LEGO has just released a new retro set that pays homage to the LEGO Castle theme with the Classic Knights Minifigure (5004419) set. It contains 47 pieces and it is currently free with purchases of $50 or more at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home.
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Some new instructions have been uploaded to LEGO’s servers today and one of the new ones includes a set we haven’t heard about yet, the Birthday Buddy (40226). It looks somewhat like a chocolate birthday cupcake with a candle on top of the head.
There are no details about it like price point or availability but I’m going to guess it’ll be priced at $9.99. I assume we’ll start seeing this set first at LEGOLAND parks as these type of sets usually show up there first and eventually at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home later on.
Thanks to Julio for the email heads up.
Tomorrow night, the NASA Juno spacecraft will finally be entering Jupiter’s orbit after a five year journey. Onboard the Juno are some LEGO minifigures that were created as part of a partnership between NASA and The LEGO Group to inspire children to pursue science and engineering.
The minifigures are made out of a special space-grade aluminum and they represent some important mythological and science figures which includes the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno, and Galileo Galilei. Jupiter is holding a lightning bolt as he is the god of the sky and thunder. Juno holds a magnifying glass to signify her search for the truth. Galileo holds a miniature planet of Jupiter as well as a telescope.
The LEGO minifigures will not be returning to Earth as they will be intentionally dropped into Jupiter’s atmosphere after the Juno probe orbits the planet for a year.
Toys R Us is having a new promotion this month where you can get a free LEGO Bionicle set with purchases of $40 or more. You can choose between Skull Warrior (70791), Skull Slicer (70792), or Skull Basher (70793). This promo is obviously to move out older inventory to make way for the summer 2016 sets but it’s nice to get a fairly larger set instead of polybags. The promo is available in stores and online and it lasts until July 23.
TeeFury has a new LEGO t-shirt available today for 24 hours called Ouch. It’s the same expression that you make when you accidentally step on a LEGO brick. The shirt is available in red and the word is in the LEGO font. The shirt starts at $11 but you can save 30% with the coupon code FURY30.
As some of you may have noticed, the LEGO Disney Collectible Minifigures (71012) have been fairly hard to find as they may have been selling out really fast or whatever reason. To show my appreciation for the readers of the site, I ran a contest to giveaway a complete set a few weeks ago. The contests has recently ended and the winner is:
Joanne – Philippines
I’ve already contacted the winner and the package will be sent out soon. Thank you to everyone who entered as we had 12,800 entries which is one of the more entered giveaways I’ve done. I have a few more giveaways planned for the next couple of months so stay tuned for those.
Earlier today, Mark Warburton from TT Games shared some images of the Sonic the Hedgehog minifigure that will coming out for year two of LEGO Dimensions. As we know by know Sonic the Hedgehog will be one of the new licensed properties that will be coming to the popular toys-to-life genre along with a slew of other characters.
As you can see, the Sonic LEGO minifigure is pretty true to the character with the new molded head piece. He is also shown holding a life preserver piece instead of the One Ring piece as shown at the end of the trailer but this could be just a placeholder. We’ll have to wait and see when the images of the expansion pack are released.
Thanks to everyone who emailed this in from NeoGAF while I was at work.
