LEGO News, LEGO Reviews, and Discussions
Continuing with my reviews of the revived LEGO Wizarding World Harry Potter sets, the next set I’ll be taking a look at is the Quidditch Match (75956). It consists of 500 pieces and retails for $39.99. The set looks similar to its previous iterations but this one takes elements from the other ones and combine them into one larger set. I believe this set is based on both the Sorcerer’s Stone and Prisoner of Azkaban and you’ll see why throughout the review.
Disney has announced that there will be a new LEGO Star Wars animated series coming to Disney XD YouTube and DisneyNOW starting next week called LEGO Star Wars All-Stars. The series will have eight shorts as well as four half-hour episodes featuring various characters in the Star Wars Universe including Kylo Ren, R2-D2, Young Han, Chewie, Young Lando, BB-8, and General Leia.
There will be five shorts starting Monday, October 29 running to Friday, November 2 and three shorts on Saturday, November 10 at 11am EST/PST. The four half-hour episodes will air on Saturdays starting on November 17 to December 8 on Disney XD and DisneyNOW.
A few weeks ago, I reported that the upcoming LEGO Harry Potter Diagon Alley (40289) set was rumored to be a November promotion and it looks like that has been confirmed on LEGO Shop@Home. According to the description on the product page of the set, it will be available at LEGO Brand Stores and Shop@Home from November 9-21 with purchases of $99 or more, while supplies last.
As mentioned before, the Diagon Alley includes micro versions of Gringotts, Ollivanders, Flourish and Blotts, and Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes as well as an exclusive Ollivander minifigure. Thanks to Promobricks for the heads up.
If you’ve been looking for the LEGO Star Wars Kessel Mine Worker (40299) and weren’t able to find it at Barnes & Noble during the promotion a few weeks ago, LEGOLAND California has you covered. You can get for $2.99 each as well as DJ (40298) for the same price. They also have a promotion for the Mudtrooper Han Solo with purchases of $35 or more. Of course, this information is only relevant to you if you live in southern California. Thanks to Becca for the heads up.
LEGO has released the designer video for the upcoming LEGO Ideas Pop-Up Book (21315). LEGO Designer Wes Talbott and Graphic Designer Crystal Marie Fontan talk about some of the details and processes that went into the Pop-Up Book. One interesting thing that Wes mentioned was that there was little change from the original fan project to the finished product.
The LEGO Ideas Pop-Up Book will officially be available starting on November 1, but if you didn’t see my post from earlier this week, there will be a signing event this Saturday at the Washington Square Shopping Center in Tigard, Oregon.
The new LEGO FORMA campaign is soon coming to an end on Indiegogo as there are only 15 days left in the campaign. As of this writing there are already 5,539 perks that have been claimed so far which is 1,107% over their original goal. The best deals are the Super Boxes which includes the base Koi Model (81000) as well as the three different skins, Shark (81001), Splash Koi (81002), and Ink Koi (81003). There are less than 600 Super Boxes left for the US market and 300 for the UK market. The LEGO FORMA campaign will end on November 6 and the sets will be delivered in January 2019.
Lars Silberbauer has announced that he has left The LEGO Group to join MTV Digital Studios as Senior Vice President. For the past seven years, Lars has been with LEGO and his most recent position was Senior Global Director of Social Media and Video. He was known for transforming LEGO social media presence from literally nothing to being one of the most successful ones on the web.
Back in 2014, Lars launched LEGO TV in 24 different markets and now the LEGO YouTube Channel gets more than a billion views a year. This is on top of the traffic that the LEGO Facebook Page gets which is approaching 13 million likes.
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