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LEGO Creative Storybook (40291) – First Seen on LEGO Germany Promo Flyer

It’s starting to look like Germany may be trying to pull a turnaround where it comes to the trend of decreasing popularity (and sales) for LEGO in that country lately. They’ve already set up a “Make & Take” event there at local Toys R Us stores (German ones still operating).

Now, LEGO Germany is getting the drop on most other major markets around the world with the release of their promo flyer for May-June 2018. One of these items is a limited-time giveaway set that might look familiar to those who’ve been keeping up with LEGO Ideas’ currently-running Reviews Stage.

Said giveaway is from the LEGO Creative Storybook (40291), featuring Denmark’s eternally remembered author of fairy tales, Han Christian Andersen. The design is a diorama shaped like a pop-up storybook, with Hans writing a story on one page while the other side depicts a scene from The Ugly Duckling.

There’s been no word yet on when the Creative Storybook (40291) will be made available for sale or promo giveaway outside of Germany. For now, the set is available to LEGO Shop customers in that country for every total purchase of at least €65. The promo also runs from June 4-24.

Meanwhile, the ongoing LEGO Ideas 2017 Third Review Stage also includes a submission called Pop-Up Book by JK Brickworks. It looks like a larger take on the LEGO Creative Storybook set. One must wonder if the similarity might preclude Pop-Up book from passing now, but the final decision’s still a ways off.

Vintage BMW R60/2 Motorcycle Gets 10K LEGO Ideas Support, But Will It Be Allowed?

The LEGO Ideas platform has been the place to go when there’s a dream set a builder would like to be officially interpreted in LEGO. And indeed, quite the number of model vehicles, buildings, and so on has been released in that line. But some may not, even with support.

And we’re not talking about the entries that don’t get past the Review Stages either. We’ll take the example of this particular project by LEGO Ideas member maximecheng03. He created a LEGO motorcycle, scaled just enough to fit any LEGO Constraction model character sitting astride it. It’s certainly a beauty.

But there’s a problem. This Ideas motorcycle is a replica of a real model, the BMW R60/2 with twin engines. Herein lies the snag: apparently BMW is on LEGO’s list of so-called “restricted licenses”, as in they couldn’t – or wouldn’t – make any LEGO merchandise based on anything those licenses cover.

So although maximecheng03’s BMW R60/2 motorcycle did just recently hit the needed 10,000 support record needed, the fact that LEGO is restricted from making products tied by license to BMW means it probably won’t be included in the 2018 First Review Stage. That’d be unfortunate if the list isn’t that strict.

For now, the number of recent LEGO Ideas submissions that are in for the upcoming review phase stands at nine, with the latest addition being a yabba-dabba-doo-tastic rendition of The Flinstones home, car, and character minifigures. Much as it’d be nice for maximecheng03 to get in, it doesn’t look good.

Weekend Custom LEGO Deals From The Brick Show Shop Now Up!

Our official storefront, The Brick Show Shop, is offering a wave of weekend custom LEGO deals that are hard to miss out on.

For those of you who have been following our blog site for quite some time, you may have already noticed that we now have a link that leads to our official merchandise page. The Brick Show Shop is now live with plenty of custom LEGO deals that are up for grabs as long as stocks last.

Weekend Custom LEGO Deals To Check Out at The Brick Show Shop

Our official storefront offers a barrage of super saver custom LEGO deals over this weekend. From mini LEGO MOCS (designed by Build Better Bricks’ master builders Tyler Clites and Sean Mayo) to unique custom LEGO pieces, there’s something in store for every LEGO fan.

Whether you want to add more fun to your existing LEGO City MOC by adding several custom brick-built arcades, or simply want to ‘wear’ your passion for the LEGO brick, then the Brick Show Shop has something to suit your fancy.

This time around, the Brick Show Shop is currently running a weekend custom LEGO deals sale that can save you up to 15% on each of the builds that are on sale. So if you’re planning to expand that LEGO Arcade MOC with additional custom brick-built retro games, then be sure to enter the code APRIL 15 when you check out from the store. Remember, this deal will only happen during the weekend so be sure to check this out.

Here’s a glimpse of the things that you’ll find in the store. Click on the following links below to see more custom LEGO deals in our store.

LEGO Arcades

The Brick Show Shop offers a wide variety of custom, minifig-scaled LEGO arcade machines inspired by classic 80s video games such as Donkey Kong, Centipede, Q*Bert, and Pac-Man. They also come with unique, high-quality stickers that bring these tiny MOCs to life.

Apparel and Other Fun Brick Stuff

From LEGO-inspired tees, to sunglasses and LEGO-compatible BT speakers, this collection is for anyone who would like to show their love for the brick.

