Its that time of the year for the London toy Fair and 4th year running our roaming reporter Barry is covering it for us here at Brick Fanatics. As 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.

The good news is we will be back on Tuesday so ask any questions as Barry and Adam who is going Tuesday will try their best to answer as many as possible. Next up after London is Nuremburg which starts Weds and our German friends Promobricks will be there, followed by the New York which should be covered by one of our American friends. Lets see if we can beat last years recording breaking traffic day!

Ok Barry has been to the LEGO Booth and this is what he has had to say, one thing noted is LEGO have been more secretive this year;

Marvel

76057-Web warrior’s bridge battle – £99.99
Spiderman, Spider girl, Scarlet spider, aunt May, Green Goblin, Dcorpion. 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 jnrs 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 letdown this year, with repeated builds and uninspired new vehicles from the lego sw 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 – £29.99
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

31049 Dual Rotor Helicopter – £19.99
31051 Cape Lighthouse – £39.99
Brick built large killer whale. The lighthouse lights up and detaches from the rest of the set.
31052 Vacation Getaways – £49.99
Big white and blue RV with fold out awning and a brick built bear.
31053 tree house adventures – £24.99
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

41123 Foal’s Washing Station – £8.99
41124 Puppy Daycare – £24.99
41125 Horse Trailer – £34.99
41126 Horse Riding Club – £49.99
41127 Amusement Park Arcade – £12.99
41128 Amusement Park Space Ride – £17.99
Uses a friendified version of the classic space logo on a purple/azure ride.
41129 Amusement Park Hot Dog Stand – £24.99
Has the hot dog buns seen in an angry birds set and a cool looking hot dog shaped vehicle.
41130 Amusement Park Roller Coaster – £89.99
Azure rails and 4 figs
Nexo Knights

Continues to be really creative builds and good characters with nice app integration.

70318 The Glob Lobber – £7.99
70319 Macy’s Thunder Mace – £17.99
70320 Aaron’s Aero Striker – £29.99
This looks and functions like a hand-held crossbow.
70321 General Magmar’s Siege Machine – £34.99
70322 Axl’s Tower Carrier
The tower flies off and a catapult comes out.
70323 Jestro’s Volcano Lair – £99.99
A red and black demonic castle looking thing with various traps. 4 minifigs.
70336 Ultimate Axl – £6.99
70337 Ultimate Lance – £6.99
70338 Ultimate General Magmar – £6.99
70339 Ultimate Flama – £6.99
With a flame leg-replacement piece that looked new.
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.

70588 Titanium Ninja Tumbler – £24.99
70589 Cole’s Rock Raider – £34.99
70591 Kryptarium Breakout – £17.99
70592 Ronin Mec – £34.99
70593 Lloyd’s Green Dragon – £39.99
70594 Lighthouse Siege Defense – £59.99
70595 Stealth Raider 2.0 – £79.99
Rebuild of an earlier set where a huge white vehicle can split into 4 vehicles.
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.

41177 Precious Crystal Mine – £24.99
41179 Queen Dragon’s Rescue – £59.99
41178 Dragon Sanctuary – £34.99
41180 Ragana’s Magic Shadow Castle
Techinc

42053 Volvo EW – £69.99
Pneumatic digger
42054 Class Xerion 5000 Trac – £119.99
Looks like it comes with new huge tires.
42055 Bucket Wheel Excavator – £179.99
Largest ever technic set at over 3000 pieces
42056 Confidential Technic Ultramotive – £249.99
Some front-engined confidential sportscar build similar to the mclaren (might be a Mclaren?)
Some excellent stuff to look forward to, but the highlight of the toyfair for Barry has to be the Duplo exo-suit. Any questions please ask below and Barry will do his best to answer and if Adam attends Tuesday he can seek clarification. Massive thanks to Barry for covering it for us.