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Toys R Us Ultimate Wish Saturdays LEGO Building Event This Weekend

Continuing with their Ultimate Wish Saturdays at your local Toys R Us stores, they will be hosting another LEGO building event. This Saturday, November 22 from 12pm-4pm, head to your store and your child can build a winter city scene.

Again, these free building events are intended for children ages 3 and up and they usually get pretty packed so get there early if you want to attend. There’s no images of what the winter city scene will look like at this time so you’ll have to go there and check it out. Thanks to everyone who emailed in about it.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Rocket Raccoon (5002145) Toys R Us Ad

LEGO Rocket Raccoon Toys R Us

It looks like we finally got our answer on the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Rocket Raccoon (5002145) polybag that’s been eluding many people for the past couple of weeks. Toys R Us has updated their weekly ad and it is with a promotion that is running from November 21-22. It will be free with any LEGO purchase of $30 or more. This is the same offer that Canada had last month. Hopefully, you can still buy the Rocket Raccoon as a stand-alone polybag as many people have been doing for a while now.

The Brick Fan Now Mobile-Friendly

If you’ve been visiting the site on a mobile device the past day or so, you may have noticed some changes. With Google announcing that mobile-friendly sites could potentially give a search ranking boost, the SEO inside me decided to make some changes to appease the Google overlords and hopefully get the site exposed a little more to the masses.

The first thing you’ll see is less images, mainly the usual banner and the background. Instead I’ve opted to use more text and give it a cleaner look. I still have to configure the colors of the header but right now, I’ll leave it as it. At the bottom of the posts are the same ads you see on the desktop version of the site as well as all the categories. Commenting is also available using Disqus so nothing has changed there.

As a result of these changes, I feel that visitors can easily read the text without having to zoom in to the page to read it like before. Check out the site on your mobile device if you haven’t yet and let me know if there are any bugs or errors. I’m still going to be tweaking around with it to try and make it the best experience possible but so far it looks stable.

Update: A request I’ve gotten is a desktop option. That is one of the things I’m currently working on.
Update 2: I’m going to suspend this project until I figure out some things out for the long-term. Sorry for … Continue

Adult LEGO Users Survey and Sweepstakes

LEGO is doing an Adult LEGO Users Survey and they are collecting information about the behavior of AFOLs who use LEGO products.

The survey asks you typical questions such as how likely are you to recommend LEGO products to others and reasons on why. It also asks if you have been in the “Dark Ages” and why you decided to become an AFOL.

It’s a pretty interesting survey and after you finish, you have an opportunity to enter their sweepstakes to win some LEGO products so there is an incentive to doing it. The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete and ends on December 17, 2014.

Batman vs Superman by BrickNerd

Batman Vs Superman

BrickNerd, aka Tommy Williamson, is back with their latest LEGO stop-motion project, Batman vs Superman. This short video pits Batman against Superman for some wildly unknown reason because Batman’s being Batman.

The animation is very smooth and it doesn’t even look like the video is even a stop-motion animation which shows how much effort Tommy and his team put in. Plus, the poster by Paul Lee is pretty cool looking too. Check out the video below.

New Rumors of LEGO Scooby-Doo Theme Coming in 2015

Late last night, we reported on a new rumored “spooky” retro theme that would be potentially coming out in 2015. One of the guesses that people thought of was Scooby-Doo. What we know so far is that Character Building had the license to produce figures based on the TV show but it may have expired or will be expiring and LEGO picked it up much like what happened with Doctor Who.

There has now been an update and it looks like there will indeed be a LEGO Scooby-Doo theme next year. According to the comments over on Hoth Bricks, a user by the name of Miniworld knows someone who has seen some of the Scooby-Doo sets at a showroom in France and was able to give some descriptions.

First, they are scheduled for release around May/June 2015. There will be four sets in total including the famous Mystery Van which has minifigures of Fred, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo. The next set is a Haunted House that includes Shaggy, Scooby, Daphne, and Velma. There were also two other sets but there aren’t any descriptions. However, they mention that there was a Swamp Monster in one of these sets.

This new report collaborates what Iso3200 said a few days ago over on the Brickset Forums. Also, note that Warner Bros. will be releasing a new TV show called Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! and will be shown on Cartoon Network, which both companies are also partners of The LEGO Group, so these sets could be based on that. Given … Continue

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