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LEGO October 2015 Double VIP Points Extended?

September 24, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 8 Comments

Double VIP points will be returning in October but as the LEGO Store Calendar states, it will only be available from October 1-4 which is pretty short. Even in March, the event was for a full two weeks. I’ve gotten a couple of messages from concerned readers and they contacted their stores to see what was going on. The responses they’ve gotten back was LEGO was extending the Double VIP Points until October 14. LEGO hasn’t officially said anything about it and I’m trying to find confirmation that this is true. I’ll give an update if there are some new details.

Update: LEGO Customer Service has confirmed that the Double VIP Points promotion will indeed be from October 1-14.

LEGO Ideas WALL•E (21303) Now Available on Shop@Home

September 23, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 5 Comments

After a short delay, the LEGO Ideas WALL•E (21303) set is now available for purchase on Shop@Home. Supposedly, the delay was to include parts 4211695 and 4265484 to help strengthen the neck area but the real problem is with the head joint can’t support the weight of the head. We’ll see if LEGO has addressed this issue as well with the delay or if we’ll have to find alternatives to fix it. One very popular solution is by Chris McVeigh who has posted a guide with parts to fix the head problem. There’s no word yet on when LEGO Stores will have them in stock.

LEGO Seasonal Thanksgiving Feast (40123) Review

September 23, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 6 Comments

After a fairly disappointing Trick or Treat (40122) set, the LEGO Seasonal sets have returned with the Thanksgiving Feast (40123). The set consists of 158 pieces and retails for $9.99 and have started to show up at LEGO Brand Stores. It will be available on Shop@Home on October 1st.

LEGO November 2015 Store Calendar Promos & Events

September 23, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 6 Comments

The November 2015 LEGO Store Calendar is now available and we can see all the promotions and events that will be going on in the month.

First off is the continuation of the first of two LEGO Seasonal Holiday sets with the Holiday Train (40138) with purchases of $99 or more. This offer goes from October 13-November 13, while supplies last.

The second LEGO Seasonal Holiday set, Gingerbread House (40139), will be available starting on November 27 with purchases of $99 or more.

From November 15-December 24, you can get a free exclusive 2016 LEGO Wall Calendar with purchase of $75 or more, while supplies last.

On November 21, there are special holiday offers for LEGO VIP members at LEGO Stores.

Starting on November 27, there are doorbuster sales for that roll over to Black Friday weekend.

On November 3-4, the free LEGO Monthly Mini Model Build will be a shark.

LEGO Seasonal Christmas 2015 Sets Revealed

September 22, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

A member of AFOLs of Facebook has posted an image from the back cover of the LEGO Seasonal Thanksgiving Feast (40123) instructions which shows the upcoming LEGO Seasonal Christmas 2015 sets. The image shows the Winter Fun (40124) set on the left and Santa’s Visit (40125) on the right.

Winter Fun shows an outdoor vignette scene in front of a house and includes 2 minifigures, a husky, and a snowmobile.

Santa’s Visit goes back indoors at a living room fireplace and it includes Santa and a Christmas tree.

There have been numerous reports that the Thanksgiving Feast (40123) set is now available at LEGO Stores. The set will also be on Shop@Home on October 1st.

Great LEGO Sets: A Visual History Book Review

September 21, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

A few weeks ago, DK sent in one of their upcoming books with Great LEGO Sets: A Visual History. I’ve already done a review of the Micro-Scale Space Cruiser (11910) that’s included with the book which has 256 pages and normally retails for $40.

Great LEGO Sets starts off with a visual timeline of some of the important events and key developments in LEGO set history. If you’re a newer LEGO fan, you probably didn’t know that some of the best LEGO sets came out in the 1980s like Blacktron and Futuron including the Monorail Transport System (6990). A few years after that, M-Tron was released as a new LEGO Space subtheme.

The next chapter gives an in-depth description of how a LEGO set is made. A few LEGO designers also chime in to give some information on the whole development process including Mark John Stafford and Jamie Berard, just to name a few. It’s a very interesting chapter of how a set goes from an idea to being on store shelves.

After that, we get to the meat of the book where it starts going in-depth of some notable sets from LEGO’s history. The sets are divided in chapters by decades starting from the 1950s to 2015. For each set, there’s either a one or two page spread detailing some specifics and why they make it a great set. There is a sub-section called the Guided Tour where it shows some key features of the sets. Another section is called Brick by Brick and … Continue

LEGO Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Collectible Poster Promotion

September 21, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones free collectible poster promotion is now available at LEGO Stores and on Shop@Home. You can get a free poster for any LEGO Star Wars purchase you make which also works on keychains. If you’ve been collecting these posters, you’ll know this is the fifth poster and there’s only one left after this in October. Like with the other poster, these do come prefolded which is a bummer. The promo ends Sunday, September 27.