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LEGO Ideas Concorde Display Set Achieves 10,000 Supporters

January 3, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

The Concorde Display Set by ABStract is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The project is based on the famous British/French airliner which was known as one of the fastest jets in aviation history. It was eventually retired in 2003 due to safety and budget issues. The Concorde project itself has many features like a working nose droop mechanism and moveable control surfaces.

The Concorde Display Set barely squeaks in to the Third 2015 Review Stage and it joins the Jurassic Park Explorer, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Nautilus, the Toyota Landcruiser 40 Series, the Beatles Yellow Submarine, the HMS Beagle, and Apollo 11 Saturn-V as the projects that have a chance of becoming an official LEGO set if it passes the Review Stage.

LEGO Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters (75827) Designer Video

January 2, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

If you’ve been holding off on getting the LEGO Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters (75827) but you want to see some closer details of the set, the designer video is now available online. Yes I did that it was available for viewing over on the LEGO Shop Facebook Page but I was waiting for a version of it to become avaialble on YouTube for easier viewing.

In the video below, you can see designers Marcos Bessa and Paul-Constantin Ţurcanu discuss some small details that you may not know about yet. I’ve already purchased and I should have my review sometime next week when I have some time to build the set.

75827 Firehouse Headquarters

Ages 16+. 4,634 pieces.
US $349.99 – CA $399.99 – DE 349.99€ – UK £274.99 – DK 2999.00 DKK

*Euro pricing varies by country. Please visit shop.LEGO.com for regional pricing.

Get ready to bust some ghosts at the Firehouse Headquarters!

Recreate iconic Ghostbusters™ scenes with the 2-story Firehouse Headquarters, featuring laboratory, living quarters, containment unit and much more. Capture the ghosts with the proton packs and restore order, or solve other supernatural cases! Includes 9 minifigures: Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore, Janine Melnitz, Dana Barrett, Louis Tully, Library Ghost and Zombie Driver.

Includes 9 minifigures: Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore, Janine Melnitz, Dana Barrett, Louis Tully, Zombie Driver and Library Ghost.

Also comes with Slimer, Pink Ghost and Blue Ghost.

Slide the Ghostbusters™ heroes down the fire pole into action.

Chase the ghosts and secure them in the

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LEGO Nexo Knights Intro Pack (5004388) Review

January 2, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

From now until January 10 with every purchase you make at LEGO Brand Stores or on Shop@Home, you’ll get a FREE LEGO Nexo Knights Intro Pack (5004388). If you haven’t gotten one yet, here’s a little sneak peek of what is included in this Intro Pack.

As you can see, there are a total of five items in the pack including a generic Lava Monster minifigure, a Shield holder key chain, a poster, and two sticker sheets, one with the Nexo Knights and the other with the Monsters.

For the Lava Monster minifigure, it looks like a combination of a couple of the monsters in this wave but this particular minifigure looks like it’s exclusive to this pack. Like with the other monsters, it has a red torso and wears some black pants with leg armor printing. It has a double-sided head and has a helmet to go along with him. However, there is no accessory.

The Shield holder key chain is the same one that all the Nexo Knights have in gray color. There is a gray 1×1 Technic brick with hole and a 1×1 round stud glued on to the shield itself. Finally there’s a little chain that you can attach it to whatever you want.

The poster is double sided and on one side, you have the promo image that we saw on the back of the LEGO Club Magazine back in October. On the other side, you have a cool image of the Monsters posing in front of a fire.… Continue

The Brick Fan 2015 Recap

January 1, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

Well 2015 is in the books and it was another successful year on The Brick Fan so let’s take a look at what happened last year. Prepare to be inundated with statistics so let’s do a little recap of some of the numbers for the site last year. As you can see from the graph below, we saw another increase in traffic last year which went up for about 60% compared to the 2014. Subsequently, other metrics increased accordingly including first-time visitors which went up 56% while returning visitors went up 70%.

There were also some traffic milestones that were achieved in 2015. We finished the year with 17.5 million page views with October 11 being the highest recorded traffic day with 105,085 page views with a majority of it being for the official 2016 images post. That day also gave the most of active number of users on the site with 779. Unless somehow a post goes viral, I doubt that I’ll see a number that high anytime soon. Finally, we ended the year with December being the most visited month of 2015.

In regards to our social media sites, the Facebook Page went from 4,137 in 2014 to 7,513 at the end of 2015.

Over on Twitter, there were 1,526 new followers in 2015 and we ended the year with 5,379.

Finally on Google+, we ended 2015 with 1,856 followers which was a sharp increase from 516 in the beginning of the year.

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LEGO Seasonal Valentines Cupid Dog (40201) Review

January 1, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

A lot of new LEGO sets became available today and included in that list is the Valentines Cupid Dog (40201). As you can see, LEGO has gone back to the 2014 creature designs instead of continuing with the vignettes from last year. This set contains 150 pieces and retails or $9.99. The contents of the box include two un-numbered bags and a small instruction booklet.

The build is very simple and much like the previous characters, you start with the lower torso and legs. After that, you build up the rest of the torso and arms followed by the head. The legs are still on hinges while the arms are on ball joints so there’s more articulation. The head is on a swivel and the ears are also on a ball joint. You can also see its tongue sticking out a little. Finally, the tail is able to swing around on a TECHNIC pin. The accessories included with the the dog is a little brick-built candy heart and a bow and arrow. You also see on the torso that it’s wearing a red bowtie made out of cheese slopes.

Overall, the Valentines Cupid Dog (40201) is a slight upgrade over the 2014 Valentine’s Day Teddy Bear (40085) but mainly because of the articulation it has. However, it is a slight downgrade from the Valentine’s Day Dinner (40120) vignette that we got last year since it was pretty much perfect. I don’t have any cons for the Cupid Dog but it’s not as cute as the … Continue

LEGO Seasonal Easter Chick (40202) First Look

January 1, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 7 Comments

The new Valentines Cupid Dog (40201) is now available and on the back cover of the instructions, we get our first look at the LEGO Seasonal Easter Chick (40202). The set will contain 111 pieces and like with all these little Seasonal sets, it will retail for $9.99. As you can see, LEGO has gone back to the character builds which we first saw in 2014.

LEGO February 2016 Store Calendar Promos & Events

January 1, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 3 Comments

It’s January and that means the new LEGO February 2016 Store Calendar is now available (at least in stores) which shows all the promotions and events going on for the month. I’ll link to the PDF version when LEGO updates their servers.

From February 1-14, you can get a FREE LEGO Nexo Knights Robin’s Mini Fortrex (30372) with purchases of $50 or more, while supplies last.

From February 13-15, you can earn Double VIP Points on the LEGO Architecture White House (21006) during Presidents’ Day weekend.

From February 15-29, you can get 50% off the LEGO Friends Campsite Scrapbook (853555) with a purchase of $50 or more on Friends sets.

On February 2-3, the Monthly Mini Build will be a Snowmobile.

From February 17-29, VIPs get early access to a new exclusive set. The set will be the LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Batman: Classic TV Series Batcave (76052)

As I mentioned before, the Series 15 LEGO Collectible Minifigures (71011) will be available on February 1.

Update: LEGO has uploaded the PDF of the calendar.