All summer long, rumors have been swirling regarding the Fall 2014 LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector’s Series set being a super-sized version of the LEGO Slave I. Well, the old saying goes that where there’s smoke there’s usually fire, and that adage is proven right again today! Just as rumored, the UCS LEGO Star Wars Slave I 75060 set has now been revealed!
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LEGO Space is still a much-beloved and popular classic LEGO theme, despite the fact that new LEGO Space sets haven’t been produced in years. Even so, the classic LEGO Spaceman minifigure craze is having a resurgence like never before, largely due to the appearance of Benny the 1980’s-something Spaceman in The LEGO Movie. Not only do the first green LEGO Spaceman minifigures ever appear in the awesome quickly sold-out LEGO Exo-Suit set, but now we have the opportunity to get our hands on a new run of the white LEGO Spaceman minifigures–for free!
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It’s the last day of the month, one of the days that I get most excited about each and every month! Why? Because the final day of each month is (usually) when LEGO lets us peek into their crystal ball and see the LEGO Store calendar for the month that we’re a month and a day away from!
Today is no different, as we’re being gifted with our first look at the LEGO Store October 2014 Calendar. And while there’s only one LEGO free promo set in October 2014, it’s a doozy! Plus: the long-awaited return of LEGO Double VIP Points!
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The kids may not have had a chance to break in their new lunchboxes yet, but LEGO is already gearing up for the 2014 Holiday season! The October 2014 LEGO Store calendar has been posted online today, and it includes several LEGO holiday-related tidbits on it.
But the most important thing we learn about the LEGO 2014 holiday sets from the new calendar is something we look forward to hearing about all year long: the first of the two 2014 LEGO Holiday Set free promos has been revealed: LEGO 40106!
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It’s been common knowledge for most of 2014 that LEGO has been “secretly” working on a huge, Ultimate Collector Series (UCS) LEGO Batman Tumbler for release in late summer 2014. It’s also been widely speculated and agreed-upon among LEGO collectors that said set would of course debut at San Diego Comic-Con 2014 (what with it being the largest superhero convention in the world and all). So with SDCC 2014 just a few days away, we just have to wait and our patience will finally be rewarded! …What’s that? Oh… never mind. As it turns out, LEGO apparently ran out of patience themselves, as the UCS LEGO Batman Tumbler 76023 set has now been fully revealed!
UPDATE 8/18/2014: The LEGO Batman Tumbler 76023 set is now available for order!
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LEGO announced ages ago that the fan-created LEGO Exo-Suit would be coming to the LEGO Ideas set range (though back then, we still old-timers still called it “LEGO CUUSOO”). The rumored release date for the set was August 2014, but once the calendar flipped over to July 2014 without a peep from LEGO, I got a little worried that the project’s release was going to be delayed. Thankfully, it turns out that that’s not the case at all–to celebrate the 4th of July, LEGO officially unveiled their LEGO Exo-Suit 21109 set… in spectacular, animated video form!
UPDATE 8/1/2014: The LEGO Exo-Suit set is now up for order and selling out FAST! There’s only one production run for this set, so make sure to order it ASAP if you want one. Like the LEGO Mars Curiosity Rover, this set will sell out fast!
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I was genuinely starting to wonder if LEGO was just not going to show off their final few San Diego Comic Con 2014 exclusive LEGO sets and minifigures before the SDCC 2014 Preview Night tomorrow, but with one day to go, LEGO has successfully managed to debut all of their con exclusives (though they certainly cut it a little close)! The final two show exclusives included a free promo minifigure and another limited-edition $39.99 set, and both are Batman-themed! It’s the SDCC 2014 Exclusive LEGO Batman Classic Batmobile and LEGO Batman of Zur-En-Arrh minifigure!
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Last week I made a mega-post chronicling my discovery of every one of the LEGO Star Wars Summer 2014 sets at my local LEGO Store. But, well… that wasn’t all I found, and it also wasn’t what I spent most of my money on during that trip.
With a huge smile etched on my face, I got to check out (and photograph!) the entirety of the LEGO Legends of Chima Summer 2014 sets wave…
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As we count down the few remaining days until San Diego Comic-Con 2014, the news is coming in fast and furious at exactly what the hotly-demanded LEGO SDCC 2014 exclusives are going to be! Earlier I discussed the LEGO Guardians of the Galaxy Rocket’s Warbird set and the LEGO Marvel The Collector minifigure that will be given out at the show, and now it’s time to discuss two more of the LEGO promo giveaway figures for the 2014 SDCC. They’re variants of characters you might have already, but you may want them anyway–it’s the SDCC 2014 Exclusive LEGO Unikitty and Bard Minifigures!
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Occasionally, LEGO is really good at keeping a secret (as was the case with the LEGO Star Wars MTT that turned up shockingly last week). But most of the time–most of the time–LEGO just can’t keep a secret. Rumors have been swirling about through winter and into spring regarding a new 2014 LEGO MINI Cooper set, so when yet another mysterious VIP Early Access set was announced via the LEGO Store July 2014 calendar, it didn’t take a precognitive to foretell what that set might be. But as it turns out, we didn’t have to guess for long anyway–the LEGO MINI Cooper 10242 set has now been fully revealed!
UPDATE: The LEGO Mini Cooper 10242 set is now available for order online! And yes, you get the free LEGO Mini Mini Cooper polybag with it!
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LEGO has cut it awfully close to the wire this year in announcing their San Diego Comic Con 2014 exclusives, but with less than a week to go until the show begins, the SDCC 2014 LEGO exclusive products are finally being revealed!
I discussed the SDCC 2014 LEGO Rocket Raccoon Warbird set extensively on my Marvel toys blog yesterday, and today LEGO has spilled the beans about another Comic-Con exclusive: the LEGO The Collector minifigure! (Wait, who…?)
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I’ve been obsessively hitting up at least one of my nearby LEGO Stores almost every day this month, and thankfully for my sanity, persistence has finally paid off! After being released overseas earlier this summer, the entire wave of LEGO Star Wars Summer 2014 sets has now arrived in United States stores! This wave includes some vehicles that are all-new to the LEGO Star Wars universe, as well as some long-awaited remakes of popular sets like the LEGO Mos Eisley Cantina and the new LEGO Imperial Star Destroyer!
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Some people say that the LEGO video games are getting old. Me? I never get tired of them. And something else that I never get tired of is getting cool pre-order bonuses when I buy my LEGO video games! Is it expensive and sort of annoying that LEGO keeps making spectacular exclusive pre-order items with their games? Yeah, sort of. But would I rather have these items as special incentives for buying a game than not at all? Definitely. And today the LEGO Batman 3 video game pre-order bonuses were announced–headlined by the Gamestop Exclusive LEGO Plastic Man minifigure!
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Last week I was half-pleased and half-irritated that the first of the 2014 LEGO Chima Summer Sets had arrived in the United States. While I was glad to finally see a new Chima set showing up, I was bummed it was only sighted at the LEGOLand Discovery Center Stores in Florida, California and Illinois.
But destiny was on my side this time, as my wife was on a trip this week in the Midwest and stopped at LEGOLand Chicago for me…
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