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LEGO has uploaded the building instructions for a new LEGO Ninjago Sons of Garmadon set with the Turbo (30532). The set is basically a sort of a Mighty Micros set featuring Lloyd’s go-kart and it doesn’t look too bad. Lloyd is in his Wu Cru black outfit which is exclusive to this polybag. I can see builders creating each of the ninjas’ own go-karts with their respective colors and weapons. There’s no word yet on the availability of the polybag at this time.
**Via Brickset**
A few weeks ago, I talked about a new LEGO Star Wars: The Last Jedi DJ (40298) polybag that has shown up. It looks like it will be available at Toys R Us as some readers here and on Reddit have them a little early before the release date. They were available for purchase for $4.99 each but I’m guessing they are part of an upcoming promotion. I’ll have to confirm that when I go back to work in a few days.
DJ (40298) is similar to some of the recent LEGO Star Wars minifigure polybags like R3-M2 and the Scarif Stormtrooper (40176) in which they have a connectible stand along with a background card. I’ll let you guys know in a few days when the promo at TRU is running and the requirements to get it.
The 60 Years of the LEGO Brick (40290) set will be available at the end of January but you can now download the building instructions for it early. The nice thing about seeing the instructions early is because you also have the parts list. Fortunately, the set doesn’t seem to have any exclusive pieces besides the new 2×4 printed 60th anniversary 2×4 tile. However, there are some fairly rare new pieces like the 1×3 plate with with studs and the 3×3 black plate, just to name a few.
As I mentioned before, the 60 Years of the LEGO Brick (40290) set will be available from January 28 – February 14 with a purchase of $125 or more at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home.
*Via Brickset**
2017 is now over and that means we can now take a look at the website traffic here on The Brick Fan as well as other miscellaneous stats. We ended the year at 9,081,785 page views which is a 3% drop from 2016 while unique visits went down 4%.
As for the numbers per month, we averaged about 756,000 page views per month with January being the busiest month due to the Toy Fair news. This year’s Toy Fairs will be at the end of the month so I expect traffic will spike in February instead of January. Our highest recorded day was February 18 as we hit just under 60,000 page views for the New York Toy Fair coverage.
Some other random high traffic days include:
– January 3: New Rumors of LEGO Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon Coming
– April 22: LEGO Creator Fairground Carousel (10256) Rumored for June Release
– May 1: LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Thor: Ragnarok Box Art Images
– August 31: LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon (75192) Officially Announced
For our social media pages, we didn’t really grow that much in terms of followers for some of the traditional sites like Facebook and Twitter. I’m actually not sure why it didn’t grow as much as I expected since I am pretty active on them. For Facebook, we ended the year at 12,936 likes (14% increase from 2016) while on Twitter, we had 7,343 followers (8% increase).
As for Instagram, we actually ended right at 10,000 … Continue
The LEGO Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon (75192) won’t be a LEGO exclusive anymore because it is now listed on the Toys R Us website. It isn’t currently available at this time but you can sign up for email notifications to let you know when they will have some in their warehouse. The RWeb# is 810544.
Shop@Home has had limited availability since it was first launched and you can no longer get the Black VIP Card that went with it. I’m going to take a stab in the dark and say that LEGO didn’t have enough to make the rumored 30,000 cards that were planned for this promotion.
If you’re still looking for the UCS Falcon, it may be worth signing up for the TRU email notifications. I’ve had luck with the system on other products so it does work.
In previous years, LEGO has released various Seasonal sets for the holidays which included vignettes and brick-built characters. For 2018, that has changed dramatically as LEGO has incorporated the Seasonal sets into the LEGO BrickHeadz line. A few weeks ago, all of the 2018 LEGO Seasonal BrickHeadz were revealed including the one that is available starting today, the Valentine’s Bee (40270). It consists of 140 pieces and retails for $9.99.
The February 2018 LEGO Store Calendar is now available and we can now see some of the promotions and events for the month. I’ll update with the PDF version as soon as LEGO has it up.
January 28 – February 14: Free 60 Years of the LEGO Brick (40290), with a purchase of $125 or more, while supplies last.
February 14: LEGO Friends Sunflower with a purchase of $20 or more, while supplies last.
January 19-February 13: LEGO City Mining Play Event at LEGO Stores.
January 6-7: LEGO VIP Monthly Mini Model Build is a Car and Gas Pump
February 15: Adults Only Valentine Themed Building Night at LEGO Stores. Sign up is required.
February 17 & 24: LEGO Life Meeting
February 14 – March 4: LEGO City Mounting Police Building Event at LEGO Stores.
February 16-28: Free LEGO Seasonal Year of the Dog (40235) with a purchase of $88 or more, while supplies last.
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