Update on LEGO Collector’s Guide

From Fantasia Verlag’s site, here’s an update on the LEGO Collector’s Guide:

Lego Collector – 2. Edition

Expected publication date: April 2011

– More then 800 pages.
– Bi-Lingual: german and english
– More then 6,500 displayed LEGO-Sets, nine sets per page.
– Chronologically ordered, from the first LEGO-sets in 1949 to 2011.
– Information per set: Number of parts, time of sale, contingents.
– LEGO keyrings as independent collection-area.
– Rating of 1 to 6 LEGO-bricks per Set.
– With Index.
– With an exclusive extra-insert!

ISBN: 9783935976-64-0

Update on LEGO Ideas, Harry Potter & Star Wars Character Books

Hey, remember my earlier post about DK’s The LEGO Ideas Book and the subsequent pic found by killyrbf ?  Well, the source has been (re-)found, courtesy of legolijntje from EB Forum. 

Or how about the LEGO® Harry Potter™:Building the Magical World or LEGO® Star Wars™ Character Encyclopedia?  No recollection? Nevermind, I’ve the updated info all below. 🙂

Btw, if you enjoy LEGO related books, do click on the Books category to read my previous posts about LEGO books k?

• LEGO Ideas Book
• Pub. Date: 19 Sep 2011
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.
• Format: Hardcover , 200pp
• US$24.99 / £16.02
• ISBN-13: 9780756686062
• ISBN: 0756686067
• LEGO® inspiration: tips and techniques from expert LEGO builders covering transport, buildings, space, kingdoms, adventure and useful makes. Perfect for LEGO fans who want to make their models cool, fun and imaginative. 

• LEGO® Harry Potter™:Building the Magical World
• Pub. Date: 16 May 2011
• 301 x 252mm 96pp, full colour throughout
• US$21.99/£16.99 hardback 
• ISBN-13: 9780756688875
• ISBN: 9781405366458
• Get the lowdown on your favourite LEGO® Harry Potter™ sets with this exciting companion to the magical world. Includes an exclusive Minifigure.
• The magic of Harry Potter™ and the fun of the LEGO® world, now in one incredible book!
  Since it was first introduced in 2001, LEGO® Harry Potter™ has been one of the LEGO Group’s most popular themes. This incredible guide gives readers an up-close look at the bricks, constructions, and minifigures of the LEGO® Harry Potter universe—from Hogwarts Castle to Hagrid’s hut.
  You won’t want to miss out on the exclusive inter views with the LEGO® Harry Potter™ team, and special sections allowing you to see, first-hand, how the bricks and figures come to be the toys we love today! The book will also feature a timeline that shows the evolution of the LEGO® Harry Potter™ construction sets, video game and board game.

• LEGO® Star Wars™Character Encyclopedia
• Pub. Date: 19 Sep 2011
• 235 x 183mm• 208pp, full colour throughout
• US$18.99/£14.99 hardback
• ISBN-13: 978-0756686970
• ISBN: 9781405373586
• Get to know the LEGO® Star Wars™Minifigures: discover rare variants and lots of cool LEGO Star Wars™facts! With an exclusive LEGO StarWars™ Minifigure.

Source: http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/search/pdfs/22-DK_Children_Film_and_TV.pdf

2011 Summer Set Pics from German Toy Fair

UPDATED: Toysnbricks feature the 2011 LEGO Kingdoms, Aliens Conquest, Ninjago and Collectible Minifig Series 5 set pictures without confidential markings from Spieletest, thanks to kevin1990. I’ll update more details and pics later when I’m home but the pics look so good I just have to share immediately.

Many more pics and videos are available, but I won’t steal the thunder by putting them all here.  Just click on this link to Spieletest to see all of them k?  Just to list, they have Star Wars, Ninjago, Aliens Conquest, Heroica (board games), Pharaoh’s Quest, Kingdoms, Atlantis, Collectible Minifig Series 5 & Atlantis pics and/or videos!

  

Close-ups of Minifig series 5 and Aliens Conquest start at 1:37 into this clip:

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More Rumours about Minifig Series 5

UPDATE on 6 Feb 2011: Here are all 16 minifigs for Series 5 from the German Toy Fair from Spieletest via kevin1990 from ToysnBricks.

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Via EB’s Plissken who read it from imperiumdersteine.de, I found some descriptions of the minifig series 5 figs:

– Boxer
– Eskimo
– Cleopatra
– Sherlock Holmes Style PI
– British Guard
– Cannibal (the one with the bone in the hair)
– Gladiator
– Unidentified Blue Figure
– Unidentified Red Figure
– Female Figure with suitcase
– some kind of historic judge
– clown with melon hat
– godzilla costume
– Mobster with gun, hat and case
– dwarf
– female zookeeper with little ape
Up to you to believe it or not. 😉  Those who have been following my blog would have seen a few of these figs before in this earlier post. I’ve bolded those confirmed ones in above list.

Source: Imperium der Steine via EB forum

Close-ups of 2011 Summer Star Wars minifigs

If you haven’t seen the close-ups of 2011 Summer Star Wars minifigs shared by EB Member Navy Trooper Fenson, you certainly should go to Eurobricks to check them out in the LEGO Star Wars 2011 Picture and Rumor topic.

