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August 2013 LEGO Promotions and Releases

July 29, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

August is upon us and there are some new LEGO promotions as well as many set releases in the beginning of the month at brick and mortar stores as well as on Shop@Home. First, you can get a FREE LEGO Friends Ice Cream Stand (30106) with and LEGO Friends purchase. This offer is valid through the month of August while supplies last.

Another promotion is you can get a FREE LEGO Galaxy Squad Mini Mech (30230) with any purchase of $50 or more. This offer is only valid from August 1-16, while supplies last.

There are also a couple of building events during the month of August. On the 1st, take your child to the LEGO store and participate in an event to build and decorate a LEGO Friends Jewelry Box. Another event is the Monthly Mini Model Build and this month is a flamingo.

As mentioned before, August marks the month for many LEGO set releases for various themes. Below are some notable sets:

LEGO Architecture Studio (21050) – 1210 pieces/$149.99

LEGO CUUSOO Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine (21103) – 401 pieces/$34.99

LEGO Technic 4×4 Crawler Exclusive Edition (41999) – 1585 pieces/$199.99

LEGO City Coast Guard Plane (60015) – 279 pieces/$44.99
LEGO City Stunt Plane (60019) – 140 pieces/$19.99
LEGO City Cargo Truck (60020) – 321 pieces/$39.99
LEGO City Cargo Heliplane (60021) – 393 pieces/$44.99
LEGO City Cargo Terminal (60022) – 658 pieces/$99.99
LEGO City Starter Set (60023) – 272 pieces/$29.99
LEGO City Grand Prix Truck (60025) – 315 pieces/$29.99
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Upcoming LEGO CUUSOO Back to the Future Set Submissions

July 22, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

During the first day of the 2013 San Diego Comic Con, I got to meet up with Masashi Togami of Team BTTF and we had a nice conversation about many things including some of his upcoming projects on LEGO CUUSOO. Masashi currently has four projects on CUUSOO at the moment including:

Before I met Masashi, I was roaming around the exhibit hall at SDCC and I got an email from him telling me that he’s been hard at work planning and putting together some new sets that he will be unveiling on LEGO CUUSOO in the upcoming months. From August to November, the team will be publishing more Back to the Future based sets to hopefully one day have them made into future LEGO sets as well. Below are the tentative set names as well as a preliminary picture of the new sets.

August 2013: “Doc’s Big Truck with radiation suits on Marty and Doc”
September 2013: “Marty’s Toyota Pick Uup”
October 2013: “Locomotive 131”
November 2013: “Griff’s Future Vehicle”

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LEGO CUUSOO Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine (21103) Misspelling

July 21, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Some of the bigger LEGO sites and some people in Europe already have gotten their hands on the latest LEGO CUUSOO set, the Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine (21103). Many have done reviews on it and noticed that the flux capacitor piece has a pretty big spelling error. Someone in quality control forgot about the “I before E, except after C” rule in the bottom sentence “SHEILD EYES FROM LIGHT” instead of “SHIELD EYES FROM LIGHT”. It looks like the the first batches of the set have this error and LEGO has acknowledged it in their Knowledge Base. The DeLorean will be available at LEGO stores and Shop@Home and LEGO is now thinking of options to resolve this issue on the flux capacitor piece.

This probably means the set I picked up that was autographed at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con may also have the spelling error which makes it more of a collector’s item. I will be picking up another set when it becomes available globally to do review and I’ll check if that batch has the error or not.

Information about the Back to the Future set Flux Capacitor misspelling.

It has come to our attention that one of the pieces in the new Back to the Future Time Machine set was printed with a spelling error on it. Text on the Flux Capacitor element reads “SHEILD EYES FROM LIGHT” instead of “SHIELD EYES FROM LIGHT”. We’re sorry for any disappointment caused by the oversight.

