If you haven’t been to your local LEGO store lately, the Alien Conquest sets are available, at least in Texas. Jason has picked up one of the smaller sets, the 7049 Alien Striker (Brickset) and I’m looking at a few mid-range.
Alien Conquest themed MOCs have started appearing, such as this one by PandoraNuker (flickr). I love the use of some of the Hazmat minifigures from the last minifig series.
I’m changing my mind about the Alien Conquest series, the more I see it in the stores.
Earlier this week I picked up a LEGO 5974 Galactic Enforcer from the Space Police line at my local Target for $50.48 plus tax. That’s 825 pieces, including some good minifigs and a lot of really cool parts that are hard to find elsewhere.
Chances are the set I picked up this week from the Space Police line is being cleared out to make room for the new Alien Conquest sets, which are filling in the gap that Space Police will leave. Even though the sign prominently says 30% off, it is 30% or more, and the set I picked up was obviously more – originally the Galactic Enforcer was around $100. I had been wanting this set for a while, since it came out, but I was always tied up with other sets.
Clearances are going to vary by store, as some stores may have more in stock of certain sets than others, but there will be a lot of shelf-clearing going on, as room has been made for Pirates of the Caribbean, and the upcoming Alien Conquest and Cars sets in addition to other lines that are rolling out new offerings (or are themselves new). The location of the clearance area is also going to vary – in my case, it was in the toy area, on the end of an aisle, but some stores have an aisle off in the back dedicated to it.
For whatever reason, either because we are starting to get into the major advertising period in the run up to part 2 of the seventh Harry Potter movie (technically I guess it’s the eight movie), or because the LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean video game is launching next week, Amazon has been running a major sale on all of the LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 video games.
The Nintendo DS version appears to have additional items, including possibly a Harry Potter minifigure and wand/stylus, but I am not sure.
* Nintendo Wii: LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 – $20.04
* Nintendo DS: LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 – $16.67
* Sony Playstation 3: LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 – $25.55
* Sony Playstation PSP: LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 – $18.18
* Microsoft XBox 360: LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 – $19.71
* Microsoft Windows: LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 – $19.96
I prefer the Wii version, given the Wiimotes used like wands. As usual, the Mac version is twice as much as it’s a port done by a smaller company.
Obviously, these are all subject to change!
LEGO is running some Star Wars related promotions through the online LEGO store (Star Wars).
The main item of interest to serious collectors is that you can get the Star WArs Shadow ARF Trooper minifigure, although you have to spend $75 or more on LEGO Star Wars sets.
Promotions:
* Free Shipping + Exclusive LEGO® Star Wars™ Shadow ARF Trooper™ minifigure. Requires a $75 or more LEGO® Star Wars™ purchase!
* Free Star Wars™ poster with all purchases, featuring 10 years of Ultimate LEGO® Star Wars™ sets! + Automatic entry to win a first-edition LEGO® Star Wars™ Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon™!
* 10% off select LEGO Star Wars items: 8091 – Republic Swamp Speeder, 8129 – AT-AT Walker; 8128 – Cade Bane’s Speeder
# 20% off select LEGO Star Wars items: 10198 – Tantive IV; 10195 – Republic Dropship with AT-OT; 10215 – Obi Wan’s Jedi Starfighter
I can vouch for the newer LEGO posters being pretty cool.
Tomorrow is a big wedding if you haven’t notice, and to celebrate the royal wedding, here are some LEGO MOCs that focus on the soon-to-be- royal couple and the setting for the wedding.
The first in our little feature is a very impressive build from the LEGO folks themselves. LEGOLAND Windsor. I’m not going to post any pictures, as I’m not sure of the copyright issues and who the original holders are, but the Daily Mail and Geek Sugar both have photos of the royal wedding diorama at LEGOLAND Windsor. The Manchester Evening News was one of the first to get a look at it, and report that 180,000 bricks went into its creation, along with 400 LEGO figures. Note that these are not the normal LEGO minifigures, but rather the LEGOLAND-scale figures, which are larger.
The next is a very impressive build by Justin Ramsden of the heads of Kate Middleton and Prince William (via The Brothers Brick):
Just in case you want to view a lot of close-ups, visit the full set at Justin’s Flickr page.
Curbed National has posted this image of Westminster Abbey at LEGOLAND Windsor:
And again, more links, but the BBC has some photos of a MOC put together by LEGO fans showcasing the wedding as well, this time in normal LEGO minifigure scale. The MOC is going to end up at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. These photos were supposedly handed out by the LEGO press office, but I never saw where so I’m not going to risk it.
“Captain Spaulding” has put together one heck of an Atlantis-themed MOC for Contest L13 on the French Brickpirate forums.
While it may not resemble the formal Atlantis divers and vehicles/settings found in the Atlantis sets, you will find plenty of parts from the various Atlantis sets.
If you look at the Brick Pirate link below, he has included several extensive behind-the-scene photos.
Links
* Full set at Flickr
* Thread on Brick Pirate (French)
* MOCPages entry
* via Brothers Brick and Legobloggen
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