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LEGO Builds Episode II
In a recent update to their Star Wars mini-site, LEGO have completed their “Build the Story” Episode II gallery and are now requesting images for Episode III.
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LEGO Predicts Return To Profit
From the Houston Chronicle comes word that LEGO are now back in the black, partly due to the success of their Revenge of the Sith line in 2005.
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Star Wars License Renewed
The Danish construction brick manufacturers have negotiated a license extension right through to 2011 reports Yahoo.com. Jay Bruns, director of global licensing at LEGO, says they “are thrilled to solidify our partnership with Lucasfilm through […]
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LEGO Extends Star Wars License To 2011!
Those fans worried that their favorite toy license would come to an end soon need not, because LEGO and Lucasfilm have just struck a deal to keep the Star Wars construction toy line going for […]
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LEGO 6211: Alternate Sets
LEGO have issued detailed photos of the two alternate sets, Dash Rendar’s Outrider and Luke’s T-16, that are suggested building from the Imperial Star Destroyer (6211). Instructions for these will also be available.
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LEGO 6211: Imperial Star Destroyer
This classic Star Wars set is due out this summer. With 1366 pieces and eight mini-figs it is sure to be popular at $99.00. Be sure to stop by the LEGO section of our forums […]
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LEGO 6210: Jabba’s Sail Barge
Somewhat smaller than the Imperial Star Destroyer (6211), this 781 piece sail barge from the Ubbrikian shipyards of Billund, Denmark will have eight mini-figs (Boba Fett, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, Gamorrean Guard, Lando Calrissian, […]
Gaming
LEGO Star Wars The Video Game Goes Mobile
The hit console/PC/Mac game, LEGO Star Wars The Video Game, has now been released for the mobile community. It has just gone live on Orange in the UK, and will launch across Europe in the […]
Collecting
LEGO Sail Barge And Star Destroyer Update
Head over to the official Star Wars site for set information and pictures of this summer’s hit LEGO releases. Top marks to James for spotting the update. * LEGO have confirmed that the Outrider and […]
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Obi-Wan Kenobi Keychain
It’s not quite as exciting as our earlier posting, but this LEGO Obi-Wan Kenobi keychain was found at the LEGO Shop in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom over the weekend.
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New LEGO For 2006
The LEGO internet community is buzzing about the surprise appearance of images of not one, but two super-secret Star Wars sets coming in the summer of 2006 from LEGO. In case you are worried that […]
Gaming
LEGO Star Wars The Video Game For The Mac
Tempted to get LEGO Star Wars The Video Game for your Macintosh, then check out the playable demo from Aspyr.com.
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TRU.com LEGO Discount
Head over to Toyrus.com for a chance to save 25% on your next LEGO purchase. But with only the UCS Y-wing Fighter left, your choices are limited.
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V-Wing Replaces Jedi Starfighter
Thanks to Steve Witt, of the LEGO Community Team, we now have an explanation as to why this set popped up unexpectedly, and why it disappeared just as quickly: “The Ultimate Space Battle was only […]
Collecting
Order LEGO 2006 Now
The following sets have just been added to the shop@home catalogue: V-wing Fighter TIE Interceptor A-wing Fighter B-wing Fighter Slave I Currently, these are only available to customers in the United States and Canada. Thanks […]
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LEGO Jabba’s Sail Barge Announced
From LEGO comes the following: The first licensed property to join the LEGO family in 1999, LEGO Star Wars(TM) has become one of the best-selling lines in global company history, and continues in 2006 with […]
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LEGO Teases New Star Wars Set Poll
Over at LEGO.com is a new interview with one of their senior product designers. Included is a “favourite set” poll. While it might appear an innocuous set of questions this poll will aid LEGO in […]
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LEGO Ultimate Space Battle In Stock
Our friends at Eurobricks have posted that the Ultimate Space Battle set is now available to US and Canadian customers on the LEGO shop@home website for US$49.99/CA$69.99.
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Episode III Collector’s Set
Reader Juice reports that he has spotted the Episode III Collector’s Set (65771) at his Toys “R” Us in Delaware for $59.99. Those of you who prefer to do your shopping online can visit Toysrus.com.
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New LEGO 2006 Revealed
The official Star Wars website has released news and images of the first LEGO sets of 2006 – check it out!
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7283 Ultimate Space Battle At Toys “R” Us in UK
Reader Gillan in the UK has sent in word that he has picked up the Ultimate Space Battle set that includes the new Obi-Wan Kenobi’s starfighter. It was found in the Ipswich branch of Toys […]
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What’s In The Box?
With news that the LEGO Return of the Jedi A-Wing is going to be $5 higher than the originally expected $9.99 has got collectors asking “what’s in the box?” LEGO have provided the answer with […]
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LEGO Ups Bricks
On the back of a pretax loss of $26 million, LEGO have decided to relocate one of its production facilities to Eastern Europe, and are further considering a move to China reports this press release. […]
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LEGO Death Star II Gallery
Tim Skirvin has completed the LEGO Death Star II in only 13 hours and has posted his photo gallery of the building process.
