OSR March 3rd

The next Old Set Review will officially be 7628 Peril in Peru from the 2008 Indiana Jones Kingdom of the Crystal Skull theme. It's been rather quiet with Lego news for the past week or so hasn't it! This is the Lego Spy, out.

MOC 1. Futuristic War SUV

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Here is my second (including my Futuristic Soldier MOC) MOC for Lego Spy. It's called a War SUV and I built it a few months ago when I just picked up a few pieces and started building (that's the great thing about Legos)! In the front it has a extended front bumper to protect it from obstacles or oncoming vehicles. On the sides and top it has 3 mounted double machine guns (there Lego! Sideways building since you seem to be desperate for it!) I did discover something cool while building this though, the 1x2 plate with two bars attached to the side can be pretty awesome (see picture below). In the back we have a pair of antennas for connecting to satellites in space to find enemy locations. There is also the strange coupling device, now why did I put that there? For the epic mini ATV of course! The ATV is equipped with two manned long-range machine guns, and a front mounted laser cannon (is it just me or dose that not fit?). I was amazed with how great the front of the ATV looks, the tinted clear driving compartment. Hope you liked my newest MOC! I plan to be posting more MOCs more often from now on. Also I have a special mini MOC theme I plan to be starting early March so stay tuned to Lego Spy.

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Lego Indiana Jones: 7625 River Chase

Today my Old Set Review will be for 7625 River Chase from Indiana Jones Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The set retailed for $19.99 (USD) and was released early 2008. This set includes 4 minifigures and 234 pieces. To start off this OSR I'll start with the minifigures. Marion Ravenwood: uncommon black hair piece, nice double sided head (smiling/scared), great tan jacket torso, and plain tan pants. Indiana Jones: well, you know, it's Indy :-). 2 Russian Soldiers: Some nice olive (?) green pieces for the body, and the heads are the same ones for all the Russian soldiers? The hats are a nice addition to any Lego collection.
The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull sets really are great, and they look really nice if you put them all together in one scene (I know this personally since I have all these sets), so I think this is one of the best subthemes that can be easily displayed in one scene! Anyway, back to the set: the tree is nice, lots of tree pieces for MOCs (lots of leaves too), the duckboat is very nice except for the fact that two minifigures can't sit in the chairs at once because they're too close together, and the Russian boat is nice too (you don't see many of this boat in gray). So it all adds up to a pretty nice set, a great addition to an Indiana Jones KotCS collection. This is the Lego Spy, out. ALSO BE SURE TO VOTE IN THE POLL FOR THE NEXT OSR ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THIS PAGE. You don't have to be logged into anything, just choose your answer and click "vote", it's that easy.

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Galaxy Squad Update

These so called scorpions shown at the German Toy Fair are actually Mosquitoid/Buggoid larvae. At the German Toy Fair they were sitting on the table portrayed as a sort of scorpion looking creature (pic 1.). But shown in the picture below (pic 2.) (from 70708's box art) they are obviously flying insect-like animals. So any opinion I had about the ant from Indiana Jones is automatically canceled out. :-) Sorry for confusing anyone!

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NY Toy Fair 2013 - Legends of Chima

Sorry this is a day late. Here is the large selection of Legends of Chima sets that were shown at the NY Toy Fair 2013. There are quite a few so let's go:
Sets:
70007 Eglor's Twin Bike $25.99
70008 Gorzan's Gorilla Striker $49.99
70009 Worriz's Combat Lair $69.99
79010 The Lion CHI Temple $119.99
Speedorz:
70104 Jungle Gates $14.99
70105 Nest Dive $14.99
70106 Ice Tower $14.99
70107 Skunk Attack* $14.99
70108 Royal Roost* $14.99
70109 Whirling Vines* $14.99
70110 Tower Target * $14.99
70111 Swamp Jump* $14.99
70114 Sky Joust* $??.??
Action Figure:
70200 Laval*
70201 Eris*
70202 Gorzan*
70203 Cragger*
70204 Worriz*
70205 Razar*
Games:
50006 Legends of Chima $19.99
*Brickipedia - If no "*" is shown: Brickset
**Price subject to change

Lot's of Chima stuff there! Looks interesting, a bunch of new tribes - foxes, gorillas, and skunks - so that should peak some people's interest. This is the Lego Spy, out.

