For our first salvo of reveals at the 2018 New York Toy Fair, Brick Show Brian is currently at LEGO’s Booth #1335, and we are given the first opportunity to witness the unveiling of LEGO Incredibles 2. Unfortunately, photography and filming is not allowed at this point. Nevertheless, here is what Brian gathered with regards to these sets.
Elastigirl’s Rooftop Pursuit (10759 )
Minifigures include Elastigirl with bendy arms similar to that to Ms. Marvel in Captain America Jet Pursuit (76076), Jack Jack in a baby minifigure mold, and an unnamed, old lady villain in blue and black colors, with the same type of hairpiece as Robin from TLBM less the dizzy looking green eyes. Retails for $20.
Underminer’s Bank Heist (10760)
Minifigures include Elastigirl with normal arms, Mister Incredible which is quite different from how he looks from the Disney CMF, and the Underminer. This baddie has a massive driller, equipped with drills on both sides. Retails for $25.
The Great Home Escape (10761)
Minifigures include Violet, Dash, Jack-jack in a new print, an unnamed female villain in dark red and orange. Retails for $30.
To start off with our first wave of images at the 2018 New York Toy Fair, Jurassic World fan site Jurassic Outpost had the privilege of attending NYTF’s Preview Night and managed to catch a glimpse of these much awaited brick-built dinos, live. Here are some images that they shared via their Facebook page, highlighting all the sets that we reported earlier.
Stay tuned for more LEGO news and updates straight from NYTF!
As we prep the stage – or in this, case our blogsite and YouTube channel – for the opening of the 2018 New York Toy Fair, we’re glad that Brick Show Brian is on the floor to give you live updates as they happen at LEGO’s Booth #1335 of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
To kick start the occasion, LEGO has just released an official press statement detailing all the things that we can expect from them at this year’s grandest Toy Fair. As it turns out, based on their press release, it looks like LEGO will not be holding back from its original plan of revealing the summer line-up after all.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed as we wait and see if LEGO will pull the veil off from these exciting sets once the doors of the Javits Convention Center opens:
This is not an all inclusive list, and we bet that LEGO has more in store during the next four days of the NYTF. So be sure to stay tuned here at the Brick Show for live updates as they happen at this year’s Toy Fair!
We’re counting the hours away before the New York Toy Fair commences, and just when we thought that LEGO is done with its reveals following the announcement of the return of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, and the Powerpuff Girls, the lid has been finally removed from the much talked about LEGO Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom sets. Admittedly, NBC Universal has been on extreme ‘hush mode’ when word about these sets first came out last month. Some of you are quite quick on the mouse clicks, and managed to save a copy of some of the juicy info about these much-talked about sets.
This time, the embargo is finally lifted and we can now see all these sets in their finest detail. Moreover, LEGO also opted to share the product descriptions of these sets, along with their official images. As I said earlier, some minor (or major, depending on how you look at it) spoilers ahead, so tread on at your own risk. Check these out.
LEGO Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Sets
Pteranodon Chase (75926) $19.99| 126 pieces | Ages 6+ Time to evacuate! This Pteranodon needs rescuing from the erupting volcano but is a fast flyer, so help Owen and the tracker jump into the high-speed offroader and race across Isla Nublar to save it from danger. Retrieve its egg and fire the net shooter to bring the creature down. Then sedate it with the tranquilizer gun and prepare for your next mission!
Stygimoloch Breakout (75927) $29.99 | 222 pieces | Ages 6+ Sound the alert! The Stygimoloch has broken free. Help it smash through the lab door and cause mayhem by flipping the workbench over and smashing the window, then make a speedy escape. The guard won’t believe his eyes when he sees the Stygimoloch charging towards him, so call for back-up!
Blue’s Helicopter Pursuit (75928) $39.99 | 397 pieces | Ages 7+ Watch out for the trap! Too late—Blue has been tricked into entering the cage after spotting food left by Wheatley and the pilot. Jump onto the quadbike and speed after Owen’s dinosaur ally before the evil hunters fly off with it in the helicopter. Fire the crossbow to stop them, set the dinosaur free and take back the stolen eggs—but watch out for the helicopter’s powerful 6-stud shooter.
