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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 Star Wars Battle of Hoth - 20th Anniversary Edition (40333)

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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LEGO Star Wars Clone Scout Walker – 20th Anniversary Edition (75261) Review

April 21, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Continuing on my reviews of the LEGO Star Wars 20th Anniversary Edition sets, the next set I’ll be taking a look at is the Clone Scout Walker (75261). It has 250 pieces and retails for $29.99. Like with the Imperial Dropship (75261), this set could be considered an army builder set if you want to build the Battle of Kashyyyk scene.

LEGO Seasonal Dragon Boat Race (80103) Set Image

April 19, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

At the beginning of the year, LEGO released the Asia exclusive Chinese New Year sets but there was also another set that we couldn’t publish due to it being watermarked. We can finally post about the last set which is called the Dragon Boat Race (80103) which comes from online retailer Digibee. There’s no details regarding the set price or piece count but there are a whopping 15 minifigures that goes with it. As for the release date, it’ll probably be available around May or June for the Asia region countries since the Dragon Boat Festival will be held June 7-9. For us here in the US, we’ll have to get it off the secondary market or from a connection from someone who are able to get it from those countries. I assume this set will sell out fairly quickly just like the ones from earlier this year.

LEGO Education Inspires STEAM Learning with New Architecture Themed Sets

April 17, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has revealed some new LEGO Education sets today for the 2019-2020 FIRST LEGO League Jr. (FFL Jr.) and FIRST LEGO League (FFL) seasons. These sets are exclusive architecture type sets and the First LEGO League Jr. will get the Boomtown Build (45810) while the First LEGO League will get the City Shaper Challenge Set.

In addition, LEGO also announced that the new LEGO Education SPIKE Prime and the SPIKE Prime Competition Expansion Set can be used along with LEGO Mindstorms EV3 in the First LEGO League.

Check out the press release and images below. Thank you to Stella for sending the info in.

LEGO® Education and FIRST® Inspire STEAM Learning with New Architecture-Themed LEGO sets for 2019-2020 FIRST LEGO League Season

New LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime and new SPIKE™ Prime Expansion Set can now be used in FIRST LEGO League along with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3.

HOUSTON, TEXAS (April 17, 2019)– Today at the FIRST® Championship, LEGO® Education and FIRST unveiled two new, exclusive LEGO sets created specifically for the 2019-2020 FIRST LEGO League Jr. and FIRST LEGO League season. LEGO Education also announced today that its newly released LEGO Education SPIKE™ Prime with the new SPIKE™ Prime Competition Expansion Set can be used along with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 in FIRST LEGO League. LEGO Education SPIKE Prime and the SPIKE Prime Expansion Set can be pre-ordered today in the U.S. and will be available around the world in August 2019.

FIRST, an international youth not-for-profit, and LEGO teamed up in 1998 to create FIRST

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LEGO Disney Series 2 Collectible Minifigures (71024) Review

April 16, 2019 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

In a few weeks, LEGO will be releasing the LEGO Disney Series 2 Collectible Minifigures (71024) which is a continuation of more Disney characters from a few years ago. Each blind bag is priced at $3.99 each and there are a total of 18 characters to collect.