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The latest issue of KZone comes with a LEGO Harry Potter tin that fits a DS.

Urbabe is incredibly excited about the release of LEGO Harry Potter (the video game), but I'm not so keen. Just don't love Harry Potter that much. How about you?

Well if you are keen to get the game, you can get it from play-asia. The game is region free on the following platforms PS3 , PSP, PC and DS and at these prices it does make it worthwhile to get it from overseas.

There's also the Japanese and US versions of the 360 game which are not known to be region free yet.

The game comes out at some point in June, so you'll have to... wait.

I don't know anything about Harry Potter so it makes it hard to put in witty references to it.

With the Minifig Collection coming out just around the corner, LEGO have brought out a Minifig minisite. The site contains wallpapers, posters, games and so on, but it also contains bios for each of the Series 1 Minifigs.

Each bio contains a quote, a history and ratings for Strength, Creativity and Speed. It's all a bit silly, but there are some funny ones and some really odd ones...

For instance Quote:

The Deep Sea Diver loves the water and can often be found swimming around in fish tanks and bathtubs, hoping to spot rare and exotic fish.

Brickset is reporting (as have others) that there looks to be something interesting happening in 2010. Seems that LEGO might be releasing the above 16 figures in a lucky dip style opaque bag. While the details are a bit hazy, the collection might be released in June 2010 and certainly the minifigs look cool. And word is it would last a month and be followed by 16 new minifigs.

It's not clear where the sets will be sold or how it would work. Brickset has updated it's info to include the following
Quote:

We're seeing information from a number of sources that suggest each bag will contain a selection of parts from across the range of the 16 figures, and not a specific figure as had previously been supposed. So a single bag you buy might contain the Clown's hair, the Zombie's head, the Robot's body, and the Cheerleader's legs.

But we'll see. I like the idea of random minifigs, but not sure about not being able to build a specifc minifig from the parts of one bag. That's assuming that we'll be able to get them outside Europe.

LEGO Rock Band, while it has been released in the US, is yet to be released here. Rather than just import it from Play-asia, I decided to get it from JB Hi-Fi, because... well I suppose I need another LEGO minifig key-ring. So I'll have to wait another week or so...

Anyway, the opening video looks awesome...

And whilst watching it, I was trying to figure how the bus was put together. But nicely LEGO Club has released the instructions. (via
FBTB has releasedinstructions for the LEGO Rock Band Bus.

Looks great.

The full track listing for LEGO Rock Band has been announced. All the tracks can be exported to Rock Band 2 for $9.99 (800 Microsoft Points). Looks like fun. The game seems to be going up against Band Hero in terms of mood/track listing.

All American Rejects, “Swing, Swing”
The Automatic, “Monster”
Blink-182, “Aliens Exist”
Blur, “Song 2”
Bon Jovi, “You Give Love a Bad Name”
Boys Like Girls, “Thunder”
Bryan Adams, “Summer of 69”
Carl Douglas, “Kung Fu Fighting”
The Coral, “Dreaming of You”
Counting Crows, “Accidentally in Love”
David Bowie, “Let’s Dance”
Elton John, “Crocodile Rock”
Europe, “The Final Countdown”
Everlife, “Real Wild Child”
Foo Fighters, “Breakout”
Good Charlotte, “Girls & Boys”
The Hives, “Tick Tick Boom!”
Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”
Incubus, “Dig”
Jackson 5, “I Want You Back”
Jimi Hendrix, “Fire”
Kaiser Chiefs, “Ruby”
Katrina & The Waves, “Walking on Sunshine”
The Kooks, “Naïve”
KoRn, “Word Up!”
KT Tunstall, “Suddenly I See”
Lostprophets, “Rooftops”
P!NK, “So What”
The Police, “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
The Primitives, “Crash”
Queen, “We Are The Champions”
Queen, “We Will Rock You”
Rascal Flatts, “Life is a Highway”
Ray Parker Jr., “Ghostbusters”
Razorlight, “Stumble and Fall”
Spin Doctors, “Two Princes”
Spinal Tap, “Short & Sweet”
Steve Harly, “Make Me Smile”
Sum 41, “In Too Deep”
Supergrass, “Grace”
T-Rex, “Ride a White Swan”
Tom Petty, “Free Fallin”
Vampire Weekend, “A-Punk”
We the Kings, “Check Yes Juliet”
The Zutons, “Valerie”

Oh and Destructoid has a preview of the game which looks awesome.

