Author: Morgan Magazine

Recently, the French website MintInBox.Net revealed a list of rumoured 2016 Winter wave sets for the Star Wars theme. Again, these are just rumours….but when it comes to Star Wars, when was the last time rumours were wrong? It seems weird and occasionally a smaller set is a little off or a play set is based on a different scene but seriously, when was the last time rumours were really far off?

Exactly. So I’d bank money that these set rumours are accurate to a certain extent. Also, I can’t possibly get in any trouble for mentioning Force Awakens news since this is all rumour and is completely inaccurate for all I know….(Sarcasm intended).

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So, I’m going to list all the sets based on their respected sub-themes. Lets start with what many consider to be the least appealing: The Micro-fighters…

-AT/DP

-Wookie Gunship

-TIE Advanced Prototype

-The Ghost

-2 Unnamed Force Awakens vehicles

So, 4 out of  6 of these sets will be Rebels themed, and they all sound pretty good, with all the vehicles being predominant in the show save the Wookie Gunship — seriously, it appeared for about 10 seconds in season 1, so unless it’s  in most of season 2 I don’t get the fuss over that ship….of course the Force Awakens sets are unnamed due to all the secrecy around it. All in all, a pleasing line-up, and I’ll be interested to see if we get any exclusive figures with these.

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Next up, we have the regular System sets…

-Bespin Carbon Freezing Chamber

-Hoth Attack

-Droid Escape Pod

-Obi-Wan’s Jedi Interceptor (ROTS version)

-The Pirate Transport (Force Awakens)

-Battle on Takodona (Force Awakens)

Here’s where the excitement begins! The Hoth Attack set should be nice, linking to the UCS Hoth Base which is all but confirmed for a Christmas release. This is similar to how the Ewok attack came out shortly after the Battle of Endor so that they could be used together. The Droid escape pod seems to be based off of the crash landing from the start of a New Hope, and the Carbon Chamber seems like we are finally getting a (somewhat) remake of Cloud City! And of course a prequel set just for good measure.

But those Force Awakens Sets…….The Pirate Transport, in my opinion, will be based upon some sort of vehicle used by the bandits on Jakku, who are seemingly commanded by Tasu Leech according to the leaked Millennium Falcon. The Battle on Takodona could really be anything. It may well be the biggest set of the wave (I hope), and I personally think this planet is the one seen in the ComicCon reel along with the Vanity Fair photo of Captain Phasma; I think this is based on the battle taking place in some sort of destroyed ancient building….

[Could this be Takodona?]

 

And finally we have the Battle Packs….

-Force Awakens “Villain” Battle Pack

-Force Awakens “Hero” Battle Pack

-Rebel Trooper Battle Pack (Star Wars :Battlefront)

-Empire Battle Pack (Star Wars : Battlefront)

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[Battle Packs based off of this…? YES PLEASE!]

If these set rumours are true I think that these will be the best Battle Packs since those classic first 2 waves of Clones, Droids, Rebels and Stormies. I normally buy 2 or 3 different Battle Packs in a wave, and buy a particular one in mass amount (for example, this year I purchased 1 of the Shadow Troopers and Geonosis Troopers but many Imperial Troop Transports). But if these rumours are correct, I will probably end up buying at least 2 of each in a heartbeat. No exaggeration.

Assuming the “Villain” Pack will be all Stormtroopers (hopefully, since they only appear in 1 set from this September Wave!) and the “Hero” Pack will be Resistance Soldiers, these will be a must -buy, especially since they’ll be out about 2 weeks after the film, meaning the hype will still be extremely strong. And, honest question — what LEGO Star Wars fan doesn’t want a Battlefront set with all the different classes? Honestly, tell me in the comments below if you are in that minority.

Check back for more LEGO Star Wars news as it is revealed here on

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So, today I’ll be doing a big news article. No, not set news or images (Looking at you Force Awakens…), but news within The Brick Show itself. This article will be about all the upcoming MOCs that are currently in the pipeline between me, Jason and Stephen. There’s a lot of MOCs in development as of right now, and this list may well be updated over time, but this’ll be a list and description of all MOCs that we’re currently working on and that I am currently aware of. I’ll do my best to put them in date order too, keeping in mind that some of these have no dates  set and I’m just guessing when the guys will reveal them.

Warning : This is a VERY long editorial, aimed more so at TFOLs and AFOLs. I’ll try to keep it interesting though!

#1 – Star Wars : The Force Awakens Hangar Shoot-Out — January 2016!

