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The LEGO BrickHeadz Ahsoka Tano (40539), LEGO Star Wars Clone Trooper Command Station (40558), and Snowtrooper Battle Pack (75320) are now available for purchase on the LEGO Shop. After a short delay, they are finally available in North America. Ahsoka is the 150th BrickHeadz to be released and I’m guessing it’ll be a pretty popular one.
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I didn’t think that I would get to this point but The Brick Fan celebrates ten years of being on the Internet. A decade ago, the domain was registered and I still remember where I was when I registered it. Longtime readers may remember that the site went by another name but due to a trademark violation of the original site name, I had to change it and I think it stuck pretty well, don’t you think?
The Brick Fan was born a few months after my return from the “Dark Ages” and I wanted to document LEGO sets that I bought back then. My first set that I got was the LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon (7965) which I still have built to this day. It went from me just taking pictures of various sets as a general hobby to going full time on it and reporting on LEGO news is what catapulted to what it is today.
Of course, it wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t for the readers who continue to support the site. I remember trying to get my name out there and to get 50 pageviews a day was an accomplishment to me. Then came 100 pageviews a day, then 1,000. After a year and a half, we finally got to 10,000 a day. Early last year, we managed to hit 100 million total views which is still a staggering number that I never thought it could reach.
I’m also surprised that I kept on grinding for this long. To think … Continue
LEGO has officially revealed the next LEGO Ideas set to be released with The Globe (21332). Releasing on February 1, the 2,585 piece set will retail for $199.99/€199.99/£174.99/319.99 AUD/269.99 CAD.
Coming from the approved LEGO Ideas project by Guillaume Roussel (Disneybrick555), the set features a realistic globe with printed tiles that glow in the dark and for the first time for a LEGO globe at this size, it is able to spin freely just like the real thing.
… ContinueMake your way around the world with the newest LEGO® Ideas The Globe set
Billund, Denmark, 18 January, 2022: Explorers, get set for adventure! The LEGO Group has revealed the LEGO® Ideas The Globe, sure to spark fans’ imaginations of traveling around the world, exploring new places and building new memories.
The 2585-piece set beautifully shows a realistic, customizable vintage brick-built earth globe, with printed names of the continents and oceans that glow in the dark so you can display and see the world at every moment. In addition, once built the set spins, a first for a LEGO globe at this scale.
The set was designed as part of the LEGO Ideas® platform, a LEGO initiative that takes new ideas that have been imagined and voted for by fans and turns them into reality. France-based LEGO fan, Guillaume Roussel, was responsible for creating the concept for the LEGO Ideas The Globe – having been inspired by the tales of Jules Verne. Talking about how he approached the design, Guillaume said: “When approaching the design, I asked
The LEGO City Main Square (60271) is currently on sale on Amazon for 23% off the regular price. It is now priced at $154.41 which saves you $45.58 and that drops the price/piece ratio to $0.10/piece. The set has been out since 2020 and this is one of the better deals for and the second lowest price it has been at.
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The LEGO Toilet by NickLafreniere1 is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 550 piece build teaches you about the inner workings of a toilet which uses Technic pieces. It even comes with an information plaque with a mini toilet as well.
The project now joins The Forestmen Secret Inn, The Legendary Concorde, Wild West Mine, and LEGO Koala as the ones to reach the First 2022 Review Stage.
The LEGO Koala by legotruman is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build an adult koala mom along with a baby koala, both of which are poseable.
The project now joins The Forestmen Secret Inn, The Legendary Concorde, and Wild West Mine as the ones to reach the First 2022 Review Stage.
LEGO has released the designer video for the new LEGO Ideas Sonic the Hedgehog Green Hill Zone (21331). Design Manager Sam Johnson and Graphic Designer Lauren King talks about some of the many details that are in the set. One of these details is the scoreboard sticker which has some special numbers representing something unique to the fan designer Viv and the two LEGO designers. Also Dr. Eggman required LEGO to invest in new machinery to be able to rotate the element 45 degrees. There’s a lot more details that Sam and Lauren touch on so check it out in the video below.
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