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LEGO August 2018 Store Calendar Promotions & Events

July 1, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

It’s a new month and that means the new August 2018 LEGO Store Calendar is now available to show the promotions and events for the month. I’ll upload higher quality images once it goes live online.

August 1-14: Free LEGO Plants set with purchases of $35 or more, while supplies last. These are the first LEGO elements made from plants in an initiative that launched earlier this year.

August 1-12: Free LEGO Unikitty Castle Room (5005239) with purchases of $25 or more, while supplies last.

August 1-31: VIPs get Double VIP Points on Newt’s Case of Magical Creatures (75952) and Hogwarts Whomping Willow (75953).

August 7-8: VIP Monthly Mini Model Build is a Snail. Registration starts on July 15.

August 15-31: VIPs get Early Access to a new exclusive LEGO set. No word on what this set is but it’s possible that it’s the teased LEGO James Bond Aston Martin set.

August 18 & 25: LEGO Life Meeting

August 20: Minifigure Swap Monday

August 22: Build and Take Toucan model. Registration starts on August 1.

LEGO Unikitty Panel Confirmed for SDCC 2018

June 29, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The San Diego Comic Con 2018 programming schedule is still a few weeks away from being revealed but we already know of one of the LEGO panels that will be happening at the convention. Matthew Ashton has confirmed that there will be a LEGO Unikitty panel on Saturday, July 21 from 10-11am in Room 6DE. Joining the panel includes the cast of the show such as Tara Strong, Grey Griffin, Eric Bauza, H Michael Croner, Roger Craig Smith, as well as some of the behind the scenes people like Edu Skudder, Lynn Wang, and Anna Hollingsworth. The panel will show off a brand new episode as well as a Q&A session with the cast.

I’m sure there will be fans of the show attending since it was packed last year when it was first revealed at last year’s SDCC. Barring any scheduling conflicts, I’ll probably be attending the panel to see how it is.

LEGO San Diego Comic Con 2018 Exclusives Moving to Lottery System

June 27, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

San Diego Comic Con 2018 is less than a month away and they have announced that LEGO will indeed be using the lottery system for their exclusives they will be selling at the booth. I expect that it’ll be a bit harder to get this year because before, people would get in line for a chance to purchase the exclusives but now, everyone who is eligible to participate will be able to try for the lottery without being in the physical line. Obviously, I’ll be trying for it as I’ve had pretty good luck with the LEGO exclusives in the past few years but we’ll see as I’m actually pretty terrible with lotteries. I couldn’t even get parking for SDCC using five different emails the past two years.

The two exclusive LEGO SDCC 2018 sets for purchase that have been announced so far are the LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon Cockpit (75512) and LEGO DC Super Heroes Aquaman and Storm (75996). If LEGO is doing the minifigures again this year, I don’t think it is part of this lottery since this is for merchandise and I believe they’ll do the same thing as before in the Sails Pavilion.

Update: It looks like the exclusive LEGO minifigures are also on the lottery system as well.

LEGO Star Wars SDCC 2018 Millennium Falcon Cockpit (75512)

LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Batman Mech vs. Poison Ivy Mech (76117) Revealed

June 26, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has a knack for revealing the following year’s sets at San Diego Comic Con and it looks like they’ve done their first reveal for this year with the LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Batman Mech vs. Poison Ivy Mech (76117). It contains 375 pieces and retails for $39.99 and it will be available at the beginning of 2019. The Firefly minifigure is new but all of the other minifigures we’ve seen before but with updated printing. The set will be on display at SDCC 2018 and we’ll have close up images of the set once we’re on the show floor.

76117 – Batman™ Mech vs. Poison Ivy™ Mech

Launching January 1, 2019

Piece count 375

Price $39.99

Age 7+

-Includes 4 minifigures: Batman™, Poison Ivy™, The Flash™ and Firefly .
B-atman™ Mech features an opening minifigure cockpit, posable arms and legs, gripping hands to grab a minifigure, dual stud shooter, spinning saw blade and a retractable net shooter
-Poison Ivy™ Mech features a minifigure cockpit, stud shooter, posable branch ‘arms’, gripping poison ivy leaf ‘hand’ to grab a minifigure and collapse function.
-Knock over the Poison Ivy™ Mech with the saw blade.
-Includes 10 assorted new-for-December-2018 translucent-orange Power Burst elements to customize your builds, minifigures and tools.

**Via Batman News**

LEGO Star Wars Porg (75230) Confirmed to be Coming

June 26, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Last year, LEGO released the LEGO Star Wars BB-8 (75187) which was a large scale model of the character and it turned out to be a pretty successful set. It looks like LEGO will continue with that trend of producing larger scale builds and Brickshop.nl has confirmed that there will be a Porg (75230) coming out later this year. Consisting of 811 pieces and retailing for €79.99, LEGO is hoping the adorable furry creature will bring them the same success as it did with BB-8.

**Via: Promobricks**

LEGO DC Kingdom Come SDCC 2018 Set by Alex Ross

June 19, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

San Diego Comic Con 2018 is only a few short weeks away and like with previous years, LEGO has a pretty big presence at the event. The thing that fans have been waiting for are the exclusive sets and minifigures that are available at the convention. We’re still a couple of weeks away from those reveals as LEGO likes to keep them close to the chest but it there is something interesting that has popped up online not by LEGO but by another exhibitor.

Alex Ross has posted the above image on Facebook with the caption “New- Kingdom come- LEGO set #sdcc”. If you’re not familiar with Alex Ross, he is the writer and illustrator for the four-issue series Kingdom Come from 1996 and the image is a “set” based on the comic. The image features the iconic cover, in a way, and has custom minifigures of the Alan Scott Green Lantern, The Spectre, Wonder Woman, Superman, Norman McCay, Batman, and the Wallace West Flash.

There’s no confirmation that this is something that will be sold at SDCC by LEGO or by Alex Ross himself. It is curious because he did use the SDCC hashtag in the caption but I’m not sure what this means. It could mean that he may just be displaying it there for show or we’re just be looking too much into it. We’ll definitely know if this is an exclusive in a few weeks when more SDCC exclusives are announced so stay tuned for that. Thanks to everyone who messaged in … Continue

LEGO Wizarding World Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle (71043) Rumored to be Microscale

June 19, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO Wizarding World Harry Potter Hogwarts Great Hall (75954)

Way back in October of last year, I talked about a Direct-to-Consumer LEGO Wizarding World Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle (71043) that was slated to come out later this year. Many speculated that it would be UCS scale but there are now rumors that it may not be that. Just2Good and another close source is now saying that the Hogwarts Castle will be a microscale set similar to the size of the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier (76042) with microfigures. Obviously this is not what fans were imagining but we’ll just have to wait and see and make a judgement when it is announced. Keep in mind that we’re already getting the 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall (shown above) which is reported to be coming out in a few short weeks.

Thanks to those who emailed in about this. Let us know what you think in the comments below.