Month: April 2015 (Page 12 of 13)

LEGO Legends of Chima Online Shutting Down June 1

April 6, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

For those who are still playing LEGO Legends of Chima Online, you have about two months left to play it as the game will be shut down on June 1, 2015 for both online and on iOS.

LEGO Legends of Chima Online was released in 2013 when the theme was in its prime but as we know by now, the popular theme will be finished with the final wave this summer. I’m not sure how popular the game was but it seems that people were still enjoying it on the message boards. Below is the official announcement of the closing of LEGO Legends of Chima Online.

We are sorry to tell you that the game will no longer be accessible starting June 1, 2015 at 9:00am EST both online and through our iOS app. On this date, you will no longer be able to play the game or spend any remaining Gold Bricks. Please be aware that if you have any remaining Gold Bricks, you must use them before the game goes offline on June 1, 2015 at 9:00am EST.

We hope you had a great time exploring the world of CHIMA Online.

Thank you,
The Game Team

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LEGO Speed Champions Mech MOC

April 5, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 3 Comments

A couple of days ago, I came across this cool MOC by Geng Lei loosely translated as Flying Tigers. This MOC consists of a couple of the new LEGO Speed Champions sets as well as from the LEGO City Monster Truck Transporter (60027).

The MOC gives off a Voltron Vehicle Force look to it combined with a Transformers feel. The skeleton of the mech is created from some LEGO Hero Factory parts while the exoskeleton is created with the various vehicles including the McLaren P1, Porsche 918 Spyder, and two Porsche 911s.

As a fan of both Voltron/Transformers and the LEGO Speed Champions theme, this MOC to me is very well done and it gives off that coolness factor.

Update: Chris has informed me that the MOC looks more like Menasor which is pretty true.

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2015 Second Quarter LEGO Store Build-A-Minifigure Bar Elements

April 4, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

While I was at the LEGO Store yesterday taking pictures of the new Pick-A-Model sets on the Pick-A-Brick wall, I also got a chance to take a look at the Build-A-Minifigure bar as well. Like with the PAB Wall, the Minifigure bar was also changed out on the first of the month with some elements that haven’t been there, at least to my knowledge. There might have been some parts I missed while I was there so I may update the images when I go to the Mini Model Building event on Tuesday.

For the torsos, I like the inclusion of the Space minifigure floating and the airport crew ones.

For the legs, I feel like I missed a couple but below are the ones I found.

There are a bunch of great accessories that are in this quarter including the pretty rare brown cat and the seagull which only came with the Sea Captain from the Series 10 Collectible Minifigures. The armor piece is also pretty rare because it only came with the Heroic Knight from Series 9. The 2×2 tile pieces are pretty neat which are from the Galaxy Squad theme. I think I’ve also seen the gray katanas for this quarter but I wasn’t able to find them.

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LEGO Ideas International Space Station Achieves 10,000 Supporters

April 3, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The International Space Station by XCLD is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. A day ago, it was 2100 supporters away from 10k but with the help of Reddit, it hit the milestone a short time ago. This was one of the projects that had less than a month before it would have been archived.

In its current configuration, the set comes with 2 Soyuz and 2 Progress capsules as well as astronaut and cosmonaut minifigures. There are also a lot of play features that you can read more on at the project link above. XCLD has provided alternate sizes of the ISS in case LEGO thinks the original XL project is too large.

LEGO Ideas projects that were grandfathered in from LEGO CUUSOO now have only 26 days to get the remaining number of supporters before they will be archived. You can check out those projects here. The International Space Station now joins The Discworld, Science Adventures, Medieval Market Street, Disney Princess Frozen Elsa’s Ice Palace, Douglas DC-3, and Bricksauria – Tyrannosaurus Rex in a jam packed First 2015 Review Stage.

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LEGO Weekend Sale on Steam & Humble Bundle

April 3, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Steam is having a LEGO Weekend Sale on a lot of LEGO video games. The sale is a minimum of 66% off the normal retail price up to 75% on a few of them. The same games are also available on Humble Bundle at the same prices. The only difference is that you can also support charity with your purchase on Humble Bundle. If you haven’t played any of them, now is a great time to pick them up with the sales that are going on. Thanks to Genevieve for the heads up.

LEGO Batman – $4.99 – 75% off
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 – $4.99 – 75% off
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 – $4.99 – 75% off
LEGO Batman 3 DC Super Heroes – $4.99 – 75% off
LEGO The Lord of the Rings – $4.99 – 75% off
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes – $4.99 – 75% off
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes DLC: Super Pack – $1.24 – 75% off
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes DLC: Asgard Pack – $0.49 – 75% off
The LEGO Movie – Videogame – $4.99 – 75% off
LEGO The Hobbit – $4.99 – 75% off
LEGO The Hobbit – The Big Little Character Pack – $0.49 – 75% off
LEGO The Hobbit – Side Quest Character Pack – $0.49 – 75% off
LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham – $10.19 – 66% off
LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham DLC Season Pass – $5.09 – 66% off
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LEGO Stores Introduce Pick-A-Model Sets to Pick-A-Brick Wall

April 3, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 26 Comments

On April 1st, LEGO Brand Stores made a major change to the Pick-A-Brick Wall. Gone are the elements that go well with certain LEGO themes. Now we have a new Pick-A-Model section that’s been added to the wall. Each quarter, there are two different models that you can create for $4.99 per model. Each model comes with their own LEGO elements that you can get from the wall. The clamshell packaging comes with a diagram that shows all the elements you need to build the model.

There are a couple of downside of the new Pick-A-Brick Wall. One thing is that you will have 12 less elements from choose from because of the space taken up by the Pick-A-Brick cups and display as well as the Pick-A-Model clamshell holders and display.

Also, the new elements are intentded for the Pick-A-Model builds so if you’re thinking of filling a whole cup full of a certain new part, think again. I’ve heard that LEGO Store employees will be strictly enforcing this policy so you can’t get a whole cup of a certain element as you could before the changes were made. You can still add the Pick-A-Model elements to a regular Pick-A-Brick cup but just don’t overdo it.

For the second quarter, the LEGO Pick-A-Models that you can choose from are two giraffes or a biplane. The giraffes contain 36 pieces and the biplane has 24 pieces. Check out the images below to see some LEGO elements you can get this quarter.

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Rumors of New LEGO Star Wars Death Star Set in 2016

April 2, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

While I was catching up on Eurobricks, I found something interesting on the LEGO Star Wars board by Just2Good. I’m not totally sure if it was an April Fool’s joke but he stated that there will be a new Death Star set coming out in 2016 which will replace the current 10188 set. It does sound pretty fake because there is one that is still currently being sold on Shop@Home. What if this piece of news was actually real and J2G fooled everyone by posting so close to April Fool’s Day to make it seem like a joke.

There are some things that makes a new Death Star set plausible. First, the current set will be turning 7 years old in a few months and the minifigures are pretty outdated by today’s standards. They are still great minifigures but they could use an update, preferably with some different characters. There’s no other set that’s been sold as long as the 10188 set has been selling. There’s also another rumor that the current Death Star will be retired by the end of the year so a new one to replace the old one as a flagship set seems reasonable. I’ve also heard from a pretty reliable source stating that the Death Star will be gone by the end of 2015 as well.

Again, a new Death Star for 2016 set sounds far-fetched but not out of the realm of possibility. Is Just2Good telling the truth or is this a ruse? From what I’ve seen so … Continue