Welcome to the first of a regular series rounding up the latest in LEGO and Lego-related news from around the Internet! If you have any suggestions PLEASE feel free to email us: NYCLUG (at) gmail (dot) com.
- What would a new year be without new LEGO sets? There’s the newest CUUSOO offering; lots of Star Wars; Disney; and of course this massive ship courtesy of The LEGO Movie. (FBTB)
- Who doesn’t love Classic Space? Fans of the old gray-and-blue-and-transparent yellow ships will be happy to find a new CS-based model in The LEGO Movie — aptly given the registry number “LL 929.” (Groove Bricks)
- Here are two reviews of nifty Disney sets: the Cinderella Dream Carriage and Merida’s Highland Games. (Brothers Brick)
- When the folks at CERN aren’t busy operating the Large Hadron Collider, they’re playing scavenger hunts with the Collectible Minifigure series. (DVice)
- Check out the incredible level of detail in this massive version of Rivendell from the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit film series. (New York Daily News)
- Today in other exquisite fandom builds: a miniscale Downton Abbey complete with minifigs, an original Macintosh computer, and the Joker’s Funhouse, featuring a perpetually roundhouse-kicking Batman. (U.K. Express, Time, Io9)
- The newest set in the Architecture line is none other than the famed Eiffel Tower. (Arch Daily)
- Here are interesting looks at the business side of LEGO, written before the most recent holiday shopping period. (Wall Street Journal)
- And yes, there will be Simpsons minifigs. Below: Ned Flanders, because he’s the niddliest-diddle-doodliest one! No word on whether or not there will also be sets. (Mirror – U.K.)
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