LEGO Galaxy Squad not your thing? Still have some money left over from buying all the 2013 LEGO Castle sets? Don’t worry–LEGO has a plan to get your money yet! The plot is pretty simple, too: LEGO has now released their four latest LEGO Lord of the Rings sets! If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on LEGO Lord of the Rings sets from Return of the King, Soldiers of the Dead minifigures, or the first-ever LEGO Middle Earth Pirate Ship, the time is now upon us!
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Last week I was a bit frustrated when my search for the new Summer 2013 LEGO Castle sets turned up all the new summer LEGO sets except for the one I was looking for: 70403 LEGO Dragon Mountain. It seemed weird for all of the other sets to have found their way into retail store circulation without this last set, so many LEGO collectors (and yes, me) began speculating that LEGO Castle Dragon Mountain 70403 might in fact be a store exclusive, explaining its absence. Well, we may have been a bit hasty. I found a full stock of the LEGO 70403 Dragon Mountain summer 2013 set at my local Toys R Us today…
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LEGO Star Wars fans have been patiently waiting half a year for more LEGO Star Wars sets to arrive, and the time is nearly upon us! From the new LEGO Jabba’s Sail Barge to the updated LEGO Republic Gunship, there’s a slew of new Summer 2013 LEGO Star Wars sets on the way, and I’ve written complete articles and photo previews of every single one of them. As we’ve only got another month or so until the summer wave arrives, I figured now would be a good time to combine all the 2013 LEGO Star Wars summer sets news in one easy-to-find place. Read on for the full LEGO Star Wars Summer 2013 set list and links to my comprehensive previews for each and every major LEGO Star Wars set…
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My heart lit up earlier this week when I located the new Summer 2013 LEGO Castle sets for the very first time. Then my excitement took a bit of a nosedive when I realized that the store didn’t get in the LEGO Castle Dragon Mountain set with its big, scary red LEGO dragon–the set I really wanted. Even so, there was no chance of me going home empty-handed, so I snagged the new LEGO Castle 2013 set that looked the best to me from what was available: the LEGO Gold Getaway 70401. Seeing the LEGO Castle Gold Getaway set as a consolation prize, I didn’t expect much from it. Now that I’ve built and played with it, I’m ready to change my tune…
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Confession time: I have never in my life bought, built or even played with a LEGO Bionicle toy. It’s not that I have anything against those types of LEGO sets–I’ve just never been real interested in LEGO sets that aren’t your typical brick-built fare, so I’ve never cared enough to pay attention to one. Until now. My wife’s eyes lit up when she saw the new LEGO Legends of Chima Buildable Figure sets in person last night, and she insisted on coming home with LEGO Chima CHI Razar 70205 and building it right away. And you know what? It’s really not that bad. And by “not that bad”, I mean that I’m totally astounded that the LEGO CHI Razar figure is such a super-fun toy…
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If there’s one LEGO theme that I had absolutely no intention of becoming hooked on in 2013, it’s LEGO Galaxy Squad. But I have a weakness for cool LEGOs (if you can believe that), and I feel hopelessly in love with the theme the first time I saw the 2013 LEGO Galaxy Squad sets in stores. I had planned on curtailing my buying of the theme when the Galaxy Squad summer wave came out, but then a terrible thing happened: I came across the LEGO Galaxy Squad Summer 2013 sets while out hunting for the new LEGO Castle sets. And predictably, now I want them all…
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I was a man on a mission today, and that mission was to find and purchase the summer LEGO Castle 2013 sets! Although the resurrected LEGO Castle theme sets weren’t expected to hit retail stores until June or July 2013, LEGO fandom was stunned when some new 2013 LEGO Castle sets were spotted at retail this week. I really, really wanted the LEGO Castle Dragon Mountain 70403 set, so I went LEGO dragon hunting at my earliest opportunity today. Well… I didn’t find the LEGO Dragon Mountain set. But–BUT!! I did manage to come across almost every other LEGO Castle Summer 2013 set during my travels…
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When I went out to the store tonight hunting for newly-released 2013 LEGO Summer sets, I honestly wasn’t looking for anything from the LEGO Legends of Chima line. To be totally honest, I didn’t think that there were even any LEGO Chima summer 2013 sets out yet. I didn’t even check the LEGO Chima section at the store because I was so convinced there was nothing there worth checking out. Luckily, something brand-spanking-new caught my wife’s eye: the LEGO Chima CHI Buildable Figure sets!
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Something momentous happened today that LEGO Star Wars fans have been looking forward to for months. No, there wasn’t a free promo like the May the 4th Hoth Han Solo minifigure. Nor was there a new set released today. Instead, LEGO Star Wars collectors finally got their first glimpse at the final one of the LEGO Star Wars Summer 2013 sets that he hadn’t seen yet: the LEGO Star Wars Jedi Defender Class Cruiser 75025!
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While a lot of LEGO collectors may overlook it, the monthly LEGO Store calendars given out free at any LEGO Store almost always contain an invaluable wealth of information. Case in point is the June 2013 LEGO Store Calendar, which has just started being distributed in LEGO Stores over the last couple of days. Not only do we learn exactly when and how to get the LEGO Man of Steel Jor-El minifigure, but we also learn release dates for some Summer 2013 LEGO sets that are coming a little sooner than expected…
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It seems that you can’t keep a good LEGO theme down, as this summer LEGO Castle will have its third coming! The LEGO Castle 2013 theme will be the second revival of the legendary LEGO Castle theme that debuted in 1978 and ran until 1997. LEGO Castle returned briefly in 2007, and it’s back for a third go in August 2013. The LEGO Castle Summer 2013 sets range will consist of five different sets. This time there’s no trolls, dwarves, or skeleton warriors. Instead it’s just good ol’-fashioned knights, horses, and oh yeah–a giant red LEGO dragon…
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I dropped by my local LEGO Store in Peabody, MA today to pick up my first handful of LEGO Minifigures Series 10 blind bags (which are officially released today!), and was lucky enough to get my first look at three sets just released in stores: the LEGO Superman Man of Steel sets! I knew these would have to be out soon (as the Man of Steel movie opening is June 14th), but I had no idea they were already in stores. I even got to hold the Black Zero Dropship in my hands, and it gave me a real surprise…
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I dropped by my local LEGO Store this morning in hopes of discovering that LEGO Minifigures Series 10 had been released early, but alas, that was not to be. However, the trip wasn’t a total loss, as I saw that the May 2013 LEGO Store calendar was out! Not only does it confirm that the LEGO Star Wars May the 4th Exclusive is a Han Solo (Hoth) Minifigure, but it reveals another free minifigure promotion for next month, along with every other event schedules to go on over at the LEGO Store…
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There were two LEGO Star Wars sets for Summer 2013 that weren’t displayed at the 2013 Toy Fair and thus had gone unseen by the public… until now. A small photo has hit the internet of one of the two remaining 2013 LEGO Star Wars sets for this summer, confirming the rumors we’d previously heard. It’s the LEGO Star Wars HH-87 Starhopper 75024… but just what is this obscure ship, and who are those minifigures that it comes with?
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