2015 New Lego Sets from NY Toy Fair

News of the new sets is swarming across the studded landscape and here’s a bunch of what has caught my eye so far.

I’ve always had a soft spot for Ninjago, especially with it’s deep roots in LU, and it almost feels as if it’s hit it’s stride in this year’s lineup.

All thumbnails biggify to remote links, I recommend a hover zoom plugin though

Nice closeup of some of the wacky snakey elements. This ‘albino’ serpent seems to only be in one set? The helmets are in most, the shoulder gear is in a few.	srsly liking that bone sword. I think that Samurai hair-do is in CMF line somewhere….	This is a pretty triumphant set, great combination of useful parts and unique, odd fig gear.
closeup of these trans-yellow little critters, also trans-green toxic ‘legs’	Very classy looking ship, like many models in this series it has some interesting geared up play features	freaky neat beast!
I like everything about this set, I sensei it wu be in my collection in the future!

Previously in the Bionicle Department….

Let’s cancel Bionicle!

Everyone loses their minds.

Let’s introduce Hero Factory!

Minds continue to be lost.

Let’s introduce a new torso assembly!

No one notices because they can’t find their minds.

Let’s bring back Bionicle!

Everyone finds their minds and rejoice!

Let’s use this new torso assembly for everything!

No one cares, they are just happy Bionicle is back. 

Elements introduced in Chima are finding their way into new Bionicle, wonder which parts will leak out into System?

mmm trans green…

I wonder if this rib cage element will be showing up in other lines

Lots of pretty interesting things happening in town this time around.

Big new boat part, and classic dingy in olive!	Neat new grapple	*snicker* it’s a really nicely made potty!
The wrecking ball is cool but what grabbed me here was how the build was meant to be knocked down

Chima….

Chima was kind of feeling like b-sides until I got to this bad boy

Love the colours, parts and figs, this one is all win.

Jurassic World sets revealed! Think they’ll make a game that will include the previous movies?

This is a yummy looking dino. Dino is thinking that’s a yummy looking human looks like.	These hamster balls are hilarious. They fully look like they roll	Pretty swish, wonder if it’s at all compatible with previous versions of pteranodons?
This set looks deceptively small, you can see the figs on the left	closeup of this freak, what a rock star	funny comment I saw on fb saying these new dinos look like childhood Willy Wonka
This is a very striking looking set. It’s like the Rancor pit with such a huge beast with a solid cage of bricks around it.

I’m pretty jacked about the new Elves line and a couple that weren’t shown in the previous mix are these two horse riddled curiousities

Beautiful sky castle!	The keys look to be the widgety mcguffins in this line and this castle is rocking them all. Look a new owl too!	This is the Friends and Disney Princess horse, but different mane. The different sets come with silver and gold wings. Such a cute lil dragon!!
Close up of that bebe dragon rawr

DC/Mixel/UltraAgents

It’s a good Joker fun house but of course has nothing on Paul Hetherington’s : http://youtu.be/95gUCiT_-A8	shiny hawkman!	Mixels are being weird as usual, I like how they are really theming them this time like with this steam punk ensemble
I had skipped over most of the Agents line as either I am burning out or it’s like Chima and not as hard hitting, but this guy is just cronkers.

Marvel is the it-girl of this year’s selection, so hot right now

sweet Ant-man helmet!	so…. you think there is an Iron Man minifig in there?	Hulk – light, prepared with olive oil.
I had heard that the very hyped Avengers HeliCarrier had a bunch of ‘microfigs’ in it and had totally assumed it was the little Heroica game figures, turns out it’s…. those trophies introduced in CMF! Holy smokes the detail must be immaculate. I wonder if this will be a new scale they start doing more of, esp in SW

We discussed the new Scooby sets in a previous post but here are a couple of surprises! Looks like Scooby comes in 2 different poses, sitting and standing?

ermager it is a hat, what goofy colours for that plane too	Look at him. Just look at him.	Fun little Egyptian misadventure, probably the easiest way to get standing Scoobs?
You get Daphne in this one too along with MERMAN. I sure didn’t get a dozen of those little Monster Fighter sets, because that would be odd. Now what about that old ghost, is that a Hobbit hair piece or am I nuts. This is an IP taboo huh.

So much StarWars…. With a couple of big announcements along with a bunch of stuff I have no idea what it is. StarWars Rebels is a show I haven’t seen yet so it’s a gap in my knowledge. Will have to get on that now that there is actual sets made huh!

Guessing this will be a fairly popular set	Seems like a classic enough gunship design with wonderful new Wookies	Pretty great paintjob!
Gorgeous design from a great scene, this one is a knockout	The little builds in the advent calendar are really so cute. What an adorable Sarlacc pit.	haha, well done. The antlers are… Ninjago helmet ornaments! Brilliant 🙂

If that wasn’t enough…. the big StarWars news is a new UCS TieFighter!

and a whole new line of big figures that have the Hero Factory/Bionicle torso assembly that was recently seen in the big DC and Chima figures as well. More about that in an upcoming post.

There’s more of course, including Minecraft and Mindstorms.  Whew! That’s a lot of bricks.

Images via ToyArk, BrickFan

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 Superhero sets on TRU

Toys R Us has the new Avenger sets available and all snoopable like. I’m not sure looking at the vehicles if these are must gets but they look like great builds and wouldn’t sneeze at them if I found it under the tree. Whatever the case I’ll be doing plenty heap big bricklink orders in a few months once these go down in secondary market price. All images link to their respective TRU product page.

Wolverine’s Chopper Showdown (6866)

 

Captain America’s Avenging (6865)

 

Loki’s Cosmic Cube Escape (6867)

 

Hulk’s Helicarrier Breakout (6868)

 

Quinjet Aerial Battle (6869)