Batman v Superman posters

Lego have released Legoised versions of the posters for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice posters, featuring minifigure version of the two titular characters:

They look much snazzier than the actual posters to me. What do you think? (Regular ones after the jump)

New Jurassic World promo set and video game updates

The nice people over in the Lego corner of Reddit have uncovered a forthcoming Lego mini-build promotion at Toys'r'us in the US, which will see a micro-scale Jurassic World gate set, complete with a most desirable Jurassic World printed tile! Pictured is the poster promoting the event, which is surely worth attending if you can, for this great little build.

Meanwhile the promotional efforts for the Lego Jurassic World video game continue apace, including the release of the third poster image, this time featuring rampaging dinosaurs invading the Jurassic World labs.

Continue below for more new teases from the game, including an amazing Mr DNA minifigure!

Lego Jurassic World video game

There's just a couple of weeks left until the release of Jurassic World, and the accompanying Lego Jurassic World video game. The game will include Legoised versions of all four Jurassic Park movies, and along-side the familiar Lego video game features, will introduce the ability to play as the dinosaurs themselves, and to create new dinosaurs, by collecting and experimenting with DNA samples.

There have been several trailers released already, this latest one features a velociraptor riding a motorbike. Need I say more?



Continue after the jump for a look at some of the brilliant artwork released to promote the game, the previous trailers, and pre-order bonus Lego sets.

Watch Your Step

Here's a poster that anyone with even just a few Lego bricks in their home should probably display, lest a visitor fall victim to the most painful experience known to humanity:

Watch Your Step, by John Lucke is available as a poster from TeeFury.

Legofied Guardians of the Galaxy poster

Lego have released (via E! Online) a Legofied version of the poster for the latest Marvel movie, Guardians of the Galaxy:

Compare to the original version after the jump:

Brick Like Me, the Lego Simpsons episode

This weekend will see the first airing in the US of Brick Like Me, a special Legofied episode of The Simpsons. Ahead of the release there's lot of promotion about, giving us a look at the Lego version of Springfield, and a somewhat frustrating vision of what The Simpsons characters look like as proper Lego minifigures - Not the molded head creations that have made it into production in the Lego The Simpsons range (oh how I long for a Marge Simpson hair-piece I could use on any minifigure).

The episode appears to take place in version of Springfield where being made of Lego is the norm. Through interesting with a Friends-esque construction set, Perky Patty's Princess Shop, Homer starts to revert to his normal 2D animated self.

Here are two trailers. The shorter first one highlights some of the Lego Movie-style humour, while the second longer trailer is more dramatic:





Continue after the jump for the episode poster, stills, and clips!

First details of The Lego Movie sets, video game, books, and other merchandise

Coming Soon has announced details of Lego's merchandising plans surrounding the release of The Lego Movie next year. Those plans of course include the release of a range of Lego sets based on the film. Seventeen sets are planned, which will take full advantage of the diverse Lego universe featured in the film, including City, Western, and Space settings. One image has been released, showing a set featuring the exotic motor bike seen in the trailer, apparently being chased by what looks like robotic police:

In addition to the sets one series of the Collectable Miifigures will be turned over to the film. The usual assortment of sixteen characters will include new and "new-again" minifigures, presumably meaning some of the vintage Lego designs seen in the film will be getting new life as minifigure releases.

As well as sets there will be a new Lego video game based on the film. Due to be released for Xbox One, PS4, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, PC, 3DS and PS Vita, the game will feature fifteen levels and ninety characters, allowing us to use building skills to play through the events of the movie. Comicbook.com posted this teaser poster for the game, featuring the same moment in the story as the above Lego set:

Meanwhile Video Gamer posted screencaps, showing events in the City and Western settings. Continue after the jump to see those, and for details of other merchandise:

The Lego Movie

Warner Brother have released the trailer and teaser poster for The Lego Movie, which is due out next February. The film comes from writers and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who previously brought us the charming, hilarious, and beautiful, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (one of my very favourite films).

As the trailer demonstrates, the movie pulls in Lego characters and designs from the entire range of licenses and original themes, new and old - It's just as if the world of The Lego Movie takes place in your own eclectic Lego collection. There are some nice new character, location, and vehicle designs too, which surely will be translated into real world sets as well.

Voice talents include Chirs Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, and Morgan Freeman. Here's the official synopsis:

The 3D computer animated adventure tells the story of Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.

UPDATE: An international version of the trailer has also been released, it's a bit shorted but has a few extra scenes (have added more screencaps from this below as well):

Here are some screencaps from the trailer (after the jump), which hopefully gives us some clues to a few future Collectible Minifigures (there is definitely a panda costume character among the crowds, and several new historical characters), or sets based on the film - The new characters for the film have some especially nice character designs, plus there seems to be a Western sequence:

The Lego Fellowship

The recent UK Toy Fair has given the world a first look at the entire Lego Fellowship of the Ring

And following up on that individual figure images have started to show up (the Urak-Hai look amazing!):

While no images of the sets have been officially released yet, the Toy Fair also gives the first legitimate set listing and descriptions. In addition to those new figures many of the sets include a new Lego horse, with articulation to the back legs so it can rear! The first wave includes:

9469 Gandalf Arrives
Gandalf on his cart, with fireworks (including a neat use of the new ninjago snake) and Frodo too.

9470 Shelob Attacks
Shelob the Spider, with Frodo, Samwise, and Gollum, which is a custom mold with moveable arms.

9471 Uruk-Hai Army
Basically an Uruk-Hai battle pack, with four of the things, plus Eomer, a Rohan soldier, a horse, a siege machine, and a bit of wall which can be added to the larger Helm's Deep set to make it even bigger.

9472 Attack on Weathertop
Frodo, Merry, Aragorn at Weathertop, with two Ringwaiths on horseback.

9473 The Mines of Moria
Legolas, Boromir, Pippin, Gimli, a cave troll and two Moria orcs with various bits of Moria scenery.

9474 The Battle of Helm’s Deep
Great big castle with Theoden, Haldir, Aragorn, Gimli, King and four Urak-Hai.

9476 The Orc Forge
Five orcs, some forgey stuff, and a light-brick amongst it all.

The next couple of character poster has also been released; LEGOlas and Gollum:

Lego Aragorn has returned!

Or made his debut in fact (with remarkably sculpted cheeks for a Lego person), in this new poster promoting the forthcoming Lego The Lord of the Rings line: