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TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for November 6, 2021 [News]

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders all over the world, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the first week of November 2021.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS We got our first look at a colorful few sets inspired by Encanto, a new animated movie from Disney, and we talked with a LEGO fan who landed his dream job as a LEGO Designer.

[NEWS] LEGO reveals first sets from Disney’s Encanto movie — LEGO revealed the first few sets from the upcoming Disney movie Encanto.
[NEWS] LEGO reveals two new Chinese Festival sets — LEGO gave a sneak peak at the Lunar New Year Festival sets for 2021, plus a Monkie Kid set for 2022.
[INTERVIEW] How Aaron Newman went from being a LEGO fan to a LEGO set designer — We sat down (virtually) with LEGO fan turned LEGO Designer Aaron Newman – Here’s hoping we get some official sets based on his very cool castle reboot.

OTHER NEWS

LEGO Ideas Fender® Stratocaster™ | Designer Video – [Youtube.com] — Take a behind-the-scenes look with the design team behind the LEGO Ideas Stratocaster guitar and amp.
Bricklink Designer Program update – [Twitter.com] — Bricklink announced a switch in the round 2 offerings out of respect for the victims of the tragedy on the movie set of Rust.

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LEGO reveals two Chinese Festival sets for 2021 Lunar New Year [News]

LEGO has just revealed the 2021 Chinese New Year Festival sets. For several years LEGO has created sets celebrating the Chinese Festivals, and this year the two sets will be 80108 Lunar New Year Traditions and 80109 Lunar New Year Ice Festival. The sets were revealed at the China International Import Expo, which begins today, Jay’s Brick Blog reports. There’s no word yet on the pricing for these sets, but they’ll be available starting Dec. 25 in China and the Asian/Pacific region, while the launch will follow a few days later on Jan. 1 for the rest of the world. LEGO also revealed one new Monkie Kid set as well.

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LEGO reveals first sets from Disney’s Encanto movie [News]

With no fanfare, LEGO revealed a pair of sets from the upcoming Disney animated movie Encanto on their website today. The two sets are in the style of the other Disney sets, with the larger of the pair featuring minidolls, and the smaller as part of the book playsets lineup with microdolls. Encanto is slated for release Nov. 24, while the LEGO sets will follow on Dec. 1. There are a few new pieces that are sure to interest builders, too, such as new 3×3 macaroni tiles and a 1×1 round tile with a new clock print.

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TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for October 30, 2021

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS Two reviews this week- Chris Doyle covers the LEGO Technic Batmobile from “The Batman” film coming in 2022, and Bre Burns studies the Hogwarts Gryffindor Dorms GWP!

[REVIEW] LEGO Technic DC – 42127 The Batman Batmobile – Budget Black Beauty Brings Bat-itude — How does it stack up with the recent Dark Knight Tumbler?
[REVIEW] A look at the next Harry Potter GWP set: 40252 Hogwarts Gryffindor Dorms — Spend USD$100 or more on Harry Potter LEGO products between October 25 and November 7th at LEGO Stores or online to nab this gift with purchase!

OTHER NEWS Our news roundup includes other news from around the world, including a new puzzle, the fruits of THREE different LEGO partnerships, and justice served in the case of a LEGO crime.

IDEAS Puzzle Design Winner Revealed! – LEGO Ideas — We won’t spoil the surprise here- click through to see which design will become an official LEGO puzzle!
Image, Skybound to Publish New ‘Lego Ninjago Garmadon’ Series – ICv2.com — The first comic under the previously-announced LEGO/Skybound partnership will debut in April 2022
Part 7 of LEGO and NASA’s STEAM Exploration Series – LEGO Education YouTube Channel — This episode explores the soon-to-launch James Webb Telescope
Introducing the Volvo Concept LX03 – Volvo — The collaboration between Volvo’s Construction division and LEGO Technic designers birthed an electric machine learning piece of heavy equipment built for the future
Seattle police bust lucrative Lego trafficking scheme – The Guardian — “Operation: MandalOrganized Retail Theft” nabbed a shady Seattle reseller hocking stolen LEGO product.

