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New LEGO Sets and Minifigures Releasing this September 1st

It’s September, and that means the year 2021 is on its final quarter stretch. For LEGO this means a big wave of product releases serving as a teaser for the coming holidays. Multiple new LEGO sets take center stage in this release bonanza. Licensed LEGO themes such as Marvel, Star Wars, Jurassic World, and Harry Potter all have new sets to offer this month. Let’s take a look at these new arrivals, all currently listed over at LEGO Shop@Home. To add them to your LEGO carts, you may click on their respective affiliate links below.

LEGO Jurassic World

They have the lion’s share of new sets at four. They are:

T-Rex Dinosaur Fossil Exhibition (76940)

198 pieces | $29.99

Stygimoloch Dinosaur Escape (76939)

129 pieces | $39.99

Carnotaurus Dinosaur Chase (76941)

240 pieces | $49.99

Baryonyx Dinosaur Boat Escape (76942)

308 pieces | $79.99

LEGO Stars Wars

The Armorer’s Mandalorian Forge (75319)

258 pieces | $29.99

LEGO Marvel

It’s only minifigures. But watch the MCU series and animated anthology “What If?”, currently airing on Disney+, then you’ll recognize them all:

LEGO Marvel Studios Collectible Minifigures (71031)

Advent Calendars

Here we find sets for LEGO Friends and LEGO City. They come out alongside the above-mentioned themes, plus “Harry Potter” too. Let’s see:

LEGO Friends 2021 Advent Calendar (41690)

370 pieces | $29.99

LEGO City 2021 Advent Calendar (60303)

349 pieces | $29.99

LEGO Star Wars 2021 Advent Calendar (75307)

335 pieces | $39.99

LEGO Marvel The Avengers 2021 Advent Calendar (76196)

295 pieces | $39.99

LEGO Harry Potter 2021 Advent Calendar (76390)

274 pieces | $39.99

That’s done. What are you waiting for? Go get ‘em now.

LEGO Officially Reveals Selected LEGO City and Creator Set Variants

Last week, we reported on a subtle addition to the functionality of the LEGO Shop@Home webpage interface. A color selection option was implemented on two of its products: the LEGO Creator sets Expert Fiat 500 (10271) and 3-in-1 Mighty Dinosaurs (31058). This hinted that these two sets, and perhaps many others, could have set variants produced.

At the time of that report, the color options for the above-mentioned LEGO Creator sets were only their originals. Nearly a week later, LEGO itself has made an official announcement of this feature. Along with that comes the reveal of the first alternative colors.

The LEGO Group finally shed light on the variant color option for selected sets on its home shopping portal, describing it as a limited-time pilot project. Here’s their official statement:

The LEGO Group is running a pilot with a small number of products to gain a deeper understanding of what our fans want from our portfolio and where they prefer to shop for new or unique products.

The pilot includes variations of some of our existing products, so we can find out more about the colors and sizes of sets that fans of all ages want to see more of in our portfolio.

It certainly sounds like good news, and if you’re wondering about the catch then here it is. Most of these set color variants will be available only in the UK and Ireland. This is via their regional LEGO Shop@Home, physical stores, and third-party retailers. The variations on selected LEGO sets will only be available in these areas until November 30, or while supplies last. The LEGO Creator Expert Fiat 500 recolor is the sole exception. LEGO Shop@Home UK can ship this one internationally.

So far, LEGO has marked four sets for variants. The first two are, as already stated, the aforementioned LEGO Creator sets. LEGO Creator Expert Fiat 500 (10271) has an additional blue color scheme renumbered as set 77942 in addition to its original yellow.

The LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Mighty Dinosaurs (31058), aside from green, now has brown (77940) and blue (77941) recolored versions.

The other two sets with variants are from LEGO City, but as re-scales of an earlier retired set the LEGO City Fire Station (60110) from 2016, and not exactly recolors. These are the LEGO City Fire Station Starter (77943) and the larger LEGO City Fire Station Headquarters (77944).

