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The promotion for the bonus 100 VIP points for all LEGO Star Wars purchases is now live on Shop@Home, minus keychains, magnets, books, etc. This promotion is for US and Canada and will run until December 24. For Europe, your guys’ promo Double VIP Points.
This promotion takes the place of the LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader Pod (5005376) which was cancelled due to the pod not meeting LEGO’s strict standards and they had to pull the plug before they went to customers.
There will be more LEGO Seasonal sets coming in 2018 and another one that has been uploaded to the servers is a new Wedding Favor (40197) set. It contains 132 pieces and will most likely be priced at $9.99. The set features a bride and groom and a new buildable backdrop unlike the previous 853340 set where it only had a cardboard cutout and it expands on the 
LEGO has uploaded a new LEGO Seasonal set featuring some Flowers (40187). There are two flowers in this 100 piece set, a red rose with a white vase and a daisy in a red vase. This is a nice little gift set that you could give to a loved one during Valentine’s Day. There’s no price point or release date but I assume it’ll be $9.99 and be available at the beginning of the year.
Next up on the LEGO Seasonal Christmas Build Up (40253) is another build that may not look like it fits with the holiday but a little closer look may say otherwise. For today, the build is a lighthouse on a beach area. The lighthouse itself is red and white and topped off with a black dish. As for how the build fits in with Christmas, it could be used to represent the lighthouse in the second stave of A Christmas Carol.
LEGO has uploaded the official images of the upcoming 60 Years of the LEGO Brick (40290) promotional set. As mentioned on the January 2018 LEGO Store Calendar, it will be available starting on January 28-February 14 with a purchase of $125 or more, while supplies last.
The set will have four miniature versions of the Airport Shuttle (6399), Castle (375), Black Seas Barracuda (6285), and Space Cruiser And Moonbase (928). There will also be a printed 2×4 tile to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the LEGO brick patent.
I’ve been told by a few sources that the 2018 LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes sets as well as the Mighty Micros sets have now started to show up at various Toys R Us stores. Furthermore, a couple of sets are also available online on Toysrus.com. There are three DC sets which include:
Superman & Krypto Team-Up (76096)
Lex Luthor Mech Takedown (76097)
Speed Force Freeze Pursuit (76098)
The Mighty Micros sets that are for 2018 include:
Scarlet Spider vs. Sandman (76089)
Star-Lord vs. Nebula (76090)
Thor vs. Loki (76091)
Batman vs. Harley Quinn (76092)
Nightwing vs. The Joker (76093)
Supergirl vs. Brainiac (76094)
One of the big news today is that Disney has officially announced that the company will acquire 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. This acquisition means that certain franchises will return to Marvel including X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Deadpool. Disney will also acquire other entertainment properties like The Simpsons.
Now that the deal has been finalized, LEGO fans can now start speculating about what potential LEGO sets we could see in the future. Obviously, there’s the X-Men and Fantastic Four but we also get a ton of other characters that could we finally get to see in LEGO form like Galactus, Silver Surfer, and Doctor Doom. And obviously fans want to see more Deadpool stuff but that’s iffy since it’s a rated-R property and still be that way according to Bob Iger.
Furthermore, The Simpsons are now also under the Disney umbrella which also could make a return as a LEGO theme. We’ve gotten a few LEGO sets for them already like The Simpsons House (71006) and The Kwik-E-Mart (71016) as well as two waves of Collectible Minifigures. Maybe this Disney/Fox deal can help kickstart negotiations for another Simpsons licensing agreement to produce more sets.
We don’t know what goes behind closed doors for LEGO licensing deals for certain properties but it’s fun to guess what we could possibly get in the future. What do you guys want to see as LEGO sets that are part of the Disney announcement today?
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