Lego Roundup: March 2014

 

I’m sandwiched in between 2 local Lug events and have been meaning to post about them…. and all the craziness that has been going on with Lego lately. I’m sure most of this has come across your radar but just might be some gems you missed. In no particular order, except as I go through my notes…

Have you seen the new 3d model viewer in bricklink? Go find a piece in the catalogue and open up the 3d viewer… pretty boss. I’m guessing it’s all the parts in all the available colours.

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A Bionicle fan made a record by spending the most on a single brick, 15k on a platinum mask.

http://lego.gizmodo.com/insane-lego-collector-spends-15-000-on-a-single-piece-1528631074

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Seen this Sandcrawler? Pretty amazing, packed a lot of play value into something that is essentially a lot smaller than it’s supposed to be

Lots more pictures and info here:

LEGO Star Wars UCS Sandcrawler (75059) Officially Announced

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Really good trailer for the Hobbit vidja game from TT, because the it’s a heist movie right?

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It would be pretty hard to avoid this new, the latest Cuusoo set is the Ghostbusters Ecto 1 with the full squad:

This is pretty beautiful and much like the Lego Movie I’m having a hard time finding anything wrong with it, and with it my estimation of Cuusoo has went up.

http://blog.lego.cuusoo.com/2014/02/16/lego-ghostbusters-revealed-toyfair/
Some candid Toy Fair pics of the set: http://news.toyark.com/2014/02/16/toy-fair-2014-lego-simpsons-ghostbusters-114890

For anyone counting, Peter Reid’s Exosuit which is set #6 is still in development.

Speaking of Cuusoo, looks like they took away some hurdles that were apparently in the way for approving Dr. Who sets. Release the Daleks!

https://legocuusoo.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/325064-license-conflicts-and-resolutions
This project seems to be the one to watch: http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/16291

Also, looks like there will be even more Minecraft sets coming out, I’m happy for you.

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Have you seen the new guns? They are in one of the Lego Movie sets and some of the new army builder Star Wars sets. They shoot great! You can fully lose the projectiles. Amazing new design, welcome to the future.

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This was confusing people a week or so ago

http://brickultra.com/lego-polar-bear-certified-professional/

Not a real set, but well made mockup.

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More info on the Simpsons minifigs! From Amazon:

Woo-hoo! It’s The Simpsons! The LEGO Minifigures series continues with this great collection of 16 of your favorite characters from TV’s longest-running comedy. There’s Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson, as well as Grampa, Ned Flanders, Ralph Wiggum, Nelson Muntz, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Chief Wiggum, Krusty the Clown, Itchy & Scratchy, Mr. Burns and Milhouse. Each The Simpsons minifigure comes in a sealed ‘mystery’ bag with its own special accessories, display plate and collector’s leaflet. Buy a bag, open it up and see which one you get!

Does this mean they will be in the Minifigures MMOG…?

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Did you hear… Mattel bought Megablocks? So after being bumped out the big #2 by a building blocks company, I guess they decided that they needed their own bricks to get back in the game. They’ve been obviously courting the idea for a bit with the Megablocks Barbie line so this is not a huge surprise. I welcome it as it will bring healthy competition, but it is just another successful Canadian company to be gobbled up by the States.

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I’m pretty chuffed about these new mini Hero Factory figs:

The Bionicle ones that came out years ago were great and still use them every year at our VicWars games. These sets look to have lots of nice parts too, looking forward to seeing more.

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In Lego Movie news, the sequel will be coming out tentatively in May of 2017 and check out this out takes video:

and almost can’t believe that this is on all the official Lego Movie feeds:

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There’s lots and lots that has been  posted from the recent Toy Fair, which is going to have to wait for another post, but this is really noteworthy. Not only do we have sets for the upcoming TMNT movie, but there’s this guy, wot:

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I’m sure I missed something. Will be back soon with posts about our various club events and the current ruleset for VicWars!

Lego News Roundup: Dec, 2013

The Cuusoo Mars Curiosity Rover set has been revealed, check http://blog.lego.cuusoo.com/2013/12/18/lego-nasa-mars-curiosity-rover/ for more info

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The 2014 Marvel sets are snoopable and there are some somewhat interesting tidbits.

This is pretty great for all the electrical zappy parts, but of particular interest is Electro’s transparent arms. We are that much closer to a Mythran fig.

I’m seriously not up on all my superhero variations, and have only watched a couple episodes of Ultimate Spiderman, so was not aware of this Green Goblin. Seems kind of useless outside the context of the character with this big dopey costume but maybe the head comes off.

This set looks like it will be of good value. The Modok looks hilarious and Falcon’s wings look to be the Egyptian wings in red.

http://www.brickset.com/browse/themes/?theme=Super%20Heroes&subtheme=Marvel%20Universe&year=2014

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http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=88428
White Fang has another great review, this time with the Lego Movie Minifigs. A couple of things that surprised me going through this that wasn’t clear from the previous photos:

Great coon skin hat and seperate beard, these look to be a lot of fun.

Gail’s hair is really cool

So that’s what scribble faced cop means

Abe’s hat and beard are one piece!

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New Chima sets coming out, which look interesting enough. Good figs, neat weapons.

What’s of real interest is this new type of joint, or at least a variation on an existing joint system:

Read more at the New Elementary ( which you should be checking out all the time of course ), and from the article it seems that the cup is where the friction is. Old cup and new ball is loose, new cup and old ball is tight.

http://www.newelementary.com/2013/12/new-legends.html

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http://gizmodo.com/this-amazing-life-size-air-powered-lego-car-hits-20mph-1485535767
This is going pretty viral right now, and rightly so.

I don’t know if the whole car is Lego, but it’s all pretty amazing.
More info here:

http://www.superawesomemicroproject.com/

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Let’s tie it up with the Hobbit game trailer.

Just saw the 2nd one a couple of days ago, and wondering if anyone else was assessing each scene as to how good of a level it will be?

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Ah, another roundup successfully tied up.

New Lego Lines

Some pretty neat stuff is coming down the pipe, most exciting argueably is TMNT! Turtles have been in modular block form for some time courtesy of Megablows and now we get to see it realized right. Makes you wonder if a Turtles TT Lego game might be in the works too?

 

Hobbit sets have been revealed and the Dwarf beards look just boss. I’ll need a 6pack of each.

 

Here’s a set I won’t be picking up but definitely try and get the figs on bricklink or a toy show somewhere, the Daily Bugle:

Also I just heard on the weekend that there will be Lone Ranger sets in 2013. I wonder how much new elements this line will generate, probably a lot of great new hair pieces at the very least and some new colours, or parts in other colours.

All photos courtesy and pillaged from fbtb flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fbtbnet/