Here’s hoping the pilot test for this thing in the UK takes off. Maybe then LEGO will make these set variants available internationally, and with more to follow.

LEGO Batmobile Tumbler Returns in Two New Sets (76240, 76239)

Released by Warner Bros. from 2005 to 2012, the “Dark Knight Trilogy” Batman movies have been counted as one of the best trilogies produced. Thanks to a Warner-LEGO partnership that created “The LEGO Movie” in 2014, the DKT also received lots of brick-set love. That same year saw the LEGO DC line roll out the “Dark Knight” Batmobile, aka the Tumbler (76023). It was a beautiful black beast of a hero-vehicle with Batman and Joker minifigures included. It may be retired now, but LEGO remembers a hit design. That might explain the reason behind these two new offerings for the iconic LEGO Batmobile Tumbler.

Brickset dug up info on these sets from Japan, of all places. One version, listed on Amazon Japan, appears to be a revamp of the 2014 LEGO DC Tumbler (76023). Its new number is 76240, with 2,049 pieces to the former’s 1,869. Looks-wise, it seems to be a bit more detailed than set 76023. It even comes with a rotating stand for static display. The included Batman and Joker minifigs also sport new looks and a more gothic-themed display ledge.

Next, let’s look at another brick version of the Tumbler that popped up on Japanese retail chain Yodobashi’s website. The LEGO Batmobile Tumbler: Scarecrow Showdown (76239) clocks in at 422 pieces and is a much simpler version of set 76240. The set comes with forward-firing stud-shooters and what seems to be a new minifigure version of the villainous Scarecrow.

Amazon Japan’s listing of the larger LEGO Batmobile Tumbler (76240) will go on sale on November 1 and is priced at 25,330 Yen ($230). Yodobashi’s listing for the LEGO Batmobile Tumbler: Scarecrow Showdown (76239) on the other hand will arrive earlier on October 1. They’re pricing their set at just 6,000 Yen or $55. Of course, it’s likely LEGO Shop@Home and other retailers around the world will have begun listing these two by then. We’ll see if these estimated dollar conversions of the Japanese retail prices are spot on. We’ll also give you further updates once these new LEGO Batmobile Tumbler sets are listed at LEGO’s home shopping portals.

New LEGO Ideas Activity Challenge: “The Love of Gaming!”

LEGO Ideas has long encouraged builders to send their best creations in hopes of seeing them become official sets. But it’s not really always serious business in their platform. The members get to have fun too, thanks to LEGO Ideas Activities. In these activities, the Ideas website issues challenges for member-builders to make. Selected winners get no prizes beyond seeing their builds featured and shown off in the Ideas page. There’s usually a lot of ongoing Ideas Activities, but this latest one is quite interesting. This new challenge is for the LEGO builder who is also a certified videogame fan.

Brick Fanatics has it that LEGO Ideas’ new Activity challenge was put up as of August 30. The theme for this activity is “The Love of Gaming!” Apparently this comes ahead of September 12, the usually agreed-upon date for National Video Games Day in the US. The theme sounds like a doozy for LEGO builder-slash-gamers, right? Not so fast, though. Interested Ideas members better read the rules first. What’s this? We can’t depict licensed IPs in the build? But what about LEGO Super Mario? Or LEGO Overwatch? LEGO Minecraft, perhaps? Doesn’t this rule defeat the point of the Activity theme?

Not at all; it ties in with the positive message of National Video Games Day. It’s not about what we love to play, but the love of playing videogames itself. So the sample items LEGO Ideas gives for the challenge make sense: a game controller, a console, maybe a classic arcade cab? If you’ve frequented The Brick Show Shop, you know what we and the Ideas crew are getting at.