The B3 Shop

The B3 Shop offers not just the building instructions for these awesome builds, but also the LEGO pieces that go with them – we take care of searching the LEGO parts for you. The Claw Machine, Air Hockey Table, and Retro Arcade Machines are just a few of my favorites. This collection of high-quality custom LEGO kits was designed by the coolest designers around at Build Better Bricks (B3).

Again, be sure to enter the promo code APRIL15 to avail this weekend’s discounts. Happy building!

Toys R Us in Germany Having May 5 Event with Make and Take Activity

The light has gone out for Toys R Us in the UK; it’s going out in the US. But the toy retailer, or at least its branding, is soldiering on in a few more nations. One of these is Germany, and their May the 4^th event is proof of endurance.

May the 4^th or Star Wars Day, has been a major (unofficial) celebration of the franchise including its merchandise tie-ins. It usually extends to May 5 and even 6, known to the fans as the “Revenge of the Fifth/Sixth” Days (after the prequel Episode III). That’s where TRU Germany strikes.

A German Toys R Us flyer for the occasion notes the May 5 Star Wars thing as happening in almost all their branches in the country barring five (Sankt Augustin, Schwerin, Münster, Hanau and Recklinghausen). Events are what’s been expected in other TRU stores in the days before its decline.

German customers coming into their TRUs that Saturday can engage in some Star Wars games, a scavenger hunt, and also the time-honored Make and Take activity, one of the subjects being a mini-build Millennium Falcon. Maybe it’ll even follow the “new” color scheme seen in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

In a way, Toys R Us Germany has gotten a more appropriate model to celebrate the Star Wars Days this year compared to The LEGO Store. After all, Solo is premiering later that month, so having LEGO Store offer a sequel-era BB-8 polybag (40288) feels off. All seems good for the German TRU, which looks like it’ll stay awhile longer.

One More Lego Ideas Set with 10-K Support: “The Flintstones”

Yabadabadoo!

From the town of Bedrock, the Modern Stone-Age Family (and their next-door neighbors) are coming forward to us now…in LEGO form. At least that’s what’s going to happen, officially, once this new 10K-support passer of a proposal in LEGO Ideas can impress enough in the Review Phase up next.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Joining the ranks of this already impressive lineup of LEGO Ideas submissions that have recently gained the preliminary 10,000 support, is an animation nostalgia gesture from Andrew Clark: a beautifully detail recreation of the main setting and characters from Hanna-Barbera’s iconic series The Flintstones.

This Ideas set by Clark is composed of the familiar stone-slab residence of the Flintstone family, a driveway (with mailbox) where the family “foot-car” is parked, and a welcome sign for their hometown, the prehistoric Town of Bedrock (pop. 2,500).

And then we get to the included minifigures. Even somebody with a passing familiarity on The Flintstones might easily name Fred and Wilma with their daughter Pebbles, and the neighboring Rubble family: Barney, Betty and their boy Bam Bam. One glaring detail is that the Flintstone family pet Dino is absent, though Clark says a future update might fix that.

Everything in the Ideas proposal is as cartoon-accurate as can be. The house interior has stuff like a boulder-TV, horn telephone and parrot-beak turntable. The yard also has a lawnmower with an herbivore dinosaur! And the foot-car has an optional “dino-steak” prop, just like the one shown in the credits.

If that weren’t enough, Andrew Clark also put up this sweet video showing how his LEGO-brick prototypes come together, tangibly showing fans what to expect. It’s no wonder now how the Ideas Flintstones set got its 10K support, and we wish it well for the upcoming First 2018 Review Stage.

LEGOLAND Castle Hotel At LEGOLAND California Resort Is Ready for Its Grand Opening!

It’s finally happening. The LEGOLAND California Resort will officially open its LEGOLAND Castle Hotel to welcome visitors beginning tomorrow Friday, April 27. This latest addition to the LEGOLAND franchise is the first of its kind in the US that follows the classic LEGO Castle theme which will engage the whole family in a magical world of brick-built dragons, magicians, and other kingdom royalties.

The LEGOLAND Castle Hotel features three room themes which includes Royal Princess, Knights and Dragons, and Magic Wizard. Read the full press release below, and if you haven’t booked yet, you may want to visit the LEGOLAND California Resort website to reserve.

LEGOLAND®CASTLE HOTEL AT LEGOLAND®CALIFORNIA RESORT IS OPENING!

Nation’s First LEGO® Castle Themed Hotel Opens to the Public for First Time Following Official Ceremony

Calling all Knights, Princesses and Wizards! LEGOLAND® California Resort is officially unlocking the doors to its newest Hotel addition, LEGOLAND® Castle Hotel. On Friday, April 27, 2018, two young knights, a wizard and a cast of characters join together to open the family theme park’s new royal kingdom. The LEGOLAND Castle Hotel is the first hotel of its kind in North America and is designed to fully immerse kids and families into a world of LEGO® enchantment and bring children’s imaginations to life!

