It’s really unfortunate timing, because we’ve got a long year to go and I at one point had many great and luminous cooking plans for it, but they’re all cancelled now because on the afternoon of January 4th, before 2019 had really even kicked in, I ate the best thing I had or will all year or maybe ever — because what would the internet be without some unnecessary melodrama — and I threw it together from a mess of leftovers in my fridge.
LEGO has officially revealed the largest set from The LEGO Movie 2, the massive 70840 Welcome to Apocalypseburg! Clocking in at 3,178 pieces and twelve minifigures, the set features the post-invasion home of the main characters located in a broken down Statue of Liberty (à la Planet of the Apes).
The set will be available starting January 16 for $299.99 with no early availability for LEGO VIP members.
Welcome to Apocalypseburg! is the twentieth set revealed so far based on upcoming sequel (not counting polybags). The location is featured in the most recent trailer after the post-DUPLO invasion. It appears Apocalypseburg is the temporary home of the original LEGO Movie characters who now look like they have seen better days (with the exception of the always cheerful Emmet).
The set stands more than a foot and a half tall (52cm) which is taller than last year’s similarly themed Architecture set 21042 Statue of Liberty (though this time around Lady Liberty has a fully detailed face and a few more dangling chains).
Apocalypseburg is slightly reminiscent of 70620 Ninjago City in that both are based on major locations in popular LEGO films that have been made into a “hero” set for a more experienced builder, each with a plethora of detailed minifigures and detailed interiors.
The set offers detail on every side, including hidden rooms and functions on the back. The color palette of sand and olive green combined with tan, dark tan and light grey immediately conveys a weathered look fitting a worn-down and tired post-apocalyptic society.
The collapsed statue is surrounded by a ruinous city made of containers filled with a variety of interiors including a coffee shop, holding cell, armory, barber/tattoo parlor, gym, diner, spa and a few living quarters.
Apocalypseburg comes with twelve minifigures, all of whom look like they have gone through the wringer and evolved to face a tough life. Emmet is smiling as always. Lucy sports a new brown scarf, goggles and a quiver of arrows. “Scribble Cop” isn’t looking too happy and has metal-spiked shoulder pads as well as a few more zippers on his uniform. Batman has the biggest upgrade with pauldrons made from LEGO tires.
Fellow Master Builder Green Lantern looks like he is as oblivious as ever. A new character to the LEGO Movie franchise, Harley Quinn makes her first appearance (looking almost exactly as she appeared in the live action Suicide Squad movie). “Where’s My Pants” Guy still hasn’t found his pants yet but looks ready for a fight. Surfer Dave has become Chainsaw Dave with the tattoos to prove it.
Larry the Barista has opened up a new “Coffee Unchained” cafe and looks like Bane from The Dark Knight Rises film. Joining him are three new characters Mo-Hawk, Roxxi and Fuse.
Each minifigure comes with a variety of accessories including coffee cups, binoculars, clubs, surfboards, a chainsaw, and more. (We are sad to report that no “sewer babies” have been spotted in Apocalypseburg.)
The apocalypse is nigh, arriving January 16 which will wonderfully devastate your wallet for $299.99. The LEGO Movie 2 hits theaters on February 8.
The full press release and complete photo gallery from LEGO are included below.
70840 Welcome to Apocalypseburg! Ages 16+. 3,178 pieces US $299.99 | CA $399.99 | UK £279.99 | DE €299.99 | FR €299.99 | DK 2,499 DKK
Build and role-play with this huge THE LEGO® MOVIE 2 Apocalypseburg model!
Enjoy an epic 360-degree play experience—and prepare for an alien invasion—with THE LEGO MOVIE 2 70840 Welcome to Apocalypseburg! construction toy. An advanced building set, it has over 3,000 pieces and presents an awesome challenge even for master builders. This THE LEGO MOVIE 2 set features a section of the Statue of Liberty with a chill-out room in the head, café, Scribble Cop’s office with a chair-kicking function, armory, barber’s/tattoo parlor, Lucy’s hideout, Fuse’s workshop, rooftop diner, gym, spa, lookout platforms and loads more! This action-packed toy also comes with 12 THE LEGO MOVIE 2 minifigures to role-play and reimagine your favorite scenes from the blockbuster film.
This creative toy includes 12 new-for-January-2019 THE LEGO MOVIE 2 minifigures: Emmet, Lucy, Batman, Scribble Cop, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern, ’Where are my pants?’ Guy, Larry the Barista, Chainsaw Dave, Mo-Hawk, Roxxi and Fuse, plus a rat figure.
This huge Apocalypseburg construction toy has removable modules for easy play and features a section of the Statue of Liberty, café, Scribble Cop’s office, armory, barber’s/tattoo parlor, Lucy’s hideout, Fuse’s workshop, rooftop diner, gym, spa and more!
The Statue of Liberty section of this THE LEGO MOVIE 2 playset features a buildable torch, opening Lady Liberty head with a chill-out room including a buildable telescope, and 3 lookout platforms.
The Coffee Unchained café features a service counter, cash register, buildable coffee machine with 2 coffee pumps, table and seat, and an outdoor table with a parasol and 2 seats.
Scribble Cop’s office features an opening jail door and chair-kicking function.
Armory features a mannequin, goggles, 3 minifigure helmet elements and 2 buildable weapons.
Barber’s/tattoo parlor features a barber’s chair, buildable tattoo machine and hair-cutting tool elements.
Lucy’s hideout features a buildable bed with a secret compartment containing various fun elements including a love letter from Batman. The room also features weapon storage and assorted elements including new-for-January-2019 barbed wire.
The removable roof of Lucy’s hideout has a buildable seat, engine truck front and water tower.
Fuse’s rooftop workshop features a buildable tool chest with a buildable fire extinguisher.
Rooftop diner features a buildable V8 engine deep-fat fryer, table, oven, ketchup and mustard dispensers, plus frying pan and food elements.
Train-carriage-shaped gym features a buildable punching bag with alien invader decoration and a weightlifting bench.
Truck-shaped spa features a buildable hot tub and shower.
This THE LEGO MOVIE 2 toy building set also includes Chainsaw Dave’s surfboard rack with 2 surfboards, lookout area with a buildable telescope, an opening sewer and various ladders.
Weapons for THE LEGO MOVIE 2 characters include Lucy’s crossbow.
Accessory elements include Emmet’s 2 coffee mugs, Lucy’s quiver, plus 6 new-for-January-2019 Skeletron head elements (1 as a basketball; 1 on a signpost; 1 as engine decoration; 2 as hair mannequins; and 1 on the armory mannequin).
Recreate fun-packed scenes from THE LEGO MOVIE 2 with this awesome Statue of Liberty toy.
This new-for-January-2019 toy measures over 20” (52cm) high, 19” (49cm) wide and 12” (33cm) deep.