[This is the scene in question]

 

This is the first MOC on the list in development, or at least, the first MOC that I have in development. This is gonna be based off of the scene we see in the second trailer for The Force Awakens, in which a First Order Special Force TIE is blowing apart the hangar of an imperial cruiser, presumably one of the newly designed Star Destroyers. This scene is rumoured to be based around Finn, played by actor John Boyega, escaping from the ship using this TIE fighter. It’s said that he is a StormTrooper, and due to some sort of traumatic incident, he decides to leave The First Order, stealing the TIE and crashing it on Jakku, meeting Rey and setting the events of the film off with the Stormies right on his tail. The MOC comes out after I’ll of seen the film however, so I may edit it slightly afterwards to make it more accurate. For now, lets assume that this rumour is true, and that’s what the MOC is based on.

I’ll be purchasing a Special  Forces TIE, First Order Transport and First Order Snowspeeder to get the correct vehicles and figures. Since that foreign Amazon listings have revealed details of the set, and have said that regular, plain StormTroopers (not counting pilots or Flametroopers etc.) will only appear in the transporter and nothing else, I’ll not be able to release the MOC as early as I’d like, but since battle packs will be released in January as with every year, it’s been heavily rumoured that we will get 4 of these guys in one of those sets, hence why I’m waiting to January.

It is worth noting that I’ve already started this MOC and the general look of it is almost complete, it’s just the floor and a couple other details, and then it’s just the sets themselves I need to add.

#2 – Stephen’s Tatooine MOC! — N/A

[From Stephen’s latest update video.]

Stephen hasn’t given any sort of indication as to when we’ll be getting this MOC, but I put this one next as It seems logical. It may well not be until March next year, but I have a feeling that it will be before MOC #3 on this list, and I doubt it will show up before January due to the level of progress.

This MOC is not primarily based off of anything in particular, but  instead incorporates many different elements from across the original trilogy, such as the Tusken Raiders and Sand Troopers from A New Hope and Jabba’s Palace from Return Of The Jedi. I’m in touch with Jason a lot more than Stephen, so I have the same extent of  knowledge as most regular channel viewers here. It seems Stephen will be using primarily the Rebels-Style “Italian Moustache” StormTroopers with custom pauldrons added, along with the Jabba’s Palace and Rancor Pit sets.

#3 – Captain America : Civil War — April / May 2016!

[I can’t wait for this film!]

Next on the list is another MOC with a confirmed release time. This MOC will be based completely around the climax of the third Captain America film, which is basically nothing to go on at this moment. We have had literally no news about the film as of yet aside from set photos, but we have had no trailers, official posters or pictures and info on the LEGO sets. As such this MOC has no threads at all at the moment, but around October – December time we should get our first trailer and then I can start planning ahead. It’ll feature all the main characters, and as with my Avengers : Age of Ultron MOC earlier this year, it’ll be inspired by the film instead of being 100% accurate. I’ll probably end up getting most of the sets in order to complete my MOC, as main characters will likely be stretched across them.

#4 – Part 2 Of Stephen’s Arcade! — N/A

[Part 1, as revealed in March.]

Ok, some people may argue that the predicted time of release for this MOC is way off, and that since it is only one baseplate and quite small, it may actually come out before even the #3 MOC on this list. Well, I can see why that is plausible and could well happen, but my thought process is that Stephen would want to finish off his Tatooine MOC before starting another one, and another point is that Stephen hasn’t even started this second part yet. as such, it’s safe to assume it’ll be a while until it comes out.

I expect it will feature some more modern games as this centre is not purely an arcade centre. I also think that some of the newer products on The Brick Show Shop will show up in this MOC, such as the Brickcraft Machine.

#5 –  Star Wars : Rogue One — December 2016 / January 2017!

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[This logo was all I could find for an image..]

Yes, I’ve really planned this far ahead, to the point where I have now planned a MOC 18 months away. Because of this, there’s no guarantee that I’ll actually go through with this MOC, but I’d like to think I will. That is, if we even get sets for this film, but this is pretty much confirmed anyway. Again, we know literally nothing about this film so far ; Gareth Edwards is the director, Felicity Jones stars as a Rebel Soldier, and it’s about stealing the plans for the Death Star that will lead to the events of A New Hope. And that’s  it. As a result, I have no idea what this MOC would be based on, but I’ll probably find something I’d like to make in LEGO.

# – Rumoured MOCs…

Of course, It’s entirely possible that some new ideas could pop into our heads and we end up making another MOC not on this list, or we watch a film and like it more than expected, resulting in an unplanned MOC based on it. And of course, Jason may choose to do a few, since he’s previously not been included at all on this list.

