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Lego, Star Wars

Do you collect these with your Lego Star Wars Minifigures?

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Lego Star Wars Pen Minifigures Chrome C-3PO

Back in the day when I collected everything Lego Star Wars, Lego started producing these Connect and Build Pens.  As stated, I was collecting everything Lego Star Wars and these were Lego, Star Wars and Minifigures.  So I collected them.  Ha.  I stopped the collection and never quite finished, but I found these today and decided to finish it up.  See the ones that I currently have in the picture below and the 6 that I am missing at the bottom of the post.

Lego Star Wars Pen Minifigures

They came out with a few designs that they never released in minifigure form and some of them were pretty useful for customizing.    The Chrome Jango helmet for example.

Also, if you are looking for a Chrome c-3po on a budget, this one can be had for about 10 bucks on eBay.  It is not perfect, but it is better than nothing if you do not want to spend $500 bucks.

Lego Star Wars Pen Minifigures Chrome C-3PO - Minifigure Pen

I just pulled the figures from the pens and threw out the rest of the pieces since they were impossible to display as pens.  Some of the pieces are pretty neat and they are all interchangeable.

Well, what do you think? Do they belong in a proper minifigure collection or not?  In all fairness, I should warn you that these are not of the same quality as regular lego minifigures.  It is very unfortunate that lego put out a product like this and that they did not keep the quality level the same.

I am planning to add the to the priceguide with the other 7500 figures once I get the last few of these.

Bricklink has 42 different Star Wars pen sets, but alot of them are duplicates.

Additionally, some of them have the word Lego written on the back like this and some do not.  You will have no way of knowing until the set is opened.  Because of this, I did not worry about variations in this way.  You can see this below.  Also note the different color variations as well.  For these two reasons, I will just list one for each figure and not worry about these two items.  If any one knows of a good list that has all of these variations, let me know.

Lego star wars minifigure pen back printing variations

Here are the rest that I am currently missing for a few more minutes.  Do you know of any others.

Lego Star Wars Pen Minifigures Anakin Lego Star Wars Pen Minifigures Obi-Wan Lego Star Wars Pen Minifigures Original StormTrooper Lego Star Wars Pen Minifigures Pabloo Lego Star Wars Pen Minifigures Plain c-3poLego Star Wars Pen Jengo

DK Books, Lego, Zombies

Coming Soon Lego Zombie Skateboarder Exclusive

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Another book to sit on my shelf from DK Books.  However, as boring as that may sound, this one looks pretty nice and might be a good read.   I am a sucker for interesting facts about minifigures.  I wonder if they will have any that I do not know about?  Hmmmmm.

 

Lego DK Books I Love That Minifigure Exclusive Zombie Skateboarder
Artist rendition of what the DK Books Exclusive Minifigure may look like.

I imagins that we will get one or two figures that we have not seen much of and some interesting tidbits and facts.

This book is available for pre-order from Amazon here.  At $15 bucks for a Zombie, you cannot go wrong.

Lego DK Books I Love That Mnifigure Exclusive Zombie Skateboarder

From the Book site….

Meet the most sought-after LEGO® minifigures of all time, I Love That Minifigure brings together 200 of the coolest, rarest and most collectable minifigures.

Here are a few of the pages for this book that the website has.

Lego DK Books I Love That Mnifigure Exclusive Example Page 2 Lego DK Books I Love That Mnifigure Exclusive Example Page 3 Lego DK Books I Love That Mnifigure Exclusive Example Page 4 Lego DK Books I Love That Mnifigure Exclusive Example Page

I Love That Minifigure is your indispensable guide to the LEGO® world’s unique characters. Whether you want to check your collection or read-up on all your favourite LEGO® minifigures, I Love That Minifigure covers more than 35 years of LEGO history, and comes with its own new and exclusive LEGO minifigure for your collection.

Find out the key features of each minifigure, their original availability and rarity rating perfect for any budding LEGO minifigure collectors.

LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick and Knob configuration and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. © 2015 The LEGO Group. Produced by Dorling Kindersley under licence from the LEGO Group.

Finally, no story about a zombie would be complete without a picture of my Lego Minifigure Monster Collection.

Lego Monsters Minifigure Collection

And from Amazon..

Have you ever wondered which LEGO® minifigure had the first double-sided head? Or which one was the first to have a printed torso or peg leg? Discover all the answers to these questions and more in DK’sI Love That Minifigure!

Meet more than 200 amazing LEGO minifigures and find out what makes each one special. With stunning images and informative annotations, this encyclopedia features the most unique minifigures in amazing detail — all accompanied by fascinating facts and trivia that bring them to life.

