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Recently, we did a review of The LEGO Movie: The Essential Guide and we also had a copy to giveaway to one lucky individual. We had over 500 entries and using Rafflecopter’s random winner generator, the winner chosen is:
#319 Ryan Howerter
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Just2good on Eurobricks is reporting that German retailer Dingsa Online Store has a new LEGO City Arctic polybag in their store. There’s no details of the set but it looks to be a ski-plane type of vehicle. Not a very long post but at least we know there’s another set coming out for the Arctic sub-theme.
It has been announced that Brent Waller’s Ghostbusters Ecto-1 will be the next LEGO CUUSOO project to be released as an official set but will not include the iconic Firehouse. Many people were disappointed but don’t worry. Assuming you have the correct amount of pieces, Brent has provided instructions for the Firehouse for FREE on his website in LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) format. You can see in the image below that the Ghostbusters HQ/Firehouse is taller than the Town Hall (10224) modular building so it makes a great addition to your city!
**Via Brent on Eurobricks**
If you’re going to be in Texas in a few months, you may want to drop by Brick Fiesta 2014 in San Antonio. Ran by volunteers of TexLUG and it’s other chapters, this fairly new convention has been very successful the past couple of years since it was started back in 2011. Like with other LEGO events, there will be AFOL days as well as public days for the attendees. See below for the details of Brick Fiesta 2014.
Location:
Hilton DoubleTree Airport
37 NE Loop 410
San Antonio, TX 78216
Date: July 3-6 (convention)
Public hours: July 5 (10am-4pm), July 6 (10am-3pm)
Public: http://www.brickfiesta.com
AFOLs: http://www.brickfiesta.com/2014-sanantonio/
Description: A celebration of LEGO in Texas – the only travelling LEGO fan convention. Hosted last year in Dallas (Mesquite), this year it arrives in San Antonio, the river city! This will be Brick Fiesta’s fourth year.
Over on the Bricklink forums, there is a discussion that LEGO is planning a re-release of the LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector’s Series Millennium Falcon (10179) at end of this year or early next year. The originator of the thread states someone “very reliable” from Denmark emailed them about the news. There’s no details if the re-release is the same as the previous model or a new design. These are rumors but it’s something to keep an eye on.
As we all know, the UCS Millennium Falcon is a highly sought item from the LEGO Star Wars line and are many collectors’ white whale item. They are currently going for a couple of thousand dollars on the secondary market and people have also resorted to buying the parts separately to build their own.
Again, these are all rumors but we’ll stay on top of it. More details as they come.
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The LEGO Movie sequel that we’ve been reporting about now has a tentative release date of May 26, 2017 according to Box Office Mojo. Warner Bros. has already recruited screenwriter Jared Stern (Wreck-It Ralph, Mr. Popper’s Penguins) and Michelle Morgan to start working on a script for the follow-up to The LEGO Movie. There is no word on who will be directing the sequel but Phil Lord and Christopher Miller has stated they would like to produce the second movie.
As we also reported a few days ago, there will also be a LEGO Ninjago movie by Warner Bros. that will be released in the future and there were talks about which movie would be released in theaters first. Now that there’s a date for sequel, we can probably assume that the Ninjago movie will be coming out first with the sequel still three years out.
The LEGO Movie has been tops of the box office for the past few weeks and it looks to stay on top this weekend even though there are some movies coming out this week like Pompeii and 3 Days to Kill. Early forecasts show that The LEGO Movie will still stay on top after this weekend. It has already made over $200 million worldwide and it doesn’t look like it will slow down anytime soon.
**Via Collider**
LEGO photographer Chris McVeigh has provided the instructions of his My First Game Console: Sprite Edition free to download for everyone. The instructions are on his website in PDF format and includes everything you need to build your own console. Older generation of gamers know that the build is based on the Nintendo Entertainment System from 1985 and it is a great representation of it. If you don’t feel like building it but still want to have one, Chris does sell his kits in his store. Time to start finding the pieces and making your own LEGO NES console.
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