LEGO News, LEGO Reviews, and Discussions
If you’re looking for a good deal on one of the new LEGO 2018 Advent Calendars, Amazon currently has a sale for the LEGO Friends Advent Calendar (41353). The set has 500 pieces and it is better priced now than the original price of $29.99 simply because it does not include any minidolls or characters. There’s currently no sale for the LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (75213) or the LEGO City Advent Calendar (60201).
Starting next week on October 15 until the end of the month, LEGO will be running a new promotion at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home for the LEGO Minifigure Collector Frame (5005359). The set has 55 pieces and you can get it for free with purchases of $75 or more, while supplies last. The frame comes “packaged” in a slipcover and the bag of parts are taped on to the frame. Don’t worry, the tape won’t stick so much to the frame that it’ll rip it.
The Chemical Plant by Ymarilego is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The plant is set on two 32×32 gray baseplates and it consists of about 1,900 pieces. It has lots of detail of what you would typically see in an actual chemical plant. It joins the Dinosaurs Follils Skeletons – Natural History Collection as the projects to reach the Third 2018 Review Stage.
The LEGO Creator Winter Village Fire Station (10263) has just been released and LEGO was gracious enough to send over a review copy to see if it is a worthy enough set to add to your Winter Village. It has 1,166 pieces and retails for $99.99 which is a decent price for what you get. It has 10 total bags that are numbered from 1-3. The two instruction books are packaged along with a small sticker sheet.
Marvel just announced at New York Comic Con 2018, there will be a new animated LEGO special called LEGO Marvel Spider-Man: Vexed by Venom that will be airing next year. The synopsis of the animated special is:
Some of the voice actors that will be in the show include Robbie Daymond as Spider-Man/Peter Parker, Ben Pronsky as Venom, Josh Keaton as Green Goblin, Laura Bailey as Ghost-Spider/Gwen Stacy, and Tara Strong as Mary Jane.
There will be a LEGO Marvel Super Heroes set that called Spider-Man Mech vs. Venom Mech (76115) that will include some of these characters but I’m not sure if it is tied to the animated special or not.
A few months ago, we got our first look at the LEGO Wizarding World Harry Potter Diagon Alley (40289) promotional set and I’ve gotten reported details on how it will be available. My source has told me that it will be available starting on November 9 with purchases of $99 or more. It’s interesting that the promotion is not listed on the November 2018 LEGO Store Calendar. There’s no mention on when the promotion will end but I assume it’ll be before the Black Friday promotions start unless LEGO is being generous and lets it run until the end of the month.
As for the set itself, it consists of mini buildings of Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Ollivanders, Flourish & Blotts, Quality Quiddich Supplies and Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes and it also includes an exclusive Ollivander minifigure.
The last thing that we’ve heard about the LEGO BrickHeadz was that there will be a Simpsons two-pack featuring Homer and Krusty the Clown (41632). There are some rumblings that the LEGO BrickHeadz theme will be ending at the end of 2018. This was also corroborated with long-time reader Purple Dave who stated in another post which says a LEGOLAND Discovery Center cashier said the line will be ending. They also stated that the LEGOLAND vendor booth at Brickworld Michigan had all of the LEGO BrickHeadz sets on clearance including some of the ones that were just released a few days ago. All those signs point to the LEGO BrickHeadz theme could actually be ending but until we hear something official, we’ll just consider it as a rumor.
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