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Miscellaneous news Posted by Huw, Oct 1 2009 2:54AM
If so, you might want to check out this LEGO Star Wars armour case for it which features building surfaces on the top and bottom and what looks to be a fantastic 7x3 tile mosaic featuring a classic Star Wars scene. Even if you don't have a DS it could be worth buying just for that!
(thanks to Herbert for finding this!)
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LEGOshop.com news Posted by Huw, Oct 1 2009 9:36AM
The much anticipated Winter Toy Shop 
can now be ordered from LEGOshop.com priced £39.15 in the UK, as previously reported, and US$60 in the USA. It's not yet in our product feed and is a job to actually find on the LEGO site (searching for 10199 or Winter Toy Shop is unsuccessful) so use these links to order it: UK | USA 
(thanks dermott47)
Also, whung found two more Christmas sets in the LEGO instructions cache: 30008 Snowman and 30009 Christmas Tree. As if there weren't enough holiday sets to buy already!
UPDATE - These sets are starting to appear in LEGO Brand Stores & Imagination Centers; we have received confirmed reports from the US (Minneapolis) & the UK (Milton Keynes), so it's presumably in the German stores too.
Another update: As proof that LEGO read Brickset, I've been asked to inform you that searching for the terms mentioned above DOES now work!
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New set news Posted by Huw, Oct 1 2009 3:01PM
whung has come up trumps again. He's found instructions for a 2010 set at LEGO.com which features pictures of the rest of the City range for next year. You'll find them in his Brickshelf gallery There's yet more Fire sets (yawn) but check out the petrol (gas) tanker -- a decent 6 wide version at last!
(via Eurobricks)
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New set news Posted by bluemoose, Oct 3 2009 4:17AM
Exactly a year on from the announcement of the Medieval Market Village at a number of AFOL events, LEGO have announced what is sure to be another fan-pleaser - set #10210, the 'Imperial Flagship'. Seems like Pirates has got a little life left in it after all!
Availability is listed as 1st Jan 2010. Pricing is listed as $179.99 US / $229.99 CA / £139.99 UK / €149.99 Germany
The official release note from LEGO reads:
10210 Imperial Flagship
Ages 14+. 1,664 pieces.
US $179.99 CA $229.99 UK £ 139.99 DE € 149.99
Build an incredible classic sailing ship!
All hands on deck! This amazingly detailed and realistic historical ship has three removable sections. The main hull contains 4 firing cannons, ammunition crates, muskets, torches, cannonballs, a prison with a rat, a fully-equipped ship’s kitchen, working anchor, moving rudder and a saw shark figurehead. The front deck has an opening door to the inside of the ship and sails with masts and rigging. The back house deck has opening doors to the captain’s chambers containing a map, poison bottle, organ and a treasure chest full of jewels and gold. The Imperial Flagship has 6 opening windows, a telescope and sextant and 3 deck lanterns. Includes 9 minifigures: the ship’s captain, his daughter, a pirate captain prisoner with shackles, the ship’s cook, a lieutenant, and 4 soldiers. Measures 29.5” (75 cm) long and 23.6” (60 cm) tall. Ages 14+. 1,664 pieces
- Includes 9 minifigures: the ship’s captain, his daughter, a pirate captain prisoner with shackles, the ship’s cook, a lieutenant, and 4 soldiers!
- Amazingly detailed and realistic ship features 3 removable sections!
- Main hull contains 4 firing cannons, ammunition crates, muskets, torches, cannonballs, prison with a rat, saw shark figurehead, a moving rudder and a fully-equipped ship’s kitchen with fish, turkey legs and a carrot!
- Raise and lower the working anchor!
- Open the front deck’s working doors and play inside!
- Imperial Flagship is equipped with masts and rigging!
- Open the back house deck’s doors to reveal the captain’s chambers complete with a map, poison bottle, organ and even a treasure chest filled with jewels and gold!
- Features 6 opening windows, a telescope and sextant as well as 3 deck lanterns!
- Measures 29.5” (75 cm) long and 23.6” (60 cm) tall!
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Shopping news (USA) Posted by danjc, Oct 4 2009 10:21PM
Just saw in today's ads that Toys R Us is offering a 30% discount on ALL LEGO sets in the USA. The sale will start October, 4th and run through October, 10th.
Update: It seems it might not be all LEGO sets, so do check before getting too excited! (--Huw)
Update 2: Front page says "All Lego On Sale". It might be different in store depending on your geographic location, but every Lego set on the website seems to be on sale. I didn't find certain sets, such as the Venator, however. (--jkool)
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Shopping news (USA) Posted by shima55, Oct 4 2009 10:43PM
Today, The LEGO Book is released in the USA! This is a much needed update to the classic but unfortunately out-of-print 1999 partnership of DK and LEGO with the The Ultimate LEGO Book. The book is packaged with Standing Small, a 96-page book detailing the 30 year history of the beloved minifigure! You can order it as a two-pack at Amazon now for just US$26.40, and if you haven't already read our reviews of these books, you can do so below.
