05/02/2012 - 18:25 Lego news

Nuremberg Toy Fair 2012 - LEGO Star Wars

It is on Eurobricks that Sir von LEGO, present at the Nuremberg Toy Fair, provides a list of public prizes for the second wave of Star Wars sets for 2012:

9496 Desert Skiff 29.99€
9497 Republic Striker Starfighter 49.99€
9498 Saesee Tiin's Starfighter 39.99€
9499 Gungan Sub 69.99€
9500 Fury Class Interceptor 99.99€
9509 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 29.99€
9515 Malevolence 119.99€
9516 Jabba's Palace  139.99€

As expected, the retail price of these sets is high. These prices are obviously provided for information only and it will be possible as usual to get these sets at much more attractive prices.

 

05/02/2012 - 11:28 Lego news

LEGO 4529 Iron Man vs. Hasbro The Avengers Stark Tek Assault Armor Series

The line of Hasbro toys from The Avengers license creates further confusion and provides some explanations for certain LEGO products like the set 4529 Iron Man from the Ultrabuild range. Indeed, we discover that Hasbro offers a model called Stark Tek Assault Armor Series which looks strangely like the 4529 minifigure, except that the Iron Man armor is in Mark VI version at Hasbro and in Mark VII version at LEGO. It looks like Iron Man changes his costume a lot in the movie ....

By the way, this same line of toys based on the film reveals the hypothetical presence of Red Skull as I was already telling you about it a few weeks ago. We indeed find this pack The Avengers Mini Mighty Mugs Collector with Captain America and Red Skull. The presence of Red Skull in this line of toys could of course be based solely on the movie Captain America. 

The Avengers Mini Mighty Muggs Collector - Captain America & Red Skull

We also discover a hasbro pack including two motorcycles: Iron Assault Bike (Iron Man) and Furyfire Assault Cycle (Captain America). I'll let you draw your conclusions on the possible LEGO adaptation of these machines, especially in the set 6865 Captain America's Avenging Cycle. Many other gear are offered by Hasbro such as the Firestrike Assault Jet and  Goliath Assault Tank...

Hasbro - The Avengers Battle Chargers Series

Firestrike Assault Jet

04/02/2012 - 20:32 Lego news

Nuremberg Toy Fair - 9516 Jabba's Palace

Here is another video shot on the grounds of the Nuremberg Toy Fair by the guys from spieletest.at. From 1.0 minute, you will be able to see some images of the 2012 novelties and especially of some novelties scheduled for summer 2012. We briefly discover what could possibly be the roof of Jabba's palace from the set 9516 Jabba's Palace.

But we especially notice that the video does not dwell on the novelties that have not yet been officially announced and for which no official visual has been published.  

As with the photos published so far and which remain taken at a certain distance, with a resolution that does not allow you to zoom in to detect certain details, I think that LEGO has visualized all these pictures and has authorized or not their publication by selected sites like Slovene kocke.si or the Austrian spielestest.at, by leaving them a certain form of exclusivity on this European show and by imposing a reduced resolution and only wide shots.

This is how LEGO is creating the buzz, without offering too much to impatient AFOLs, but enough to allow them to generate hundreds of internet threads and keep the pressure on these new things.

03/02/2012 - 23:04 Lego news

Nuremberg Toy Fair - Quinjet - 6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle

It's not really a detailed view of the set in question, but as Baal pointed out in the previous post, we can see a part of the Quinjet behind the two maxifigs and I zoomed in slightly on that portion of the image.

This gear, which will be available in the set 6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle including the minifigs of Black Widow, Iron Man, Thor & Loki, appears here by revealing a cockpit occupied by Black Widow, some flick-fire missiles, a piece of the fuselage and wings and probably some stickers. Difficult to deduce the general shape of the vessel, but what we see seems interesting.

 

03/02/2012 - 21:22 Lego news

Nuremberg Toy Fair 2012 - Iron Man & Thor maxifigs

For lack of minifigs, we are entitled to a photo, proposed by the site spieletest.at, Maxifigs of Thor and Iron Man exhibited during the Nuremberg Toy Fair. 

If this Iron Man maxifig represents on a larger scale the minifig that we will find in the sets of the second wave 2012, we will therefore not be entitled to the version that was presented in the catalog page of which i was talking to you three weeks ago. Yet the film trailer does indeed present Iron Man in his Mark VI armor ...

Regarding Thor, the maxifig is a carbon copy of the prototype presented in July 2011 at San Diego Comic Con.