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Reminder: July 2014 LEGO Store Promotions and Events

June 30, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

July is just around the corner and that means new promotions will be at LEGO Brand stores as well as on Shop@Home. As we mentioned before, July will be a mostly LEGO Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themed month filled with events and giveaways to promote the line as well new Michael Bay movie that will be released in August.

First is the Free exclusive Flashback Shredder Minifigure (5002127) with purchases of $75 or more. This minifigure will be offered from July 1-20 or while supplies last. The Flashback Shredder is just Oroku Saki in a Foot Clan outfit with his signature claws.

For LEGO VIP members during the month of July, you will be able to get a bonus 50 VIP points for purchasing the Turtle Sub Undersea Chase (79121).

On July 1, the Free Monthly Mini Model is a cool little Old School Surf Van (40100). Families will be lining up early for a chance to build one and take home so get there early because I suspect that this month’s build will be a very popular one.

On the calendar, it shows an image of the Mutation Chamber Unleashed (79119) set and stating that new LEGO Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sets will be available on July 6. These wave of sets have been available for a while now and I believe they are actually referring to the Ninja Turtles movie sets being released since they have already started to show up at Toys R Us stores.

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Incredible LEGO Technic by Sariel Available for Pre-Order

June 29, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Paweł “Sariel Kmieć has been hard at work this year to release his second book, Incredible LEGO Technic: Cars, Trucks, Robots, and More! For this book, Sariel with the help of Blakbird from Technicopedia has brought together a number of people in the LEGO community who specializes with Technic to produce a book of some of their best work.

Incredible LEGO Technic includes 74 models filled with photos, details, facts, and specs of not just cars and trucks, but planes and mechs as well. Many of the builds also includes see-through renders by Blakbird so you can see the inner workings of the vehicles. In addition to the details of the builds, you also get an in-depth look at the builders themselves which includes:

2LegoOrNot2Lego, Amida, andrea Grazi, Barman, Brunojj, Crowkillers, Designer Han, Dirk Klijn, Dmac, Drakmin, Edwin Korstanje, Efferman, Eric Trax, Francisco Hartley, Gyuta, Jennifer Clark, Jerac, Jurgen Kroopshoop, Klaupacius, Konajra, Lasse Deleuran, M_longer, Madoca, Mahj, Makorol, Marat, Nathanael Kuipers, Nico71, Oryx Chen, RoscoPC, Sariel, Senator Chinchilla, Sheepo, Spiderbrick, Splat, Thirdwigg, and ZED

As mentioned before, Incredible LEGO Technic is the second book that Sariel has released with the first being his very popular The Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder’s Guide. You can now pre-order the 280 page book from No Starch Press for $29.95 and it will be available in October.

The LEGO Movie: Everything is Awesome Edition Review

June 29, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

It’s been a few days since The LEGO Movie: Everything is Awesome Edition was released and I finally have some time to watch everything the package has to offer. This edition comes in a nicely packaged plastic box and it has a number of items including the Blu-Ray, the 3D Blu-Ray, the regular DVD, the Digital HD UltraViolet copy, the exclusive Vitruvius minifigure, and a collectible 3D Emmet photograph. It currently retails for $34.96 on Amazon.

Blu-Ray

The Blu-Ray runs at a full 1080p HD at a 16:9 widscreen ratio with a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track. You pretty much get best of what technology has to offer today. The visuals and sounds are very crisp and it’s what you would expect.

The 3D Blu-Ray was even better than the regular version and it was very similar to what I saw in theaters. The visuals of this version were extremely pleasing to the eyes.

Bonus Features

The Everything is Awesome Edition features a wide varity of extra bonuses on the Blu-Ray disc:

Audio Commentary with Filmmakers and Cast
Batman’s A True Artist (1:12)
Michelangelo & Lincoln: History Cops (1:21)
Enter The Ninjago (2:13)
Behind the Scenes: Bringing LEGO to Life (12:36)
“Everything Is Awesome” Sing-Along (3:19)
Behind the Scenes: See It, Build It!
Introduction with Senior Designer Michael Fuller (0:49)
Build the Double-Decker Couch (3:53)
Build Emmet’s Car (2:55)
Introduction with Modeling Artist Adam Ryan (0:41)
Digital Double-Decker Couch (2:11)
Digital Emmet’s Car (1:51)
Dream Job: Meet the LEGO Builders (13:28)
Alleyway Test (0:55)

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LEGO The Simpsons Springfield by Pepa Quin

June 28, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Earlier this year, we featured Matt De Lanoy (Pepa Quin) on the site before with his LEGO The Simpsons build of The Android’s Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop as his Iron Builder model. Matt’s been hard at work following that in preparation for Brickworld Chicago 2014 and there, he unveiled the town of Springfield completely in LEGO. His layout included many well-known locations from The Simpsons TV show including Krusty Burger, the Kwik-E-Mart, Moe’s Tavern, and the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. I’ve only shown a few of the builds below but head over to Matt’s Flickr album to see all of his buildings of Springfield.

LEGO Fusion Minisite Now Live

June 28, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The next big thing that LEGO has been working on is LEGO Fusion which was first announced last week. The idea of it is to combine traditional building with a virtual experience. I’ve recently found out that LEGO has also released a minisite for the new theme. LEGO Fusion will be available this August and September for $34.99 each at LEGO Brand Stores and Toy R Us as well as online on the respective sites.

On the page, you can see all four sets that will be included in the initial wave of LEGO Fusion: Town Master (21204), Battle Towers (21205), Create & Race (21206), and Resort Designer (21208). There are also videos for each of the sets demonstrating some examples of the builds as well as how the build is transferred to the virtual world and the different gameplay you can enjoy.

Town Master (21204)

In this simulation game, players create and rule their own LEGO town, first by building it with LEGO bricks, then by capturing it and importing it to the game. Children build everything from houses to a pizzeria, fire station and bike shop while completing errands and missions like catching robbers, fighting fires and skateboarding. To keep the minifigure citizens happy, players solve problems through physical building and earn points to gain access to more structures, and even run additional towns.

Battle Towers (21205)

Players build a tower and defend it against attack so they can rule the kingdom. First, players design the Battle Towers with real LEGO pieces, then capture

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LEGO Ideas Exo Suit (21109) Launch Event in UK on July 26th

June 27, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The English version of the European July/August 2014 Store Calendar is now available which has some of the same offers we reported earlier this week. This particular version looks like it is the UK version and there’s one additional thing on the list of events that is worth mentioning. That event is the meet-and-greet with Peter Reid, the creator of the LEGO Ideas Exo Suit (21109), at the Bluewater LEGO Store on July 26th from 12-4pm. There’s no mentioning whether if the Exo Suit will be available for purchase during the event or not but we do know that it will be available for us in the States in August with an estimated retail price of $34.99. The above image was linked on our Facebook Page by a fan confirming the launch event.

**Via Brickset**

LEGO Friends Jungle Boat (30115) Polybag Available at Toys R Us

June 27, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO Friends Jungle Boat Polybag (30115)

Toys R Us is keeping it coming with polybags that you can only probably get at their stores. They have now listed the LEGO Friends Jungle Boat (30115) being sold in stores and will eventually be avaialble for ship-to-home. The polybag has 31 pieces and is going for $4.99 each. The Jungle Boat polybag will go well with the jungle-themed sets from the summer 2014 wave.