They are here! 2008 Technic sets:

The long awaited Technic sets (see below) have finally arrived on LEGO S@H

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The guys over at TechnicBRICKs.blogspot also compared the prices of all these new sets for every country

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Austria	EUR	34,99	49,99	89,99	109,99
Belgium	EUR	34,99	51,99	82,99	109,99
Finland	EUR	33,95	69,95	99,95	121,95
France Metropolitan	EUR	34,99	59,99	79,99	109,99
Germany	EUR	34,99	49,99	89,99	109,99
Ireland	EUR	34,99	59,99	89,99	139,99
Italy	EUR	32,99	49,99	79,99	109,99
Luxembourg	EUR	34,99	51,99	82,99	121,95
Netherlands	EUR	34,99	51,99	82,99	109,99
Portugal	EUR	34,95	49,95	79,95	109,95
Spain	EUR	34,95	49,95	79,95	109,95
Denmark	DKK	249,75	499,00	799,00	899,00
Sweden	SEK	299,50	629,00	999,00	1.099,00
Switzerland	CHF	59,00	89,00	145,00	179,00
United Kingdom	GBP	24,99	39,99	59,99	89,99
Australia	AUD	49,99	79,99	129,99	179,99
New Zealand	NZD	49,99	99,99	149,99	199,99
Canada	CAD	39,99	74,99	109,99	149,99
United States	USA	29,99	59,99	89,99	119,99

I also noticed that Lego UK have lowered their prices for the snowmobile by £6 and the tractor by £12. looks like im going to be spending my birthday money after all!

Read more HERE

Golden Lego Bricks

As we all know, Lego turns 50 this year and to celebrate they've produced a bunch of "gold" bricks as a free gift with purchase of over $50.

The new set, "Town Plan" also includes three 2 by 2 golden bricks as well as a letter from company owner Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, who appeared on the original town plan box when he was much younger and returns on this one.

They've also produced a nice little anniversary site with a historical overview of their products.

You can read more about this on the Lego site

-Airkraft

Farewell Crawler Crane!

The Crawler Crane Set 8288 has finaly been phased out of production here in the uk.
This is a sad day for me! I realy wanted this set, but it seams i shall have to buy it from somewhere else if i can find it.

If you know of anywhere that has any in stock, preferably in the UK, please get in contact.



Airkraft

Brand New RFID sensor (codatex)

Lots of people have made RFID sensors for the NXT, but at last, there’s an “official” third party product. LEGO has announced yesterday an official partnership with Codatex producing the NXT RFID Sensor seen below. The package contains a sensor and two tags, with holes matching Technic pegs.

Features:

• Reads 125 kHZ transponders of type EM4102
• 5 bytes number, i.e. 240 combinations (i.e. 1.099.511.627.775 numbers)
• The reader has three modes of reading:
  • Single read
  • Continuous read
  • Stop
• Reading distance up to 3 cm depending on transponder size and orientation
• Transparent front cap with LED signal at detection of a transponder
• Auto power off for saving battery power
• Firmware upgrade feature for future enhancements (saving hardware cost)

The press release can be found HERE

LEGO PF elements now avaliable at lego shop.com USA only though...

LEGO Shop-at-Home has updated their products recently. Perhaps most interesting there are some new PF elements among them, as well as the existing PF motors but you can now buy them on a "piece by piece" basis. It seems there is also a "hybrid" PF cable, that appear to function as both a PF extenssion cable as well as a cross-over cable to the older 9V system. The grand Technic Bulldozer may not be available... but at least now all the PF parts are (they've also been added to LEGO Digital Designer for that matter. It appears I need to browse S@H more often... and after I already put in my last order, too. Oh well, perhaps I need another order... For folks wanting new sensors, there's a lot of offerings at S@H as well: the standard four (US, light, sound, & touch), but also the Acceleration, IRSeeker, IRLink, Gyro, Color, & Compass sensor.

As posted by Brian Davis at http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/

Milton Keynes Lego Shop MINDSTORMS DISCOUNT!!

Today I went to Milton Keynes (England) to see if they had the crawler crane in stock(as legoshop.com had run out, and I think it has been discontinued), and to my suprise, they actually had a sale on, ON DECENT SETS! Not just their crappy stuff. Sadly there was no crawler crane, but they did have the TIE CRAWLER and BATMOBILE sets (both with LOTS of caterpillar tracks) for only £28! (normally £40) So I bought a Tie set, as well as a selection of technic beams and lift arms.

Then as i was leaving the shop, I noticed that ALL MINDSTORMS ACCESORIES WERE HALF PRICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Sadly, I had just spent all the christmas money I had brought with me, so I didnt get any. Hopefully when I go a week next tuesday, they will still have the discount. If not, i think i may have to eat myself.

I got two more points on my loyalty card today though, so that was good.

And so, the moral of this story children, is, IF YOU LIVE NEAR MILTON KEYNES IN ENGLAND, GO BUY SOME LEGO!

Merry Christmas by the way!

Airkraft-NXT

NEW Sensors Added To Lego Shop.co.uk

In the last few days lego have added two new Hi-Techninc Sensors to the UK version of Lego Shop.com
These sensors include:

Infrared Seeker- at £30.99

Gyroscopic Sensor- at £39.99

The Infrared Seeker can be used with the Lego P F sets along with the old Mindstorms RIS expand your robots capabilities. With it your robots will be able to detect infrared light sources and determine their direction and relative strength thanks to 5 infrared detectors arrayed at 60º intervals.


The Gyroscopic Sensor will let you build MINDSTORMS NXT robots that can detect rotation using a single axis gyro based on a quartz resonator. Accurate readings require the gyro sensor NXT-G block or use of another programming environment to read the raw value from the sensor.

Lego now sell 5 Hi-Technic sensors, each around £35. you can view them all HERE