LEGO activities in Singapore this June hols

For Singaporeans and tourists to our sunny island:

Building a Loving SG using LEGO bricks & minifigs

Was registering for tickets to the Singapore National Day Parade (NDP) 2012 when I saw this. Will share more details when available.  Doesn’t sound like it’ll be an exclusive fig, but it’ll be for charity so why not right?

Via: http://ndp.org.sg/participation/building-a-loving-sg/

Building a Loving SG

As part of Singapore’s 47th National Day Celebrations, Singaporeans from all walks of life can contribute to the building blocks of National Day Parade (NDP) at the Floating Platform! Spearheaded by a group of young adults from various youth organisations, we want to re-create the rousing celebrations at Marina Bay Floating Platform with over 100,000 LEGO® bricks and LEGO® minifigures.

This project also wants to reach out to Singaporeans from all walks of life, getting them to openly express their love for our country by participating in this record-breaking initiative. Members of the public can be represented by a LEGO minifigure at the ‘celebrations’ by making a $5 donation where they will receive a pair of customised LEGO minifigures – one of the LEGO minifigures will be placed on the seating gallery of the platform, while the other is for their keepsake as a reminder of their participation.

All proceeds received from the project will go to The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund whose mission is to reach out to every child in need and provide them with the resources to do well in school – and beyond.

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Annual passes to LEGOLAND Malaysia

I got mine… have you?  Figured even if I just use the tickets twice, it’s worth getting the annual pass.

The tickets have been on sale in Singapore at SISTIC for some time now (read: AsiaOne news).  I had to wait for the Lady Gaga concern queues to disappear 1st though.  According to this NST report, 7,000 annual passes have been sold with Singaporeans accounting for 35% of sales.

Do hope the new LEGOLAND will be fun!  At least, bring in exclusives earlier so that we don’t have to wait MONTHS for them to arrive in Singapore… worried about pricing tho, cos the LEGO set prices are even more exorbitant in Malaysia than in Singapore.

LINK to LEGOLAND Malaysia: http://www.legoland.com.my/

 

Singapore: POTC & Cars retail prices

Prices thanks to Ultramanbc who shared them on the local S0937 forum.  Couldn’t find all the USA MSRP for comparison tho, so if you have the prices drop me a comment k?

I’ll skip my usual rant… you can see the diff yourself.  Take note that I’m using FX @ 1.3.  It should be 1.25 or thereabouts, which means the diff is actually bigger.

LEGO Exhibit & Sale by Singapore AFOL

I was flipping thru the papers looking for sales (erm, to plan where to shop over the weekend, haha), and came across this newspaper article in the Life! section of The Straits Times, the local newspaper.  So if you are an AFOL in Singapore and planning what to do over the weekend, you can consider to pop by the John Erdos Art gallery @ Dempsey Road.

Where: John Erdos Art, 6B Dempsey Road
When: Till 15th May, daily from 10am till 6pm
Admission: Free
Info: Call 6735 5130

If you want to read the article, do pop by the John Erdo’s website that has a scanned copy of the newspaper article from the Straits Times.

Some news and frags

So better res pics of Collectible Minifig Series 5 are all over the web by now.  I found out via Ugly Duckling or you can visit the toy store where the pics originated from: Mikado Spieleland. 

Anyway for Singapore AFOLs, Series 4 will be in by early April.  Going by Series 3, there should be plenty of stocks tho I wouldn’t bet on getting the figs you want by ‘molesting’ the packs.  I actually heard of Singapore AFOLs who took leave just to ‘hunt’ for elves… scary… the standard 20% offer applies to most stores so just go ahead and get from whichever store you like.

One more from Ugly Duckling… the exclusive LEGO Harry Potter Dictionary Minifig is actually Harry in dress robe.  Remember him and Ron at the Yule ball?

Yeah, I do read Ugly Duckling quite often, which is why I’m going to add it to my RSS feeds and links right after this. 

Singapore Only: Update on March & April Arrivals

Hey, thanks to Alvin n Rekseah for the heads up.

March Arrivals

So the sets have already arrived or are arriving in Singapore stores this week depending on the usual delivery schedule, so you can head over to your favourite stores this week for some retail therapy.  Here’s the full list of March arrivals taken off ToyStation’s email:

LEGO City

• 3365 Space Moon Buggy
• 3366 Satellite Launch Pad
• 3367 Space Shuttle
• 3368 Space Center

LEGO Games

• 3852 Sunblock
• 3853 Banana Balance
• 3854 Frog Rush
• 3855 Ramses Return
• 3856 LEGO Ninjago

LEGO DUPLO

• 5945 Winnie The Pooh’s Picnic
• 5946 Tigger’s Expedition
• 5947 Winnie The Pooh’s House

LEGO Pharaoh’s Quest

• 7305 Scarab Attack
• 7306 Golden Staff Guardians
• 7307 Flying Mummy Attack
• 7325 Cursed Cobra Statue
• 7326 Rise Of The Sphinx
• 7327 Scorpion Pyramid

LEGO Technic

• 8070 Supercar

Quick computation n the LEGO Games pricing is fairly reasonable after 20% discount off local price.  SunBlock n Banana Balance is a little pricier, but not worth the trouble of shipping in & risking damaged boxes.  Supercar is still a shocking S$36 more even after 20% discount locally tho…

So far I’ve heard that the sets are already at BricksWorld, ToyStation & Metro (dunno which branch tho). 

And BricksWorld’s member specials for March/April are:

• 3368 Space Center @ $103.90 (20%)
• 5947 Winnie The Pooh’s House @ $55.90 (20%)
• 8099 Midi Scaled Imperial Star Destroyer @ $77.31 (10%)
• 8864 Desert of Destruction @ $187.11 (10%)

Don’t understand the last 2 since members get 10% off anyway, so what’s so special about the pricing??

Ok, and on to….

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April Arrivals

Some good news and some bad news here.

The good? 10217 Diagon Alley and 8804 Collectible Minifig Series 4 are arriving in April! Yay!  And no price increase in Series 4 figs, so it’s S$3.90 each or $234 for a box of 60.

The bad? The price for DA is shockingly disgustingly bad. So bad that I feel like boycotting getting any sets locally. It’s S$319.90 vs US$149.90.  Before discount, the diff is like S$125!! S$125???! It’s like… WTF… (hey, I assume you are all adult readers and I’ve had a pretty crappy day at work… if you are offended, pls stop reading)

Even after a 20% discount, the price is still a weltering S$255.92, or S$61 more… considering that I need like 2 more… may even work out cheaper shipping in from the USA.