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2018 LEGO Seasonal Christmas Ornaments Revealed

Hot on the heels of the LEGO Seasonal Christmas Carousel (40293) reveal, we now have our first official images of the this year’s series of LEGO Seasonal Christmas Ornaments as shared once again by the LEGO Certified Store Network in Russia. This collection of Christmas Tree ornaments follow the tradition of previously released buildable holiday decors consisting of microbuilds inside a clear, transparent sphere. As of this posting, there are three 2018 Christmas Ornaments that are currently known: A Christmas Ornament Penguin (853796), Christmas Ornament Presents (853815), and Christmas Ornament Train (853810). As you can see, these are now listed for sale in Russian LEGO certified stores, and we can expect these to be available in US LEGO Stores starting October 1, retailing for $7.99 like those from previous years.

LEGO Christmas Ornament Penguin (853796)

37 pieces; $7.99

LEGO Christmas Ornament Presents (853815)

50 pieces; $7.99

LEGO Christmas Ornament Train (853810)

50 pieces; $7.99

These latest LEGO seasonal Christmas ornaments follow the likes of the Christmas Ornament Snowman (853670), Christmas Ornament Reindeer (853574), Christmas Ornament Holiday Bauble (851358), and Christmas Ornament Winter Hut (850949) from previous years.

Image credits: Mir-Kubikov and Brickset

2018 LEGO Advent Calendars Now Available

September is finally here, and we can now have our Christmas shopping wish list ready just in time for the holidays. It may only be September, but LEGO understands very well the virtue of offering their latest Christmas-themed sets as early as this month. We already had a glimpse of this year’s collection of LEGO City, Friends, and Star Wars Advent Calendars when first images of these sets came out as early as spring. This time, LEGO has finally listed these 2018 LEGO Advent Calendars at shop.LEGO.com and are now slated to be available in your local LEGO store.

Designed to be opened each day starting December 1st until Christmas Eve, these Advent Calendars comes with plenty of minibuilds and minifigures that you can add up to your collection. I’m very impressed on how this year’s LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (75213) turned out. The minibuilds are spot on when compared to their larger counterparts, and its relatively new selection of minifigures will not disappoint. The LEGO City Advent Calendar (60201) also features tons of minibuilds that will make a great addition to any Winter Village you’re building this season. A LEGO Santa minifigure is always welcomed treat. However, I feel that the LEGO Friends Advent Calendar (41353) set still has room for improvement, and it will be nice if LEGO included a minidoll or two other than just having a collection of minibuilds. Nevertheless, this selection of 2018 LEGO Advent Calendars surprises are still great and will surely add some brick-building cheers this Christmas.

If you wish to know more about the 2018 LEGO Advent Calendars, just click on the following links and check them out at shop.LEGO.com and what they have to offer.

LEGO City Advent Calendar (60201)

LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (75213)

LEGO Friends Advent Calendar (41353)

LEGO Store October 2018 Calendar Now Up

The US LEGO Store October 2018 calendar is now available online, and it gives us a glimpse of the some of the promotional items that we can receive during this month. It also highlights the recently revealed LEGO Star Wars Betrayal at Cloud City (75222), dubbed as the first set under the Master Builder Series. Read on for the rest of cool things to look forward to at your local LEGO store.

October 1-14: FREE Han Solo Mudtrooper (40300) with LEGO Star Wars purchases $35 and more.

October 2-3: VIP Monthly Mini Build is a Scarecrow (40285).

To avail this freebie, LEGO VIP members need to register at shop.LEGO.com/Minibuild-registration beginning September 15.

October 15-31: FREE Minifigure Collector Frame (5005359) with purchases over $75.

October 20, 27: Join a LEGO Life Meeting

For LEGO fans who want to get together to test their building skills, these are the last LEGO Life meetings for 2018, so be sure not to miss them out.

October 1 to November 4: Enter the All-Star Zone!

Come into the LEGO Store and build your very own Star Wars battle fighter! Load your ship into the launcher, aim for the target, and let it fly into the galaxy! This activity intended for children ages 6-14.