So, here’s the full list, keeping in mind it may be edited in the future :

#1 Star Wars : The Force Awakens Hangar Scene – January 2016

#2 Stephen’s Tatooine MOC – N/A

#3 Captain America : Civil War – April / May 2016

#4 Stephen’s Arcade : Part 2 – N/A

#5 Star Wars : Rogue One – December 2016 / January 2017

So, there we have it, the full list! If any new MOCs come up, be sure to check back to see their details, here on

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So a fair bit of news a has come about over the last week or two, but nothing major enough to warrant a whole article for itself, so that’s why I’m doing another random news article!

Doctor Who Dimensions News!

So, a day or two ago LEGO dimensions released quite a bit of news regarding Doctor Who; a trailer for the Doctor Who Missions, as well as a brand new fun pack were put out online, and were very well received indeed! The trailer shows many key points from the show including the T.A.R.D.I.S  , Daleks, Cybermen, The Dalek Emperor, Clara Oswald and of course Peter Capaldi’s doctor. Enough out of me though, go watch it for yourself!

Oh, and we also got images of the packs coming out, with the figures and build-able characters presumably being included in the LEGO Doctor Who Ideas set alter this year.

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“LEGO Avengers: The Video Game” Characters!

Revealed at SDCC this past few days, we were also given glimpses of many characters to be appearing in the Avengers Video Game later this year, including Crossbones, Sam Wilson’s Captain America, The HulkBuster, and Stan Lee’s HulkBuster and Iron Man designs, implying he well have powers from all superheroes as he did in LEGO Marvel Superheroes.

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Leaked TIE Fighter Pilot And Snowtrooper Designs!

As courtesy of David Hall, we yet again have leaked images of new Star Wars : The Force Awakens figures. I won’t focus too much on this, as, well, it’s a little “unorthodox”….

[Lets keep these under the rug…]

So there we have the biggest LEGO news from the past few days. Hopefully the official Force Awakens sets will be revealed sooner rather than later as we  only have just over 50 days until the sets actually come out…

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Apologies for my rather long absence, but I now return with what is easily some of the biggest news this month ; we now have images of both Batman V Superman : Dawn Of Justice and Star Wars : The Force Awakens products!

The Dawn Of Justice Batmobile is the “official” news, which was announced earlier today. The announcement tells us that this set will be featured at SDCC (San Diego Comic Con), and that the vehicle is not a set on it’s own ; As well as the Batman figure and Batmobile, the set will also feature an additional vehicle and 3 other figures. It’ll be priced at $29.99  and have 306 pieces total. Sounds awesome!

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The Star Wars news is, well, “less” official…

The news comes from David Hall, or Solid Brix Studios as most know him by. Earlier today he posted a video on his YouTube channel that featured 6 official, finalised Captain Phasma figures, otherwise known as the “Chrome Trooper” played by Gwendoline Christie, and seen in the second trailer for The Force Awakens. The figure doesn’t feature any accessories or even face printing, although this will likely be included with the actual figure released with sets. David took it upon himself to add a custom cape and blaster to one of the 6 figures to give an impression of what the final version will look like. The figures looks outstanding in my opinion, and I love the unique Pearl Grey colour scheme, as well as the new helmet mould. Here’s the video that David uploaded showing off the figures.

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[Credit for all photos than feature the Captain Phasma figures goes to David Hall.]

 

Again, these photos are a bit controversial, as addressed by David in the video. They were purchased from an eBay seller, who likely acquired them from a LEGO factory or factory worker, who in turn likely stole them…meaning that, technically, these figures aren’t legal. That being said, there’s no way to confirm that they were in fact stolen, and also this isn’t the first leaked Force Awakens merchandise, shown by the Kylo Ren Shuttle leak.

So, there we have it, an official look at the new Batmobile and a not-so official look at the first ever Force Awakens figure. Stay tuned for more LEGO news here on,

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NOTE : Nothing in this article has been 100% confirmed by LEGO, but has been heavily speculated, and due to the recent leaked image of 75104, the information seems to be accurate so far, and I have reason to believe that it is factual.

So, recently, 75104 got leaked on to the web. Since that we had to take down the YouTube video about the set, I won’t put the picture up here in order to prevent that happening, but you can search “LEGO 75104” and be met with the unofficial image. However, the leakage of this image prompted me to think that some information which was released a while back may in fact be accurate; I didn’t do an article on it back then due to the information having no evidence to back it up, but this image seems to solidify the ideas presented by it, leading me to think that it’s accurate and reliable.

