LEGO Parisian Restaurant & Maersk Line Triple-E Sets Released!

The new year has arrived, and while some of the winter LEGO 2014 sets are still missing in action (most notably LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Legends of Chima), LEGO Stores have fully restocked and have plenty of other goodness to be had! The biggest and most exciting new additions today were of course the long-awaited LEGO Parisian Restaurant 10243 Modular Building set and the LEGO Maersk Line Triple-E 10241! I headed over to a local LEGO Store this morning, and was amped to see both humongous sets in-stock and also fully-built and on display…

There was no way that I wasn’t going to visit the LEGO Store to begin the new year, so I ventured out bright and early this morning into the tundra that is the greater Boston area right now. I didn’t have any absolute certainty that the new LEGO Store exclusives I was hoping for would already be built and displayed in the store, but hope springs eternal, and I would never know if I didn’t brave the great outdoors to find out. (This probably sounds like a bit of hyperbole, but man, is it ever cold here today!).

To my delight (and relief), my LEGO Store had a full stock this morning of both the 10241 LEGO Maersk Line Triple-E Freighter, as well as the 10243 LEGO Parisian Restaurant. And better still, both sets were built and prominently displayed in the display cases right inside of the store! As usual, I did my best to take some snazzy photos of both the display sets and their boxes, despite the terrible lighting for photography in the LEGO Store…

2014 LEGO Parisian Restaurant 12043 Box Front

LEGO Creator Parisian Restaurant 12043 Box Back

LEGO 10241 Maersk Line Triple-E Freight Ship Box

LEGO 2014 Maersk Line Triple-E 10241 Box Back

Here’s a photo of several of the exclusive LEGO Store sets together for scale. Yikes! The LEGO Maersk Line Triple-E Freight Ship is as huge as Orthanc! Scary!

The LEGO Parisian Restaurant 10243 and LEGO Maersk Line Triple-E 10241 are both now available exclusively from the online LEGO Store and the chain of LEGO Stores. These sets won’t be available at general retailers like Toys R Us or Target, so you’ll have to order online if you want them and don’t have LEGO Brand retail stores in your area.