Carnotaurus Gyrosphere Escape (75929) $79.99 | 577 pieces | Ages 7+ Run for cover! Things are getting hot on Isla Nublar as the island’s volcanoes start erupting and a deadly Carnotaurus appears. Hit full speed in the truck and help Owen, Franklin and Claire escape the falling lava rocks and rampaging predator. Hide in the mobile control center or launch the Gyrosphere, but don’t forget to rescue the baby dinosaur and its eggs before you go!
Indoraptor Rampage at Lockwood Estate (75930) $129.99 | 1,019 pieces | Ages 8+ The 3-level Lockwood Estate features an office, bedroom with bed, laboratory area with museum display cases and a collapsible roof. The set includes two dinosaurs, Indoraptor and Velociraptor which feature posable limbs, head and snapping jaws. Also includes a buildable triceratops skull. You can customize the estate using the configurable walls and push the dinosaur heads through the windows to cause a smashing effect. Place the baby Velociraptor in the laboratory and run some DNA tests. Play features also include a lever to activate the collapsing roof! Weapons include a tranquilizer gun and an axe. Accessory elements include an auction hammer, umbrella and a dinosaur egg.
LEGO Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Juniors
Pteranadon Escape (10756) $19.99 | 84 pieces | Ages 4+
Watch out, the volcano’s going to blow! Keep an eye on the lava flow as you wait for the helicopter to come in and rescue you. There it is! Grab the rope swinging from the door and start climbing in. Better hurry, that lava ball is getting close. Hey, what’s that? That Pteranadon is flying in fast; can you get away before it catches up?
Raptor Rescue Truck (10757) $24.99 | 85 pieces | Ages 4+
Grab the chicken leg and head to the truck! The volcano on the island is about to blow, and it’s up to you to save the lost Raptor. Drop the cage on the ground and open the gate, and then attach the chicken to the stick and use it as bait to tempt the Raptor to the cage. Can you and Owen rescue the Raptor and get away in time?
T. Rex Breakout (10758) $49.99 | 150 pieces | Ages 4+ Watch the gates, there’s a T. rex on the loose! Help Claire and the scientist watch over the baby dinosaur and the eggs while the guard climbs the ladder to look out for the giant dinosaur. Load the hot dog onto the robotic arm and distract the T. rex away from the gate. Then load up the eggs in the back of the truck, open the gates and speed to safety!
LEGO Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Duplo
Gentle Giants Petting Zoo (10879) $19.99 | 24 pieces | Ages 2+
Little dinosaur fans will love to create endless role-play adventures as they visit the Gentle Giants Petting Zoo with this Jurassic World toddler toy. Help young children develop fine motor skills as they build and rebuild the baby dinosaur enclosure and help Gray Mitchell use his camera to snap pictures of the baby Triceratops as he stands on the swinging bridge, or the Diplodocus as he eats the vegetation. But don’t get too close—baby dinosaurs can still bite! Includes a LEGO® DUPLO® Gray Mitchell figure plus 2 baby dinosaur figures.
T. Rex Tower (10880) $29.99 | 22 pieces | Ages 2+
Enter Jurassic World with your child and recreate all the drama and tension from the movie, with this exciting set! There’s a T. rex on the loose and it’s snapping its jaws! Preschool children will love to help Owen Grady speed in with the car, face off with the huge dinosaur and make it safely into the turning control tower to call for backup. This easy-to-build dinosaur toy with large building bricks is great for creating endless role-play stories with a dinosaur theme. Includes an Owen Grady LEGO® DUPLO® figure, plus a T. rex figure.
Two of the most sought after, gargantuan LEGO sets are now back at shop.LEGO.com – but you have to be quick though, since you know how these things turn out eventually. 2016’s largest set – the LEGO Disney Castle (71040), and the brick buster of an Ideas set, the LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V (21309) – are both back for retail over at shop.LEGO.com. The Disney Castle (71040) comes in as a direct-to-consumer set which, like any D2C set, can prove to be very popular. In fact, the LEGO Disney Castle managed to bag the Specialty Toy of the Year awarded by the Toy Industry Association Inc. Click on the image below to head over at shop.LEGO.com’s page for the LEGO Disney Castle (71040).