The LEGO Store October 2018 calendar also highlights some of the latest LEGO sets to watch out for like the LEGO BrickHeadz Halloween Witch (40272), the LEGO Star Wars Porg (75230), and 2018 Advent Calendars. Lastly, watch out for this month’s sets with Double VIP points for more awesome savings. For this month’s copy of the LEGO Store September 2018 calendar be sure to check out a copy right here.

LEGO Teases on its 2018 Winter Village D2C Set

It’s that time of the year again when we excitedly count the days leading to Christmas, and what better way for LEGO fans to celebrate the occasion than to have our hands busy once more with LEGO’s next Winter Village offering. This particular LEGO Creator Expert holiday subtheme began in 2009 and has been growing steadily ever since, with each set adding seamlessly to the previous one. In fact, for two consecutive years, this particular subtheme saw a Winter Village Station (10259) and a Winter Holiday Train (10254) set that animated this humble winter village. This time, thanks to a teaser released by LEGO News, we now have a glimpse of what the next LEGO Winter Village D2C set will be. There was no specific mention of what this is, except for some close up shots of particular sections of the set.

The teaser featured some of the most common elements in a LEGO Winter Village set such as a Christmas Tree, a micro-scaled snowman, and a lamp-post. However, what is most interesting is the last teaser image that LEGO News has shared. The red telephone is quite telling, hinting on the fact that this could be part of any particular office or establishment that respond to emergency situations. Some LEGO fans even suggest that it may even be a fire station of some sorts inside the winter village. The good thing though is that this year’s LEGO Winter Village D2C set is slated to be revealed on September 9, so we’ll keep our eyes and radars open for that. Be sure to stay tuned here in our blog site for more LEGO updates.

A Look at Another Seasonal Set: the LEGO BrickHeadz Turkey (40273)

It looks like some folks are fortunate to have their hands have an early try on some of the anticipated LEGO BrickHeadz sets for the latter of part of the year. Our friends over at Promobricks, for example, had their LEGO BrickHeadz Witch (40272) delivered early at their footsteps. And like any other super excited LEGO fan, they delved right away in building this year’s BrickHeadz Halloween set. As it turned out, other than the much welcomed surprise of building the LEGO BrickHeadz Witch, the building instructions for this set also offers another surprise: our first image of the next seasonal set, the LEGO BrickHeadz Turkey (40273).

The above image was shared by Promobricks, and features the LEGO BrickHeadz Turkey (40273) slated to be available in October. Similar to previously released seasonal LEGO BrickHeadz, this brick-built Turkey comes with attachments that mimics a carrot patch, pumpkin and other garden vegetation. I’m not really sure what that yellow piece that the turkey is holding represents (and I am not inclined to think that it is a piece of turkey bone), but the way the Turkey’s wattle was recreated, even its rear feathers, are really spot on even at such a small, cute scale. The gray and brown color scheme also adds up to that Thanksgiving vibe.

There is no piece count yet for the LEGO BrickHeadz Turkey (40273), but as with other LEGO BrickHeadz sets we can expect this next seasonal set to retail for $9.99 just in time for Thanksgiving. On a similar note, we are still waiting to have our first look at this year’s final LEGO seasonal sets to celebrate the Christmas season: the LEGO BrickHeadz Mr. and Mrs. Claus. Thanks once again to Promobricks for sharing this image.

Update: I’ve opted to include the above image from Brickset which offers a better look the details of the LEGO BrickHeadz Turkey (40273).

LEGOLAND Windsor Offers Chance for Free Entry to Dads on Father’s Day

In the UK’s LEGOLAND theme park at Windsor, the excitement has finally died down following the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in the nearby namesake castle. LEGOLAND Windsor’s brick tribute will be remaining on display for some time yet, but there are other occasions to prepare for.

Case in point, June 17 is the third Sunday of the month, aka Father’s Day. And LEGOLAND Windsor has a special treat for dads visiting the park on that special day. What could be more awesome and heartwarming, perhaps, than to have family heads enter LEGOLAND that day for free?

You read it right. LEGOLAND Windsor Senior PR Manager Lauren Moss announced that they will be giving away free, precious tickets to 250 lucky dads. All they have to do is go to the park on June 17 between 8:45-10:00AM and gather at the Father’s Day Trivia Turnstile, installed by LEGOLAND for the day.

