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ICYMI: You May Want to Pick-Up This 2022 LEGO Wall Calendar

It has been a long time since LEGO Stores gave out their official LEGO Calendar. And without any indication of making a comeback, it’s nice to know that we can still have some LEGO-themed calendars adorning our walls and rooms anytime soon. Thanks to Chronicle Books, we can look forward to a copy of the 2022 LEGO Wall Calendar.

This Chronicle Books offering is a collection of postcard-like images of everyday things transformed impressively into LEGO bricks. For $15, you’ll get 24 pages of vibrant brick artworks similar to what we can find from LEGO Still Life With Bricks: 100 Collectible Postcards. Besides the monthly LEGO builds that are showcased for each month, this eye-catching calendar also has additional pages for September to December of this year.

This latest offering from Chronicle Books is still slated to be released on July 27, but you can pre-order your copy as early as now over at their website. Just click on the link below to know more.

2022 LEGO Wall Calendar

This vibrant, easy-to-read monthly wall calendar offers a full year of LEGO® inspiration and creativity.

Capturing the playfulness and creativity at the heart of the LEGO brand, the LEGO 2022 Wall Calendar reimagines everyday objects and scenes using LEGO bricks, transforming handfuls of bricks into minty toothpaste, eggs and bacon, lush houseplants, and more.

24-page 12 x 12 inch month-by-month calendarPerfect for hanging at home or over an office desk

Features unique art made out of LEGO bricks

Must-have for LEGO fans and thoughtful present for design and art lovers

New: Exclusive LEGO Harry Potter Tom Riddle Minifigure Freebie

Amazon updated its roster of LEGO-inspired books that Harry Potter fans will love to have. The LEGO Harry Potter Magical Treasury: A Visual Guide to the Wizarding World is currently listed via Amazon, and it also comes with an exclusive LEGO Harry Potter Tom Riddle minifigure based on the second film in the franchise, The Chamber of Secrets.

This latest LEGO Harry Potter Tom Riddle minifigure is the newest rendition of the infamous character in the film series which made his first appearance as a minifigure back in 2002 in LEGO Harry Potter The Chamber of Secrets (4730). This latest LEGO version of Tom Riddle sees him wearing his old Hogwarts uniform, and is the first of its kind in the LEGO Harry Potter series. Understandably, this is perhaps the main selling point of this upcoming DK offering. Here’s a brief description of the LEGO Harry Potter Magical Treasury: A Visual Guide to the Wizarding World book as listed in Amazon.

A look at the different versions of Lord Voldemort as a LEGO minifigure.

Explore the magical world of LEGO Harry Potter in charming detail.

A spellbinding book featuring the very best sets and minifigures in the LEGO Wizarding World–plus an exclusive minifigure from the LEGO Harry Potter theme for your collection.

Packed with sets, minifigures, and magical accessories from the LEGO Wizarding World, DK’s LEGO Harry Potter Magical Treasury covers the very best of the LEGO Harry Potter theme–from a Hogwarts castle with more than 6,000 pieces to a perfectly molded minifigure-sized wand.

Learn how these magical sets are created in a behind-the-scenes chapter, which features an interview with the award-winning LEGO Harry Potter team.

The new LEGO Harry Potter Tom Riddle minifigure which is exclusively available in DK’s latest LEGO book.

This DK LEGO book is now available for pre-order retailing for $19.79, with a release date of July 7, 2020. If you wish to pre-order this one, be sure to visit the affiliate links highlighted above. For more LEGO Harry Potter and Wizarding World sets, be sure to visit LEGO Shop@Home.

LEGO Teams Up With Chronicle Books for a LEGO Still Life Photo Contest

Here’s another way of looking at LEGO. Chronicle Books have teamed up with LEGO for a pretty neat LEGO Still Life Photo Contest where you can show your most creative brick rendition of real-life situations without connecting LEGO pieces! Here are some examples of creative entries.

Chronicle Books launches this contest to coincide with the upcoming release of their eight new licensed LEGO products in April, including a first in a line made specifically for adult fans of LEGO.

In order to join the LEGO Still Life Challenge, participants have to compose their own “still life” scene using only unconnected LEGO bricks. Then you need to share a photo in a public Instagram or Twitter post with hashtags #LEGOStillLife and #ChroniclexLEGO. Once shared over at social media, you need to enter the details of your entry at Chronicle Books’ website.

In order to participate, you need to be a US resident and 18 years old and above. Participants ages 13-17 may require parental consent in order to join. There will be three winners to be announced: a Grand Prize Winner (to receive all 8 Chronicle Books products + a LEGO Gift Card worth $250), a Second Prize Winner (6 Chronicle Books products + Brick Backpack + Key Chain + more), and a Third Prize Winner (Chronicle Books Stationery + Colored Pencils + Buildable Ruler)

If you wish to know more about these latest LEGO Chronicle Books products, you might be interested to know that you can pre-order them now over at Amazon, with a release date of April 7. Click on the following links to know more. For more 2020 LEGO-themed books that come with free LEGO bricks and minifigures, click right here.

