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Lego Legolas Gets Friendzoned by the Brotherhood Workshop

Lego Legolas and Tauriel are desperately fighting a group of evil Mirkwood spiders when Legolas’s biggest nightmare comes true. He is in the friend zone. What else is there to do then bury your feelings in a plate of Radagast’s Red Velvet Pancake Puppies®.

Legolas Gets Friendzoned is the creation of the Brotherhood Workshop, and features some extremely well made sets. The Lego Dennys is especially nice. Everything has good voice work and spot on lighting. These Lego stop motion videos keeping getting better and better.

http://youtu.be/4Y19BARjIsg

New Lego Friends Sets – 2014

A whole lot of new Lego sets have been revealed. Including seven new Lego Friends sets for 2014. Between these, and the new Disney Princess theme, the Lego Friends section is going to very popular next year. Besides these, there will be a variety of smaller sets that have not be announced yet. The main theme for this release seems to be focusing on outdoor activities.

Lego Friends Sunshine Harvest (41026) features a variety of farming stuff, including a tractor, garden, orchard tree, and roadside stand. Plus a cute dog.

Lego Friends Mia’s Lemonade Stand (41027) features one of those new Lego scooters, and an elaborate lemonade stand, which seems to take $100 bills. Lemonade sure is profitable in the Lego universe.

Lego Friends Emma’s Lifeguard Post (41028) features a lifeguard tower, and a cute dolphin.

Lego Friends Stephanie’s New Born Lamb (41029) features a tiny lamb, and a shearing shed. It looks like Stephanie and her lamb have won a few awards.

Lego Friends Heartlake Juice Bar (41035) is a pretty large juice bar, which has purple cherries, and pineapples.

Lego Friends Stephanie’s Beach House (41037) is a lovely yellow house. It comes with a wind glider, and what looks like a smartphone dock.

Lego Friends Sunshine Ranch (41039) is the mega set for the release. This ranch includes a pink barn and comes with a variety of horses, cats, chickens, and other animals.

These new Lego Friends sets will be released in 2014, and it looks like they will be out in the spring or summer. The new Lego Disney Princess theme is also being released soon, so keep an eye out.

New Lego Disney Princess Theme with Ariel, Cinderella, Merida, & Rapunzel

Lego has announced a new theme which combines Lego Friends, and Disney Princess. This has all the signs of being a massive success for Lego. The first wave of new releases is focusing on a select few Disney Princesses. There will 6 sets in this theme; featuring Ariel, Cinderella, Merida, and Rapunzel. The design of the new Lego Disney Princesses is based on the Friends figures. This means that they will be interchangeable with Lego Friends, and their hair pieces/accessories will be interchangeable with the Lego Minifigures.

Lego Disney Princess, Ariel’s Amazing Treasures (41050) features a little Lego Flounder, and treasures from the surface world.

Lego Disney Princess, Ariel’s Magical Kiss (41052) features Ariel and Prince Eric taking a romantic boat ride.

Lego Disney Princess, Cinderella’s Dream Carriage (41053) features Cinderella and her memorable pumpkin carriage. Look at those beautiful wheels, and Friends style horse!

Lego Disney Princess, Cinderella’s Romantic Castle (41055) features a beautiful castle, Prince Charming, a cute cat, and an adorable puppy. This is the big set for the theme.

Lego Disney Princess, Merida’s Highland Games (41051) features Merida, and her three bear brothers.

Lego Disney Princess, Rapunzel’s Creativity Tower (41054) features Rapunzel and Prince Flynn.

Keep and eye out, as all of these new sets will be officially released in 2014.

LegoGenre | 00329: Mean Street

Mean Street.

LegoGenre | 00328: Warg-riders

Warg-riders.

Lego Parisian Restaurant Modular Building (10243) Reviewed by Huw

Lego has been steadily releasing new Modular Buildings for the past few years. The recent, Palace Cinema (10232), and Town Hall (10224) have proven extremely popular. The newest set is the Parisian Restaurant (10243) which should be hitting shelves in the near future. Huw, from Brickset, has recently posted an early photo review of this highly anticipated set. The Parisian Restaurant comes with the now standard 3 step instructions. Which, should take anywhere from 5-9 hours to complete.

