Getting Ready to Set Everything Up
Van 1 of 2 unpacked at the Evansville Museum
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At the TV Station Way Too Early This Morning
Setting up for the morning news before our Evansville Museum show this weekend
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Packing Up Our Special Edition Challenger II For The Auction
Kit #1 of the upcoming Challenger II by @codyosell signed and everything. Throwing in a certificate of authenticity in the #1 as well. This is live on eBay right now! #lego #brickmania #brickarms #tank #challenger2 #mbt #limitededition
Minifig Sale: Save 25% On All WWI and WWII Minifigures Now
Save 25% on all WWI and WWII minifigs, now through Tuesday, October 23rd! Just enter coupon code MINIFIG25 when checking out on our site, or show this post to the associate to save at our Mall of America or Woodfield Mall stores today!
You can even use this coupon to take an additional 25% off the sale prices of all of our World War Two minifigs that are on sale! Click here to see which are included.
Auction: Copy #1 of Our Upcoming Challenger II – Main Battle Tank
The Brickmania Challenger II – Main Battle Tank kit will release on Monday, October 22, but we’ve decided to offer a special version of this limited edition kit for auction starting today. This copy of the kit is labeled #1, will be signed by designer Cody Osell, and ships with a certificate of authenticity.
Only one of these signed kits will be made available, so be sure to get your bid in soon!
Click here to bid on copy #1 of our Challenger II – Main Battle Tank kit right now!
All Brickmania model kits are made of new-condition LEGO bricks. This model comes disassembled and includes complete printed building instructions and comes packaged in a sealed box. This is a limited-edition kit and production may be discontinued at any time.
New Release: WWII US Infantry Boot Pack – Stickers
Equip your minifigures with this high-quality sticker sheet from Brickmania! Includes 12 pairs of WWII US Infantry boots and matching gaiter uppers. You can even cover up those shameful legholes with optional back stickers for a full 360° of leg coverage.
Click here to pick up your own WWII US Infantry Boot Pack Stickers today!
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New Release: Modern US Navy Deck Crew
The deck of an aircraft carrier is an exciting place. The complexity, potential dangers and limited space require deck crews to operate with minimal errors. To keep things simple, the deck crew uniforms are color-coded to indicate responsibilities on the carrier:
- Purple: sometimes referred to as “Grapes”, responsible for handling aviation fuel
- Blue: responsible for plane handling, including operating tractors and elevators
- Green: catapult and arresting crews, they also handle cargo and air wing maintenance
- Yellow: officers for plane handling, catapulting and arresting
- Red: responsible for handling ordnance
- Brown: air wing plane captains, petty officers
- White: various, including quality control, inspectors, liquid oxygen crews, and medical personnel
Click here to pick up your own Modern US Navy Deck Crew minifigures today!
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From Our Upcoming Blitzkrieg Bricks Instruction Book
Polish 7TP will be exclusively available as part of the upcoming Blitzkrieg Bricks instruction book! #brickmania #brickarms #lego #blitzkriegbricks
New Release: F-35B Lightning II – STOVL Stealth Multirole Fighter
About the F-35B Lightning II – STOVL Stealth Multirole Fighter:
A joint strike fighter, the F-35 is designed to accommodate a wide range of roles across three different U.S. military branches: Air Force, Navy, and Marines. The F-35B Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (STOVL) is the Marine variant of the three, equipped with vertical take-off and stealth technology. As a joint strike fighter, the F-35B can be outfitted with a massive variety of armaments on each of its two internal pods and four external hardpoints.
At a cost of $240–300 million per unit, the F-35 program is slated as the most expensive military program in history, estimated at $1.5 trillion. As of September 2018, the U.S. military announced that the F-35B conducted its first combat mission with the Marines in Afghanistan, beginning a new era of fighter technology.
Specifications:
- Crew: 1
- Engine: Pratt & Whitney F135 afterburner turbofan
- Speed: 1,217 mph (1,960 km/h)
- Maximum range: 1,035 mi (1,667 km)
- Combat range: 517 mi (833 km)
- Main armament: 25mm GAU-22A Gatling cannon
Additional information about this Brickmania custom building kit:
The F-35B Lightning II – STOVL Stealth Multirole Fighter kit comes with the following features
- 28x positionable features
- Custom-printed American Pilot minifigure
- Printed elements
- High-quality sticker sheet
- Mounting point for display stand (BKM890)
- Detailed cockpit
- $300,000,000 of raw American power packed into an affordable $525 Brickmania kit
- 1/35th scale to match other Brickmania models
Click here to pick your own own F-35B Lightning II – STOVL Stealth Multirole Fighter kit today!
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All Brickmania model kits are made of new-condition LEGO bricks. This model comes disassembled and includes complete printed building instructions and comes packaged in a sealed box. This is a limited-edition kit and production may be discontinued at any time.
Building On the Past: Lesser-Known Allied Tanks
Here at Brickmania, we are always looking for new tanks to feature. Among the many tanks of World War II, there are several unique tank designs that are not often mentioned in history books. These tanks include models such as the Soviet IS-3 Pike and the American M26 Pershing. Several of these lesser-known Allied tanks contributed to the war effort in small ways, either in combat or by helping with future designs.
Two heavy tanks, the IS-3 and Pershing are both late-war responses to heavy German armor such as the Tiger and Ferdinand. Many of the Allied medium tanks, like the Sherman and T-34, had significant difficulty in engaging these German tanks in combat due to their thick armor and powerful 88mm gun. In anticipation of the war stretching into 1946 or 1947, the Allies began turning out these heavy tanks knowing the likelihood of facing stiff German resistance as they invaded the Reich. Although many of these tanks never saw combat, they went on to influence design for Cold War main battle tanks by their respective nations. The IS-3 and Pershing demonstrated precisely what the Germans had learned the hard way: heavy tanks were not cost-effective and had a tendency to develop severe maintenance problems.
Two other lesser-known tanks appeared at the beginning of the war—the American M3 Lee and British Crusader MK III. Deployed at Operation Torch in North Africa, these two tanks struggled in combat against German panzers commanded by Erwin Rommel. Largely considered a stop-gap measure, weaknesses in the two tanks helped both the United States and England in future tank designs such as the M4 Sherman and Cromwell Cruiser MK VIII.
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