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>