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Over on Instagram, LEGO has posted some mystery reveal coming on November 1st. The silhouette shows some sort of truck looking build and the caption says, “A new holiday icon built by kids. See it come alive November 1st.” We’re not sure if LEGO is just showcasing a custom build or if it’s actually a reveal that we can purchase later on. If it was my guess, I would say the former. We’ll know this coming Tuesday on what this is.
The Zoo by kodlovag is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The zoo has arctic and jungle scenes with animals used from various City sets.
The project joins Ancient Roman Temple, This is Fine, Castle Dracula, Pac-Man Moving Display, The Lost City, Japanese Courtyard Garden 坪庭, The Travel Suitcase, Pixar’s Up House With Balloons, BotW Temple of Time, Wright Flyer, Classic Thunderbirds, JWST, Golden Clifftop Temple, Cipher Machine, Sewer Heroes: Fighting the Fatberg, London Underground, The Architect’s House, Community, The Neverending Story (40th Anniversary), and The Old Western Train Station as the ones to reach the Third 2022 Review Stage.
November is just around the corner and it looks to be a fairly slow month with the LEGO releases. As of this post, we only know about the LEGO Ideas Table Football (21337) and the LEGO Marvel Hulkbuster (76210) which will be dropping November 1 and 4, respectively. There is a rumor about a LEGO Icons Eiffel Tower (10307) that will be releasing during the Black Friday event but that hasn’t been confirmed yet.
As of the the gift with purchases you can get during November, those are still under wraps since LEGO doesn’t promote them anymore until the month is actually here. There are rumors of three promotions throughout the month but two of them are said to be during Black Friday/VIP weekend. One is Gustave Eiffel’s Apartment (40579) which is given with purchases of the Eiffel Tower.
Another GWP during Black Friday/VIP weekend is a Tribute to the LEGO House (40563). It is reported that it is a minimum purchase amount GWP. Lastly, there some sort of Winter set with set number 40564. Details are very minimal on this one.
Of course, we also get Double VIP points as LEGO has been doing that during Black Friday/VIP weekend for many years now. A lot of people usually wait until then to make their purchases in November since there are a few promos that overlap during that time.
Amazon currently has the LEGO City Wildlife Rescue Operation (60302) on sale which can add up to it being 30% off. Right now you can save 24% but if you add the $5.01 coupon underneath the price, the set will end up being only $62.99. Unless there’s any bigger promotions, this will be the max discount you will probably see on it and it’ll be a more reasonable price considering the the larger parts that are in the set.
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LEGO has revealed the next generation of LEGO Friends with a soft reboot of the theme coming in 2023. LEGO is also introducing eight new diverse characters who are relatable and representative of the real world. This includes characters that are inclusive of gender, culture, ethnicity, physical traits and abilities, non-visible disabilities and neurodivergence.
There will be a new LEGO Friends series coming in February 2023 with some new sets coming in January 1, 2023.
… ContinueFriendship re-imagined: The LEGO Group reveals a new generation of LEGO® Friends
• 3 out of 4 children feel that there aren’t enough toys that represent them*
• The re-imagined LEGO® Friends characters are more representative of the world that today’s kids navigate, inclusive of gender, culture, ethnicity, physical traits and abilities, non-visible disabilities and neurodivergence
• The storylines explore the ups and downs of friendship, while the characters overcome challenges, obstacles, and differences in today’s modern world
Billund, Denmark – A decade on from the launch of LEGO® Friends, the LEGO Group has re-imagined the Friends Universe, with the introduction of new diverse characters, to enable more children to feel represented during play. This next generation is designed to celebrate diverse friendships in the modern world.
Because the LEGO Group values children as its role models, this next generation of LEGO Friends has implemented input from kid testing, research and feedback from
LEGO has teased a new LEGO Friends reveal coming soon in a YouTube Shorts that was published a few hours ago. From the silhouette, it looks to be eight characters that will be revealed. Whether they are the original girls or brand new characters remain to be seen. As reported back at LEGO Con 2022, LEGO Friends Heartlake Stories will be ending by the end of the year and that would be the last adventure the girls embark on so it may suggest that the mystery characters could be new ones.
The LEGO MINDSTORMS theme has been a staple for the company since the theme was first introduced in 1998 but it looks like the theme will be ending at the end of 2022. With LEGO Education and other Build & Code experiences in place, they are shifting priorities and the LEGO MINDSTORMS team will be redirected into other departments.
This means all MINDSTORMS related items will be retired by the end of the year but the MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor App will be live until at least the end of 2024. LEGO will still keep the MINDSTORMS trademark and is accessing the opportunity to implement it with LEGO Education.
… ContinueSince its launch in September 1998, LEGO MINDSTORMS has been one of the core ‘Build & Code’ experiences in the company’s portfolio, carrying with it significant brand equity and becoming a stand-out experience for the early days of consumer robotics and leading to current wBuild & Code experiences such as SPIKE Prime, from LEGO Education’s LEGO Learning System.
However, now having a number of priorities in LEGO Education and other Build & Code experiences, we have decided to focus our resources and future plans by redirecting our MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor team and their expertise into different areas of the business.
This means the physical MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor product (51515) and its related elements (88016 and 88018) are to exit our portfolio from the end of 2022, whilst digital platforms – such as the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor App – will remain live until at least the end of
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