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Official LEGO Costumes Coming in Fall 2016

September 6, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

Here’s something interesting coming out of the folks at Brick Fanatics this morning. Have you ever wanted to wear official LEGO costumes for your Halloween parties and functions? Well that will be happening starting next year. Local costume company, Disguise, has announced last week that they are partnering up with The LEGO Group to produce official Halloween costumes, role play and accessories based on popular LEGO characters. This will be a multi-year deal so you can expect to see LEGO costumes in the next few years in the US, Europe, and Asia. There’s no word on what characters will be included but most likely there will be some from their own IP library like Chima, Ninjago, Friends, and The LEGO Movie. Looking on their website, they already have LEGO Mixels listed. You can expect the official LEGO costumes to be hitting shelves starting in fall 2016.

POWAY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Disguise, Inc., the Halloween costume division of leading toy manufacturer, JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAKK), announced today that it has secured a licensing agreement with the LEGO Group to “construct” children’s Halloween costumes, role play and accessories based on popular LEGO® characters. The multi-year, multi-category agreement grants Disguise rights to distribute its LEGO licensed products across channels in North America, Europe, Korea and China.

“The LEGO brand is full of aspirational characters that kids love and want to be. We are very excited to be partnering with the LEGO Group to design and create innovative costumes and accessories based on their inspirational and iconic characters,” said Joe Anton,

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LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter (30276) Polybag Image

September 5, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 9 Comments

Earlier today, I’ve received an email from a reader named Gonzalo who sent me images of the first building set polybag for LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter (30276). There was no mentioning of where it came from, where it will be available at, or the price of it (if any).

There is also another The Force Awakens LEGO polybag with the C-3PO (5002948) minifigure polybag which I believe will be available in November at Toys R Us with a purchase.

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens C-3PO (5002948) Minifigure Polybag

September 4, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 11 Comments

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens C-3PO (5002948) Polybag

It was revealed a few a while back but there will be a polybag associated with Star Wars: The Force Awakens which is a C-3PO (5002948) minifigure polybag. As you can see, this version of C-3PO is a little different from the usual versions we’ve seen since has a red arm for some reason which will be revealed in the movie this December.

There are two different offers for the polybag in the US as far as I know. One is a LEGOLAND Florida special offer where purchases of $35 or more from September 7 to September 28 will net you on of these polybags. The other offer hasn’t been officially announced yet but I heard that it will be available at Toys R Us with a certain purchase amount in November. Check out a short review of it from PromoBricks below.

LEGO Ideas The Little Prince Achieves 10,000 Supporters

September 4, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The Little Prince project by Colin23 is the latest project to hit 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The project is based on the book, Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery where a pilot stranded in the desert meets a yound prince fallen to Earth from a tiny astreroid.

The project just barely made it to the Second 2015 LEGO Review deadline with a few days to spare which also includes other projects like Brick-Built Adventure Time Figures, Caterham Super Seven, the Modular Library, Lothlorien, LEGO Physics, Ghostbusters: Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Hobbit-Rivendell, and the Indominus Rex as the ones that qualify to be reviewed by LEGO to become an official set. With the Second 2015 LEGO Review stage coming to an end, we should probably be hearing about the results of the First 2015 LEGO Review very soon so stay tuned for that.

LEGO Ideas WALL•E (21303) with Power Functions

September 4, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

There are some more modifications that builders have made to the new LEGO Ideas WALL·E (21303) set. Yesterday, I spoke about a mod by Chris McVeigh on a solution to fixing the stability of the head. Another builder named PPUNG DADDY(뿡대디) has implemented Power Functions to the WALL·E set. The way they have it set up, you only need 16 bricks including the Power Functions motor to get WALL·E moving. As you can see in the video below, the battery box is inserted into the trash compactor and the receiver is attached to the back while the motors are hooked on to the tread wheels. The wires go underneath the set which is very unintrusive. I’m pretty sure many had ideas about motorizing WALL·E and this is one way of doing it. Check out the video below.

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Sets Available on Amazon

September 4, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

If you like shopping from the comfort of your home/office, the new LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens sets are now available for purchase on Amazon. Also available are the new LEGO Star Wars Constraction sets.

Rey’s Speeder (75099)

Speed into action on Rey’s Speeder! Collect Rey’s Speeder with dual stud shooters, opening storage hatch and side-mounted bag, blaster, buzzsaw, electrobinoculars and more. Hover into action on Rey’s Speeder! This cool landspeeder has everything Rey needs for scouting the surface of a desert planet, including dual stud shooters, opening storage hatch and side-mounted bag, blaster, buzzsaw and electrobinoculars. There’s also a detachable sled with space for a minifigure when Rey must make a quick escape down the desert dunes! Recreate your own fantastic scenes from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Includes 2 minifigures: Rey and Unkar’s Thug with a crowbar.

First Order Snowspeeder (75100)

Send in the rapid response First Order Snowspeeder! Drive back the enemy with the First Order Snowspeeder featuring three-man crew, storage, stud shooter, rapid-fire shooters, hidden wheels and more. Call in weaponized support with the First Order Snowspeeder! With a crew of three, this rapid response vehicle features a forward storage compartment, fixed stud shooter in the cockpit, two rapid-fire stud shooters built into the engines and transparent wheels hidden out of site for a true ‘hover’ look. Now you can recreate your own great scenes from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Includes 3 minifigures with assorted weapons: 2 First Order Snowtroopers and a First Order Snowtrooper Officer. Features storage compartment, cockpit-mounted

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LEGO Ideas WALL·E (21303) Head Modification by Chris McVeigh

September 3, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 6 Comments

If you have one of the new LEGO Ideas WALL·E (21303) sets, you may have found that the head is too top-heavy and swings backwards when you tilt it up or down. This diminishes any poses that you may want it to have. LEGO has since delayed the release of the set and is making corrections to it. However the parts that they will be including only support the neck more and not the head itself.

LEGO photographer Chris McVeigh has posted a modification for the head to allow it to be more stable. The parts that are needed are Beam 2M W. Ball Ø¸ 10.2 (4289258) and Brick 2X2 W. Cup For Ball (4524353) which is the typical ball and socket joint. It allows the head to fully swing around while also being able to stay in place as well. The result of this mod can be seen below at one of Chris’ pictures. Check out the full guide over on his website.