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Michael McNally, LEGO Group Senior Director of Brand Relations, right, pumps his fist as he receives a certificate of achievement from GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS Adjudicator, Christina Flounders Colon, at the Star Wars Celebration at McCormick Place in Chicago, April 11, 2019. Flounders Colon adjudicated the title for the largest display of LEGO Star Wars minifigures for the companys installation of 36,440 LEGO stormtrooper minifigures (Alex Garcia/AP Images for The LEGO Group)

LEGO Star Wars Guinness Book World Record at Star Wars Celebration 2019

April 11, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

LEGO Star Wars Guinness Book World Record Build

At Star Wars Celebration 2019 in Chicago, LEGO has achieved a Guinness World Record with the Largest Display of LEGO Star Wars Minifigures. At 36,440 Stormtrooper minifigures, it beat the previous record of 35.210 LEGO Star Wars minifigures. It took 38 hours to complete with a team of 12 people.

The Largest Display of LEGO Star Wars Minifigures

FACTS
• 36,440 LEGO Star Wars minifigures total, beating the previous record of 35,210 LEGO Star Wars minifigures
• Display measures 20 feet tall by 20 feet wide
• Arranged in the shape of the iconic stormtrooper helmet
• The display took a team of 12 people 38 hours to create
• The installation was then evaluated by GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS adjudicator, Christina Flounders Conlon
• The LEGO stormtrooper minifigures used in the model are the same stormtrooper minifigures that are in our new 20th anniversary commemorative building set, the LEGO Star Wars Imperial Dropship (available now).

Today, the LEGO Group marked 20 years of LEGO Star Wars by achieving a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for largest display of LEGO Star Wars minifigures, kicking off a weekend-long experience at Star Wars Celebration. Two decades worth of products, content and collaboration between two of the world’s most beloved brands will be showcased at booth #1616 at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago, giving fans of all ages the chance to relive their fandom and build excitement for what’s to come this Fall.

Made up of 36,440 LEGO Star Wars stormtrooper minfigures, the record-setting display is arranged in the shape of

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LEGO Avengers Chinese Opera Masks in Shanghai

April 11, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Avengers: Endgame releases in theaters in a few weeks here in the US but in China, it will be premiering a few days earlier. To get the hype going over there, Marvel and Disney has teamed up with LEGO to showcase the original Avengers team in the form of Chinese Beijing opera masks made out of LEGO bricks. Each of the masks are about 1.3 meters high and 1.1 meters wide with around total 670,000 bricks used for the six masks. It took LEGO Certified Professional Prince Jiang about 1,800 hours over 18 days to complete. The display will be in People’s Square Shanghai in front of the Shimao flagship LEGO Store until April 30.

LEGO Star Wars 20th Anniversary – Product Shots and Ads

April 10, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Continuing with the coverage of the LEGO Star Wars 20th Anniversary celebration, we now take a look at some of the ads and product shots that LEGO has published for sets that have been released in the past. You’ll notice that they are much more simplier than the ones we see today but it’s still cool to see.

LEGO House Dinosaurs (40366) Officially Revealed

April 10, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

LEGO has announced the next LEGO House exclusive set this morning with the Dinosaurs (40366). Many of you guys guessed correctly yesterday and it will be available on April 17 only at the LEGO Store at the LEGO House. Check out the press release below.

Three giant LEGO® dinosaurs greet visitors when they climb the stairs to the Experience Zones of the LEGO House. Available from April 17th as a retail set.

Positioned in The Masterpiece Gallery the three iconic dinosaurs are the stunning centrepieces of the room. Each model has a metal skeleton inside to support the LEGO bricks, the height of each models is 2,92 m (without podium) and the total piece count of the three models is more than 600.000 LEGO bricks. Now LEGO House has taken on the challenge to convert the three giant dinosaurs into a retail product.

The retail product, LEGO® House dinosaurs, will be launched at the LEGO Store in LEGO House this summer. And if everything goes as planned the first boxes will already be for sale from 17th April.

The LEGO model is a great reproduction of the giant dinosaurs capturing all the most iconic features in a rescaled version.

Designer Nina Koopman says: ”One of the biggest challenges with the new model has been to capture all the details from the big models. Especially since the models in Masterpiece Gallery were all built of the three different building systems LEGO DUPLO, LEGO Technic and LEGO System. You see it especially with the yellow dino where we

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LEGO Star Wars 20th Anniversary – Minifigure Prototypes

April 9, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

LEGO is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the LEGO Star Wars theme and along with some of the assets that were sent to us, there are things that we normally wouldn’t publicly see. Here we get to see some of the prototypes that were used to create the molds for some of the heads and bodies for some of the creatures in the Star Wars Universe.

New LEGO House Exclusive Set Reveal Tomorrow

April 9, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

LEGO has teased a new LEGO House exclusive that will be revealed some time tomorrow. The set will be available starting on April 17 at the LEGO Store inside the LEGO House. What do you think this set will be?

BrickLink AFOL Designer Program Packaging Revealed

April 9, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

We’re in the homestretch for the BrickLink AFOL Designer Program with less than a week to put in your support for one of the proposed creations. BrickLink has revealed the packaging for the sets and also included are some backdrop scenes for each of the builds. As you can see below, there is a rocky mountain background for the Wild West Saloon. Lastly, you’ll also get a thank you card for supporting the model and the program itself. You have until April 15 to throw in your support.