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Lego 71040 Disney Castle is finally revealed this morning

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EDIT:  The release date is 9-1-2016 for the general public and sometime in August for Lego VIP members.

EDIT#2:  The designer video has been released as well.  This really goes into detail!

EDIT #5 – See prototype Minnie figure in process here.

Lego Minnie Mouse Prototype Minifigure Lego Minnie Mouse Prototype Minifigure 2

EDIT #3.  This appears to be the real designer video.  The first one must have just been a promotional video?

EDIT#4:  Lego just posted this up on Shop at Home.  They are getting fast on this now!  See here on the Lego site.   Lego Disney Castle 71040 on shop at home

As some of you know, a few of these images surfaced earlier on Friday, but were quickly taken down at the request of Lego.  Well, now they  are official now and what a beautiful set this is.  It is clearly the best set of the year so far, or at a tie for first with the Porsche that was released earlier this year!  Lego is really stepping up its game and it is more that I ever expected.

Lego 71040 Disney Castle Box Front and Back

Here are the details!

  • Lego 71040 Disney
  • US $349.00  (That is only 8.5 cents a piece!  WOW!)
  • 4080 pieces!
  • Did I say that they knocked it out of the park?
  • Includes 5 Minifigures:
    • Mickey Mouse with a tuxedo
    • Minnie Mouse with red dress
    • Donald Duck with classic outfit
    • Daisy Duck with pink skirt, lavender colored shoes and a bow
    • Tinker Bell with wig element, skirt, wings and a magic wand
  • Lego Disney Castle 71040 Minifigures
    • No Pluto or Goofy, they must be in Series 2 of the collectible minifigures
  • It is awesome and it looks like it will make a nice display case for the Disney Minifigures.

Based on the price of this set, I am certain that a few of these figures will eventually make it to the top 100 Rare and Expensive Lego Minifigures list!  See it here.

However, I do not think that any of them are going to overtake the $ Solid Gold Official Lego c-3po minifigure.  Only 5 of those exist!    See here.

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Here are some of the other images of the set as well!  This set just looks incredible!

Lego 71040 Disney Castle Back Bottom

Lego 71040 Disney Castle Back Top

 

It looks like we have plenty of room to put the Lego Disney Minifigures inside of the Castle!  I am also pretty sure we will get another series of these for sure now that we have not seen Goofy and Pluto yet!

 

Lego DIsney Collectible Minifigures SeriesSee the old Series here.

eBay still has complete sets of these for about $88 bucks.  See here.

Amazon Prime Day is today and The UCS Tie Fighter set is $75 dollars off today.  Selling for $125.  See here.  This means that this is being discontinued.

Lego 75095

 

Lego 71040 Disney Castle Front - Bottom

Lego 71040 Disney Castle Front - Top

Lego 71040 Disney Castle Box Front

 

Lego 71040 Disney Castle Box Back

 

 

Lego 71040 Disney Castle Front

 

Lego 71040 Disney Castle Back

Lego Disney Castle 71040 Minifigures Minnie Mouse

Lego Disney Castle 71040 Minifigures Mickey Mouse

Lego Disney Castle 71040 Minifigures Donald Duck

Lego Disney Castle 71040 Minifigures Daisey Duck

https://www.flickr.com/photos/138857207@N06/28161341221/in/dateposted/

 

Lego Disney Castle (10)

Lego Disney Castle (9) Lego Disney Castle (7) Lego Disney Castle (2) Lego Disney Castle (1) Lego Disney Castle 71040 Spinning Wheel Lego Disney Castle 71040 Mickey with Mop Lego Disney Castle 71040 Golden Mirror Red Apple and glass vase Lego Disney Castle 71040 Glass Slipper Lego Disney Castle 71040 Frog and Crown

 

 

Here is the main Press Release as well.