The availability of the LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V (21309) set was a kind of a roller coaster ride last year. Since its initial debut in June last year, it only took just a little over a month before supplies of this highly popular set started to dwindle. The frustration of not getting this aesthetically lovely set has been sharply felt by the LEGO Group that it prompted them to release an official statement regarding Saturn V’s availability and to finally put to rest rumors regarding its untimely retirement. If you have missed out on the opportunity of owning this set when it was first released almost a year ago, now is the best time to place your order. Similarly, click on the image below to go to LEGO’s online store and see if you can still bag this beauty.
Again, I couldn’t help but underscore the need for you to act fast since these sets may once again be temporarily out of stock anytime soon. Currently as of this posting, both the LEGO Disney Castle and Saturn V sets are on backorders, and will be expected to ship in February 25. In fact, you’ll have a better chance of bringing these sets home than the still out of stock, UCS Millennium Falcon (75192). Alternatively, you may want to check out on Amazon, though the prices may not be as friendly though.
Yesterday we touched on the fact that, less than a week after their initial introduction to buyers, two of the LEGO classic 60th Anniversary mini-build sets have already run out of stock on Wal-Mart, which carries them exclusively. The LEGO House (4000028) and Windmill (4000029) are now sold out online.
About the only recourse left for LEGO collectors who want these retro-sets would be to check at their nearest physical Wal-Mart stores. Some interested buyers have already put the question to LEGO Customer services on whether they might restock the classic sets on Wal-Mart. Their reply is not very encouraging.
According to a screenshot made by a discouraged LEGO fan via Reddit, LEGO was true to its marketing when they printed “Limited Edition” on the set boxes for House (4000028) and Windmill (4000029) sets – only 5,000 copies of each set were manufactured and offered to the public. Once they’re gone, that’ll be all there is to it.
That’s quite disheartening if you were looking to have a tangible piece of LEGO’s 60th Anniversary celebration to remember it by. Now all that’s left of the first two mini-build sets are lurking in scattered Wal-Mart stores, while some early buyers might resell on the secondary market at bloated prices.
Not all hope is lost, however. If you’re not going to be a LEGO set completionist, there’s still one more mini-build to watch out for: the Truck (4000030) coming out this Friday. You really need to strike while the iron is hot with this one. Good hunting!
If you’re still expecting to get the commemorative 60 Years of the LEGO Brick (40290) set as a free gift with purchase, then you’ll be a bit disappointed to know that the highly in-demand promotional set is no longer available at shop.LEGO.com. In just less than a week, it seems that LEGO has ran out of stock of this commemorative set, even weeks before the end of its planned promotional period from January 28 to February 14. It is now replaced with the very rudimentary LEGO City Dragster (30358).
Valued at $25 USD, the 60 Years of the LEGO Brick (40290) set was given away for free with a minimum purchase of any LEGO product worth $125 or more. But obviously, its suggested value is somehow underrated given the large demand for this collectible set. If you’re still hoping to have the 60 Years of the LEGO Brick (40290) added to your prized LEGO collection than your better off looking at the secondary market where eBay prices can soar for as much as $200, or at Amazon while there are still sets selling around between $35 to $40 per set.
Were you able to get your 60 Years of the LEGO Brick (40290) commemorative set? What do you like most out of it? Let us know in the comments below.
You might have already heard about this from Brick Show Brian, but unfortunately, his video about the upcoming LEGO Marvel Superheroes UCS Hulkbuster (76105) has been taken down by the Brick Police from Brick Show’s YouTube channel. Well, I guess it is expected at some point. So, even before LEGO’s corporate censorship machine comes knocking at our doorsteps, allow me to share this leaked image once more about this latest Marvel UCS from LEGO, or to be more precise, the Hulkbuster Ultron Edition (76105).
Standing in at a towering 10.43 inches in height, this UCS model is based primarily on the Age of Ultron Mark 44 Hulkbuster model, and not from the newer version as we saw in the MCU Infinity War trailer. The set also comes with an exclusive Iron Man suit, which is not available in any other set. I have to admit that I’m a little puzzled at LEGO’s choice of offering this Hulkbuster model given the fact that it will be better to have one that is most updated. However, it is still expected to be a crowd favorite once it is released in the first week of March, as LEGO’s March Store Calendar have suggested. Now it should be noted that the recent LEGO Store Calendar does not mention any UCS type of set to be released alongside the LEGO Marvel Infinity War sets, so we are still guessing here on when this Hulkbuster will actually be available.
