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It looks like more information are coming in as early as now regarding the next wave of LEGO Star Wars sets, hot off the trail of the LEGO Star Wars Solo sets. LEGO has already revealed the release date of these upcoming tie-in sets in line with the next Star Wars anthology, Solo: A Star Wars Story. Though these sets are to be released at an earlier time as compared to other upcoming LEGO sets, it looks like Disney and LEGO have placed a very tight lid over potential leaks and spoilers on these.
Though details on the LEGO Star Wars Solo sets are still scant, it looks like Rebelscum managed to gather some intel on what we can expect from the 2018 Summer wave of LEGO Star Wars sets scheduled to be released in August. First off, let me say that I’m not at liberty to show you the same images that Rebelscum posted, but if you really want to see them I assume that you will be resourceful enough to know the way.
According to the report, these Star Wars sets will also be officially unveiled at next year’s New York Toy Fair from February 17-20. Here’s a rundown of what we can expect from this wave as mentioned by Rebelscum:
75214 Anakin’s Jedi Starfighter – the yellow-winged Clone Wars spacecraft, based on 7669 Anakin’s Jedi Starfighter 75215 Confidential
75216 Confidential
75217 Confidential 75218 X-Wing Starfighter – with two pairs of pilot/droid minifigs the a red-domed astromech unit could mean the set can be converted to Red Leader’s X-wing 75219 Confidential
75220 Sandcrawler – a System scale version of the grander 75059 UCS Sandcrawler 75539 501st Legion Clone Trooper & AT-RT Walker – buildable figure with single-person vehicle, as seen in this retired set 75538 Super Battle Droid – a buildable figure that comes as a surprise to many
I’m particularly excited about the Super Battle Droid (75538) because of the new and unique pieces that LEGO introduced to create this robust ultra-build. The X-Wing Starfighter (75218) is also a nice rehash of the previous X-Wings that we have before. As you can see, no reveals yet about the Solo tie-in sets so we just have to be a little more patient on this one.
It seems that there are plenty of new sets to keep under our LEGO radar once the first half of 2018 kicks in. Earlier, we learned that LEGO will be offering another line of City-themed sets, taking its cue from 2014’s Arctic Explorers. This teaser was announced via the German LEGO Catalog for the months of January to June, 2018, and this time around, Promobricks shares with us once again another page from the catalog that gives us an idea on when the next exciting sets will appear. According to the German LEGO fan site, the LEGO Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom sets will be out in the open also in May, 2018, as you can see from the image below.
A rough translation of the caption as seen in the above page says that “the sets will be available starting middle of May”, instead of April as we previously reported. There is no exact date mentioned, but we assume that we will start seeing official images of the LEGO Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom sets popping up towards the end of April. As listed by Brickset, we expect to see at least five regular sets under the theme, with hopefully some new dinos to go around.
Stay tuned here on the Brick Show for more up-to-the-minute LEGO news and updates. Thanks again to Promobricks for the tip.
It seems that we’re getting more and more information on what’s in store with LEGO’s biannual LEGO Catalog. We already know that Ukraine’s LEGO Catalog already gave a hint at the release dates of the Marvel Superheroes Infinity War and Star Wars Solo sets, and this time around some of our friends from Promobricksmanaged to get their hands on a copy of the German LEGO Catalog which was reported to be distributed by other toy retailers in the region. Now traditionally, these January to June catalogs are not released in any LEGO Brand Stores earlier than the January, while other retailers may opt to distribute them early on. Such is the case with the Promobricks team, as they managed to get a copy of the LEGO Catalog from third party retailers ahead of its usual January release.
As such, we now have a glimpse on what LEGO has in store for the first half of 2018. One particular page in the catalog hints that a previous LEGO City subtheme is slated to be revived once more. Check out this page from the 2018 LEGO catalog.
For those of you who were particularly fond of LEGO City’s 2014 Arctic subtheme, you’ll be glad to know that the theme may eventually make a comeback albeit as a revamped version. The words on this page roughly translate from German as “Discover starting May 25, 2018 a new world of LEGO City at your retailer,”. The polar ice cap backdrop, together with the arctic explorer and husky, says it all. It seems like LEGO is on a roll with the introduction of newer wave of LEGO City sets, with the Mountain Police and Mining sets still very much at large in the market. However, considering the progression of these City themes, the revival of the Arctic subtheme seems to be a reasonable offering not being too far behind from the concept of the Mountain Police sets.