Bring the magical world of Disney to your home with The Disney Castle. This highly detailed LEGO® model with over 4,000 pieces offers a rewarding build and play experience, and comes with an array of exciting Disney-themed features and functions. The intricately detailed facade and towers replicate the iconic Walt Disney World® Resort Cinderella Castle, and each accessible castle room includes special features inspired by some of Disney’s greatest animated feature films, providing endless play possibilities with the included minifigures: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck and Tinker Bell, or other characters from your collection.
Includes 5 minifigures: Mickey Mouse with a tuxedo, Minnie Mouse with red dress, Donald Duck with classic outfit, Daisy Duck with pink skirt, lavender colored shoes and a bow, and Tinker Bell with wig element, skirt, wings and a magic wand.
The Disney Castle features a detailed facade with a stone bridge, clock, wide arched entrance, ornate balconies, spired towers, plus a four-story main building and a five-story, golden-spired main tower, both containing rooms with assorted Disney-inspired features and elements.
Castle main building first floor features the main hall with large arched doorway, mosaic floor tiling, ornate chandelier, suits of armor, shield-decorated walls, grandfather clock, floor-standing vase with buildable flower elements, magic carpet and a golden lamp.
Castle main building second-floor room features buildable dark-blue curtains with curtain pole, ornate buildable candelabra and rose, and glass case elements.
Castle main building third-floor room features a chest with book of spells, mop and bucket elements, and access to the main tower second-floor room.
Castle main building fourth-floor bedroom features a detailed bed with decorative golden headboard elements.
Main tower first-floor kitchen features a large redbrick-patterned stove, workbench, buildable broom and pumpkin, plus pots, pans and assorted kitchen and food elements.
Main tower second-floor room includes a spinning wheel and access to the castle main building third-floor room.
Main tower third-floor room features a chest containing brush, scissor and lock of black hair elements, plus a balcony with 2 stud shooters for a firework-display function.
Main tower fourth-floor room features a golden mirror, plus red apple and glass vase elements.
Main tower fifth-floor room features a window bench and an arched window.
Also includes 2 frogs and a golden crown element.
Remove part of the roof section to discover the glass slipper element and fairy-tale book element with printed cover.
Launch the fireworks and let the magic begin!
Combine with other LEGO® minifigure characters for endless adventures!
This set offers an age-appropriate building experience for ages 12 and over.
This set includes over 4,000 LEGO® pieces.
The Disney Castle measures over 29” (74cm) high, 17” (44cm) wide and 12” (31cm) deep.

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Lego Charlotte North Carolina Limited Edition Minifigure Store Grand Opening Pack

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These are pretty neat and I have been collecting some of these recently!  This one is from Charlotte North Carolina and is limited to 400 copies!  See it here.

Some of these have unique minifigure prints and some have writing on the back saying what store that they came from!  I tend to collect either of these.

LEGO Store Grand Opening Exclusive Set, Charlotte North Carolina

Source eBay

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Lego 2017 SDCC Countdown – Hulk -vs- Red Hulk with She Hulks as well

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It looks like the Hollywood Reporter just revealed another scoop for SDCC here

Very nice set!

Hulk and She Hulk vs- Red Hulk and Red She Hulk.   I also saw this posted here as well on Neo Gaf.

Lego Marvel Hulk and She Hulk vs Red Hulk and Red She Hulk - Copy

$60 and 375 pieces!

I personally like these even though they are getting a little flack on the newsgroups.

Here is the set that they will be coming in.

Lego Marvel Hulk and She Hulk vs Red Hulk and Red She Hulk

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Upcoming Disney Minnie Mouse Figure – Misprint or a Fake – What do you think

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EDIT:  It is real!  See here.

Lego 71040 Disney Cinderella Castle Set - Copy

This was just posted over on Eurobricks as a repost of an image that was put up on this Facebook group here. “Lego) Tu sais que tu es un AFOL quand…”

Lego Disnet Minnie Mouse Minifigure Future Figure

if you are a member of the group, you can see the post here.

I posted a pic of My Disney Series 1 Minnie next to it for comparison.

If you look at it, it is one of the following…

  • A fake
  • An upcoming figure from the Disney Castle 71040 or Disney Series 2
  • Or a misprint of some sort.  Someone accidentally make a red skirt instead of a pink skirt?

They legs and head and skirt look pretty similar.  The paint quality is not perfect, but that could be because it is an early figure.

The colors look comparable to this image here.

I am not sure, but I thought I would let you decide.

Here is the official Castle Reveal!

Lego 71040 Disney Cinderella Castle Set

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Lego SDCC 2016 Exclusive Minifigures Guessing Game and what they may look like

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Sir Gareth over on Eurobricks revealed what he believes to be the 2016 SDCC Exclusive minifigures at this years San Diego Comic Con.  THIS IS STILL A RUMOR

Hydra Captain America on the Marvel side and Atom on the DC side are the rumored minifigures.  I did little snooping around on ebay and alibaba  to see what I thought that these figures might end up looking like and these were the closest examples of what I could find.

I personally expect that Captain America Hydra will be a little bluer while still being black and I expect that Atom will be a little blacker shade of blue.  I also expect that Atom will not have an actual heley, but I really hope that he does.

Lego SDCC 2016 DC Comics Atom and Marvel Hydra Captain America Minifigures Guessing Game

THIS IS STILL A RUMOR and I held off posting this as I was waiting for additional confirmation, but it now appears that everyone on the site is taking this for granted.  However, this is still a rumor.

You can see these over here on eBay.  Atom – Captain America Hydra – I believe that both of these are Clone brands called XINH?, but I am not positive.

Lego SDCC 2016 DC Comics Atom Minifigure Guessing GameSee it on eBay here

Lego SDCC 2016 Marvel Comics Captain America Hydra Minifigure Guessing GameSee it on eBay here

 

I expect that we will see the Lego Dimensions Supergirl polybag as well as a convention giveaway.  See below.  I have not opened mine yet!