LEGO® Still Life with Bricks: The Art of Everyday Play

LEGO® Small Parts: The Secret Life of Minifigures

LEGO® Still Life with Bricks: 100 Collectible Postcards

LEGO® Paint Party Puzzle

LEGO® Note Brick Blue-Green

LEGO® Note Brick Yellow-Orange

LEGO® Brick Notebook

LEGO® Brick Erasers

LEGO 100 Ways to Rebuild the World Book Coming in October

This is something that you may want to add to your checklist of must-have LEGO books for 2020. DK Publishing will be launching its next LEGO-themed book that goes hand-in-hand with The LEGO Group’s initiative of fostering creativity among young children. The LEGO 100 Ways to Rebuild the World book echoes LEGO’s mission of nurturing the creative skills of the next generation.

The LEGO 100 Ways to Rebuild the World is not just about playing with LEGO bricks but also incorporating life lessons and skills such as taking care of the environment, valuing the importance of both flora and fauna, and encouraging others around us to do the same. And of course, this is done by creatively using LEGO bricks as a medium.

If you want this hardcover added to your collection, then you might be interested to know that it is currently listed via Amazon and is slated for release in October. You may pre-order the LEGO 100 Ways to Rebuild the World for $14.99. Click on the link below to know more.

LEGO 100 Ways to Rebuild the World: Get Inspired to Make the World an Awesome Place!

Pre-order for $14.99; slated to be released on October 20, 2020.

A children’s guide to being a good citizen and making the world a better place, with 100 LEGO®-inspired activities.

You’re never too young to change the world.

Discover 100 fun, practical ideas to be kind, be bold and make the world an awesome place – all while getting creative with your LEGO® bricks.

From making a neighbor a LEGO thank-you card to planting bee-friendly flowers, learn how to make little changes to help you, your family, your friends, and your community. Each idea encourages you to build with your LEGO bricks and minifigures – and to be inspired to make a difference in the real world around you.

Build a LEGO tree for inspiration and then help plant a real tree. Create a LEGO emoji to make your friends smile. Gather up your family and play a LEGO game together. Make a LEGO desk pot to help keep your room tidy. Learn about endangered animals and build your favorite ones with LEGO bricks. How will you start to rebuild the world?

Here Are Some 2020 LEGO Books to Watch Out For

It seems that we’re off to a good start on this side of the brick world. Other than having more than a hundred LEGO sets released at this first quarter of the year, there are also plenty of 2020 LEGO books to go around and watch out for. What’s nice about these books is that each of them comes with either an exclusive minifigure, or minibuilds that you will not find anywhere else, such as the upcoming LEGO Minifigure: A Visual History (New Edition) with its orange LEGO Classic Spaceman minifig.

In case you want to add this to your library of LEGO books, then go ahead and browse through this listing of 2020 LEGO books to watch out for. Please take note that most of these are available for pre-order so you may want to add them to your wishlist if you want to get them later on. Click on their respective links for more details.

LEGO Disney Princess Under the Sea and More!

$9.99 | Release Date: February 4, 2020 | Comes with an exclusive minibuild plus a Sebastian the Crab minifigure!

LEGO Ninjago Game Time

$9.99 | Release Date: April 21, 2020 | Comes with an exclusive LEGO Ninjago Jay minifigure.

LEGO Epic History

$19.99 | Release Date: May 12, 2020 | Comes with bricks to make four exclusive LEGO mini-builds: woolly mammoth, Parthenon, pagoda, and rocket launchpad.

LEGO Cute Ideas

$14.99 | Release Date: June 23, 2020 | Comes with the bricks you need to make an exclusive cute LEGO mini build.

LEGO Halloween Ideas

$14.99 | Release Date: August 4, 2020 | Comes with the bricks you need to make an exclusive mini model.

The LEGO Games Book – 50 Fun Challenges, Brainteasers, Puzzles, and Games

$19.99 | Release Date: September 1, 2020 | Includes all the LEGO bricks you need to complete at least 10 of the challenges in the book.

As far as I know, these next LEGO activity books from Ameet Publishing are still not listed for purchase. But you may still want to keep tabs with them once they are available.

LEGO City Moon Landing

Contain a comics packed with LEGO® humor; fun-filled activities and puzzles; and buildable astronaut minifigure.

LEGO Ninjago Into the Fire

Features story content based on the TV series; comics packed with LEGO® humor, and fun-filled activities and puzzles; a LEGO Ninjago Cole minifigure.

LEGO Ninjago Ninja Mission

This book contains a 3D pop-up play scene perfect for LEGO play; inspirational story starter; fold-out playmat; and LEGO Ninjago Lloyd and Garmadon minifigures.