There are a whole lot of new and rare pieces included this time around. The most recognizable is the new Lego Scooter. This little red Vespa influenced scooter is extremely cute, and fits in perfectly with the Parisian Restaurant. Also included are a whole lot bricks in the new Olive Green Lego color. Since the whole building is based on this rare color, the Parisian Restaurant is probably the best source for these parts.

Featuring five Minifigures, a chef, waiter, two restaurant patrons, and the female scooter pilot. As usual, these included Minifigs all feature the classic smiling Lego head. I like to think of the blonde man as a Lego Owen Wilson.

Huw notes that the increased detail means that the Restaurant takes longer to build. All three floors are furnished, with the bottom floor featuring an impressive amount of details. From the fully tiled flooring, to the full kitchen, everything here looks great.

The Lego Parisian Restaurant is an excellent new entry in the Modular Building theme. The previous two seemed to be missing a certain spark for some fans, but this set has reignited their enthusiasum. The other good news is that there are no stickers this time around. Everything here is given the premium treatment from Lego.

“Modular buildings have come a long way since Cafe Corner, which was just an empty shell, haven’t they…”

Make sure to go read Huw’s full review, with many more photos and details over on Brickset:

Part 1: http://www.brickset.com/news/article/?ID=8134
Part 2: http://www.brickset.com/news/article/?ID=8147

More details (including video!) of the Parisian Restaurant can be found on LegoGenre here: http://everydaybricks.com/lego-creator-parisian-restaurant-10243-modular-building-revealed/

The Madness from the Sea. The Great Cthulhu in Lego.

“It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway… The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.”

— H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

Carl Merriam has created a horrifying Cthulhu Lego MOC. With a whole lot of specialized Lego pieces that one would not normally associate with a build like this. There are Velociraptor pieces, Medusa bodies, and weird tentacle bits. All of these are combined into a huge SNOT style figure. Which is instantly recognizable, and captures the terror of this monster.

A lot of the details really stand out. A lot of Lego builds have problems when viewed up close, but this Cthulhu looks even better when zoomed in. Especially the mouth area.

The other stand out detail of “The Madness from the Sea” is the little Lego steam ship. The simplicity is a great contrast to the much more detailed Cthulhu. It also lends a sense of scale to the figure. This thing is supposed to be monstrously big. But, best of all is that this little detail adds so much to the story of this MOC.

Carl Merriam has been featured a few times on LegoGenre, but much more of his work can be seen on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39069854@N07/

This is Halloween… The Nightmare Before Christmas Lego, Jack Skellington

“This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night”

Jack Skellington, from The Nightmare Before Christmas, is one of the most instantly recognizable characters. His spider like arms and legs, the skeletal frame, and ghostly face make Jack an incredibly difficult character to translate into Lego. Here, Carl Merriam has created his own version of Jack Skellington in Lego. The scale of this figure will dwarf a normal minifigure. Those limbs make it so hard for Jack Skellington to stand up on his own, but the technic bricks seem to holding. Seeing this MOC of Jack Skellington just makes you want to see more Nightmare Before Christmas Lego.

Jack, The Pumpkin King can be seen at Carl Merriam’s Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39069854@N07/9360110291/

LegoGenre | 00327: Deadpool’s Day Off

Deadpool’s Day Off.

This Lego Owl Will Drop Some Wisdom.

What kind of questions could you ask a Lego Owl? “Which is better Classic Space or Star Wars?” “Will the Lego Movie be good?” “What minifies will Series 15 have?” “Will there be an official Lego Silmarillion theme?” “Where are all the Lego Pirates?” “Why is Ninjago so crazy?” The list could go on and on… whether of not a Lego Owl could actually answer such questions.

This Owl is amazingly lifelike. With a great focused stare, perfect coloring, and deadly talons. Owl was created by Mihai Marius Mihu.

Check out this Lego Owl over on Mihai Marius Mihu’s Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihaimariusmihu/10738413706/