Though most of us were probably expecting a long overdue UCS Milano, I can’t deny the fact that this most recent version of the Hulkbuster looks kind of cool. But if you’re still waiting for the UCS Milano to happen, then you might want to check out Tyler’s seriously awesome UCS Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Milano MOC.
Now, truth be told, I’ve seen a handful of better Hulkbuster MOCs from the AFOL community, and one which even garnered 10,000 votes of support as a potential LEGO Ideas set. The Hulkbuster UCS by Raymond Chow is one magnificent set to behold. Not only did he manage to create on a minifig scale, but he also got the proportions right, which is somehow lacking from this current UCS Hulkbuster offering from LEGO.
Nevertheless, it’s a great move forward by LEGO in giving us a LEGO UCS Hulkbuster, particularly with regards to brick-built mechs and robots. We’ve seen some improvements in this virtually neglected aspect of LEGO sets when the LEGO Ninjago Movie sets came out. But in the end, I’m just glad that LEGO designers got those feet and legs right.
LEGO and Star Wars together have done so many wonderful things together in several decades of licensing partnership. Look no further than the epic UCS Millennium Falcon (75192) that’s been a sought-after prize for collectors. The fact that it comes with a black LEGO VIP membership card is a bonus.
Despite some initial troubleon LEGO’s part in getting those sleek black Star Wars VIP cards to their designated owners, things have settled down enough that LEGO is ready for its first major promo with them. Black VIPs have a great deal to look forward to in February, for sure.
For starters, throughout this month all Star Wars VIP card holders will have plenty of motivation to purchase as much and as often as possible. That’s because LEGO is doubling VIP points for Black Card holders when it comes to all purchases of LEGO Star Wars products this February.
This is certainly good news for Black Card VIPs considering that regular LEGO VIP card holders have only two months this 2018 that are designated double-point periods. February gives the Star Wars VIP members one extra month for doubling their points, and who could turn down a prime opportunity like that?
Double points for February aren’t the only thing Black Card holders have to look forward to this year. There’s enough LEGO Star Wars exclusive privileges spread throughout 2018 to make the expense of getting the UCS Millennium Falcon (75192) for the VIP card worth it.
A Star Wars: The Last Jedi DJ minifigure polybag is just one sample of those special privileges. Members will be constantly updated on upcoming promotions through their email for as long as their Black Card VIP membership is in effect.
Earlier last January, we reported that a new LEGO theme will be released this June following the debut of Unikitty’s TV series over at Cartoon Network. This time around, the titular unicorn/slash posh kitten will now have a Collectible Minifigure Series of her own, as announced during this year’s Nuremberg Toy Fair. Thanks to Zusammengebaut, who has been covering the event of Germany’s grandest toy fair, we now have a firsthand account that LEGO has indeed confirmed the availability of the LEGO Unikitty Collectible Minifigure series (41775).
This latest CMF series is slated to arrive sometime in August, and will retail for 3.99 Euros per blind bag. Speaking about the series’ blind bags, Andres of Zusammengebaut further describes that this CMF will be a little hard, if not close to impossible of distinguishing one from each other, given that there are 12 colored variants of Unikitty to collect. It’s like feeling your way through the LEGO DFB series blind bags, with only the hairpieces having some distinguishable marks. There were also rumors that the LEGO Unikitty CMF may also bear a sort of resemblance to the now discontinued LEGO Mixels with regards to being brick-built characters rather than actual minifigures. However, given the ‘blocky’ features of the show’s characters, it is highly possible to see LEGO Unikitty CMF characters be made up of several LEGO pieces – after all, Unikitty herself is made up of 14 LEGO elements. I just hope that beyond the 12 Unikitty variants, LEGO will throw in additional characters from the CN series, since its kind of unusual for LEGO to offer a limited CMF with only 12 characters in it.
One thing that wasn’t mentioned yet from Nuremberg is that as far as Zussemengebaut is concerned, the confirmation of 5 LEGO sets under the Unikitty theme (sets 41451, 41452, 41453, 41454, and 41455), including two Cartoon Network inspired sets earlier reported by Brick Show Brian, is still yet to be heard. As a last note, since the LEGO Unikitty CMF is slated to be released in August, it will be quite a while before we see any official images from this set circulating the internet.
Thanks again to Andres Lehmann of Zusammengebaut for keeping us posted.
