It's that time of the year for the London Toy Fair and for the 4th year running we have found someone who is attending and has offered to send us info, do massive thanks to Twitter user cakeinmilk (Barry). As in previous years, photos are not allowed so we will rely on Barry's eyes to get as much detail as possible. He is due to be shown round from 11am.
Next up after London is Nuremburg which starts Wednesday and our German friends Promobricks will be there, followed by the New York Toy Fair which should be covered by one of our American friends. Let's see if we can beat last year's record-breaking traffic day!
Ok, Barry has now been to the
LEGO Booth and this is what he has had to say below... one thing noted is
LEGO have also been more secretive this year;
Marvel
- 76057-Web warrior’s bridge battle - £99.99
Spiderman, Spider-Girl, Scarlet Spider, Aunt May, Green Goblin, Scorpion. Comes with a NY taxi falling through a hole in a bridge.
- 76058 – Ghost Rider team up - £19.99
Spiderman, Ghost Rider, Hobgoblin. Hobgoblin’s jet thing and a huge bike (about the size of Wyldstyle’s bike) for Ghost Rider. Normal chain pieces in trans-flame colour.
- 76059 Doc Ock’s tentacle trap - £44.99
Spiderman, Doc Ock (classic), White Tiger, Captain Stacey (with the 12th doctor’s hair), Vulture
and giant Doc Ock mech
- Unnumbered Doctor Strange set - £34.99
Vignette-style build set in Doctor Strange’s lab. with bookshelves, a table, and a portal with a red tentacled demon beast coming through. Sanctum Sanctorum probably. Can’t tell which minifigs, but someone holding a chain with a trans-orange radar dish, and someone holding two fans.
DC
- 76054 Scarecrow’s harvest of fear - £59.99
Scarecrow, a farmer, anti-gas Batman and Killer Moth (at last!) features a Bat-copter and Scarecrow’s combine harvester vehicle.
- 76055 Killer Croc’s sewer smash - £69.99
Bigifg Killer Croc (doesn’t look like it has a hinged jaw, and no chains), Captain Boomerang, Red Hood (printed face), Katana
- 70724 – LEGO Juniors Batman and Superman vs Lex Luthor - £29.99
Nothing new here. grey/blue Batman and old Superman. Lex Luthor with his green armour piece he’s had before.
Star Wars
A bit of a let down this year, with repeated builds and uninspired new vehicles from the
LEGO Star Wars TV show. Lots of minifigs here were obscured and/or not named, including on the calendar.
- 75145 Eclipse Fighter - £34.99
2 minifigs
- 75147 Star Scavenger - £49.99
4 minifigs, comes with a salvage mini vehicle.
- 75148 Encounter on Jakku - £49.99
The scene from Force Awakens where Teedo on a Luggabeast snares BB-8 (that’s a ridiculous sentence). comes with Unkar Plutt, Rey, BB-8, Teedo and a brick built luggabeast.
- 75149 Resistance x-wing fighter - £79.99
4 minifigs. basically a recolouring of 75102
- 75150 Darth Vadar’s Tie Advanced - £79.99
Comes with a solid looking tie advanced and an A-wing that shoots. 4 minifigs.
- 75151 clone turbo tank - £99.99
built-in handle and some decent suspension. 6 minifigs.
- 75147 Captain Rex’s AT-TE walker - £99.99
5 minifigs. complete rebuild from previous versions. More robust.
City - Volcano Explorers
Volcano Explorers theme. Uses the rock/ice pieces as volcanic rock with a crystal element inside. Very lime with some yellow.
- 60120 volcano starter set - £8.99
- 60121 exploration truck - £14.99
- 60122 volcano crawler - £24.99
- 60123 volcano supply helicopter - £39.99
- 60124 volcano research base - £79.99
Comes with a small volcano (built from big ugly rock pieces) with an exploding function, mobile exploration vehicle, mineral analyser drill thing on small caterpillar tracks. the drill piece is a new element.
City - Airport
- 60104 Passenger Terminal - £79.99
Blue and grey with new wings.
- 60100 starter set - £8.99
4 minifigs
- 60102 vip service - £39.99
4 stud wide white limo and a private jet.
- 60103 airshow - £69.99
6 minifigs in a stunt show. a couple of red arrow looking planes with a new thin cockpit piece, and a female stunt performer riding an orange bi-plane.
- 60101 cargo place - £17.99
Creator
Disney Princess
- 41067 Belle’s Enchanted Castle
Mostly big panels, but some nice printed pieces to make up the various characters. Mrs Pott, Cup, Cogsworth, Lumiere and a removable headpiece for the Beast character.
Friends
Nexo Knights
Continues to be really creative builds and good characters with nice app integration.
Ninjago
Has a day of the departed theme. Everyone is celebrating the fallen goodies and baddies, and the baddies decide to resurrect. Suitably ridiculous plot.
Bionicle
This year has a simpler storyline as kids were getting confused. will come with 4x 22min Netflix movies.
Elves
The second half 2016 sets come with interesting cowl headpieces for the elves.
Techinc
Some excellent stuff to look forward to, but the highlight of the Toy Fair for Barry has to be the Duplo Exo Suit. Massive thanks to Barry for sending the info, please note he did not attend in an official capacity for the site just offered to send us as he was already attending.
There was no coverage on Mixels, only one Minecraft set and Angry Birds was just showing what we have already seen.
To finish our coverage for now, here are some photos from Barry:
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