MOC of the Week: LEGO Christmas House

First of all, Merry Christmas to everyone and I hope that you have a great Christmas Day. Last year, we posted a LEGO Nativity Scene by agencyORANGE as 2012’s Christmas MOC of the Week. In 2013, Nick Sweetman’s LEGO Christmas House takes the honour of being this year’s Christmas MOC. Nick Sweetman (known as MinifigNick on Flickr) posted it on his Flickr photostream yesterday.

Some of details in this creation are amusing and some are just amazing. Another thing that makes this Christmas-themed MOC stand out from the rest is the fact that Nick has hung LED lights on the house and around the garden (see below).

Merry Christmas to all of BrickExtra’s readers and have a happy New Year! This year will be a bit different to last year’s Christmas holidays. Instead of me going away on holiday until early January, I will still be posting here – although not as often as usual. Thanks for reading and/or subscribing to BrickExtra this year and I hope to continue posting the latest LEGO news for many months to come. 🙂

You can go and check out Nick’s other LEGO creations and photos on his Flickr photostream here.

See all of the models we have featured for MOC of the Week here.

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LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2014 Set Images

Now that I am back from being on holiday last week, we can get stuck back into the latest LEGO news and, in particular, 2014 set images. Brickset has reported that images of next year’s first wave of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes sets have been revealed in a catalogue.

I received that early 2014 consumer catalogue with December’s Australian/New Zealand LEGO Club Magazine and it does show five Marvel sets (76014 Spider-Trike vs. Electro, 76015 Doc Ock Truck Heist, 76016 Spider-Helicopter Rescue, 76017 Captain America vs. HYDRA, 76018 Hulk Lab Smash). All these sets will be released in March and April 2014.

It seems as though LEGO is starting to take a different approach with the latest Super Heroes sets (the Spider-Man ones in particular ) and focusing the sets and minifigures on the comic books rather than the current films that are being produced.

This probably is result of MEGA brands (who are the parent company of Mega Bloks) has the license for the Spider-Man movies and LEGO has the one for Ultimate Spider-Man (a comic book series running from 2000 – 2009 from which a cartoon TV series was based off).

Personally, I’m not that much of a LEGO Super Heroes fan as much as some people are, but for this wave my favourites are the Captain America and Spider-Man helicopter sets.

What is your opinion on the first wave of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2014 sets? Do you prefer the cartoonish look over minifigures and sets being based on current super hero movies? Share your thoughts on these five sets in the comments below.