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Casey "cas" Scott | February 1st, 2012 | Reviews

Review: 30057 Anakin’s Podracer

I’m starting to wish these mini sets, mostly sold at Target and Toys R Us as seasonal or promotional sets, were widely available. Scratch that, I started wishing these were widely available a long time ago. Mini sets are easy to display, generally inexpensive, and usually do a great job representing whatever they’re supposed to represent for the scale. It pains me that I had to jump through hoops at Toys R Us to get a hold of 30057 Anakin’s Podracer. Yes, it was one hoop and that hoop was a required purchase of a price-inflated LEGO Star Wars set, but I wanted 30057. The question is, was it worth it? (more…)

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Casey "cas" Scott | January 6th, 2012 | LEGO Cars, Reviews

Review: 9480 Finn McMissile

I have a confession. I have yet to be compelled to watch Cars 2. You might ask yourself, “Why then, did you, Mr. Reviewer, buy a Cars 2 LEGO set?” I chose this set because of its tangential relationship so another series of films I have seen many, many times. James Bond. Yes, I bought 9480 Finn McMissile on the sole fact the character was based on the Aston Martin DB5. And LEGO’s effort kind of resembles it. (more…)

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Casey "cas" Scott | January 5th, 2012 | DC Universe, LEGO Super Heroes, Reviews

Review: 6858 Catwoman Catcycle City Chase

Do you remember back in 2006 when this set was known as 7779 The Batman Dragster: Catwoman Pursuit? Stop. Don’t answer that. It’s a trick question. This set is not 7779. It can’t be. There’s no dragster. No, instead, 6858 Catwoman Catcycle City Chase (say that five times fast) comes with a traffic light and three fewer pieces. And a $12.99 price tag. I wanted to like this set. I thought it would fill the hole in my brick-loving heart left by missing out on 7779. I thought wrong.

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Ace "onions" Kim | December 14th, 2011 | DC Universe, LEGO Super Heroes, Reviews

Review: 6863 Batwing Battle Over Gotham City

They couldn’t all be winners, could they?

Nope.

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Ace "onions" Kim | December 13th, 2011 | DC Universe, LEGO Super Heroes, Reviews

Review: 6864 The Batmobile and the Two-Face Chase

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This is the second LEGO DC Universe Super Heroes set to be reviewed, and so far the line does not disappoint. Now, if you bought all the previous LEGO Batman sets and think the current DC releases aren’t up to snuff, then you would be right in some ways, but if you look at the sets on their own merits, you might actually enjoy them. I had set my expectations pretty low for this set, mostly turned off by the garish color scheme on Two-Face, his cronies and the truck to be honest, but ended up liking it in the end. The MSRP is $49.99 and for that you get 508 pieces, another set hitting that golden ratio but unfortunately this is where the gravy train stops as the other from the DC Universe sub-theme fare a little worse.

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Ken "buriedbybricks" Robichaud | December 12th, 2011 | LEGO Star Wars, Reviews

Review: 7958 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2011

Arguably the most controversial of 2011′s Star Wars sets, the Advent Calendar has seen more than it’s fair share of nerd rage since it’s launch earlier this year. Due to the nature of the set I’m going to do this one a little differently. You get the first half of the countdown today and then I’ll do the last half daily as kind of a 12 days of Christmas/countdown thing. Capiche? So is this set worth the hard earned coin spent on it to countdown the days until you get your real presents?

(Spoiler Alert: You’re getting coal you naughty geeks)
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Ace "onions" Kim | December 12th, 2011 | DC Universe, LEGO Super Heroes, Reviews

Review: 6862 Superman vs. Power Armor Lex

As far as the DC portion of the LEGO Super Heroes line goes, this is the flagship set to get.

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Ace "onions" Kim | December 11th, 2011 | LEGO Cars, Reviews

Review: 8639 Big Bentley Bust Out

I keep trying to write short reviews for Cars, but I end up being a windbag so I can complain as much as possible. I will TRY to keep this one short but mostly because I told myself that I wouldn’t review the DC Super Heroes sets until I finished the Cars stuff. May contain spoilers.

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Ace "onions" Kim | December 10th, 2011 | LEGO Cars, Reviews

Review: 8679 Tokyo International Circuit

And here we go with another LEGO Cars review where you’re probably expecting me to go off angrily at some miniscule aspect of the set and pile on more complaints. I can promise you that there’s less anger, but still a high level of disappointment.

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Ace "onions" Kim | December 9th, 2011 | LEGO Cars, Reviews