The Lego Movie: Pre-Game

The movie comes out …. tomorrow!

I was very lucky indeed to have gotten a sneak preview via the Community Team and WB doing promotional work with Lugs around North America. You might have seen a couple of videos already? So a big post is cooking, Happy Pappy and myself sat down with a pitcher and did an 80 min review. We’re going to transcribe it and hopefully get that up tomorrow. The TL;DR is: go see it, everything is awesome.

This is meeting and exceeding expectations everywhere. I’ve been watching the Rotten Tomatoes page the past week, it went from 16 positive reviews, to 30 yesterday to 76 ( and 1 negative ) today. The average score fluctuates of course but it’s been between 8.1-8.6/10.

Check for yourself!

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lego_movie/

Here are a couple of interviews with some Canucky Lugs. First is a crew from ToroLug (Toronto, Ontoario):

http://www.bttoronto.ca/videos/3150036431001/

A bit closer to home is reps from VLC and AbbyLUG (Vancouver and Abbotsford) along with Robin Sathers, CLP and S6 alumni:

http://www.btvancouver.ca/videos/3161590803001/

I can’t embed the videos, or find a scrubbed url of just the video, please be aware that there is a few ads on those 2 links.

Here’s a more familiar AFOL voice weighing in on the movie:
http://www.brothers-brick.com/2014/02/03/full-of-sly-humor-the-lego-movie-is-a-must-watch-for-all-lego-fans-especially-adults-review/

Let’s wind this one up with what’s really important:

Lego Roundup: Ninjago, Architecture, Watches, Brick Games, BrickCon, Maersk, BrickOwl, Marvel

Lots of Lego news has been piling up in my scratch pad and going to chew through all of it while it’s still at best before date.

Lego Ninjago has been ressurected by it’s rabid fanbase! I have been so impressed with the sets that having been coming out the past year, thinking it was going all flaming phoenix blaze of glory, and it’s still not done.
Here’s a teaser poster, looks like roboninjas? Sounds good.

The binary spells ‘Nindroid’

This is allegedly a fig from the new lineup

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Lego Architecture has a lovely new set out, the United Nations Headquarters:

More set details on Brickset:
http://www.brickset.com/detail/?set=21018-1

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There is a new series of Lego watches that are coming out geared more towards an adult audience. They have a familiar adjustable link wrist band but the watch faces are all new. There’s a wide selection, some digitial and some pretty complex like this one with week date and days:

The watches you find in the Lego store are $20-30, expect these to be upwards of $80 though.

http://www.ablogtowatch.com/lego-launches-wrist-watch-collection-adults/
Lots of pics here:
http://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-watch-system-revealed/

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The Brick Games are happening in Langley ( close to Vancouver ) on October 26th. This is not an official Lego event and I will be going more into this around the date. Robin Sather, Canada’s only Certified Lego Professional ( and former Sector 6 member! ) will be part of the hijinx.

http://www.thebrickgames.com/
http://www.brickville.ca/

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BrickCon looked amazing! There’s lots to fawn about but immediate mention has to be said about Rivendell. I’m still finding out about it, but it was a collaborative piece put together in part by Alice Finch who did the infamous Hogwarts display.

Here are some pics from my friend Michelle:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47604199@N00/sets/72157636325765033/

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There is a new Maersk ship coming out…. but not with any Maersk blue! This is curious huh. They are instead using the Friend’s azure blue. I guess Olivia and the gang had a painting bee, did the ship up in a more profitable colour.

http://www.brothers-brick.com/2013/09/28/lego-announces-new-maersk/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBrothersBrick+%28The+Brothers+Brick%29

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Brick Owl is a new second hand Lego market, similar to bricklink. So similar that they are being sued by bricklink.

http://www.newelementary.com/2013/09/bricks-inc.html
People were curious how the new shift in ownership would change bricklink and this is an unsavoury demonstration.  They are lucky so far that they haven’t attracted the wrath of the mothership and legal sabre rattling just might. Oh hey, thanks bricklink for letting me know about another market alternative, I wouldn’t have known if it wasn’t for the fuss you were kicking up about them.
http://brickowl.com/
In related news, bricklink recently moved their servers to Amazon which is a pretty huge shift. They are roomies with Netflix, Instagram, Pintrest, etc now….

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Beautiful new Cafe Corner set ( I guess they are not actually called that, but you know what I’m talking about )
10243 – Parisian Restaurant
Was I just recently ranting about nice parts? This set has some nice parts. White croissants… mmm yummy. Those inverted bowls look fab too!

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Marvel is celebrating the release of the new TT game ( which I know you’re all jack and jilled about that one coming out ) with Legofied covers of a bunch of titles!

http://www.brickjournal.com/view/article/412/

Floating Rock : pt.2

It didn’t survive the voyage home, but I was able to mostly piece it together for a final shot of this stage. It’s ok because I had fully planned on retooling it for the next stage and my shipment of slopes arrived after I had made this.

 

 

 

 

LUP Team Shirts

Here’s a treat and betcha haven’t seen this before. These were made by ND game designers and meant to be rolled out into the game in a future release. There are 2 varieties, normal and decoration, though I’m not sure the exact intended purpose of the two. Maybe they would be drops in the LUP worlds or available at vendors here and there.  I’ll be definitely cooking up some real life figs of these!