Category Archives: News

Stay current on the latest news and information about LEGO, from sales & deals to new set announcements. We also cover LEGO events and conventions all over the world.

LEGO Prince of Persia available for pre-order on Amazon [News]

The upcoming LEGO Prince of Persia sets in April 2010 are available for pre-order at Amazon. More importantly, this also means that high-res images of the set are now available. Click on each image to open up the pre-order page, which also includes additional pictures of the set.

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Despite the fact that The Brothers Brick posted these images in good faith based on their public availability on Amazon.com, the LEGO Group has threatened legal action against The Brothers Brick if we do not remove them. Even though solving the LEGO Group’s information security issues is not the responsibility of a news site such as The Brothers Brick, and even though our use of images revealed elsewhere, for the purposes of discussion and review here, falls under the Fair Use clause of United States copyright law, we don’t have the resources to pick a fight with a multi-billion-dollar international corporation such as the LEGO Group, so images have been removed at their request. -ed
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Via FBTB

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10211 Grand Emporium coming March 2010 [News]

UPDATE: The LEGO Shop site now has a page up for 10211 Grand Emporium
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The next addition to the Cafe Corner line of modular buildings is 10211 Grand Emporium, a great set to round out another corner of your expanding LEGO city. From the info on Eurobricks, this 2182-piece set will cost $149.99 in the US, £97.85 in the UK, and €149.99 in Germany.

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Like the 10197 Fire Brigade, Grand Emporium has a full interior with some great details to get excited about like the escalator and chandelier seen through the nice dark green windows.



Via Eurobricks

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LUGs can purchase LEGO bricks in bulk through the LUGBULK program [News]

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Dear LUG Members,

The LEGO LUGBULK Program was a big success last year so we have decided to continue the program – still as a pilot which can be terminated anytime – in 2010 but with some adjustments and even more defined rules based on our experience from last year.

We are happy to announce, that we in 2010 can offer the LEGO LUGBULK Program also in the USA.

Jan Beyer

Some good news for LUGs this year with the extension of the LUGBULK program and its expansion into the USA. LUGs must meet these criteria (zipped .doc) which can be summarised as follows: 10 members, 2 public shows a year, official website, at least 1 year old. If you believe your LUG may be applicable read the instructions (zipped .doc) and send the important info to Jan by the 31st of Jan or 16th of May. Also ask for the part list from Jan as it is too big to host here. EDIT TG I made a mistake. There is no part list. Do not ask for one.

EDIT TG 2 I uploaded the Master Sheet for applying for this program to Flickr. You may be better getting the .doc file from Jan or Steve but this gives you some idea of what you need to write.

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Registration for Brickworld 2010 now open! [News]

Beginning today, you can register for Brickworld 2010 in Chicago during June 17-20. Brickworld is the largest annual LEGO convention in the US with 570 registered attendees in 2009. This year, the coordinators have booked the entire Westin Hotel & Convention Center, which includes 30,000 square feet of space dedicated to displays, presentations, competitions, marketplace and more.

Check out photos from previous Brickworlds on Flickr, or you can watch our videos of the 2009 convention. Click here to register and join the fun!

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10210 Imperial Flagship now available; exclusive to LEGO Shop [News]

Announced at BrickCon 2009, 10210 Imperial Flagshipicon is now available from the LEGO Shop online.

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The ship measures 29.5” (75 cm) long and 23.6” (60 cm) tall, and includes 1664 pieces and 9 minifigs. Yes, the cannons do fire.

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2010 LEGO sets now available from LEGO Shop@Home [News]

As several readers noted regarding the clearance on 2009 LEGO sets, the 2010 sets are also now available.

The much-anticipated LEGO Atlantis sets are now available.

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And LEGO Toy Story sets are also now available.

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Massive clearance sale from LEGO Shop@Home on 2009 LEGO sets [News]

The LEGO Shop online has updated its Sales & Deals page with nearly a hundred deeply discounted items, including most of the first wave of Power Miners sets, Racers, and Bionicle.

LEGO Shop at Home

We’ll update this post with more specifics soon, but wanted to let you all know as quickly as possible. (This probably means the official launch of the 2010 sets can’t be too far away.)

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Jolly Roger contest on Forbidden Cove

Forbidden Cove is hosting a major pirate contest, know simply as the Jolly Roger Contest. Very similar to the Colossal Castle Contest on their sister site, Classic Castle, there is a plethora of categories and prizes. Go check it out and win yourself some loot!

