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As you can see from the image above, there will be a new LEGO Castle minisite coming next month. Right now, you can play a Castle minigame if you go to the temporary site. The object of the game is to collect gems, coins, fruits, and other items to earn higher points and to avoid hazards like sword-wielding enemies, rocks, and falling trees. Thanks to Rucifeld for the heads up.
LEGO is currently offering a promotion where you can get the Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man vs. Fighting Drone (30167) polybag with any purchase of $50 or more. This promotion lasts from May 16th through May 31st, while supplies last and is valid at LEGO Stores as well as Shop@Home.
The new LEGO The Lone Ranger Tonto’s Campfire Polybag (30261) is now available at Toys R Us online store and well as at select brick and mortar stores. It contains 20 pieces and retails for $4.99 with a limit of 5 per customer. You can also get the polybag for FREE with a purchase of $79 or more.
The return of the LEGO Castle sets may be sooner than you think. According to Brickset, a worker at a Colorado Toys R Us store has seen the sets already on the shelves. If this is true, then the release date has been pushed up considerably since we were expecting them later on in the year. You may want to take a little trip down to your local Toys R Us stores to see if they’re on the shelves yet.
More official images of the 2013 summer wave of a couple of LEGO Star Wars sets have been released the past couple of days. These sets should be available in the next couple months here in the States but they have already shown up on the German Toys R Us site and on France’s Shop@Home.
Corporate Alliance Tank Droid (75015) – $19.99
Homing Spider Droid (75016) – $29.99
Duel on Genosis (75017) – $39.99
JEK-14’s Stealth Starfighter (75018) – $69.99
AT-TE (75019) – $99.99
Jabba’s Sail Barge (75020) – $119.99
Republic Gunship (75021) – $119.99
Mandalorian Speeder (75022) – $24.99
2013 Advent Calendar (75023) – $39.99
We’ve featured Movoto before here on our site with the LEGO My House Calculator article and they’re back with a neat infographic on what buildings and landmarks you can build with all the LEGO bricks in the world. There are about 472 billion bricks that have been made since 1958 and what kind of building and landmarks you can build using those billions of bricks are staggering.
- 2,972 of the White House
- 588 of the Taj Mahal
- 200 of Buckingham Palace
- 74 of the Empire State Building
- 66 of the Burj Khalifa (the world’s tallest building)
- 1 Great Pyramid of Giza
What else is neat is that you can also build about 46,000 medium sized houses for around 122,000 people. Some other facts that Movoto has stated are the number of bricks used for some of these buildings. Check out their site for much more information and stats.
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- Burj Khalifa: 7,067,231,175 bricks
- Empire State Building: 6,325,329,353
- Buckingham Palace: 2,350,135,986
- White House: 158,783,167 bricks
There is a new LEGO Architecture set that was revealed by Flickr user, motayan, and it is the United Nations Headquarters (21018). The set contains 597 but there is no word on pricing or release date as of yet. Located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, the UN Headquarters started construction in 1948 and was completed in 1952. Do you think this set is a decent representation of the actual building in New York?
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