With the success of The LEGO Movie it looks like the company is taking advantage of the heightened PR for the toy line and releasing a ton of new 2014 sets early. Continue reading
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NYCLUG Lego News Roundup #004
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Lots of LEGO news these past two weeks, including the newest CUUSOO set, a brick-based productivity killer from Google, and even more awesome LEGO Star Wars builds on a mini mini scale. Continue reading
Brickplate.com’s LEGO News Roundup — Pre-Father’s Day Edition
- Need to know how to get around London? UK-based LEGO Master Builder Duncan Titmarsh built this handy map of that city’s subway as part of the 150th anniversary of the London Metro. (Londonist)
- Here’s a sneak peek of what the LEGO House in Billund, Denmark will look like. (Architecture News Daily)
- It’s not that clear nowadays, but yes, there was a time when they used to market Lego to both girls and boys equally. (Jezebel)
- And here’s a petition to get the LEGO Company to make more female minifigs via the CUUSOO project. (The Mary Sue)
- For Father’s Day, here’s Lego Darth Vader and Lego Luke Skywalker putting their past aside and enjoying some “Force fishing.” (PocketLint)
- Karachi, Pakistan gets its first Lego Store. (The Tribune Express)
- Continuing its partnership, Marvel will feature variants of Lego minifig Superheroes across its comic book titles beginning in September. (Flickering Myth)
- And here’s a neat mosaic featuring the existing Marvel SuperHeroes line. (FBTB)
The LEGO Design team previews their newest set, the Ewok Village (set #10236).
Brickplate.com’s LEGO News Roundup — Week of May 27
Hope you and yours had a great holiday weekend! Here’s what made Lego news in the past few weeks:
- That scale model X-Wing fighter, made from more than five million Lego bricks and which recently landed in Times Square, is on its way to LEGOLAND California. (The Huffington Post)
- Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, grandson of the founder of the LEGO Company, will open a school in the company’s hometown of Billund, Denmark. (Mashable)
- The “Mr. Gold” minifig, randomly inserted into the Series 10 collectible packs, is fetching as much as $1,000 on the secondary market. And to think just seven years ago, $1,000 would’ve bought you not one but two UCS Millennium Falcons. And those didn’t even come with minifgs. (Yahoo!)
- Someone made it happen: here’s LEGO Voldemort vs. LEGO Gandalf. (Geekosystem)
- An awesome breakdown of what you can build with the 472 billion LEGO bricks made since 1958. (Gizmodo)
- When Finland met Denmark: make your own Lego Angry Birds. (Brothers Brick)
- Our favorite toy company and NASA are teaming up on a school-based competition, details of which are still under wraps. “Your students can tackle the same aeronautics challenges that NASA and industry teams have been working on. We want to see if your team can do better.” (NASA Education)
- And last but not least, a bunch of AFOL’s have built a display featuring 2.5 miles of LEGO train track. (World Record Academy.com)
This is one of the awesome things that happen when a LEGO designer has too much time on their hands.
Craig Callum, an official LEGO designer, took the VW Bus (with a modified color scheme) and an AT-AT and made this quite excellent, um, Imperial Volkswagen.
It’s not often that Lego will offer this massive a discount on such an awesome set. Happy Star Wars Day indeed!
A scene from New York Comic Con…
…in which Darth Vader threatens my U.S.S. Enterprise Lego model. He could’ve just used the Force, I guess. 🙂
Photo courtesy of I LUG NY member Will Smart.
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