Available from LEGO Stores & shop.LEGO.com starting Wednesday, January 16.
Hannah got me one of these! A small one. I should finally hang it up.
There are many different ways to go about displaying one’s LEGO minifigure collection, and there are many of us who simply don’t bother to go about it–instead stuffing our minifigures in containers and drawers, waiting for the day we will finally have a satisfactory means to display them. LEGO has officially licensed some small display cases, but today we’re taking a look at a huge 112-minifigure display case specifically made for LEGO minifigures that Spanish company Minifigures Display sent us. This large case sells for 74€, or about $84 USD.
What’s in the box
The frame came packaged very securely, wrapped in bubble wrap with the exterior of the box marked fragile.
Inside our box we have the display case itself, a little info card and a package of extra official LEGO plates: four 1×2 jumpers, four 1×2’s, and four 2×3’s. This 12-piece pack is sold separately for about $3 and can be purchased as an add-on with the display frames if you don’t have many extra parts in your collection.
Don’t fret when you see the plexiglass sheet is abnormally cloudy with printed symbols on it, as it’s an easily removable protective film on both sides keep it from getting scratched during shipping and handling.
Construction
The frame itself is a sturdy construction made from New Zealand Pine. The seams at the corners are almost indiscernible, at first glance it appears to be cut from a single wooden slab. The plexiglass behaves very much like plastic, so you don’t have to worry about it breaking and shattering, while still being very clear.
The frame is made up of five of parts, an outer piece of wood that gets hung to the wall and an interior piece of white wood that has the actual minifigure stands bonded to it, plus the two framing pieces.
There are seven rows of sixteen stands each on this model. The stands are bonded very securely to the wood backing and it feels like it would take a significant amount of force to break them off. The spacing between the stands might be an issue for some collectors, however, as the distance is slightly less than two bricks, which is too small for some more unusual figures or displaying Collectible Minifigures with their display stands. However, the team at Minifigures Display smartly took this into account, because they do offer another version of the same frame with one fewer minifigure per row, making it exactly two bricks distance between the stands. This way, you can choose to squeeze as many figures into one frame as you can, or have a little less crowded frame with room for the CMF bases.
The depth of the frame is just over four studs, providing more than enough space for most minifigures and accessories.
I tested it with some of my largest and most geared up minifigures, and unsurprisingly I had to do some shifting and compacting of weapons and such, but I managed to get each figure to fit.
Inserting your minifigures
To put your minifigures into the case you first have to flip up the eight metal tabs in the back which hold the frame together, then take out the back to place your minifigures on the stands, much like a traditional picture frame. You can then put the backing back in place and secure it by flipping the metal tabs back down. I never liked using these kinds of metal tabs, even on normal picture frames, as sometimes they can be too stiff and near impossible to bend with a finger. However, these are easy enough to bend up and down and are likely more secure than a method that uses screws and spinning metal pieces.
To me, ease of access is key when displaying many of my minifgures, because I frequently use them or parts of them in various builds. Although the frame will keep your minifigures dust free, once you have it closed up and hung on the wall, if you want to access any of your minifigures, you’ll have to take the frame down and take out the back again. This makes it a good display method for particularly rare minifigures you don’t want to touch, but not a good way to display those you plan on playing with or using in builds.
Final thoughts
Once you have the frame completely filled to capacity, it does make a great display piece to hang on the wall in your house or office. It’s a nice way to get some enjoyment and value from all those minifgures that otherwise may have just sat in a drawer or been lined up on a dusty shelf.
The frame featured in this review will run you 74€ or about $84.00, while the smaller 16 minifigure frames on their website cost 29€, or about $32.00. The large ones especially may seem expensive, but they are a quality piece of hardware, made in Spain and ready to use out of the box. At first, I didn’t think this frame would be a great storage method for me personally due to the lack of accessibility and the fact that I simply didn’t think it was a necessary piece of hardware to have. However, I’ve realized I had tons of minifigures I hadn’t touched in months and now that these minifigures are in they are in the frame and hung on the wall, the whole thing looks quite beautiful. Overall, if you’ve been thinking about a minifigure display frame, Minifigures Display is a great company to go with. You might not even realize how much you need it until it’s filled up and hung on your wall.
This product was sent by the manufacturer to The Brothers Brick for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.
Join Spider-Man and Ghost Spider on a mission to release Aunt May from Venom’s clutches in a thrilling LEGO® Marvel Spider-Man 76115 Spider Mech vs. Venom battle. Match the posable Spider Mech, featuring an opening minifigure cockpit, tech spider/web shooter and gripping claw, against the huge posable Venom Mech, with minifigure-grabbing claws. This superhero toy building kit includes 4 LEGO minifigures, Ghost Spider’s hover board with 2 stud shooters, plus 9 assorted web elements to customize your builds, minifigures and weapons.
Team up with Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099 to pursue diamond thieves Sandman and Vulture in the LEGO® Marvel Spider-Man 76114 Spider-Man’s Spider Crawler. The Crawler features a lifelike spider-crawling function, 2 stud shooters and a shooter that fires tech spider or web elements. This superhero playset includes 4 LEGO minifigures with weapons, Sandman’s buildable opening sandbase with hidden diamond elements and Vulture’s buildable wings. Also includes 9 assorted web elements to customize your builds, minifigures and weapons for imaginative play.
Speed through New York City streets and help Spider-Man and Miles Morales thwart evil Carnage’s mission to blow up the power generator in LEGO® Marvel Spider-Man 76113 Spider-Man Bike Rescue. This action-packed construction toy features a Spider-Man bike with a tech spider shooter and web gun (non-shooting), and a buildable power generator with an explode function. It also includes 3 LEGO minifigures, plus 9 assorted web elements to customize your builds, minifigures and weapons for creative play.
Let your young superhero play out an awesome LEGO® Marvel Spider-Man experience chasing Doc Ock’s getaway speedboat with Spider-Man’s flyer in the 76134 Spider-Man: Doc Ock Diamond Heist. This LEGO 4+ creative building toy, which is specially designed to be fun and easy to build for preschoolers and youngsters, features a special Starter Brick base that lets even first-time builders experience the pride of constructing buildings, vehicles and more, all on their own. The included simple guide to build and play will also help your youngster understand the purpose of the building instructions and grow their imagination and confidence to try new things in a familiar LEGO Marvel world. They’ll love building the dock with a functioning crane to lift a container, Doc Ock’s speedboat with mechanical arms, and the Spider-Man flyer with a disc shooter and spider web that can attach to the speedboat or container. This simple LEGO Marvel buildable Spider-Man toy for kids also includes 3 minifigures for endless imaginative play.
