Brickipedia News:News Roundup (March 23, 2015)

by NovaHawk
March 23, 2015

As you can probably tell, it's been a slow few weeks for news, here's a few of the highlights below.

Double VIP points

LEGO is currently offering double points for VIP members until March 29. This is the equivalent of a 10% discount.

Books

Details have been found on four upcoming books, due for release in September/October. These are:

Great LEGO Sets: A Visual History - comes with "an exclusive retro-style set", and explores the history of LEGO sets.
LEGO Awesome Ideas - a book showing a range of things to build, showing readers how to build an entire LEGO world.
LEGO Star Wars: Through A Lens - looks to be a book featuring artistic shots of LEGO Star Wars sets and minifigures.
LEGO: I Want That Minifigure - comes with an exclusive minifigure, and is all about rare minifigures.

LEGO The Hobbit will remain incomplete

Although it was originally believed that a DLC pack would be on its way for the third Hobbit movie, The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, Warner Bros has confirmed that they will not be releasing any downloadable content to complete the game, and that there are no plans to release a new game based on the third film.

$100,000 worth of LEGO used to create Jurassic Park stop-motion

A father, daughter, and their friends have combined over $100,000 worth of LEGO to create a Jurassic Park stop-motion video, you can check it out below: <videoflash>5KNMYi5MDhE</videoflash>

Thanks to Brickset, Hoth Bricks, GameSpot and YouTube for the news.

Tags: 2015 Star Wars The Hobbit

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CJCBricktastic

118 months ago

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Is there some rule about releasing at least 1 SW book a year?

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NovaHawkLegendary Brickipedian

118 months ago

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If it makes you feel any better, there's two more SW books coming out soon (one in April, one in May) :P

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NovaHawkLegendary Brickipedian

118 months ago

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I'm so glad I didn't buy that Hobbit game now- having an incomplete game like that would have driven me crazy :P I still don't get why they didn't wait to release all three movies in the one game- it's like they got two thirds of the way through and were just like "eh, that'll do". Seems very half-hearted.

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NBP3.0Brick Master

118 months ago

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The game being incomplete makes me cringe just thinking of the lack of consistency. Tough for anyone who has the game. I do agree that the marketing plan was not exactly the smartest and the game definitely jumped the gun.

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CJCBricktastic

118 months ago

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Because money. That is why. And when the sale figures were no doubt lower due to it, they decided there wasn't enough demand for DLC.

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CJCBricktastic

118 months ago

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Basically it was a....duck move.

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