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Lego Iron Legion and Iron Man figures spotted in wild. 76038 Attack on Avengers Tower

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It looks like someone in Mexico has obtained the Lego Iron Legion and the Lego Iron Man figures from the Summer 2015 Super Heroes wave of sets.  These appear to be from Lego set 76038 that will be released in April or May 2015.  I think the figure looks good, but not as good as it would have with regular minifigure head.

Iron Legion Front Image

You can see the full line of Lego Super Heroes figures with current values here.

 

As I stated, these figures are going to be in the 2015 summer wave of Marvel Super Hero sets.  In particular set 76038 Attack on Avengers Tower.  This set will contain 511 pieces and by far looks the best out of the Summer wave so far.  I think if you purchased a few of these, they could probably be combined into a enormous MOC.   I will take that back once I see the Lego Helicarrier set which will be released in February.

IRON MAN

This set will most likely be released as a part of the “Age of Ultron” movie that is going to be released on May first 2015.  The Age of Ultron is the Sequel to the 2012 Blockbuster Avengers movie and I am certain it will be a huge it.

The trailer was recently released and I cannot wait to see the movie.  You can see the trailer here.

 

See the links to the eBay auctions below.  In my opinion, these all look real and the location of the adds are correct also.  All of them are in Mexico, Texas or Southern California.

Lego has a new plant in Mexico that they use to produce figures for North and South America.  Per this news release here we know this about the plant “A 48,000 square meters expansion of the current LEGO factory in Mexico creates approximately 1000 jobs and enables the LEGO Group to better service core markets in North and South America”.

EBAY LINKS

http://www.ebay.com/itm/REAL-2015-Lego-Iron-Man-LEGION-Ultron-Minifigure-Set-76038-Avengers-2-Patriot-/121528652857?pt=Building_Toys_US&hash=item1c4bac1439

and here

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-MARVEL-SUPER-HEROES-AGE-OF-ULTRON-IRON-MAN-MINIFIGURE-MARK-43-76023-76038-/191470440170?pt=Building_Toys_US&hash=item2c94870eea

Iron Legion Pieces Iron Legion Back

Here is a link to an image found on Eurobricks here

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=98099&st=2750

and

Here is a catalog preview for all of the sets found on ToyHypeUSA

http://www.toyhypeusa.com/2014/12/17/lego-the-avengers-2-age-of-ultron-catalog-preview-for-2015/

Here is a bigger image.

http://www.toyhypeusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-17-at-12.46.19-PM.png

Ultron Sentry Officer from unreleased Lego set 76029 found on ebay

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Just found on an eBay auction.  Looks to be the Sentry figure from Lego set 76029  – Iron Man VS Ultron

This is called Sub Ultron-Officer on lego.wikia.com

 

Sentry Front 76029

 

Sentry Back 76029

Sentry Side 2 76029 Sentry Inventory 76029 Sentry Side 76029

You can see the full line of Lego Super Heroes figures with current values here.

See here for further details and to buy it if you want.  It looks like it is produced in Mexico so this is probably a valid leak.

Here is a link to an image found on Eurobricks here

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=98099&st=2750

Here is a small pic of what the set is supposed to look like from Brikimedia.

Here is a catalog preview for all of the sets found on ToyHypeUSA

http://www.toyhypeusa.com/2014/12/17/lego-the-avengers-2-age-of-ultron-catalog-preview-for-2015/

 

Here is a bigger image.

http://www.toyhypeusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-17-at-12.46.19-PM.png

Lego Logo Made out of thousands of plain Minifigures

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This Lego logo appears to be a plush red shag carpet when looked at quickly.  However, this Lego logo is really made out of thousands of plain red, black, white and yellow minifigures.  This mosaic is really neat.

This appears to be a display at one of the Lego stores.  I think it is a wall display at the Lego Store in New York?  However, I have heard reports that one of these also exist in Europe (Paris?).

Image courtesy of http://www.dollarstudios.co.uk/lego-news/category/new-york

Image from (I am not sure who)  http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/81/21/62/lego10.jpg

 

Here is another image.  Based on the first image and a comment that I read over at reddit, it looks like little kids are touching it and picking off some of the heads.  🙂  I wonder how many figures are in it?

Image from https://amystravels2012.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/img_4046.jpg?w=691&h=922

Lego Mickey Mouse – This would be a good idea for Lego to produce

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This quote is per the creator.

“Mickey Mouse is designed and built completely with factory Lego parts. The model stands 20cm tall and contains 33 points of articulation, including ball jointed ears and individually moveable fingers. Also included are the “Kingdom Key” Keyblade from Kingdom Hearts and the paintbrush from Epic Mickey.”