Since I am a late joiner to the SW collection, it’s nice to see more OT (that’s ‘Original Trilogy’) sets and minifigs being re-released.

Here’s a preview of the figs in one set:

Do drop by EB for more, and remember that the 1st page of the LEGO Star Wars 2011 Picture and Rumor topic summarises the latest info on 2011 news and rumours.

What I Like About the POTC Sets

UPDATE ON 3 Feb: Added set pics from the launch event found from chipchicklets & stitchkingdom.

UPDATE: New pics of the 10219 Maersk Train in my earlier post here.  Dunno why, not in mood to create new post. 

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I’m sure you have seen the latest Pirates of the Caribbean sets from MTV.  If not, you can head on over to any of the major sites (RSS on the right) or to my previous post which I’ve updated with the new pics.

Anyway, thought to share my thought processes when I examine pics of new sets…

• 4191 The Captain’s Cabin – bottles and globe makes this a must get for me, perhaps need to BL some parts? BL or get sets cheaper?
• 4192 Fountain of Youth – the waterfall puzzles me. Not very excited about this set.
• 4193 The London Escape – again new bottles here. And I like the bucket on the 2nd floor & do I spot gold bars at the back of the carriage.  Reminds me of MMV building that can swing open. Am curious what the building front looks like, but anyway perhaps 2 sets for building expansion? Carriages are useful anyway.
• 4194 Whitecap Bay – new mermaid molds! And new hair as well? I want more! (look at price) Ok, price is a deterrent tho!
• 4195 Queen Anne’s Revenge – slightly disturbed by what looks like a big sticker piece for the stain glass. Since I would have gotten the set anyway, so pic or no pic there is no impact.  Still think not evil looking enough.
• 4181 Isla De la Muerta – new hair piece and gold bars that other sets have, otherwise not excited as well.
• 4182 The Cannibal Escape – nope, not excited too, no parts I like or figures that catch my eye.
• 4183 The Mill – the strange looking creature at the back is the redeeming feature of this set. Don’t like building so no expansion potential.

So based on the above, I see myself getting more than one each of 4191 & 4193.  Would like to get more but will be deterred by prices of 4194 & 4195 and the rest just one set for completeness sake.

Some News Round-Up

If you have been making use of the RSS feeds on the right, you would have read these but just in case, here are a few notable ones:

• Brickset’s Huw reports from the 2011 London Toy Fair – See my summary of the various Q&A and comments below.
• Brickset’s yellowcastle reports that the Collectible Minifig Series 3 codes are either being mixed up or disappearing altogether – actually I’ve been relying on the ‘molest’ method so no diff. My finger/thumb is feeling bruised tho!
• Brickvention 2011 reports in Brickset & The Brothers Brick 
• Brickset has re-org their ‘Gear’ section – “Gear includes magnets, key chains, books, clothing and so on: basically everything that isn’t a proper construction set”.  I was actually struggling to categorise LEGO books for the Singapore S0937 forum (umm… I’m a ‘librarian’) and am really glad Brickset has managed to tackle the categories to come up with a good list of books. Yay.  
• FBTB reports new LEGO Toy Story alarm clocks that feature Buzz n Woody.

The comments QnA in the London Toy Fair report is really long, so I did a summary of what caught my eye:

• The new City marina sets float;
• Jack Sparrow minifig is different in each POTC set;
• 2 new Spongebob sets – “some sort of fairground rise and the other a vehicle” – EDIT: It’s 3816-Glove World and 3815-Heroic Heroes as listed on Brickset;
• SW calendar features “mini models from the entire galaxy and 8 minifigs” – one minifig is a new one described as “one of the figs has not appeared in any of the films, books, cartoons and is unlikely ever to” and “all the figs have appeared before, but one of them is in new clothes, and it’s not a queen Amidala“;
• 7879 Hoth Echo Base may be a TRU exclusive “no Hoth sets on display, and there isn’t one in the retailers’ catalogue either. Maybe it’ll be a TRU exclusive or something“;
• The Darth Maul and Savage minifigs have new horn pieces on their heads – “a new soft plastic horn piece, a bit like a washer that goes over the stud, and ends up flush with it. It looked very effective“;
• HP sets – some speculated minifigs based on Huw’s descriptions:
  • Battle for Hogwarts: “consists of a couple of towers and an entranceway” – Prof Sprouts in tan, HP, Snape, student (in new uniform, so can’t be Neville who is a Gryffindor – he is able to use the Gryffindor sword in the battle remember?)
  • Forbidden Forest: Hagrid, Narcissa (“two-colour hair: mostly brown with lighter brown or blonde highlights round the front edges, which I think is a first for a minifig“), HP, Voldemort (no centaurs!);
  • Knightbus: Purple, and with HP, Ernie & Stan.
  • http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eskallon1/Eurobricks-Stuff/Harry-Potter/picture_2.png
• UPDATE on 30 Jan: And no stickers on the new Cars sets. Yippee!

Source: Brickset, FBTB, The Brothers Brick and also the many commentors in Brickset.