The SpaceX Falcon Heavy by khehmeyer is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The project is based on the rocket operation that made its maiden voyage back in February. The design has the center core along with the side boosters with a lot of features like removable boosters and engines as well as the payload. It is about 26 inches tall and has about 1,700 pieces. This is the first project to reach the Second 2018 Review Stage.
LEGO has revealed another LEGO BrickHeadz set with Minecraft Steve & Creeper (41612). This set joins a slew of other LEGO BrickHeadz sets that are set to come out in the next few months. There’s no word on piece count or pricing but I’m assuming it’ll retail for $19.99.
Earlier today at E3 2018, Arthur Parsons from TT Games did an interview on IGN to talk about the upcoming LEGO DC Super Villains Video Game. They showed off the first level of the game as well as some of the features of the Character Creator. If you’ve played LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2, it’s similar to that but the character you create will be at the center of the game in which you can acquire and use various abilities.
In addition, they also showed off the character select screen in which it reveals some playable characters including Clayface, Cheetah, Deadshot, Gorilla Grodd, Harley Quinn, Joker, Killer Frost, Lex Luthor, Mercy Graves, Reverse Flash, and Solomon Grundy. Arthur also mentioned that the Ventriloquist will be playable as well.
There’s also the open hub world which will include Gotham, Metropolis, Arkham, Smallville, and Apokolips.
Lastly, the voice cast is said to be the very best voice cast ever to be in a LEGO game. Arthur does mention that “the Batman is the Batman” and “the Joker is the Joker.” Does this mean that Mark Hamill will be voicing the Joker again and Kevin Conroy as Batman? In another gameplay clip of the Joker and Harley Quinn, there is some dialog and it really sounds like Mark Hamill’s Joker.
Hopefully there will be a panel at San Diego Comic Con next month for even more reveals and special guests.
LEGO has revealed three more LEGO BrickHeadz sets from the Star Wars theme. Like with the other two packs, the Luke & Yoda set will be priced at $19.99 while the single characters will be $9.99 each.
On this day 25 years ago, my favorite movie of all-time, Jurassic Park, was released in theaters and earlier today, LEGO released an image to celebrate the anniversary. The scene shows the end of the movie where the Tyrannosaurus Rex is inside the Visitor’s Center with the banner falling down.
If you look closely, you can actually see part of the Visitor’s Center in the background and could this be a teaser to the rumored LEGO Jurassic Park Visitor’s Center set? If you’ve been following my posts, I’ve talked about it on and off but there’s still no definite confirmation about it. One of my contacts says there is one coming but I cannot confirm it at this time. As we know by now, there’s already a 25th anniversary LEGO Jurassic Park set that has been released with the Jurassic Park Velociraptor Chase (75932).
May was a very busy month in regards to LEGO news and here’s a recap of some of the more notable articles from the month. Again, it might be a longer post than other months.
LEGO City Summer 2018 Capital (60200) Revealed – One of the largest LEGO City sets for the summer 2018 wave is the Capital (60200) which is similar in scale to the Town Square and City Square sets from previous years.
The next LEGO video game was announced last week to be LEGO DC Super-Villains coming in October. WB Games and TT Games will be at E3 next week to start promoting it and hopefully will continue at San Diego Comic Con.
There’s already some new information about it in terms of new characters that we can expect to see. Greg Miller from Kinda Funny has been a genuine fan of LEGO video games for a while now and if you’ve been going to the SDCC panels for previous LEGO games, you can actually see the enthusiasm he has for these games. He has actually done some voice work for some of the previous LEGO games including Aldrich Killian for LEGO Marvel’s Avengers and Howard the Duck for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2.
When a fan was asking him if he was going to be in this latest installment, he replied with a simple “I am in the game!” This confirms that he’ll again have some sort of role but we can only guess as to who he’ll portray. Greg if you read this, can we get a reveal at SDCC?