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.

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/

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/