The LEGO City Arctic Base Camp (60036) from 2014. Are we to see this theme getting a second wind in 2018?
So what do you think brick fans, are you excited about these recent developments with the LEGO City theme? Will this be another re-release of some sorts, or do you think we’ll be seeing a whole new range of sets? Frankly speaking, I’m not really fond of the predominantly orange color scheme on the 2014 LEGO City Arctic sets, so an entirely new recolor will be very much welcomed. Will probably get to see the official images of these latest LEGO City sets as early as April, alongside the highly anticipated LEGO Marvel Superheroes Infinity War and those coming from the Star Wars Solo sets.
Thanks again to Promobricks for sharing this information.
We reported earlier how LEGO was taken over by an irresistibly cute avian-like species straight from Star Wars: The Last Jedi. As a part of a promotional campaign, LEGO has teamed up with LEGO certified professional Duncan Titmarsch and his team of master builders at Bright Bricks to create larger-than-life replicas of these beloved critters from the latest chapter in the Star Wars saga. These small, adorable creatures from the alien world of Ahch-To are made even more charming thanks to their excellent brick-built rendition. These LEGO Porgs statues were spotted at some of London’s key areas, including London’s South Bank, going to Millenium Bridge and past St. Paul’s Cathedral, to London’s Trafalgar Square, and finally nesting at the LEGO Store in Leicester Square. For more information on how these LEGO Porg statues were made, be sure to visit Bright Bricks’ blogsite.
If you enjoyed this march of the Porgs and was fortunate enough to spot one of them on these locations, then you might be thrilled to know that LEGO is throwing in one of these LEGO Porg statues for raffle! Yes, one of these 2-feet tall statues (made out of 8,000 LEGO pieces and weighing almost 17 kilos each) can now be yours for free by simply purchasing any LEGO Star Wars products at shop.LEGO.com from December 15 to January 15, 2018.
Valued at £3000 or more than $4,000 USD each, this raffle contest is open to all LEGO VIP members 18 years old and above, residing in the UK, France, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, and Austria. Here’s some of the most important contest mechanics as outlined by LEGO, and you can find the whole set of rules right here.
LEGO® brings the internet’s heroes of Star Wars: The Last Jedi to London for epic adventure – and gives the public the chance to win their own…
A group of LEGO Porgs – the new Star Wars critters that have set the internet alight – have this week been seen travelling across London and taking in the sights as film fans across the country return to the galaxy far, far away in the latest chapter of the epic Skywalker saga.
LEGO is also giving the public the chance to win one of three of the uniquely built brick birds over the Christmas period*.
From today until the 15th of January, members of LEGO’s free VIP loyalty scheme that buy a LEGO Star Wars set via shop.LEGO.com will automatically be entered into a ballot to be in with a chance to receive their very own LEGO Porg in the new year, the creature adored by stars from the film including Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill and the film’s director, Rian Johnson – who created them himself.
The group (or ‘murder’) of LEGO Porgs travelled from London’s South Bank, across Millennium Bridge and past St. Paul’s Cathedral – before finishing their sight-seeing tour at London’s Trafalgar Square and the LEGO store in Leicester Square.
*Competition terms & conditions
Overview: Individuals 18 and above can enter to win life-sized LEGO Porg
This Sweepstakes (the “Competition”) is sponsored by LEGO System A/S, Aastvej 1, 7190 Billund, Denmark.
By participating in this Competition, Entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules.
Eligibility: To enter this Competition you must be an individual aged 18 and above, a resident of United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Sweden or Austria and submit a valid Entry to the Competition.
Children who wish to participate can ask a parent/legal guardian to submit an entry in the parent’s or legal guardian’s name on behalf of the child. The entrant would be the parent/legal guardian. The parent/legal guardian must meet the requirements for this competition (Official Rules), including the requirements mentioned under section 3.
You are not eligible to enter if you are an employee, partner or immediate family member of an employee of the LEGO Group or any third-party company or agency directly connected with the creation or administration of this Promotion.
