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Twenty Five Projects Qualify for LEGO Ideas Third 2020 Review Stage

January 4, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Ideas Third 2020 qualifying period is now over and projects that achieved the 10,000 supporter goal didn’t slow down as 25 of them qualified for this round and they include the The project now joins the Boeing 737 Passenger Plane, Colosseum (Architecture Style), Gravity Falls: The Mystery Shack, Brick Town Police Station, Bag End, Red Dwarf Starbug, Avatar: The Last Airbender – YIP YIP!, Classic Castle, Open MRI, Motorized Lighthouse, Avatar: The Illuminated World of Pandora, Spirited Away, Jumanji of 1995, Auto Union Type C Racecar, Automated Garbage Truck, TX Master Games, Milwaukee Art Museum, The Car Wash, Wallace & Gromit, Among Us: The Skeld, Roman Warship, The Addams Family Mystery Mansion, GMC – Blue Chip 100 [1957], and Viking Village.

Products that hit 10k now will be placed in the First 2021 Review Stage which will end on on May 3. LEGO is still doing reviews on the Second 2020 qualifiers which had 35 submissions plus one that was carried over from the previous round.

Which project(s) from the Third 2020 Review do you think will become an official LEGO Ideas set?

LEGO Education BricQ Motion Sets Announced

January 4, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

It’s been a while but LEGO has officially announced some new LEGO Education sets dedicated to teaching students STEAM while removing digital barriers and teaching physical science through fun and engaging lessons. There will be two sets called BricQ Motion that includes a number of building activities to allow kids to learn about motion. BricQ Motion Essential (45401) will be for ages 6+ and BricQ Motion Prime (45400) will be a bit more advanced for ages 10+. Teachers will also get online lesson plans along with 6-10 hours of education content and resources with the sets. Check out the press release below.

LEGO January 2021 Double VIP Point Sets

January 3, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

If you didn’t see it yet, LEGO is offering Double VIP Points on two new 2021 sets which are the LEGO City Town Center (60292) and the LEGO Ninjago X-1 Ninja Charger (71737). You can earn 1,300 points and 650 points on the sets, respectively. Both sets are currently on backorder status but will ship out by January 21.

LEGO Star Wars SDCC 2020 Nebulon-B Frigate Giveaway Winner Announced

January 3, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

On Christmas, we ran a contest for the SDCC 2020 exclusive LEGO Star Wars Nebulon-B Frigate (77904) and we finally have a winner for it. There were a total of 8,909 entries for it and the lucky winner is:

Nick B.

I’ve already contacted Nick and he has 3 days to reply with his shipping address or else I have to choose another winner. Thank you to everyone who entered. Hopefully we’ll have more giveaway later this year.

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LEGO Vidiyo Minifigure Teaser on LEGO.com

January 2, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The kids side of LEGO.com has posted what appears to be one of the minifigures from the upcoming LEGO Vidiyo line. It shows a llama/giraffe minifigure playing some maracas with a colorful background.

The LEGO Vidiyo theme is a music theme coming in March which is part of LEGO’s partnership with Universal Music Group. The sets are rumored to be cube style boxes with music type characters. The sets will also have printed tiles of album covers that gives an interactive experience using your phone to play music, adding visual effects, and creating music videos.

LEGO Botanical Collection Available at Target and Walmart

January 2, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Botanical Collection has been pretty popular so far and they are now on backorder status and out of stock on the LEGO Shop but Target and Walmart has them in stock at retail price. It’s good there are alternatives for shoppers but the downside is that you won’t get any VIP points or qualify for the Vintage Car promo.

Target

Flower Bouquet (10280)
Bonsai Tree (10281)

Walmart

Flower Bouquet (10280)
Bonsai Tree (10281)

The Brick Fan 2020 Recap

January 1, 2021 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

2020 was a challenging year for everyone around the world but we’ve managed to continue grinding it out here on The Brick Fan. Today is one of my favorite times of the year as we can take a look at some of the stats for the site and how it compares to the previous years.

Since a majority of the world was under lockdown for a few months, people had a lot of time to go online. This means more time to read LEGO fan sites for news and updates as well as reviews and such. We ended the year at 25,803,380 pageviews which is up 13.5% from 2019. This also resulted in an increase of unique views and first time visitors as well.

There were 1,025 posts which was the most number of posts in a year for the site. The highest traffic day was on November 23 in which a combination of posts contributed to it including the reveal of the the LEGO Botanical Collection, and LEGO Star Wars sets as well as the December Store Calendar.

On social media, our counts are still slowly going up which you can see below:

Facebook – 18,672 likes/21,603 followers (16.4% increase)
Twitter – 10,824 followers (12.9% increase)
Instagram – 16.420 (7.3% increase)
Reddit – 538 readers (28.5% increase)

Overall, 2020 was a very successful year on the site and I truly appreciate everyone who comes to read it. I know it’s pretty hard doing normal stuff right now with the pandemic still going on. … Continue