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LEGO Everyone is Awesome (40516) Designer Video

May 20, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Early this morning, LEGO announced the LEGO Everyone is Awesome (40516) set to a very positive response from the community and at time, they also dropped the designer video for the set. Vice President of Design Matthew Ashton talks about the details of the set as well as talks about the inspiration for it because it is very personal to Matthew.

The model is inspired by the rainbow flag which is used as a symbol of love and acceptance by the LGBTQIA+ community and features 11 monochrome minifigures each with its own individual hairstyle and rainbow color. Everyone is Awesome (40516) will be available on June 1 for $39.99.

LEGO Everyone is Awesome (40516) Officially Announced

May 20, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

LEGO has officially announced the LEGO Everyone is Awesome (40516) set which is designed to celebrate fans’ diversity. Just in time for Pride Month, the 346 piece set will be available starting on June 1 and will retail for $34.99. The set was designed by LEGO Vice President of Design Matthew Ashton who has been posting teasers of the set the past few weeks and has said about the set, “I wanted to create a model that symbolises inclusivity and celebrates everyone, no matter how they identify or who they love.”

Everyone is Awesome LEGO® set celebrates fans’ diversity

Billund, May 20th 2021: The LEGO Group today announces LEGO® Everyone is Awesome a set designed to celebrate the diversity of our fans and the world around us. The buildable display model is inspired by the iconic rainbow flag which is used as a symbol of love and acceptance by the LGBTQIA+ community and features 11 monochrome minifigures each with its own individual hairstyle and rainbow colour.

Set designer Matthew Ashton, Vice President, Design said: “I wanted to create a model that symbolises inclusivity and celebrates everyone, no matter how they identify or who they love.”

“Everyone is unique, and with a little more love, acceptance and understanding in the world, we can all feel more free to be our true AWESOME selves! This model shows that we care, and that we truly believe ‘Everyone is awesome’!”

The 346 piece stands 10.24cm tall and has a depth of 12.80cm – a perfect fit for most shelves or

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LEGO FRIENDS Mug Promotion Starting Soon?

May 19, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

There’s a new LEGO ad on Instagram that I came across that shows there will be a new LEGO Friends Coffee Mug promotion starting soon on the LEGO Shop. It says that you can get the mug with a purchase of the LEGO Ideas Central Perk (21319) but it doesn’t seem like the promo hasn’t started yet online.

The promotion is very interesting since many people already have the Central Perk and since The Friends Apartment (10292) just dropped for VIPs, why didn’t LEGO do it for that instead. I’m thinking that LEGO is banking on people purchasing both sets since there’s a big Friends fandom.

LEGO Technic Porsche 911 RSR (42096) Amazon Sale – May 2021

May 19, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Technic Porsche 911 RSR (42096) is now priced at a 20% discount over on Amazon. You can save $30 off the retail price which brings it down to $119.99 which is the lowest it has been since November 2020. The set has been out since January 2019 so this could be a permanent discount which also suggests it could be retiring by the end of the year by typical LEGO shelf life standards.

BrickLink Designer Program Extended with More Crowdfunding Rounds

May 19, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

BrickLink has recently updated their timeline to give designers more time to refine their projects to be able to reach the crowdfunding stage. The update changes it from one crowdfunding round to three rounds with the first one starting in July, with following rounds in September and November. Each round will have eight to ten projects that will be chosen on feasibility and part availability and five projects will be crowdfunded with a total of 15 that you will be able to purchase. You can check the updated list to see which projects will be in the first crowdfunding round here.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Infinity Saga Sets Pricing & Release Date

May 19, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

LEGO has put up product listings for the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Infinity Saga on the LEGO Shop and we can finally see pricing and release dates for the sets. It looks like we’ll have to wait a little bit here in the US as they have an August 1 release date. There are also no pre-orders for them but you can still pre-order the Infinity Gauntlet (76191) and that will ship on August 1 as well.

Black Panther Dragon Flyer (76186) – 202 pieces/$19.99
Captain America and Hydra Face-Off (76189) – 49 pieces/$9.99
Iron Man: Iron Monger Mayhem (76190) – 479 pieces/$39.99
Avengers: Endgame Final Battle (76192) – 527 pieces/$69.99
The Guardians’ Ship (76193) – 1,901 pieces/$149.99.

LEGO Marvel Daily Bugle (76178) Originally Had List of 60 Minifigures

May 19, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Daily Bugle (76178) was announced a few days ago and with it comes a whopping 25 minifigures which is the most ever in a Marvel set. The designer of the set, Mark Stafford, recently did an AMA on Reddit and he revealed that the set originally started out with 60 minifigures but was whittled down to the current number. In addition, he also wanted the original Sinister Six but just couldn’t do it and a lot of minifigures actually were pushed to the regular sets first. Some of the characters that were omitted from the Daily Bugle include Deadpool, Human Torch, Iceman, and Spider Woman because Marvel was in charge of who they wanted to include. Unfortunately, Mark is not able to divulge the other minifigures that we wanted to put in the set but hopefully we’ll be able to see them in future sets.

Several. I had made a list around 60 long when I started!

I wanted the original Sinister Six, but we just couldn’t make it happen, we ran out of new figures we could make. In fact because it was so minifigure heavy a lot of figures from this set were pushed out into the standard retail line (they ended up coming out first).

TO give you a few names I wanted Deadpool, The Human Torch, Iceman, Spider Woman – all Spiderman’s buddy’s. But Marvel also have to agree and some of the decisions to include or not include figures were up to them and like I

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