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The LEGO Harry Potter Diagon Alley (40289) promotion is now live on LEGO Shop@Home. From now until November 21, you can get it for free with purchases of $99 or more, while supplies last. You can read my review of the set here.
Keep in mind, you can double up on some partiuclar promotions including double VIP points on the LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle (71043) and the LEGO Creator Winter Village Fire Station (10263).
Last month, Universal announced their plans for the Jurassic World franchise which included an animated LEGO Jurassic World short and today we have details of it and it is called LEGO Jurassic World: The Secret Exhibit. It is a two-part special that will be a prequel to the 2015 Jurassic World and it will be airing on NBC November 29 at 8pm EST/PST. It will also be streamable the next morning on NBC.com. There will also be a DVD with exclusive content that will be coming out on January 15, 2019. I believe this is the first time that LEGO will have an animated short on one of the major TV stations and not on Cartoon Network like before. Check out the trailer and the press release below.
Today LEGO celebrates an amazing ten years of LEGO Ideas as a crowdsourcing platform for fans. It all started back in 2008 as LEGO CUUSOO during the beta phase and it eventually changed to LEGO Ideas which we now have today. The first set made for CUUSOO was the Shinkai 6500 Submarine (21100) and the first one under the LEGO Ideas name was the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 (21108). There now has been 23 sets that have been officially released so far and it doesn’t look like it will be stopping any time soon. Which LEGO Ideas set is your favorite?
Barnes & Noble has officially announced the details of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts event on November 17. On that day starting at 2pm local time, there will be activities held including building a themed LEGO set but the thing that people have been waiting for was the details of the LEGO Harry Potter Bricktober 2018 (5005254) set. You will be able to get the set with any LEGO purchase of $75 or more, while supplies last. It may be possible to purchase it by itself but they probably won’t sell it until the promotional period is over and that’s up to each individual store.
– A $10 reward card with the purchase of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald screenplay available 11/16 to 11/21
– Free set of 4 exclusive LEGO Harry Potter Minifigures with any LEGO purchase of $75 or more, while supplies last, available 11/17
– 10% off select Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts wands and wearables such as the Sorting Hat, Harry Potter Glasses, and Dobby Ears available 11/17
– Free WREBBIT3D™ Harry Potter Ford Anglia™ Puzzle w/ the purchase of a Harry Potter WREBBIT3D Puzzle available 11/17
– New Chocolate Wands will be 3 for $30 available 11/1 to 12/31
$1 Bertie Bott’s 1.2 oz Every Flavour Beans available 11/17
Early registration for Philly Brick Fest 2019 is now live and there’s only a few days left to do so at a discounted rate. From now until November 10, full registration for the event is $78 which includes special event opening ceremonies, a brick badge, goodie bag, display space for your LEGO creations, and more.
From the looks of it, I will be attending again next year and it will be my fifth year attending in total. If everything goes according to plan, I’ll be bringing The Brick Fan brick badges to give away to those who find me. I couldn’t get them in time for this year’s event. Just an insider tip if you’ve never been, there’s lots of activities there that is well worth the registration price and the event creators go out of their way to accommodate you.
The Indiegogo campaign for LEGO FORMA has officially ended as all of the perks that were offered have been claimed with a few hours left over. The campaign was 1,334% above the 500 perk goal as there were 6,673 perks claimed. I’m not sure how that number came to be as the total number of perks that were available were 6,505. We now have to wait a few months for the delivery of the sets which is estimated to be sometime in January 2019.
LEGO has announced that they will be launching the first elementary school STEAM classes for Chinese students starting next year. In order to do that, they will also be launching some region exclusive sets in China to celebrate the Lunar New Year and it will be the first time that the company has done that for a specific country. You can read the full press release in the link above. Note that the image was provided in the press release and it has a confidential watermark.
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