LEGO Contest Pirate

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Brickvention 2010 Reminder

I’m sending out a pre-Christmas reminder that the previously mentioned Brickvention 2010 is coming up fast so get registered if you want to participate in the Australia Day weekend.

So far Brickvention has people registered from all six states and a final full attendence of at least 50 is expected as well as a predicted 2000 people through the door on the public day (it was crazy last year). If you’re from Australia or the neighbourhood this is your best chance to catch up with a bunch of LEGO fans from the local region. I’ll be there for the whole time so drop by and say hello.

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Brothers-Brick.com turns three [Editorial]

Brothers-Brick.com turned three a couple days ago, and as our regular readers will have noticed over the last 24 hours, solid growth has resulted in a few new growing pains (thankfully since resolved). We appreciate all of you who’ve stuck with us over the years, and stay tuned for more great LEGO creations and LEGO news in 2010!

I hereby dedicate this post to all you stat-monkeys out there.

2009 stats 2008 stats
  • 8,443,203 page views
  • 4,272,847 visits
  • 1,407,194 unique visitors
  • 196,574 unique keywords from search engines
  • 10,077 spam comments
  • 6,194 real comments
  • 5,770 unique referring sites
  • 5,973,090 page views
  • 2,006,339 visits
  • 820,532 unique visitors
  • 119,524 unique keywords from search engines
  • 36,382 spam comments
  • 12,307 real comments
  • 4,824 unique referring sites

(Implementing our Terms of Service and requiring registration back in January 2009 have had a clear effect on the number of comments — both spam and friendly — that posts received in 2009. We’ll evaluate whether the significant drop in discussion was worth it and revisit that decision in the coming weeks.)

There are Brothers-Brick.com readers in 207 countries and regions around the world:

As we’d hoped, we’ve added half a dozen or so readers in central Africa, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Still no North Korea or Turkmenistan…

Here are a few of my favorite lists, based on statistics from this past year:

Top Countries Top Keywords Referring Sites
  1. USA
  2. UK
  3. Canada
  4. Germany
  5. Australia
  6. The Netherlands
  7. France
  8. Poland
  9. Italy
  10. Japan
  1. lego blog
  2. lego architecture
  3. lego news
  4. lego power miners
  5. lego atlantis
  6. custom lego
  7. lego castle 2009
  8. lego fire brigade
  9. lego star wars 2009
  10. 2009 lego
  1. Search engines
  2. StumbleUpon
  3. Flickr
  4. Eurobricks
  5. Nuklear Power
  6. Gizmodo
  7. BrickArms
  8. Brickset
  9. Mecha Hub
  10. Facebook

Like 2008, nearly all of our most popular posts in the past year have been news items (driven mainly by search engine traffic):

  1. Zombie Apocafest 2008
  2. Howl’s Moving LEGO Castle
  3. 10193 Medieval Market Village
  4. Pictures of 2010 LEGO sets at festival RFFL
  5. First pictures of 2009 LEGO sets
  6. LEGO and Brickstructures present LEGO Architecture
  7. Angus MacLane’s LEGO Wall-E (and interview)
  8. 2009 LEGO Star Wars box art
  9. The crazy steampunk machine
  10. Should LEGO release modern military sets?

Finally, here are some links to historical posts:

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LEGOLAND Malaysia: the designers on the other side of the world

LEGOLAND Malaysia model designersOne of the interesting things about living in Southern California is that I get to talk quite a few of the model designers who are working on exhibits and installations for LEGOLAND Malaysia, which is scheduled to open in April of 2012. I get to hear about it, but I don’t get to see. I’ve also heard several of my friends here in SoCal talk about their own training process as well as the crew of Malaysian designers who have been hired and trained to work on the same projects. Bill Toenjes was nice enough to send us a link to an article in Johor Buzz, an English language Malay news site, which ran a great profile of several of the team in Malaysia.

We in the adult LEGO community usually get the (very interesting) perspective of adult fans who go on to work for LEGO or LEGOLAND, but the numerous straight-out-of-their-dark-age graphic designers, artists, engineers, and architects are kind of overlooked, though they seem to make up the bulk of the model and set design teams. It’s interesting to hear their perspective.

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LEGO Harry Potter game trailer shows cutscenes but little gameplay [News]

TT Games has released a trailer for their upcoming LEGO Harry Potter video game. It doesn’t show a lot of gameplay footage, but reveals the studio’s signature humor.

Via Kotaku.

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