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LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader Castle

by on October 6, 2018
in LEGO Star Wars

As a very interesting move, a couple of days ago, both the Online LEGO Shop and Amazon made a new LEGO Star Wars set available for pre-order. The #75251 LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader’s Castle is unique in several ways. First of all, actual buildings are pretty rare in the LEGO Star Wars collection, and LEGO making a set available for pre-order only happened once in recent history. In addition, this set is an Amazon exclusive, meaning that Amazon will be the only reseller carrying the set besides official LEGO stores and the Online LEGO Shop. Below are the details. 🙂

Here is the official description of the set: Set the scene for action on planet Mustafar with the #75251 LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader’s Castle! This building set of Vader’s menacing-looking home features lots of great details, including a brick-built lava flow, an underground hangar with mouse droid and docking station, ancient Sith shrine with holocron, racks for extra ammunition, and secret compartments hiding more Sith relics. The hangar also houses a buildable TIE Advanced Fighter model with stud shooters and space to sit the Darth Vader minifigure. There’s also a bacta tank, Darth Vader’s meditation chamber with holographic communication unit, and a meeting platform at the top with a defensive stud-shooter cannon. As well as classic Darth Vader, the set also includes a bacta tank version of the Dark Lord, plus 2 Royal Guards and an Imperial Transport Pilot. 1,060 pieces. Price: $129.99 – LEGO SHOP – AMAZON SHOP

  • Includes 5 minifigures: Darth Vader, Darth Vader (bacta tank), 2 Royal Guards and an Imperial Transport Pilot.
  • Features Darth Vader’s Castle and a buildable version of Vader’s TIE Advanced Fighter.
  • Underground hangar with mouse droid and docking station, ancient Sith shrine with holocron, racks for extra ammunition, Sith relics, secret compartments hiding a Lightsaber handle and a red kyber crystal element, plus space for Vader’s TIE Advanced Fighter.
  • Castle also features a side access door, opening bacta tank, a hook for Lord Vader’s cape, meditation chamber with space for a minifigure and holographic communication unit, plus a circular meeting area at the top with a defensive stud-shooter cannon.
  • TIE Advanced Fighter features 2 stud shooters and an opening minifigure cockpit.
  • Weapons include Darth Vader’s red Lightsaber, the Imperial Transport Pilot’s blaster pistol and the Royal Guards’ Force pikes.
  • Measures over 16” (41cm) high, 11” (28cm) wide and 9” (23cm) deep.
  • TIE Advanced Fighter measures over 2” (6cm) high, 4” (11cm) wide and 3” (9cm) long.
  • Includes 1,060 pieces.
  • Recommended for Age 9+.

As mentioned above, the set is exclusively available through Amazon and the Online LEGO Shop. Amazon lists the official release date as November 26th (so if you pre-order that’s the time the package will ship). The Online LEGO Shop lists the date the set will ship as December 1st. The price at both Amazon and the Online LEGO Shop is the same, and they both offer free shipping. However, if you order directly from LEGO, you will also receive whatever promotional item is available at the time you make a purchase. The current promotions are a free #40300 LEGO Star Wars Han Solo Mudtrooper minifigure until October 14th, and a free LEGO Minifigure Collector Frame during the rest of the month. If you would like to pre-order, here are the links:

The #75251 LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader’s Castle looks quite dramatic from the front, and could make an excellent focal piece in a LEGO Star Wars layout. And the inside is packed with lots of details. If you would like to own a unique LEGO Star Wars set that doesn’t break the bank, this can be a great choice. Due to the limited release, this can also make a great gift for a LEGO Star Wars fan. For other currently available sets, check the LEGO Star Wars section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? How do you like the #75251 LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader’s Castle? Is this a set you are interested to get? And what do you think of the idea of LEGO making sets available for pre-order? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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LEGO Ideas Treehouse & The Flintstones

by on October 5, 2018
in Other LEGO Sets & Themes

Awesome news for LEGO fans! Yesterday, LEGO revealed the results of the last LEGO Ideas review phase! Over the past several months, the LEGO Ideas review board has carefully reviewed the ten creative product ideas that reached 10,000 supporters between January 2018 and May 2018. The end result is choosing not one, but two projects to become official LEGO sets! Below is the video-announcement as well as other details about the selected projects and their designers. 🙂

The first project approved by the LEGO Ideas review board is the LEGO Treehouse, by 37-year-old French hairdresser and LEGO fan Kevin Feeser (a.k.a. KevinTreeHouse). The project was very popular on LEGO Ideas during the voting stage, and it achieved 10,000 votes in less then four months. There is an interesting interview posted with Kevin on the LEGO Ideas blog, where he shares that it took about 2 months, approximately 2,600 LEGO pieces, and several revisions to build the project. He also talks about his passion for nature, wildlife, wooden constructions, and travel, and the challenges he faced while building the LEGO Treehouse. You can read the whole interview here.

The second project approved by the LEGO Ideas review board is the LEGO Flintstones by 41-year-old video-game artist Andrew Clark (a.k.a. AndrewClark2) from the US (originally from the UK). This nostalgic design brings plenty of fun flashbacks of all the stories with Fred Flintstone and the rest of the Stone Age gang. It is interesting to note that this is the second successful LEGO Ideas project by Andrew, the first one being the #21304 LEGO Ideas Doctor Who set released in 2015. Andrew shares many thoughtful insights into making a LEGO Ideas project successful in an interview published at the LEGO Ideas blog. He also talks about having fond memories of watching The Flintstones growing up, why he decided to go with the LEGO Flintstones project, and the challenges he faced designing and building it. The approximately 770-piece model took about 88 hours to build spread over three months, and it took the project around 14 months to reach 10,000 votes. You can read the whole interview here.

Both of the sets are expected to launch in 2019, however the LEGO Ideas team is still working out the final product design, pricing and availability, so we will just have to keep an eye on the LEGO Ideas website for further updates. In the LEGO Ideas announcement below, Hasan Jensen and Ali Plumb talks more about both projects.

In the meantime, the next batch of LEGO Ideas projects that reached 10,000 supporters between May and September 2018 are already under review. The result of this review period will be shared in early 2019.

To check the currently available LEGO Ideas sets originally submitted by fan designers, visit the LEGO Ideas section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? How do you like the results of this review period? Are you excited about the LEGO Treehouse and the LEGO Flintstones project? Were there other projects you were hoping to make it through the review? And which projects are you looking forward to in the next review period? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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