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Ace "onions" Kim | February 14th, 2012 | LEGO Super Heroes, Marvel Comics, News

LEGO Toy Fair 2012: The LEGO Booth

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It’s always a treat to see how LEGO decorates the corners of their booth at Toy Fair. This year they are understandably making a push on their hot new IP line, LEGO Super Heroes, and their feminist-angering girl-friendly line, LEGO Friends.

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The Super Heroes corners was the most interesting. Rather than going with a mural or a large statue, a bas relief of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman adorned one corner. It was a combination of a studs-out mural type of build with a traditional sculpture construction technique.

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And finally, LEGO had an approximately six-and-a-half-feet-by-six-and-a-half-feet tall sculpture of the Hulk minifig on the conventional hall floor. Lean, mean, and green, it will probably give you an idea of what the final painted face will look like for Hulk if you squint your eyes and blur your vision a bit.

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Ace "onions" Kim | February 13th, 2012 | LEGO Super Heroes, Marvel Comics

More Avengers Set Images

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Marvel.com published an article yesterday with some official promotional pictures of the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Avengers sets. Hulk’s face is purposefully shadowed out. The LEGO booth at New York Toy Fair had the same prototype Hulk that was shown at San Diego Comic Con. If a final painted version exists, it hasn’t been seen or photographed yet. This is probably as close as it gets, for now anyway. More pics rehosted below, hi res available on their respective flickr pages.

Thanks to Pontus Lee for writing it in.

And Iron Man is still ugly.

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6868 Hulk's Helicarrier Breakout
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Photos from “>Marvel.com

Don "Solo" Reitz | February 12th, 2012 | LEGO Lord of the Rings, LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Super Heroes

Toy Fair Set Promo Clips Now Available

It took me all night but the short video clips showcasing the features on the new sets from Toy Fair have now been added to Flickr. As I was uploading these along side Ace uploading the hundreds of photos, things are a bit out of order in the timeline but you can conveniently browse all of these clips right here.

Ace "onions" Kim | February 12th, 2012 | LEGO Super Heroes, Marvel Comics, News

LEGO Toy Fair 2012: Marvel Super Heroes

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The Marvel Super Heroes sets have just finished uploading. Unfortunately, due to time and space constraints, we were not able to take as many quality pictures as we wanted. Hopefully, you will still be able to glean some tasty eye candy from them.

Ace "onions" Kim | February 12th, 2012 | LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Super Heroes, Marvel Comics

LEGO Toy Fair Exclusives 2012

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I was wrong. This year’s exclusives from LEGO are actually exclusive. Or, at the very least, very difficult to come by.

First up as you can see is the Darth Maul minifigure. He’s packaged similar to white Boba Fett, Chrome Vader, etc, before him, so chances are he’ll be available through some other means later in the year. Possibly as a Shop@Home exclusive.

The next exclusives truly are exclusives. They are Iron Man and Bucky Barnes Captain America. The Iron Man is different in that the head is a printed minifig head piece, whereas the regular release figure will have a helmet with a flip up visor. This figure was specially made as a promo minifig like the Dark Knight version of Batman and the Green Lantern figures before it. Bucky Barnes Captain America was, if I recall correctly, produced while the script for the Avengers movie was being finalized. It was unknown if Bucky Barnes would play the role or if it would be Steve Rogers, so when it was determined that Steve Rogers would play the role of Cap, the Bucky Barnes version of the minifig was shelved. Until now.

Disclaimer: I’m a little under the influence as I post this, so the exact details of the origin of this special Cap figure may not be 100% factually correct, but that’s about as close as I can get it.

Iron Man, Bucky Barnes Captain America Exclusive Promo

Iron Man, Bucky Barnes Captain America Exclusive Promo

Ken "buriedbybricks" Robichaud | February 9th, 2012 | DC Universe, LEGO Batman, LEGO Super Heroes, MOC Spotlight

“Why didn’t somebody tell me he had one of those… things?”

If you want to see how LEGO should have done their Batwing in the most recent set, take a look at sok117‘s Burton-esque model. He’s built himself a full set of “basic” bat vehicles (land, sea & air) all with matching red leather seats and, I assume, Bat-cup holders for when the Dark Knight gets drive through. As someone on Flickr already mentioned, all that wing needs is a balloon stealing scissor-clamp between the ears and it’s perfect.

Ken "buriedbybricks" Robichaud | February 3rd, 2012 | DC Universe, LEGO Batman, LEGO Super Heroes, News

Sneak Peek Of Brick Journal 20

Cover for BrickJournal n°20 (July 2012)

2012 is sure to be the year of the Superhero with some huge movies ready to blow up the box office and LEGO sets popping up to fuel our MOCs and Hulk-like nerd rage. Set to land smack dab in the center of it all is Issue 20 of Brick Journal due in July with a heavy helping of all things LEGO Superheroes. Joe Meno hopes to have some behind the scenes info on the current Superheroes line as well as articles on fan-built creations, including those who sent pics to him in consideration for the cover. That hounour goes to LegoManiac (featured here before) with the shot pictured above of his revist to Gotham City. Congratulations to LM and thanks for the heads up! With any luck we’ll have this issue available in time for Comic-Con.

Ken "buriedbybricks" Robichaud | January 31st, 2012 | DC Universe, LEGO Super Heroes, MOC Spotlight

Man Of Steel Mosaic

Christopher Reeve Superman Mosaic

Who is YOUR Superman? Was Brandon Routh’s turn in Superman Returns your first movie experience or maybe you prefered Dean Cain, George Reeves or even Tom Welling based on the first television series you enjoyed. I’m sure there are more than a few that think of the voice of Tim Daly when the think of the big blue boy scout, but I like many others will judge all Supermen on the performance of Christopher Reeve. The Creative Brick Company has also created a series of mosaics including everyone’s favourite little green man, Yoda. Regardless, this is my personal favourite as Reeve will always be the Man of Steel to me. My hope is that they will make the plans for these available for download in the future, at which time this will be built, framed and hung in my house faster than you can say “Up, Up and Away!”.

Ken "buriedbybricks" Robichaud | January 30th, 2012 | LEGO Super Heroes, Marvel Comics, MOC Spotlight

Sentinel Prime

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The release date for the Marvel Superheroes sets is getting closer and more and more people are building things in anticipation of these long-awaited minifigs. Take baronsat for instance, he’s looking forward to an official Wolverine fig, but that hasn’t stopped him from making his own James Howlett and giving him a Sentinel to take out his frustations on. The mutant hunter is very much like the design LEGO might use themselves (if they were to create one, fingers crossed) based on the Buzz Lightyear build and even includes the thrusters in its feet. I titled this “Prime” because this is the first of what I hope are many great Sentinel builds, it will also make sense to the die-hard X fans and because I totally wanted to mess with people…

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Ken "buriedbybricks" Robichaud | January 29th, 2012 | LEGO Super Heroes, Marvel Comics

Official Images Of Marvel Superheroes Ultrabuilds

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The first official images of the Marvel half of the Superheroes Ultrabuild line have popped up online and there’s been no noticable change since we first spied Hulk (still waiting on purple pants) and Iron Man last summer. As for the addition of Captain America, I must say that that shield is boss! Honestly, I just don’t know where they’re going with this line. Here they are anyway, in all their… ummm… *sigh*.

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