In our next review of the LEGO Ninjago 2023 sets, we take a look at Nya’s Water Dragon EVO (71800). This set has 173 pieces and retails for $19.99.
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The two LEGO 2023 Lunar New Year sets are now available for purchase on the LEGO Shop. These two sets include the Lunar New Year Display (80110) which costs $89.99 and the Lunar New Year Parade (80111) which goes for $129.99.
If you get both sets, you do qualify for the LEGO Blacktron Cruiser (40580) as well as the LEGO Lunar New Year VIP Add-On Pack (40605). Remember to use Rakuten to earn some cash back on your purchases. Make sure to activate the extension before you complete your purchase to get credit for it.
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The Botanical Garden by Goannas is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 2,989 piece build features a greenhouse with a neoclassical entrance facade. On the inside, there are a number of botanical species.
The project joins Dr. Seuss and LEGO and Sweet Honey as the ones to reach the Third 2023 Review Stage.
The official images of the upcoming LEGO Year of the Rabbit (40575) gift-with-purchase set are now available on the LEGO Shop. The promotion will run from January 15-25 with purchases of $85/€85/£80 online and in stores.
Like with the previous Chinese Zodiac animal sets, it will also include a red envelope as well. The front of it will have the same design as the box and the back has a yellow embossed printing of the rabbit.
If you’ve been collecting them, we’re getting pretty close to completing 12 animals as there are three left with the dragon, snake, and horse coming in the next few years.
The 2023 LEGO Super Mario wave introduces new areas and characters for you to expand on and the first set that we’ll check out is Conkdor’s Noggin Bopper (71414). The set has 130 pieces and retails for $14.99.
The LEGO Art theme has evolved in the past few years to include famous pieces of pop culture and now we have transitioned to iconic art with the Hokusai – The Great Wave (31208). This set has 1,810 pieces and retails for $99.99 and it not only does it feature one Japan’s most famous pieces of art but one of the most recognizable pieces of art in history.
Like we previous years, we are back with a recap for The Brick Fan on what happened in 2022. I know some of you don’t read this but this is just for posterity.
Our post count went down to 912 from a previous 1,095 from 2021, however, 2022 was our highest traffic year with 32,039,740 page views. It’s not a huge increase from 2021 as it was only about 1% but we averaged more views per post which concludes that we didn’t need to post more to get the same amount of traffic. Makes me think of what traffic would be like if we had 100 posts a week, IYKYK.
The highest traffic day was on my birthday which coincidentally was also the same day as LEGO Con 2022 where LEGO revealed a lot of new sets that day. That was the previous record of the highest total ever on the site but that has since been broken a few days ago.
We had less returning visits but we did have more first time visits, possibly because of new fans that have joined the hobby in recent years. We crossed the 150 million page view mark and we should be hitting 200 million by the end of the year.
Our social media accounts have been growing slowly and I’m content on how they are growing. They could be better but I don’t advertise them too much or try to get people to follow.
Facebook – 25,979 followers (11% increase)
Twitter – 14,331 followers (19% increase)
Instagram… Continue
