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Don "Solo" Reitz | November 25th, 2013 | Contests, LEGO Star Wars

Monday Morning Reminder: MOC Madness Round 1 Polls Are Live

Out of the sixty four contestants who signed up all but one of them submitted their ships on time, so a great turn out for the opening round. Unfortunately two more were DQ’ed on technicalities but that’s still a very promising start. Loads of fantastic builds to sort through means some real tough choices for voters. The polls are now open to active forum members. They’re each in the same threads where the builders posted their photos, and you can sign in and see a quick list here. The poll only last 48 hours, and time is up around 9:30PM on Tuesday night.

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Ace "onions" Kim | November 25th, 2013 | Site News

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Ace "onions" Kim | November 25th, 2013 | LEGO, Sales News

Black Friday LEGO Deals

image courtesy of Las Vegas Guardian Express

Updated: Thursday 2:23am

Like last year, I’ve taken the time to compile a list of all of the Black Friday LEGO deals from most of the major retailers.

There aren’t a lot of great deals to be had. Most of them revolve around the LEGO video games and the deals that are available as of this writing are almost not worth leaving the house for in my opinion. There is one notable exception to this list and that is LEGO Shop@Home’s deals which haven’t been communicated yet. I’ll be updating this post throughout the week though as more retailers publish their deals, so bookmark it or keep checking back.

See The List

Tags: black friday

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Don "Solo" Reitz | November 24th, 2013 | Contests, LEGO Star Wars

Alphabet Fighter Tournament Round One Build Phase Ends Tonight

Just a quick heads up to all you procrastinating builders: you now have less than five hours remaining to submit your models. Anything submitted after 8PM Pacific Time tonight will be too late and you will forfeit your position in the tournament bracket. So far forty five out of the sixty four have posted. If any of the remaining nineteen miss the deadline their opponent will automatically advance to the next round while the polls will determine the rest. As far as the polls themselves, they will take a little bit of time to set up but I should have them ready within a few hours after the deadline at most. Stay tuned!

Tags: 2013 Moc Madness Tournament, Alphabet Fighters

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Ace "onions" Kim | November 24th, 2013 | LEGO Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sales News

30270 Kraang’s Turtle Target Practice at Target

Kraang army builder alert! If you had trouble securing these from Toys’R'Us, you can now purchase them from Target stores from their seasonal section. Price is $3.99.

Thanks to ninnymuggins for the assist.

Tags: 30270 Kraang's Turtle Target Practice

Ace "onions" Kim | November 24th, 2013 | LEGO The Hobbit, Sales News

Amazon Pre-sells Hobbit Sets

Amazon has put up for pre-sale all but one of the newest sets based on The Hobbit. The missing set in question is 79013 Lake-town Chase. I’m pretty sure it’s not an account exclusive, and the listing on Amazon has a third-party seller selling it for 2x MSRP (and also mistakenly uses images from 79014 Dol Guldur Battle on the page) but once the listing becomes legitimate for the set sold and shipped by Amazon, I’ll update this post or the forum thread with a link. All sets are marked to ship on December 1, 2013, just in time for Christmas. Anyways, here’s the other three sets:

Tags: 79011 Dol Guldur Ambush, 79012 Mirkwood Elf Army, 79013 Lake-town Chase, 79014 Dol Guldur Battle

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Ace "onions" Kim | November 23rd, 2013 | LEGO CUUSOO, News

CUUSOO Blog Interviews Exo Suit Creator Peter Reid

While we wait for Exo Suit, the latest CUUSOO project to pass the review phase, to become a reality, the The OFficial LEGO CUUSOO Blog posted an interview with its designer, Peter Reid. It’s a quick read, no pun intended, but is quite encouraging for projects not based on an existing property to make it through.

Thanks to ninnymuggins for the heads up.

Tags: Exo Suit, Peter Reid

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Ace "onions" Kim | November 23rd, 2013 | LEGO, Sales News

Today Only: Triple VIP Points, Free Exclusive Holiday Set

LEGO Shop@Home is kicking off Black Friday deals early this year. For today only, 11/23, you can get triple VIP points by shopping at LEGO Shop@Home. This deal is good only online and for today only until 11:59pm EST. As a bonus, you can get the second holiday set for this year if you spend $99 or more. Happy shopping!

Thanks to banthafodder for the heads up.

Tags: 40083 2013 LEGO® Holiday Set 2 of 2

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Ace "onions" Kim | November 22nd, 2013 | LEGO The Hobbit, News

LEGO The Hobbit Game for 2014

Now tell me, who didn’t see this coming? A lot of video game related sites are pointing to this post on All Games Beta as their source, even though AGB hasn’t sourced the picture themselves, but Tohst assured me that there were advertisements like this included in the newer Hobbit sets. This game is coming on the heels of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, so it has a lot to live up to and will probably be disappointing in the end.

Tags: LEGO The Hobbit

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Ace "onions" Kim | November 22nd, 2013 | LEGO Super Heroes, Marvel Comics, Sales News

New Spider-Man Polybag Set 30302

A new polybag set has been spotted in the wild, the UK wild to be exact. Twitter follower @MickGreek tweeted us that he’s found the above polybag. Unfortunately, there are no other details, like where, but I assume the price is in line with what other polybags go for. We’ll update the forum thread once we get more info.

image via Brickset

Tags: 30302 Spider-Man

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