LEGO News, LEGO Reviews, and Discussions
A few days ago, LEGO revealed the LEGO BrickHeadz Fortnite Brite Bomber (40728) and we now have details on how to get it. It will be available for Insider Early Access October 1-3, general public October 4-7 with a general purchase of $90 or more, while supplies last. The 151 piece set features Brite Bomber in BrickHeadz form.
An interesting email came in today from LEGO where they are introducing a new buyback program called LEGO Brick Take Back. LEGO is basically buying back your preowned LEGO bricks and you can trade it in for LEGO e-Gift Cards.
It seems that LEGO is buy bulk back and they are offering $6 per pound (USD) for conforming bricks which include LEGO bricks and elements that are fully disassembled and in good condition, LEGO Minifigures and Mini-dolls (no need to disassemble), and LEGO Baseplates. Your parts are then checked to meet eligibility criteria and their goal is to keep as many bricks in play as possible. It looks like this is a test run to see the best way to accomplish their agenda.
The Discworld Unseen University Library by BrickMorpork is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build features the Unseen University Library from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld with the assistant librarian Rincewind, the librarian who is the orangutan, the Luggage, and a bust of Pratchett.
The project joins Cliffside House, Gravity Falls – The Mystery Shack, Round House Ski Lodge, Italian Villa, Summit Station, Betta Splendens, The Moon: Lunar Landscape, Overpass Park, and Motorized Howl’s Moving Castle as the ones to reach the Third 2024 Review Stage.
The LEGO Shop has confirmed that the upcoming LEGO Creator Halloween Pumpkin (40697) will be a gift with purchase set. It has 254 pieces and it features a pumpkin with two different faces along with a floating ghost on the side. Inside the pumpkin is a light brick that you can illuminate the pumpkin just like a real one. There’s no information yet on the price requirements to get it but it should be available some time in October.
LEGO has revealed a new LEGO Fortnite gift with purchase set with the LEGO BrickHeadz Brite Bomber (40728). It has 151 pieces and features Brite Bomber in BrickHeadz form. There’s no details yet on release date or price requirements but I assume it’ll be at the beginning of October when you purchase the LEGO Fortnite sets.
LEGO Fan Media Days is currently going on right now in Billund and one piece of news that has come out of it is that LEGO Ideas will be bumping up the parts count for fans to create larger projects. According to Brickset, the maximum parts count will be upped to 5,000 pieces which allows fans to make larger and more detailed projects but will also potentially make them more expensive. There’s no word yet on when it will be implemented. The current parts count, while still a lot, is at 3,000 although LEGO has made exceptions on a few sets that have went over that limit. What are your thoughts on this big change to LEGO Ideas?
Amazon is ramping up their LEGO sales as they have now discounted the LEGO Icons Atari 2600 (10306) by 33%. This drops the price of the set down to $159.99 which saves you $80 on it. I believe this is the lowest the set has been at and is even cheaper than the sale on the LEGO Shop. The set is reportedly set to retire at the end of the year.
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