Welcome to Batman Week everyone! This Saturday, September 17th marks Batman Day 2022. You know, Batman Day? The most beloved superhero holiday of the year? Where we all gather on moonlit rooftops to read comics and brood by gargoyles? Alright, maybe it’s not that universal a day – not yet anyway. But we here at True North Bricks are big
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Back in June 2022, the LEGO® Group revealed the latest collection of collectible Minifigures. Officially numbered as 71034, LEGO.com lists each blind bag as costing $4.99 CAD. With 12 characters to find, the blind bags hit store shelves on September 1, 2022. However, we’ve got an early look ready for you today. The LEGO® Group sent True North Bricks a
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Not long ago, we shared changes to the Super Mario characters packs. At the time, we noted that Minifigure blind bags remained unchanged. That is no longer true. Minifigure packaging is changing, folks. Essentially, the days of feeling minifig packets are gone. The LEGO® Group is moving to cardboard boxes starting in September 2023. Therefore, the next couple Minifigure series
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Hot on the heels of LEGO® Con 2022, Minifigures Series 23 was revealed! If you checked out our LEGO® Con coverage, you know designers were on board to to reveal three characters from the upcoming collection. However, within hours of LEGO® Con ending, the official site for the event published a photo of the complete series 23. Interestingly, the product
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Ahsoka Tano is one of the best new, and now legacy, characters in Star Wars. I will defend that hill with everything I got! But in all likelihood, many fans agree with me. At the very least, she is a character that is now entrenched in the franchise and has played a pivotal role in the lore thus far. Ahsoka
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Star Wars Week continues with an all-new Minifigure Monday. Yesterday we took a look at the 10 Biggest Star Wars sets. For today’s installment, I will be giving you all a look at my Star Wars troopers minifigure collection. I am all about the minifigures, but for a theme like Star Wars, I tend to narrow my focus to just
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It’s time to play the music. It’s time to light the lights. The LEGO® Group just announced that Muppets Minifigures are coming soon! While rumors circulated for several weeks now, and the LEGO® Group themselves teased the series, today we finally get clear images of the upcoming characters. The series consists of 12 Minifigures, each retailing for $4.99 in Canada.
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For thirteen weeks spanning the end of 2021 and going into 2022, I shared my Brickstock Fantasy Minifigures Series as part of Minifigure Monday. The latter celebrates the classic LEGO® minifig in all its glorious forms. However, I decided to take a shot at designing my own characters for this series. Each character was based on a recording artist that
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Welcome back to another edition of Minifigure Monday. This is a weekly column where I share some of my art inspired by the LEGO® Minifigure. We are now on week nine of my Fantasy Minifigure Series. I am drawing some of my favorite music entertainers in Minifigure form. I will draw twelve of them as if this was going to
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It is Minifigure Monday, a day on which we celebrate the LEGO® Minifigure! For the last few weeks, I have been revealing my Fantasy Minifigure series. The collection showcases my favorite musical artists from over the years. So far, we have seen Build On, #FreeBRICKney, and Brick It Up. This week, I unveil the Fantasy Minifigure Series Hollabrick Girl. I
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