The three-story, 250-room hotel immerses guests into a creative LEGO® world and every room is fully themed to create a castle fantasy. Guests can choose from three different room themes: Royal Princess, Knights and Dragons and Magic Wizard. Upon entering the LEGOLAND Castle Hotel, guests will first step into a Grand Hall where they are met by a LEGO wizard before taking a magical levitating lift (elevator) that will take them to one of three different floors to continue their adventure. Other unique features include a slide in the Grand Hall, LEGO building stations in each children’s sleeping area, interactive play elements in the expansive courtyard, interactive water play features by the pool, premium entertainment from LEGOLAND characters, a LEGOLAND retail store and LEGO models themed specifically to each room type. Guests staying at LEGOLAND Hotel have exclusive early access to the LEGOLAND California theme park.

DETAILS:

Ceremony visuals include spectacular entrances by Knights, a wizard, a flying hawk and confetti cannons celebrating the grand opening.
Interviews with LEGOLAND California Resort General Manager, Peter Ronchetti and LEGOLAND Hotel General Manager, Frank Idris.
Guests checking in and entering Hotel for the first time
Three Premium Hotel room themes: Royal Princess, Knights and Dragons and Magic Wizard
Explore Hotel featuring more than 2,000 LEGO models made out of three million LEGO® bricks, Grand Hall lobby, Royal Courtyard, Dragons’ Den Family Restaurant, Knock-knock Joke Door, LEGO play pit, interactive play structures and themed entertainment

More LEGO Ninjago Summer 2018 Official Set Images Released

After Amazon France’s reveal of the next wave of LEGO Ninjago sets scheduled to be released earl y in June, another French online retailer, Alternate, has now posted more official images of these latest LEGO Ninjago sets. Based on Season 9 of its counterpart TV show with a Free the Dragons subtheme. This latest series, as of to date, consists of six sets with one exclusive to LEGOLAND Billund which is the Oni Titan (70658).

Check out these collection of clear, crisp images.

Destiny’s Wing (70650)

Throne Room Showdown (70651)

Stormbringer (70652)

Firstbourne (70653)

Dieselnaut (70654)

Dragon Pit (70655)

LEGOLAND Windsor Buckingham Miniland Display Celebrates Birth of Royal Baby

One of the themed areas for the LEGOLAND Windsor Resort theme park is Miniland, where a variety of LEGO reproductions of famous buildings around the world are on display. Part of Miniland’s UK exhibits is Buckingham Palace, and this model building just got spruced up in light of recent events.

On Monday, April 23, a new addition to the line of succession for the British throne was born, in the person of the third child of Prince William and Kate, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. LEGOLAND Windsor joins in the nationwide celebration of the royal birth with this brick-rendered gesture.

Visitors to the UK LEGOLAND’s Miniland area might notice that the LEGO Buckingham palace there now has its gates open, with Paparazzi aiming cameras at the driveway where brick-built figures of the Duke and Duchess stand, a LEGO baby in LEGO-Kate’s arms. They’re joined by Prince George and Princess Charlotte.

The LEGO version of the unnamed baby Prince is 5cm in length, made up of 1×2 plates and a blank minifigure head, with a minifigure baby acting as Princess Charlotte’ doll. To the family’s sides are a dog and a LEGO stroller, as well as the official birth announcement easel.

LEGOLAND Windsor model maker Kat James put together this royal birth display; and it’s looking to be a big hit with the human audience as it is with the brick-built crowd at the LEGO palace gates. No word was given as to how long the royal family will be displayed, so it’s best for those who wish to see it, to come running there soon.

Interestingly, LEGOLAND Windsor is pretty close to the real Buckingham Palace. Also, the Duke, Duchess and their children actually live in Kensington. The baby Prince also hasn’t gotten his name announced yet.

Facebook Hosts LEGO 60th Anniversary Build Event for LEGO Communities Around the World

It’s April by now, but the celebrations for the 60^th anniversary of the patenting of the ubiquitous LEGO brick back in January 28 haven’t stopped yet. It’s a good bet that more events to commemorate one of the most iconic toy designs in the world will be happening all year round.

Take for instance this awesome gathering pulled by social network giant, Facebook. It’s easy to see on their platform that plenty of LEGO fan communities all over the world have made FB their social network platform of choice. As such, Facebook saw it fit to invite community representatives to a LEGO celebratory event.

With that, LEGO master builders from Denmark, Norway, Australia, the UK and other countries traveled to Facebook’s corporate HQ at Menlo Park, California to join with their American counterparts in order to participate in an FB-hosted build event led by Master Builder Chris Steininger.