He has really put some time into this and it looks awesome.

I have always thought that Lego was missing the boat with not producing Disney Figures.  Disney has so many to produce and who would not want a full collection of Disney Collectible minifigures.  I just looked here to get an idea of the list of characters that they could produce and I see more than 950!!!

Even if Disney and Lego only produced one half of these, we would still have a potential for 450+ minifigures.  That is enough for about 20 series of them.  So. I am going to go out on  limb and predict that one of the collectible series coming up will be Disney at some time in the next year or two.

Lego is currently making a run with Disney in the Duplo line, but it does not contain any figures.

Lego did make a few sets for distribution at Disney Theme parks about ten years ago.  These contained a few (five) minifigures and I currently believe that these are some of the most undervalued minifigures of all time.

You can see a full set of them as well as the current prices here.

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

You can purchase the entire line of them for about $40-$50 dollars if you act fast.  If fact, if I were you I would.  It take a little time to find a nice set of them, but they are well worth it.

Here is a picture of my set of these.  They are a litte more like Fabuland figures than minifigures, but a very very nice addition to your collection.

Lego Mickey Mouse Minifigures

However while you wait, you could create your own as in this lego ideas project.  These are brick built and they take a little bit of creativity, but very nice all the same.

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/66409

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_animated_universe_characters

 

 

Here is an original proff of concept from the beginning.  Not nearly as nice looking.  🙂

 

Here is his Flickr account with the same images as well.

 

Tiny Lego Man anatomy sculpter by freeny on DeviantArt – This is really kool!

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Jason Feeney has made a small minifigure that shows the anatopy of the figure inside of the lego figure.  I have seen a few of these in the past which it appears were all from his website.  I posted the links below for all of the ones that I could find.

I would live to have one of these for myself.  I wonder if he has considered selling these?  I posted him an email, but I have not received a response yet.  Also, someone posted on reddit that they are selling (the ones that are for sale) for between $1200 and $8000.  So that may be a little expensive for my blood.  I would really like a mass produced version of the one above.

You can see his full Gallery here.

http://freeny.deviantart.com/gallery/

You can also see his facebook page here.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Freeny/34170123768

He has some photos on his Facebook page that show some of the other figures that he is working on.  I saw a He-Man figure that looked pretty neat.

Here is a person on ETSY selling a printed figure of this.  It does not look nearly as good, but it is pretty neat on its own.  It is currently priced for about

See it here.

Some of Freeny’s other works.  This first one is really neat if you start to look at the detail.  The skull and the teeth are marvelous the way that they fit inside the head.  Then if you look at the hand and the detail how he made the hand bones “C” shaped to match the classic Lego minifigure hand shape.

The detail is just amazing.  It looks to me like he cut one of the lego flashlight figures open and started modeling the innards out of clay.  If I had any skill, I would try this at home.

After doing a little more digging, I found this on his Facebook page.  He has posted a bunch of pictures on how he created this figure.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150415751343769.380128.34170123768&type=3

Here is a step by step picture guide of how he created the larger masterpiece.  Please click on the link for the full size pictures on his website.  The mini picture below will also take you there as well.

Basically, it looks like he took a lego torch figure and cut one quarter out of it.  He then used 3M blue masking tape to cover up the rest of the figure.

It then looks like he built a wire frame inside of the figure to match the anatomy for the head and torso.  He then made the chest and skull for the figure out of a material called Apoxie.  You can pick this up here on Amazon.

Apoxie is described as a self hardening two part sculpting epoxy.  It looks like it has about about a 2-3 hour working time and that it will harden overnight in about 24 hours.  It also is able to be worked and sanded after it dries and it stick to just about anything.  It looks to be the perfect product for this process.

It then looks like he made each of the organ separately.  The ribs, the intestines etc.  Then it looks like he created the arm and the leg bones on the wire frame to look like human bones.  Finally, it looks like he hand painted the organs to give it a little color.  The final product is spectacular.  As I stated before, someone should produce this and sell about a million of these on the shelf at Target and Toys R us.  Heck, it would even make a great Christmas Tree Ornament.

JasonFSteps

 

 

Here is a link to another step by step for a Mr Potato Head figure.  It is really quite a process.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152666758243769.1073741845.34170123768&type=3

 

New Hobbit / LOTR’s Bain Minifigure found on Chinese Auction site today

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Another new minifigure was discovered on the Chinese auction site Taobao today.  It is an alternative Bain (Son of Bard) figure to add to our collection of Hobbit and Lord of the Rings minifigures.

bain

This is the same guy that had the Star Wars polybag and the lightning lad figures last week, so it would appear that all of these are being produced in China as well.  I will keep checking back to see if we see any more of these over the next few days.

