Hi all!

Jan Beyer from TLG has reminded us of the LEGO event in Skærbæk Denmark the last weekend in September.

It´s organized by some members of the Danish LEGO club Byggepladen in cooperation with him.

Jan also writes:

It is a very cozy event where you can meet and greet, discuss and talk and have some fun and a good time with other AFOLs from around the world and see and present some cool Mocs. For the moment we have registered participants from Denmark, Germany, England, Austria and Brazil. But we hope to get more people to come.

I also have planned a little bit interesting stuff in Billund (with a look behind the scenes) for the participants who are still there on the Monday after the event and like to participate.

You can find all information and also the registration form here.

Discuss it here.

CopMike

WhiteFang has made a great review of the Giant Chess set here!

Hi everyone!

You have been great with all the questions and activity in the Embassy ! I have tons of Q for TLG but not so many answers.

That depends on a couple of things:

* It´s been (& still is!) vacation time

* The amount of Q´s & requests coming in from a lot of people goes to a few who also need to find out information. So far this process isn´t really working.

* One of the projects for the Ambassadors is to finetune this process.

So what I´m saying is that all your input is highly appriciated, but it will take a while for the answers to get back to you.

Please put up with this and don´t lose faith in all of the TLG people & Ambassadors in trying to do great things happen !

CopMike

The Green Trooper has found a photo of a new Factory set, 10200 Custom Cars. Discuss it here!

Also, to help you get in the Olympic spirit, here's a stunning MOC of the stadium! Discuss it here!

To be realesed 11th of August:

Enjoy & discuss here.

CopMike

Here's a picture of the new Taj Mahal set, containing nearly 6000 pieces! Click here to discuss (and thanks to Christian for the news!)

UPDATE-From the LEGO cache:

There´s been a lot of questions about the different prices of LEGO around the world.

Here is an answer from Mads Nipper from TLG Corporate Management concerning the prices in the US compared to Europe:

Our selling costs in Europe and Asia are higher than in the US because of the size of US market and retailers (economies of scale). Furthermore, the US market is by far the most price competitive in the world. These factors combined mean that we have for years priced our products higher in eg Europe than the US. In recent years, the difference has been increased due to the weakening US dollar - but we have consciously decided not to let this (hopefully short term) weakening of the dollar hurt the US consumer. And in order to stay profitable as a company, we cannot decrease our European prices - especially seen in the light of increasing cost pressure on oil, labor etc. Finally, final pricing in the market place is obviously determined by retailers, which is something we cannot and will not influence.

Discuss it here.

CopMike

I put it up on YouTube for now, a direct link will follow soon.

4 MB of enjoyment for your viewing pleasure!!

CopMike

EDIT by Sinner: Full download is here. Be gentle; it's on my server.

UPDATE!

A longer and bigger video can be seen now, go to this post and follow the instructions !

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A video + several pictures of the upcoming LEGO Universe video game is now out on Gizmodo, thanks for the find Stauder !

Check it out here!

Picture linked from Gizmodo.

Discuss it here!

CopMike

Jim Butcher did a review on the 7676 Republic Attack Gunship and Dark Sword Ragnarok made a very in-depth review of the 7673 Magna Guard Starfighter. Also check our Town Forum where TheBrickster and Whitefang are releasing city reviews on a daily basis.

Pirate fans, check out our latest pictorial review of 6279 Skull Island by Metalandi.

It's no longer a secret what's inside this box. Discuss here.