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Brickworld Chicago 2014 Recap with Beyond the Brick

June 19, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Our friends over at Beyond the Brick has released a new video featuring a guided tour of Brickworld Chicago 2014. In the one and half hour video, Joshua Hanlon and Matthew Kay shows off all the MOCs that were in the display hall during the LEGO convention. For those who didn’t have a chance to go this year like me, I appreciate the effort the guys put into the production of the video. For a few of the builds, there will also be in-depth video of the MOC itself as well as interviews with the builders as well. Stay tuned to Beyond the Brick in the new few days as they upload more content from Brickworld Chicago 2014.

LEGO Announces LEGO Fusion: An Interactive Virtual Playground Experience

June 19, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has announced a new play experience called LEGO Fusion which merges the LEGO bricks that we’re used to with app-based game themes. Starting this summer, there will be some new sets and apps that kids can play with that combines the traditional brick building experience with some unique game play. There will be four different sets that will be in the LEGO Fusion collection: Tower Master, Battle Towers, Create & Race, and Resort Designer. The sets will be available at LEGO Brand Stores and Toys R Us for $34.99 each and will be launching in August and September. The free Android and iOS app is developed by none other than TT Games. You’ve probably heard of these guys before so you’ll no doubt be getting a great gaming experience with the apps. You use your camera on your smartphone or tablet to scan your build to immerse it into the digial world. There you can play games on your device depending on which set you got.

Read more details of the LEGO Fusion sets in the official press release below.

NEW YORK, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — LEGO Systems, Inc., makers of the world’s leading construction toys, today introduced LEGO® FUSION, a play experience that combines traditional LEGO brick play with familiar app-based game themes. LEGO FUSION leverages new technologies??and children’s fascination with them??to create an entirely new way to engage in LEGO brick building and app game play for children ages 7 and up. Available later this summer, the LEGO FUSION collection will include

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LEGO Minifigures Online First Impressions

June 18, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Now that LEGO Minifigures Online is in open beta, I can finally talk about my experience so far about the game while I was testing it in the closed beta. When you first start, you choose between three teams of three minifigures. After that, you go through a short tutorial of how to play the character and the game features. If you’ve played any sort of RPGs before, you’re probably already familiar with how the game will play.

Within the options menu, you find a tab that is for “Shop” which is essentially the game’s main cash grab. There are a variety to purchase a number of things such as more minifigures to use in-game, potions, diamonds, as well as the membership. Although technically you don’t have to spend real money to play the game because you can spend the diamond currency that you can pick up in-game, it will be somewhat faster and more “fun” because you’ll be unlocking a number of features that the free version doesn’t have. One of these features is the Pocket Adventures which are essentially dungeons that give more loot. One other feature that I felt shouldn’t be subscription-only is the chat function. Currently there is no way to communicate with other players unless you are a member which is, how can I put it lightly, stupid. The purpose of MMOs is to play with other people and communicating with them is essential to plan out strategies and whatnot. But if everyone is playing for free and there’s no … Continue

LEGO Star Wars Boba Fett 2014 Hallmark Keepsake Ornament Available in July

June 16, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO Star Wars Boba Fett Hallmark Ornament

For the past couple of years, Hallmark has been releasing some LEGO Star Wars Keepsake Ornaments featuring various characters from the Star Wars Universe including Yoda, Darth Vader, and a Stormtrooper. This year the Keepsake Ornaments return with another character and it features the most famous bounty hunter there is, Boba Fett. It’s never too early to pick up one of these guys and have him ready for your tree when Christmas rolls around in a couple months. Like all other ornaments previous to this one, they are all artist crafted and retails for $14.95 each and will be available in July.

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LEGO Minecraft Steve & Creeper Minifigures Revealed

June 16, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

There’s some interesting news coming out of Eurobricks today. Forum member TomKraut has posted a link to the German LEGO Catalog for the second half of the year. We’ve already seen everything in the catalog and all the sets have been released or will be releasing in the next few months but on page 92-93, there is an advertisement for the LEGO Minecraft minifigure scale sets. There are no sets pictured but we get to see what appears to be the final renditions of the Steve and Creeper minifigures. Steve looks like any other minifigure except that he has a block head and carries a new pickaxe. The creeper looks to be brick-built like with many of the mobs in this wave of Minecraft sets.

We’ve already done a couple of posts previewing a few of the LEGO Minecraft sets although the may be just prototypes. The minifigure scale sets are scheduled for release around October of this year. We’re still waiting for the official images of them and hopefully we’ll see them soon now that the catalog is available.

The LEGO Movie Master Builder Toys R Us Event Recap

June 14, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The LEGO Movie Toys R Us Master Builder Event

Today was The LEGO Movie Master Builder event at Toys R Us stores throughout the States but unfortunately I wasn’t able to go. My friend John was nice enough to send me some images of what the event consisted of. Like all other building events at Toys R Us, you basically go around the tables the staff has set up and you pick the number of pieces that is listed and put in your plastic bag. After you get all your pieces, you can either build your mechs there or you can just leave.

There are 62 pieces and you can pretty much build what you like. There is also an example sheet that you can follow to build MetalBeard inspired mechs but I think the point of the event is to build whatever you can come up with. There are a number of really good pieces including the new ball joints that are seen in the Mixels sets. There are also a couple of the 1×2 – 2×2 brackets that make for some good SNOT building. Other nice additions include the male and female minifigure heads. The female knot bun hair is a very rare piece because it only came in one other set from last year and that is from the LEGO Star Wars Republic Gunship (75021) from Padme Amidala.

From what I’ve been hearing, it was a pretty cool event by Toys R Us and you get some free LEGO bricks from it. I wish I could’ve went but things happen and I … Continue

LEGO Legends of Chima: Character Encyclopedia Exclusive Minifigure Revealed

June 11, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Hoth Bricks has revealed that the exclusive minifigure that will be in the LEGO Legends of Chima: Character Encyclopedia will be Firox from the Phoenix Tribe. Firox is a new character that has been introduced this year to Chima along with Fluminox, Flinx, Foltrax, and Frax.

The Character Encyclopedia features all the characters of Chima and includes details about each of them. The book also takes a look into the vehicles, locations, and weapons from the world of Chima. The Encyclopedia will be available in August.