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Category: LEGO Scooby-Doo

  • Toy Fair Videos Now Live, Random Musings

    Toy Fair Videos Now Live, Random Musings

    Well, my photos may have been slightly over exposed, but my videos came out a little better. Lesson learned: triple check your settings before shooting away. Anyway, I’ve uploaded all the videos I recorded showing some of the play features for some of the sets. Each theme’s post has been updated with their respective videos, or you can click for more to see all of them here in one post.

    Random musings:

    • Scooby-Doo: All of the “villains” in the Scooby-Doo sets have a double-head where one side is the monster and the other reveals the secret identity.
    • Scooby-Doo: Shaggy is the Captain Jack of the theme where each set will have a different expression. I believe that Scooby is also different in each set that he appears in.
    • Jurassic World: My camera settings do not lie: most of the non-named minifig heads and I imagine hands really are that weird orange color.
    • CMF’s: There was no CMF’s on display but from the press release it was confirmed that the next series of minifigs will be a second Simpsons series and that series 14 will be an all-Halloween theme series.
    • Architecture: There was one Architecture set missing from the floor.
    • Marvel: There was a retailer-exclusive Avengers set that was not shown. It is unknown which retailer will get it, but by using the process of elimination and Brickset, we know that the set name is “Burglary at the Hydra Fortress.” That is, no doubt, a direct translation from the German name of the set, so I’m going with “Attack On Hydra Fortress” for now. This is the only set that has Quicksilver.
    • Marvel: I’m disappointed that the Ant-man set did not come with a trophy-scale painted version of Ant-man.
    • Star Wars: The UCS TIE Fighter did not impress me as a $200 set.
    • Star Wars: Early on during the preview event, the Constraction figures had prototype heads. Towards the end, they brought out the final molded pieces. We’ve included pictures of both in our coverage.

    There’s probably more things to complain about, I just can’t think of any more of it right now.

    View vidoes.

  • Toy Fair Report 2015: LEGO Scooby-Doo

    Toy Fair Report 2015: LEGO Scooby-Doo

    Last, but not least are the new Scooby-Doo sets. It may or may not be based on a new upcoming cartoon, but the fig designs looks very familiar to me… classic if you will.
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  • Toy News International Reveals 75904 Mystery Mansion

    Toy News International Reveals 75904 Mystery Mansion

    Update: It seems Variety got the scoop on the Mystery Mansion. The image above has been updated with a higher-res version.

    Following the announcement of Scooby-Doo this morning, Toy News International, posted some additional pictures of the Mystery Machine as well as the upcoming $89.99 75904 Mystery Mansion. The Mansion set appears to have Velma and Daphne and possibly a new version of Shaggy. Scoobs looks the same but I could very well be wrong.

    The images come from TNI, and unfortunately thye have been upscaled, but you get an idea of what they look like. I am working on getting better images which may or may not come through since the Mystery Machine was the only set on the docket to be revealed today.

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    Thanks to Mos Eisley for the heads up.

  • The LEGO Group Officially Announces Scooby-Doo

    The LEGO Group Officially Announces Scooby-Doo

    If the theme’s appearance at the London Toy Fair wasn’t official enough, it’s now official official. The LEGO Group announces Scooby-Doo as their latest license. Below is the full press release sent to me this morning. 75902 The Mystery Machine, pictured above, will run you $29.99 and has 301 pieces. The full line of Scooby-Doo sets will be at the New York Toy Fair coming up in just a couple of weeks. FBTB will be there providing full coverage as usual.

    LEGO Group Partners with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to Announce
    First-Ever LEGO® Building Sets Inspired by Classic Animated Series Scooby-Doo™

    -New LEGO® Scooby-Doo animated content to roll-out, including 22-minute special
    and made-for-video movie releases, from Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group-

    LONDON, BRITISH TOY AND HOBBY ASSOCIATION TOY FAIR (January 23, 2015) – The LEGO Group today announced its partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to develop a collection of LEGO® building sets inspired by the timeless and beloved animated franchise, Scooby-Doo™. Five new building sets will bring the zaniness of classic characters including Shaggy, Scooby and the entire gang to life in LEGO form for the first time ever, and are scheduled to hit store shelves in August.