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Episode III Collector’s Set Officially Announced
The ARC-170 and Droid Tri-Fighter sets, along with an astromech, 3 x Clone Pilots and a buzz-droid, have been bundled under the gestalt of the Episode III Collector’s Set (65771). The set also contains either […]
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Missing MINI
For reasons unknown the LEGO MINI version of the Corporate Alliance Tank Droid was cancelled. Now you can construct your own using the original instructions from the LEGO website. Thanks to Psychoticsloth in our LEGO […]
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Slave I Up Close
Jake at LEGO has provided Rebelscum.com with hi-res images of the recently previewed Boba Fett’s Slave I (set 6209). Click the thumbnail above for a better look.
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Vader T-Shirt
New on the LEGO shop@home website is this stunning t-shirt depicting Darth Vader as a minifig, and is currently only available to Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
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LEGO Questionnaire
LEGO want to know what makes its fans tick – help them out by spending a few minutes filling in their questionnaire.
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LEGO Summer Wave Prices
Don Roberts sends word that the next LEGO sets will have the following prices: Ultimate Space Battle – $60, V-wing fighter – $30, TIE Interceptor – $20, A-wing fighter – $20, B-wing fighter – $40 […]
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Official Site Confirms New LEGO
Six new LEGO sets have been confirmed by Star Wars.com, just a week after we posted our scoop. Starting in October the Ultimate Space Battle (Set 7283) will give us Obi-Wan’s Jedi Starfighter as well […]
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New LEGO For 2006?
Word just in from TRUJedi reveals details of new sets coming in 2006: The B-Wing looks pretty much the same. The sample package doesn’t have sides or a back, so I can’t tell if the […]
Grapevine
New LEGO For 2006?
From Jedi Jman comes the following list of Star Wars System sets: – 6207 A-wing with Pilot and crewman – 6205 V-Wing with Clone Pilot – 6208 B-Wing with Pilot – 6206 Tie Interceptor with […]
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Retiring Star Destroyer
Heading for the breakers yard this September is the UCS Star Destroyer, which will be retired to make shelf space for the Death Star II, which comes out in the same month.
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UCS For 2006
Jipay from Eurobricks.com has contacted us with the information that one of their readers recently toured the LEGO facilities in Billund, Denmark and discovered that a UCS Jedi Starfighter will be released next year.
Gaming
LEGO Star Wars The Video Game For Mac
The LEGO Star Wars Video Game is now available for pre-order from Aspyr.com for any customer living the USA, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, France and many other countries. Thanks to Frank K. for the […]
Collecting
More LEGO Keyrings
LEGO have added two more keyrings to their Revenge of the Sith collection. These two – Anakin Skywalker and Chewbacca – were found today at the LEGO shop, Bluewater in the UK. Thanks to Ricky […]
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Sandcrawler Available
The newest Classic Star Wars set from LEGO is now available to purchase, for $140/€170/£110/AU$296, from the shop@home website.
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Promo LEGO R2-D2 Draw
Want to add a 12″ LEGO R2-D2 to your collection? All you have to do to get entered into the draw is buy some LEGO Star Wars sets from Amazon.com between June 5 and June […]
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Sandcrawler Announced
The official Star Wars site has officially announced that LEGO will be producing a Sandcrawler set, available to preorder on June 15th. The set will have movable tracks, stearing, cranes, will measure 15 x 8 […]
Reviews
From Bricks To Polygons – Part II
Early in March 2005 we received an invitation to meet with Giant Interactive Entertainment, the software house who is responsible for development of LEGO Star Wars The Video Game. It was an invitation accepted with […]
Reviews
From Bricks To Polygons – Part I
To be honest with you I don’t spend any time playing children’s computer game, I also have limited experience playing on consoles and I don’t really like those over-the-shoulder perspective games. So you might be […]
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Storyboard With LEGO
If you want to help tell the tale of A New Hope with studded bricks then head over to the LEGO Build the Story webpage where LEGO is putting together a collection of photos that […]
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LEGO 10131
The unknown set that LEGO has been so tight-lipped about has just had some light shone on it, according to this post in the forums. Forum member Wintercom has contacted LEGO and was informed that […]
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New LEGO Millennium Falcon
The ever-helpful karnorjax sends in these pictures of the new Millennium Falcon (set # 4504) which is being showcased at the French Toy Fair in Paris this week. The set comes with five minifigs […]
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Heads Roll As LEGO Announces Losses
From a press release issued earlier today by the LEGO Company: January 8 2004 Loss of DKK 1.4bn in the LEGO Company in 2003 Executive Vice President and COO, Poul Plougmann, leaves the LEGO Company, […]
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Price Check On LEGO AT-AT
Twas the season to be jolly, but now tis the season to save money because Target, WalMart and Toys “R” Us have reduced the price of LEGO AT-ATs from $79.99 to $49.99 – and in […]
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LEGO Offers MINI TIE Fighter
The new LEGO Shop@Home catalogue is offering a free MINI TIE Fighter when you order Collection III (Sith Infiltrator, AT-TE, Imperial Shuttle & Imperial Star Destroyer – priced $27.96 plus S&H) wave through the catalogue. […]
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LEGO Online Discounts
As part of their pre-Christmas sale LEGO have reduced a large number of their sets by 50%, including the following Star Wars sets: North America: Jedi Starfighter Final Duel I Final Duel II Jedi Defense […]
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Still Hunting For LEGO Pens?
They came and they went so quickly that most LEGO collectors were never aware that LEGO had fourteen Star Wars pens in their Writing system, which are now all listed as Sold Out or Retired. […]