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The LEGO BrickHeadz theme seems to be pretty popular among the community and one of the new sets that was revealed during the 2017 New York Toy Fair was Captain Jack Sparrow (41593) from the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales movie. The set has 109 pieces and is priced at $9.99 with a March 17 release for LEGO VIP members and April 1 for the general public. The contents of the box include two unnumbered bags, a loose 4×6 plate, and the instructions.
The Jeep Wrangler Rubicon by ck80 is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. It is a very detailed build of the vehicle and the size is the same as other LEGO Creator vehicle sets like the VW Camper Van, Beetles, and BMW Mini.
The project now joins The Blues Mobile, SEGA Classic Arcade Machines, Dungeon Master, Red Arrows Hawk, and Venetian Houses as the projects to reach the First 2017 Review Stage.
LEGO has revealed the new LEGO Speed Champions McLaren 720S (75880) over on their Facebook Page. There isn’t much information on it but it does say that it will be available in June. I’m assuming that it will be the same size and the $14.99 price point as the individual Speed Champions vehicles.
Update: DriveTribe has more images of the McLaren 720S. The set will also include a McLaren designer instead of a driver and his design office desk.
A few hours ago, LEGO released their annual results for 2016 and not surprisingly, it was the highest revenue in company history. However in the US, sales were flat despite a large increase in marketing spending from in the second half of the year.
There were 335 new products last year and the main themes that contributed to that revenue was LEGO City, LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Ninjago, LEGO Friends, LEGO Technic, LEGO Creator, and LEGO DUPLO. You can read more of the highlights below as well as the full report here.
– Revenue for the full year increased by 6.0 percent in DKK to DKK 37.9 billion compared with DKK 35.8 billion for 2015.
– Revenue for the full year increased 5.5 percent compared with 2015, excluding the impact of foreign currency exchange.
– Operating profit (profit before financial items and tax) for 2016 was DKK 12.4 billion compared with DKK 12.2 billion for 2015, an increase of 1.7 percent year on year.
– Net profit for the full year was DKK 9.4 billion compared with DKK 9.2 billion in 2015.
Cash flow from operating activities for the year was DKK 9.1 billion compared with DKK 10.6 billion in 2015.
– Tax on profit for the year amounts to DKK 3.0 billion, unchanged from 2015.
– Significant investments were made in building capacity and capability to deliver the group’s long-term growth ambition.
During their presentation, LEGO gave some key figures and production fun facts:
– 0 product recalls since 2009.
– 60 different … Continue
The LEGO Speed Champions theme is still going strong in 2017 and one of the new sets I’ll be reviewing is the Bugatti Chiron (75878)
. The set retails for $14.99 and has 181 pieces. The contents of teh box include four un-numbered bags, one of which is a bag of rims, the chassis, instructions, and sticker sheet.
News on The LEGO Movie Sequel has been somewhat quiet since it’s been pushed back to 2019 a new interview might be shed some new details for the movie. The LEGO Batman Movie director Chris McKay appeared on the Shanlian on Batman podcast and he revealed that The LEGO Movie Sequel could be a lot different from the first.
LEGO 2 is going to be this big musical and space action movie. They need a lot of the writing, a lot of development, not only with script development, but development with songwriters. So it was very ambitious to get that movie out.
If the sequel is indeed going to be a space action musical movie, there will no doubt feature a lot of Benny the Spaceman, voiced by Charlie Day in the first movie. Of course, this could very well change again between now and 2019 so don’t get your hopes up too high since there has already been a lot of changes already so far.
Next up on my reviews of the 2017 LEGO Minecraft sets, I have The Nether Railway (21130). The set retails for $29.99 and there are 387 pieces to it. The contents of the box include three numbered bags and the instructions.
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