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Some LEGO Star Wars 2014 Polybags Revealed

January 1, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Brickset has updated their database with some new LEGO Star Wars 2014 polybags. Although there are no images yet, we do know the names of them and the number of pieces included: Anakin’s Jedi Intercepter (30244) – 45pcs, Imperial Shuttle (30246) – 57pcs, and the ARC-170 Starfighter (30247) – 54pcs. The parts are provided so you can probably use LEGO Digital Designer to create it yourself and see if they are something you want to purchase or not when they come out.

Update: There are now images of the new polybags.

LEGO Star Wars Anakin’s Jedi Intercepter Polybag (30244)

**Via Eurobricks**

The LEGO Movie Piece of Resistance Polybag (30280) Revealed

January 1, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

The February calendar for LEGO is now available and February is the month that The LEGO Movie comes out. To further promote the movie, LEGO will be giving out a FREE exclusive LEGO Piece of Resistance Polybag (30280) for purchases of $50 or more. The offer will be available throughout the month, while supplies last. The polybag will consist of Emmet and the Piece of Resistance stuck between a slab of rock. The rocks looks very similar to the Thor and the Cosmic Cube Polybag (30163).

The other promo that LEGO will be having at LEGO Stores is the Monthly Mini Model Build. On Tuesday February 4th, you can build a Micro Manager model and take home. This version of the Micro Manager has four legs. Now you can add another one to your army of Micro Managers from all of the movie sets.

LEGO Collectible Minifigures Compendium 4th Edition Now Available

January 1, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Movie Collectible Minifigures (71004) are now available and Michael Bradford has updated his LEGO Collectible Minifigures Compendium to include the new minifigures. He has also included details of each of the LEGO Movie characters such as their descriptions and stats. In addition, Michael has also updated all the information from the other Collectible Minifigures series to reflect the changes since the previous version of the compendium such as the valuation and sales data. If you like to have your own copy, you can download it here for free.

BrickLink API Now Available For Beta Testing

January 1, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

Eric over at BrickLink has announced that their first version of the BrickLink API is now available for beta testing. They are currently looking for some testers to help catch any bugs it may have. The beta period starts on January 6th and will end at the end of the month. After that, the API will be available for the public on February 3rd. A requirement as a beta tester, you have to know how to implement REST API in your code. Any programmers who are interested and want to help test the new BrickLink API, contact the team at [email protected].

LEGO Mixels Series 3 Image Found

January 1, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

Series 1 of the LEGO Mixels sets aren’t even out yet but an image of Series 3 has already surfaced on Instagram. The image shows three new colors of Mixels including green, tan/brown, and purple. There’s no mention of the names of the Mixels but I’m sure we’ll get them in the upcoming months. The image is from a retailer catalog and the sets are preliminary so the final products may change from now until whenever Series 3 is out.

**Via Eurobricks**

LEGO Star Wars 2014 Partial Set Details

January 1, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

It was only yesterday that we reported on some of the new LEGO Star Wars 2014 Summer sets. Members over on Eurobricks have already found some preliminary images of a couple of the sets from a retailer catalog. The images originated from a user on Instagram below are some details of what I saw.

Jedi Hunter Frontier (75051)

Contains 4 minifigures: Jek-14, unnamed Ithorian Jedi Master, RA-7 Protocal Droid, unnamed Astromech Droid. The set could be another one based on The Yoda Chronicles.

Mos Eisley Cantina (75052)

Looks to have 7 minifigures: Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Greedo, Sandtrooper, and 3 Bith musicians of the Cantina Band who have Squidward’s head. Hopefully the heads are only temporary. Set also includes the Dewback who we saw in the 2013 Advent Calendar bonus video. The image also shows part of Luke’s Landspeeder in the shot but not sure if it’s included in the set. Considering the 8092 version only had 163 pieces and the Cantina itself is slightly larger than the 4501 version, LEGO could combine the two sets since the new set has 615 pieces. Again, these are preliminary shots so anything can change.

AT-AT (75054)

Contains 5 minifigures: AT-AT Driver, General Veers, Snowtrooper Commander, Snowtrooper x2. AT-AT looks very similar to the 8129 version but with a slightly updated look.

Imperial Star Destroyer (75055)

Contains 6 minifigures: Darth Vader, Imperial Officer, Imperial Crew, Stormtroopers x2, some other guy I can’t make out. Looks similar to previous Imperial Destroyers but with some slight changes. It looks like the … Continue

The Brick Fan 2013 Recap

January 1, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 9 Comments

So 2013 is now over and now time to take a look back at what took place last year on The Brick Fan. Many things happened in 2013 but the biggest thing was the amount of traffic that we got on the site. We had over 185% increase of page views from 2012 to 2013. In addition, the site had over 235% more unique visits than in 2012. Finally, we had over 185% more first time visitors than in the previous year. We look forward to improving those numbers in 2014.

We’ve also hit some traffic milestones during 2013. We hit 1 million page views in June and 2 million during December. In addition, we also hit 1.5 million page views and almost 1.3 million unique visits in a single year.

Next up is the number of “likes” on our Facebook Page. From 2012 to 2013, we had 545 new likes and are looking to gradually increase that number over the course of the year.

Over on our Google+ Page, we have over 2600 +1 on the page itself and over 200 have us in their Circles. That’s a lot considering Google+ is not as popular as Facebook but social media trends are changing as we speak and we hope to grow that community this year.

On Twitter, we had over 600 new followers and will most likely pass 3,000 sometime this year.

Measuring our visitors, as of this writing, the site is ranked 41,035 in the United States on Quantcast and 337,265 … Continue