News round-up

 

  • News round-up

    Posted by Huw, 15 Feb 2012 05:34. Filed under Miscellaneous.

    7413: Passage of Jun-Chi
    Adventurers/Orient Expedition, 2003
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    ©2003 LEGO Group

    Here's a round-up of news and site updates that don't really warrant separate articles:

    - There's a strange entry at Amazon.cn which translates to 4207 Car Park. Mah4546 who told us about this wonders whether it's '6394 Metro Park and Service Tower re-imagined' as a result of LEGO's recent request for ideas for sets to re-release (more info in the forum). It certainly comes in a big box: 58x37cm.

    - The LOTR microsite is now live at LEGO.com, featuring character bios (thanks Rockman Xtreme)

    - I've updated the wallpaper repository with the latest ones at LEGO.com, including HERO Factory, Collectable minifigs series 4 and 5, and Technic 2011. It seems to me that LEGO is not issuing so many wallpapers these days. Many of the  themes don't have any (e.g. Ninjago), or they haven't been updated for years (e.g. Star Wars). If you know of some I haven't added yet, please let me know.

    - I've replaced nearly all the images of the Orient Expedition sets with new scans provided by WilliamH which means they are now a consistent size and quality. William sent them to me months ago, but I'd forgotten all about them until now!


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Posted by richselby in United Kingdom, 15 Feb 2012 06:19

The Chinese Amazon link has been taken down. Curiouser and curiouser.

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 15 Feb 2012 06:32

It seems to be a problem with the unicode URL. THis one seems to work: http://www.amazon.cn/dp/B006ZS4IHC

Posted by ChicoCheco in Norway, 15 Feb 2012 07:52

Thanks for the new scans of Orient expedition. It was my favourite theme in its time. Too bad we will not gonna hear about Johny Thunder anymore :-(.

Posted by natro220 in United States, 15 Feb 2012 09:26

Wow, a new parking garage would be awesome for my city! I have the old one, and it's way too small for the newer vehicles, and not easily altered to accomodate them. I could use one for my airport, my modular "downtown" area...

Posted by Rockman Xtreme in United States, 15 Feb 2012 10:21

For me it translates to "LEGO City LEGO Group city garage 4207" instead of "4207 car park"

Cool, new orient photos. I guess... I was only a baby when they came out so I don't know too much 'bout it.

NEW WALLPAPERS! I do love me some good lego wallpapers!

I sent the message about the LOTR microsite, so not all the news is new for me, XD

Posted by legogeek in United States, 16 Feb 2012 00:30

@Huw - FYI, Ninjago does have some wallpapers. They can be found on http://ninjago.lego.com/en-us/world/characters/default.aspx - view each character to get their wallpaper - Not that I'm into Ninjago mind you.... but I just happened to follow a link in an email and I noticed the wallpapers while browsing the site.

Posted by Zordboy in Australia, 16 Feb 2012 03:09

A new parking garage? Well, the original one was brilliant (my cousins got it when they were kids, I was so jealous. Although I had the awesome police station).

So that could be lovely.

Posted by icey in Denmark, 16 Feb 2012 05:54

About wallpapers from the Aquaraiders (2007) theme. Lego gave eight wallpaper rewards in the game "Treasure Trench". I never managed to get the last one for "All animal combinations"... I see that you didn't get that one either!

Posted by Jay Kenobi ZX in United States, 16 Feb 2012 16:51

You should add a The Lord of the Rings wallpaper collection, although there aren't that many out yet. But I've saved just about every image released so far (except for some Toy Fair ones) so if you needed some I could send them.

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