Give your child an exciting LEGO® Marvel Spider-Man role-play experience as you help them pursue the bank-robbing Green Goblin in the 76133 Spider-Man Car Chase. This LEGO 4+ set is specially designed to be fun and easy for preschoolers and youngsters. The Spider-Man car toy building set features a minifigure cockpit and spider web string with a spider web that attaches to the Green Goblin’s glider, plus a special Starter Brick base that allows even first-time builders to enjoy constructing buildings, vehicles and more, all on their own. The included simple guide to build and play will also help your budding superhero understand the purpose of the building instructions and grow their imagination and confidence to try new things in a familiar LEGO Marvel world. This simple LEGO Spider-Man playset includes 2 LEGO minifigures, Green Goblin’s buildable pumpkin bomb, plus $100 banknote and money sack elements for endless creative play.
Target has today revealed all six of the LEGO sets from the upcoming LEGO Overwatch line, based on the hit team-based video game from Blizzard. This follows the early release of the small-scale mecha 75987 Omnic Bastion from Blizzard’s online store. The full-size sets include minifigures of iconic characters such as Tracer, D.Va, and more.
We’ll bring you an update when we have more information, though we can confirm January 1st availability for these sets.
75971 is set at the final capture point of Hanamura and features defense/sniper hero Hanzo with his bow, attack hero Genji with his Dragon Blade and shuriken, and Hanamura security guard.
75972 shows a Dorado home and payload, and features the attack heroes McCree with his trusty Peacekeeper revolver, Reaper with dual Hellfire Shotguns, and Soldier: 76 with Pulse Rifle.
75973 features two tank heroes: pro gamer D.Va and her MEKA, and the massively armed and armored Reinhardt.
75974 Bastion | 602 pieces | (No minifigs) | $49.99
75974 features a scaled-up model of defensive hero Bastion in his traditional color scheme, as opposed to the Omnic colors in 75897 Omnic Bastion (which you can read our review here).
75975 features the shuttle at the end of the map Watchpoint: Gibraltar and features the tank scientist gorilla Winston, angelic support healer Mercy, armored attack hero Pharah, and dual shotgun wielding Reaper.
A couple times a year, our friends over at Citizen Brick open their vault and pull out all the prototypes and other rare pieces that they’ve only produced in limited amounts. Because their quality is indistinguishable from official LEGO products, we’ve been huge fans of Citizen Brick for many years. As always, one-off items will be released every couple of hours, and tend to disappear quickly, so check CitizenBrick.com regularly to pick up unusual items that may never be produced as products.
Full disclosure: Citizen Brick is an advertising partner of The Brothers Brick. However, our advertisers have no influence over The Brothers Brick’s news coverage.
Toys R Us, which is still operating in a number of countries despite its well-publicized bankruptcy in the United States, has today uploaded images of four new LEGO minifigure packs. These have traditionally been offered as part of Toys R Us’ annual Bricktober promotion, though unlike previous years, this year’s packages are devoid of any Toys R Us or Bricktober-specific branding. Consequently, we can’t confirm yet if these will be exclusive to Toys R Us, especially given the retailer’s drastically reduced market share. The four packs are each themed to a specific license, featuring Harry Potter, Jurassic World, Marvel Super Heroes, and Ninjago, and include a number of exclusive characters.
Update: LEGO has confirmed on Twitter that these sets will be coming to Barnes & Noble in the United States, though likely with a different timeline than the Toys R Us packs in other parts of the world.
Update 2: LEGO has amended their statement on Twitter, clarifying that only the Harry Potter set will be available via Barns & Noble, with no word yet on availability for the others.
Harry Potter Toys R Us Minifigure Pack
This pack includes Flying Instructor and Quidditch Referee Rolanda Hooch, Prof. Horace Slughorn (who has never appeared in minifigure form before), Madam Undersecretary Professor Dolores Umbridge, and Prof. Severus Snape transformed by a Boggart.
Jurassic World Toys R Us Minifigure Pack
This pack includes, at long last, Jeff Goldbum’s character, Dr. Ian Malcolm, along with Claire Dearing, Owen Grady, and a baby dinosaur and meat.
Marvel Super Heroes Toys R Us Minifigure Pack
The Marvel pack focuses around Infinity War and includes War Machine, Doctor Strange’s companion Wong, who is appearing in minifigure form for the first time, Tony Stark in his nanobot tracksuit, and Bucky Barnes, AKA The Winter Soldier.
Ninjago Toys R Us Minifigure Pack
Finally, the Ninjago set includes a minifigure in an Oni Mask, an older Jay, and two other characters that we haven’t been able to identify since we’re not up to date on the show. Let us know in the comments if you know.
Promobricks is reporting that according to an in-store calendar from Germany, these will available during September, each for one week. Harry Potter: Aug. 28 – Sept. 2 Jurassic World: Sept. 3 – Sept. 9 Marvel Super Heroes: Sept. 10 – Sept. 16 Ninjago: Sept. 17 – Sept. 23
Evil Tender’s latest project, The Opera Print Series, opens with Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Jonathan Burton. It’s an 18″ x 24″ screenprint, has an edition of 150, and costs $50. Visit EvilTender.com.
Last Friday at 3 pm, when we had dinner plans at 6, I decided it had been too long since I’d gotten myself into a right mess of a baking project and decided to make my husband a cheesecake for his birthday — which we were already 14 hours into. I’d been dawdling because despite having 11 cheesecake recipes on this site, I find cooking things I’ve already made before boring, and was working up the courage to tackle a harebrained idea for a cheesecake that had thin stacked layers.
It's so weird to me that Mark Hammil was in a car accident than fucked up his face, so much so that they needed to write a scene into Star Wars where his face gets fucked up and he has to be healed, and then for 40 years people have been making toys of it.
Luke Skywalker gets roughed up quite a bit in The Empire Strikes Back, first by a giant Yeti-beast and later by his own dad, who cuts off his hand just for mouthing off and refusing to obey! As a result, Luke spends quite a bit of time in Rebel Alliance medical facilities, both on Hoth and aboard the Nebulon-B medical frigate. While LEGO Star Wars fans have clamored for a UCS or even microscale medical frigate for years, LEGO has instead focused twice on the bacta tank treatment scene, most recently with 75203 Hoth Medical Chamber. Available August 1st, this set includes 255 pieces with 3 minifigures and retails for $29.99.
The packaging & instructions
The small size of this set is underscored immediately by what feels like a rather skimpy trio of bags. The set could probably have fit into just one or two bags, and the third bag distributes the parts unnecessarily, adding extra packaging material and making all three bags feel like they don’t have very many parts in them. The single instruction booklet spans just 84 steps across 84 pages, and there is no sticker sheet.
The build
As I noted in our review of 75216 Snoke’s Throne Room, most playset-oriented LEGO sets tend toward stacked plates and bricks, and this set — smaller than the throne room by half — is certainly no different.
