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Christmas LEGO Advent Calendars for 2013

by Thita (admin) on November 3, 2013

in LEGO Exclusives

It has become a tradition that LEGO releases advent calendars before Christmas. The first LEGO Advent Calendar was released back in the late 1990s, with fun little creations for each day leading up to Christmas. Since then LEGO Christmas Calendars evolved into highly collectible sets with special minifigures and accessories that LEGO fans look forward to every year.

In the past we used to get one or two LEGO Advent Calendars per year based on different themes (like one based on LEGO City, and the other on LEGO Castle), but I guess due to the popularity of the sets, in the last couple of years LEGO has been releasing three Advent Calendars for the holiday season; one based on LEGO City, one on LEGO Star Wars, and one on LEGO Friends. So let’s check out what we are getting this year! 🙂

➡ #60024 LEGO CITY ADVENT CALENDAR: Enjoy 24 days of LEGO City building fun! Make every day leading up to Christmas a building adventure with the LEGO City Advent Calendar! Open the windows featuring 24 gifts, including a Christmas tree, grill, race car, sled, astronaut, policeman, robber, race car driver and 5 other cool minifigures. Makes a great gift!

Open a window every day to reveal 24 different LEGO City-themed gifts!
Features 8 minifigures, including a police officer, robber, astronaut and a surprise holiday-themed minifigure
Makes a great gift for young builders!

#60024 LEGO City Advent Calendar Details

➡ #75023 LEGO STAR WARS ADVENT CALENDAR: Count down to Christmas in a galaxy far, far away! May the Force be with you all season long with the LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar! Every day in December is a countdown to Christmas in a galaxy far, far away with exclusive LEGO Star Wars minifigures and buildable fun. Build 24 gifts, including iconic starships, minifigures and accessories with the perfect holiday gift for LEGO Star Wars fans both big and small!

Open a window every day to reveal 24 different LEGO Star Wars themed gifts
Features 6 minifigures and 3 droids, including an exclusive holiday-themed minifigure
Micro-scale LEGO Star Wars vehicles include Dooku’s Solar Sailer, Coruscant Freighter, Cloud car, Republic gunship, Attack cruiser, AT-TE, Republic Dropship, Geonosian Starfighter, Naboo Cruiser, Neimoidian Shuttle, Jedi Starfighter and Slave I
Makes a great gift for fans of the LEGO Star Wars building sets!

#75023 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar Details

➡ #41016 LEGO FRIENDS ADVENT CALENDAR: Count down to Christmas with the LEGO Friends! Count down to a LEGO Friends Christmas this December! Build the holiday story with Stephanie on her journey to the Christmas market! Take her snow scooter past all of the holiday-themed scenery you’ll find hidden inside. Then stop off for presents, snacks and some winter fun with ice skating! Find animals, build decorations and help her to get ready for the best holiday in Heartlake City! Includes Stephanie and Lily mini-doll figures with 24 buildable surprises in a calendar with 24 secret compartments.

Includes Stephanie and Lily mini-doll figures
Features 24 gifts, each enclosed in its own compartment in a LEGO Friends holiday-themed calendar
Open a new compartment each day and count down to Christmas with buildable gifts!
Collect 24 buildable surprises including a snow scooter, sled, snowman, ice skates, brown squirrel and a Christmas tree!
LEGO Friends pieces are fully compatible with all LEGO System bricks
Collect all of the LEGO Friends sets for a whole world of LEGO Friends fun!
LEGO mini-dolls are LEGO figures made especially for the world of LEGO Friends that can be customized and combined in thousands of ways
Measures over 2″ (7cm) high, 9″ (25cm) wide and 3″ (8cm) deep

#41016 LEGO Friends Advent Calendar Details

To show you exactly how the LEGO Advent Calendars work and see what’s inside, here is a detailed video-review by JANGBRiCKS of the LEGO City Advent Calendar for this year:

As you can see, each of the LEGO Advent Calendars are full of fun little sets, unique minifigures and interesting accessories. If you would like to pick one (or all three!) up for this holiday season and start the fun of opening a new window every day leading up to Christmas, check out the Online LEGO Shop: LEGO ADVENT CALENDARS AT THE ONLINE LEGO SHOP

Do you get any of the LEGO Advent Calendar sets? Have you been collecting them? Which theme is your favorite? Or, you do you make your own LEGO Advent Calendar? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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The LEGO Movie – second full trailer!

by Thita (admin) on November 2, 2013

in Other LEGO Sets & Themes

After three days of very short teaser-trailers introducing some of the main characters of The LEGO Movie (Emmet voiced by Chris Pratt, Wyldstyle voiced by Elizabeth Banks, Metal Beard voiced by Nick Offerman, President Business voiced by Will Ferrell, and Batman voiced by Will Arnett), we finally get the second full trailer (you can see the first trailer here: The LEGO Movie – First Trailer). So let’s check it out! 🙂

There has been tremendous excitement about The LEGO Movie, and for good reason. First of all the story is likable, with the little guy going out to save the day. The LEGO Movie follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and a Master Builder, who is the key to saving the world. Emmet is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant Lord Business who is bent on destroying the LEGO universe by gluing it together. Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared for the task, but with the aid of an old mystic named Vitruvius (voiced by Morgan Freeman), a tough young lady named Wyldstyle, and Batman, he is ready to fight.

Secondly, the visuals of The LEGO Movie are just excellent! In fact, it is so realistic, paying attention to the details and characteristics of each LEGO element, that people have been mistakenly thinking it is a full stop-motion movie. In reality The LEGO Movie combine stop-motion and computer animation seamlessly. Although I believe The LEGO Movie is going to be highly enjoyable by everyone, all the subtle LEGO humor added that only die-hard LEGO fans would understand, is going to make it even more fun for LEGO’s most dedicated and long-time fans.

The LEGO Movie is scheduled to be released in theatres February 7, 2014. And as we have discussed it previously, there are also going to be LEGO sets related to the movie, as well as a full LEGO Collectible Minifigure Series (Series 12). Both the sets and the minifigures will be available in January. And there is a video-game based on The LEGO Movie coming as well. Read more here: The LEGO Movie Video-Game, Sets & Minifigs

So what do you think? How do you like the second trailer for The LEGO Movie? What do you think of the characters? And what details have you noticed that you found interesting or really liked? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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