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If you’ve been waiting for the Summer 2015 wave of LEGO City sets, you may want to head on over to your local Toys R Us store. Long-time reader of th site, Kevin, has informed us that he has found a couple of the Deep Exploration sets as well as one of the Space sets at his store in northeast Ohio. The summer wave sets aren’t officially released until June but as we all know, Toys R Us likes to put out stuff a little early so it doesn’t hurt to check it out if you’re planning on getting them.
The Brick-Built Adventure Time Figures project by aBetterMonkey is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. This the second Adventure Time project to hit the goal with the first one getting enough support back in 2013 when it was still LEGO CUUSOO. This particular project features many of the characters from the hit animated TV series in brick-built form.
Brick-Built Adventure Time Figures is the first project to reach the Second 2015 Review Stage. There are quite a few projects that are closing on 10k as well that should be able to reach the goal during this Review Stage.
If you’ve been following the May 2015 LEGO Store Calendar, then you would know that LEGO has started a new promotion today. From now until May 31, you can get a FREE LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Spider-Man Super Jumper Polybag (30305) with purchase of $50 or more at LEGO Stores and on Shop@Home. This offer is valid on everything you purchase and not limited to the LEGO Super Heroes sets that are normally associated with these kinds of freebies. Once you have $50 worth of items in your shopping cart, the 30305 polybag will automatically be added to the cart. Thanks to Aiden for the reminder.
Way back in 2011, DK released LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia
LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated & Expanded consists of 288 fully-colored pages and almost everything about the book is overhauled. First off is the new cover design with the title and minifigure window right in the middle instead of in the corner as before.
With the old Character Encyclopedia, the book was broken up into the six movies of the Star Wars saga, the Clone Wars, and the Expanded Universe. Since then Disney has released the Star Wars Rebels animated series and the book is now separated into a continuous timeline starting from Episode I, II, then to the Clone Wars, III, Rebels, IV-VI, and a new category called Legends. This chapter includes all the minifigures that were in the old Expanded Universe chapter who are regarded as non-canon.
Like with the previous version of the Character Encyclopedia, each minifigure is featured on their … Continue
Continuing with LEGO t-shirts for today, there’s a brand new one on TeeFury which features a mash-up of The LEGO Movie’s Emmet with Tron called Emmetron by DJKopet. The shirt comes in navy blue, black, or charcoal and is priced starting at $11. Fans of both movies will surely like the design of it. As of this writing, there’s about 8 hours left to purchase the shirt.
If you missed out on the Bill Nye/Neil deGrasse Tyson LEGO minifigure t-shirt a few months ago, there’s now another chance to purchase it on ShirtPunch. The shirt features two very respected men in the field of science and they are immortalized as minifigs in this returning t-shirt. It only comes in navy blue but sizes start at $10 which is a little cheaper than the previous one.
WB Games has released the newest trailer for LEGO Jurassic World as well as a promo image filled with characters and dinosaurs that will you can play as in the video game. In the new trailer, there are many different dinosaurs that we’ve already seen before as well as some newly revealed ones such as Brachiosaurus, Compsognathus (Compy), Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pachycephalosaurus, Triceratops, Velociraptors, Spinosaurus, Pteranodon, and Mesosaurus.
The promo image shows the main cast from the original Jurassic Park along with some of the new characters from Jurassic World as well as the bigger carnivores like the Indominus Rex, T-Rex, and Spinosaurus.
The release date of June 12 was also announced but we already knew that from a previous post.
Big dinos, tiny dinos, friendly dinos, angry dinos, flying dinos, battling dinos, and even goofy dinos! Between the 20+ different kinds of playable dinosaurs and more making an appearance in LEGO Jurassic World, players will have plenty to do in this colossal game when it comes out in the UK on the 12th June 2015, for PlayStation®4, PlayStation®3, PlayStation®Vita, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii™U, Nintendo 3DS™ and PC.
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