10222 Winter Village Post Office

Hello!

I am sorry that I have not written anything lately. I was doing some non-Lego business. Today I want to write (with some delay) about a new-released set, continuation of 10126 Winter Village Shop. This time this is a winter post office. It contains 820 parts and 7 minifigs. Behold the photos:



I like the instruments - saxophone and banjo, and the car very much.

Best regards, Dr Kilroy

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The best wishes from Dr Kilroy and Krzysztof



A christmas tree by PurpleDave

Best regards, Dr Kilroy

Train Set Contest

A next post from Krzysztof, only a bit outdated, but if someone wants to enter this contest, there are 6 days to deadline. :)

An user of KMFL forum - Maks announced a contest in the subject of Trains. Everyone can enter it. Here are contents of the task:

"The task is following: you have to design a set in a climate of Trains. It doesn't have to be a train, or either locomotive, could be a train station, platform, track-road vehicle, level crossing, etc. The playability is more important than the momentum of work or use of complicated techniques, you also can't exceed the maximum number of parts in set, which will be 300. I'll give three weeks for realisation of commission, if someone wants to buy parts, he'll do it. The lack of tracks also shouldn't bother - they can be successfully replaced by flexes or tiles placed on side. The prize will be minifigs of McGonagall and Dumbledore from HP theme. If the winning entry will get high, then the discussion will be started, whether the author should get the special prize. Selecting the winner will look like that:
Poll - 5 points for first place, 4 points for second, 3 points for third and so on till the fifth place and 1 point.
- jury rating (it will be either me alone or I'll ask 1-2 people) ditto - first place 5 points and so on. The totality of points given by jury and get in poll.(...)
The prize:



(...)So jury looks following: I [maks] and Volans (user very familiar with trains). I decided to extend the time, it counts since Wednesday the 7th July till Sunday 8th August. I want to wait till Wednesday, until more people will participate. Works should be published in the appropriate section of forum, and a link to the work in the contest topic. An arithmetic mean will be calculated from points given by jury, eg. I'll give 4 points and Volans will give 2, so 3 points will come out."
People from outside of KMFL forum who are willing to participate in the contest are invited to tell it to Maks by mail: maksymilian.majchrzak@wp.pl.

I write about this contest because it's quite interesting and there is a chance that some elegant work will emerge. ;-)

Best regards, Krzysztof.

Lego Castle 2010 - Kingdoms!

Kris Abel's blog gave us good quality photos of new Castle subtheme for year 2010 - it has to be called Kingdoms. There aren't many new parts (from what I see), but minifigs enchanted me. Well, why I'm telling you this, take a look at photos:

















I like the castle, this wooden tower and impulses. What do you like the most?

Regards, Dr

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Best wishes from entire team of Bricks in Suit.
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Christmas card by Athos.

New sets coming out in 2010

Welcome!

Eurobricks user, Whung, found few photos of boxes of new sets coming out in 2010. I found among them one quite elegant set and one, which can be regarded as such. The first is 3222:



We can't see very much on this photo, but limo is beautiful, and minifigs (especially the companion of this VIP :) ) look interesting. We don't know the prices yet.

The second is an impulse 7567:



Excellent selection of parts; a computer, a camera, a shoulder bag, ginger hair (those "modern"), my favourite minifig face, two suitcases, cheese slope 2x1 and two clear panels 1x2. We don't know the price of this set, too (probably about 4$).

More photos on Eurobricks and in Whung's gallery (after publication).

Regards, Dr Kilroy

New collectible minifigs coming out in 2010!

Welcome!

Eurobricks user, Sir Dano, found a photo of the collectible minifigs, which probably will be released in 2010:



If it's true, we will get a bunch of new parts and also some reactivated old ones. If someone doesn't know, I'll say who is who:

1. Cavemen,
2. Cheerleader,
3. Clown,
4. Adventurer,
5. Dummy,
6. Diver,
7. Indian,
8. Magician (ellegant!),
9. Ninja,
10. Nurse,
11. Forestman (!!!),
12. Robot,
13. Some rock musician, or something like that :) ,
14. Astronaut,
15. Wrestler,
16. Zombie.

My favourites are Forestmen, nurse and magician. If they really will be released, we will have a minifig revolution! What do you think?

Regards, Dr Kilroy

CCC VII!

The photo is the link. It started! Like always contest lasts 2 months - from 1 November to 31 December. I tell you, the prizes are attractive and categories are original and interesting this year.

Technological Advance

Create a scene with a device that changed medieval warfare, commerce, construction, manufacturing, or exploration.

Prize: used 6030 Catapult:




Alternate Universe

Build your own castle moc using pieces only from one official LEGO Castle theme set. Ideas include carts, inns, shops, stables, and towers. There is not a maximum baseplate size limit in this category.

Prize: used 6041 Armor Shop:




Medieval Mariner

Build a scene featuring life with the sea. Ideas include ships, seaports, lighthouses, etc.

Prize: used 6057 Sea Serpent:




Outlaw Escape

Build a scene showing your outlaws evading capture or breaking out of imprisonment. Ideas include a jailbreak, secret hiding places, or traveling in clever disguises.

Prize: used 6042 Dungeon Hunters:




Eastern Medieval Life

Create a medieval building that is not located in Western Europe.