This LEGO Ideas Activity will run until Tuesday next week, September 7, 2021 at 4AM EST. As of the writing of this piece, there have been no entries yet in “The Love of Gaming!” challenge. But it shouldn’t be long before we see something there. These neat images from an Ideas proposal and the internet should make do for illustration.

iOS Beta Game App “LEGO Star Wars Battles” Relaunching Soon for Apple Arcade

“Star Wars” being an “active” franchise thanks to its Disney+ spinoffs, it’s no surprise LEGO Star Wars is similarly busy. From new sets and minifigs to videogames, the Force is strong with this one. Warner Bros. Games has “LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga” lined up for a multi-platform launch next year. But if you think that’s all the videogames this LEGO line is getting for some time, think again.

Okay, so this one isn’t actually new. “LEGO Star Wars Battles” actually launched in beta for iOS back in 2019. That beta period lasted two years. It shut down this past July however. Then there came this new announcement.

“LEGO Star Wars Battles,” a mobile real-time strategy game, is coming exclusively to Apple Arcade according to StarWars.com. This was revealed by WB Games, Lucasfilm Games, and the LEGO Group on August 30. Rather than a standalone, “LEGO Star Wars Battles” becomes part of the Apple Arcade service. This means one must subscribe to it ($14.95-$29.95, plan-wise). Then they must subscribe to the game at $4.99/month, with one-month free trial.

Is the game worth it, though? One could look for those who played the beta version on iOS before its recent closure. But if you already like the PvP RTS genre and “Star Wars” as a franchise, this mash-up might do. The official “LEGO Star Wars Battles” blurb talks of buying characters, from faction troops to named characters. That’s pure mobile RTS already. Rather than Sentinel/Scourge or Legion/Hellbourne, we have Light/Dark sides fighting it out.

Aside from just managing troops on the move, the game also allows players to build LEGO-tower defense. They can also put their characters into brick-vehicles, and uses abilities from heavier weaponry to Force powers. Attack, defend, capturing territory…pure mobile RTS mechanics. The fact that you do this in control of Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Rey and more is geek-out bliss.

For now, “LEGO Star Wars Battles” is expected to come to iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple TV via Apple Arcade. If it becomes popular enough however, there’s a chance of full ports to PC and even videogame consoles. We still have to wait until the game comes out (once more).

LEGO Releases Official Teaser for Creator Expert Set FC Barcelona-Camp Nou (10284)

When it comes to products associated with FC Barcelona, LEGO appears to be pacing their reveals for max hype. Throughout 2021 they had LEGO/futbol fans searching online for word about the upcoming LEGO Creator Expert set depicting Barça home stadium Camp Nou (10284). Then LEGO Shop@Home Australia listed the set’s GWP add-on, FC Barcelona Celebration (40485). That may as well have been a hint that new details about LEGO Camp Nou were forthcoming anytime now. As it turns out, the wait took only a day or so. Then again, it’s still not a whole reveal but a teaser.

LEGO has just released a video glimpse of the Creator Expert Camp Nou set (10284) in fully-built glory. In just 12 seconds the teaser had a first-person view running down the access tunnel of presumably the real stadium. After a white-out transition the POV “emerges” into the plastic pitch of Camp Nou’s scaled-down LEGO counterpart.

Excitement is building… 😀 pic.twitter.com/otxNa0Rp7p

— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) August 30, 2021

The brick-built bleachers then fades into FC Barcelona’s motto, “Mes Que Un Club”/”More than a Club.”

It effectively serves the purpose of confirming the set while leaving collectors/Barça fans begging for more.

Regardless of rumors that LEGO held back on promoting the set out of delicacy for FC Barcelona’s loss of Lionel Messi, this preview is real. LEGO Creator Expert Camp Nou (10284) is coming. They still haven’t said when yet, but word will surely arrive not long after this. And we can’t forget the FC Barcelona Celebration (40485) set with the Barça fan minifigs and the Font de Canaletes as its gift-with-purchase.

Whether or not this set-GWP combo can match the reception of its Creator Expert stadium set last 2020, the Trafford-Manchester United (10272) and its companion the LEGO United Trinity Statue (5006171), remains to be seen.

