Lego CUUSOO: One in, one out.

A new Lego CUUSOO proposal has reach the required 10000 supporters required to be considered for production. This time it's a spaceship from EVE. From now on CUUSOO are doing quarterly reviews of successful sets, so they wont be deciding on this one until June; along with any other ideas that make the number by then. The Back to the Future DeLorean proposal is already very close.

 

Meanwhile the last idea to get to 10000 has not past approval. Lego have deemed The Winchester from Shaun of the Dead inappropriate for their core target audience of children.

All my CUUSOO focus is currently on this amazing Jurassic Park idea. While it has barely any support so far I think it's fantastic, and representing such an iconic scene in cinema history is surely deserves a shot. So go support it!

The latest exclusive and promotional Lego sets

In my attempts to keep up to date on all the Lego sets that are to exist I have got a bit behind with the odd promotional and exclusive sets. So here's a little catch up:

The big news, a couple of months ago, was that the first Lego CUUSOO proposal in the international version of the platform got to the 10000 vote mark, and was oked by the Lego team. Coming some time this summer will be a Lego set based on the game Minecraft:

21102 Minecraft Micro World

There are a couple of Lego shop at home special sets on the way too. Here's a video with the designers of the big new R2-D2 set:

10225 R2-D2

The other is their latest aircraft sculpture; a new Sopwith Camel, a sequel of sorts to the previous 2001 edition.

10226 Sopwith Camel

Also in the more specialist arena is the latest set in Lego's Architecture range: Big Ben. This one should be out just in time to cash in on extra British tourism for the Olympics. I'd rather have the entire Palace of Westminster though; looks a bit odd just chopping off the end bit.

21013 Big Ben

Also targeting tourists is a new airline promotional set, a neat little glider to add to your city airport. These are currently available from Virgin Atlantic and TUIfly.

4442 Glider

Getting even more exclusive, there's a special mini Statue of Liberty set available from the New York Lego store, and several newly opening Lego stores have had limited supplies of Lego Store Lego sets:

40026 Statue of Liberty

3300003 Brand Retail Store

Also exclusive to Lego stores, as well as Lego's online shop, will be two promotional minifigures with purchases of Star Wars and Super Heroes sets, during in promotional periods:

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Hulk

Already out in the wild is a special Darth Maul minifigure, so far made available at the New York Toy Fair and Legoland Windsor:

Darth Maul

At some point there is also to be a single figure release of the Ninjago minifigure Rattla. (I'm hoping this will be a release I can get hold of as it's a figure I really like for it's Stargate Jaffa looks, but comes in sets I'm not interested in)

30088 Rattla

Finishing off the minifigure releases, there has also been a pack of firefighters at bulk out your city team:

853378 Firefighters

Finally there have been a few seasonal releases for Easter and Valentine's Day, plus there's a tiny cake due at some point:

40029 Valentine's Day Box

40030 Duck with Ducklings

40031 Bunny and Chick

40048 Birthday Cake

Meet the Monster Fighters

Lego has launched its website for the forthcoming Monster Fighters range, which includes this fun little video introducing the story of the theme and all the characters:

Lego Super Heroes: Marvel

The first wave of Marvel sets in the Lego Super Heroes range are imminent, and thus, so are decent pictures. I don't have a clue what's going on in most of them, as they are almost all related to the forthcoming Avengers film, which has failed to peak my interest - So I'm hoping the next wave has more Spiderman and X-Men based sets; then I might have half an idea what they're meant to be. Until then, enjoy these:

6865 Captain America's Avenging Cycle
(Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.it)

6866 Wolverine's Chopper Showdown
(Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.it)

6867 Loki's Cosmic Cube Chase
(Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.it)

6868 Hulk's Helicarrier Breakout
(Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.it)

6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle
(Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.it)

In other Super Heroes news, an exclusive Lex Luthor figure, with a jet-pack, will be available when pre-ordering the Lego Batman II: DC Super Heroes video game from select retailers.

30164 Lex Luthor

Lego Lord of the Rings

The first Lego Lord of the Rings sets are on the way, and the first officially released pictures of the sets are starting to show up. Lots of the lovely new horses, loads of new minifigure accessories, piles of the new brickwork detailed bricks, and even some nifty use of the Games microfigs. Have a looksie:

9469 Gandalf Arrives
(Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.it, Things From Another World)

9472 Attack on Weathertop
(Amazon.com, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Things From Another World) 

9473 The Mines of Moria
(Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.it, Things From Another World)

9474 The Battle of Helm's Deep
(Amazon.de, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp) 

9471 Urak-hai Army
(Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Things From Another World) 

9470 Shelob Attacks
(Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp)  

9476 The Orc Forge
(Amazon.de)

A few more little Lego sets

Browsing on Brickset I noticed a few more little sets that have turned up, or will be turning up, this year. Three Ninjago:

30085 Jumping Snakes
(Amazon.com, Amazon.de)

30086

30087 Car
(Amazon.com, Amazon.de)

And two Friends:

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Lego Super Heroes: Marvel

Pictures have started to surface online of the Marvel big figure sets from the second wave of Lego's Super Heroes theme:

4529 Iron Man
(Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Entertainment Earth, Things From Another World, Forbidden Planet)

4530 The Hulk
(Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Entertainment Earth, Things From Another World, Forbidden Planet)

4597 Captain America
(Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Entertainment Earth, Things From Another World, Forbidden Planet)

The recent UK Toy Fair also revealed some details of the minifigure scale sets, including an image of the Hulk and Captain America:

6865 Captain America’s Avenging Cycle
6866 Wolverine’s Chopper Showdown
6867 Loki’s Cosmic Cube Escape
6868 Hulk’s Hellcarrier Breakout
6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle

Brickset also list a 6873 Spider-man's Doc Oc Ambush, but that set apparently wasn't on show.

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:

Next Lego Architecture set is: Sydney Opera House, plus Hayabusa box art

Amazon.co.jp has added a listing revealing that the next Lego Architecture set will be a small scale rendition of the Sydney Opera House, due out in March:

21012 Sydney Opera House
(Amazon.co.jp)

Amazon.co.jp has also listed the second CUUSOO set (suggested and voted for by Lego fans), the Hayabusa space probe, which is set for release in Japan only in March too. Future CUUSOO sets should be available internationally now Lego has expanded the concept world wide.

21101 Hayabusa
(Amazon.co.jp)

Lego's next modular building is Town Hall

Images have begun to surface of Lego's next modular building set, and this time we're getting a town hall:

I look forward to seeing what treats are in the interior, and some higher res image to get a better look at that nice roof-light feature.