choose from. The promotion runs until the end of the day December 10.
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The RuPaul’s Brick Race by SeeMarkGeek is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The project is based on the reality competition show called RuPaul’s Drag Race and honestly, I’ve never even heard of it before I saw it on the most supported projects list. Apparently, it’s based on some competition called Clutch Game which is a celebrity impersonation challenge. I’ll just leave it at that.
RuPaul’s Brick Race now joins the Pop-Up Book, Boat House Diner, The Lighthouse, Jaguar E-Type Roadster, and The Dive Shop as the projects to reach the Third 2017 Review Stage.
The 2018 Toy of the Year nominees have been announced and not surprisingly, LEGO has been nominated in a few categories. You can now go to each category and vote for it for a chance to win all the nominated toys on the page. Some of the categories that LEGO is in are:
Collectible of the Year – The LEGO Batman Movie Collectible Minifigures (71017)
Construction Toy of the Year – LEGO Star Wars BB-8 (75187) / LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean The Silent Mary (71042)
Creative Toy of the Year – LEGO Make Your Own Movie
Specialty Toy of The Year – LEGO Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon (75192)
Tech Toy of the Year – LEGO BOOST Creative Toolbox (17101)
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