Continuing with our reviews of the LEGO Speed Champions sets, we have our second set of the four smaller sets with the LaFerrari (75899). It has 164 pieces and is priced at $14.99 for a $0.09/piece ratio.
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Joe Meno from BrickJournal has sent us some more details for BrickMagic 2015 which will be happening in Charlotte, North Carolina from May 7-10. One of the new things that has been announced is the cool 90-piece LEGO Speed Racer Mach 5 MOC designed by Joe that AFOLs will be getting in their goodie bags. Check out the full press release for BrickMagic 2015 LEGO Festival below.
… ContinueThe 4th Annual BrickMagic LEGO Festival is picking up steam, and we want you to know just some of the great swag and programming that’ll be waiting for you in Charlotte NC over Mother’s Day weekend, May 7-10.
Here’s the latest additions to the Goodie Bag that every AFOL will receive with their registration for BrickMagic 2015:
- Combat Weapons Pack, Assorted Food Pack (minifig-scale food & drink), and a custom-printed Minifig and large BrickJournal printed cover tile (courtesy of Eclipse Grafx)
- Special attendee printed premiums (courtesy of Citizen Brick)
- The limited edition BrickMagic 2015 event kit: Speed Racer’s Mach 5 in miniscale! (90 parts, designed by Joe Meno)
- At least two current sets from an assortment that we’re ordering from LEGO, just for AFOLs!
We’ll also have these new programming opportunities for AFOLs:
- BrickMagic Hands-On Museum: BrickJournal’s Geoff Gray will be bringing a treasure trove of antique LEGO sets, books, and other rarely-seen items from the LEGO Group to display. His collection starts in the late ‘60s and includes many rare sets and items, including 4.5 volt trains, Samsonite sets, and rare books signed by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, the
Yesterday was the March 2015 Monthly Mini Build event at LEGO Stores and the build was a Robot (40128). It seems that LEGO has been going for a space theme connection recently with the Monthly Builds this year so far with the Alien (40126) in January, the Space Shuttle (40127) last month, the Robot from yesterday, and an UFO (40129) for April. The event itself was pretty packed, more so than the previous couple of months. It seemed like many kids were building the set inside the store as well.
The 50 piece Robot has a cool look to it with some interesting pieces to go along with it. It has a head that swivels a full 360 degrees. The arms are articulated on the newer ball joint pieces. The torso area on the front has a printed 1×4 tile with gauges and dials while the back has a windup key.
As I mentioned before, the April 2015 Monthly Mini Build will be an UFO (40129) to continue the trend of space-themed builds.
Back in October of last year, we exclusively reported that the LEGO The Simpsons line would be releasing another set this year with the Kwik-E-Mart (71016). Many people were skeptical about the set but we were pretty confident in our source of the news.
Today, there is definite confirmation in the set because there is a leaked image of the box coming from an Instagram post. As you can see, some of the minifigures included in the set are at least Apu, Marge, Chief Wiggum, and Snake who we saw before with the head mold image. In addition to the Kwik-E-Mart building itself, the set also includes Chief Wiggum’s police car. Also note that the E on the store sign is brick built while the other words are stickers.
According to the April 2015 LEGO Store Calendar, there is an exclusive set being released for LEGO VIP members from April 15-30 and I believe that it will be indeed the LEGO The Simpsons Kwik-E-Mart (71016) and will be released to the general public on May 1st. The official images of the set will be out in a few weeks.
So what are your guys’ thoughts on the set now that you seen a little teaser image of it?
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Remember the clock tower scene from Back to the Future where Doc Brown was sending Marty back to the future by using the lightning? The animation team at Macro LEGO Universe has recreated that particular scene at the Brick 2014 LEGO fan convention a few months ago and has released the video a few days ago. The team used the now retired LEGO CUUSOO The DeLorean Time Machine (21103)
LEGO has recently released the latest LEGO Seasonal set of the year with the Painting Easter Eggs (40121) set. For 2015, LEGO has changed their format of the sets to a vignette-type set which started with the Valentine’s Day Dinner (40120). For the Easter set, it has 153 pieces and retails for $9.99. The box contains three unnumbered bags and an instructions booklet.
From now until March 20 or while supplies last, every purchase you make from the LEGO Store or on Shop@Home will net you a LEGO BIONICLE Hero Pack (5002941). When you shop online, it will automatically be added to your shopping cart. The polybag consists of only 9 pieces but most of the contents are paper stuff which we’ll get into shortly.
On the Hero Pack polybag packaging, it shows pretty much what you’ll be getting which includes a booklet, a poster, a sticker sheet, and a package of pieces for the build. Note that the mask on the top right corner is not the usual Mask of Creation that we’ve seen in the current sets.
The booklet includes a short comic of Tahu getting his mask and fighting the Skull Spiders. There are also instuctions on how to build the Skull Spider. Finally you get images of the some of the BIONICLE sets in the current wave.
On one side of the poster, you get images of the different Toa masks as well as their gold versions. On the other side, you have a map of the island of Okoto. There are designations of what appears to be the locations of the golden masks.
The sticker sheet is the holographic kind and each of the stickers is of the Toa’s gold masks and the LEGO BIONICLE logo. It’s the same type of material that’s been used before in other stickers so it’s nothing too special about it.
As mentioned before, you also get a bag … Continue
