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LEGO Star Wars 3-in-1 Super Pack (66456)

September 15, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Belgian online retailer ColliShop has revealed a new LEGO Star Wars 3-in-1 Super Pack (66456) which includes the AT-RT (75002), Z-95 Headhunter (75004), and the BARC Speeder with Sidecar (75012). The Super Pack will have a suggested retail price of €99.99 and will be released later this year. The total number of pieces in the Super Pack comes to 821 and all three sets were released earlier this year.

What’s interesting to note is that all three sets are cheaper when bought separately. Doing a quick dollar conversion will make the Super Pack come to about $133.06, while buying them separately will only run you $94.97 from Shop@Home. There’s no word on whether it will be available at retailers here in the States such as Toys R Us stores.

LEGO Friends 2014 Updated Set List

September 13, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Today, All About Bricks has revealed the list for Series 5 of the Animal sets for the LEGO Friends line. Back in August, we reported a list of the Friends System sets as well as the Series 4 Animals of the very popular girls theme. LEGO Friends is still going strong heading into their third year of production.

Animals – Series 4
Turtle’s Little Paradise (41041)
Tiger’s Beautiful Temple (41042)
Penguin’s Playground (41043)

Animals – Series 5

Macaw’s Fountain (41044)
Orangutan’s Banana Tree (41045)
Brown Bear’s River (41046)

System Sets
Sunshine Harvest (41026)
Mia’s Lemonade Stand (41027)
Emma’s Lifeguard Post (41028)
Stephanie’s Newborn Lamb (41029)
Heartlake Juice Bar (41035)
Stephanie’s Beach House (41037)
Sunshine Ranch (41039)
Heartlake News Van (41056)
Heartlake Horse Show (41057)

One Week Left To Register For BrickCon 2013

September 11, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

BrickCon 2013 is only a few weeks away and if you’re thinking of attending the event, you only have one week left to register. Registration will be closing on Wednesday, September 18th and won’t be accepting any more registrations after that date. There will also be no on-site registrations accepted during the convention either. The official theme for this year is “Pigs vs Cows”.

Remembering September 11 With LEGO

September 11, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Today is September 11 and people around the world are doing various things to remember the lives lost during the tragic event in 2001. Our good friend Mariann Asanuma (Model Building Secrets) created the above LEGO mosaic of the iconic Raising the Flag at Ground Zero picture by photographer Thomas E. Franklin to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the event but it is still fitting for every year since it remind us that our resolve grows stronger every year.

Nathan Sawaya has also created a piece to remember the event and has created a version of Yellow featuring the famous Statue of Liberty showing her heart.

I wanted to do a special piece for the city. The Statue of Liberty is a welcoming symbol of this city and ultimately she is all about heart.

Flickr user TAMUMick has recreated a firefighter helmet with a prominent 343 in the front to represent the 343 FDNY firefighters who perished during the September 11 while protecting the citizens of New York.

If you have something created with LEGO bricks to commemorate September 11, feel free to contact us and we’ll feature your works of art as well. Never forget 9/11.

LEGO Shaun of the Dead Winchester Pub Instructions

September 11, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Our friends over at Brick Fanatics is starting a new feature on their site where they’ll be sharing LEGO MOC instructions from different various artists who submit their content. If you remember last year, the LEGO CUUSOO Shaun of the Dead Winchester Pub project by Greg Coquelz, aka Yatkuu, was rejected by the LEGO Jury even though it had a massive following from supporters including Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. You’ll be glad to know that Greg has provided the instructions for you to download for free. So if you’ve been wanting to build your own Winchester Pub, well here’s your chance.

Greg has also provided instructions of the Stargate Heavy Machine Gun for free. It doesn’t stop there! There are also premium instructions that you can purchase for a very affordable price of $2 for his Stargate Bookends (see below image). These instructions are also available through Brick Fanatics.

I think this is a very interesting concept by Brick Fanatics because maybe you’ve seen a MOC that you really like and would like to recreate it. If that artist decides to submit their instructions to BF, you can probably get for a certain price or even for free. You’ll be sure that we’ll be featuring more submitted instructions as they become available.

LEGO at New York Comic Con 2013

September 5, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has been a big presence at various conventions throughout the years such as the Comic Cons in San Diego and New York. There’s been speculation of whether LEGO would make it to the 2013 New York Comic Con on October 10-13 and the news broke today that they will not be making an appearance this year. Last year, the company revealed the LEGO Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line during NYCC and we were hoping there would be some sort of reveal during this year’s event. I guess they could be saving the reveals for a fully-fledged LEGO convention such as LEGO Fan Weekend or BrickWorld Fort Wayne coming up later this month instead of a convention that isn’t nearly as big as San Diego Comic Con. LEGO’s decision not to be at NYCC 2013 could also be a result of what happened during SDCC 2013 and the Super Heroes minifigure debacle. Does this also mean LEGO won’t be making any more appearances at future conventions such as next year’s NYCC and SDCC? Only time will tell.

Update: Thanks to the theBrickBlogger for the update on why LEGO will not be at New York Comic Con. Earlier this year, LEGO was in New York to reveal the giant X-Wing Starfighter to promote The Yoda Chronicles and most of their budget went to that event. That’s a sigh of relief as LEGO will probably be returning next year for future events. False alarm people!

**Via Hoth Bricks**

LEGO Becomes World’s #2 Toymaker

September 5, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Despise a slow start in 2013 in the North America and European markets, The LEGO Group has still managed to become the world’s #2 toymaker beating out Hasbro. The Danish toy company had sales jump 13 percent in the first-half of 2013 with the strongest growth in the Asian markets. Their revenue rose to 10.4 billion kroner in the first six months of 2013 from 9.13 billion kroner in the same time period as last year. The revenue which is equivalent to $1.84 billion beat out Hasbro Inc. which had reported sales of $1.43 billion.

The increase in revenue was due to increased sales in the LEGO Legends of Chima line as well as the LEGO Friends line and Chief Executive Officer Joergen Vig Knudstorp says the Friends sets were the “most significant” new product in a decade. While the Legends of Chima line has become LEGO’s fastest growing products, sales of the Friends sets were “significantly higher” than the company average as well. The company expects both of these lines to continue growing with more sets being released for Legends of Chima and Friends in 2014.

LEGO has also boosted its global market share from 8.6 percent from the end of 2012 to 8.8 percent in the first half of this year. Mattel Inc. is still the world’s largest toymaker which had a revenue of $2.16 billion in the first half of 2013 but in terms of profit, The LEGO Group’s net income rose 18 perfect in the first six months of 2013 to 2.48 … Continue