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LEGO Star Wars: Small Scenes from a Big Galaxy Book Review

November 11, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

About a week ago, I received a copy of DK’s LEGO Star Wars: Small Scenes from a Big Galaxy by Vesa Lehtimäki, aka Avanaut. If you’ve search for LEGO photography at one time or another, you’ve probably come across his photos before. It consists of 176 pages filled with his work and retails for $24.99. Small Scenes from a Big Galaxy is a good example of what a coffee table book should be as it is filled with tons of high quality images from the artist.

One thing the book does not consist much of are words, at least the majority of it. The reason is because the book really doesn’t need words. However in the captions, Avanaut sometimes gives you some insight on how the images were created like using various household objects like gypsum and baking powder. Other times, you get a short description of what the scene is about. If you’ve tried LEGO photography before, you know that there’s lots of little details you have to get to find the right composition for the object. Avanaut is one of the many LEGO photographers who has pretty much mastered this craft.

The Behind the Scenes section of the book, it takes you through the life of Avanaut and how he has gotten to this point in his career. It also shows some of his concept art as compared to the final shot. Did you know that one shot took four years and two photoshoots to get right?

Overall, LEGO Star Wars: Small Scenes … Continue

LEGO 2016 Set Rumors (Various Themes)

November 6, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

It’s that time of the year were more details of 2016 set will be coming out. My trusty source has provided me with some more rumored LEGO sets coming throughout next year. There are no pictures but I do have some details for various themes. Let’s just start alphabetically by theme.

For the Architecture sets, we kinda knew about the city type ones but one that wasn’t touched on was one featuring Buckingham Palace from the United Kingdom. It’s made up of lots of tan pieces and also includes a mini double-decker bus.

There was also mentioning of one of the LEGO Ghostbusters sets from the reboot movie which I posted the announcement earlier today. All I have from Ghostbusters is a set number of 75828 with $79.99 NZD.

LEGO TECHNIC fans also get in on the fun with a Bucket Wheel Excavator (42055) that goes for $499 NZD. There’s also another TECHNIC set named “Ultimate Vehicle” which goes for $699 NZD. I’m not sure if that’s the final name of it or not but that’s what I was told.

Although I said I would go alphabetically with themes, I saved what could be an awesome set for last. Back in 2013, LEGO released the LEGO Creator Sydney Opera House (10234) which was based off of the famous building in Australia. Rumor has it that LEGO will be releasing another world building set with the Big Ben (10253) from London with the pricing at $499 NZD.

New LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitsu Image Revealed

November 5, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Earlier today, the LEGO Ninjago Facebook Page posted a new image of what we can expect in 2016 for LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitsu with the animated series and sets. As you can see, the Ninjas are indeed going up against a band of Pirates as was teased back at San Diego Comic Con. You can see some of the Pirates including the main villain Nadakhan who is a Djinn that wants to turn people’s wishes into nightmares.

There are also some set descriptions for the sets that will be coming out in the beginning of the year.

Doctor Who To Make Appearance in The LEGO Movie 2?

November 4, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Doctor Who has made an immediate impact in the LEGO world this year with its appearance in LEGO Dimensions and in the upcoming LEGO Ideas (21304) set. io9 is reporting that Warner Bros. is in negotiations with BBC for the Doctor to make an appearance in The LEGO Movie 2.

Director Rob Schrab dropped that teaseer on the Harmontown Podcast but that was pretty much it. Although there wasn’t more information about this, it sounds like the Doctor will be making a cameo appearance like Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando did in the first movie.

The LEGO Movie 2 won’t be out until 2018 so there’s still a few years to see if he will actually be in the movie or not. Who knows, maybe we’ll see some other collaboration between LEGO and Doctor Who between then.

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens C-3PO (5002948) Minifigure Polybag Review

November 2, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Toys R Us has finally started their promotion for the free LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens C-3PO (5002948) minifigure polybag. You can get it with purchases of LEGO Star Wars purchases of $40 or more. If you’re lucky, you can purchase it for $3.99 each.

The polybag features C-3PO 30 years after Return of the Jedi. Although the image shown on the polybag makes him look metallic, C-3PO is actually the flat pearl-gold color we’ve seen before. He does have some new side arm printing as well as on the legs. The most notable difference is the red arm that he currently has which also has some arm printing. There’s no word yet on how he got the arm but there will be a special one-shot from Marvel in December that will reveal what happened.

Again, LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens C-3PO (5002948) minifigure polybag is currently free with purchases at Toys R Us. As far as I know, the stores in the San Diego area had around 200 each when I last checked on Saturday. Any that are left over after the promo, can be purchased normally. I would like to give a special thanks to fellow reader Daniel who sent this polybag in.

LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Cosmic Boy (30604) is a Minifigure Polybag

November 2, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

A few weeks ago, we reported that there would be a LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Cosmic Boy (30604) minifigure coming out sometime in the future. It was shown as a loose minifigure and I first thought that it would be part of a character encyclopedia or the LEGO Super Heroes DC Comics – Justice League: Cosmic Clash DVD. Brickset has now showing Cosmic Boy as a minifigure polybag which kind of ruins my theories because the exclusive minifigures found with DK books and LEGO movies aren’t normally contained in polybags. The only other explanation I can think of is that it’s going to be part of a LEGO promotion next year. Also notice the cool Legion of Super Heroes logo on the bottom right. Perhaps LEGO will continue promoting those characters from the team next year as well. I’ll have more info as they become available.

Building Disney in LEGO – Volume 1: Disney Characters Book Coming in 2016

November 1, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Our good friend Joe Meno from BrickJournal has been working on a new book that is slated to be released early 2016 called Building Disney in LEGO – Volume 1: Disney Characters and yesterday he has revealed the cover of the book shown above.

If you didn’t know, Joe has experience working at Walt Disney World and DisneyQuest so he’s pretty familiar with educating people about Disney characters. When publisher Theme Park Press approached him about creating a Disney/LEGO book, it was pretty much a no-brainer. Building Disney in LEGO will be a series of books that show how to build Disney-themed models with LEGO parts.

If you’re a Disney and LEGO fan, this looks to be a very cool book to pick up when it’s available next year. Follow his new Facebook Page for more updates about the book.