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HispaBrick Magazine Reviews LEGO Ideas Maze (21305)

LEGO hasn’t officially revealed the LEGO Ideas Maze (21305) set but some sites have early access to do reviews of them including HispaBrick Magazine. Just a short while ago, they have posted an early review of the set which was designed by JK Brickworks. We also get to clearly see some how the set looks like and how it functions so go check out HispaBrick’s review. I’ll be doing my review in a few weeks time. The Maze (21305) will be available in April at the retail price of $69.99.

LEGO ReBrick Relaunches

Earlier today, LEGO ReBrick announced the relaunch of the site. Currently, there isn’t much to see on there but they do have a contest going called the Build for the Sky: LEGO Worlds Challenge. The contest revolves around building something creative in the sky. The only caveat is that you must build your entry in LEGO Worlds.

The deadline to submit your entry is April 4, 2016 and the winner will have their creation in the game and the model will be recreated by a known Brick Artist and displayed at the LEGO Worlds booth at E3 Expo in June.

Issues With LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 15 (71011)?

LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 15 (71011)

If you haven’t purchased any of the Series 15 LEGO Collectible Minifigures (71011) yet and if there are stores around you that are selling them, you might want to pick them up or be cautious about them. As per a report over on Reddit, there’s some sort of recall on them for whatever reason. Speculation from some is that it might be a legal issue caused by the Shark Guy who looks very similar to the Left and Right Shark from the Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show last year. Some others think it’s just a recall because there are some issues with minifigures themselves or with their accessories like getting multiple torsos and no legs while some are getting multiples of a certain accessory.

If you look on Shop@Homeicon, they’re already marked as sold out which is strange considering they were just released last month here in the US. Was this part of this whole recall thing or was it just a coincidence and they happened to sell out quickly. So far, it seems that is happening only in North America. As of this point, there is no official word from LEGO but I’ll keep you updated if there’s any news on it. If you picked up some of Series 15, did you have any quality control issues with them?

Update: Kim from the LAN has posted:

Just to be clear – we have not done a recall in 6 years and if we did, I am quite confident we’d all know.
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The LEGO Group 2015 Annual Report Results

Just a short while ago, The LEGO Group wrapped up their 2015 Annual Report and the numbers show you why they are still one of the top toy brands in the world.

The top themes for 2015 were in random order DUPLO, Ninjago, City, Star Wars, Ninjago, Friends while the best selling sets were Elsa’a Sparkling Ice Castle, Millennium Falcon, City Police Station, Mindstorms EV3, and Heartlake Grand Hotel.

Key Figures

  • Revenue growth excluding foreign exchange impacts was 19% year over year on a local currency basis.
  • Revenue increased by 25% in DKK to DKK 35.8 billion against DKK 28.6 billion in 2014.
  • The year’s operating profit increased to DKK 12.2 billion against DKK 9.7 billion in 2014 – an increase of 26%.
  • Net profit was DKK 9.2 billion compared to DKK 7.0 billion in 2014 – an increase of 31%.
  • Injury rate per million work hours was 1.4 compared to 1.7 in 2014.
    More than 90% of waste from production sites recycled.
  • The number of employees in the LEGO Group increased from 14,762 at the end of 2014 to 17,294 at the end of 2015.

You can check out some of the highlights as well as more details on the press release. You can also download a PDF of the 2015 annual report.

New March 2016 LEGO Sets Now Available for Purchase

LEGO March 2016 Store Calendar

It’s March 1st on the east coast and that means all that means there are a lot of new sets that are available for purchase on Shop@Homeicon as well as on Amazon including:

DC Comics Super Heroes – Shop@Homeicon | Amazon
Elves – Shop@Homeicon | Amazon
Marvel Super Heroes – Shop@Homeicon | Amazon
Minecraft – Shop@Homeicon | Amazon
Ninjago – Shop@Homeicon | Amazon
Speed Champions – Shop@Homeicon | Amazon
Star Wars – Shop@Homeicon | Amazon

The Seasonal Easter Chick (40202)icon is also available for purchase as well as the LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Batman Classic TV Series – Batcave (76052)icon over on Shop@Home.

Check out all the promotions and events that will be happening in the March 2016 Store Calendar.

LEGO Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters (75827) Review

LEGO Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters (75827)

When the then Ecto-1 (21108) was announced that it would be the next LEGO Ideas set, Ghostbusters fans were both happy and sad. Good because we would be getting an iconic car, bad that we wouldn’t be getting the firehouse to go along with it.

Fast forward about a year and a half and rumors started swirling in the community that we would be getting the firehouse in 2016 and back in October, it was revealed that we would indeed be getting the Firehouse Headquarters (75827) next year and shortly after that, the official images of the set were released. The set features details from both Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II.

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