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First Look at 2019’s LEGO Speed Champions Ferrari F40 Competizione (75890)

There have been times when fans may have felt that LEGO’s promise to revive the Speed Champions line of brick-built car models may have been a half-hearted effort. The fact that new sets have been announced for the next year, along with all the rest, should somewhat quiet those doubts. Now thanks to Hoth Bricks, we now have our first official images of the LEGO Speed Champions Ferrari F40 Competizione (75890). Its design and contours are what to be expected from the Speed Champions line, and will certainly thrill collectors of LEGO vehicles.

Aside from this brick build of the Ferrari F40 Competizione itself, the set comes with a driver minifigure and a wrench accessory, and a variety of options for the car: a different hood, spoiler, headlights, rear exhaust, and three sets of alternative rims for the wheels.

Barring any changes, we can expect the LEGO Speed Champions Ferrari F40 Competizione (75890) to be priced at $14.99 like its fellow Speed Champions sets. From what info Hoth Bricks has gathered, this is the first of five Speed Champions sets for 2019. We’ll try to keep our readers updated once the other upcoming sets have been revealed as well.

More Images of China Regional-Exclusive LEGO Dragon Dance (80102) Set

When LEGO wants to imprint itself into the Chinese and Asian regional market, they don’t do it by half-measures. Already we have gotten a preview at what the company has planned for release in that country by 2019, one of them being given an in-depth look with several images shown. That was the LEGO Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner set (80101), a marvelous depiction of a Chinese family celebrating Chinese New Year in a totally traditional setting. Accompanying those images is one shot of its companion set the Dragon Dance (80102). Now we have a closer look at that courtesy of the same source, German LEGO news source Promo Bricks.

A close inspection of the box image for LEGO Dragon Dance (80102) hinted at a possible mechanical function similar to what LEGO a couple of months ago with LEGO Forma. These follow-up images confirm it: a crank on one side of the dragon dance platform can be turned, causing the Chinese dragon to undulate as if its bearers were actually moving it.

The set comes with five minifigures, four dragon-bearers (with individually distinct heads) and the CMF Series 12 Piggy Guy leading with the “pearl” ornament the dragon traditionally chases. Why a pig guy? That’s because the set is releasing in 2019, the Year of the Pig in the Chinese Zodiac (specifically, Pig of the Earth element). Interestingly, the included brick separator is colored teal, a first.

Like the Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner (80101), this set will only be available for conventional purchase in China, and possibly neighboring Asian countries. The rest of the world may have to rely on secondary markets to get one of these.

2019 LEGO Duplo Sets Revealed

Serious, the revelation of all LEGO sets expected to be released when the year 2019 comes feels like a runaway train with no breaks. We’ve already covered huge number of set reveals coming from LEGO’s themes such as those from LEGO City, Creator, Friends and The LEGO Movie 2 just to name a few. And this time, we’ve got fresh reveals of the 2019 LEGO Duplo sets expected to be released before the year ends.

Now, we’ve already seen some of these upcoming 2019 LEGO Duplo sets due to tying in to either The LEGO Movie 2, or being revealed as part of a commemorative set for Disney’s 90^th anniversary celebration for Mickey Mouse. But there are many more sets where that came from. And we’ve got the official images here thanks to, again, Promo Bricks:

My First Fun Puzzle (10885)

My First Car Creations (10886)

Police Station (10902)

Fire Station (10903)

There are additional Duplo sets slated for 2019 that are still yet to be revealed. We’ll try to get them in as well when the time comes.

The Heartlake Girls Go to the Countryside With These 2019 LEGO Friends Sets

We’ve already seen what LEGO City has in store for the coming year, now it’s time for another major LEGO line to showcase its sets due for release in 2019. Where City was all police chases and firefighting by land, sea and air, the 2019 LEGO Friends sets has the Heartlake girls taking a vacation to the countryside.

The 2019 sets brought out for LEGO Friends can be roughly divided into two groups: the conventional sets and the novelty “Heart Box” series containing the Heartlake girls with accessories, which can be stacked for some really stylish storage. Here are the official images of these upcoming sets, thanks to French LEGO news source Hoth Bricks.

2019 LEGO Friends Heart Boxes – stackable when closed up

Andrea (41354)

Emma (41355)

Stephanie (41356)

Olivia (41357)

Mia (41358)

Friendship Pack (41359)

2019 LEGO Friends Sets – a number of these are country-themed

Emma’s Mobile Veterinary Clinic (41360) – 4+ set

Mia’s Foal Stable (41361) – 4+ set

Mia’s Forest Adventure (41363)

Stephanie’s Buggy Trailer (41364)

Emma’s Art Studio (41365)

Olivia’s Cupcake Café (41366)

Stephanie’s Obstacle Course (41367)

Andrea’s Talent Show (41368)

Mia’s House (41369)

Olivia’s Hamster Playground (41383)

Retired NFL Player Jason Witten Honored with LEGO Statue Outside Dallas Cowboys HQ

It’s become quite the acceptable medium to honor some famous person or other who has earned an achievement in his or her career by having a life-sized statue of them made out of LEGO bricks. It’s simply a natural development from building LEGO figures of favorite characters from any franchise.

Quite recently, the Dallas Cowboys also commissioned a LEGO statue to be put in front of their team headquarters at The Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas. Said figure is none other than their former player and now-ESPN color analyst for Monday Night Football, tight end Jason Witten.