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Event news (UK) Posted by Huw, Oct 5 2009 4:33PM
The Brickish Association's Great Western LEGO Show at the weekend was a tremendous success! I had a great -- but tiring -- time, having been there and on my feet since set up on Friday afternoon through to tear down on Sunday until 7pm. It was great to meet some of you and put faces to names and good to be asked "are you Huw from Brickset?" several times.
If you were there, let me know what you thought of it all, what you liked and what you didn't. And if you weren't, you can see pictures of what you missed on the BA's events page and on the local newspaper's site.
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Shopping news (Australia) Posted by MinifigHQ, Oct 5 2009 10:15PM
It's OcTOYber at Target in Australia and from 8 Oct - 14 Oct Lego is 20% off. Target will also be selling the Star Wars 7753 Pirate Tank (exclusive to Target).
P.S. The Kmart Bricktober news article is updated with a great special on the Technic Lego Crane Truck 8258 @ AU$199
Update Oct 12: Kmart has placed the City Crawler Crane 7632 on clearance, Current price is AU$45
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Site update Posted by Huw, Oct 7 2009 2:06PM
Now that STEAM is out of the way, I have time to work on Brickset again so today I've made a couple of tweaks to BrickLists in response to your feedback. The strange bug that prevented you from adding certain sets should be fixed and, while I intend to provide a drag-and-drop means of reordering lists eventually, for now I've changed the list creation code to number items in steps of 10 which will enable you to change them around somewhat more easily (e.g. to slot a set in between the first and second item you'd give it a number between 11 and 19, e.g. 15).
You have probably already noticed the random BrickList on the side menu bar already! It should change roughly daily (or whenever the server recycles the application).
I'm still really pleased with the way they are being used: there are now 107 published lists and another 90-odd unpublished, and most of them are great, so keep them coming!
Update 14th October: You can now mark lists as favourites and see a list of your favourite lists. When people start using this I will add a list showing which lists have been marked as favouries by the most people.
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New set news Posted by Huw, Oct 8 2009 12:00PM
At last, some non-watermarked images of Atlantis sets have energed, in sirdano's flickr stream. Some are still watermarked confidential, however, so I'm treading on shaky ground here by posting the link.
Now we can see them in great detail, I have to say, they look better than I had originally anticipated. The red submersibles in particular look great, with common design elements throughout (e.g. the curved, bulbous noses) and the sea creatures are not too shabby either. Roll on 2010!
(Thanks dav)
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New set news Posted by Huw, Oct 9 2009 2:12PM
This latest batch of Space Police, Power Miners and Creator images, according to Eurobricks, has been found on Amazon.com.
The new additions to the database list shows them all as does the sets (to be) released in 2010 page.
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Shopping news (Canada) Posted by CrzyLCF, Oct 9 2009 5:18PM
LEGO Space Police and Bionicle have been discounted at TRU locations in Canada for 20% off. The sale will be running from October, 9th to October, 15th.
UPDATE: Sears is also having a sale on ALL LEGO sets for 15% off regular price.
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Site update Posted by Huw, Oct 10 2009 3:04PM
I get notified of every error that occurs on the site and today since 07:15 BST there have been a very large number of database timeouts reported. Normally I see 1 or 2 a day but at the moment they are occuring at 1-2 a minute. I've reported this to the ISP and I'm awaiting a response. There could be a database lock problem or something.
How is the site for you? Is it working normally, or a bit slower than usual? I've stopped and started it several times in attempt to resolve it so if you saw a yellow banner saying the site was down, that'll be why.
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Miscellaneous news Posted by Huw, Oct 11 2009 10:09AM
First, we have pictures of the Ben 10 sets, courtesy of Amazon.com
. I think these will receive a mixed reception. They look like a cross between Bionicle and Galidor, and remember how popular and successful that theme was :-)
Next, a reader of the ever excellent TechnicBricks blog has spent time zooming in and out of the feeble image viewer at Amazon and recreated the high resolution versions of the 5 Technic sets so we can now see every last detail. If you're into Technic, head over to the blog where they are dissecting the images and spotting loads of new parts.
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LEGOshop.com news Posted by bluemoose, Oct 14 2009 11:20AM
LEGO have updated the LEGO Shop on-line store to now accept orders from Norway, which has, strangely, been the notable exception to the northern/western European countries supported up until now.
Thanks to Øyvind for the news; he comments that "... it is good shopping news for us Norwegians ... prices are good; same as in the catalog and normal toy store prices."
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Shopping news (UK) Posted by Huw, Oct 15 2009 5:19PM
Brickish Association member Jonathan visited a Toys R Us today and spotted boxes marked "Daily Mirror/LEGO" which would tend to suggest that there's another promotion imminent. The boxes he identified were of Tractor 4899, Road Roller 30003 and Lizard 7804. It may well start this weekend or next, so keep an eye out. If it's anything like the last one, you'll be able to pick up these sets in TRU and W H Smiths.