LEGO City Duke’s Mission

The book features a story inspired by the latest LEGO City Adventures TV series; comics packed with LEGO humor; fun-ﬁlled activities and puzzles; and a LEGO City Duke DeTain miniﬁgure.

LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Night Patrol

The book features comics packed with LEGO humor; fun-filled activities and puzzles; and LEGO DC Comics Robin minifigure.

Orange LEGO Classic Spaceman Minifigure Coming In October 2020

Here’s something that will put a smile on Benny’s face. Amazon UK has listed a new LEGO book offering from DK Publishing and it comes with a freebie that LEGO fans of the classic Space genre will be raring to have. The LEGO Minifigure: A Visual History (New Edition) will be released later this year with an exciting new minifig that most of us will love to have – an orange LEGO Classic Spaceman minifigure!

This new LEGO book chronicles the journey of the iconic LEGO minifigure, with an updated roster of the best minifigures around since 1978. Like most LEGO books released by DK, its quite obvious that the huge selling point of this upcoming book is the exclusive minifig that goes with it. Aside from having a cool reference material to the evolution of the LEGO minifig, this orange variant of the LEGO Classic Spaceman is a must-have for fans of the classic theme. If you already own the LEGO Movie2 Benny’s Space Squad (70841) set, then be sure to keep this DK offering under your radar. It will surely be a welcome gesture if LEGO will eventually consider re-releasing it’s Classic Space theme, similar to what they did with their 2015’s series of Pirates-inspired sets. But for now, other than Benny and his gang from the LEGO Movie 2, the closest that we currently have similar to this will be the LEGO City Space sets from last year.

Amazon UK is already accepting pre-orders as early as now, with the LEGO Minifigure: A Visual History (New Edition) tagged at £30.00. I’ll provide you with updates once this book appears in US stores or at Amazon US. Here’s a quick blurb of this new LEGO book.

LEGO Minifigure: A Visual History (New Edition)

Celebrate the epic journey of the LEGO® minifigure with this new edition – featuring an exclusive spaceman minifigure!

Why don’t minifigures have ears? Which minifigure has appeared in the most ever sets? Which minifigure has a wolf alter ego?

This updated edition highlights the best minifigures from every year since 1978. Starring more than 2,000 of the most popular and rare minifigures from the LEGO® Minifigure Series and themes including LEGO® NINJAGO®, THE LEGO® MOVIE™, LEGO® Star Wars™, LEGO® City, LEGO® Harry Potter™ and many more. Discover the evolution of minifigure design from past to present and explore their accessories and sets.

From divers, astronauts and vampires to Super Heroes, firefighters and movie characters, feast your eyes on the most awesome minifigures of every decade!

A New and Exclusive LEGO Star Wars Darth Maul Minifigure Arriving in 2020

If you had the opportunity of grabbing almost all of the LEGO books that were released this year, then you may want to add this next one to your must-have list of collectible LEGO books. And those who are looking forward to DK’s annual LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia will also be glad to know that it will also include once more an exclusive LEGO Star Wars minifigure. For 2020, LEGO is paying homage once more to one of the most controversial and influential Sith Lord of the Star Wars saga. A never-before-seen, exclusive LEGO Star Wars Darth Maul minifigure will come as a freebie for those who will opt to purchase the said DK offering when it arrives at bookstores on April 7, 2020 as listed via Amazon. Read on for the details of this new LEGO DK book.

LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia New Edition: with Exclusive Darth Maul Minifigure

Pre-order: $19.99 USD | Will arrive on April 2020

Meet more than 200 minifigures from the LEGO® Star Wars™ galaxy!

DK’s LEGO® Star Wars™ Character Encyclopedia: New Edition is updated to include all the latest and new LEGO Star Wars minifigures! Meet amazing minifigures from all the Star Wars movies-including new minifigures from Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker. Discover incredible LEGO Star Wars facts, such as which minifigures are rare and which minifigures have exclusive printings, parts, and accessories. This new updated edition contains more than 200 best-loved minifigures, including Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, Chewbacca, Rey, Kylo Ren, and BB-8. The book also comes with an exclusive LEGO Star Wars Darth Maul minifigure!

From the looks of this minifig, it seems to be our first minifigure iteration of the infamous Sith as we see him in the spin-off film, Solo: A Star Wars Story. For most audiences and Star Wars fans, Darth Maul’s cliff hanger appearance at the end of the film shows how much the Dark Lord is still instrumental to the events leading to the classic Star Wars trilogy. Having this new LEGO Star Wars Darth Maul minifigure as an exclusive freebie for this book, in my opinion, is an excellent choice.

If you wish to be guaranteed a copy of this newest edition of DK’s LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia, then be sure to visit the above links and place your pre-order. Thanks to Brick Fanatics for the heads up.