Working with boxes of LEGO sets and plenty of assorted building elements, these assembled builders who have a presence on Facebook went on to build multiple MOCs that they laid out in the front yard of FBHQ. This is the iconic social network’s own contribution to LEGO’s 60th anniversary celebrations worldwide.

Aside from the outdoor build event itself, FB also gave the international builders an open forum for further networking of their other brick-works and activities, as well as taking the assembly on a campus tour of their corporate operations. All in all, it was fun aplenty with LEGO fans having the chance to share their passion for the brick to a whole a new level.

Get Ready For The Grandest Brick-Built Ride Of Your Life With The LEGO Creator Expert Roller Coaster (10261).

After making a brief appearance over at eBay, LEGO has finally, and officially, pulled off the veil from its latest and grandest theme-park inspired LEGO Creator Expert. The announcement also came in via LEGO’s social media channels a few moments ago.

Coming in at a sizeable amount of 4,124 pieces, the LEGO Creator Expert Roller Coaster (10261) comes with 11 minifigures and brightly colored, functional train tracks. It comes as the fourth Creator Expert set that follows a theme-park/carnival vibe. The set will retail in the US for $379.99 and will be available for early VIP access beginning May 16, and to the general public on June 1.

Here’s the complete press release followed by a host of crystal clear images. Just click on the images to have a better view.

LEGO Creator Expert: Roller Coaster (10261)

Ages 16+. 4,124 pieces.
$379.99 US – $479.99 CN – DE 329.99€ – FR 349.99€ – UK £299.99 – DK 2699DKK
*Euro pricing varies by country. Please visit shop.LEGO.com for regional pricing.

Take a ride with the ultimate Roller Coaster!

Enjoy the thrills and excitement of the fairground with thischain-lift Roller Coaster featuring a wealth of brick-built details and 11 minifigures. Upgradable with LEGO® Power Functions and LEGO BOOST for an added movement sensor and realistic sound effects!

Capture the speed, thrills and excitement of the ultimate fairground attraction with this incredible LEGO® Creator Expert 10261 Roller Coaster. This fully functional chain-lift model comes with 2 trains and an array of authentic features and functions, including a ticket booth, cotton candy cart, concession stand, height marker, and a covered boarding station complete with opening barriers and a control panel. Lower the lap bars to secure the riders into the cars and release the brake to send the train to the foot of the first climb. Then activate the chain lift and enjoy the ride as the gravity-driven cars hurtle through the Roller Coaster’s twists and turns.

Upgrade the Roller Coaster with LEGO Power functions for a motorized chain lift or LEGO BOOST for an added movement sensor and realistic sound effects! This incredible collectible toy has been designed to provide a challenging and rewarding building experience with a touch of nostalgia and charm. Includes 11 minifigures.

Build a fully functioning Roller Coaster with 2 trains, lots of big dips and upgrade options.
Upgrade with LEGO® BOOST and LEGO Power Functions for an even more immersive experience.
Roller Coaster model measures over 20” (53cm) high, 34” (88cm) wide and 16” (41cm) deep.
LEGO® Creator Expert building toys are compatible with all LEGO construction sets for creative building.
Includes 11 minifigures: a cotton candy vendor, 2 ride attendants, 2 grandparents with their granddaughter and 5 riders. 8 of these minifigures feature reversible heads to display different emotions.
Fully functional chain-lift Roller Coaster model features a classic brick-built sign, control panel, 2 trains—each consisting of 3 train cars with low-friction wheels, and a 44-piece track consisting of 7 different rail elements.
Also features a ticket booth, fountain, cotton candy cart, concession stand, waiting area with bench, camera element and a pond with a frog figure.
Buy your ticket at the booth and make your way to the covered plaza.
No cheating at the height marker—the ride attendant has an accurate measuring stick!
Help the riders into the cars and secure the lap bars.
Release the brake to send the cars to the foot of the first climb.
Activate the chain lift to pull the train cars to the top of the first drop.
Move the rails to launch a second train.
Serve refreshing beverages at the concession stand or spin some cotton candy.
Don’t forget to smile as you race past the camera!
Upgrade the Roller Coaster with LEGO® Power Functions for a motorized chain lift, or with LEGO BOOST for automated chain lift activation and realistic sound effects!
Decorated elements include a ticket, money, arrow tiles, pressure gauge, number pad and a ride control panel.
Special new-for-June-2018 elements include a 2x8x6 Rail Slope, 1x2x1 Bow Brick, plant leaves, stalks and flowers.
Other elements include a height checker and 2 cotton candy treats.
Makes the perfect fairground addition to the 10257 LEGO® Creator Expert Carousel and 10247 LEGO® Creator Expert Ferris Wheel.
Measures over 20” (53cm) high, 34” (88cm) wide and 16” (41cm) deep.