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After doing a little more digging after my previous post of the Christmas Train (40138), I found that the building instructions for the LEGO Seasonal Gingerbread House (40139) were also uploaded to LEGO’s servers which you can also download at your convenience. The Gingerbread House is part of the free promotion with purchases of $99 or more at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home starting on November 27.
I’m not sure if this is intentional or not but the instructions for the upcoming LEGO Seasonal Christmas Train (40138) to their servers early and can they can be downloaded in PDF format. The Christmas Train is part of the free 2015 holiday promotion starting on October 13-November 13 with purchases of $99 or more. If you want to build your own, head over to the Building Instructions section on LEGO’s website to download your copy of the Christmas Train. The only thing you’ll be missing is the cool looking holiday box that the set comes in.
Thanks to Josh for emailing in about it.
The Jurassic Park Explorer by senteosan is the latest project to get 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. This is the fourth project by senteosan to achieve this feat with two of them still in review. This is the first project to hit 10,000 supporters for the Third 2015 LEGO Review Stage.
The Jurassic Park Explorer features the iconic vehicle from the first movie. The project also includes minifigures of Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, and Ian Malcolm.
USA Today has released the first animated short for the new DC’s Super Hero Girls series. If you remember back in April, Warner Bros. announced that LEGO will also be producing sets based on this series. There’s still no word yet on of the characters of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, and Katana will be actual minifigures or mini-dolls similar to the Friends and Elves themes. I have a feeling that it’ll be the latter.
The LEGO Group will also be key to building the DC Super Hero Girls franchise, leveraging their experience and success engaging girls in creative construction play to bolster this universe through an array of LEGO® building sets designed to inspire girls’ imaginations.
The guys over at Brickipedia wanted our readers to know that they are holding a contest that starts today in which you have to perform a task and new tasks will take place every two days. At the end of the month, participants will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win some very cool prizes.
First place: 75904 Mystery Mansion, 70794 Skull Scorpio
Second place: 70735 Ronin R.E.X., 75900 Mummy Museum Mystery
Third place: 70734 Master Wu Dragon, 70792 Skull Slicer
Official Rules:
How do I enter?
You must have a registered account to participate. If you don’t have a registered account, you can create one by clicking here.Once registered you perform the task given every two days, new tasks will be added at 05:00 AEST every second day. At the end of the Month you’ll be entered into a raffle of all the users who competed the 15 days.
I’ve briefly talked about the new LEGO Nexo Knights theme for 2016 but due to watermarked images and whatnot, there haven’t been any official images of it until now. The fine folks over at Brickset has revealed the first image of the upcoming theme which comes from the latest Australian LEGO Club Magazine. In the image, you can see some of the Knights like Clay, Macy, Axle, Aaron, and Lance as well as the villains Jestro, Moltor, and Lavaria.
As mentioned before, Nexo Knights will be LEGO’s next big original IP which replaces Legends of Chima and will include a major media campaign to go along with it including a TV show, books, and so on.
Now that we’ve seen an official image of LEGO Nexo Knights, what do you think so far?
It’s October on the east coast and that means purchases will now earn you double VIP points on LEGO Shop@Home and at LEGO Brand Stores. Even though the Store Calendar shows the Double Points promotion only shows it running from October 1-4, it’s been confirmed that it will actually run until October 14. This extension also overlaps with the free exclusive LEGO Creator Holiday Train (40138) starting on October 13 so I have a feeling that many people will be waiting to kill two birds with one stone.
If you’re planning on doing the double VIP points, what are you planning to purchase? For me, I’ll probably be picking up the UCS Slave I (75060) and some others in the collection that I’m missing. Let me know in the comments below of what you’ll be getting.
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