    In another first, the Scooby Gang will be animated in LEGO form. In 2015, fans can look forward to a 22-minute LEGO special, featuring Scooby-Doo, and produced in partnership with Warner Bros. Animation. In addition, Warner Bros. Animation will also be producing made-for-video movie titles, which will be released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in the coming years.

    “Fans always wonder which properties may come to life in LEGO form, and this year we are thrilled to bring all of the mystery, humor and hijinks of the Scooby-Doo universe to life in LEGO toys and animated content,” said

    Jill Wilfert, vice president, licensing & entertainment at The LEGO Group. “We constantly review properties to find those with global reach, great characters and stories and inherent building and role play opportunities, and we think that Scooby-Doo delivers on all of these while also driving strong appeal among collectors and today’s parents who have strong nostalgia for the LEGO brand from their own childhood.”

    “Scooby-Doo and his whole Gang are known and loved by kids and adults alike around the world and we are proud to partner with LEGO Group to continue to entertain new generations of fans and bring everyone’s favorite Great Dane to the unique interactive world of LEGO play,” said Karen McTier, executive vice president, Domestic Licensing and Worldwide Marketing, WBCP.

    “As animators, we always aim to find fun and inventive ways to connect with the audience and tell new stories with our characters,” said Sam Register, president, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Digital Series. “Scooby-Doo and LEGO fans share so much affection for the characters and the brand, and we are so pleased to finally bring these two worlds together.”

    LEGO Scooby-Doo Products
    Fans will instantly recognize all of their favorite Scooby-Doo characters and icons, including Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, Velma and the Mystery Machine, as well as all the ghosts, goblins and other villains that make Scooby-Doo adventures complete in sets such as the Mummy Museum Mystery, the Haunted Lighthouse and the Mystery Mansion. LEGO Scooby-Doo products range from $14.99 to $89.99 (USD) and will be available in toy stores nationwide beginning in August.

    About Scooby-Doo
    Scooby-Doo is one of the few classic properties to maintain top on-air ratings across the globe and is consistently ranked as one of the top properties in the Warner Bros. Consumer Products licensing portfolio. Scooby-Doo is the only dog with human characteristics who can live and play in a kid’s real and imaginative world. Scooby loves to solve mysteries, is hip and cool and makes ‘spooky’ fun; he truly is the dog that can Doo it all!

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    About The LEGO Group
    The LEGO Group is a privately held, family-owned company, based in Billund, Denmark. It was founded in 1932 and today the group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of play materials for children. The company is committed to the development of children’s creative and imaginative abilities through its products, which can be purchased in more than 130 countries. Visit www.LEGO.com

    LEGO, the LEGO logo, the brick and knob configuration and the Minifigure are trademarks of The LEGO Group. ©2015 The LEGO Group.

    About Warner Bros. Consumer Products
    Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.

    About Warner Bros. Animation
    Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) is one of the leading producers of animation in the entertainment industry, producing and developing both CG and traditionally animated projects for multiple platforms, both domestically and internationally. For TV, WBA produces series such as Teen Titans Go!, The Tom and Jerry Show and the upcoming Be Cool Scooby-Doo! and Wabbit – A Looney Tunes Production for Cartoon Network, as well as Mike Tyson Mysteries for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. As the home of the iconic animated characters from the DC Comics, Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Looney Tunes libraries, WBA also produces highly successful animated films — including the DC Universe Animated Original Movies — for DVD. One of the most-honored animation studios in history, WBA has won six Academy Awards®, 35 Emmy® Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parents’ Choice Award, the HUMANITAS Prize, two Prism Awards and 20 Annie Awards (honoring excellence in animation).

    About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
    Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) brings together Warner Bros. Entertainment’s home video, digital distribution, interactive entertainment, technical operations and anti-piracy businesses in order to maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. An industry leader since its inception, WBHE oversees the global distribution of content through packaged goods (Blu-ray Disc™ and DVD) and digital media in the form of electronic sell-through and video-on-demand via cable, satellite, online and mobile channels, and is a significant developer and publisher for console and online video game titles worldwide. WBHE distributes its product through third party retail partners and licensees, as well as directly to consumers through WBShop.com

    SCOOBY-DOO and all characters and elements are trademarks of and © Hanna-Barbera.