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Upcoming BrickLink Changes in 2014-2015

October 17, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

Users of BrickLink, this piece of news is probably what you’ve been waiting for. Chief Site Architect Marvin Park has given an outline for what’s in store for the updated BrickLink until the end of 2015. They’ve been gathering information from various sources and getting feedback for improvements to BrickLink. Many of the features listed are what buyers as well as sellers have been waiting for so it’s great to see that they’ll finally being implemented.

Also, they’ve dropped the version numbering system like BrickLink 1.0, 2.0, etc. to available confusion. As a substitute, the major revisions will have an unique code name. Check out below BrickLink has in store for the next year.

November 2014 – Price Quotation

– Sellers will be able to opt-in to give price quotes for orders.
– Buyers aren’t obligated to purchase the quoted orders but quoted items won’t be held for the buyers.
– Quotation-based ordering system will comply with the German e-commerce law (a.k.a German Button solution).

January 2015 – Automated Shipping Cost Calculation

– Shipping costs can be automatically calculated when sending invoices and quotes.
– Initial release of this feature will officially support USPS (USA), Royal Mail (UK), Deutsche Post (Germany), and PostNL (Netherlands).

Q1, 2015 / TBA – Express Checkout

– Paypal payments will be integrated within the store checkout process. (Finally!). Buyers will be able to send Paypal payments directly to sellers as part of the checkout process. (Q1, 2015).
– Ultimately, BrickLink will accept credit card and PayPal payments from buyers and … Continue

LEGO Classic Space/Star Wars T-Shirt Available at Unamee

October 16, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 4 Comments

We’re back with another LEGO themed t-shirt and this time we’re featuring one from Unamee.com. The shirt has the Classic Space logo but with a Star Wars twist to it. Instead of a shuttle flying around the moon, the shirt has the Millennium Falcon flying around the uncompleted Death Star from Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Unlike other t-shirts we’ve featured before that only lasted 24 hours, this one from Unamee lasts for a whole week. There are also three colors to choose from: black, blue, and brown. The 1980 Something Falcon t-shirt by Samuri Ferret goes for $11.

Steampunk LEGO Book Review

October 16, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

A new batch of books have come in from No Starch Press and I’ve been excited for these when I first heard about them. The first book that I’ll be reviewing is Steampunk LEGO by Guy Himber. If that name sounds familiar, may have heard of it before in the LEGO community.

Guy’s LEGO creations are very well known in the community and he even has a couple of successful Kickstarter projects like Pigs vs Cows, SKULLS!, and Munchkin Bricks. Guy also has an extensive background with special makeup effects and animatronics in many feature films such as Independence Day, Alien 3, and the Underworld trilogy.

Steampunk LEGO is a hardback book filled with 200 fully-colored pages and it retails for $29.95.

The first thing that you admire is the very nice cover of The Golden Empress by V&A Steamworks (Guy Himber). The cover is actually a jacket that is designed by Sylvain Amacher (https://www.facebook.com/captainsmog). The back of the jacket shows an image of Guy’s HMS Moondreams’s Voyage to the Moon. The book itself is a blue hardback with “Steampunk LEGO” embossed on the front and on the spine. With or without the book jacket, it’s great to show off either way. The pages of the book itself has this old-school feel to it. It’s hard to say how it feels like but it’s glossy but has a certain texture to it that makes it feel old. I’m not sure if all the books are like that or just mine, not … Continue

LEGO Marvel TASM2 Electro Polybag (5002125) Available at Toys R Us Later This Year

October 16, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes The Amazing Spider Man 2 Electro Polybag

FBTB is reporting that the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Electro (5002125) minifigure polybag based on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie will be available as a promotion at Toys R Us stores later this year. Ace also notes that about 100,000 of the Electro minifigures were made.

Earlier, we reported that this particular polybag was given out at LEGO KidsFest in Virginia earlier this month.

We’ll have more details on how much you have to purchase at Toys R Us to get one of the Electro (5002125) polybags as soon as they become available.

Warner Bros. Announce Upcoming LEGO Movie Release Dates

October 16, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

In a shareholder meeting yesterday, Warner Bros. presented details of upcoming LEGO movies and gave tentative release dates for the next three films. With the huge success of The LEGO Movie earlier this year, Warner Bros. is hoping these films will have the same success as well.

As we reported a few months ago, the LEGO Ninjago movie is already scheduled for September 23, 2016. Charlie Bean will be directing the film while Dan and Kevin Hageman will be writing the script.

The recently announced LEGO Batman spinoff, voiced by Will Arnett, will take place on February 10, 2017 which takes the spot that was previously for The LEGO Movie 2. Chris McKay will be directing and Seth Grahame-Smith will be writing the story. Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller will be producing.

There were also two more LEGO films slated for Memorial Day weekend in 2018 and 2019. The LEGO Movie 2 will most likely take the May 25, 2018 release date which was also reported back in August. At the same time, there was an untitled LEGO Movie scheduled for May 24, 2019 which could be anything at this point, whether it be LEGO Ninjago or LEGO Batman sequels or even The LEGO Movie 3.

There’s no doubt that there will be official sets that will be released in conjunction with all these movies. Stay tuned as we will be reporting more details about the upcoming LEGO movies as they become available.

**Via ComicBook.com**

Chris Miller Celebrates LEGO Batman Movie Announcement

October 15, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

With the announcement of the spinoff LEGO Batman movie, producer Christopher Miller celebrated today and tweeted out the image above which looks very familiar to Batman fans. The image shows a Batman minifigure in a pose that next to the Batmobile from The LEGO Movie which is similar to Ben Affleck’s pose for Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice. Wouldn’t it be cool if the Batmobile could be an official set when the LEGO Batman movie comes out in 2017?

I can now officially de-un-tweet this: It's true. So excited. #Darkness #NoParents pic.twitter.com/4x2PWDm7AI

— Chris Miller (@chrizmillr) October 15, 2014

Creations for Charity 2014 Sale Begins Today

October 15, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Creations for Charity store opens today!

The 6th annual Creations for Charity sale starts today. If you haven’t heard about it before, it’s a fundraiser founded by Nannan Zhang and it is for LEGO builders to donate their creations to sell and raise money to purchase LEGO sets for underprivileged children.

Until the November 15th, you can donate your creations and they will be listed for sale until November 30th. Check out Creations for Charity to see the builds that have already been donated and help raise money for this very worthy cause.

Last year, the fundraiser donated over $20,000 worth of LEGO sets to children in six different cities across three countries and they hope to surpass it this year.