Prize: new 1269 White Ninja and 3051 Blaze Attack:




Religious Life

Show how an event at or near a religious building influenced daily life in medieval times. Ideas include a wedding, feast day, pilgrimage, funeral, or coronation at a church, cathedral, mosque, temple, or monastery.

Prize: new (!) 6102 Castle Mini-Figures:




Training a Knight

Build three scenes depicting the training of a page and/or squire in order to become a knight.

Prize: 6067 Guarded Inn (!) & BrickArms Custom Practice Swords:

(I can't find swords photos :P )


Custom Castle Figure

Create a realistic or fantasy customized castle figure. You may use modified bricks, custom accessories, and/or stickers. Ideas include knights, monks, peasants, wizards, elves, and fairies.

Prize: new BrickArms Custom Prototypes


Miscellaneous

Does your castle creation not fit in one of our categories? Then enter it here! This category does not have a baseplate size limitation. Remember that you are still limited to three photographs, even for large creations.

Prize: used 12x4801 Defence Archer (!):




Brick Castle

Build a Castle that uses clay fired bricks as a major part of its architecture. Examples include the Castles at Gediminas, Malbork, Lida, and Mir. The minimum size of a castle should be 32x32 studs. There is not a maximum size limit in this category but keep in mind that you can only enter 3 photographs of your castle.

Prize: used 6073 Knight's Castle:




Fantasy Castle

Build a castle inspired by your favorite fantasy castle stories or factions. Include architectural features not often found in real castles. Possible ideas include cantilevered towers, tower bridges, and floating rocks. The minimum size of a castle should be 32x32 studs. There is not a maximum size limit in this category but keep in mind that you can only enter 3 photographs of your castle.

Prize: new 7097 Trolls' Mountain Fortess:




Master Builder

This prize will be awarded to the builder who enters 6 or more categories and has the highest score when their top six creation scores are averaged.

Prize: MISB 3739 Blacksmith Shop (!!!):




Are you going to enter? What do you think about prizes and categories?

Regards, Dr Kilroy

New Modular House?

Eurobricks user - legomilk - reported us, that in the March 2010 will be realeased a new Exclusive set - 10211 Grand Emporium. It will be a corner tenement, a big store. It will contain 2182 parts and on S@H will cost 149,99$. Other informations: it will be grey-black-yellow with large amount of windows. There aren't any photos. :( However I know, it will be similiar to buildings from those photos:






What do you think?

Regards, Dr Kilroy

New exclusive set - Imperial Flagship!

A new post from Krzysztof, Exclusives expert:

Welcome, on 1 January 2010 a new Exclusive set - Imperial Flagship (10210) will be released.



The ship consists of 1664 parts, includes 9 minifigs: capitain, his daughter, pirate capitains with handcuffs, cooker, lieutenant and 4 soldiers. Underboard (I'm not sure about translation) includes 4 cannons, boxes with ammunition, cannon balls, muskets etc. and 3 lanterns, bottles, treasure chests, a prison with a rat, a kitchen with food and other details.

The ship can be divided into 3 parts. On the sailboard we can find 6 windows, a raised and lowered anchor and steering wheel. Dimensions of the historic ship are: 75 cm long and 60 cm tall. Ages: 14+.



Prices: US $179.99, CA $229.99, UK £ 139.99, DE € 149.99.

It's worth to wait for those constructions. IMO it's the best Lego ship ever produced. An amount of details, great colors, realistic look, large dimensions, large amount of bricks and number of minifigs are the greatest advantages of this set. I'll certainly buy it. ;-)

More photos here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/sets/72157622380736163/
And here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=404065

Winter Toy Shop already on sale!

Message from Legofan:



Welcome!

Winter Toy Shop (10199) is already on sale on SaH: LINK
It's on the first place on my shopping list.

For 60$ we get 7 minifigs and 815 parts. IMO this is the best Lego Christmas set ever released.
In this set we can also get some rare and new parts: star on the largest Christmas tree, DkTan tiles, two carol singers' heads and black 1x2x3 windows.

You can find more photos in first link.

P.S. I'm a new co-blogger on Bricks in suit. :-)

Welcome!

Here is a translated message from Krzysztof (Sprinter), who's a new co-blogger on Polish version of blog:

I cheerfully welcome you all, who are reading our blog. I have a pleasure to tell you I'm a new co-blogger. User of KMFL, Legofan join us, too.

I hope you'll like our posts and informations posted here.

End of Krzysztof's message. Of course I will translate and post here all messages written by our new co-bloggers.

Metroliner monorail, small article about monorail and announcement

BBroich transformed a famous set - 4558 Metroliner to a monorail train:



A photo is a link to gallery, you can find there few nice monorail trains.

Now when we start talking about monorail, I'll tell you a few words about it. This system was used first time in 1987 in Space set - 6990 Monorail Transport System:



System is based on track with one rail in the middle of it. It's underpined by brackets. It needs a special motor. Now these parts are very rare and expensive. IMHO the best monorail set is 6399 Airport Shuttle:



And announcement: I'll propably employ two co-bloggers - Legofan and Sprinter94 (Krzysztof) from KMFL (Polish Young Lego Fans Club).