Snout and Buzzer may or may not have good intensions

Meet Snout and Buzzer. They’re not your average mechs. The LEGO builder with the enigmatic name of Sheo. tells us that Snout is a scout mech equipped with a sensitive sensor array. Meanwhile the Buzzer mech emits a powerful field of pure bliss. Anyone affected stands paralyzed. All of this sounds fishy to me. Now why would this pair go looking for people and then give them pure bliss? At what cost does this bliss come by? And what is with those bright red minifigures? Are they a fuel source? This creation boasts more questions than answers. Still, I might like just a sample, a tiny taste, a micro-dose of that pure bliss. It’s the trendy thing nowadays, isn’t it? perhaps rub just a tiny bit of it on my gums and then I can decide if I want to procure more. Wise decision, do you think? While you’re mulling that over, check out the other times we were tempted by this builder’s offerings.

Krossing the Kookie T-Bucket off the T-Bucket list

In 1952 the gregarious larger-than-life Norm Grabowski took a ’31 Ford Model A V8 roadster and, with some unconventional customizations, made hot rodding history with his equally gregarious and larger-than-life Kookie T-Bucket. With its flashy red and blue color scheme and cartoonish proportions it was a pivotal car for sure. Norm’s T-bucket helped push hot rodding to the forefront of American pop culture. In fact, anyone building T-Buckets today borrows some DNA from this Kooky-T. Fast forward nearly 70 years later and LEGO car builder 1saac W. has paid homage to Norm and his Kookie-T and scratched this one off his T-bucket to-do list. Be sure to check out the other times we went totally kookie for 1saac’s stuff.

LEGO Technic DC – 42127 The Batman Batmobile – Budget Black Beauty Brings Bat-itude [Review]

You may remember that in the classic “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” Christmas carol, the Batmobile plays a vital role when it loses a wheel. Well, LEGO is leaning heavily into making sure that Bat-fans have that opportunity this holiday season. We recently reviewed the latest incarnation of the Tumbler, set 76240, which will be available November 1st. But why stop there? Also on November 1st (in north America – January 1st worldwide), LEGO will release a second version based on the upcoming The Batman movie. LEGO Technic DC – 42127 The Batman Batmobile is available for pre-order now from the LEGO Shop Online for US $99.99 | CAN $129.99 | UK £89.99. This 1360 piece set is priced to tempt a wider audience, but does it hold up to the other bat-offerings? Read on and see for yourself!

The LEGO Group provided The Brothers Brick with an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.

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A look at the next Harry Potter GWP set: 40252 Hogwarts Gryffindor Dorms [Review]

Any fan of the Harry Potter movies can recall the iconic scene where he is introduced to his first chocolate frog. Unfortunately, it jumps out the train window before he can taste it, but the real focal point is the included trading card. All at once, Harry is introduced to wizarding candy, a hobby, moving portraits, and, of course, Professor Dumbledore. (Plus, as we recall later, the existence Dumbledore’s important friend, Nicolas Flamel.) These trading cards have now become a “collect them all” feature of recent sets – a smart move by LEGO. If you’re hunting for the cards (2×2 tiles), or completing a Hogwarts castle, you may want to consider planning your next LEGO shopping trip between October 25th and November 7th, where you can get 40452 Hogwarts Gryffindor Dorms as a free gift with any Harry Potter themed purchase over US $100 | CAN $100 | UK £100.

The LEGO Group provided The Brothers Brick with an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.

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TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for October 23, 2021 [News]

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders all over the world, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the third week of October 2021.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS This week was all about big sets… not as big as the Titanic we reviewed a few weeks ago, but still pretty big.

