Lego Roundup: April 2014

Bricks Cascade happened recently and there was some very fine brickery going on. My friend John ( a former S6’er, nay the founder! ) went and took some nice pics.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/j1a3l5/sets/72157642225834783/

Also spotted at Bricks Cascade was Wild Style.

Sunlit Equinox made this Wild Style cosplay, I think she did a great job 🙂
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sunlitequinox/

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Apparently I’m too old for this contest, or any of these Emmet Awards, but neat they are going on:

http://www.us.lego.com/en-us/movie/emmet-awards/?from=0&to=20

Very cool UniKitty creations 🙂

Saw this yesterday…. oh ho ho

https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/451030616734064640/photo/1 

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My friend Jenn the Brick Chick thumped these up the other day: Aluminum Technic Lift Arms

Here is an indepth article on them:

http://www.technicbricks.com/2009/12/build-sturdy-and-stiff.html?m=1

and here is a bricklink store where you can still buy them:

http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=Eezo

These are pretty neat. I don’t have a need for something this industrial ( yet ) but it’s good to know that a product is being made with such precision and craftmanship.

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Coming in May to bricklink is the Moc Shop!

http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/newsview.page?msgid=799670

It’s going to be interesting, instead of selling mocs it looks like they are going to be providing instructions that you can then purchase the bricks for. You might have to get the bricks across multiple sites so they will have some dynamic instructions that show best store candidates and options for different bricks.

This along with the recent 3d model view in the individual parts catalogue shows there are many big changes being rolled out for this long standing pillar in the community.

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This was doing the rounds earlier this week, Leah/Pastlightspeed made a pretty neat resume

She got hired! Here’s a picture of the blockhead at work:

Here’s more pics and info on her project: http://imgur.com/gallery/Z9xiw

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Paul Heatherington celebrated the 40th anniversary of figures in Lego. These go by many names, some call them maxi-figs, I call them homemakers. I have a fondness for them and always happy when I find a part in a pick through. It’s interesting how the arm joints have kept in rotation and now with new ball joints introduced in Mixels, the hand tow balls are back in play!

Paul’s creation has many nods to the era and reflects his consistently crafty building style 🙂

 https://www.flickr.com/photos/14964802@N07/12784012104/

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I defy you to find a more bestest pony moc than this new one from Ochre Jelly

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ochre_jelly/13398180884/

I wholly approve of this representation. Speaking of which, this came across my desk recently too and is one of the best PMV I’ve seen. Great music natch and very well done editing.

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Morbid thought about Ghostbusters and Egon/Harold Ramis. I think that he might be the first person who was made into a minifig to have passed away. I have a cursory, non-exhaustive database in my head on the subject and pretty sure this is the case.

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The Friends are going on a pretty big adventure this year, off to the jungle! The set lineup looks very nice and a great way to get the lil animals into the sets, including Rapunzel’s chameleon Pascal in a new colour. Yellow walky talkies!

http://www.neoape.com/lego-friends-summer-2014-set-images/

 

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Let’s polish it off on theme with this amazing Doctor Overbuild custom by Jared Burks of Fine Clonier

Have you ever seen anything so beautiful?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaminoan/12981395645/

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!

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/