Because there are only a handful of LEGO Batman sets released each year, there are quite a few collectors who own every LEGO Batman set every released! But life is about to get a whole lot harder for any completists out there, because a new set has been announced that you can’t buy–you have to try to win it! It’s the limited-edition LEGO Bat-Pod set, limited to just 750 pieces produced!
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I never really had much doubt that this year’s 10247 LEGO Creator Ferris Wheel set was going to be a hit, but I had no idea how popular it was going to be until my inbox flooded with readers asking for more details and specifics about the set. And while the Summer 2015 LEGO Ferris Wheel set won’t be officially announced for a few more days, a photo of the box has now surfaced, which gives us a couple more specific details…
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LEGO has had an escalating issue with confidential news and photos leaking out early over the past year, and as a result there have been precious few surprises thus far in 2015. I actually prefer that there not be leaks so that we can be shocked with new and exciting news throughout the year–but alas. Even so, while we knew a new for 2015 LEGO Ferris Wheel set was on the way since December, we haven’t had an opportunity to see the set–until now!
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With the not-so-well-kept secret that the LEGO The Simpsons Kwik-E-Mart set will be coming available for LEGO VIPs in just over a month, it was only a matter of time under the set was fully revealed in all its hi-res photo brick-built glory. And that time is now! Coming to LEGO Stores April 15, 2015: the LEGO Kwik-E-Mart 71016!
UPDATE: The LEGO Kwik-E-Mart set is now available for order for LEGO VIP members! Remember–you have to log into your account before you can add the set to your cart!
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Despite the fact that work scheduling conflicts have prevented us from attending it more than a whopping one time, Star Wars Celebration is probably my personal favorite convention. I badly wanted to attend Star Wars Celebration Anaheim this month, but it just was not to be. I’ve been seething with jealousy over missing the Funko Star Wars exclusives for the past week, and now I’ve got one more reason to be envious: a brand new mini Star Wars Celebration Anaheim Exclusive LEGO Tatooine set has now been revealed!
UPDATED 4/16: Hi-res images of the LEGO Star Wars Tatooine Mini Build set have finally been added!
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As soon as it was announced that a LEGO Jurassic World video game was going to be released covering all four of the Jurassic Park movies, Jurassic Park series fans began daydreaming about what kind of exclusive promo figure would be used as a bonus incentive to tempt collectors to pre-order the video game. And while it’s not what anyone had predicted, today the official LEGO Jurassic World video game Twitter finally confirmed the free promo: LEGO Gallimimus Trap 30320!
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Ordinarily I like to wait for LEGO to post the super hi-res LEGO Store Calendars for the next month before I talk about what’s coming up at the LEGO Stores, but I ended up getting burned by that last month when they didn’t post the next month’s calendar for many days after it was already available in stores (and I ended up going and picking up the calendar myself to scan). So this month, I’m going to talk about the upcoming deals, promos and events first, and add the hi-res images later. And the May 2015 LEGO Store Calendar is a good one, including the happenings for May the 4th 2015 and more!
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Just when I thought it was safe to travel back into the wilderness, an unexpected pair of clever girls have struck!
I thought that I had covered all of the LEGO Jurassic World sets coming to stores this summer, but I was mistaken–there’s a sixth and final set on the way: the retailer exclusive LEGO Raptor Escape 75920 has now appeared! And it’s come packing the final two members of the Raptor Squad: Echo and Charlie!
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I outright detested the third Hobbit movie. I’ll be a Peter Jackson fan for life for his work on the Lord of the Rings trilogy (and to some extent his first two Hobbit films), but The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies was a huge disappointment and a real dud in my opinion. So you would probably expect that I would be nowhere near a store at 9AM on the morning the Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies DVD/Blu-Ray set is released. But you would be wrong. Because as much as I hate that movie, I love exclusive minifigures more: the Target Exclusive Hobbit 3 Blu-Ray with Bard and exclusive Bain minifigures has now been released!
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There’s one more item that I saw in-person for the first time last week when I visited the LEGO Store to pick up my April 2015 LEGO Store Calendar: the LEGO Easter 2015 vignette set–Painting Easter Eggs 40121! While this is a small set with a little price tag, this item is still a big deal to many LEGO collectors out there–and the LEGO Painting Easter Eggs set is now available online for just $9.99!
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While I was at one of my nearest LEGO Stores this week, not only did I pick up the new April 2015 LEGO Store Calendar and pick up the new exclusive LEGO Pirates Chess Set and Easter Set, but I also got to scope out next month’s Free Mini Monthly Model Build in person! LEGO has been knocking these free builds out of the park so far in 2015, and that trend will be continuing with the LEGO UFO Mini Monthly Model Build next month!
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Because I wasn’t terribly thrilled with this month’s promos and I already ordered most of the March 2015 LEGO sets that I wanted online early, I almost didn’t bother to make me usual weekly trip to the LEGO Store this week. But because I really wanted that April 2015 LEGO Store Calendar, I made the trip–and go to see several sets in-person for the first time, including the awesome LEGO Pirates Chess Set 40158!
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Ordinarily, the LEGO Store webmasters are right on top of things and ready to spring the next month’s LEGO Store Calendar onto us on-time each month (and usually even early). This month? Not so much. For whatever reason, the hi-res images of the April 2015 LEGO Store Calendar haven’t been posted online yet. I could only handle not having the hi-res versions of the calendar for a couple days, so I decided to head to my local LEGO Store and pick up an April 2015 LEGO Stores Calendar myself to scan in and post online, detailing all of the LEGO Store April 2015 deals, free promos and events!
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For around half a year now, rumors have circulated regarding a second large LEGO The Simpsons set to be released: a LEGO Kwik-E-Mart set. As time has gone on, the number of rumors about this set increased, and then it appeared on a leaked list of 2015 LEGO Store exclusive sets. Even so, we couldn’t ultimately verify the existence of a LEGO The Kwik-E-Mart set–until now! Thanks to the first image leaking online, the LEGO Simpsons Kwik-E-Mart 71016 set has now been confirmed!
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