The first bag includes Princess Leia and the parts for the medical chamber’s two main walls. The second bag includes Luke and adds an examination area. The third bag includes the 2-1B surgical droid and a brick-built FX medical droid, as well as the parts to complete the playset with the bacta tank itself.
The finished model
For that budding Rebel Alliance medical corps member in your life, the playset includes a huge amount of detail, with plenty of storage compartments for equipment and supplies, various lights and panels on the walls, and several distinct areas — a recovery area with a bed built into the wall, preparation or cleanup area, examination area with a spinning table on the other side of the wall, and the large bacta tank. The bacta tank section folds inward so that you can store the playset with a smaller footprint.
The exam area connects to the recovery area through an angled doorway, and the detailed exam table spins around on a turntable.
On the same side of the wall, a pair of drawers and several clips provide storage for accessories like scissors and syringes. Unfortunately, the reverse side of headlight bricks that add wall detail to the recovery area on the other side of the wall leave large holes that make this side feel a bit unfinished.
The wall section behind the patient’s bed doesn’t really have much detail, though 1×1 round bricks and a grill tile do add some texture to what would otherwise be a plain white wall.
A minifig fits well into the recovery bed, thanks to panels on the outside, allowing Luke to rest comfortably as he recovers from his wampa injuries. This section also has another storage compartment, as well as several buttons (?) and a large red light on the wall — the details added onto headlight bricks that leave the holes on the other side of the wall. Cheese slopes add some visual interest to the base of the floor.
A prep/cleanup area adds more detail and play potential to the right of the recovery area. This area includes another set of drawers, along with a brick-built sink. There’s a wine bottle and clear mug on the drawers, and we can assume based on context that these are for dispensing medicine. The macaroni tubes above the sink and drawers are an excellent touch.
The bacta tank splits open so you can remove Luke.
The FX medical droid is attached to a turntable next to the bacta tank, and can thus spin around to use its various arms.
The minifigs
In addition to the brick-built FX medical droid, 75203 Hoth Medical Chamber includes a rather underdressed Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa in her Hoth gear, and a 2-1B surgical droid. This is the second time LEGO has released a bacta tank Luke and 2-1B droid, with the first ones as part of the larger 7879 Hoth Echo Base in 2011. The Leia minifig is identical to the new version in last year’s UCS Millennium Falcon (a fact that has not gone unnoticed by angry speculators and resellers).
The Skywalker siblings both have printed details on their backs, as well as alternate expressions.
Both of Luke’s faces have a subtle black eye, and he wears a breathing mask with closed eyes for the time he spends in the rejuve tank. Unfortunately, posing Luke’s legs in any way misaligns the detailed printing across his nether regions.
The first 2-1B droid actually appeared in 2010 in 8096 Emperor Palpatine’s Shuttle, though this Rebel Alliance version appeared in 2011 as we noted earlier in this review. While the mold is identical to both previous versions, the printing on this latest 2-1B has been updated slightly from 2011 (though the differences may be hard to spot).
Conclusions & recommendation
As I noted in my recent review of Snoke’s Throne Room, I do have a fairly strong bias against LEGO Star Wars playsets, despite really loving sets like 9516 Jabba’s Palace and the recent 75200 Ahch-To Island Training and 75208 Yoda’s Hut. Examining this personal bias in light of these exceptions, what seems to set great playsets apart from mediocre or bad ones — at least for me — is a solid minifigure selection and lots of fun play features.
With a trio of fairly unusual minifigures and plenty of play features, this is a LEGO Star Wars playset that continues the positive trend set by smaller sets like Ahch-To Island Training and Yoda’s Hut this year. Price is certainly a factor, however — at $30 for just over 250 mostly white parts, you may want to look for a sale before picking this one up.
75203 Hoth Medical Chamber includes 255 pieces and 3 minifigs. The set is available August 1st. You can help support The Brothers Brick by purchasing your copy of the set from the LEGO Shop (USD 29.99 | CDN 39.99 | [price unkonwn in the UK] as of this writing), Amazon.com, eBay, BrickLink, and elsewhere.
The LEGO Group sent The Brothers Brick an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.
Everyone can build a LEGO house, but what about a thoroughly planned one? aukbricks shares an outstanding project of a cottage featuring both a brilliant exterior and fully furnished rooms. Because of the dimensions of the LEGO bricks, building interiors in minifigure scale can be pretty challenging, but this house boasts a lot of pieces of furniture that don’t look bulky or weird.
The way the inner space is planned makes me want to live in a place like this one. And even though this creation does not include any minifigures, I love how we can imagine a big family spending an evening in this house — having a dinner, playing video games, or chilling on the patio by the pool.
And, of course, each room is a little gem itself. Make sure to examine every corner, as there are a lot of lovely small details that are so easy to miss.
Rob Jones has a trio of new gig posters for Jack White’s recent run of performances. Night 1 is a 24″ x 36″ screenprint, has an edition of 342, and costs $50. Nights 2 and 3 are both 18″ x 24″ screenprints, have editions of 342, and cost $45 each. Visit AnimalRummy.com.
LEGO just announced the 76115: Spider-Man Mech vs. Venom Mech playset. It is slated to launch later this year on December 1 with a piece count of 604 and priced at $49.99.
The press release is included below:
76115: Spider-Man Mech vs. Venom Mech Launching: December 1, 2018 Piece Count: 604 Age: 8+ SRP: $49.99
Stage an awesome mech battle between Spider-Man and Venom!
KEY FUNCTIONS:
Includes 4 minifigures: Spider-Man, Ghost Spider, Venom and Aunt May. Spider-Man Mech features an opening minifigure cockpit, poseable joints, shooter to fire tech spider or web elements, and a gripping claw with attachment points for alternative web elements.
Venom Mech features a minifigure cockpit, poseable joints, a long tongue, and gripping claws to grab minifigures.
Also includes Ghost Spider’s ‘hoverboard’ with 2 stud shooters and a translucent flame exhaust element, plus 9 assorted new-for-December-2018 web elements to customize your builds, minifigures and weapons.
Accessory elements include the Aunt May with ice cream.
The Spider-Man, Venom and Aunt May minifigures are new for December 2018.
As we learned from The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part trailer, life has put Emmet, Lucy, Batman and their friends to the test. To handle the new challenges the team needs some top-notch vehicles and devices! LEGO has just teased three of the upcoming The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part sets, and they look as awesome as one can only imagine, and they will be revealed in-person at San Diego Comic-Con.
Update 07/13/18 – We’ve updated this article with additional information and images provided directly to us by LEGO.
