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There are now more official images of the summer 2019 LEGO Friends sets coming out of MisterBricks.nl. As mentioned before, some of the sets feature an amusement park theme along with an assortment of other sets.
A few days ago, we got the first look at the Mars Exploration sets for the summer 2019 LEGO City theme and now we have more images of other City sets that will be coming out soon. Thanks for everyone who messaged in about them. Sorry I was on a flight.
**Via MisterBricks.nl**
This year, LEGO has released a number of regional exclusive sets including the 2019 Chinese New Years ones for the Asian regions, The LEGO Movie 2 BrickHeadz from Target and Walmart, as well as the Star Wars Celebration Darth Vader Bust also from Target. Many of you have voiced your concerns over these exclusives and it looks like LEGO has finally listened.
Tormod over on the LAN has posted a brief statement about future region exclusives and it says that sets released after May 1st will be widely available at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home for a limited time after launch (3-6 months). This should give enough time for those who actually want an exclusive to be able to get them with ease without going through the secondary market. There’s still products that will be truly exclusive such as gift-with-purchase promo items, LEGOLAND, LEGO House, LEGO Inside Tour, and Comic Con items. This means that it looks like a lot of us will be able to get the recently revealed Dragon Boat Race (80103) without jumping through hoops.
What do you think of this massive change that LEGO is putting in place?
… ContinueDear AFOL Community,
It has become apparent to us at the LEGO Group that you are dissatisfied with the recent launches of regional exclusive products. We’ve received a lot of feedback on the LEGO festival products to mark the Chinese New Year (sets 80101 and 80102), the LEGO The Movie 2 Brickheadz (41634, 41635,41636 & 41637) in the US as well as the
In a press release sent out early this morning, LEGO has announced that they will be releasing LEGO Braille Bricks to help visually impaired children to learn through play with LEGO bricks.The LEGO Braille Bricks will be molded with the same number of studs used for individual letters and numbers in the Braille alphabet, while remaining fully compatible with the LEGO System in Play. Check out the full press release below.
… ContinueTHE LEGO FOUNDATION AND LEGO GROUP TEAM UP WITH BLIND ASSOCIATIONS TO PILOT LEGO® BRAILLE BRICKS AND DEVELOP CHILDREN’S BREADTH OF SKILLS
Motivated by stories and ideas from blind people around the world, the LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group will pilot a grassroots innovation that can help blind and visually impaired children learn through play using LEGO® bricks.
Paris, France April 24: Today, the LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group will announce their support of a pioneering project that will help blind and visually impaired children learn Braille in a playful and engaging way using Braille customised LEGO® bricks. The project, LEGO Braille Bricks, will be unveiled today at the Sustainable Brands Conference in Paris, France.
The concept behind LEGO Braille Bricks was first proposed to the LEGO Foundation in 2011 by the Danish Association of the Blind and again in 2017 by the Brazilian-based Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind. It has since been further shaped in close collaboration among blind associations from Denmark, Brazil, UK, and Norway and the first prototypes are now in those same countries for concept testing.
“With thousands of audiobooks
Continuing with some more reveals of the Summer 2019 LEGO sets, we have a couple of sets from the LEGO Friends line. Unfortunately, there are only two sets to show at this time but I’ll update this page when the rest of them are online. The main sub-theme for the summer wave is water amusement park related as seen below with one of the rides.
**Via ToyChamp.be
Continuing with the reveals of the summer 2019 sets, there are now images of the LEGO Architecture sets via ToyChamp. We’ve already seen an image of Trafalgar Square (21045) earlier this month but we now can see the new Empire State Building (21046). It’s pretty massive set as it has 1,767 pieces and will probably be priced at $119.99 like with the Statue of Liberty (21042). Trafalgar Square is listed as having 1,197 pieces.
Images of the Summer 2019 LEGO sets have started to surface online and there are now some for the LEGO Creator theme. The most interesting one to me is the new Carousel which looks to expand on the smaller fairground rides which started with the Pirate Roller Coaster (31084) from last summer.
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