Entry Period: You are automatically entered to the prize draw if you make a LEGO ® Star Wars™ purchase during the validity period. The Entry Period begins at 15/12/2017, 08:00 GMT and ends 15/01/2018, 22:00 GMT (“Entry Period”). Any Entries received after this time shall not be valid.
How to enter: Simply make a purchase, adhering to the above conditions during the validity period.
Limitation on entry: One Entry per person during the Entry Period.
Prize(s): The Winner(s) will receive one (1) LEGO life-sized LEGO Porg. the approximate retail value is £3000. The prize is non-transferable and no cash alternative is available. The prize is subject to availability and the Sponsor reserves the right to substitute the prize for an alternative prize of equal or greater value. The Prize will be delivered by post to the Winner’s postal address after certification of the Potential Winner(s).
Those who have already gone to their local cinemas in order to watch Star Wars: The Last Jedi would’ve already gotten a good look at that weird-looking creature that we saw in trailers next to Chewbacca in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. Merchandising information has already informed us that those big-eyed, big-mouthed alien beasties are called Porgs.
If you’re one of the viewers who thought the Porgs cute in spite of – or maybe because of – their screeching voices, and happen to live in London, then you’re sort in luck. LEGO, being a merchandising partner of the Star Wars saga for so long, has decided to pitch in with promoting the film by putting up LEGO-brick Porgs in certain locations across the city.
About ten Porg statues made out of LEGO were positioned outside some of London’s easily-recognizable landmarks. These include classic structures like St. Paul’s Cathedral to the more contemporary sights like the London Eye.
These promotional set pieces were assembled by LEGO with help from the certified professional (LCP) outfit Bright Bricks. Each individual LEGO Porg is composed of 8,000 bricks and took 20 hours to build, thus 200 hours total to complete the set of 10. A completed statue is 60cm tall and weighs 16.5 kilos.
Porgs were conceptualized by The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, as bird-like creatures living in the ancient Jedi sanctuary world of Acht-To. The Porgs seen on screen were real-life puffins overlaid with CGI to look alien. A scene has Chewbacca roasting a Porg on Ahch-To, only to relent from eating it when other live Porgs nearby made him self-conscious. He took some of them aboard the Millennium Falcon later.
London’s flock of LEGO Porgs will be around from December 21 to January 15 next year. LEGO and Star Wars fans in the city shouldn’t miss taking a photo or two of them while they’re around.
LEGO is such a wide-ranging and transcendent play experience that it can go beyond just playing with real bricks and minifigures. There are the licensed videogames and apps too, that give the gamer access to LEGO items with which to realize his flights of fancies. From LEGO Worlds to the yet-to-be released LEGO Studio-AR, the virtual LEGO experience is robust.
Adding to the virtual LEGO experience then, is an app for the online service BriXtar. It was launched only last month but already, thousands of LEGO builders and fans have signed up for it and have downloaded the app on Google Play and the App Store.
BriXtar is a free app that offers a novel way for builders to share their LEGO MOCs online in 3D renditions via smartphone and tablet. The charm point here is, when a builder using digital LEGO creation software will upload their MOC files to BriXtar, the app can immediately generate instructions by which other builders can replicate the MOC in 3D.
The app also comes with a 3D viewer that will enable users to check out uploaded 3D MOCs through any angle or view by rotation or zooming of the image. Finally, BriXtar also has an online database where users can register their actual LEGO sets. The app can then show the user what MOCs uploaded on the platform can be replicated by them using their brick collections.
Further information on the BriXtar web service and app along with download links, can be found in their official website here.
Earlier this month, Ukraine’s LEGO Catalog gave us a hint on when we can expect the next wave of LEGO Star Wars sets to be released, which are tie-ins to the next Star Wars anthology film, Solo: A Star Wars Story. What we know so far is that this particular LEGO Star Wars theme has currently five sets slated to be released sometime in 2018, a month before the Solo: A Star Wars Story debuts on the big screen on May 25.
Thanks to Rebelscum, we now have a confirmation on when these next LEGO Star Wars sets will exactly rollout. Discovered in the English version of the LEGO Catalog, we have the release date listed by LEGO for the Star Wars Solo sets to be on April 20, 2018.
