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LEGO Double VIP Points From December 8-10

December 8, 2017 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 3 Comments

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.

As always, please use the links above to make your purchases as there’s no extra cost to you and it does help support the site.

LEGO Ideas RuPaul’s Brick Race Achieves 10,000 Supporters

December 7, 2017 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 6 Comments

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.

LEGO Nominated for 2018 Toy of the Year Awards

December 7, 2017 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

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)

LEGO Seasonal Christmas Build Up (40253) – Day 7

December 7, 2017 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

It seems like the first week of December flew by just like that and let’s see what we get for the end of the first week for the LEGO Seasonal Christmas Build Up (40253). As you can see, we have an awkward looking penguin. THe design of it is okay for the most part but the colors are way out there with the tan body and blue arms. The most scary part of it are the studs with holes used for the eyes. This is, to say the least, absolutely creepy. There are some 1×1 round eye tile pieces in the set so I’m not sure why LEGO didn’t decide to use them. I’ve taken the liberty to do so and it looks a little better.

LEGO Seasonal Christmas Build Up (40253) - Day 7

BrickLink Announces Site Will Catalog BrickArms Products

December 7, 2017 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 9 Comments

Yesterday, BrickLink announced that they will now start start cataloging BrickArms items and sellers will be able to add them to their inventory. If you’re not familiar with BrickArms, they are LEGO compatible accessories that specialize in military weapons and equipment which are not present in official LEGO products.

Of course, this annoucement has caused some outrage for longtime sellers on BrickLink who, for the most part, are not happy with this change. BrickLink has been known to sell LEGO products as well as some custom items before but those items were still on official LEGO parts like custom minifigures and bricks. BrickArms, however, are technically not genuine LEGO parts but are complementary to them and are pretty high quality molds from what I’ve seen.

Some commenters have say that this could open the door to other companies like LEPIN or Mega Bloks and even BrickLink mentions that they are open to adding more brands to the site in the future, with restrictions. One thing that’s for sure is that BrickLink will be trying it out and seeing how it goes.

For fans of BrickArms, this move makes the brand more accessible since they are only sold through authorized resellers. Adding them BrickLink will be another source to get the products. BrickLink will be making some changes to the site to filter out BrickArms products if you don’t want to see them.

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LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader Pod (5005376) Promotion Cancelled

December 7, 2017 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 4 Comments

For those who have been for the LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader Pod (5005376) that’s supposed to come out later this month as a promotion, I’m sorry to say that the product has been cancelled. I’ve known this information for a few days now but LEGO has released an official statement of why the promo will not be happening.

Star Wars Pod No. 5005376

We have to inform that as part of our internal quality screening process, we have found that the Star Wars Metalized Pod 5005376 does not meet our strict standards. As you know, we take the quality and safety of our products extremely seriously, and so out of an abundance of caution we have decided not to launch the Star Wars Pod.

We are committed to continuing support for our Star Wars promotion, and will offer consumers 10% off across all LEGO® Star Wars products from 18th – 24th December 2017, excluding the Millennium Falcon product (75192).

The LEGO Group Wins Copyright Infringement Case Against BELA

December 7, 2017 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

In The LEGO Group’s seemingly endless fight against counterfeiters, the company has announced they have won against a company in China that infringes upon their copyrights. In September, the China Shantou Intermediate People’s Court ruled that BELA had indeed copied LEGO in various ways including the packaging and logo of their products from various subthemes. This marks the first time that LEGO has won a copyright infringement case in China. There is also another company that LEGO also filed a case against. There are no details on the other one at this time. Check out the full press release below.

The LEGO Group has received a favorable decision from China Shantou Intermediate People’s Court in September holding that certain BELA products infringed upon the copyrights of the LEGO Group and that manufacturing and selling of those products constituted acts of unfair competition. It is the first time the LEGO Group has filed and won an anti-unfair competition case against imitators in China.

The case was filed against two Chinese companies, which had been manufacturing and selling products that were almost identical to LEGO®products. The decisions come into effect in November 2017.

The court decided that the two Chinese companies must stop copying the packaging and logos of LEGO products in the future, as this constitutes copyright infringement. The court also decided that the LEGO Group enjoys protection under Chinese anti-unfair competition laws for the distinctive and unique appearance of certain decorative aspects of its packaging across particular product lines (in this case, LEGO Friends), which serves

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