Once there, these coolest, brick-building dads will have to correctly answer trivia questions posed by LEGOLAND staff to win one of the 250 tickets, saving their cash only for their family members. “We know dads are used to being asked questions by their little ones,” noted Moss on the mechanics. “So we know they’ll be great at tackling our trivia question about our world famous Miniland and its new attractions.”

Trivia Questions at the Father’s Day Trivia Turnstile usually involve facts and statistics about the park, such as queries about the mini buildings on the Miniland themed area, where the recent Royal Birth and Royal Wedding displays still stand. Local Dads will need to get to know LEGOLAND better to get a chance for free entry on Father’s Day. One thing’s for sure, it’ll be fun for one and all.

It’s an Early Christmas Treat With the LEGO City 2018 Advent Calendar (60201)

Summer is still far from over and yet LEGO is now giving us another early Christmas treat with the release of another Advent Calendar following the reveal of those from the LEGO Friends and LEGO Star Wars theme. I’m a fan of these LEGO City Advent Calendars, and thankfully Promobricks have uploaded our first image of the set’s box art.

The 2018 LEGO City Advent Calendar (60201) features 4 minifigures including our main stay Santa. I’m looking forward in having that husky minifigure and the golden microfig on top of the Christmas tree. The microbuilds are decent as well, which is a shout out to this year’s LEGO City themes such as those from the Arctic and Mining sets.

Promobricks reports a release date of sometime in September, with the LEGO City Advent Calendar (60201) retailing for 19.99 Euros, which could also be around $30 same as that from last year.

New LEGO Creator Christmas Train (30543) Polybag Spotted

It seems were getting our first look at another Christmas seasonal set, followed by the reveal of the LEGO Friends Advent Calendar 2018 (41353). It’s not yet summer, but LEGO has already given us a taste of things to come with a new seasonal set, the LEGO Creator Christmas Train (30543) polybag spotted over at Amazon Germany.

This very much welcomed addition to the LEGO Christmas seasonal polybags, which has been dominated by various iterations of Christmas trees, snowmen, and St. Nicks. We don’t know much about this set other than it comes at 66 pieces. Most likely, it will also be a promotional offering, a gift-with-purchase during the holiday season at shop.LEGO.com and at LEGO brand stores.

If you want to have a head start in setting up your LEGO winter village MOC as early as now, and you can’t wait to have the LEGO Creator Christmas Train added to your village, then you may want to check this eBay listing. But paying 40 bucks for a 66-piece set is not my thing, so I will prefer to wait for LEGO’s official announcement later on. For now, let’s take a look at these images.

LEGO Creator Christmas Train (30543)

More Rumors on LEGO Star Wars “Cloud City” Set (75222?) Surfaced

It began in January, with the anticlimactic results of the LEGO Ideas Second 2017 Review, that is, the one where none of the entries passed. One of those failed submissions was a set recreation of one of the most iconic scene from Empire Strikes Back where Darth Vader declares “I am your father.”

Though the review panel didn’t elaborate further on the decision, a prevailing speculation was that said Ideas entry wasn’t approved because LEGO itself was already developing a new set based on the Cloud City, where the abovementioned scene happened. We haven’t heard much about this rumor since, until shortly before May 4.

In the last days of April, discussion on LEGO forum Eurobricks turned towards the still-rumored LEGO Star Wars Cloud City set following the leak of a new Boba Fett minifigure. This was expounded on by Eurobricks member Paperballpark, who has delivered good info on confidential LEGO projects in the past.

As Paperballpark theorizes, the new Cloud City is similar to the already-released Wars LEGO Star Wars Death Star (75159), a multilevel structure with exposed rooms for equipment-minifigure interaction (Luke-Vader duel scene possibly included). Rather than the spheroid Death Star, Cloud City will have only an upper hemisphere with support struts below.

LEGO has years ago released a more compact LEGO Star Wars Cloud City (10123) set with only a portion of the interior and not shaped like the whole thing. The rumored new version might have room for two LEGO vehicles, a la the Death Star’s (75159) TIE fighter.

May the 4^th, aka Star Wars Day, saw only the release of the LEGO UCS Y-Wing Starfighter (75181), with no official peep on whether the much-speculated Cloud City is real or not. Paperballpark on Eurobricks is fairly confident it’ll come in the fall, and even provided its number (75222). Still, it remains rumor for now.

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.