70829 Emmet and Lucy’s Escape Buggy | $49.99
70829 – Emmet and Lucy’s Escape Buggy
Drive away from danger in THE LEGO® MOVIE 2 70829 Emmet and Lucy’s Escape Buggy, featuring seats for two minifigures, opening doors and hood, foldout arrow gun (non-shooting) and suspension. This fun-packed construction toy also includes a buildable base with an explode function, 3 minifigures and 3 buildable figures—MetalBeard, Star and Heart—with cool weapons and accessory elements.
Includes 3 LEGO MOVIE characters: a LEGO Emmet minfigure, Lucy minfigure and Sharkia minifigure, plus 3 brick-built figures: MetalBeard, Star and Heart.
Escape Buggy features 2 minifigure seats, a removable roof, opening doors and hood, arrow gun (non-shooting), suspension and big wheels with rubber tires.
Buildable base features an explode function, container with fuel tanks and a gas canister with translucent flame element.
Apocalypseburg Unikitty, a San Diego Comic-Con 2018 exclusive revealed yesterday, is nowhere as brutal as this giant, fierce-looking Unikitty!
70827 Ultrakatty & Warrior Lucy! | $29.99 USD
70827 – Ultrakatty & Warrior Lucy!
Ride into battle against the alien with THE LEGO® MOVIE 2 70827 Ultrakatty & Warrior Lucy! and rescue Emmet. Ultrakatty features a minifigure cockpit, a posable head which can be rebuilt for 3 alternative facial expressions, and a posable tail and legs. This awesome building toy includes Lucy and Emmet minifigures, plus a brick-built alien invader with a chomping mouth and rotating eye, to recreate action-packed scenes from THE LEGO MOVIE 2.
Includes new-for-January-2019 Lucy and Emmet minifigures, plus a brick-built alien invader with a chomping mouth and rotating cyclops eye.
Ultrakatty features a minifigure cockpit with reins, posable head with 3 alternative facial expressions, and a posable tail and legs.
Includes Lucy’s crossbow weapon
Accessory elements include Lucy’s quiver and ‘STOP’ sign shield element.
Recreate fun-packed scenes from THE LEGO® MOVIE 2.
Ultrakatty measures over 3” (8cm) high, 8” (21cm) long and 3” (8cm) wide.
$29.99 USD
A closer look at the mini-doll Sweet Mayhem’s spaceship reveals one of the most alien-looking LEGO spacecraft ever released as a set. This combination of colors is just stunning, while the Mini-doll figure makes me wish for a series of collectible Mini-dolls…
Help Emmet and Lucy evade capture by THE LEGO® MOVIE 2 70830 Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship toy, featuring an opening cockpit for a mini-doll or minifigure, retractable landing gear, disc shooter and an opening prison cell. This fun construction toy includes 2 minifigures a mini doll figure and buildable Star and Heart toy figures to role-play action from THE LEGO MOVIE 2.
Includes 5 LEGO MOVIE characters: a LEGO Emmet minifigure and Lucy minifigure, plus a Sweet Mayhem mini-doll figure and brick-built Heart and Star toy figures.
Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship toy features an opening cockpit for a mini-doll or minifigure, retractable landing gear, a roll of stickers, disc shooter and an opening prison cell with a removable control panel and a gun.
Weapons include Lucy’s crossbow and Sweet Mayhem’s gun.
Accessory elements include Lucy’s quiver and Sweet Mayhem’s adjustable wings, helmet, 2 hearts and translucent-blue boosters.
Emmet and Lucy minifigures and Sweet Mayhem mini-doll figure are new for January 2019.
Recreate fun-packed scenes from THE LEGO® MOVIE 2 with this awesome building toy.
Measures over 5” (14cm) high, 6” (16cm) long and 11” (28cm) wide.
Shared not because I think this is a good build but because it 100% looks like a 6 second video file that would come on a free CD rom in the 90's
This Medusa-like character is eerie and sinister while at the same time beautiful and terrifying. One can only wonder what would inspire Timofey Tkachev to build such an unsettling mythical creature. The curvature on the female form and its detailing through the careful parts usages for the eyes and lips amplifies the realism. What draws the viewer to the scene subconsciously is the impressive effort of tessellation with steering wheels that complements the scene.
You know, this scene is so powerful to me that sometimes I forget that not everyone who watches it will understand its significance, or will have seen Casablanca. So, because this scene means so much to me, I hope it’s okay if I take a minute to explain what’s going on here for anyone who’s feeling left out.
Casablanca takes place in, well, Casablanca, the largest city in (neutral) Morocco in 1941, at Rick’s American Cafe (Rick is Humphrey Bogart’s character you see there). In 1941, America was also still neutral, and Rick’s establishment is open to everyone: Nazi German officials, officials from Vichy (occupied) France, and refugees from all across Europe desperate to escape the German war engine. A neutral cafe in a netural country is probably the only place you’d have seen a cross-section like this in 1941, only six months after the fall of France.
So, the scene opens with Rick arguing with Laszlo, who is a Czech Resistance fighter fleeing from the Nazis (if you’re wondering what they’re arguing about: Rick has illegal transit papers which would allow Laszlo and his wife, Ilsa, to escape to America, so he could continue raising support against the Germans. Rick refuses to sell because he’s in love with Laszlo’s wife). They’re interrupted by that cadre of German officers singing Die Wacht am Rhein: a German patriotic hymn which was adopted with great verve by the Nazi regime, and which is particularly steeped in anti-French history. This depresses the hell out of everybody at the club, and infuriates Laszlo, who storms downstairs and orders the house band to play La Marseillaise: the national anthem of France.
Wait, but when I say “it’s the national anthem of France,” I don’t want you to think of your national anthem, okay? Wherever you’re from. Because France’s anthem isn’t talking about some glorious long-ago battle, or France’s beautiful hills and countrysides. La Marseillaise is FUCKING BRUTAL. Here’s a translation of what they’re singing:
Arise, children of the Fatherland! The day of glory has arrived! Against us, tyranny raises its bloody banner. Do you hear, in the countryside, the roar of those ferocious soldiers? They’re coming to your land to cut the throats of your women and children!
To arms, citizens! Form your battalions! Let’s march, let’s march! Let their impure blood water our fields!
BRUTAL, like I said. DEFIANT, in these circumstances. And the entire cafe stands up and sings it passionately, drowning out the Germans. The Germans who are, in 1941, still terrifyingly ascendant, and seemingly invincible.
“Vive la France! Vive la France!” the crowd cries when it’s over. France has already been defeated, the German war machine roars on, and the people still refuse to give up hope.
But here’s the real kicker, for me: Casablanca came out in 1942. None of this was ‘history’ to the people who first saw it. Real refugees from the Nazis, afraid for their lives, watched this movie and took heart. These were current events when this aired. Victory over Germany was still far from certain. The hope it gave to people then was as desperately needed as it has been at any time in history.
