LEGO has announce the opening of LEGO stored in Utah, Texas, Missouri, and Connecticut. While a Grand Opening date, and time are not yet available, announcement, though hidden under a couple of layers of minutia reveals that the UTAH LEGO Store will be house in the fashion place mall in Murray.

Yes I know, I didn’t believe it either, and if the screen cap above doesn’t prove it to you you can get to the news by clicking the link below,

http://stores.lego.com/en-us/?ignorereferer=true

and select the News link (about the middle of the page) for Stores opening in 2012

Lego confirmed today that the Red Five X-Wing Starfighter will be the next addition to the growing UCS lineup.

The latest iteration of the X-Wing:

• measures over 10″ high, 20″ long, and 18″ wide;
• Includes 1558 pieces
• includes an R2-D2 astromech driod.
• Will be available May 2013 (just in time for May the Force) from LEGO Shop At Home
  
• and will cost $199.99 US

*Update: The Designer video has now been released as well

The latest addition to the popular modular building series (now part of the creator expert line) is available to LEGO VIP members. So if your not already a LEGO VIP, go sign up
it’s got great perks like early access to Sets, and points you can redeem for free sets later on. and then Get your copy of the Palace Cinema

Official LEGO news has been slow of late, so there hasn’t been much to post here, or is there? One of ULUG’s newest members Quinn Rollins was unsatisfied with the available offering of Official LEGO Batman figs, and has built some of his own

I’m not usually one for custom figures, So much so that I cringe when my kids try to tell me how I can customize the figs we have with a sharpie. But these are diffident, you can tell this is not grade school boys with sharpies.

So you bought those some of the new LEGO TMNT sets and now that they’ve run around the streets and sewers you want to make them into something else. We’ll LEGO has given us the answer; An alternate build for each and every current set. You can check them out below, and download the instructions as well.
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79105 Alt Build_Scorpion_Final

79104 Alt Build_Hot Rod_Final

79102 Alt Build_Jail Transport_Final

79101 Alt Build_Digger_Final

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