First Images of LEGO FC Barcelona Celebration (40485) GWP Set Revealed

For the past few months past, collectors have been combing online news for more word on a new LEGO Creator Expert set. It is fairly certain to be a nice scale reproduction of Camp Nao stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Football fans know it as the citadel of FC Barcelona and, the largest stadium in Spain and Europe. It has hosted FIFA World Cup games, football finals of the 1992 Olympics, and more. There’s no confirmation yet when LEGO Creator Expert Camp Nou (10284) will release. But Promobricks however caught wind of a Gift with Purchase (GWP) set coming along with this elusive set – the LEGO FC Barcelona Celebration (40485)

Check out these first images of LEGO FC Barcelona Celebration (40485). LEGO Shop@Home Australia put these pics online. They list the set as a free item but also priced at AU$29.99. It depicts minifigure FC Barcelona supporters celebrating the team at a familiar game hangout, the Font de Canaletes.

One might also notice an image discrepancy. The box picture shows five minifigs while the set photo only has four (top image). Details on LEGO Shop@Home Australia are rather sparse beyond its set number and pieces (178 pieces in total). The specifications do say that it will include FOUR minifigures and accessories in FC Barcelona colors, so that’s probably it. From what we can assume based on word from brick street, this latest promotional set may perhaps be an incentive similar to what LEGO offered last year when it released the LEGO Creator Expert Old Trafford-Manchester United (10272) and its GWP counterpart, the exclusive LEGO United Trinity Statue (5006171) minifigures.

The Creator Expert line has seemingly abandoned chronological release by number since this year. But with LEGO FC Barcelona Celebration (40485) in the open, LEGO Creator Expert Camp Nou (10284) isn’t far off. Speculation has it that the Camp Nou set may have been held back due to the recent FC Barcelona drama. You know the one about the club letting Lionel Messi go on August 5 after his contract expired on July 1. A set like LEGO Creator Expert Camp Nou would have been considered “too soon.” The same goes for its GWP, FC Barcelona Celebration (40485). We won’t really know until it officially comes out.

10-K Support Reached for LEGO Ideas Proposal “House of Time” by Kevin Feeser

Announcing the triumph of another set proposal becoming an official LEGO Ideas product never gets old. It is even better when the new 10-K support-hitter hails from a repeat successful contributor builder. LEGO Ideas member Kevin Feeser hit it out of the park with his Tree House (21318) set, released 2019. His latest (and second total) proposal on the Ideas site is a brick-built old-fashioned cuckoo clock. He calls it the House of Time. His current online moniker, KevinTimeHouse even reflects it. Submitted in November 2020, House of Time made the magic 10,000-support milestone and is now under review, as Brick Fanatics tells us.

Just looking at the set on LEGO Ideas, one gets why Kevin’s House of Time is a sure 10-K magnet. His earlier Tree House (21318) showed build complexity in terms of mind-boggling detail. House of Time, while just as detailed, demonstrates complexity in terms of brick mechanics. As we already said, the set looks like an antique cuckoo clock. You know what that means: a moving clock face, pendulum, and a cuckoo sounding the hours. House of Time goes the extra mile by featuring a moving model train on a track, all moved by gears driven by LEGO Power Functions.

House of Time is a hybrid set of sorts. Its 2,800 or so parts composed of traditional LEGO bricks and LEGO Technic pieces for its internal mechanics. Between this and Tree House (21318), Kevin Feeser has a 100% batting average when it comes to 10-K support. It probably helps that he only has two submissions total on the LEGO Ideas website. Now it’s up to his new proposal to pass review by the Ideas crew. Considering how many other projects have made the Second 2021 Review Stage, this is going right down the line.

