There’s a European trade show going on and there are some new images of a new summer 2018 LEGO Technic set that is displayed there. Shown on the trade floor is the Rough Terrain Crane (42082) which will become the largest LEGO Technic set coming in at 4,057 pieces which will surpass the current Bucket Wheel Excavator (42055) which comes in at 3,929 pieces. The pricing of the Rough Terrain Crane will be €229.99. This set was first displayed at the Nuremberg Toy Fair at the beginning of the year but photography wasn’t allowed. Although I don’t dabble in LEGO Technic that much, fans of the theme will appreciate the functions and scale of it.
It’s actually been pretty busy for me the past few weeks and I actually forgot to do my monthly recap for April so here it is. It was a very eventful month in terms of news especially towards the end of April with all the summer 2018 set images. Since it was a busy month, this recap will be a bit longer than the usual ones.
LEGO April Fool’s Day 2018 Roundup – April Fool’s Day went by will slightly less fanfare than previous years but there were still some good ones put out by the LEGO community throughout the day.
LEGO Wizarding World Minisite Teaser – The LEGO Wizarding World minisite is now somewhat live with a teaser image of the Hogwarts Castle in the background.
LEGO Jurassic World T. rex Transport (75933) First Look – You may have thought that you’ve seen all of the LEGO Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom sets but Walmart has another set that we haven’t had an official image of which is the T. rex Transport (75933).
At the beginning of the year, I reported on some upcoming rumored video games which included LEGO The Incredibles and something called LEGO DC Villains. As we know by know, the LEGO The Incredibles Video Game was officially announced back in March. It looks like now we can potentially the LEGO DC Villains video game as well. According to Variety, Walmart Canada earlier today accidentally leaked a bunch of upcoming games including the aforementioned LEGO DC Villains game. The listing has since been removed but it looks like the cat is out of the bag. Of course Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment nor TT Games will confirm it at this time but hopefully they’ll tease something now that the information is out in the wild. Perhaps they’ll announce something at E3 2018 or at San Diego Comic Con.
It has been reported that the main focus of the game will be centered around the DC villains instead of the super heroes as with previous LEGO games. Now that LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 is starting to wrap up their DLCs, we’ll turn our attention to the next two games in the pipeline.
The largest set that LEGO has produced is the LEGO Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon (75192) which comes in at a massive 7,541 pieces while costing a whopping $799.99. I’ve already done an unboxing on it so you can check it out if you want. With today being May the 4th, now is a very good time to finally release this review. First off, let me preface this review by saying sorry for the lateness of the review. My camera image data and part of the review got corrupted on my old laptop a few months ago and I’ve finally had time to rebuild and retype out what I’ve already done in between what was happening with Toys R Us and changing jobs. Things just weren’t going right the past few months.
LEGO has partnered up with Amazon in their efforts to integrate physical and digital play by using Amazon Alexa to tell stories while interacting with the bricks. By downloading the LEGO DUPLO stories onto Alexa, you can instruct it to tell the stories while also encouraging kids to learn through the bricks.
Adding to the LEGO® portfolio of integrated physical and digital play experiences, LEGO® DUPLO® Stories has today been released on Amazon Alexa as play starter inspiration for our youngest audience and their parents.
Billund, Denmark (May 2nd, 2018): Launched today in the US and UK, LEGO® DUPLO® Stories will be one of the first Alexa skills to combine physical play with Amazon’s Alexa voice service. The skill is developed as an interactive storytelling experience to ignite fun explorative play for the youngest children, aged 2–5, and their parents.
Using any Alexa device, such as Amazon Echo or Echo Dot, children will be able to respond and actively engage with the LEGO DUPLO Stories, all designed to encourage active participation and help nurture children’s inquisitive instinct of learning through play. LEGO DUPLO Stories covers 10 themes based on new as well as existing LEGO DUPLO products. Together with their parents, toddlers can choose between five vehicle or five animal stories, and define the route of the story, while guided by Alexa. The different stories will help advance children’s constructive, exploratory and roleplay skills with tasks ranging from numeric exercises to colour recognition, articulation practice and creative building challenges.
LEGO has just released the designer video for the upcoming LEGO Star Wars UCS Y-Wing Starfighter (75181) where Senior Designer Jordan Scott and Graphic Designer Maddy O’Neil talks about some of the details of the set. One interesting thing to note is that Jordan says the UCS Y-Wing has taken about three years to produce. The set will be available starting on May 4 during the LEGO Star Wars May the 4th event.
Own part of Star Wars history with the Y-Wing Starfighter. This LEGO® Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series model has an amazing level of detail, including an opening minifigure cockpit for the included Gold Leader minifigure, wheel-activated rotating ion cannons on top, retractable landing skids and space for the R2-BHD astromech droid. This fantastic Star Wars toy also comes with a tilting display stand and informational fact plaque, making it the perfect centerpiece for your collection.
-Includes a Gold Leader minifigure and an R2-BHD droid.
-Features highly authentic detailing, opening minifigure cockpit, wheel-activated rotating ion cannons on top, retractable landing skids and space for the included R2-BHD astromech droid.
-Also includes the Gold Leader’s blaster pistol.
-Display the model on the tilting stand with informational fact plaque.
-Makes the perfect centerpiece for any LEGO® Star Wars collection.
-Part of the Ultimate Collector Series.
-This LEGO® Star Wars toy is suitable for ages 14+.
-Measures over 2” (7cm) high, 24” (61cm) long and 11” (30cm) wide, and over 9” (24cm) high mounted on stand.
It’s a new month and that means a new LEGO BrickHeadz set is now available for purchase on Shop@Home with the Justice League Tactical Batman & Superman (41610). It has 209 pieces and retails for $19.99 and it continues the two packs of LEGO BrickHeadz sets that have been pretty popular so far this year.
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