Lighting Lad

and

Admiral Yularen and Trickster

“Born during the late Third Age, Bain is a young Man of Dale, son to the famed Bard the Bowman and brother of Sigrid and Tilda. He helps his father in hiding the last Black Arrow while Bard is captured and imprisoned by the order of the master. He would eventually become King of Dale. He later had a son, Brand, who was killed during the War of Ring by the Easterling.”

This figure looks a little more authentic than the last one as the last one was a bright green color.  I will probably need to get it to complete my collection.  Darn you Lego.  I thought this line was finished.  I have already built my stand for this collection and it does not have any empty spaces.  I guess that I will need change it up a little.

I am not sure if this figure will have a double sided face like the last one, or if what we see is what we get with this one.

Here is the back, but it does not give us any clue as to what the face back will look like.

Bain back

I really hope that they finish off a few of the other characters from the movies and the books.  They still have quite a few that they have missed.  Possibly some other exclusive at Walmart or Amazon?  I can only hope.

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.3.w4002-9807881143.20.QsvraZ&id=43330144493

It looks like another DVD figure based on the packaging.    I would guess that this is for the Hobbit:  The battle of Five Armies movie when it is released on DVD.  Also, based on how this went down with the last movie, it is probably going to be a Target exclusive as well.  I wonder why the seller of this figure is not popping him out of the packaging?  It would seem that you would get a better picture if you did that?

Overall the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings minifigures have been one of the more reasonable lines to get all of the figures for since I do not believe that they sold that well either.  This is one line that I am certain will increase in value in short order since so many people are nuts about these books and movies.  Afterall, these are some of biggest movies ever produced.

Lego has been working overtime to get more and more exclusive figures out this year.  This is going to hurt my wallet.

OUCH!

Here is the other Bain FIgure.

http://www.minifigpriceguide.com/detailPages/HOBBITLOTR_lor100.html

He was part of this set.  Lego 76016 “Attack on Lake Town”.  He also appeared in the Lego The Hobbit video game.

 

Here are the other two DVD’s that target released with Hobbit and Lord of the Rings minifigures in them.  This one had Legolas.  Which ironically is also the name of my dogs mom.

Here is the Bilbo Baggins exclusive minifigure which you can still pick up on Amazon.  This one is usually on the top 100 most expensive since it’s release was so limited.  I have sent a few of these to fellow collectors overseas since they have not been able to easily obtain them.

39 Different Lego Employee Minifigure Business Cards

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I recently spoke with an individual in Spain that collects Lego Employee Minifigure Business Cards.  I have seen a few of these in the past, but I was  under the assumption that these were just for the “C” level executives.  However, it appears that they are for quite a few public facing Lego employees.  This individual had over 25 of them and I found about another 15 on the web.

I asked the collector in spain and he said that it was fine to post his name.  If you have any of these figures he may be interested.  His name is Lluis Gilbert and you can contact him here through twitter at @lluisgib or Facebook facebook.com/lluisgib

Please let him know if you have any others.  Also, if you have any that I do not know about, you can send me a note here with a link to a picture.

http://minifigpriceguide.com/wordpress/contact-us/

I have heard rumors that more than 100 unique ones exists.  I will add more details later, but you can see the full list with names and bigger images here.

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

Here are small images of all of these as well!

employees

Please let me know if you know of any others of these.

I actually think that this is a really good idea.  This was previously mentioned a few years back, but how kool would it be to hand these out at a business conference.  I wonder if you could put a QR code on the back and have it automatically import the contact information into your phone?  Has anyone tried that on a regular business card?

I did not add these to the top 100 since it does not appear that a secondary market exists for these.  Also, I put a value of about $50 on all of these since that is what I would be willing to pay.  However, I am going to need to do a little more research for what these might actually be worth.

We need a Lego employee to give us the scoop on these.  I would bet that someone at Lego has a full row of all of these in their cubicle all lined up.

Here is one for Emma Owen with her image right next to it.  I believe that Lego released this one, but it also says twitter on it?  So I am not sure.  I think I would like to make my whole family.  That might be fun.  My three kids are different enough that I think it would work.  I will try that this weekend.  The kids may like it!

You can send me a note here if you know of any others.

http://minifigpriceguide.com/wordpress/contact-us/

I did a quick google search to see where you could get some of these made for your self.  In the UK, you could try here.

http://www.brickengraver.com/

Also, here is a video on Gizmodo showing one up close.

http://lego.gizmodo.com/5018247/lego-employees-have-minifigs-as-business-cards-and-a-great-sense-of-humor