UPDATE: The brand-new 2009 LEGO Power Miners sets are now available from the LEGO Shop online.
It’s a news bonanza today! Next up, the first high-resolution photos of LEGO Power Miners.
My favorite is the as-yet-unnamed 8961:
This image of 8960 shows off the new minifigs, rock monster, and dynamite:
Smalls sets are always nice for figs, like 8956:
See more on Eurobricks, Brickset, Brickshelf, or Flickr.
Well, with pictures of the 2009 LEGO sets up on Brickshelf, Brickset, Eurobricks, How Many Studs to LEGOLAND?, Flickr, and… — you get the idea — I think the genie’s out of the bottle.
There’s so much stuff, we’ll split this into several posts. Let’s get started with LEGO Indiana Jones.
From Raiders of the Lost Ark, 7683 Fight on the Flying Wing:
From Temple of Doom, 7682 Shanghai Chase:
More box art photos from 2009 LEGO sets to come…
Okay, Brothers Brick readers, our GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest ends in less than a week, on October 31!
Ricardo Silva (evildead from Klocki) has submitted “Go Miniman Panic Go!” — in which “science-fiction turns into reality”:
Things go downhill for the minifigs in Rupi‘s second entry:
Thanks for all the great entries so far, everyone!
Reminder: Don’t forget to let us know you’ve entered, and be sure to include what category your entry is for. ;-)
As we reported back in August in a guest review by Jordan Schwartz, the the LEGO® Collector’s Guide was not available here in the United States.
However, I’m pleased to share that the standard edition is now available from the LEGO Shop:
Check out the review, and let’s keep hoping the premium edition will also be released here in the States.
Jordan Neves, Zach Clapsadle, and Lukas Winklerprins are hosting a very cool contest running through the end of November — the Rebuild Your First MOC, but Good! contest.
Peter Morris improves on a childhood favorite with “SF-109E Eagle”:
David “Xenobuzz” Simmons also gets in on the action with his “JL-79 Cargo Hauler” (named after July 1979, when David was 10):
Read more about the contest on Classic-Space.com and the Classic-Space Flickr group, and then get building!
A heads up for all those Australian LEGO fans out there. I plan to attend and hope to have a blast.
Brickvention is Australia’s own LEGO convention and it’s only a few months away!
The 2009 Brickvention will be held over the Australia Day Long Weekend (January 24th to 25th) in Melbourne, Australia and promises to be an exciting event.
Following on from the success of the previous years, there will be competitions, presentations, demonstrations and lots of interesting things to see and do.
Highlights of the weekend include:
- MOC displays (including town, modular houses, train, moonbase, and space)
- Building competitions
- Dirty Brickster
- Dirty Buildster
- Build-in-a bag
- Timed build
- Brickfilms
- Brikwars
- Trade tables
We’re all really excited about the event and can’t wait to meet lots of other AFOLs from all over Australia and around the world.
Want to know more about the event? Check out the website at http://www.brickventures.com
Keith Goldman has just announced the second annual “You Control the Action” contest with the theme of sci-fi horror! The rules are simple, build any sized creation in minifigure scale that delivers sci-fi horror action and you will have a chance to win fabulous prizes plus the all-so craved feeling of having controlled the action. You have until the end of this year to take part in this horrendously satisfying experience.
Braindead? Think “4 foot demonic SHIPS, gory vignettes, haunted MB modules, zombie siege dioramas, blood-trains, one eyed monsters, giant posessed super computers, undead steampunk, lycanthropic cyberpunk, punk-ass ghost-robots and serial killer-mecha.” Start controlling the action today!
The latest Star Wars: The Clone Wars set available from the LEGO Shop is 7679 Republic Fighter Tank (aka TX-130 Saber-class Fighter Tank).
All orders over $99.00 ship for free, so I’ll just dangle before you some of the sales going on right now:
And now, a quick reminder about why we do this.
Knowing that there are tens of thousands of you out there reading what we post makes our efforts here on The Brothers Brick truly worth it. Running this site isn’t free, though. We use the revenue from our advertising to pay the bills, and then we give every extra penny back to you — through contest prizes, giveaways, and so on. If you don’t believe us, just ask BrickCon attendees! ;-)
So, whether you buy your LEGO through us or through Brickset, Klocki, Peeron, or another LEGO fan site, the next time you buy LEGO, consider clicking through from one of these sites. You’ll be supporting key resources in the LEGO fan community.