Lego 71340 SDCC Exclusive 2016 Dimensions SuperGirl Minifigure - 6164298

Lego 71340 SDCC Exclusive 2016 Dimensions SuperGirl Minifigure - 6164298 Back

Let me know what you think and good luck in your hunt later this month.  I think we should see the official post of these in the next week to ten days.

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The Lego Figures that Traveled to the outer Reaches of Space with Nasa!

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EDIT:  These figures reached Jupiter yesterday for a one year orbit so I thought I would repost this article from 2014.  Also, I have been told by one of the people that worked on this project that a second set of these figures exists and that they are put on display from time to time.  🙂  See the details below!

Also..  I am waiting for someone to make a clone of these.  Hint Hint!

A few people have been asking about this figure and why it is valued at 2.2 Billion dollars.  I say that I think it is a little low at 2 billion and I will explain below.  🙂    Here are some details about these three figures from the original news article that NASA put out on August 3rd 2011.

Three Lego Figures go to Outer Space.
Three Lego Figures go to Outer Space.

This figure set of three tops the list of the 100 Most Valuable Minifigures of all time.

The three figures included in the set are

  • The Roman God Jupiter
  • Jupiter’s wife Juno
  • Galileo Galilei – “The father of science”

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

“NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft will carry the 1.5-inch likeness of Galileo Galilei, the Roman god Jupiter and his wife Juno to Jupiter when the spacecraft launches this Friday, Aug. 5 2011.  The inclusion of the three mini-statues, or figurines, is part of a joint outreach and educational program developed as part of the partnership between NASA and the LEGO Group to inspire children to explore science, technology, engineering and mathematics.”Jupiter

I was recently contacted as a result of this post by a former Lego employee that worked on developing these figures with Nasa.  Here is what he had to say.

Having been directly involved in the creation of these 3 figures (actually, a fourth one was made, but it got turned down by NASA), I am deeply honored to see them on the top 100 list of minifigures!

Actually, another pair of the three figures ex
ist.. As back-up… And they are indeed unique, as the bolts of lightning in Jupiter’s hand and the telescope and Jupiter ball in Galileo’s hands were specially made for this special event.”

WAIT!  Did he just say another set exists?  Where is lego stashing these?  Are they in a museum somewhere?  Does anyone know?  Let me know if you have seen them anywhere.

Here is the link to the original article.  Nasa Article

Here is a link of a copy of the Lego Press release that is posted here.  I made a copy because these things keep disappearing.

I did some research on what it would cost to go to Jupiter and pick them up, and it looks like it would be about 2.2 Billion.  And that is assuming that you could intercept the space ship and retrieve the figure safely and then return home.  All of these would add to the budget and I have not accounted for them.  Finally, you need to get it all done before the craft crash lands in 2017!

According to Fox News in this article ( Fox News Article ) The figures are supposed to made out of Space Grade Aluminum and cost about $5000 each to produce.    The figures will be mounted in the spaceship in the same way that Nasa has Mounted the other surgical instruments that will be used on the mission.  They have also been placed under Thermal blankets.

Someone should create a lego ideas project to recreate these three figures.  I think that would be a great set!

The spaceship will also include this plaque.  The plaque has a self portrait of Galileo and includes the following text.

Text from the Plaque

“On the 11th it was in this formation — and the star closest to Jupiter was half the size than the other and very close to the other so that during the previous nights all of the three observed stars looked of the same dimension and among them equally afar; so that it is evident that around Jupiter there are three moving stars invisible till this time to everyone.”

Here is the current status for the Juno spacecraft.  It is supposed arrive at Jupiter in July 2016.  After having traveled over 2.8 million miles.    It will then orbit Jupiter for a year.  Probably sending back all sort of useful information.   It will then intentionally crash land into the giant gas planet sometime in July of 2017.

Juno Current Status

What is Juno supposed to do?

Juno’s main goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. The solar-powered probe — its three tractor trailer-size solar panels the first to power a spacecraft so far from the Sun — will map the planet’s gravity and magnetic fields to learn what Jupiter’s interior structure is like. Juno’s color camera will provide close-up images of Jupiter, including the first detailed glimpse of the planet’s poles.

In addition to expanding scientists’ knowledge about the solar system’s largest planet, Juno’s investigations will provide clues about what conditions were like in the early solar system when Jupiter was forming. Knowing more about Jupiter’s origins and how it evolved will also help scientists better understand the many planetary systems being discovered around other stars.

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Lego Top 100 Rare Minifigures list updated today with the latest prices – Also added promotional section

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EDIT:  Updated the top 100 list on July 4th 2016 again.  I also added a new promotional section about a month ago that you may not be familiar with.  See that here.

I updated the list today with the latest prices and a few other changes.  Take a look and see what is new and let me know if you see anything incorrect.  I have not updated this for a few weeks so you should see a few changes.

Click on the link below or the image to see the list.

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

Lego top 100 minifigures of all time

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