Source 

http://www.dk.com/us/9781465436832-lego-i-love-that-minifigure/

Emerald City Comic Con

Emerald City Comic Con Crusader Lego Minifigures – Are these real?

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This year at the Emerald City Comic Con in March, a pair of “Exclusive Lego” Minifigures were released at the show.  They were clearly marked as custom printed minifigures, but they are also a convention exclusive.  So what is your thought?  Do you consider them collectible or not?  What do you think?

Lego Emerald City Comic Con Crusader 1 in 500 Exclusive Minifigure Set

I was on the fence on this set, but I decided to pick up a set since they were con exclusives and they were limited to 500 sets.  I am going to add them to the database this weekend, but I am still trying to decide where.  Custom or Lego figures.

Here is the exact one that I bought.  I think he is now selling the last on on ebay that I can find.

Lego Emerald City Comic Con Crusader 1 in 500 Exclusive Minifigure Set Ebay

Here is the advertisement that the Emerald City comic con had on their web page.

Lego Emerald City Comic Con Crusader 1 in 500 Exclusive Minifigure Set Website Advertisement

Here is a picture of a custom display case that a user is selling on eBay.  I may pick one of these up for my set.

Lego Emerald City Comic Con Crusader 1 in 500 Exclusive Minifigure Display Case

Here are a few additional images of this figure that they had on the website as well.  I cannot find them on the site anymore?  Did they take them down?  I am not sure.  They are probably planning for the conference next year already.

Lego Emerald City Comic Con Crusader 1 in 500 Exclusive Minifigure Set Large Image

 

 

Dimensions, Lego

Lego Dimension 71238 Found on Gamestop tonight – Dr Who Cyberman Fun Pack

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Update:  You can order this on Amazon now here.

Lego 71238 Doctor Who Dimensions Fun Pack

 

I found this over on Gamestop last night here

http://www.gamestop.com/accessories/lego-dimensions-fun-pack-cyberman-dr-who/123272#media

Lego Dimensions Doctor Who Cyberman Fun Pack 71238

 

And then I saw the bigger picture posted over on the BrickFan here.  It looks like the must have announced this at SDCC?  I am not sure yet,  but it looks like it will be available in January.

http://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-dimensions-doctor-who-gameplay/

Chima, Custom

Largest Lego Set Ever – 92 Minifigures and 10,004 pieces – Chima The Ultimate Battle

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Just saw this posted to the Lego Club Website.  You may need to login to see the contest as the page is no longer directly available.  This is a contest to win the largest official Lego set that I have ever seen.  It appears that they will only be making one or two of these, but it is a huge set!  I cannot even imagine opening this and how heavy it must be.

Lego Biggest Set Ever The ultimate Battle for Chima 10004 pieces and 92 minifigures

It looks like it will contain 92 minifigures.  Can you imagine?  Are any of them unique?  If so, they will quickly make it to the top 100 list of rare minifigures here.

http://www.minifigpriceguide.com/Top100LegoMinifigures.html

If you are a minifigure collector, take a minute to like my facebook page.  I think you will enjoy the news.

[wpdevart_like_box profile_id=”minifigpriceguide” stream=”0″ border_color=”#FFF” show_border=”no” theme_color=”light” connections=”6″ width=”300″ height=”300″ header=”0″ locale=”en_US”]Here is the current list of all Chima minifigures also.  You can see all 160 of them here.

http://www.minifigpriceguide.com/CHIMA.0.html

Here are the contest details as well.  I sure hope that the winner take a scale picture so we can see how large this set is.  I do wonder if this is just a mock up, of if they are really going to put all of these sets in on enormous box?

Lego Club Chima Big Box Contest Details

 

I just received my Lego Club Magazine in the mail today.  Here is a copy of the contest from the magazine.

Lego Biggest Set Ever The ultimate Battle for Chima 10004 pieces and 92 minifigures Lego Club Magazine Contest

Lego, SDCC 2015

Lego SDCC Calendar of Events for this week

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Lego Tweeted this today on Twitter.  It outlines their schedule.  They also posted this on Facebook as well.  The actually put the bigger image that is easier to read on Facebook.

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Star Trek

Mega Bloks Star Trek should be on display at SDCC 2014

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I just heard that Mega Bloks is getting the Star Trek line again.  That is pretty neat.  I though we were done when Kreo all but abandoned the Star Trek sets and did not even finish releasing them all in the US.

Collider posted an image of a potential set here.

Mega Bloks 2015 Star Trek

Here is an article from February of 2015 announcing the new line.   Here is an update about SDCC.

Kreo did manage to release 43 figures before calling it quits and I thought that they did a pretty good job.

http://www.minifigpriceguide.com/STARTREK.0.html