LEGO has officially revealed the next LEGO Ideas set to come to store shelves with The Insect Collection (21342). Releasing on September 4 for VIPs/Insiders, the set has 1,111 pieces and will retail for $79.99. The set will feature a few insects along with their respective stands which include the blue morpho butterfly, honeybee, Hercules beetle, Chinese Mantis, and seven-spotted ladybug. There will also be a new Green Noise playlist that you can listen to while building the set. LEGO® IDEAS THE INSECT COLLECTION – CAMPAIGN PRODUCT PRESS RELEASE Unveiling the LEGO® Green Noise Playlist: The LEGO Group launches Green Noise Playlist to celebrate an unbug-lieveable new set • Introducing the LEGO® Ideas The Insect Collection, originally conceived by LEGO fan José Maria, from Spain. • To celebrate the launch, the LEGO Group unveils Green Noise, a new nature-inspired ASMR playlist with LEGO clicks and sounds reimagined as the unique sounds...

LEGO has announced a new program launching on August 21 called LEGO Insiders replaces the existing LEGO VIP Program and rewards you for playing. You can consolidate your LEGO accounts into one single account and everything will transfer over to LEGO Insiders, including VIP points. Your existing points are not going away. They will be rolled over to the new program. Fans can earn points by participating in activities, purchasing sets on LEGO.com, in participating LEGO Stores, and in Target in the USA. Members can now also earn points by registering previously purchased sets via the unique QR code on the building instructions and cataloguing them on their account. Points can be spent in the LEGO Insiders Reward Center for discounts on sets, member-only merchandise, sweepstakes entries (in select countries) for cool collectibles, and more. Some of the perks include early access to sets, exclusive content, digital family fun, play ideas...

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour by donnydings is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build features 2,974 pieces and it features a stage that Taylor Swift would use during her concerts. It also proposes 10 different Taylors, one from each of her eras, as well as her guitarist and four backup dancers. This is the fourth Taylor Swift project that have reached the goal in this Review Stage. The project joins “Big Boy” Locomotive, Retro Arcade, Spartan Helmet of Leonidas, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider, The Muppet Show, Red Bull Racing F1 Team RB18 1:12, Scooby Doo Mystery Machine, Western River Steamboat, Dreamwork’s Shrek Swamp, Asterix & Obelix, Venice, Stilt House, Red Bull RB18, Trojan Horse, Red Dwarf: Sleeping Quarters, TaleSpin Seaduck Meeting Seagull, Stud Lane Book Nook, Minifigure Gumball Machine, Greenhouse, Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Box: Dark Magician vs Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Phineas and Ferb Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc.,...

The new LEGO Marvel Studios Collectible Minifigures Series 2 (71039) officially comes out in a few weeks and the most glaring issue with them is that they are packaged in boxes. This means that you won’t be able to feel out the characters like we’ve been doing so for years. In addition, the layouts of full boxes look to be all random so listing them on how they are set won’t help that much. Luckily, LEGO has provided some clues on the boxes themselves. Underneath the box is your standard UPC code and next to it is a stamp with some random numbers. This is the secret to finding the ones you want. Each character has their unique five digit stamp along with the serial number run below it. Even though some of the characters have the same top number, the bottom numbers are substantially far from the other one. I’ve...

LEGO has announced that there will be signings for the upcoming LEGO Harry Potter Gringotts Wizarding Bank – Collectors’ Edition (76417). LEGO designers George Gilliatt, Justin Ramsden, and Peter Kjaergaard will be traveling across Europe to various LEGO Stores for a signing tour. There you can meet them and have the set signed as well. • Leicester Square, London – 9/1 – 15:00-17:00• Paris Les Halles, France – 9/2 – 11:00-13:00• Amsterdam, Netherlands – 9/3 – 10:00-12:00• Arkadia, Warsaw, Poland – 9/4 – 17:00-19:00• Parquesur, Madrid, Spain – 9/9 – 10:00-12:00• San Babila, Milan, Italy – 9/10 – 10:00-12:00• Lisbon, Portugal – 9/16 – 10:00-12:00 George, Justin and Peter are super excited to announce the Gringotts Wizarding Bank Signing Tour! Catch us in 7 different LEGO Stores across Europe, have a chat and get your new Gringotts set signed See you in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Madrid, Milan and Lisbon #LEGO...