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LEGO Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar (75056) Round Up

December 31, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The LEGO Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar (75056) is been completed but not without its faults. Here’s a recap on what was good about the Advent Calendar as well as the bad.

Good

There are many miniature models as well as minifigures that were a pleasant surprise for this year. Luke’s Landspeeder on Day 12 is probably my favorite model for 2014. The design of it was spot on and it was very hard to top. The speeder on Day 19 was another build that I liked. Making it into a sleigh-type vehicle and incorporating Santa’s satchel was an interesting move on LEGO’s part.

Some of the minifigures that I liked were the Festive Astromech Droid on Day 22, the Rebel Pilot from Day 16, and General Rieekan on Day 18. Of couse we have Santa Darth Vader on the last day of the Advent Calendar.

Bad

Unfortunately, there are also bad things that went along with the LEGO Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar. One of these miscues was the reuse of the Y-Wing from Day 21. There are numerous vehicles in the Star Wars Universe but LEGO decides to reuse the same model from three years ago. Another thing that I wasn’t into was the Super Battle Droid from Day 2. Every year either they or the regular Battle Droids seem to make their way into the calendars. Some people may like them, but I’m not.

Results

Overall, the LEGO Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar (75056) was an above average … Continue

LEGO January 2015 Promotional Polybags Now Available on Shop@Home

December 31, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you still have some older sets to purchase from LEGO Shop@Home, you may want to know that the new 2015 promotional polybags are now available as of yesterday and they do stack.

You can get a FREE LEGO Star Wars At-DP (30274) with any LEGO Star Wars purchase during the month of January. For the FREE LEGO Creator Flower Cart (40140), you need a purchase of $75 or more in your shopping cart. Finally, for the LEGO Friends Mini Golf (30203) polybag, you just need to get any LEGO Friends item.

I tested it with a larger set that I know will cover the criteria to get both the AT-DP and Flower Cart polybags and threw in a random Friends set and sure enough, they all show up in the shopping cart.

If you don’t have anything left to purchase this year, I would hold off one more day when all the new 2015 sets will be available tomorrow. Thanks to Chris for the heads up yesterday.

LEGO Subscription Box – BrickSwag December 2014 Review

December 29, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

I recently received the December 2014 Brick Builders Club but didn’t have time to review it due to my abnormal work schedule but it’s still December so let’s see what we got this month.

The first thing you see when you open up the box is the guaranteed exclusive t-shirt that you get every month. This month’s shirt is a winter based shirt with some minifigures in an ice cube tray with the caption “Chill Out.”

The next items are the Funky Fig cards designed by The Mad Stacker. Again, there are five collectible cards that feature various minifigure characters in Garbage Pail Kids style. The groups that these cards belong to are the Champion Chumps and the City Slickers.

Next are some stickers which again are winter-based and shows some different designed brick-built snowflakes.

The next item in the box is courtesy of The Brick Show with their battery-powereed Black Street Lamp with Yellow Light. This allows you to creates scenes that give a warmer light. Although it is not an official LEGO product, it is compatible with LEGO bricks. You can also order this item at The Brick Show Shop for $6.99.

As usual, we also get a Brick Builders Club Parts Pack with items from Brick Warriors. The items included in the pack are a pair of crutches which are still attached to the plastic that you break off, an English Longbow, a Quiver, a Plague Doctor Hat, a Lizardman Shield, and a Magic Wand. The total cost of the Parts Pack … Continue

LEGO Seasonal Valentine’s Day 2015 Set (41020)

December 28, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO Seasonal Valentine's Day 2015 (40120)

Christmas is over and it’s time to talk about the next major holiday that drives sales here in the US and that is Valentine’s Day. Like this year, it looks like LEGO will be releasing sets based on certain holidays throughout 2015.

For Valentine’s Day, there will be a small vignette set (40120) showing what appears to be a marriage proposal. The set will have 114 pieces and probably retail for $9.99 and it shows a couple at a restaurant with a engagement ring for the female. There is also a small gift box to hold the ring. The set will most likely be available sometime in January at LEGO Stores and on Shop@Home.

Update: If you’re near LEGOLAND California in San Diego (Carlsbad), I’ve been told that the set is available at the shop. Thanks Charlie for the heads up.

**Via Brickset**

LEGO Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar (75056) – Day 24

December 24, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

We are finally on the last day of the LEGO Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar (75056)! What could this last day hold for us?

More LEGO Super Heroes Summer 2015 Set Details

December 23, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Yesterday, we reported on some rumors of the Summer 2015 wave LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes as well as LEGO Marvel Super Heroes sets. Groove Bricks has some additional information from a LEGO Store employee who spilled some beans regarding the sets, more importantly, the minifigures that we could possibly see in 2015.

With the DC sets, apparently some pretty popular characters will be appearing in minifigure form including Deathstroke and Teen Titans Starfire and Beast Boy. Since it’s still too early for images of the minifigures, you can get an idea of what the characters look like if you’ve played LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.

For the Marvel side, it was mentioned that a new variant of Spider-Man will be coming out. No word yet on which variant it could be since there are plenty to choose from. My fingers are crossed for Ben Reilly’s Scarlet Spider or Superior Spider-Man. Another minifigure that was stated that would be coming out was Iron Spider. If you’re not familiar with the comics, the Iron Spider Armor was created by Tony Stark and given to Peter Parker during the Spider-Man: The Other storyline and was also used during the Civil War storyline.

Yesterday, we mentioned that a rumored Sandman minifigure will be coming out next year and GB’s contact confirms that we will indeed be getting one as well as a Rhino minifigure with a brick-built suit. I’m not sure how LEGO will be pulling that off since Rhino’s suit is bonded with his body. I would … Continue

LEGO Super Heroes Summer 2015 Set Rumors

December 22, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Just2Good is back with another video with information about the Summer 2015 wave of the LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes sets as well as the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes sets.

For DC there will be a “Jokerland” set. This kind of sounds similar to The Dynamic Duo Funhouse Escape (6857) from 2011/2012. The other DC set is a Batman Water Chase. From the sound of it, my guess is the set is probably a small $20 one which may include Killer Croc as J2G speculates.

For the Marvel Super Heroes side, there is again mention of an Ant-Man set. This also confirms the rumors from a few months ago from Hulk_Smash that there will be a set that includes Ant-Man. The other Marvel set mentioned is rumored to include Sandman which probably means that a Spider-Man set(s) is coming next year.