July 2015 LEGO Store Calendar Free Promos & Events!

July 2015 LEGO Store Calendar

May 2015 turned out to be the single worst month of my entire life, so it is with much gusto that I say goodbye to May and hello to June. And with the arrival of June comes at least a sliver of sunshine in my life, as the July 2015 LEGO Store Calendar has now been posted! While nothing quite stacks up to the Winter Soldier minifigure in the June Calendar, that’s not to say that July is a total loss! There’s a free LEGO Space polybag set, the third LEGO Star Wars movie poster, a mystery VIP set and more on the way…

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Free LEGO Star Wars TIE Advanced 30275 Polybag Promo!

30275 LEGO Star Wars TIE Advance Prototype Promo Polybags Toys R Us

For months now, we’ve known that a new mini LEGO Star Wars TIE Advanced Prototype 30275 polybag set was on the horizon. The instructions were found online, and a small smattering of sets even leaked out in Canada. Yes, we knew it was coming–we just didn’t know when.

But those waiting for the 30275 LEGO TIE Advanced Prototype need wait no longer! The polybag is available in mass quantities now either for $3.99… or for free!

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Limited Edition LEGO Bat-Pod Set Announced & Photo!

Limited Edition LEGO Bat-Pod Set

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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June 2015 LEGO Store Calendar: Winter Soldier Minifigure!

June 2015 LEGO Store Calendar Front

It used to be that we could count on the next month’s LEGO Store Calendar being posted right on time (or even early!) like a finely-tuned watch each month. Unfortunately, there’s been a disturbing trend of the calendars not being posted online until later and later each month–so much so, that I had set my alarm to get up early and head to the LEGO Store myself at opening in anticipation that the June 2015 LEGO Store Calendar wouldn’t be posted online. But hey, any excuse to head to the LEGO Store is a good one, right? And after a quick trip to my closest LEGO Store, I now have hi-res scans of the LEGO Store June 2015 Calendar and all of the scheduled deals, promos and events!

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LEGO Jurassic World Gallimimus Trap Promo Revealed!

LEGO Jurassic World Gallimimus Trap 30320 Set Promo

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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May 2015 LEGO Store Calendar Deals Promos & Events!

May 2015 LEGO Store Calendar LEGO Star Wars May the 4th 2015

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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Hobbit 3 Blu-Ray with Exclusive Bain Minifigure Released!

Target Exclusive LEGO Hobbit Battle of Five Armies Combo Pack Released

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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UFO LEGO Store April 2015 Mini Model Build Photos!

LEGO UFO Mini Monthly Model Build April 2015

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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April 2015 LEGO Store Calendar: Sales, Promos & Events!

LEGO Store April 2015 Calendar Front

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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Free LEGO Chima Ice Bear Mech Promo Set Released!

LEGO Chima Iceklaw's Mech 30256 Promo Set Free 2015

Way back in December 2014 (which feels like a lot longer than three months ago), some collectors started finding a new LEGO Ice Bear Mech polybag set at Target stores. I searched hard and long for that set for months, but it never got wide distribution–and I was seriously beginning to doubt that it ever would.

But rejoice, fellow Ice Bear Mech hunters–it’s back! The LEGO Iceklaw’s Mech 30256 set is free at Toys R Us stores this week!

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LEGO Star Wars Prototype Boba Fett Minifigure Revealed!

LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia Updated and Expanded Book

I have a nearly-uncountable number of photos and videos from New York Toy Fair 2015 that I haven’t gotten around to posting in articles yet, but before I get back to 2015 Toy Fair coverage there’s some breaking news that needs to come first.

For months Star Wars fans have wondered about the identity of the exclusive minifigure packed in since the LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia Updated and Expanded book went up for order, and now we know: it’s a new LEGO Prototype Boba Fett minifigure!

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March 2015 LEGO Robot Mini Monthly Model Build Photos!

With no new LEGO sets out yet this month and the New York Toy Fair 2015 in less than one week’s time away, things have gotten pretty quiet in the LEGO news world.

And so, out of desperation for something new to chat about, I headed out into the frigid New England weather tonight to visit my local LEGO Store, where I got a first-hand look at the March 2015 Mini Monthly Model Build LEGO Robot set!

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March 2015 LEGO Stores Calendar Promos Deals & Events!

March 2015 LEGO Store Calendar

LEGO must have decided that we were growing complacent, so they decided to throw us a curveball and switch things up a bit this month! While we can usually count on the next month’s LEGO Store Calendar being posted online one month and one day ahead of time, we get merely one month’s notice of the upcoming March 2015 LEGO Store deals, promos and events.

But while waiting the extra day was agony, at least LEGO has some good stuff cooked up for us on the LEGO Store March 2015 Calendar–including two free promos, some major new sets being launched–and the return of Double VIP Points!

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Hobbit Battle of Five Armies DVD Exclusive LEGO Minifigures!

Target Exclusive Hobbit Battle of Five Armies Combo Pack with LEGO Minifigures Bain Bard

Earlier this month, images leaked out from Hong Kong of a previously-unannounced LEGO Bain minifigure. With no new LEGO The Hobbit sets scheduled for release in 2015, it seemed almost certain that this exclusive Bain figure would be the pack-in for this year’s Target Exclusive The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies DVD/Blu-Ray Combo Pack. And as it so happens–it is! But why settle for one free LEGO Minifigure when you can have two?! A LEGO Bard the Bowman minifigure will also be included with the set!

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