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Ace Kim | November 27th, 2012 | LEGO Star Wars, Sales News

Toys’R’Us Includes UCS Sets for BOGO 50%

Toys’R’Us finally included the big UCS sets in their Buy One Get One 50% off LEGO deal this week, and by big UCS sets, I mean 10188 Death Star, 10221 Super Star Destroyer, 10212 Imperial Shuttle, and 10225 R2-D2. 10225 R2-D2 is seeing a slight markup, $20 over MSRP. The other three are right at MSRP so you could see a potential savings of 25% if you pair two items of the same price.

Alternatively, if you live in a state where Amazon doesn’t charge sales tax, you should know that you might see a better deal buying 10221 Super Star Destroyer from there since it’s still priced at $319.99, a 20% discount. 10212 Imperial Shuttle is seeing a 19% discount, $50 off MSRP to ring up at $209.99. And 10225 R2D2? It’s seeing a 22% discount down to $139.97. 10188 Death Star? Still full price but that may change any day now.

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Ace Kim | November 27th, 2012 | LEGO Star Wars, News

75014 Battle of Hoth Revealed

image courtesy of Hoth Bricks

French blog Hoth Bricks unveiled a new, previously unannounced LEGO Star Wars set for 2013, 75014 Battle of Hoth. The set features a newly designed snowspeeder (that’s number four, kids), speederbike, tauntaun, gun turret, seven minifigs, and a brick-built probe droid. No word on pricing yet or availability yet but it smells like a TRU exclusive. As soon as we get more info, we’ll share it.

image courtesy of Hoth Bricks

Thanks to Kez and Ultron32 for writing it in.

Tags: 75014 Battle of Hoth

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Ace Kim | November 27th, 2012 | LEGO Lord of the Rings, Sales News

The Hobbit Sets Now Available at LEGO Shop@Home

This’ll be a merry Christmas for sure. LEGO Shop@Home has just put up the entire Hobbit collection for sale on their site. You get free shipping with orders $99 or more. Order by December 18th for delivery in time for Christmas. Full list with prices below:

79000 Riddles for the Ring $9.99
79001 Escape from Mirkwood Spiders $29.99
79002 Attack of the Wargs $49.99
79003 An Unexpected Gathering $69.99
79004 Barrel Escape $39.99
79010 The Goblin King Battle $99.99

Tags: 79000 Riddles for The Ring, 79001 Escape from Mirkwood Spiders, 79002 Attack of the Wargs, 79003 An Unexpected Gathering, 79010 The Goblin King Battle

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Don "Solo" Reitz | November 26th, 2012 | Contests, DC Universe, LEGO Super Heroes, Marvel Comics

Mech Madness Final Four Starts Now

After a brief delay while the forum update got sorted out we’re ready to move on to the final four. The top two heroes and villains have been selected. The winners of these two polls will go head to head to determine the winner, but that doesn’t mean the other two are eliminated just yet. They’ll go up against each other to fight for third place. You have three days to vote again so click here to pick you favorite remaining hero, and here for the villain you want to see them battle. The final round will go up on Friday night.

Tags: contest, Mech Madness 2012

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Ken Robichaud | November 26th, 2012 | LEGO Star Wars, MOC Spotlight

Build Your Own TIE Fighter Ornament By Powerpig

Chris (Powerpig) McVeigh has capped off his Build-it-Yourself projects for the year with a little taste of Star Wars. He scaled this TIE Fighter to last year’s Millennium Falcon which as he says, allows you to stage an epic space chase right across your tree! PEW PEW!

Head on over to chrismcveigh.com/ and find out how to build it in both Classic White and Empire Grey, then get trimming. I know some of you already have your tree up…

Tags: Build It Yourself, Chris McVeigh, Powerpig, TIE Fighter

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Ken Robichaud | November 26th, 2012 | LEGO, News

Last Chance To Buy From Creations For Charity 2012

With just 5 days left to buy an item from the Creations For Charity store, time is quickly running out to help raise money to buy LEGO sets for underprivileged children this holiday season. I’ve been honoured to be a part of this charity in my own small way for the past two years and just shipped off my 2012 donation to it’s new home over the weekend. All the items from the store have been reduced to their minimum price and at last glance there were items priced at as little as $2 like the CFC bracelet, so if you haven’t helped out yet but planned on making a purchase please take a look!

Tags: Creations for Charity

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Ace Kim | November 26th, 2012 | LEGO Lord of the Rings, News

TheOneRing.net Art Show Call For Entries

TheOneRing.net put out a call for entries for their upcoming art show, An Unexpected Art Show. The one-day event will be held at Lot 613 located at 613 Imperial Street, Los Angeles, CA and is set for February 22, 2013 from 7pm to 1am, and entries will be accepted until February 1, 2013. Fans and artists of all ages are encouraged to attend and participate. Tickets to attend the show are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. OneLUG will be attendance with their Last March of the Ents display. Full details below and on their site.

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Tags: An Unexpected Art Show, Last March of the Ents, OneLug

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Ace Kim | November 26th, 2012 | LEGO Super Heroes, Marvel Comics, News

Digital Wizards Releases LEGO Avengers Movie

Digital Wizards has released their latest feature on their Youtube Channel, LEGO Avengers: Some Assembly Required. You might remember their work featured here before, The Two Towers in Two Minutes: Extended Edition. Much like that film, LEGO Avengers (sort of) retells the Avengers movie in a mere three minutes.

Tags: Digital Wizardz

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Ace Kim | November 26th, 2012 | LEGO Star Wars, Sales News

Amazon Discounts 10221 Super Star Destroyer

Amazon has heavily discounted 10221 Super Star Destroyer. It is only $319.97, down 20% from $399.99. If this isn’t a Cyber Monday deal, then I don’t know what is.

Thanks to bacon1986 for the tip.

Tags: 10221 Super Star Destroyer

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Ken Robichaud | November 25th, 2012 | LEGO Super Heroes, Marvel Comics, MOC Spotlight

Fredoichi’s Bust-ed Captain America

I’m really starting to like these bust statuettes. I’ve always avoided buying them by using the excuse that they looked stupid without any arms, but that’s just a lie I’ve told myself to prevent the possibility of starting yet another collection. Fredoichi‘s use of stickers in this build is quite impressive and it took me a minute or two to really see what he’d done. I hope to see more of these builds in the future and this is one more reason I can’t wait until those new Legends of Chima wing pieces are in circulation.

Tags: Captain America, Fredoichi

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