Build Your Own Collection of LEGO BrickHeadz Heroes and Villains With These Books

LEGO BrickHeadz is still going strong and with the recent reveal of the LEGO BrickHeadz Star Wars Kylo Ren and Sith Trooper (75232), we can still expect that LEGO still has more plans for these brick collectibles. I guess part of the appeal with this theme is the fact that the design follows a prescribed format that allows you to recreate any of your favorite pop icons into a standard LEGO BrickHeadz. With a bit of experimenting with your own LEGO bricks, you can even come up with any BrickHeadz character that you want. This is the principle behind these collections of books written by Charles Pritchett – the unofficial guide of building your own LEGO BrickHeadz Heroes and Villains.

I first stumbled upon Charles’ works when I was casually browsing Brickset’s listing of available LEGO books. His Building LEGO BrickHeadz Heroes Volume One: The Unofficial Guide, and its counterpart that allows you to build a collection of BrickHeadz villains, immediately caught my attention. I am impressed with the excellent custom LEGO BrickHeadz sets that he was able to come up, especially when it included some of my favorite Marvel and DC characters. The best part of it is that he makes the building instructions for these MOCs available for everyone. You simply need to search through your collection of LEGO bricks to see if you have the parts needed to build your favorite heroes and villains. Since your working with a LEGO BrickHeadz, you can easily look for a substitute part if in case you don’t have the prescribed LEGO piece mentioned in assembling the build.

As of this posting, Charles offers three volumes on how to build his custom LEGO BrickHeadz Heroes and Villains all of which you can purchase via Amazon. You may click on the following links if you wish to know more about these books.

Building LEGO BrickHeadz Heroes – Volume One: The Unofficial Guide

Readers will find detailed, full-color illustrations and step-by-step instructions on how to build the following characters:

Ant-Man
Beast Boy
Daredevil
Deadpool
Green Lantern John Stewart
Gwenpool
Robin
Starfire
Thor
Wolverine

Building LEGO BrickHeadz Heroes – Volume Two: The Unofficial Guide

In this follow-up book, building instructions for the following characters are included:

Black Panther
Cyclops
The Flash
Green Lantern Kyle Rayner
The Invisible Woman
The Human Torch
Mister Fantastic
Raven
Shazam
The Thing

Building LEGO BrickHeadz Villains – Volume One: The Unofficial Guide

And of course, our ensemble of custom comic book LEGO BrickHeadz will not be complete without our heroes’ archenemies. This volume highlights 10 most famous villains and how to give them that LEGO BrickHeadz twist.

Deathstroke
Green Goblin
Harley Quinn
Loki
Mysterio
Red Skull
Rhino
Sandman
Two Face
Weather Wizard

LEGO Imagine and Play Books Coming Soon

We’ve covered a lot of LEGO books that comes with the usual LEGO elements and pieces, and its a great way to have the little LEGO fans around us or perhaps even yourself, occupied with a lot of new building ideas and designs. Ameet Books has now added to its repertoire another pair of LEGO books that are loaded with activities to keep the LEGO building fun going. The LEGO Imagine and Play series features several coloring pages and other hands-on activities, including of course building with LEGO bricks. These books come in two variants: Creatures and Vehicles, and each has their own unique set of 50 bricks that allows you to create several suggested minibuilds. As of this posting, they are not yet on sale over at Ameet Books’ website so better keep tabs with them or at Amazon once they go for sale.

Read on for their complete product descriptions, and check some of its sample images.

LEGO Imagine and Play

Imagine & Play is a new series of boxes that encourages creative play and supports imagination. For playing together or on your own, there are more than 50 LEGO® bricks included in this gift set.

Set contains:

Over 50 bricks to build various LEGO® models
Book with activities of varying levels of difficulty to encourage young builders
Colouring book
Outstanding illustrations
High quality, reusable box that can serve as a play mat
Instruction and tips for parents that encourage their kids’ creativity

LEGO Imagine and Play Creatures

LEGO Imagine and Play Vehicles

2019 LEGO Books To Watch Out For

LEGO books have been a staple for most LEGO fans, especially those that come with freebies such as exclusive minifigures and cool mini-builds. From LEGO Star Wars to Ninjago, and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, let’s take a look at some of the upcoming 2019 LEGO books slated to be released this year via Amazon.

If you recall, some publishers like Dorling Kindersley (DK) and Scholastic often release these titles bundled with free features that coincide with the themes or activities of the books. Here are some of the currently available and upcoming titles that come with free LEGO pieces and exclusive minifigures that you may want to watch out for. The LEGO Harry Potter and Wizarding World seem to dominate this list, followed by inspirations from LEGO’s non-licensed themes such as those from Ninjago.

For starters, we have the following 2019 LEGO books currently available today over at Amazon’s online store. Just click on the following links for more details of each of these titles.