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LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side Book Cover

May 7, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 4 Comments

Hoth Bricks has an image of the cover for the new LEGO Star Wars book from DK Publishing, LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side. This book features all the information you need to know about LEGO sets and minifigures from the Dark Side of the Force. I would assume that there will be more in-depth details on the Dark Side than the new Updated and Expanded Visual Dictionary since this book primarily focuses on it. Like with many other LEGO DK books, there will be an exclusive minifigure included. This character is still mystery but I’m sure it’ll be revealed a few weeks before the book is released. LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side has 96 pages and will be available in September but you can pre-order it now on Amazon.

Journey to the dark side of a galaxy far, far away and meet the LEGO® Star Wars minifigure members of the ruthless Imperial Army in LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side!

Witness Darth Vader battling Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker, meet the Sith and all of Darth Vader’s minifigure subjects, and explore the Death Star and all of the Sith starships. Turn the pages to find facts and information about your favorite LEGO Star Wars minifigures and vehicles from the dark side in action-packed situations and discover everything there is to know about the legendary Darth Vader.

With new and exciting photography and an evil exclusive minifigure, LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side will have you questioning on which side your allegiances lie.

LEGO Store May 2014 Mini Monthly Build Dragon (40098) Review

May 7, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

LEGO May 2014 Mini Monthly Build - Dragon (40098)

The May 2014 Mini Monthly Build was held at LEGO Brand Stores yesterday and this month they had the Dragon (40098) available for kids to build. The set contains 43 pieces and you get a cool little green dragon. There’s not that many interesting pieces except for the fairly new LEGO Mixels eyes but you also get a spare one as well. The playability is rather limited but the wings and tail can move on hinges. The Dragon does fit into your Castle/Medieval MOCs if you desire. Here are the instructions if you want to build your own.

Coming up next month is a lime green jetski, just in time for summer. Be sure to get there early or else you risk the store running out of stock.

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New LEGO Polybags Available at Toys R Us

May 6, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 3 Comments

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Spider-Man Glider (30302)

Polybag hunters rejoice! A couple of the new LEGO polybags for this year have started to show up at Toys R Us stores. The LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Spider-Man Glider (30302) and LEGO Star Wars Anakin’s Jedi Intercepter (30244) are shown to be sold in stores on TRU’s website for $3.99 each. The Jedi Intercepter is also available for shipping to home as well. There’s been reports that these two polybags are exclusive to Toys R Us so it’s the only place to get them, if you can find them.

LEGO Ideas First Review Stage Begins

May 5, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The first LEGO Review deadline for the new LEGO Ideas, formerly CUUSOO, has passed and the team has announced the qualifying projects for the Review Stage. The projects that qualify are: the LEGO Bird Project, the Modular Apple Store, the BTTF – Jules Verne Train, The Big Bang Theory, and Doctor Who and Companions. As you can see, we have a variety of projects that are worthy to become an official set so we have to wait and see which ones LEGO chooses to become one.

The LEGO Ideas team also announced that the results for the Winter 2014 Review Stage will be coming in the next few weeks which includes the Macross VF-1 Valkyrie, Sherlock, Legend of Zelda Iron Knuckle Encounter, Japanese Old Style Architecture, The Adventure Time Project, and the BTTF – UCS DeLorean Time Machine.

The second 2014 LEGO Review Deadline is September 1st and there are a number of projects that could potentally qualify for it. Check out those projects here.

LEGO Ideas Batman ’66 50th Anniversary Batmobile

May 4, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

This year marks the 75th Anniversary of DC Comics’ Batman to mark the event, AFOL conventions in 2014 will have the opportunity to have a contest to pick the best Batman-themed MOC at that show. At Philly Brick Fest, I saw Sam Gras’ 1966 Batmobile displayed at the show and it won the Rocky in the Best Celebration of Batman! Contest.

The MOC has also been submitted to LEGO Ideas and has garnered over 1500 supporters already. It’s a very good representation of the Batmobile from the 1966 TV series starring Adam West & Burt Ward. Below are some facts of the project:

– The Batmobile measures over 4” (10cm) high, 11” (28cm) long and 5” (13cm) wide

– Screen accurate License plates

– Includes 3 mini-figures with assorted weapons: Batman, Robin, and The Joker

– Weapons include 2 Batarangs, flag gun, extra large hammer, Joker Fish, creme pie

– Reenact the famous “Batman Bomb Run”

– William Shakespeare bust with hidden bat-switch

– Shark Repellent Spray & Shark

With more and more iconic cars becoming official LEGO sets such as the BTTF DeLorean and the Ghostbusters Ecto-1, it would be cool to add another car to the list. Head over to LEGO Ideas and show your support.

Toys R Us LEGO Star Wars Starfighter Building Event Instructions

May 3, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

Today at Toys R Us stores, there was a LEGO Star Wars building event where kids can build a X-Wing and a TIE Fighter but it was nothing too spectacular. The X-Wing is the exact same one we got in the 2011 Advent Calendar (7958) and the TIE Fighter is a little bit different. Below are the instructions if you want to build your own. Thanks to John and Charlie for emailing in the instructions.

Philly Brick Fest 2014 Swag

May 2, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

So it’s been a few days since I got back from Philly Brick Fest 2014 and I finally have some time to show off what I got on my trip. Throughout the four days, there were games and activities you could do to win some awesome prizes. The first things I got while I was there was a goodie bag filled with treats and the exclusive Ben Franklin minifigure set.

Later after the first day, there was a thing called Bowling for Bricks at Arnold’s Family Fun Center. The first game was sort of a relay where teams had to bowl and build at the same time. One person would bowl and another person would build and the first team to complete the build wins. Unfortunately my team lost that game. The second game was for the highest team score. My team consisted of Chris (Bricks4Chris), Dan (Classy Bricks), Mark, and me. The prize that I got was the LEGO City Auto Transporter (60060) which I had to break down because it wouldn’t fit in my suitcase.

After everyone left the bowling alley, me, Chris, Dan, and Chad had our own little competition for who can bowl the first strike. The prize for this game was the LEGO Racers Race Rig (8162). Somehow I rolled the very first strike but Chris ended up tying me. In the second frame to everyone’s surprise, I rolled another strike while Chris barely missed, hitting 9 out of the 10 pins. I won the cool … Continue