Just when I thought that I had discussed all of the sets coming in the revived LEGO Arctic Summer 2014 theme, LEGO has to go and muck everything up by showing off an unexpected all-new set! Way back in February I wrote my LEGO City Arctic Summer 2014 sets preview (before LEGO even officially debuted the sets at New York Toy Fair 2014), but apparently LEGO was holding out on us with one more set. Coming as a retail exclusive this summer–LEGO Arctic Ice Breaker 60062!
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This past week has been a huge one for LEGO Star Wars fans, as we’ve seen a plethora of sales and exclusives, and the humongous new LEGO Sandcrawler released in the past seven days. But not everything that’s occurred in the Star Wars LEGO world this week has been big–in fact, one highly-anticipated set that’s finally arrived is really quite small! Making its way into the mini vehicle polybags for the very first time, the LEGO Star Wars Anakin’s Jedi Interceptor polybag set has now been released in stores!
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In case you were stranded on an abandoned island over the weekend, you may not have heard about the beloved holiday that took place over the weekend: LEGO Star Wars May the 4th 2014!
As has become tradition, the LEGO Stores celebrated with an exclusive minifigure, some lackluster sales (and a couple good deals that sold out instantly), and the release of the biggest LEGO Star Wars set of the year: the LEGO Jawa Sandcrawler 75059!
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April really flew by, and now May is upon us! And that can mean just one thing (well, it means a variety of things, but…): the LEGO Store June 2014 Calendar is now available! Given all the thrills and excitement surrounding the May 2014 LEGO Store Calendar, you might think that June 2014 would be a letdown. However, that’s not so!
The LEGO Stores have a terrific free polybag promo lined up for us next month, as well as a variety of LEGO Summer 2014 sets being released… including a certain Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!!!
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Back in the good old days, LEGO used to make things easy for LEGO Minifigures Series collectors with reliable bump codes on each LEGO Minifigure blind bag, allowing the contents to be “easily” discerned by LEGO collectors.
LEGO has strayed a little bit away from that practice over the years, but bump codes are alive and well for the Simpsons LEGO Minifigures Series! If you don’t want to be “that person” in the toy aisle frantically feeling up blind bags, give this list of LEGO Simpsons codes a try to see if it can help you identify exactly the minifigures that you’re looking for instantly…
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I talked about the biggest superstar sets coming from the summer LEGO Legends of Chima wave after I saw them at New York Toy Fair 2014, but that’s not to say there aren’t other LEGO Chima Summer 2014 sets worth highlighting! One such set gives the spotlight to the new Chima Saber-tooth Tribe, in the form of their first major vehicle–coming in August 2014, it’s the LEGO Chima Sir Fangar’s Saber-tooth Walker 70143!
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Yesterday I took a look at the Summer 2014 LEGO City High-Speed Passenger Train set, which will win over many train aficionados with its sleekness and modern appearance. But what about those who like their model trains to look a little bit less contemporary and a little more classical…? Fear not, old-time LEGO train fans! The High Speed Passenger Train 60051 isn’t the only LEGO train we’ll be getting this summer–the LEGO City Cargo Train 60052 will be pulling into the station in just a few months as well!
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This afternoon I babbled on at length about the upcoming LEGO Ninjago Battle for Ninjago City set and how I much prefer fantasy playsets in the Ninjago theme to the technological vehicle sets. Well, now I’m back to discuss the other LEGO Ninjago Summer 2014 set–a technological vehicle set! Coming to stores in just a few weeks, it’s the last one of this year’s LEGO Ninjago sets–the LEGO Ninjago X-1 Ninja Charger 70727!
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If there’s one thing that LEGO fans will never, never get tired of, it’s LEGO trains sets! LEGO could probably just produced a slightly-tweaked and only somewhat-new LEGO train set every year for the rest of time and the LEGO train sets would still sell like wildfire, so it’s no surprise that LEGO is capitalizing on demand for new trains with the all-new LEGO City High-Speed Passenger Train 60051 set this summer 2014! The set isn’t cheap, but it sure looks like fun…
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As a nearly-unlimited number of LEGO sets are released each year and I only have limited space and limited funds to buy them with, some compromise is necessary. As such, I generally stick to collecting licensed LEGO sets and specific LEGO action themes I like the most (like LEGO Ninjago and LEGO Chima). But sometimes the LEGO City theme knows just how to draw me in, and it’s with slice-of-life, everday sets that are just so mundane and commonplace that everyone can relate to them (even me).
One such set is coming as part of the LEGO City Summer 2014 sets–LEGO Train Station 60050!
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LEGO Ninjago made its fateful and much-anticipated return at the tail-end of 2013 with the LEGO Ninjago Rebooted theme. Six months later, LEGO is readying the second wave of the revived theme for release with the LEGO Ninjago Summer 2014 sets! While there are only two known sets scheduled, one of them is monstrously huge and sure to be atop most boys’ birthday and Christmas lists in 2014–it’s the LEGO Battle for Ninjago City 70727 2014 summer set!
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Ever since the first LEGO Minecraft Micro-World set was released back in 2012, Minecraft fans have been demanding Minecraft LEGO sets in the standard LEGO Minifigures style.
LEGO has heard fans loud and clear, and thanks to yet another leaked retailer list, it appears the first six minifigure-scale LEGO Minecraft sets will be arriving later in 2014…
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Yesterday I talked about two of the three new LEGO Mixels Series 2 tribes–the Blue Frosticons and the Orange Flexers–and now it’s time to talk about the third and final new Series 2 tribe of Mixels–the Brown Fang Gang!
Each of the LEGO Mixel tribes we’ve seen so far has a unifying theme between its characters, and the Mixels Fang Gang does too. As it turns out, the brown Mixels all live on a farm together, and their defining characteristic is that they like to eat lots and lots of food…
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LEGO Mixels have come out of nowhere to become a real sales sensation among kids and AFOLs, and fans can’t wait for the 2014 Summer LEGO Mixels Series 2 figures to arrive! Earlier tonight I talked about my favorite of the new three Mixels tribes to be introduced–the blue Mixels Frosticons tribe, but that’s not to say there’s not some other cool creatures lined up for Mixels Series 2!
Coming June 2014–the LEGO Mixels Series 2 Orange Flexers figures!
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