God I love this scene.
not only did refugees see this movie, real refugees made this movie. most of the european cast members wound up in hollywood after fleeing the nazis and wound up.
paul heinreid, who played laszlo the resistance leader, was a famous austrian actor; he was so anti-hitler that he was named anenemy of the reich.ugarte, the petty thief who stole the illegal transit papers laszlo and victor are arguing about? was played by peter lorre, a jewish refugee. carl, the head waiter? played by s.z. sakall, a hungarian-jewwhose three sisters died in the holocaust.
even the main nazi character was played by a german refugee: conrad veidt, who starred in one of the first sympathetic films about gay men and who fled the nazis with his jewish wife.
there’s one person in this scene that deserves special mention. did you notice the woman at the bar, on the verge of tears as she belts out la marseillaise? she’s yvonne, rick’s ex-girlfriend in the film. in real life, the actress’s name is madeleine lebeau and she basically lived the plot of this film: she and her jewish husband fled paris ahead of the germans in 1940. her husband, macel dalio, is also in the film, playing the guy working the roulette table. after they occupied paris, the nazis used his face on posters to represent a “typical jew.” madeleine and marcel managed to get to lisbon (the goal of all the characters in casablanca), and boarded a ship to the americas… but then they were stranded for two months when it turned out their visa papers were forgeries. they eventually entered the US after securing temporary canadian visas. marcel dalio’s entire family died in concentration camps.
go back and rewatch the clip. watch madeleine lebeau’s face.
casablanca is a classic, full of classic acting performances. but in this moment, madeleine lebeau isn’t acting. this isn’t yvonne the jilted lover onscreen. this is madeleine lebeau, singing “la marseillaise” after she and her husband fled france for their lives. this is a real-life refugee, her real agony and loss and hope and resilience, preserved in the midst of one of the greatest films of all time.
Jermaine Rogers’ latest art print “The Transition” goes up in his shop tomorrow. It’s a 24″ x 17″ screenprint, has an edition 75, and costs $60. It goes on sale tomorrow Thursday, June 21st, at 3pm EST. visit his shop.
I wasn't crazy about Fantastic Beasts, but the suitcase that opens up into a menagerie is extremely dope
Lego has just revealed two new sets from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter: one from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, featuring Aragog the spider, and another from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald, which is the latest of the sets being released for this November’s new movie (following 75951 Grindelwald’s Escape). These sets should be available this August as part of the summer wave.
Lego Fantastic Beasts 75952 – Newt’s Case of Magical Creatures | 694 Pieces | $49.99
This set conveniently features the whole main gang from the Fantastic Beasts movie, while the builds themselves look beautiful, with the different magical creatures bringing interesting splashes of color to the transforming suitcase. However, if you look closely you may be able to spot the true star of this set, the molded minifig-scale niffler. It’s also a great deal with nearly 700 pieces for only $50 USD.
Step into LEGO® Fantastic Beasts 75952 Newt’s Case of Magical Creatures, there’s room for everyone! Help Newt take Jacob, Tina and Queenie on a tour around the different magical beast habitats, and teach them how to look after the Erumpent, Occamy, Thunderbird, Niffler and Bowtruckle. Have lots of Fantastic Beasts fun exploring, mixing potions and caring for the magical creatures.
• Includes 4 minifigures: Newt Scamander, Jacob Kowalski, Tina Goldstein and Queenie Goldstein, as well as buildable Erumpent, Occamy and Thunderbird creatures, plus Niffler and Bowtruckle figures.
• Features a buildable and foldable case containing a nest with an Occamy egg, shelter and grooming areas.
• Accessory elements include 4 wands, a teapot, brush, meat cleaver, turkey leg, umbrella, helmet, coins, gold bar, ladder, bucket and magic potions
LEGO Harry Potter 75950 – Aragog’s Lair | 157 Pieces | $14.99
This set seems to be a remarkably similar modern remake of the original set, Aragog in The Dark Forest, which also featured Harry, Ron, and Aragog the spider. Although I like the original for its nostalgic factor, this rendition is a huge improvement. The set includes both the new lantern and candle elements and comes at a surprising price point of $14.99, about five dollars less than I expected.
Who dares enter LEGO® Harry Potter 75950 Aragog’s Lair? Help Harry and Ron escape the giant spider and his army of offspring in the Forbidden Forest. Use your magic wands and lantern to fend off the colony of spiders, flying cobweb and Aragog’s fearsome fangs—then escape the creepy hollow!
• Includes Harry Potter and Ron Weasley minifigures.
• Features a buildable Aragog spider and tree.
• Aragog has 8 posable legs and 2 movable fangs. • Tree has a spider web shooting function, attached spider web and a buildable red and white mushroom.
German LEGO builder Marius Herrmann has quite an expansive army of LEGO ancient machines from Horizon: Zero Dawn. His latest, the Shell-Walker, is one of his most detailed machines yet. I love the way he achieved the pattern on the hexagonal container as well as his use of orange roller skates for the shield-generator claw and subtle mechanical bits on the legs.
Marius’s Shell-Walker features an incredible range of motion, and the container on the back can be separated from the body.
Be sure to check out his other Horizon: Zero Dawn builds which include the Thunderjaw and Corruptor.
BrickHeadz are being introduced fast and furiously this summer. The latest feature is the duo from Avengers: Infinity War, featuring Rocket Raccoon and teen Groot. In a similar configuration to the LEGO Harry Potter BrickHeadz: 41615 Harry Potter & Hedwig we just reviewed, Rocket Racoon comes in the 3×3 configuration while teen Groot is built to the standard BrickHead 4×4 size. LEGO hasn’t announced the release date or price yet, but we’ll be sure to bring you that info as soon as its available.
Mad Duck just released a brand new poster for Blue Velvet by Matt Ryan Tobin. It’s a 24″ x 36″ screenprint, has an edition of 150, and costs $65. Visit MadDuckPosters.com.
For most of the last decade or two, my dad was on a perennial low-carb diet, eschewing bread and often sugar, save for carefully chosen exceptions. When family would come over for dinner, he’d always tell me I didn’t need to make anything special for him, but I enjoyed the challenge of coming up with a menu that would work for everyone. The results became some of my favorite meals to this day. Previously, dinner parties usually had a carb-assault at the center — lasagna or spaghetti and meatballs or mussels and fries — but in these, protein (and a great heap of vegetables) get the spotlight: chicken gyro salad, street cart chicken (one of my favorites in Smitten Kitchen Every Day), piri piri chicken, and many steaksalads. As should be clear, these aren’t bread- or carb-free, but they’re set up in an assemble-your-own style that allows the carb-rejecting to eat as they wish, and the carb-demanding (or not) children to get into the meal too. Everybody wins.
Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, the hit sequel to The LEGO Movie released in 2014. Reprising their roles are Chris Pratt as Emmet, Elizabeth Banks as Lucy aka Wyldstyle, Will Arnett as Batman, Nick Offerman as Metal Beard, and Alison Brie as Unikitty. New characters that will join the lineup are Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi, Sweet Mayhem and Ice Cream Cone voiced by respectively Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, and Arturo Castro.
It looks like the main villain is Sweet Mayhem to be voiced by Stephanie Beatriz. Stephanie is best known for her role in the FOX comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine playing Detective Rosa Diaz. The plot will revolve around LEGO Duplo invaders from space, and wrecking havoc and destruction faster than the good guys can rebuild. We see an introduction of Mini-dolls in this installation of the movie instead of the regular Minifigures that we are very familiar with.
The Movie poster was released yesterday with Sweet Mayhem up front and centre. The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part releases in theatres on February 8, 2019.
HispaBrick is a free digital magazine for LEGO fans that is published in both Spanish and English. There are three full editions of HispaBrick released each year, packed with technical articles, interviews, and features on almost every aspect of LEGO. The very first edition of HispaBrick was released back in 2008, making 2018 the 10th anniversary of the magazine, and there are a few surprises planned to mark the occasion.
Within the 10th anniversary edition, there’s an interview with Carlos Méndez, the LEGO fan who proposed the idea of HispaBrick Magazine ten years ago. You will also find a timeline spanning magazine’s ten years, along with interviews with the current staff members. Other features include Andrea Valcanover showing how to build a beautiful tree, Pau Padrós explaining the secrets behind Modular buildings, an interview with the LEGO Technic team and a report of the latest LEGO event in Bilbao.
To celebrate their anniversary, the HispaBrick team are publishing an article about Alien by the Arvo Brothers, first published in the very first issue but only in Spanish. HispaBrick also proudly presents a set that was specially designed for the occasion, 1001 – HispaBrick Magazine Kiosk.
We were given a copy of the anniversary set to let our readers take a closer look inside.
We here at the Brothers Brick are big fans of HispaBrick, and we took a few moments to speak to our friends about reaching their 10-year milestone. Let’s start by introducing the team behind the scenes.
HispaBrick: From left, our current staff is made up of Antonio Bellón Vázquez, Jetro de Château, Lluis Gibert Castroverde, and Jose Manuel Ruiz Carvajal.Jetro: Antonio is very much into German WWII vehicles and when he builds something it stays built. He has a considerable collection of vehicles he brings along to our exhibitions.
He is also a driving force behind MILS, an acronym for Modular Integrated Landscaping System , and has used it to create displays with different themes, including Castle, Western, and Star Wars scenes such as Hoth.
Jetro: I am a Mindstorms Community Partner. My main interest is in programmable LEGO platforms (Mindstorms, Boost, WeDo) but also Technic. I helped develop MILS and use it for Castle displays.
Lluis: In my real life I am Electronics Engineer and I work in the Automotive sector. I love motorsports and travel. Regarding LEGO, I am builder and collector of LEGO CITY and I have a decent collection of exclusive minifigures, e.g. LEGO Employee Business Cards, internal minifigures, special events… I also love to reproduce local buildings and some traditions of my country with LEGO Bricks.
Jose: My LEGO collection consists mainly of Classic Town sets, which I have acquired over many years as I have been interested in this theme since childhood. Thanks to Star Wars I came out of my dark ages, and so I also collect SW sets in addition to Modular buildings, Architecture, and themes based on films like The Lord of the Rings and Super Heroes.
TBB: Let’s start at the beginning. Tell us about the origins of HispaBrick.
HB: Back in 2008, Carlos and Lluis came up with an idea to preserve some of the more interesting content generated by the Spanish community in a more lasting format. Forum posts tend to get lost in the stream of time and a magazine appeared like a good idea at the time. They contacted some of the more active AFOLs in the Spanish community, and together we set about to create the necessary content for the first edition.
The magazine was originally conceived only for Spanish AFOLs, but there were a lot of reactions to it from abroad from the very beginning. The prevailing trend of those comments was that a lot of people thought it was a very interesting magazine, but they couldn’t read it because it was in Spanish. After discussing our options, we decided to make an effort to include a number of articles in both Spanish and English in the second edition. The response was so positive that for HBM003 we decided to publish two parallel versions, one in Spanish and the other in English. The response to that English version was so overwhelming we have published every issue since in both English and Spanish. On average we get about 17,000 downloads in the first quarter and after that it will keep trickling and reach somewhere around 20-25 thousand. With each issue, we experience the domino effect, where new users discover the magazine and download all the old issues, and of course, with each new wave of users, we get people asking if or when we will translate the first issue into English.
Currently, we publish three magazines a year, in January, May, and September. The most popular issue to date is HBM018 which has accumulated over 45,000 downloads since it was released. HBM028 was our third best launch ever and we believe our coordination with other fan groups had a significant impact on those results.
TBB: Only that very first HispaBrick Magazine edition is not available in English. Do you have any plans to translate it to mark the anniversary?
HB: Translating the entire magazine would be too much work and not all the content is still current. But to celebrate our 10th anniversary HBM030 will include a translation of the article by the Arvo Brothers about their Aliens that was published in HBM001We’d love to be able to offer the magazine in other languages. Lluis has a personal preference for Japanese because of his connection and interest in that country and culture. However, we do not have the time or the resources to add any more languages at this time.
TBB: How do you stay current and interesting in at a time when LEGO news appears across a variety of social media platforms and can become viral in minutes?
HB: It is difficult for a magazine like HispaBrick Magazine to be current, so we prefer to fill the magazine with content that is not directly related to the hottest news (there are some websites like TBB that cover that part of the hobby). We try to have technical articles and as many AFOLs as possible collaborating with us so our content is more timeless. You can download a magazine from some years ago and read about building techniques or how to make pneumatic sequences and the information is still interesting and useful. I think that is our added value.
An article on Sorting your LEGO parts can be found in HispaBrick 013
TBB: Who can contribute to HispaBrick Magazine and how does someone go about sending you potential content?
Jetro: Anyone with a good story is welcome to knock on our door. Of course, we evaluate the quality of the proposal, both when it comes to text and images. We also try to help potential collaborators to “polish” their articles and work closely together with them to ensure the best possible result. Just send us an email with your proposal through our contact form and we’ll get back to you: You can also contact your group’s ambassador and he will contact me on the LAN to set up a conversation.
TBB: Do you have a few favourite articles that have appeared in HispaBrick Magazine?
Jetro: My personal favourites are the ones that have taught me things about my hobby I didn’t know. We’ve had articles about a social workplace that uses LEGO as a tool to help reinsert people in the workplace, the use of LEGO with children with autistic spectrum disorders and Six Bricks.
TBB: Are you planning anything to mark your 10-year anniversary?