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LEGO San Diego Comic Con 2013 Day 1 Recap

July 18, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 3 Comments

Day 1 at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con is finally over and I haven’t been this tired in a very long time. Let me do a recap on all things LEGO related today at the Con. The biggest news there was probably the failure of the exclusive Spider-Woman minifigure giveaway. As you may have seen in my earlier post, the LEGO floor staff had to shut down the whole thing 15-20 minutes into the giveaway due to overcrowding. If you’ve been to SDCC before, once there’s any sort of overcrowding, they would be forced to shut down things like this. As a result, there are still some left over raffle tickets left over for Spider-Woman and will be given out tomorrow morning at 11:30 but this time it’s at the West Terrace. At that time, LEGO will also be giving out tickets for the Amazing Spider-Man minifigure as well. At 3:30pm, check if you have a winning ticket on LEGOraffle.com and if you do, head back to the LEGO booth to pick up your precious.

Another thing that I noticed that was a little out of control was the line for the LEGO The Hobbit Micro Scale Bag End and the LEGO Star Wars JEK-14 Mini Stealth Starfighter exclusive sets. People were lining up for the minifigure giveaway when the line was for tickets to get the two sets. This confusion led to a line that snaked a couple of times around the whole booth. There were only a limited amount of each set … Continue

LEGO CUUSOO Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine (21103) Official Images

July 15, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

LEGO CUUSOO Back to the Future Time Machine (21103)

GRogall over at Eurobricks has revealed the official images of the LEGO CUUSOO Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine (21103). The set contains 401 pieces and will retail for £34.99 and contains 2 minfigures: Marty McFly and Emmett “Doc” Brown. There has been reports that the set will be available on July 18th on Shop@Home but there are also rumors that it will not be available until August 1st. LEGO may also be selling the set early at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con as a SDCC exclusive early release for attendees. ~~We will confirm the actual release date as soon as it becomes available to the public.~~ The set will be available in limited quantities for purchase early at SDCC and will be available globally on August 1st.

**Update: 1000steine.de has an image of the back of the box which shows all three models of the DeLorean.**

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New LEGO CUUSOO Minecraft Set Details Revealed

June 29, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Neoape is revealed some juicy details of the new LEGO CUUSOO Minecraft sets. A couple of weeks ago, we reported that there going to be two expansion Minecraft sets coming out in the near future. Now we know that LEGO 21105 will be The Nether and LEGO 21106 will be The Village.

Update: Both sets are now available.

The Nether consists of flames and flowing lava throughout the area. My guess is there will be lots of orange and red pieces to represent the flames and lava. There are also zombie pigmen and ghast that spawn in the Nether so they could be some of the microfigures that could be included.

The Village consists of groups of buildings that are in the world of Minecraft. Materials that are used the create the buildings are made from wood, cobblestone, and glass. I am assuming there will be quite a few brown and grey pieces included in the set. There could be some NPC microfigures in this set as well.

As of this writing, there’s no word on pricing or piece counts for the two sets but we’ll let you know when it becomes available.

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New Images of LEGO CUUSOO Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine

June 24, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Brick News has posted new images of the LEGO CUUSOO Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine (21103). Last week, we got our first look at the DeLorean itself and there were mixed reactions of the design of the car. As you can see from the image above, you can see the box art of the set as well as the Marty McFly and Doc Brown minifigures. Marty also gets a purple skateboard. The image also shows the dashboard of the DeLorean with the time circuits set at January 28, 1958 for the destination time and October 26, 1985 for the present time. I’ve did some research and there are a couple of issues with the time circuits because there are supposed to be three dates shown with the last one being the last time departed. Another issue is that there was no destination date set as January 28, 1985 in the movies. ~~I’m not sure where LEGO got that date from but it’s not one that was used.~~ A helpful follower gave me an update on a reason why LEGO may have used that particular date. January 28, 1985 is the date that LEGO patented the design of LEGO bricks. It’s interesting that LEGO included that fact into the set even though it may confuse some people if they’re not up on their history.

Target: 10+ boys; and fans of the “Back to the Future” movie of all ages.

Storyline: Based on “back to the Future” movie (Universal Studios): With the DeLorean time machine, a

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