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During San Diego Comic Con, Nathan Sawaya announced his latest LEGO exhibition, The Art Of The Brick: DC Comics, which opened at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia. Kotaku has a few of the 120 models that will be on display during the exhibition including the life-size 18-foot Batmobile. The Art of the Brick: DC Comics is a global tour with exhibitions at major cities around the world.
The HMS Beagle by LuisPG is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The project is based on the ship’s second voyage from 1831-1836 during the exploration of South America. The exploration was of historical importance because Charles Darwin joined the crew and later released The Voyage of the Beagle.
The project also has some small vignettes of Darwin’s exploration while on the Beagle including the Galapagos Islands, Andes Mountains, and Patagonia.
The HMS Beagle now joins Jurassic Park Explorer, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Nautilus, the Toyota Landcruiser 40 Series, and the Beatles Yellow Submarine as the projects that qualify for the Third 2015 Review Stage.
Earlier today, FedEx dropped off a surprise package from LEGO which contains the new LEGO 2015 Seasonal Holiday Exclusive Gingerbread House (40139). The set contains 277 pieces and is obtained starting on Black Friday November 27-November 30 at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home with purchases of $99 or more, while supplies last. If you’ve received an invitation to the LEGO VIP shopping event for Saturday, November 21, you can get the set a week early with the same conditions. VIP members who didn’t get an invite are also able to get the promo as well when the store regularly opens or on Shop@Home.
Issue 14 of Blocks Magazine is now available online and in stores. Check out the press release below.
This month we take a journey into the space-time vortex with the Doctor and his TARDIS, featuring an in-depth review of the latest LEGO Ideas set. We also stop off for an exclusive, behind-the-scenes interview on how the Ideas platform really works, including what the review process involves, why larger projects don’t make the cut and much more besides.
Elsewhere, we take a look at how LEGO’s spaceship designs have changed over the decades, the most profitable LEGO sets to invest in, how to build a supercar and whether LEGO Dimensions really is worth your money.
With the holiday season just around the corner, we also feature the best sets to buy for your LEGO-mad loved ones this year in our handy Christmas consumer guide – including the LEGO gifts for the AFOL who has everything.
Get your copy on Thursday in the UK, and why not subscribe to get future copies early as well as monthly free prize draws? See www.blocksmag.com for more details.
LEGO has started to upload official images of a few of the 2016 LEGO City, Creator, and Technic sets to their servers. A few of the sets have also been listed on Shop@Home if you can find the link with them being scheduled for release on December 1. This is probably the first time I’ve heard of 2016 sets being released before Christmas so if the listings are indeed true, there are more options for your holiday shopping. Check out some of the official box images below.
You’ve probably seen this already but here’s something fun for the holidays. Brand Station is partnering up with LEGO to produce some official slippers for this holiday season. There are 1,500 pairs of slippers that were produced and they’ll be randomly given away to people who fill out a Christmas wishlist on the LEGO France website. This probably means that a majority of us won’t know the comfort of these LEGO slippers which is a bummer but it’s still cool to see.
**Via Piwee**
The promo for the 2016 LEGO Wall Calendar is now going on at LEGO Brand Stores. If you haven’t seen an image of it yet, a user on Reddit has posted an image of it including the coupons that you can use in 2016. You have to have the physical coupon from the calendar to get the promos. Photocopies of them are not permitted.
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