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LEGO Lord of the Rings Video Game Free Demo

November 3, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

As we get closer to the release of the LEGO Lord of the Rings video game, you might be wondering what the game is like. Over on the LEGO Lord of the Rings video game minisite, you can now download a free pre-release demo level of the game for the PC. The game will work on Windows 7, XP, and Vista but not for the Mac. Below is a walkthrough of the gameplay.

**Spoilers**

The demo takes place at the end of The Two Towers with a cutscene where the characters arrive at Helm’s Deep and prepare for battle. After the cutscene, you get to play as Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli to solve a puzzle to get to the top of the castle walls. Then another cutscene starts where a Rohan archer accidentally shoots and kills an Uruk-hai and the battle begins. Again, you control the characters and you have to destroy the ladders that are perched against the wall. There are three rounds of this. Shortly, another cutscene starts with a berserker runs towards the wall where explosives are set while Legolas and Gilmi fail to stop him. The wall explodes and you gain control of the characters again to retreat into the keep. A short cutscene again you have to hold off the Uruk-hai and repair the door. After that, you control Legolas to take down some more ladders. There’s also a small puzzle where you push a box down to Aragorn and Gimli to create a perch to climb up a rope … Continue

LEGO Lord of the Rings 2013 Set Rumors

November 3, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

A user by the name of CM4S on Eurobricks has posted three LEGO Lord of the Rings sets that are rumored to be released in March 2013. There’s no official confirmation of the sets as the original poster had to remove them so right now we’re just going against someone’s word. All we have that there will be LEGO Lord of the Rings sets is an image of the One Ring with reflections of Frodo Baggins, Gollum, Gandalf the Grey, and Aragorn with the caption of “The Quest of the Fellowship Continues in 2013.” Again, until we have some sort of confirmation, the sets below are purely rumors.

790xx The Betrayal of Isengard
Includes: Gandalf, Saurman, and 5 Orcs (no Uruk-Hai)
Will also include the Palantir
1034 pcs
$100

790xx Treebeard Encounter
Includes: Merry, Pippin, and an Orc
Will also include a brick-built Treebeard
583 pcs
$60

790xx Bridge of Khazam Had (sp?)
Includes: Gandalf
Includes a brick-built Balrog
291 pcs
$40

LEGO Street Fighter Minifigures For Child’s Play Charity A Success!!

November 3, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Street Fighter 2 minifigs - complete roster

A couple of days ago, Julian Fong, aka levork, posted an eBay listing to sell his awesome custom LEGO Street Fighter 2 minifigures with all the proceeds going to Child’s Play Charity. On Friday, November 2, 2013 at 11:00PM PST, the auction was completed with 23 total bids and the final bid of $500.00! Children at local hospitals worldwide can now receive new toys, games, and books with the help of Julian’s generous donation to Child’s Play. We here at The Brick Fan would like to congratulate Julian on this amazing achievement!

As an eBay Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

I would also like to thank some fellow AFOLs, @ChrisPirillo, @DianaPirillo, and the @LockerGnome community, for help spreading the word about the auction as well.

LEGO City: Undercover Chase McCain Minifigure (5000281) Review

November 2, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

In September, we reported that the LEGO City: Undercover game will be coming out on the Nintendo Wii U and a couple of days ago, we saw the first image of the polybag for the Chase McCain minifigure. Target stores are now selling preorders of the game. For $1, you get a reservation card as well as the polybag for the minifigure attached to the back. You also get a LEGO City: Undercover collector’s card. For a limited time, if you purchase the game when it is released on November 18, 2012, you get a FREE $5 Target gift card. There were a few of the minifigs on the racks so I decided to purchase all the ones they had as you can see below.

LEGO Galaxy Squad Image From LEGO Club Magazine

November 1, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Murphquake has uploaded images from the November-December Club Magazine of what may be the first images of the new highly anticipated LEGO Galaxy Squad sets. What we can see in the comic is Earth shooting a laser into space, probably from the Galaxy Squad, at a giant wasp looking insect as well as many insect figures with the caption:

What is this newest threat?? Get ready to defend the universe from extraterrestrial pests with Galaxy Squad!

*Via Brickset**

vynsane on Eurobricks has found descriptions of the sets and translated them using Google Translator.

70700 Space Swarmer (translation from German: Space Beetles)
The evil alien beetle-like insect buzzing in his space-beetle in the Galaxy! Do not let that captures the robot the Galaxy squad with the mouth parts of the beetle! Help him to escape with his jetpack out of the reach of the sound cannon of the insect! Get yourself to safety, take the space bug to target and turn it off with your blaster! Includes 2 minifigures with weapons: beetle insect-like alien and robot Ages 7 and up.

70701 Swarm Interceptor (translation form German: defensive jet)
A dangerous alien races mosquito zoom on its space plane! Holding that creepy critter on together with the leader of the blue team, Solomon Blaze, and the divisible defense-Jet! If the fight goes out of control, the Abwehrjet the Galaxy squad are divided into 2 machines: an agile flier with removable missiles and a powerful gun turret with camouflaged missiles! Against the divisible Abwehrjet with Solomon Blaze in

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Disney Buys Lucasfilm…Star Wars: Episode VII in 2015

October 30, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

This is not really LEGO related but will have LEGO implications in the next few years. The Huffington Post reports that today, Disney announced they have purchased Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion. They also state that Star Wars: Episode VII is targeted to be in theaters in 2015 with Episode VIII and Episode IX in theaters “every two or three years.” Since LEGO just signed a licensing agreement extension for 10 more years with Lucasfilm in February, it probably means there’s a good chance that there will be Star Wars: Episode VII-IX LEGO sets in the future.

LEGO City: Undercover Chase McCain Minifigure at Target

October 30, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The Chase McCain exclusive minifigure for the LEGO City: Undercover for the Nintendo Wii U have started showing at Target stores. grizzlybrice on Reddit has snapped a picture of how they are “selling” the minifigure. To get the minifigure, you have to just purchase the reservation card for $1. You don’t have to buy LEGO City: Undercover when it comes out but if you do, you also get a $5 gift card when you pick up the game. The game is expected to be released on November 18, 2012.