Jason Witten made of Legos at The Star pic.twitter.com/fxELfOX204

— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) November 26, 2018

Twitter first became aware of the LEGO Witten statue the week before, when the first posts came up November 23. Needless to say, it’s become an additional tourist attraction and selfie magnet in the Cowboys HQ. No info was shared as to who built the figure for The Star, but its construction fits the styling of past sporting-figure LEGO constructs.

LEGO or otherwise, having such an honor done for Jason Witten is well-earned. He spent all 15 years of his NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys after all, from 2007 to 2017. In that time he established himself as one of the best tight ends in the league with 68 TDs and 1,152 receptions over the span of 239 games.

Nobody knows if the real Witten has gone on to see his LEGO rendition yet, but the brick-built statue remains at Cowboys HQ in the Star for all future visits.

More Police and Firefighting 2019 LEGO City Sets Revealed

If you’ve been keeping pace with our updates on what LEGO sets are scheduled to officially come out in 2019 (or unofficially, be already available in toy retailers from, say, Canada), then you’ll know that many of the upcoming 2019 LEGO City sets have common themes: action and adventure, judging from the various firefighting and police operation sets in the previews.

As it turns out, the action-packed and adventurous LEGO City sets for next year are just getting warmed up. Following the first batch of previews, more 2019 sets have been revealed, lots of them depicting exciting sequences of epic firefights or high-speed high-altitude police chases and urban surfaces to play on.

Sky Police Parachute Arrest (60208)

Features a police jet, motorcycle, ATV and parachute

Sky Police Diamond Heist (60209)

Features a police armored van, wing-pack, and gyrocopter

Sky Police Air Base (60210)

Has a police airbase with motorcycle, wing-pack and transport plane featuring an ejecting parachute and a getaway car.

Downtown Fire Brigade (60216)

Features a fire engine with ladder-hose apparatus (real water pump action), helicopter and firefighting drone; burning building facade with construction crane

Straight & T-Junction (60236)

Curves & Crossroads (60237)

Credit goes to German news source Promo Bricks for these exciting images of the 2019 LEGO City sets.

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Here Are Amazon‘s LEGO Cyber Monday Deals

We’re now on our last leg of LEGO sales and deals, and if you’re one of those blessed souls who managed to bring home their much awaited building sets during LEGO’s Black Friday promos, then you might want to take a look at what the world’s largest online store has to offer with Amazon‘s LEGO Cyber Monday deals.

Cyber Monday has already kicked off, and this time Amazon still has a lot of LEGO goodies to offer at ridiculously low prices, or as much as 30% off. Most noticeable of them are the larger, hard-to-find sets such as the LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V (21309), LEGO Batman Movie The Joker Manor (70922), and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown (76108). Check out the rest of today’s LEGO Cyber Monday deals which you can find below. Be sure to hurry because these sets can really be out of stock soon.

81-Year-Old Proponent of Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center Recreates Building with LEGO

LEGO has been especially pushing their brand, by means of some new in-development sets, to attract the purchase of adults not just to give to their children, but for themselves. While LEGO might want its products to be enjoyable to all ages, they probably never thought it might catch the fancy of an 81-year-old man.

Said cool old guy is Stuart Blumberg, retired president of the hotel association for Miami-Dade County. Blumberg even got into LEGO at such an advanced age, attempting his first build at 78. That was the beginning of his LEGO experience that lasted some three years.

His set builds advanced from vehicles to building models, and now he’s taken on an MOC project in honor of a local structure he had been personally invested in: the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. He had been part of a group that pushed for the construction of the center back in the 1990s, not opening until 2006.

Blumberg had the brick design for the Arsht Center created by Brett Thiessen of StadiumBrick on Etsy, along with the necessary LEGO pieces to construct it. This MOC not only has more bricks in it than the LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle micro-scale set (71043, 6000+ pieces), it almost reaches the amount to assemble the LEGO Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon (75192).

Despite the effort and building time, Blumberg was ecstatic as he recalled his time on the board that oversaw the delayed construction of the real Arsht Center. “Building it was emotional,” he said. “Watching it being built again. In reality. In real time. Each time, I put something in there, it was like watching the real building be built all over again.” He has shown the build to the center’s namesake, retired philanthropist Adrienne Arsht, who was impressed.

“LEGO Worlds” Gets New Free Content with “Wild West” Theme

When the tandem of WB Interactive and Traveller’s Tales gets mentioned, the first thing to a LEGO gamer’s mind is perhaps their franchise titles like the recent LEGO The Incredibles or LEGO DC Super Villains. But even non-franchise “original” LEGO gets love in the form of sandbox title LEGO Worlds.

Released last year, the game has chugged along steadily even while its developers continued churning out franchise-themed titles in the same vein. Updates to LEGO Worlds itself often came in the form of new content in costumes, equipment and locations. And a new batch of additions was added last Thanksgiving.

LEGO Worlds now has some new “Wild West Content” that became available for download since November 22. As the name spells out, players can expect environments such as an old western town, log fort, mountain main and much more. That comes with period appropriate getup, weapons and tools and horse figures to ride on.

LEGO promises a rooting-tooting time as they set up dusty desert rides, high-noon showdowns and whatever hijinks one might get to when in the Old West, especially when everything’s made out of LEGO. LEGO Worlds is available on Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.