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Miscellaneous news Posted by bluemoose, Oct 16 2009 11:12AM
It looks like we might be looking at a couple more DK Brickmaster books next year; Amazon UK are listing LEGO Brickmaster City
and LEGO Brickmaster Star Wars
for pre-order !
They are listed as being £14.09 each, with a release date of 19 Jul 2010.
Thanks to Keith for the heads-up !
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Site update Posted by Huw, Oct 18 2009 6:58AM
Brickset was unavailable from 06:40 to 11:45 BST today due to a problem with the database server. A quick transatlantic phone call to our web host, which I couldn't do any earlier in the day due to the time difference, got it sorted. I apologise for the inconvenience.
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Site update Posted by Huw, Oct 20 2009 1:32PM
I've added a few new features to BrickLists, in response to your requests:
- You can now mark them as favourites and view a list of your favourites
- You can also see a list of the most popular BrickLists. Because not many people have marked lists as favourites, this list is not particularly useful yet, but as more and more of you do so it will hopefully become so.
You'll find the new features in the menu on the BrickList pages.
I think I'm done fiddling with BrickLists now: unless anyone finds problems or has some more great suggestions, I'll leave them as is and move on to the next big enhancement. Whatever that might be...
[Note: favourites IS spelt correctly!]
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Event news (UK) Posted by bluemoose, Oct 22 2009 8:05AM
Confirming the previous story, and thanks to 'freston' for the news, the new Daily Mirror promotion in the UK starts this coming Saturday, 24th October. Again, no confirmation yet on where the sets can be collected from on each day, but it's likely to be WHSmiths & TRU as previously. Details of the sets can be seen here and on the Daily Mirror site --I'm particularly interested in the little tractor!
Update: I've created a BrickList showing the sets that are included.
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Miscellaneous news Posted by bluemoose, Oct 23 2009 8:53PM
Each month, the LEGO Brand Stores in the US, UK & Germany have an in-store promotion called the 'Monthly Mini Model Build' (MMMB), where customers aged between 6 and 14 get the opportunity to build and take home a small model. In the UK this happens on the first Thursday of every month, in-store between 4pm & 6pm. The Brand Stores also occasionally do extra promotional MMMBs - back in April 2009 there were 3 MMMBs in the US stores !
Usually the model is the same in all the stores, and they reflect a seasonal topic; however, due to cultural differences between countries, they are occasionally different - in July 2009 the US stores had a US Flag to build, while the European stores had an ice cream cone; in November 2009, the next MMMB, the US will have a turkey (for Thanksgiving), while the UK will have fireworks (for Guy Fawkes night).
Most of the MMMB sets have had 'build cards' provided with them. These show a picture of the finished model on one side, and a list of the bricks used to build it on the back.
I've added a list of the MMMB models so far to the database to help those lucky enough to be near a store to keep track of their sets. My favourite so far is easily the lobster.
Thanks to flickr user 'TooMuchDew' for allowing me to use some of his photos of the build cards.
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Miscellaneous news Posted by Huw, Oct 28 2009 3:26PM
After the flurry of excitement following the discovery of year 2010 set images and news of the Daily Mirror promotion in the UK, its been a slow week for news... What's more, I bought a new PC the day Windows 7 came out and I've been having a bit of grief with it, with USB devices. I don't think it's a Windows 7 problem per se but I can't get to the bottom of it. I've just done a system recovery to see if starting from scratch will help. Consequently I'm without my usual suite of programs for email, website development and so on. Hopefully normal service will be resumed soon!
One potentially interesting piece of news this week, which I'm going to have to try and remember the exact details of because I don't have the email to hand, is that someone emailed to say they think they saw the new Star Wars battle packs in Target in Florida, I think it was. If that were the case I'm sure it would be splashed about all over the 'net but I can't see mention of it anywhere else. Can anyone confirm it?
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New set news Posted by Huw, Oct 28 2009 4:54PM
Brickset member et314 ran the Swedish blog Legobloggen through Google translator and found out the following snippet of news about the next Cafe-Corner-Compatible building: "Right now the snacks on a set of numbers 10211th. (The set name is as yet unknown). According to the information it must be a building with a corner shop and consist of 2182 pieces. Colour scheme is said to be gray and yellow with black windows. The price data are suggesting a price of Kr 1499.90. Release date is said to be March 2010." Eurobricks is also reporting very similar news so that's yet another set to look forward to in 2010!
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Shopping news (UK) Posted by Huw, Oct 30 2009 11:41AM
Thanks to everyone who emailed to tell me about this yesterday. Unfortunately I've been away on business and didn't get a chance to post an article about it until now.
So better late than never, check out your local store and see what's left. My experience has been that even huge Sainsburys stores don't carry very much LEGO beyond Bionicle so don't get your hopes up. The offer is also available online but everything is now sold out!
[Note to self: get a netbook to avoid posting delays in future!]
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LEGOshop.com news Posted by Brickapolis, Oct 30 2009 4:53PM
Today, LEGO announced that it has stopped production of set 10179 Millennium Falcon™. They're still available from Shop at Home, but not for long I suspect.