The news actually first broke out back in July when Brick Fanatics received insider information on the sets’ exact release dates. As it seems, their source is highly reliable. What we don’t know yet are the kind of sets that LEGO has in store for this subtheme. Several leaked images of LEGO Marvel Superheroes Infinity War minifigures have already been posted across various LEGO forums, so it will not take long until we have a hint on what LEGO has in store for Solo.
It seems that LEGO is not just re-releasing larger D2C sets, but also sought after accessories as well. LEGO has uploaded via its servers some official images of the once retired LEGO Blue Building Plate (620) from 2014. Now, this piece of news may not be that exciting for some of us, but for those who missed out on the Blue Building Plate (620), here is the chance to finally build that ocean scenery MOC that you’ve back-burned for quite some time. I know that a lot of serious builders will welcome this move of returning this beloved baseplate accessory, which is now rehashed as the 32×32 LEGO Classic Blue Baseplate (10714).
If you recall, the LEGO Blue Building Plate (620) had a quite shorter life span, being retired shortly after its relatively brief stint in 2014. Afterwards, newer baseplates were introduced in 2015 such as the 32×32 Sand (10699) and Green (10700) Baseplates, and the larger 48×48 Grey (10701) Baseplate, which are all available even until now. However, the Blue (620) Baseplate was retired earlier, in spite of its popularity among fans. The re-release of the LEGO Classic Blue Baseplate (10714) is a welcomed offering from LEGO, and will definitely be one of the most sought after accessories for any LEGO fan – kids and adults alike.
We have no exact retail amount yet, but given the current cost of the Sand and Green Baseplates, it will not be a long shot to consider a price point of $7 to $8, and a release date of sometime in January alongside other 2018 sets.
It had been quite the exciting prospect last month to win a one-time bed-and-breakfast stay at the LEGO House in Billund, Denmark courtesy of Airbnb. Only one winner and three companions would win that special accommodation, but there are other places where one can stay surrounded by near-infinite LEGO bricks.
LEGOLAND California, which opened in 1999, is quite obviously a big hit with guests. One very popular feature there is the Castle Hotel, opened in 2013. It’s not particularly huge, so bookings tend to be full up most of the time. But LEGOLAND California has some great news for guests.
As of this posting, LEGOLAND California’s Castle Hotel is accepting room reservations for the Spring 2018. Stateside families who are big LEGO fans will want to reserve accommodations for their stay if they’re going to the park at Carlsbad, California early next year. Visit herefor your reservations.
Next spring is a prime time to head over to LEGOLAND California, as the Castle Hotel will also be exhibiting over 2,000 LEGO models within its premises, constructed by certified Master Builders over a grueling period of 1,243 hours. There’s no better way to enjoy your stay on spring 2018.
Castle Hotel has 250 rooms in three classifications: Knight and Dragon, Royal Princess and Magic Wizard. The structure, which has a very distinctive faux-fantasy medieval castle aesthetic, has also been interpreted in LEGO set form recently, one that will be exclusive only to LEGO Stores in LEGOLAND theme parks worldwide.
For fans that may have only seen The LEGO Batman Movie in cinemas last year, it might be a big surprise for some of them to learn that LEGO and Warner Bros. Animation-DC have long been in a partnership producing direct-to-video animated movies since 2013. Batman – naturally, if DC fans would have it – was simply lucky to have his film get a theatrical release, but he’s already had four LEGO DC DTVs.
Anyway, it seems even though cinema premieres for LEGO animated films have proven to be blockbusters, WB Animation has decided not to abandon its direct-to-TV movies yet. In fact, their next one is due to come out next year and the spotlights will now focus on The Fastest Hero(or minifig) on Earth himself.
Be it known then that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is proud to announce a new LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes film starring The Flash. The trailer they have put up is a whimsical story of fun and action, as Barry Allen/Flash finds himself confronting his equally super-fast nemesis from the future, Reverse Flash, who is trying to ruin his historical reputation. The Justice League is also involved, with plenty of excitement and humor to be had.
LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash comes out on February 13, 2018 for Digital, and March 13 for DVD ($19.98) and Blu-Ray ($24.98). If there are any minifigures included in the packages, LEGO has given no word as of yet. But it’s about time the speedster gets his turn in the LEGO spotlight. Check out the full press release here.
