The 2010 sets just keep popping up. I found out about these over at Eurobricks.

LEGO Space Police Raid VPR 5981

LEGO Space Smash ‘n’ Grab 5982

They both look like pretty cool sets. With the new alien in LEGO Space Police Raid and the purple elements in Smash and Grab I’m definitely adding them to my want list. According to Amazon.com they will be released January 1st.

If this year is anything like past years however, I have a sneaky suspicion that a great deal of these “leaked” sets that are due to release in January will more than likely start showing up on the the shelves just around Christmas time. (This is just my personal opinion, not a fact).

One thing that I think is pretty funny about the new Smash and Grab set is what the alien is trying to steal — an ATM embedded in an asteriod (at least I think that’s what the set designers were going for).

You can see a zoomed-up version of the picture at Amazon.com Update: And if you look really closely you will see the new 1×3 tiles on the front. (Thanks Bruce for pointing that out)

Tomorrow I’ll preview some of next year’s Creator line so stay tuned.

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“Jake and Jack sacrifice, money health and family to make a bold artistic statement. This was 3 years of our lives sweating and bleeding and scraping by making an independent movie…here’s the trailer i hope you enjoy.”

It seems like it was worth it.

BrickWorld 2009 was for the most part, a great success. The real highlight was the Micropolis, and the Space display, for me. Space has died ever since Brickfest ‘06, however, this year, Starfighters and SHIP’s ruled the half the tables of AMCP display. Castle was a little disappointing this year, but it was still cool since Peter brought along his castle. The vendors were expensive as usual. This year, there were not as many trains, which is a good thing and a bad thing for many people. All in all, a great convention with a staggering 556 attendees. 

^That wasn’t even all of the SHIP’s. There were two more.

Now, all we have to do is start preparing for BrickWorld 2010. Next year, we have the whole hotel.

I’ve never done a set review on Eurobricks before, mainly because someone else got to the set before I did. I recently found several of the Space Police III sets at Toys ‘R’ Us (along with the new Agents, Town, and Power Miners) and decided to get the Squidman Escape. When I checked Eurobricks I noticed that no one had reviewed it yet, so I decided to give it a go.

As soon as I saw the head, I thought that it would look better like this:

It’s not a bad set, but not that great either. Mainly I got it for the Squidman, you can read the full review here.

Here a few videos showing the new LEGO Star Wars, Agents, and Creator sets at Toy Fair 2009.

No onions aka Ace Kim of FBTB has a whole slew of images on Flickr covering Power Miners, Bionicle, Mindstorms, Racers, Space Police, Castle, City, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars.

In 1989, Lego released the “Space Police” theme which marked the beginning of the greatest period of success for the company. I was a little to young to enjoy the designs of this series but I managed to catch the “Space Police II” theme which came out across 1992 to 1993.  Now, it was pretty recently announced that Lego is coming out with a new ‘Space Police’ line this summer and pictures have been released of some of the new sets on display at a Canadian toy fair.

 Space truckers!

Also, Playmates (poor name choice for a toy company) is re-releasing their original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures with the original blister packaging. Lots of nostalgia in this one.