As a preview, other proposals in the current LEGO Ideas Review Stage include Minas Tirith, KITT and the FLAG Command Truck from “Knight Rider,” a Gamestop Classic Shop, the Orca and Great White Shark from “Jaws,” “Scooby Doo” Mystery Machine, the Eagle 5 Winnebago starship from “Spaceballs,” and so much more; like 32 proposals all in all. Here’s wishing the best of luck to KevinTimeHouse.

LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Icons – Collector’s Edition (76391) Delayed to September 15 in NA

Two weekends ago, we had a nice feature on the magnificent LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Icons – Collector’s Edition (76391). If you recall, this impressive set includes LEGO reproductions of multiple key items from the “Harry Potter” universe. There’s random stuff like books, Hermione’s potions bottles, Ron’s chocolate frog, and customizable brick-built House scarf. It also includes vital equipment like Harry’s glasses and wand, Golden Snitch, and Tom Riddle’s Diary/Voldemort’s Horcrux. It’s all topped off with a better brick build of Hedwig the Owl than her standalone LEGO set (75979) from 2020.

We also told you to expect this 18+ to arrive this coming Thursday, September. Well, about that retail release date… If you live outside North America then rejoice, it is still coming as planned. If you live in Canada, the US, and Mexico, then you’re going to have to wait. The Brick Fan has it that LEGO.com announced a delay in the North American release of LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Icons – Collector’s Edition (76391). It will now come out instead on September 15, nearly 2 weeks after the 2nd.

Here’s the text of LEGO’s set delay announcement:

The LEGO Harry Potter™ Hogwarts™ Icons Collectors’ Edition will now launch on September 15th in the US, Canada, and Mexico, rather than September 2nd as originally planned due to a shipping delay in the US. The set will be available for online only pre-order at LEGO.com beginning September 2nd. The product will be available in LEGO Retail stores on September 15th.

Shipping delays have long been a recurring snag in the arrival of new LEGO sets for retail, especially in North America. It probably is not going to change anytime soon, and collectors have always been willing to wait. So there it is; expect the Hogwarts Icons Collector’s Edition (75979) set to arrive September 2 outside NA, and September 15 within it.

LEGO Creator Sets Now Offered in Multiple Color Variations

In case you haven’t noticed yet, LEGO Shop@Home has been recently updated to now include a new functionality on certain of its product pages, particularly applied to some LEGO Creator sets as of this posting.

As pointed out by Stone Wars, the product pages for LEGO Creator Expert Fiat 500 (10271) and LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Mighty Dinosaurs (31058) have been updated to include what looks like to be a color selection function. For now, it seems that LEGO has not yet fine-tuned this page function since we only have a static selection bubble that shows the original color of the set. One can say that this might be experimental as of the moment, and a sort of foreshadowing of what LEGO has to offer for the coming weeks. If I’m not mistaken, this is the very first time that I’ve seen LEGO pulled out an offer like this, providing multiple color variations for a set. The prospect is exciting actually and I would like to see certain LEGO sets offered in other color schemes as well.

31058 page — LEGO has added what looks like to be color selection options on these LEGO Creator product pages over at LEGO Shop@Home.

Word on brick street is that this recent development may actually become a possibility, with LEGO studying the feasibility and appeal of having several color options of its sets. The capability of choosing a differently-colored set is obviously not practical for all of LEGO’s set offerings, and seeing that they opted for LEGO Creator sets to jumpstart this feature is a good place to start. There were some speculations also that these color options might extend to upcoming LEGO City sets as well, including the still-to-be-released LEGO City Fire Station Starter Set (77943) and Fire Station Headquarters (77944).

Whatever is the case, it is quite certain that LEGO is now prepping up its online shopping portal and is now paving a way for a new and unique customer experience with this color selection capabilities. I guess we can see more developments in the coming weeks, or once September sets in. I’ll keep you posted on this. In the meantime, be sure to check out some of the newer LEGO Creator Expert sets such as the now-available Volkswagen T2 Camper Van (10279) and the upcoming Pickup Truck (10290). Who knows, we might get recolored versions of these sets as well. We just have to wait and see.