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Our local friends at Disguise, Inc. has announced a multi-year renewal of global rights for their LEGO costume line. The company has made LEGO themed costumes and accessories since 2015 and have recently expanded into costumes for adults. They have made costumes for a number of LEGO themes includes Ninjago, Nexo Knights, and The LEGO Batman Movie, just to name a few.

POWAY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Disguise, Inc., a leading global costume company today announced a multi-year renewal of global rights for their LEGO® costume line. Disguise will continue to design, market, manufacture and distribute costumes and costume accessories for the LEGO Group across the world. The Disguise and LEGO partnership first started in 2015 and helped Disguise launch its costume footprint around the world with high-quality products designed specifically for a premium brand such as the LEGO brand.

“The LEGO brand is a massive global brand that continues to lead and innovate in the toy world and has shown unprecedented growth, and we are pleased to continue our costume range with them. We have enjoyed working with the LEGO team over the years through many innovative iterations and interpretations of classic minifigure characters, the LEGO brick, their hit series Ninjago and several of their lines that fall under the LEGO umbrella,” said Tara Hefter, President and GM of Disguise, Inc. “Disguise matches the level of quality and innovation that the LEGO brand maintains in all their products. This is proven out year after year in stores and online through the solid retail performance of this Disguise line.

The Toy Association 2021 Toy of the Year Awards have been announced today and LEGO has been declared the winner in a few categories. LEGO was nominated in seven different categories and they have won in the following:

Construction Toy of the Year

• LEGO Star Wars The Razor Crest (75292)

Playset of the Year

• LEGO Super Mario Bowser’s Castle Boss Battle Expansion Set (71369)

Specialty Toy of the Year

• LEGO Ideas Grand Piano (21323)

Collectible of the Year

• LEGO Super Mario Character Packs (71361)

It’s January 18 and that means that The Brick Fan turns nine years old today. For those who have recently found the site, it went by another name when I first started out but had to change it to The Brick Fan and January 18 was the day that domain went live. I’m even surprised that I kept up with it throughout these years which actually doesn’t seem that long. I still remember the day that I got my first LEGO set after my Dark Age and wanted to do something fun with it. And boom, here we are. FYI, it was the LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon (7965).

Last year, it was a terrible year for the world but a lot of you had time to be online more and it marked the best year we had on the site in terms of pageviews and first time visitors. For 2021, we are currently on pace to be even better than last year which is very remark considering we’re only just barely past the halfway point of the first month. I just also realized that we’ve just past 100 million pageviews, a goal that I never imagined hitting!

Again, thank you to everyone who takes time out of your busy day to read something on this side of the internet. It really means a lot that you guys continue to read what I put out there. Even though we’re not the best LEGO news site, we are part of a collective of Recognized LEGO Fan … Continue