August 8, 2010 ![[LINK]](linkoff.gif) In The Bag: The Celebration V Exclusives You Must Have
LEGO has its finger on the pulse of the Celebration V spirit with its CV exclusive with a group of 5 iconic bounty hunters. LEGO has been introducing the world to “CubeDudes”, figures constructed in a style and a scale created by LEGO artist and Pixar digitial artist, Angus MacLane. They’re a bit larger than LEGO’s minifigures and have an edge to them, both literally and figuratively.
Angus MacLane has put five of the most memorable Star Wars characters of the entire saga into his Cube Dude form. There’s 4-L0M, Dengar, Boba Fett, IG-88, and Bossk. The run limited and purchase is limited to those who win the chance to purchase through LEGO's usual raffle ticket system, so they're bound to sell out fast.
LEGO ‘s approach to selling the limited number of their exclusive items is unique. They forego the morning rush, when everyone is running wild on the convention floor to get something from somewhere, as most things are sold first thing in the morning. Instead, LEGO posts a time later in the day at which you come back to their booth, and line up to draw a raffle ticket out of a box. If you draw a ticket that’s marked as a winner, you can then proceed to the registers and buy that day’s item. If not, you can also just get right back on line to try again. They keep it going until all the numbers are drawn. The wait is usually only a few minutes per attempt, and if you keep at it, you can succeed pretty painlessly. If you can drum up a willing friend or two to help pull tickets for you, you’re way better off and will likely hit. Also, since winners have until a few hours later to make their purchases, not everyone always completes the deal, LEGO posts another time at which you can simply line up in order to purchase any remaining items that winners did not end up deciding to buy. That can work out quite well, too.
Some might find it frustrating that they cannot control whether or not they get the LEGO’s items by simply putting more effort into it to line up earlier or to dash straight to the booth the fastest . But there’s something to be said for the fairness of the luck of the draw, and how it eliminates the stampede.
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August 4, 2010 CV: Hasbro Hosts Build-A-Droid Parts Swap
Hasbro will be hosting the Galactic Swap Meet at the Hasbro booth at Celebration V! Bring your surplus Build-a-Droid parts and trade with us, and other fans, as our booth becomes the hub for some serious droid-part-swapping!
We will have a limited supply of complete parts available for 14 of the buildable droids from the Legacy/Droid Factory basic figure line (see attached poster for exact droids we will have). Just bring your extra Legacy/Droid Factory parts and trade them 1-for-1 for parts you need to complete your unfinished droids.
Even if you don’t see the droids for which you need parts on the list, bring what you have anyway….there’s always a chance that another fan will have what you need.
To ensure that as many people as possible can complete their droids, we ask that only 2 Droid pieces be exchanged per person per day.
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