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Sydney Opera House in LEGO

It seems that Australia’s own iconic Sydney Opera House will be immortalised in the next LEGO® Architecture set. An image obtained from Amazon.co.jp was posted on Eurobricks yesterday. At this stage, the set name is 21012 Sydney Opera House, and it’s scheduled for international release in June. Unfortunately, the set is quite a small one [...]

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BrickForge Stops Australian Deliveries

BrickForge, the renowned custom minifig accessory manufacturer in Ohio, U.S.A., announced this morning that they will be temporarily suspending orders from Australia because of issues with customs and Australia Post. Here’s what they had to say: Due to the amount of Australian customers not receiving their packages in a timely fashion we are temporarily disabling [...]

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LEGO® Series 5 Minifig Map

Kyle of Sport Bricks has set up an international Series 5 collectible minifigure availability map utilising Google Maps. You can see it here. First off – what a great idea! Very useful for LEGO® hunters. Australia has no sightings yet, and New Zealand has pipped us at the post. When you see some, it’d be [...]

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LEGO® Super Heroes Make A Splash

The LEGOsphere is buzzing with the news that LEGO® is partnering with both Marvel and DC Comics to release a new LEGO® Super Heroes theme/s. The first LEGO® Super Heroes sets will feature 13 characters from DC Comics and will be released in January 2011, according to Variety. This subtheme will be known as LEGO® [...]

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I’m Back…

After a ghastly four weeks for exams, I’m back on deck. Normal news updates shall now resume. Thanks to everyone who keeps the news fresh on the forums! It seems like we have a fantastic community going here. A special shout out goes to LegoFan who updated the forums with the midyear sale news. And [...]

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Happy Easter!

Have a happy and safe Easter with lots of LEGO!

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LEGO® Cars: Aus Release Date & RRP

Another day, another new licensed LEGO® theme. The Mr Toys/Toyworld website, which has often been useful in determining Australian release dates, has 15 May down for the release of the LEGO® Cars theme (also known as the LEGO® Cars 2 theme due to the upcoming movie), as well as the Australian retail prices. LEGO have [...]

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New York Toy Fair Photos

From Bricks To Bothans has posted an astounding array of images from the NY Toy Fair – I could spend hours looking at all these goodies! Check the photos out here. Some highlights: Life-size Lightning McQueen! New Sort-N-Store heads! Millennium Falcon! Jack Sparrow! Mermaid! Alien Mothership! Dragon’s Prison! Space Center! City of Atlantis! A LIGHTHOUSE [...]

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Legoland Buys Sydney Aquarium

The private company behind Legoland has purchased Sydney Aquarium, Sydney Wildlife World and the Sydney Tower Observation Deck from Village Roadshow. The deal includes ”an understanding to consider” developing brands such as Legoland in Australia. I can’t help but wonder how all this ties in with the major LEGO events happening at Sydney Aquarium this [...]

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2011 LEGO® Sneak Peek

The Mr Toys / Toyworld website has again given us a sneak preview of upcoming LEGO® sets, including Australian RRP and release date. It includes the new themes Cars, NinjaGo and Pirates of the Caribbean; but interestingly not Pharoah’s Quest, suggesting perhaps this will be an exclusive theme to someone other than Toyworld. It also [...]

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