Neiman Marcus has recently posted their upscale Christmas catalog for the uber-rich. They now sell LEGO!
They have brokered a deal with LEGO Certified Professional Nathan Sawaya. For a very reasonable amount, you can have a replica of any person you want. How reasonable? If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
Okay, I’ll tell you. It’s pocket change, just $60,000. The real problem is finding space for it. Keep it in your mini-sub. You never use that anyway….
Thanks to Chris Wunz for the heads up about the Yahoo News post.
Here is our final installment of the incredible prototypes that we drooled over at BrickCon.
Being primarily a Castle fan, I was most excited by the Long Sword and Rapier:
Another historical weapon that should be popular with the Pirate fans is the bayonet, attached via an extremely versatile U-clip:
I also fell in love with the Sawed-Off Shotgun and the miniscule Derringer:
I know Andrew has already shown off the Derringer. But it’s so darn cute, I had to do it again!
Last, but not least, is another weapon that is close to my heart. The long-awaited Paintbal Marker:
Will Chapman from BrickArms took the summer off from work to try focusing exclusively on custom minifig accessories.
Starting with BrickWorld 2008 in June, each LEGO convention has revealed more and more new products and prototypes.
Thanks to the extra time he has now, Will has been churning out more prototypes in his garage than we can count — particularly for those of you eager for World War II accessories.
For your Allied minifigs, the Bazooka M9 (with M6 rocket) will pack a serious punch:
On the Axis side, the German Panzerfaust 30 anti-tank weapon and MG42 machine gun will complement the MP40 SMG and C96 Mauser:
One of the most intriguing new prototypes is the U-clip (“U” for universal). The U-clip can connect any two objects that can fit into a minifig hand.
The potential applications seem infinite, such as attaching a bayonet (also a new BrickArms prototype) to your Lee-Enfield SMLE, a Combat Knife (again, new) to your M4 Carbine, or simulating an M203 grenade launcher with a black LEGO lightsaber handle:
Between our earlier coverage and the Zombie Apocafest, readers should already be familiar with the Lewis gun and Combat Shotgun:
The current Lewis gun prototype solves a minor issue with the earlier version (the drum tended to pop off fairly easily) by attaching the drum to the gun with a clip-like stud. This does make the drum more secure, but it resembles T-21 blaster from Star Wars a bit less with the drum removed.
A couple of the more unique new weapons include a game-inspired gunblade and a Derringer:
The MGL (multiple grenade launcher) will enable your minifigs to take on Decepticons and Predators alike with ease:
Finally, fans of Western movies get two iconic pistols — the Colt Navy 1861 revolver and the M1917 revolver (which looks a lot like the Colt Single Action Army “Peacemaker”):
For those of you wondering when we’ll see all this great stuff in production, here’s the final word from Will:
The next mold (in black and/or bley) will include the Combat Knife and Combat Shotgun for sure, and most likely the MGL, Lewis Gun, and Paintball Gun, but the lineup is still being decided. Look for that mold in early 2009, perhaps even by BrickFest 2009 in Portland!
The swords and Colt Navy will most likely be added to a silver mold, sometime soon as well. I’m still coordinating the layout for it. The other items may be limited-edition “garage releases”, as time permits. All will eventually see production.
Did he just say swords and paintball guns? Yes indeed. Look for a preview of those in the next few days from Josh. ;-)
Tommy Armstrong from Brick Engraver has been cooking up something rather cool — custom-printing on LEGO bricks:
Tommy can print just about any design on white LEGO, including standard bricks, plates, and even minifig torsos, as modeled above by GO MINIMAN GO and BrickCon minifigs. Note the high level of detail on the four issues of BrickJournal.
Tommy was kind enough to send along a rather sizable number of samples to BrickCon 2008. If you were there on the last day, I hope you got some of the GO MINIMAN GO minifigs and 2×2 tiles we handed out. Thanks Tommy!
We’ll be sure to post the news when Brick Engraver announces that they’re taking orders for what is sure to be one of the coolest additions to the LEGO customization world.