[NEWS] 4,000-piece 21330 Home Alone House unveiled — The latest LEGO Ideas set is the biggest one yet, at it is packed with references to the holiday classic.
[REVIEWS] LEGO Ideas 21330 Home Alone House — If you get stuck home alone this holiday season, you can keep busy building this set, iron not included
[REVIEWS] LEGO Technic 42131 Cat D11 Bulldozer — We dig into the latest giant bulldozer set from the LEGO Technic theme… (see what I did there?)

OTHER NEWS Pre-order your favorite Bricklink Designer Program sets, check out the latest in integrated tech to add to your LEGO Technic creations, get excited about the newest Harry Potter gift with purchase, and get ready to wear LEGO clothes from Target, that won’t kill your feet when you step on them in the night.

Second round of crowdfunding for the BrickLink Designer Program opens November 9th featuring these nine LEGO® IDEAS 10k Club Projects! – [Bricklink.com] — These fan creations sell out fast, so check out this announcement from Bricklink and pre-order yours while supplies last.
Meet the Raspberry Pi Build HAT: create with Raspberry Pi and LEGO® Education – [RasberryPi.com] — Bring your LEGO creations to life with the lates Rasbery Pi kits.
Hogwarts™ Gryffindor™ Dorms – [Lego.com] — The Gryffindor common room is the perfect place to display your collectible wizard tiles, 10pts to Gryffindor!
Target to release limited-edition Lego collection with clothes, accessories, home goods and more – [USAtoday.com] — The new clothing line from Target and LEGO looks as bright as the plastic bricks.

4,000-piece 21330 Home Alone House unveiled as biggest LEGO Ideas set ever [News]

Not a lot of movies from the early 1990s have stuck around as household names, but surely one of the oddest is that childhood classic from 1990, Home Alone. It has found its quirky, lovable place among our holiday favorites, and today, LEGO is revealing that the newest Ideas set is based on the film. 21330 Home Alone House features the quiet suburban McCallister house that Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) has rigged with all manner of booby traps for the would-be burglars. The LEGO set has a full interior thanks to its 3,957 pieces, making it the biggest product to date based on a fan design from the crowd-sourcing platform Ideas. The original Ideas project was created by fan Alex Storozhuk, whose Home Alone project reached the requisite 10k votes back in December of 2019, and was approved by LEGO to become a set in June of 2020. The new set will retail for US $249.99 | CAN $349.99 | UK £229.99 and will be available starting Nov. 1.

Be sure to check out our full, hands-on review of the LEGO Ideas 21330 Home Alone House!

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LEGO Ideas 21330 Home Alone House: The largest Ideas set ever is packed with movie references [Review]

Just in time for the holidays, LEGO has unveiled a set based on the classic Christmas-time film, Home Alone. 21330 Home Alone House is the 38th entry in the Ideas theme, and will be available November 1st for US $249.99 | CAN $349.99 | UK £229.99. At a whopping 3957 pieces, it even beats out the massive 21323 Grand Piano in terms of part count, becoming the largest Ideas set to date. In addition to the titular home, the are also five exclusive minifigures and plenty of other extras. Come along as we find out just how many movie references you can cram into a single set. (Spoiler alert: It’s a lot.)

The LEGO Group provided The Brothers Brick with an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.

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LEGO Technic 42131 Cat D11 Bulldozer [Review]

Like the latest ridiculously expensive smartphones, LEGO Technic flagship sets make you consider one question: is it worth upgrading? Same prices, same play features, and, maybe, a couple of new tricks to show off. This fall it’s all about the new LEGO Technic 42131 Cat D11 Bulldozer: 3,854 pieces, four motors, a bunch of new pieces, and a price tag of US $449.99 | CAN $549.99 | UK £419.99. Is the set worth upgrading from the reigning king 42100 Liebherr R 9800 Excavator? Let’s build and play with one and see what it has to offer.

The LEGO Group provided The Brothers Brick with a copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.

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