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LEGO Creator Assembly Square (10255) Modular Officially Announced

October 17, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the LEGO Creator Modular Building line, LEGO has officially announced the newest direct-to-consumer set with the Assembly Square (10255). It consists of a whopping 4,002 pieces and will retail for $279.99. There will be no early access for the Assembly Square so it will be available for everyone starting on January 1, 2017.

As an anniversary set, designer Jamie Berard has take past references from previous eleven modular buildings and have implemented into the Assembly Square.

10182 Café Corner

– Café on corner of plaza w/coffee mug sign
– Yellow and white striped awnings
– Micro version of CC on apartment shelf
– Printed tile to represent CC Box
– Corner door built using turntables
– Cherries in trash
– Green Baseplates

10190 Market Street

– Micro version of MS on apartment shelf
– Bakery is linked to croissant sign from MS

10185 Green Grocer

– Micro version of GG on apartment shelf
– Rooftop BBQ
– Sand Green color of mid-building
– Updated baby pram (now including baby!)

10197 Fire Brigade

– Rooftop door access
– Kitchen in apartment

10211 Grand Emporium

– Detailing around roof above Dance Studio
– Wedding cake to go with wedding outfits in GE Window

10218 Pet Shop

– Parrot in flower shop & Chihuahua
– Sand Blue color of Music/Dance Studios
– Windows for Music/Dance Studios shared with PS

10224 Town Hall

– Tower roof style shared with TH
– Wedding cake for married couple in TH
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Creations for Charity 2016 Sale Begins Today

October 15, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The 8th annual Creations for Charity has officially kicked off for the 2016 LEGO fundraiser. If you’re not familiar with Creations for Charity, it was founded by Nannan Zhang who’s been part of the LEGO community for a long time and the charity raises money to purchase LEGO sets for underprivileged children during the holiday season. As mentioned before, this is the 8th year that it has been going and every year, they’ve donated more and more sets to kids throughout the world.

The online store is now open over on BrickLink and you can either buy a custom build from LEGO builders in the community or donate your own build for the cause. One of the more notable builds this year is from Matt De Lanoy (Pepa Quin) who has provided instructions to build his Johnny Five which failed to pass the First 2016 LEGO Review Stage. For only $5, Matt will provide the instructions in PDF format as well as a parts list for both BrickLink and Rebrickable.

If you want to donate your builds, you have until November 15 at the link above.

Disguise LEGO Ninjago Lloyd Prestige Costume Review

October 9, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Halloween is coming up in a few weeks and it’s about that time to search for costumes for kids. Earlier this year at New York Toy Fair, Disguise showed off some new costumes for LEGO Nexo Knights and LEGO Ninjago. Fast forward to last month where Disguise announced a multi-year deal with LEGO to produce official costumes. The LEGO costumes are now available and Disguise has sent us a medium-sized LEGO Ninjago Lloyd Prestige Costume. The contents of the box include the tunic, pants, mask, and a pair of hands.

Lepin Moves from LEGO Sets to LEGO Fan Designs

October 7, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The past day or so, I’ve gotten a lot of emails regarding this piece of “news.” I saw some images on Facebook yesterday morning about it but brushed it off because I didn’t want to advertise it. A lot of people who saw the same images are outraged that this is going on and wanted me to write about it and maybe LEGO can see what’s happening.

If you didn’t read about it a few weeks ago, LEGO filed a civil action against LEGO bootleg company Lepin and the cases have been accepted in Chinese courts for further judgment. Well since Lepin is having some legal issues copying official LEGO sets, they’ve now turned to LEGO fans for inspiration for their next sets.

As you can see above, they’ve launched their Creators line and pretty much copied the Barnes & Noble and Starbucks Store project by wooootles on LEGO Ideas. Not only that, they have more sets copied shown on the back of the box such as the International Hotel by lgorlando and the Apple Square University by Pete Stege.

One thing to note is that when you submit your project to LEGO Ideas, you “give rise to any intellectual property right interest, hereunder copyright, patent rights, design rights etc., you hereby assign all rights worldwide to the content generated by you to LEGO” as stated in the Terms of Service so basically LEGO owns the designs of the projects for three years after it is no longer considered for production.

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LEGO Ideas First 2016 Review Stage Winner Announced

October 6, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The LEGO Ideas First 2016 Review Stage is now complete and the project that will become an official LEGO Ideas set has been announced. There were nine projects that qualified for the review stage including Fossil Museum, Gingerbread House, Modular Train Station, Old Fishing Store, Jedi High Council, Particle Accelerator, Jurassic Park Visitor Center, Rolling BB-8, and Johnny Five.

It was been revealed that we will be getting the Old Fishing Store as a LEGO set next year! There’s no details of piece count or pricing but we do know that the Old Fishing Store will be released in the fall of next year. Congratulations to Robert Bontenbal for achieving this goal and we look forward to seeing the final product soon.

The Second 2016 Review Stage is underway and those results will be announced in early 2017.

The Brick Fan September 2016 Monthly Recap

October 3, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

I’m little bit late because of TwitchCon but here’s the September 2016 Monthly Recap of LEGO news on The Brick Fan. This list will be a fairly long one as there were a lot of news and reveals that happened during the month.

LEGO Star Wars: Rogue One Sets Officially Revealed – LEGO officially revealed all the LEGO Star Wars: Rogue One that are now available for purchase.

Three LEGO DC Super Hero Girls Sets Revealed

October 3, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Earlier today, LEGO over on their Facebook Page as well as Time has revealed three of the new LEGO DC Super Hero Girls sets. These three sets will be debuting at New York Comic Con this week and will be available on Cyber Monday, November 27. There are also three other sets which will be available starting in January and hopefully we’ll have pictures of those by the end of the year. Those sets include Lashina’s Action Rider (41233), Bumblebee’s Helicopter (41234), and Wonder Woman’s Dorm (41235).

As suspected, the characters will be in minidoll form but they don’t look as bad as some expected them to be. What do you guys think of the set you’ve seen so far? Let us know in the comments.

Batgirl Batjet (41230) – $24.99

LEGO DC Super Hero Girls Batgirl Batjet (41230)

Join in the action-packed LEGO® DC Super Hero Girls™ world as Batgirl™ battles the yellow Kryptomite™for her stolen ePad. This great set features a Batgirl mini-doll figure, the Batjet with opening cockpit, stud shooters on the wings and a net shooter at the front, plus Kryptomite buggy with an ePad and a fearful yellow Kryptomite.

-Includes a Batgirl™ mini-doll figure and a fearful yellow Kryptomite™.
-Features a Batjet with opening cockpit, stud shooters on the wings, net launcher on the front and storage space for Batgirl’s ePad.
-Also includes a buggy with a grabber in front to hold Batgirl’s ePad.
-Fire the stud shooters and launch the net to capture the Kryptomite’s buggy.
-Accessory elements include a net, Batgirl’s ePad and two studs for the

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