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Barnes & Noble LEGO Architecture Studio Event

July 27, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Yesterday, I attended one of the many LEGO Architecture events held in Barnes & Noble stores throughout the United States. The event was to talk about aspects of the design process in architecture as well as to promote the new LEGO Architecture Studio (21050) set.

At the event, there were a couple of guest speakers that were invited to speak to the attendees: MiraCosta College Drafting & Architecture professor, David Parker, and former Master Model Designer and fellow SandLUG member, Mariann Asanuma. She also runs the popular site, Model Building Secrets so if you want to learn some juicy secrets from a LEGO Master Model Builder, I suggest heading over there and checking the site out. Kevin, Ambassador of SandLUG, was also available to show off a few his amazing modular buildings.

LEGO Star Wars SDCC 2013 Exclusive JEK-14 Mini Stealth Starfighter Review

July 26, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The second set that LEGO was selling at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con was the LEGO Star Wars SDCC 2013 Exclusive JEK-14 Mini Stealth Starfighter. Like The Hobbit Micro Scale Bag End, you had to get in line for a ticket to purchase the small set. This set contains 105 pieces and retails for $40, a $0.38/piece. My set was numbered 168 of 1000. There is one unnumbered bag and one instruction booklet.

LEGO Star Wars SDCC 2013 JEK-14 Mini Stealth Starfighter

LEGO Technic You Design It, We Make It Winner Visits LEGO HQ

July 26, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has recently released a video of Egor Karshiev (rm8), the winner of the “You Design It, We Make It” Co-Creation Technic Challenge, visiting the LEGO headquarters in Billund, Denmark and seeing the new LEGO Technic 4×4 Crawler Exclusive Edition (41999) in production. In the video, Egor meets with all the members of the Technic team that was involved with the creation of the new 4×4 Crawler. He also got to discuss with members the new design of the set and seeing his competition’s models. After that, Egor got to go in the LEGO factory and got to see how the set was assembled and packaged up for shipment. It is a once in a lifetime experience and it was great that Egor got to take part in it. You can read his review of the set here. The set will be available in LEGO stores as well as on Shop@Home on August 1st and will retail for $199.99 for 1585 pieces.

LEGO The Hobbit SDCC 2013 Exclusive Micro Scale Bag End Review

July 25, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

At the 2013 San Diego Comic Con, LEGO announced one of the two exclusive sets they would be selling is The Hobbit Micro Scale Bag End. To get the set, you had to stand in line to get a ticket to purchase the set. I was lucky enough to get one of the last sets they had on the first day. The set consists of 130 pieces and retails for $40 which is a whopping $0.31/piece but that is expected since these are exclusive sets that you can only get at conventions. This set is number 785 of 1000. This year LEGO has decided to go with a small box instead of a tin can like last year’s exclusive. Inside the box, there is one unnumbered bag and one instruction booklet.

LEGO The Hobbit SDCC 2013 Exclusive Micro Scale Bag End

The Brick Fan on Beyond the Brick Podcast Episode 77

July 24, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Today, I had the honor to be on the Beyond the Brick podcast to talk about my experience during the 2013 San Diego Comic Con. We talked about many different topics that was LEGO related during the four days I was there from the exclusive sets that were sold to the minifigures that were given away. Be sure to subscribe to Beyond the Brick for LEGO builder interviews and LEGO news. Thanks again Joshua and Matthew for having me on.

Warner Bros. The LEGO Movie Panel at San Diego Comic Con 2013

July 24, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The San Diego Comic-Con Unofficial Blog has posted the Warner Bros. The LEGO Movie panel from Day 3 at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con. The video shows most of the panel minus the footage parts which you’re not allowed to film. Here it was also announced that Channing Tatum will be voicing Superman, Jonah Hill will be doing the voice for the Green Lantern, and Cobie Smulders will do the voice for Wonder Woman. They will be joining the cast of Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Alison Brie, Will Ferrell, Nick Offerman and Charlie Day who are also doing various voices in the movie. The panel also mentioned that there will be scenes included that are made from short films by fans which we reported back in May.

LEGO Stop-Motion The Wolverine Trailer

July 23, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Back in March, we featured Antonio Toscano and his stop-motion video of the Star Trek Into Darkness trailer. Today, his brother, Andrea, messaged me and told me that he had released a new stop-motion LEGO trailer, The Wolverine. Like his other trailers, it is very accurate and to the minute of the original trailer. I’m still amazed on the amount of time and dedication it takes to make a stop-motion video. Check out more of his work on his YouTube channel.