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LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out DVD

January 22, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The box art and exclusive minifigure for the LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out DVD is now available for everyone to see. As we’ve speculated before, the minifigure included with the DVD is Darth Vader wearing a medal much like the Luke Skywalker and Han Solo minifigures from the DK LEGO Star Wars Encyclopedias. The 22-minute animated film will be released on March 26, 2013 and can be pre-ordered at Walmart. It will be available in the UK on March 18 and France on April 3.

LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out - Exclusive Darth Vader

LEGO® STAR WARS®: The Empire Strikes Out™ Animated Special Arrives on DVD

Packed with Humor, Action and Fun – and an Exclusive Darth Vader LEGO Minifigure!

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (January 22, 2013) – After a record breaking debut on Cartoon Network, The LEGO Group and Lucasfilm announced today that LEGO® Star Wars™: The Empire Strikes Out will release on DVD this coming March 26, 2013. The 22-minute original standalone special will bring the same tongue-and-cheek humor fans know and love in a brand new epic adventure featuring everyone’s favorite LEGO Star Wars characters. Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, the DVD will include an exclusive collectible Darth Vader LEGO minifigure and is available now for preorder at www.foxconnect.com/awesome.

Filled with charm, action and irreverent humor this original story features characters, locations and vehicles across the entire LEGO Star Wars universe including Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, C-3P0, R2-D2, Darth Maul, and more. When the premiere of LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out aired

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LEGO at the 2013 London Toy Fair

January 22, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Today in Kensington, London, the 2013 London Toy Fair kicked off. LEGO has a big presence there showing off the upcoming sets from a wide variety of themes. Our friends at Brick Fanatics made the rounds today and has given a list of sets that were on display. Unfortunately, photography was not allowed but so we have to wait a little longer to see what the new sets look like. It’s also nice to see the pricing we we can gauge how big the sets are without actually seeing images at this time.

Super Heroes – Nice to know what minifigures are included in the sets such as the War Machine we saw earlier.

DC Universe Metropolis Showdown (76002) – £11.99 – Superman, General Zod
DC Universe Superman Battle of Smallville (76003) – £39.99 – Includes Superman, Faora, Colonel Hardy, General Zod, and 1 unknown minfigure
Marvel Universe Iron Man Extremis Sea Port Battle (76006) – £19.99 – Iron Man, War Machine, and Aldrich Killian minifigures
Marvel Universe Iron Man Malibu Mansion Attack (76007) – £34.99 – Tony Stark, Iron Man MK42, Pepper Potts, Mandarin, and 1 unknown villain
Marvel Universe Iron Man vs. The Mandarin: Ultimate Battle (76008) – £11.99 – Iron Man Heartbreaker, Mandarin
DC Universe Superman: Black Zero Escape (76009) – £19.99 – Superman, Lois Lane, General Zod

Star Wars – Most of this wave of the Star Wars sets will be centered on The Yoda Chronicles. The 2013 Advent Calendar will feature Jango Fett as Santa as well as a Young Boba … Continue

LEGO Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder’s Dragon Bike (79101) Review

January 21, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Continuing with the reviews of the initial LEGO Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line, here we have the Shredder’s Dragon Bike (79101). This set contains 198 pieces and retails for $24.99, a $0.13/piece ratio. The box has one instruction booklet, three un-numbered bags, a sticker sheet, and a large back tire.

LEGO Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Dragon Bike (79101)

LEGO Holiday Christmas Set 2012 (3300014) Review

January 20, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Back in November of last year during Black Friday, LEGO was giving away a free exclusive Holiday Christmas Set (3300014) with every $99 purchase. I recently received this set from Richard at Brick Fanatics and am excited to get this set reviewed. The Holiday Set contains 109 pieces an did retail for $14.99 for a short time during after Black Friday. The box contains one instruction booklet, two un-numbered bags, the horse, and a white 4×12 plate.

LEGO Holiday Christmas Set 2012 (3300014)

LEGO Creator Expert Palace Cinema (10232) Preview

January 19, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

If you follow The Brick Show, you know that they’re at BrickFair Alabama this weekend. Stephen and Jason caught up with Kevin Hinkle to get his thoughts on the LEGO Creator Expert Palace Cinema (10232). According to Kevin, the Cinema took about six hours to build and has some new pieces including a red baseplate in the newest Modular building. Also as I suspected, the movie posters and the screen will be stickers, which is the first time that stickers will be introduced in a Modular building. There are numbered bags to three, one for each level of the building, and three instruction booklets in the box. Again as we noted before, there are 2196 pieces and retails for $149.99.

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LEGO Creator Expert Cinema Palace (10232) Press Release

January 18, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

Today at BrickFair Alabama, LEGO Community Coordinator, Kevin Hinkle, officially announced the newest addition to the Modular theme, the Creator Expert Cinema Palace (10232). The set contains 2194 pieces and will retail for $149.99. The set will be available in March at LEGO Stores as well as Shop@Home. ~~The designer video for the set has not been released yet as of this post but will be added once it is available.~~ Below is the official press release.

Update – LEGO Designer, Astrid, describes the set in detail in the Designer Video below. She notes that LEGO had the 1930’s Hollywood in mind when they were designing it, which is around the time when the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in California was getting popular.

10232 Palace Cinema

Ages 16+. 2,194 pieces.

US $149.99 CA $199.99 DE 139,99€ UK 119.99 £ DK 1,099.00 DKK

Build a grand premiere at the Palace Cinema!
It’s premiere night at the Palace Cinema! Illuminate the night sky with the spotlights as the child star arrives in a fancy black limousine! Gather the crowd on the star-studded sidewalk, then head into the detailed lobby with a concession stand and ticket area! Take the grand staircase into the theater with a large screen, movie projector and reclining chairs for 6 minifigures. Introducing the latest addition to the LEGO® Modular Buildings series, the highly detailed, 2-story Palace Cinema corner building. This collectible model features a sidewalk of the stars, brick-built entrance doors, posters, sign frontage, a tower with spires and rooftop decorations.

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The Brick Fan Turns 1 Year Old

January 18, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 8 Comments

Today, The Brick Fan turns 1 year old. As I stated in a previous blog post, I began blogging under a different URL but I had to change it to thebrickfan.com on this day in 2012. At first, I was just using this blog to review LEGO sets that I purchase but I shifted to adding LEGO news a few months in and has evolved into what you now see today.

Now for some interesting facts I’ve gathered on the site. In a year, there have been 449 blog posts and have gotten 143 article comments. As you can see on the stats below, the site didn’t get that much traffic until July when San Diego Comic-Con started and doubled again when news of the 2013 LEGO sets became public. The site got 418,660 unique visitors with 647,740 page loads. My goal for this year is to double the traffic that the site currently gets now.

Here’s some other neat stats:

Pages/Visit: 1.55
Avg. Visit Duration: 00:01:34
New Visitors: 81.33%
Returning Visitors: 18.66%
58.29% Search Traffic
27.20% Referral Traffic
14.51% Direct Traffic
Email Subscribers: 131
Facebook Page Likes: 1039
Twitter Followers: 2116

What I like the most about blogging is the friendships I’ve made this past year including, in no particular order, Richard over on Brick Fanatics, Stud from YourCreativeFriends, Beyond the Brick, the guys over at Brick Picker, Jeff, Ed, TheOrcKing, just to name a few. I would like to also thank our regular readers as well as the commenters who … Continue