NY Toy Fair 2013

Finally we get a bunch of new Lego news from the New York Toy Fair! There's a lot, so I'm not (obviously) going to put all the pictures of the sets on here but I'll put a few of my favorites (✰) on instead. So today we have Galaxy Squad, Star Wars, Games, Lord of the Rings, Castle, and The Lone Ranger (updates) (since, on this blog, I'm focusing mainly on sets with minifigures I will be not be including Hero Factory and Friends, click them for links to the pages with them). Let's start with Galaxy Squad, there was really only one whole new set shown, that was 70706 Crater Creeper, however the rest of 70708 Hive Crawler is now shown.
70706 Crater Creeper $19.99
70708 Hive Crawler $69.99 ✰
Now we have Star Wars (click for link to alternate images)! Lots of new stuff today, so let's get to it!
75015 Corporate Alliance Tank Droid $19.99
75017 Duel on Geonosis $39.99 ✰
75018 JEK-14's Stealth Starfighter $69.99
75019 AT-TE $89.99
75020 Jabba's Sail Barge $119.99
75021 Republic Gunship $119.99
75022 Mandalorian Speeder $24.99
75023 2013 Advent Calendar $39.99
Since the Games are kind of hard to distinguish I'll have a link to all of them on Toy Ark here.
Lord of the Rings has four new sets that look quite nice:
79005 The Wizard Battle  $12.99
79006 The Council of Elrond $29.99
79007 Battle at the Black Gate $59.99
79008 Pirate Ship Ambush $99.99 ✰
We also have the the new 2013 (constantly recurring) Castle theme! Only one set here that we didn't get a very good look at from the German Toy Fair so I thought I'd post the new image of:
70400 Forest Ambush!

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Click here to view the other 2013 Castle sets.
And last but not least we have a few updates on the Lone Ranger sets' prices:
79106 Calvary Builder Set......Real Price: $19.99 $12.99
79107 Comanche Camp.....Real Price: $29.99 $19.99
70109 Colby City Duel.....Real Price: $69.99 $49.99 ✰
79110 Silver Mine Shootout.....Real Price: $89.99 $59.99
79111 Constitution Train Chase......Real Price: $129.99 $99.99


These sets all look really great, I'll be covering Legends of Chima tomorrow. This is the Lego Spy, out. Now here are a few of my favorites (✰):
✰ The Hive Crawler from Galaxy Squad looks great, the wheels on the bottom make the legs move in a bug-like manner and shoots the included bug larvae eggs out of the back where the crack and release the creature!

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✰ Duel of Geonosis has some nice pieces, a Yoda (with new head), Count Dooku, and a brand new minifigure for Poggle the Lesser!

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✰ The new Lord of the Rings Pirate Ship Ambush comes with a large, fully detailed ship, ghost minifigures, and some great sails!

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✰ Colby City Duel's sheriff office is very large and well detailed, with a cannon to top it all off! It's other building, the bank, has an exploding wall and nice design!

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Lone Ranger Pictures!

It's been awfully quiet recently with Lego news hasn't it! Well we finally have a little something, this time it's Lego Lone Ranger pictures! We get three images, two for 79111 Constitution Train Chase and one for 79108 Stagecoach Escape ($29.99 MSRP). This is the Lego Spy, out.

Lego Spy February Forecast:

Sunday, February 10 - ?: Toy Fair 2013

Sunday, February 17: OSR Lego Indiana Jones 7625 River Chase

Before end of February: Lego Galaxy Squad 70701 Swarm Interceptor Review

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Constitution Train Chase (accessories) 

Stagecoach Escape (full set)