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LEGO Star Wars Battle of Hoth – 20th Anniversary Edition (40333) Review

May 2, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the LEGO Star Wars May the 4th promotions on Shop@Home and the main promotion is the Battle of Hoth – 20th Anniversary Edition (40333). The set has 195 pieces and you can get it for free with purchases of $75 or more in Star Wars products, while supplies last. This piece count is the most for a May the 4th promotional set that LEGO has released ever. LEGO has sent over the set early so we can take a quick look at it.

The first thing I have to mention is the box itself. As a collectible set, you do not have to rip it open as it is the resuable folding style. I do like this style of box for promotions as you can store the set whole if you’re done with it.

The mini scale set features the iconic battle scene from Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back with the AT-AT and two Snowspeeders. On the left side, we have the Echo Base DSS-02 shield generator which is now correct with four generators. It uses some gray discs to represent that.

Going around to the front, we have the exclusive printed 2×4 tile of the 20 Years of LEGO Star Wars logo.

Next to the shield generator, are the two Snowspeeders that sit on a couple of trans-clear 1×1 round bricks. One of the Snowspeeders has the orange color scheme and the other one has the gray one.

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Humble LEGO Games Bundle Now Live

April 30, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Humble Bundle is running a new campaign for some older LEGO games if you play on PC. There is $169 worth of games that you can get for as low as $12. The games that are included with the bundle are:

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
LEGO Batman: The Videogame
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
The LEGO Movie – Videogame
LEGO City Undercover
LEGO Worlds
LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

As with all Humble Bundle campaigns, they support charity and you can choose where the money goes. This particular one is for the Entertainment Software Association Foundation. As a Humble Bundle partner, you can also choose as one of the choices. It is not required but it is definitely appreciated. As of this writing, the Humble LEGO Games Bundle will run for 13 more days.

LEGO Harry Potter Advent Calendar (75964) Coming in September

April 30, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The press release of the summer 2019 LEGO Harry Potter sets was released yesterday and LEGO also announced the new LEGO Harry Potter Advent Calendar (75964). It will have 305 pieces and retail for $39.99 and will be available starting on September 1. It is a brand new advent calendar that is added to LEGO’s already big lineup of advent calendars for various themes including City, Friends, and Star Wars.

The images do not show all of the builds and minifigures like with the other LEGO advent calendars. This could be a new move to give more of a surprise for what we will be getting. The product description, however, does give more information about it and the main thing is that it includes 7 minifigures and a number of other builds that aren’t shown on the front of the box.

You may have noticed that I haven’t reviewed any advent calendars from the past few years but I’ll definitely take a look at this new LEGO Harry Potter one when it comes out.

Give LEGO Harry Potter fans a magical build-up to Christmas with this awesome advent calendar!

Celebrate Christmas in the Wizarding World with a magical surprise LEGO Harry Potter toy every day for 24 days! Behind each door is a different LEGO Harry Potter holiday gift to open, build and play with. Each day delivers a favorite character, familiar object or awesome accessory from the Harry Potter series, so you can create Hogwarts holiday adventures of your own!

-This LEGO Harry Potter advent

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LEGO Star Wars May the 4th 2019 Promotions Revealed

April 27, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO fans have started to receive some flyers regarding the upcoming LEGO Star Wars May the 4th promotions for this year. For those who didn’t get it yet, LEGO has also posted them online and there’s quite a few things that will be going on.

– LEGO Star Wars Tantive IV (75244) available on May 4 with early access to VIPs on May 3.

– Free Battle of Hoth – 20th Anniversary Edition (40333) with purchases of $75 or more on Star Wars products.

– LEGO Star Wars 20th Anniversary Art Print with purchases of $35 or more on Star Wars products.

– Double VIP Points on certain Star Wars products.

– Select Star Wars products will be on sale, while supplies last.

Lepin Factories Raided and Boss Arrested

April 25, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Depending on what time zone you’re in, this is either some early morning news or late night news. The Shanghai Police has announced on their Weibo that they have successfully raided a few Lepin factories and the boss, surnamed Li, has been arrested. If you didn’t know, LEGO has been taking legal action against the company for almost three years and even though they supposedly won an infringement case against them last year, Lepin was still producing counterfeit sets.

According to the post, there were three warehouses raided, four people arrested, including Li, and police confiscated 90 production molds and 630,000 finished products ready to be sold which equated to more than 200 million yuan (~$30 mil USD). You can check out more images of the raid in the link above.

LEGO Star Wars May the 4th Battle of Hoth – 20th Anniversary Edition (40333) Official Images

April 25, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has released the official images of the LEGO Star Wars May the 4th 2019 promotional set of the Battle of Hoth – 20th Anniversary Edition (40333). It has 195 pieces and you can get it for free from May 3-6 with purchases of $75 or more in LEGO Star Wars products at LEGO Stores and on Shop@Home. As you can see from the set, it does not have a minifigure but it does include a printed 2×4 tile of the 20 Years of LEGO Star Wars.

LEGO Regional Exclusives to be Widely Available After May 1

April 24, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

This year, LEGO has released a number of regional exclusive sets including the 2019 Chinese New Years ones for the Asian regions, The LEGO Movie 2 BrickHeadz from Target and Walmart, as well as the Star Wars Celebration Darth Vader Bust also from Target. Many of you have voiced your concerns over these exclusives and it looks like LEGO has finally listened.

Tormod over on the LAN has posted a brief statement about future region exclusives and it says that sets released after May 1st will be widely available at LEGO Brand Stores and on Shop@Home for a limited time after launch (3-6 months). This should give enough time for those who actually want an exclusive to be able to get them with ease without going through the secondary market. There’s still products that will be truly exclusive such as gift-with-purchase promo items, LEGOLAND, LEGO House, LEGO Inside Tour, and Comic Con items. This means that it looks like a lot of us will be able to get the recently revealed Dragon Boat Race (80103) without jumping through hoops.

What do you think of this massive change that LEGO is putting in place?

Dear AFOL Community,

It has become apparent to us at the LEGO Group that you are dissatisfied with the recent launches of regional exclusive products. We’ve received a lot of feedback on the LEGO festival products to mark the Chinese New Year (sets 80101 and 80102), the LEGO The Movie 2 Brickheadz (41634, 41635,41636 & 41637) in the US as well as the

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