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LEGO at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con

by on July 14, 2018
in Community News

Building up the excitement for San Diego Comic-Con next week (July 19-22), LEGO has been teasing about some of the upcoming sets that will be on display, as well as the exclusives that lucky LEGO fans will be able to get at Comic-Con. Below, we will take a look at all the new sets and exclusives revealed so far, and there could likely be even more. 🙂

With The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part coming early next year, a lot of the focus is going to be on the new film. The Ultrakatty sculpture below was built with almost 56,000 LEGO elements, and will be on display at SDCC. Angry Unikitty in battle gear is just the best!

LEGO also released images of three of the upcoming LEGO Movie 2 sets, featuring characters and vehicles we have seen in The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part Trailer (click the link to watch the trailer). The #70827 LEGO Movie 2 Ultrakatty & Warrior Lucy ($29.99) features a large brick-built and highly articulated version of Ultrakatty in her super angry form with sharp claws and spiky armor pieces. Included minifigs are Wyldstyle with new gear, and good old Emmet. Also, notice the brick-built DUPLO brick! The #70829 LEGO Movie 2 Emmet and Lucy’s Escape Buggy ($49.99) includes the post-apocalyptic gateway vehicle we have seen in the trailer, with big tires, pipes, chains, full suspension… what is there not to like? Both Emmet and Wyldstyle are included, along with Metalbeard (or, what’s left of him) and a new character named Sharkia. There are also a couple of those Sweet Mayhem hearts and starts that are used as missiles in the trailer. The #70830 LEGO Movie 2 Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship! ($69.99) features the Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship with more of the heart and star missiles, along with Sweet Mayhem herself, Emmet and Wyldstyle. This is the first time LEGO mini-dolls and minifigs appear in the same set!

The LEGO Movie 2 goodness doesn’t stop there! One of the San Diego Comic-Con exclusive giveaways is Apocalypseburg Unikitty. She comes with a spiked tail and two facial expressions; Angry Kitty and Rage Kitty. I hope that a same or similar version of Unikitty will be available in an upcoming retail set as well, and she won’t be just an SDCC exclusive.

Two other exclusive minifigure giveaways that will be available at San Diego Comic Con are LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Sheriff Deadpool, and LEGO DC Super Heroes Black Lightning. These minifigures are extremely rare, and you need quite a bit of luck to win them through a lottery system. You will also be able to find them on eBay after the event where they go for hundreds of dollars.

According to TheBrickFan.com, there is also a free exclusive Jessica Cruz minifig, which will be available at the early screening of the LEGO DC Super Heroes Aquaman: Rage of Atlantis film at San Diego Comic-Con, while supplies last.

Three exclusive set for purchase that will be available at SDCC are the #75512 LEGO Star Wars Solo Millennium Falcon Cockpit, the #75996 LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Aquaman and Storm set, and the #75997 LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Ant-Man and the Wasp set. All three sets are just around 200 pieces, and they will retail at the event for $40 each. Please note that LEGO is using a lottery system at SDCC, and only those who win the lottery will have a chance to purchase the sets.

A regular retail set that will be available next year, and will be displayed at SDCC is the #76117 LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Batman Mech vs. Poison Ivy Mech, featuring Firefly, Batman, Poison Ivy, and The Flash, along with the two mechs. The set is 375 pieces and will retail for $39.99 in January 2019.

As usual, LEGO has a large presence at San Diego Comic-Con, and there will be several discussion panels, screenings, question and answer periods, new set reveals, etc. If you are interested to learn more, check out the comic-con.org website. Also, Alan from TheBrickFan.com is participating at the event, and he will be regularly updating LEGO fans via Twitter.

What do you think? How do you like The LEGO Movie 2 sets? And what do you think of the SDCC exclusives? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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Combining three LEGO rollers coasters

by on July 13, 2018
in Featured LEGO Creations

As we discussed previously, LEGO released three roller coaster sets in a short period of time to introduce the new roller coaster track system. The three sets are the #70922 LEGO Batman Movie The Joker Manor, the #10261 LEGO Creator Roller Coaster, and the #31084 LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Pirate Roller Coaster. You can find reviews of all three sets at the end of this post. The roller coaster tracks and cars are also available in smaller quantities in a few other sets (which we discussed in the Pirate Roller Coaster review linked below), but until LEGO releases supplemental roller coaster packs, the above-mentioned three sets appear to be the best sources for large quantities of roller coaster parts. 🙂

All three of the LEGO roller coaster sets provide a full loop of tracks, so if you want to try out the new LEGO roller coaster system, any of the three sets are a good choice. Of course, the #10261 LEGO Creator Roller Coaster is the ultimate choice with the longest and most complex track, and even motorization options, but the other two coasters look great too.

A common question that arises with the new LEGO roller coasters, is what it would look like to combine several of the sets to make a bigger coaster? This means that the track can be made much longer, and even more complex, but is it worth it, and is it the most efficient way to build a bigger coaster? I found two videos that demonstrate how combining three of each of the #31084 LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Pirate Roller Coaster, and the #10261 LEGO Creator Roller Coaster looks like. There are some interesting takeaways from both of these demonstrations.

In the first video, our favorite LEGO set reviewer, JANGBRiCKS, combined the track pieces from three of the #31084 LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Pirate Roller Coaster sets. He talks about the challenges faced trying to build a longer track from the pieces. It turns out that this set is not as good as a parts-pack to build a larger roller coaster as initially thought, due to the lack of straight tracks. Watch the video below for more details.

The second video by 2Ttoys demonstrates combining three of the #10261 LEGO Creator Roller Coaster sets. The original set is massive already, and this combined monster is huge! According to the video, the dimensions are 100 cm height, 55 cm width, and 150 long (that’s 39 x 22 x 59 inches). Using so many track pieces even allowed building of a full vertical loop! Check it out in the video below.

Unfortunately, this second video doesn’t give much information about the process of combining the three sets and any challenges that came up, but it is clear that this works really well. Having so many straight tracks helps both with elevating the cars in an efficient way, and also providing the momentum on the way down for the cars to run the rest of the track. Unfortunately, combining three #10261 LEGO Creator Roller Coaster is going to be prohibitive for many LEGO fans due to the cost involved, but it’s nice to see that a vertical loop is actually possible with the new system.

In summary, while all three of the LEGO roller coasters are great sets out of the box, and are worth purchasing, they may not be the best way to expand your LEGO roller coaster parts inventory for building larger coasters. Both the #70922 LEGO Batman Movie The Joker Manor, and the #31084 LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Pirate Roller Coaster lack straight tracks to create elevation and momentum (The Joker Manor set does have a couple of very short straight track pieces, while the Pirate Roller Coaster has none). The #10261 LEGO Creator Roller Coaster does include all the straight and curved pieces in LEGO’s inventory to build all kinds of coasters, but it is a very large and expensive set already, thus not the most suitable for being a parts-pack. If you want to build your own custom coasters it would probably be best to wait until LEGO releases track-packs similar to the currently available train track-packs. You can check out all the coaster sets at the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? How do you like the LEGO roller coasters and the new LEGO roller coaster track system? Have you considered combining the sets to build larger coasters, or build your own completely custom coaster? And what do you think of the two examples of combined coasters discussed here? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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