We’re on Day 8 of TBB’s virtual LEGO Advent Calendar series. Today’s installment, Day 8, brings us another set of mini-kits from both LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Friends.
We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.
Click to see the Day 8 mini-kits!
We continue TBB’s virtual LEGO Advent Calendar on Day 7 with more mini-kits from LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Friends.
We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.
Click to see the Day 7 mini-kits!
Didn’t manage to get yourself a copy of this year’s LEGO Advent Calendars? We’ve got you covered with our virtual LEGO Advent Calendar series. Today’s installment, Day 6, brings us more new mini-kits from LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Friends.
We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.
Click to see the Day 6 mini-kits!
We pick up our virtual LEGO Advent Calendar on Day 5 with more mini-kits from LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Friends.
We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.
Click to see the Day 5 mini-kits!
The Bricks LA LEGO convention will be happening in just over a month, January 8-10, 2016, in Pasadena, California. Builder registration ends December 12th.
Here are the details from the Bricks LA organizers:
– January 8-10, 2016
– Public Hours are Saturday January 9 and Sunday January 10 from 10am to 5pm
– Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA (300 E Green St, Pasadena, CA 91101)
– Deadline to register as a VIB: December 12th, 2015
– Deadline to register MOCs for MOC cards: December 20th, 2015
– VIB Registration cost: $55
– Admission to public show is just $5, kids 5 and under are free.
We continue our virtual LEGO Advent Calendar series new mini-kits from Star Wars and Friends on Day 4.
We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.
Click to see the Day 4 mini-kits!
Our virtual LEGO Advent Calendar series continues on Day 3 with a new mini-kit from Star Wars and Friends.
We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.
Click to see the Day 3 mini-kits!
Because we here at The Brothers Brick have a time machine, we feel that there’s nothing particularly odd about starting our coverage of the new LEGO Advent Calendars a day late.
Each day until Christmas Eve, we’ll be revealing the mini-kits and minifigs from that day’s LEGO Star Wars and Friends Advent Calendars. Why not LEGO City? Because meh. To keep the secret alive, we’ll be posting pretty late in the day here on the US West Coast (GMT -8:00), and we’ll put that day’s reveal after the jump.
This isn’t really a review — we’ll save our thoughts until the end — more of a virtual Advent Calendar we can all enjoy together. So, follow along, and let us know what you think about each kit in the comments.
Click to see the Day 1 & 2 mini-kits!
“The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli is one of those paintings that you study in Art History, poring over the symbolism and innovative Renaissance techniques until the painting becomes one with the millions of reproductions you’ve seen all your life, losing any interest or meaning it may have had. (Clearly, I much prefer “Primavera”…) So, I’m always pleased to run across a refreshing new take on a classic work of art. Polish builder Bartłomiej Sekuła has built a three-dimensional version of the painting reminiscent of a tableau vivant, with minifigs representing each of the figures in the original work.
That’s actually pretty cool on its own, but Bartłomiej goes one step further with a parody version of this iconic scene.
The LEGO Shop has just released some of their January 2016 sets, including the new Doctor Who set, several City and Creator sets, and — just in time for Christmas — two Frozen sets. In addition, LEGO has extended their Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals.
Most exciting for many is the release of 21304 Doctor Who (and don’t miss my review of the LEGO Doctor set here on TBB).
I will state on the record that I have never seen Frozen (and have not seen Titanic either), but it appears to be very popular, and this set has a reindeer, so I recommend buying eight or nine of 41066 Anna & Kristoff’s Sleigh Adventure. We’ll have a review of this set soon.
I think this adorable 31045 Ocean Explorer would make a great stocking stuffer for that budding ocean scientist in your life.
Amazon.com is declaring the whole week “Cyber Monday Week,” which is probably the only good sort of week composed entirely of Mondays. In addition to the two batches of Black Friday LEGO deals we posted last week, Amazon has discounted a number of additional LEGO sets (though it’s a distinct possibility I just missed them while in a food coma).
UPDATE: LEGO has now updated the LEGO Shop with new 2016 LEGO sets, and extended the Cyber Monday sales & deals.
The LEGO Chima set 70145 Maula’s Ice Mammoth Stomper is 30% off, down $27 to $62.99.
The LEGO Ninjago set 70749 Enter the Serpent is 26% off, down to $44.20.
The Guardians of the Galaxy set 76020 Knowhere Escape Mission is 26% off, at $29.49.
I’m sure there are more discounts you can find on Amazon’s LEGO store, but I’ve been at this for a week and I’m exhausted.
As always, whether you’re buying diapers or a new flat screen TV, any purchase (not just LEGO) that you make on Amazon after clicking through from Brothers-Brick.com helps support everything we do — event sponsorship, contests like Pimp Rey’s Speeder, and the day-to-day business of running the site. So, as you gear up for holiday shopping over the next few weeks, keep us in mind!
And thank you — you make The Brothers Brick possible.
In addition to the heavily discounted LEGO on Black Friday, the LEGO Shop online is also discounting over a dozen more sets for Cyber Monday, starting at midnight Eastern Monday (9 PM Pacific Sunday). Highlights include a couple sets over $100 at 20% off and several at 40% off.
As always, you can help support The Brothers Brick by clicking through from here to take advantage of these deals (at no additional cost to you).
The LEGO Technic 42025 Cargo Plane is $28 off at $111.99.
My favorite LEGO Architecture set, 21017 Imperial Hotel (from my hometown of Tokyo) is 20% off at $103.99.
Click here to see more LEGO sales & deals