HB: In addition to finally publishing the English translation of the Alien article from the first edition, we have designed a small set in a limited edition of 50 units to thank the people who collaborated with us during these 10 years. Our readers will find the instructions in HispaBrick Magazine 030 and they will have a chance to win a set. We will post more information on our social media.
TBB: Thanks for chatting with us HispaBricks and congratulations on hitting your 10-year milestone!
Hot on the heels of a LEGO Brickheadz-styled Back To The Future DeLorean, we get another “vehicle” for the blocky figures — a chunky chibi Hulkbuster Armour designed to fit Brickheadz Iron Man. This digital creation by ORION_brick is nicely done, with suitably beefy proportions and LEGO’s own Iron Man nestling comfortably inside.
We don’t feature a lot of digital renders on the Brothers Brick, generally preferring our LEGO models to be constructed in actual bricks. However, this is a cool idea and, unlike many digital creations, it doesn’t employ too many non-existent part/colour combinations.
It seems like a crime how underrated Dutch builder Barthezz Brick is, and he’s lucky to have Spider-Man stop this crime! Barthezz Brick has been featured on the Brothers Brick before with a smaller downtown city scene, but he has outdone himself with this large and extremely detailed diorama of Spider-Man, surrounded by busy and realistic city life.
There is so much detail here that it is hard to take it all in without revisiting the pictures a few extra times. The busy city life shows both completely oblivious citizens and ones very much involved in the story, such as the robber right under the corner of the larger building and a security guard and obviously Spider-Man chasing him. While the amazing minifig action fills it with life, the diorama would work perfectly fine on its own, from the water tank on the roof and the level of detail above ground to the the pipes and wires running underground.
The back alley is hidden in the main picture, but it actually holds some of the best details, like broken windows with police tape over them. The whole diorama is covered with all sorts of stickers, both custom and official ones.
A clutch of rare baby ‘Forest Dragons’ have hatched at Chester Zoo.
The Bell’s Anglehead Lizard (Gonocephalus bellii), also known as the Borneo Forest Dragon, is found in parts of South East Asia. Reptile experts at Chester Zoo say very little is known about the mysterious reptile. Population estimates on the species have never been carried out; therefore, no one is aware of exactly how many exist in the wild or how threatened they might be.
However, the emergence of the four tiny lizards at the Zoo is helping reptile conservationists discover some of the secrets about how they live.
Matt Cook, Lead Keeper of Reptiles at Chester Zoo, said, "The Bell’s Anglehead Lizard is an elusive a little-understood species. Reliable information about them is incredibly scarce, so much so that even to reptile experts they are somewhat of a mystery.”
“What we do know is that, as their name suggests, these ‘forest dragons’ live in forests in South East Asia. This is habitat which, across the region, is being completely decimated to make way for unsustainable palm oil plantations – a threat which is pushing all manner of species, big and small, to the very edge of existence.”
Matt continued, “Breeding these rare lizards at the Zoo allows us to increase our knowledge of the species. For example, we’ve already discovered that their incubation period is between 151 and 155 days; that they reach sexual maturity at around three-years-old and that the females deposit up to four eggs per clutch in a small burrow in deep soil.”
The recently hatched youngsters are currently being cared for in a special behind-the-scenes rearing facility at the Zoo, but visitors can see their parents in its Realm of the Red Ape habitat.
The People’s Print Shop just released this incredible made-up movie poster by Robert Sammelin. “Necrocosm” is an 18″ x 24″ giclee, has an edition of 50, and costs $40. Visit ThePeoplesPrintShop.com.
Delicious Design League recently released a new poster for Godspeed You! Black Emperor, seemingly trying out a new, darker direction. It’s an 18″ x 24″ screenprint, has an edition of 172, and costs $30. Visit DeliciousDesignLeague.com.
Anne Benjamin is back with a couple of beautiful new prints. Her First Aid Kit poster is an 18″ x 24″ screenprint, has an edition of 50, and costs $40. “Nest” is an 18″ x 24″ screenprint, has an edition of 55, and also costs $40. Visit her shop.
Apocalypseburg model!
Last Friday at 3 pm, when we had dinner plans at 6, I decided it had been too long since I’d gotten myself into a right mess of a baking project and decided to make my husband a cheesecake for his birthday — which we were already 14 hours into. I’d been dawdling because despite having 11 cheesecake recipes on this site, I find cooking things I’ve already made before boring, and was working up the courage to tackle a harebrained idea for a cheesecake that had thin stacked layers.
75952 Newt’s Case of Magical Creatures, there’s room for everyone! Help Newt take Jacob, Tina and Queenie on a tour around the different magical beast habitats, and teach them how to look after the Erumpent, Occamy, Thunderbird, Niffler and Bowtruckle. Have lots of Fantastic Beasts fun exploring, mixing potions and caring for the magical creatures.
For most of the last decade or two, my dad was on a perennial low-carb diet, eschewing bread and often sugar, save for carefully chosen exceptions. When family would come over for dinner, he’d always tell me I didn’t need to make anything special for him, but I enjoyed the challenge of coming up with a menu that would work for everyone. The results became some of my favorite meals to this day. Previously, dinner parties usually had a carb-assault at the center — lasagna or spaghetti and meatballs or mussels and fries — but in these, protein (and a great heap of vegetables) get the spotlight: chicken gyro salad, street cart chicken (one of my favorites in Smitten Kitchen Every Day), piri piri chicken, and many steak salads. As should be clear, these aren’t bread- or carb-free, but they’re set up in an assemble-your-own style that allows the carb-rejecting to eat as they wish, and the carb-demanding (or not) children to get into the meal too. Everybody wins.
To celebrate their anniversary, the HispaBrick team are publishing an article about Alien by the Arvo Brothers, first published in the very first issue but only in Spanish. HispaBrick also proudly presents a set that was specially designed for the occasion, 1001 – HispaBrick Magazine Kiosk.
Jetro: Antonio is very much into German WWII vehicles and when he builds something it stays built. He has a considerable collection of vehicles he brings along to our exhibitions.
Jetro: I am a Mindstorms Community Partner. My main interest is in programmable LEGO platforms (Mindstorms, Boost, WeDo) but also Technic. I helped develop MILS and use it for Castle displays.
Lluis: In my real life I am Electronics Engineer and I work in the Automotive sector. I love motorsports and travel. Regarding LEGO, I am builder and collector of LEGO CITY and I have a decent collection of exclusive minifigures, e.g. LEGO Employee Business Cards, internal minifigures, special events… I also love to reproduce local buildings and some traditions of my country with LEGO Bricks.
We’d love to be able to offer the magazine in other languages. Lluis has a personal preference for Japanese because of his connection and interest in that country and culture. However, we do not have the time or the resources to add any more languages at this time.
