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Earlier this month here in the US, LEGO released another LEGO Star Wars Original Trilogy set with the Droid Escape Pod (75136). The set contains 197 pieces and retails for $24.99 for a not so good $0.13/piece ratio. The contents of the box include two numbered bags, the instructions, and a sticker sheet.
If you’re a fan of the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes sets and still haven’t picked up The Milano Spaceship Rescue (76021) yet, Amazon has it on sale for their Deal of the Day for $49.99 which is 33% off the retail price. The set has technically been retired but it seems Amazon still has stock of them and is offering it at a very discounted price. The offer will be available for 11 more hour as of this post or while supplies last.
There are also a lot of other sets from various themes on sale as well. Check out the full list here.
LEGO fans have been waiting for a new Cloud City type set for the LEGO Star Wars theme for a very long time and this year we get a set that’s part of the whole scene with the Carbon-Freezing Chamber (75137). This set contains a moderate 231 pieces and retails for $24.99. The contents of the box include two un-numbered bags and the instructions booklet.
A few weeks ago, Brick Generals, formerly known as Brick Bastards started selling a new custom LEGO minifigure named Superhero. If you follow Japanese manga or anime, you would instantly recognize him as Saitama, the protagonist from One Punch Man (ワンパンマン). I never purchase custom minifigures but I knew I had to get it since it’s one of my favorite animes in recent years.
The Superhero is made from 100% LEGO parts including the red boxing gloves as his hands and a white cape. The torso has printing of his yellow jumpsuit while the legs finish off the look. The only thing that I wish it had was red boot printing since he had it in the anime. The head printing is perfect with his rather bland expression but there is some minor smudging on the nose. Otherwise the
The price for the Saitama/Superhero minifigure is SGD 29.90 which ended up to be about $25 with the currency conversion and shipping from Singapore. I think the price isn’t too bad even though there isn’t that much custom printing. Again, you can purchase it from Brick Generals and it took about two weeks from order to delivery.
Since I haven’t done a giveaway in a while and I have some extras of the LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 15 (71011), here’s your chance to win a complete set of them. The contest will start today and will run for two weeks until midnight April 1, 2016. There will be one winner and it will be drawn shortly after the contest is over.
I’m trying a different giveaway app to see if it works a bit better than the one I’ve used before. If you’ve entered other contests before, the rules are pretty similar to before.
Good luck!
**Thank you to the LEGO ARP Team for providing the minifigures for the giveaway. Prize will be mailed by me.**
A few days ago, LEGO released the newest wave of LEGO Dimensions expansion packs including the Ghostbusters Stay Puft Fun Pack (71233). This Fun Pack contains 65 pieces and normally retails for $14.99 but they’ve been on sale for half off recently.
The minifigure included in the Fun Pack is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man which many LEGO Ghostbusters fans have been waiting for. He’s a pretty simple minifigure but the character is represented perfectly in minifigure form. The torso has the red scarf pattern which could be very nice for other minifigure uses while the head and collar piece is one mold. The head itself is very nice with the little molding details of the chubby face. Finally it comes with the NFC disc that all Dimensions minifigures come with.
The main build for the Fun Pack is the Terror Dog. It does resemble the demonic beast very well even though it is brick-built. The face has the angry look that is accentuated by the red eyes. The head
The first alternate build for the Terror Dog is the Terror Dog Destroyer. It’s almost the same as the regular one but it has two heads.
The last build for the Terror Dog is the Soaring Terror Dog which is a flying version of it that kind of look like a dragon.
Overall, majority of the people who are picking up the Ghostbusters Stay Puft Fun Pack (71233) is for the Stay Puft minifigure because he is exclusive to this set. The Terror … Continue
A few years ago, LEGO released the Sort and Store (5001125) which was shaped like a minifigure head that allows you to shake the head to sort your bricks. This allows you to theorically sort your large, medium, and small bricks into their respective trays.
After about a year on the market, the LEGO Sort and Store was retired and no official LEGO product has had that feature since. Since then a fairly new third-party company called Blokpod has released a new product that has a similar design and use as the Sort and Store. However there are some differences between the two. First is the transparent case. You can actually see your bricks and how they get sorted when you shake it. Another difference is that it is larger and contains four compartments for even more storage capacity.
With Blokpod, you remove the trays by turning them clockwise instead of anticlockwise as the instructions say and vice versa to lock them in place. The plastic is pretty stiff when you first use it but they loosen up once you open it up more. They are modular so you can add more or less to your liking.
Again, the premise of the Blokpod is the same as the old Sort and Store. You pour in your bricks and at the top and give it a good shake. The smallest pieces theoretically are supposed to fall to the bottom while larger pieces are supposed to stay in the higher levels. As you can see, some of the … Continue
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