LEGO At SDCC 2014

Hi All! Sorry for the delay in entries again. Today, I will be talking about all the exciting things LEGO released at the recent San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) 2014!

©San Diego Comic Convention

Personally, I have never been to any BrickFair or SDCC before (Partially because it’s half the world away), but I have always followed news of it, and all the awesome reveals of games and stuff. 

So, a brief introduction of the SDCC. The SDCC is a convention held annually, in San Diego, California which is on the West Coast of the USA. The SDCC is popular for fans of video games and comics, and increasingly in the last decade, LEGO Fans. LEGO always has a booth at this highly popular convention, and every year, they have awesome previews and giveaways of exclusive sets.

75001 Republic Troopers VS Sith Troopers Review

Hi all, I’m back this week with my second ever LEGO Star Wars set review! Its been a really long week, and its been an equally long weekend! So Im back with more posts for you.

As with last week’s edition, I’m gonna be reviewing this set in 3 sections, based on its Minifigures, Playability and Investment Potential. So without further ado, here’s this week’s set! 75001 Republic Troopers VS. Sith Troopers!

©The Lego Group, Photo Credits to Brickset.com

This set was released last year in January 2013, it retails here in Singapore for SGD $27.90, and in the USA for USD$12.99, again this is another example of the huge price difference between LEGO in Singapore and in the USA, UK and EU.

This set contains only 63 pieces making it the smallest set excluding the LEGO Star Wars Planets Series, and contains 4 awesome Exclusive Minifigures, as well as a really cool Speeder!

As with all my small sets and Battle Packs, I wanted to get my hands on one as quickly and cheaply as possible, so as usual, I headed down to Toy Station at Serene Centre to buy it. You can check out what other cool LEGO Products they have here: http://www.toybrickstation.com/

75000 Clone Troopers VS. Droidekas Review!

Hi All! I’m back with my first Set Review post! If you have seen my earlier post, you would know that I will be writing a lot of these in the coming weeks/months, so expect to see more of these!

So, to start us off, the set I’m reviewing today is the LEGO Star Wars 75000 Clone Troopers VS Droidekas! I will be evaluating this set in 3 segments, based on the Minifigures, Playability and Investment Potential.

©The Lego Group, Photo Credits to Brickset.com

This set retails in Singapore for SGD $27.90 and in the USA for USD $12.99. That means this set literally costs double the price in Singapore than in the USA! The set comes with 2 Minifigures, and 2 more Brick-Built figures, and totals 124 Pieces. I bought this set at a 15% discount at Toy Station here in Singapore a year ago, slightly decreasing the hole in my student wallet. 

UCS Batman Tumbler Revealed!

Hi Guys, I’m back with some very exciting news! This week, USA Today published an article regarding a new LEGO set, the Ultimate Collectors’ Series Batman Tumbler!

©The Lego Group, Photo credits to Brickset.com

This looks to be an extremely cool set, and has a whopping 1,869 Pieces, and retails for $199.99 USD. It comes with 2 minifigures, being Christian Bale’s Batman, and Heath Ledger’s The Joker. This will be the first, and likely the only time these editions of Batman and The Joker will be available through a LEGO Set!

For all of you LEGO Batman or DC fans out there, this set is due to be released in September in the USA, EU and UK, so Singaporean fans are gonna have to wait!

As with all exclusives, LEGO VIP Members will get exclusive early access to this awesome set, starting August 18, a good 2 weeks before anyone else!

Personally, I would definitely get it if I could, but the USD$200 Price tag is gonna burn away my entire shirt, much less a pocket.

So that’s it for this update guys, do leave a comment below whether you will or will not be getting this really cool set!

Thanks to ©brickset.com for the news!

LEGO Set Reviews!

Hi All, I’m back! I really apologize for not being able to make posts frequently, I already have dozens of topics and content planned out, but not enough time to write them! I’m gonna try my best to bring ,my posting up to about 4 posts a week, but I’m not certain if I can do this consistently, so I’ll try my best!

As you all know, this blog is gonna feature content related to all things LEGO (Star Wars), and one of the features is LEGO Set Reviews.

©The Lego Group, ©LucasFilm Ltd. LLC, Image Credits to lego.wikia.com/

So basically, I thought that doing reviews of LEGO sets I have, would be a good way for me to keep this blog active, and at the same time, informative, so starting next week, I will be posting reviews of all the LEGO Star Wars sets I have and working my way through each final product with a variety of criteria to judge the set, with a final score of 1 (Being “Avoid this set, burn them if you can”) to 10 (Being “Must buy at the next possible opportunity”).

Because I collect only LEGO Star Wars sets, I won’t be doing reviews for any other themes, but if I can, I may invite friends who own other LEGO Theme sets to do guest reviews on a special basis.

Also, I will be starting from the 2013 LEGO Star Wars sets, and working my way up to the newest wave of LEGO sets, thats around 30+ Set Reviews I have to complete, each a few hundred words, before the next wave!

In addition, as an added bonus, every month, I will make a review of an older LEGO Star Wars set that I own, that is not available on the market anymore as a sort of “Throwback” or opportunity for some of us older LEGO fans to gloat over having awesome sets that no one can buy anymore!

So, now for the judging criteria. I will be using a criteria for each segment of the review, going into detail regarding the Set itself.