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Over on Brickset, there’s an image of a new LEGO City 2017 set with the Fishing Boat (60147). There’s not much to go on as regards to the piece count or pricing as none were stated. I’m also not sure if this set is for a boat-related subtheme for 2017 or one of the Great Vehicles.
**Via Eurobricks**
LEGO Ideas is doing something new for members who have managed to gather 10,000 supporters for their projects and have reached the Review Stages. They are running interviews with the project creators of the First 2016 Review Stage and there you’ll have a chance to learn more about them personally and their project as well as tips on how to achieve the end goal of 10,000 supporters. From the wording of the post, after all the interviews have been done, the LEGO Ideas team will will reveal the results of which project(s) will become official LEGO Ideas sets.
Today, LEGO has posted the first interview with whatpumpkin who created the Fossil Museum. There are nine project creators to feature since there are nine projects that hit 10,000 supporters for the First 2016 Review Stage including Fossil Museum, the Gingerbread House, the Modular Train Station, the Old Fishing Store, the Jedi High Council, the Particle Accelerator, the Jurassic Park Visitor Center, Rolling BB-8, and Johnny Five.
There’s no word on how often these interviews will be ran but follow the LEGO Ideas Blog or the Facebook Page to get updates on when the interviews are posted.
From now until August 15 at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home, LEGO is giving out the LEGO Creator London Bus (40220) with purchases of $75 or more as part of their main promotion for the month in the US and Canada. The contents of the box include two unnumbered bags, a 2×12 black plate, the instruction booklet, and a sticker sheet.
The 118-piece build is simple as you pretty much stack bricks and plates up. As the bus is a double-decker, both levels are similar with slight differences. The lower level has a lot of windows which uses the 1×2 trans-clear bricks. Not immediately shown on the front is the fairly new 1×2/2×4 angle plate used to attach the black grill pieces and 1×1 trans-clear studs for the headlights. The back left of the bus has an opening for bus entrance and a 1×1 tile for the step. At the very back, there are some 1×1 trans-clear studs for the tail lights. To finish off the lower level, there’s a 1×2 white tile with a sticker for the license plate.
For the upper level of the London Bus, there are more of the 1×2 trans-clear bricks along with some 1×1 trans-clear bricks for the windows. The main feature here are some of the large bus advertisement stickers for the set. On the left side, the sticker features the Union Jack flag along with the Big Ben (10253) with the words, “NOW’S THE TIME TO VISIT!” On the opposite side of the London Bus, there’s … Continue
If you didn’t know, Scholastic will be releasing a new, first-ever LEGO Pop-Up book by Matthew Reinhart which takes you through the LEGO Universe in a fun and interesting way. With the help of LEGO designers such as Matthew Ashton, Mark Stafford, Jamie Berard, and Simon Lucas, just to name a few, the book has lots of facts that you can read through by opening and pulling tabs, turning wheels, and such. Earlier today, Matthew Ashton also tweeted out some images of the book and there’s also a preview video as well which you can check out below.
LEGO Pop-Up will be available on September 27 and you can pre-order your copy over on Amazon. It is a little pricey with it retailing for $29.99 for 10 pages but it may be worth checking out especially if kids are into these kinds of books.
The first ever LEGO(R) pop-up book! Matthew Reinhart creates another spectacular pop-up book, this time telling the LEGO(R) story with equal amounts facts, fun, and adventure! Packed with a variety of features- pop-ups, pull tabs, turning wheels and more, this “fun-formative” book will be a delight for both LEGO(R) and pop-up fans alike.
The rumor mill is in full swing over on the Eurobricks Marvel topic about an upcoming LEGO 2017 set. Just2Good has “confirmed” that we’ll be getting a set next year featuring Agent Coulson and his car Lola. Other known reporters like amazingbricks and Sir Gareth have chimed in and said the set will also include Iron Man as well as Detroit Steel with the latter being a bigfig. While Detroit Steel isn’t a big name villain, it’s nice to see some variety in characters. Speaking of which, an Agent Coulson minifigure is long overdue along with Lola. From what I’m gathering, this is more of a comic/game based set and not the MCU/Agents of SHIELD version. The price point that was mentioned in the thread was going to be around $30-$50.
There’s isn’t much going on for the LEGO Marvel sets at this time but there is more information slowly coming out every day like the one mentioned above and we already know about the Hulk vs. Red Hulk set. Early indications show that we’re getting more obscure characters and not as many rehashes of existing characters which is nice. So what do you guys think of this rumored set with an interesting combination of characters? Personally, I can’t wait to see it but it looks like it’ll be a fun little set.
Update: It may seem that Detroit Steel might be a brick-built figure similar to the Hulkbuster.
It seems that the rumor of the Double VIP Points event at LEGO Stores and on Shop@Home is indeed true for this weekend. So far, we can only see it on the mobile version but there is a promo listing for August 6-8. The weird thing that you can make purchases today on the regular desktop Shop@Home site and it does state that the points are doubled on the product listings and on your shopping cart. I’ll also state that the Double VIP event is for USA and I’m not sure if other countries have it or not.
Update: The promo is now listed on the desktop version of Shop@Home and it now states August 5-7 as was mentioned before.
If you prefer shopping on Amazon for some of the new LEGO summer 2016 sets, you’ll be glad to know that the Super Heroes sets, minus the store exclusives, are now available at their normal prices.
Gas Mask Batman and Blue Beetle are racing to help the frightened farmer in the Bat copter. Shoot the harvester before it mows down the tractor-but watch out for Scarecrow’s fear gas stud shooter! Stage an aerial battle with Blue Beetle and swat Killer Moth out of the sky! Stop the criminals imprisoning the farmer in the harvester’s fear gas tank and spreading fear to the rest of Gotham City.
Reinforcements have arrived! Help Red Hood and Katana stop the monstrous Killer Croc and evil Captain Boomerang from destroying Gotham City. Charge Killer Croc’s Battle Chomper with Batman’s Bat-Tank. Crush the heavily armored vehicle with the Bat-Tank’s powerful ram weapon, but don’t get bashed by the swishing tail or fall into the giant jaws. Crush the foes with super heroes teamwork and stop the evildoers once and for all!.
… ContinueThe bridge is under attack! Team up Spider-Man, Spider-Girl and Scarlet Spider to defeat Green Goblin. But beware Kraven the Hunter crawling out of his secret lair, and watch out for Scorpion’s venomous tail. Rescue the taxi with a web before it plunges off the roadway, and protect Aunt May from Green Goblin’s flaming pumpkin bomb-then round up all the villains in a
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