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LEGO Ideas Women of NASA (21312) Sale on Amazon

January 29, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

If you haven’t picked it up yet, the LEGO Ideas Women of NASA (21312) set is on sale on Amazon for $20.97 which is 16% off the regular retail price of $24.99. The set contains three different vignette type builds with four minifigures. This set makes a great gift for any NASA or science fan in general. I’ve already done a review of the set if you want to check it out. Thanks to Brandon for the heads up.

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LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) Unboxing

January 28, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) will be released later this week unless you were able to get it early yesterday at the Fashion Place LEGO Store signing event. LEGO was kind enough to send us an early copy of the set and here’s a short unboxing of it since many of you are curious of what it consists of.

The packaging is nicely detailed with a very nautical design. On the side of the box, there’s a large kraken chasing down the ship in the bottle. Like with the packaging for the recent previous LEGO Ideas sets, the box has the lift up flap to reveal the contents.

When you open up the box, you are greeted with seven bags numbered 1-4 along with four large trans-clear window pieces and the instruction booklet. As far as I remember, this is the second set that I’ve personally build that had the exact same parts in same bags, referring to the 1×1 trans-blue studs.

My full review of the LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) will go up February 1 which is the same date the set releases in stores and online so stay tuned.

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LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) Designer Video

January 28, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 3 Comments

LEGO has finally released the designer video for the LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) which is set to be released later this week. In the video LEGO designer Thiago Catarino talks about how he went from Jacob Sadovich’s original design on the LEGO Ideas project to the official set. Graphic designer Mark Tranter also chimes in on some of the printed pieces that is used on the set. We’ll have our review of the Ship in a Bottle (21313) up on February 1 so stay tuned for that.

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LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) Side-by-Side Look

January 22, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

As we know by now, the LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) will be on store shelves on February 1. I’ve already done a comparison post showing some of the differences between Jake Sadovich’s model against the official set which he received a few days ago and pictures speak louder than words. He has posted a side-by-side look over on the AFOLs of Facebook page and we can easily see the differences between the two. Jake has even stated that the official set is “more user friendly than the original” which is reassuring for those who are on the fence about getting it.

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Is a LEGO Star Wars UCS Cloud City Set Coming Soon?

January 22, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 16 Comments

Earlier today, LEGO announced that no projects passed the LEGO Ideas Second 2017 Review Stage. LEGO gave a pretty thorough explanation of some of the criteria they look at to see if a project meets that requirement. One of the criteria listed was New (and confidential) products currently being developed internally. Hasan also talked about it a little more in the video below and at 2:20, he says something that’s censored out.

If a project, let’s call it “X,” is not approved in the review because it is too similar to a product that’s been developed internally, then naturually we wouldn’t be able to share that news with everyone that “X” has not been approved due to the giant (bleep) that’s coming out.

Hasan also says the censored words again at 2:29 as the camera zooms in a little. I don’t know about you but these are major hints at something that’s coming out soon. If you look at the projects that qualified for review, one of the projects is I Am Your Father which is the scene where Darth Vader reveals to Luke Skywalker that he is his father. Now going back to the video, to me it appears that Hasan says either “Bespin City” or “Bespin set” and it has been rumored that there is a D2C set (75222) that is reported to be the UCS Cloud City. Given that the project scene is from Cloud City, I would say that it matches up nicely.

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LEGO Ideas Second 2017 Review Stage Winner Announced

January 22, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 6 Comments

LEGO has just announced the latest winner of the LEGO Ideas Second 2017 Review Stage. There were six projects that qualified for the review and the winner is…nobody. I could be wrong but as far as I remember, this is the second time that no projects have passed a review stage with the first one being the First 2015 Review Stage. The review board takes into account various factors on whether or not a project passes including:

– Products currently available in stores
– New (and confidential) products currently being developed internally
– Licensing possibilities and conflicts
– Production capacity
– Build quality
– Feasibility
– Playability
– Expected demand
– Brand fit

You can read more about the explanations of each category in the link above. If you watch the video below of Hasan giving a brief explanation, you can see a hint of a future set that’s coming out that has been bleeped out at 2:20. If any mouth readers can tell what he said, let us know in the comments below.

The Third 2017 Review Stage is well underway and those results will be announced this summer. The projects that qualify for the review are included in the image below.

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LEGO Ideas Embraer A-29 Super Tucano Achieves 10,000 Supporters

January 19, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

The Embraer A-29 Super Tucano (Smoke Squadron) by Alex Paschoaletto is the latest project to get 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The project wasn’t really on the top supported projects list until the beginning of the year when some high profile social media accounts picked it up including the Brazilian Air Force and Aviões e Músicas. As for the project itself, the build is the Brazilian Air Force’s Embraer A-29 Super Tucano and it has some features including a retractable landing gear, moveable rudder and flaps, as well as a removable canopy. The overall build consists of about 400 pieces and is 1:39 scale. It is the first project to reach the First 2018 Review Stage.

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