Iggy Pop and David Bowie will appear as playable characters in LEGO Rock Band according to USAToday. The article also adds a new song to the track listing Bowie's Let's Dance (Iggy's The Passenger was already known to be in the game).

You can see what Bowie looks like as a minifig at RockBandAide. Don't think I've seen a minifig with different coloured eyes. I hope that LEGO puts out Rock Band sets, but they probably won't.
But at around the same time as LEGO Rock Band comes out according to Model Building Secrets, Hazel's Amazing Armory is producing custom minifig guitars so that your minifigs can rock out.

The pack will be available at the Custom Minifig Store Novermber 15 for US$20 and will come with 8 guitars and 2 hardcases in a cool looking box.

According to TBB, as of mid 2010, LEGO will be placing the Pirate theme on hiatus. Which is a real shame everyone loves Pirates. Anyway, LEGO have announced that the Imperial Flagship will be available Jan 1, 2010. And it looks like more than a match for Brick Beards Bounty. The flagship contains 1,664 pieces (and is 75cm long and 60cm tall) compared to the bounty's 592 pieces (56cm long and 44cm tall).

Here's the dot points about it:
- Includes 9 minifigures: the ship’s captain, his daughter, a pirate captain prisoner with shackles, the ship’s cook, a lieutenant, and 4 soldiers!
- Amazingly detailed and realistic ship features 3 removable sections!
- Main hull contains 4 firing cannons, ammunition crates, muskets, torches, cannonballs, prison with a rat, saw shark figurehead, a moving rudder and a fully-equipped ship’s kitchen with fish, turkey legs and a carrot!
- Raise and lower the working anchor!
- Open the front deck’s working doors and play inside!
- Imperial Flagship is equipped with masts and rigging!
- Open the back house deck’s doors to reveal the captain’s chambers complete with a map, poison bottle, organ and even a treasure chest filled with jewels and gold!
- Features 6 opening windows, a telescope and sextant as well as 3 deck lanterns!
- Measures 29.5” (75 cm) long and 23.6” (60 cm) tall!

There's a whole lot of images at Classic Pirates.

Kmart is celebrating Bricktober with a competition. From now until the 29th of October, when you spend $20 or more twice, you could be in the running for a trip to LEGOland California (for 2 adults, 2 children) , staying at a ritzy hotel. You need to register at the Bricktober website, and follow the instructions there. Apparently the trip for the family involves writing a caption contest.

There's also some extra prizes to be won, namely:
50 Space Police K-9 Bot sets from 24 September to 7 October 2009
50 Red Brick key chains from 8-14 October 2009
50 Indiana Jones key chains from 15-21 October 2009
50 Darth Vader "limited edition metallic minifigs" 22-29 October 2009

The full details are outlined in the terms and conditions. Sadly the terms and conditions contain errors such as "Participants will also have the option to select a LEGO® Minifigure as their online character. This is not a mandatory requirement. If a LEGO® Minifigure is not selected, one will be randomly selected." however if you don't choose an avatar (which seems to have no purpose), it won't accept your registration.

To be honest, the instructions on the main website state that ALL you need to enter your details, choose a username and password, select a minifig and "Submit every LEGO® product purchase (values at $20 or more) from Kmart during Bricktober on this site." but there's a bit more to it than that. Shame that it's so complex.

Anyway... shouldn't babble. Good Luck!

According to the Telegraph, the LEGO house that James May built is to be knocked down. The house was built as part for James May's Toy Stories but had no planning permission (it was meant to be temporary). Apparently, plans to move the 3.3 million brick house to LEGOland Windsor fell through, because it turned out that it would cost £50,000.

You can see photos of the house here and photos of it being demolished here. But of course the point of LEGO is that you build and then rip it apart. But what else could you build with 3.3 million bricks?

But what of the bricks? According to the Tele, they'll be donated to charity. According to Model Building Secrets, it was the largest unglued LEGO structure ever built.

Ahoy, yarr and all that. Today be Talk like a Pirate day and there be plenty of pirate booty ready to be dug up if you be willing to go after it.

First off, ye can get Tales o' Monkey Island Episode for free. For free I tells ya. Tis' madness. They be gi'in' it away, the scallywags. Set sail to Play Like a Pirate for the details.

Next ya can hornswaggle Lucasarts out of The Secrect of Monkey Island SE. You can get the booty for half thar doubloons you'd normally be paying those bilge-rats at Steam, Direct2Drive, and the Apple App Store (fruit aint in no pirates stinking diet).

So what ye be waiting for? Go get some booty now (or when it's talk like a pirate day in the Caribbean).

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