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During the month of February, LEGO Stores and Shop@Home will be giving away The LEGO Movie The Piece of Resistance (30280) polybag with purchases of $50 or more. The polybag consists of 33 pieces and includes Emmet and the small chunk of rock that Piece of Resistance is stuck to.
Valentine’s Day is this week so why not put a LEGO spin on your traditional Valentine’s treats. The LEGO Movie has provided some Valentine’s Day Printables of some of the characters from the movie including Batman, Emmet, Unikitty, and Wyldstyle. You can either use the print outs on a treat bag or as just a regular card. Make someone feel special on Valentine’s Day with The LEGO Movie. Thanks to Michael for the heads up.
The big day came and went with much buzz and fanfare, the premiere of The LEGO Movie. As you may have seen, As with The LEGO Group, we’ve been promoting the movie heavily on here and it’s had quite a response. Here’s my spoiler-free review of it.
We first reported about the movie and its casting way back in 2012 and after two years in the making, it is finally here. Even before the movie premiered, the official sets were already in major retailers and on LEGO Shop@Home. When I first saw them, I already knew that it was going to be good. Then came the number of trailers and teasers and that pretty much clinched it for probably for everyone who remotely likes LEGO.
The biggest point in the movie is to build whatever comes to your mind which has always been LEGO’s mission statement. That’s what Emmet has tried to set out to do throughout the movie. He has to find it in himself, with the help of his friends, that he is “The Special.”
The actors and actresses did a great job on their characters. There were also some cool and unexpected cameos that we won’t spoil in this review. The jokes and puns were enough to keep everyone smiling throughout the movie, not too much but just the right amount.
The movie animation by Animal Logic was better than I had expected. All the hard work that the designers put in the CGI paid off. After watching the movie, you … Continue
Today at Toys R Us stores, they were holding a special The LEGO Movie building event. Kids were able to build and take home Emmet’s car which can also be changed into a flying car. The whole “set” consists of 42 pieces which 40 are used for the regular car and 34 for the flying version. I prefer the regular car because the other feels incomplete but I didn’t expect too much given the pieces used. Below are the instructions for both modes of the car.
Update: Thank you to IconBoy for providing a nice PDF version of the build. You can download it here.
While doing a review of the LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes The Batman: Tumbler (30300) polybag, Jason from The Brick Show revealed there will be a Ultimate Collectors’ Series Tumbler coming in 2014. There’s no sources connected to this rumor so we’ll have to see if it is true. There have been a couple of versions of it already in official sets including The Tumbler: Joker’s Ice Cream Surprise (7888), The Bat vs. Bane: Tumbler Chase (76001), and The Batmobile Ultimate Collectors’ Edition (7784) which was an alternate model. The Tumbler was also submitted to LEGO CUUSOO by Brent Waller but was ultimately rejected.
Again, the UCS Tumbler is just purely a rumor as of this time since there are no actual sources for it. Check out their review below and around 2:22 is where Jason confidently states there will be one coming out this year.
Our buddies over at Your Creative Friends has gotten their hands on one of the new turtle minifigures from the summer wave of LEGO Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sets. Here they have Donatello from the Turtle Sub Undersea Chase (79121). He wears some sort of breathing apparatus on his face and some gear on the torso. From the image below of the set, it looks like Leonardo is also wearing the breathing mask on the bottom corner. It’s kind of strange that they’re turtles and can’t breathe under water. At least we get a varient of Donatello as well as another version from the movie line.
The Modular Apple Store project by gotoandbuild is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO CUUSOO. It now joins the LEGO Bird Project in the review stage. The project features a two-floor Apple Store which includes a glass spiral staircase. Also included are Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as minifigures. The layout of the store is your standard Apple Store that you can find in malls throughout the world. There are tables with computers in the middle of the store and the Genius Bar in the back.
Although the project has successfully achieved 10,000 supporters, I do not see it passing the review stage because of the IP that it is attached to. Congratulations to gotoandbuild for this achievement though. The BTTF – Jules Verne Train now becomes the highest supported project on CUUSOO.
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