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The Star Wars Show have revealed a new Amazon exclusive set that will be coming out soon and that is the LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader’s Castle (75251). The set can be preordered starting tomorrow and it has 1,060 pieces and retails for $129.99. There’s no word yet on the release date at this time.
LEGO has been pretty quiet about the Bricktober 2018 sets but according to an image that’s been floating around on social media, it appears the promotion will be starting next month. An email from LEGO Customer Service says the following:
I’m not sure if this email is legit or not because there is a misspelling on the word “available” in the image so don’t get your hopes up just yet. They state that the promotions start in November but the store calendar does not list anything about it unless it is one of the exclusive offers during Black Friday that starts on November 23. The only confirmed thing we know about Bricktober 2018 here in the US is that Barnes & Noble will be carrying the Harry Potter (5005254) set but there are no details on when that is. Toys R Us Canada’s promotions start later this week.
Today must be a LEGO Overwatch kind of day because a short while after I reported on the Winston teaser, the Overwatch social media channels revealed a physical item from the upcoming sets. In the video, Papa Jeff Kaplan is shown building the Tracer minifigure which then comes alive as a stop-motion with Tracer’s voiceover. This is the first time we’ve seen an actual item from the set and Tracer joins a number of characters that are already confirmed to be in the sets including Widowmaker, Reinhardt, Genji, Soldier 76, Mercy, McCree, and Winston. There are reports that there are at least six set (75970-75975) that are coming early next year.
As I mentioned before, we probably won’t be seeing anything coming out of New York Comic Con this week but we’ll most likely see more at Blizzcon in November. Which other characters do you want to see that haven’t been announced yet?
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It’s been a while since we talked about LEGO Overwatch but the minisite has been recently updated with a new splash image. This time it shows some bananas and peanut butter with the phrase “Imagination is the essence of discovery” and this means that our beloved Winston will be joining the LEGO Overwatch lineup. This is now the seventh confirmed character for the theme as he joins Widowmaker, Reinhardt, Genji, Soldier 76, Mercy, and McCree who were teased last month at Gamescom 2018. For his figure, I’m guessing LEGO will be using the same gorilla mold that they’ve been using the past few years but I’m interested to see how they will attach his jump pack.
New York Comic Con is this week however LEGO themselves won’t be attending as they’re not listed as one of the exhibitors at the event so we probably won’t see anything coming out of there. The best bet will be at Blizzcon 2018 in November.
Yesterday I reported that the exclusive LEGO Bean There, Donut That (40358) set should now be on store shelves at Target but if you can’t find it, you can also get it on Target.com. The price is $19.99 and there’s also a promotion going if you spend $50 or more on LEGO sets, you can get a $10 gift card. In addition, if you have a Target REDcard, you can get a 5% discount on the set and free two day shipping.
Quite a few of you readers have asked for this and if you follow my Twitter or Instagram, you may have seen a teaser for this a few days ago. After six years of running the site, I have officially launched my first piece of merchandise for The Brick Fan with a t-shirt over on Teespring. I’ve always felt reluctant to selling stuff for my site but I felt this was a good time as any to sell a t-shirt. I’ve priced it at $14.99 for the US and £12.99 for the EU and there are a number of different colors you are able to choose from. I’ve already ordered three shirts for myself before I launched this campaign to test out the shirts and they actually feel pretty good.
I’ve added a new “Merchandise” tab on the top of the menu to access the Teespring storefront so you can go there any time if you want to get a shirt or you can go there directly with this link. For now, I just have the shirt available but if you want any additional items, leave it in the comments below and I may decide to add them later on in the future.
As always, I do appreciate everyone who reads this site and I’ve had a great time putting out posts for you on a daily basis (most of the time). You do not have to purchase a shirt if you don’t want to but any purchases go back towards the site … Continue
Some of you may not know this but when you check your LEGO VIP account on Shop@Home, there’s a Promotions tab to see some of the promos that are happening during the month that LEGO doesn’t really advertise. For the month of October, there are two LEGO Star Wars sets that you can get Double VIP Points for which are the X-Wing Starfighter (75218) and Yoda’s Hut (75208). Double Points for these two sets run from now until the end of October. To sweeten the deal further, there’s also the Han Solo Mudtrooper (40300) minifigure polybag that you can get with purchases of $35 or more.
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