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[The large Imperial Shuttle-esque spaceship to the left of this poster is obviously a villain vehicle due to this being Imperial propaganda – meaning this information, so far, is accurate…]

 

The info in question was released by Starwarsunderworld.com (The very same website to share the 75104 news to begin with), which gives a list of preliminary names for all the new sets and British pricing for each of them too. The details are as follows :

• 75099- “Lead Hero Craft”- £19.99

• 75100- “Villain Craft”- £39.99

• 75101- “Villain Star Craft”- £59.99

• 75102- “Hero Starfighter”- £69.99 (PREVIOUSLY RUMORED X-WING FIGHTER)

• 75103- “Villain Transport”- £79.99

• 75104- “Lead Villain Vehicle”- £99.99  (ACCURATE BASED ON RECENT LEAK)

• 75105- “Hero Vehicle”- £129.99. (PREVIOUSLY RUMORED MILLENNIUM FALCON) 

As shown by the points in brackets above, the details seem to be quite accurate so far, and the prices match up to the ones we gave in our details about these sets a few months back.

In my opinion, the Lead Hero Craft, being the smallest, will possibly be Rey’s speeder from the first Teaser Trailer. The £40 Villain craft will almost certainly be a TIE Fighter, especially at that price. The star craft really could be  anything at this point, but could be the ships seen escorting the Lead Villain Vehicle in the Teaser Trailer 2. The transport is possibly the vehicle which the stormtroopers are seen exiting during the first trailer, and the Falcon and X-wing and all but confirmed at this point anyhow.

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[millennium falcon – So the Falcon is pretty much confirmed…]

So, this is the info on The Force Awakens sets as of right now. Check back for (hopefully) more news soon!

As previously mentioned, I’m currently in a month-long hiatus until mid-June, but since this news is rather large, I figured I might as well make a quick article to share it with you guys…..though I doubt anybody noticed I was gone.

Just today, LEGO announced the next Ideas set, which will presumably come out later in the year or early next year, following the Doctor Who set (which I couldn’t be more excited for after we got a glimpse of the minifigure in the new Dimensions sets!).

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This set is the Marble Maze, which was one of 9 projects in the review stage this time around, along with other projects such as The National History Museum and the Goonies 30th Anniversary.  I’m not at all surprised by this result, as the maze was one of few projects to not be base off of something that already exists, meaning something that is a genuine landmark or a project based off of something. Reasons for these sort of sets not being picked would be that LEGO would need to go and get the license to produce it, unlike an original idea.

[The original Maze in its default state, as designed by JK BrickWorks]

 

 

This of course has been the case every now and then shown by the Minecraft, BTTF and Ghostbusters sets, but it is far easier for LEGO if they choose sets that don’t require this extra hassle, such as the Birds Project and the Exo-Suit by Peter Reid, where they just need the person behind the idea to sign up for it….which obviously is the case since they submitted it to the site. And besides, with so many themes being used for the new dimensions line-up (those being Back To The Future, Jurassic World, The Wizard Of Oz, Doctor Who, Portal 2 -those last 2 being my personal favourites – and the now reincarnated Lord Of The Rings)  it seems unlikely that it will be possible for the Ideas line to get any licenses for themselves. The reason for this may be because, well, Licenses cost money….and there’s a heck of a lot of it being spent on existing licenses. The budget unfortunately probably doesn’t accommodate Ideas sets too.

Here’s the video that shows JK Brickworks, the creator of the Maze, showing it off.

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Just so all you guys know, I’ll be doing another couple articles possibly over the next week or two, just to keep the ice thin. After June 25th though, you’ve got 3 whole months of this blog being one of my up-most priorities, so stay tuned for that!

This article is two-fold based on the headline.

To begin with, there has been a considerable number of people asking about where Jason is on the channel. The answer is simple ; he’s still there. People have been forgetting that even though 19 videos have been made since Jay’s last one, it’s only just today been a week since that video. He’s not gone, he just let Stephen do the city reviews. This has also happened with Stephen being gone for a week or so, and they always come back, so there’s no worries.

And the perhaps less obvious hiatus lately is, well, me. Now I’m going to be honest with you ; not a whole lot of people look at this blog. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still maybe a thousand every article ( which is about the same amount of people who watch BrickShowRAW ) but since we now have over 300,000 subscribers, that’s less than 1% of our total viewers. An average of around 20-30,000 views per video on the main channel dwarfs the blog by far.

This is to be expected though, as the blog is not the main way of communication and it isn’t publicised a lot, so it’s fair to say a lot of people who would read the blog don’t because they simply don’t know about it.

Anyway, I digress. It seems to be the case that I won’t be posting any more articles for around another month. This is because I’m still a student, and I’ve got exams up until the 12th of June. I’ll also have induction days for college (since I’ll be finishing high school next month) and of course, Prom. These distractions will make the blog an afterthought as I’ll need to focus, although you may get an articles whenever I can spare a minute.

That being said, after my exams, I have 12 weeks free to do stuff, meaning I’ll have 3 months to write articles pretty much daily or every other day. So in the long run, it’ll all pay off!

 

 

Oh, and I’ve made an Age of Ultron MOC to be unveiled soon. Just FYI….