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Month: December 2012

  • Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 – Day 4

    Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 – Day 4

    Day 4 – Star Destroyer

    Tiny Star Destroyer is tiny. If you need to strike fear into the hearts of say, dust mites or flu germs, this might be the ship for you. I only have one issue with this little guy and it’s the nose, but I don’t really know what they could have used to bring it to a sharper point. All LEGO ISDs are just wedges and plates on top of wedges and plates on top of wedges and plates anyway. This time it’s just a lot quicker.

    You know, the dust mites may even think this is cute.

    And since I somehow managed to forget to take a second pic after I shifted the jumper plates back then didn’t notice, take a look at Huw’s pic to see how it looks when put together “correctly”.

    Advent day 4

    Nope, still not pointy enough. Still cute though.

    To be continued…

  • POP Goes The Batman!

    POP Goes The Batman!

    This stubby little Batman by bruceywan is a spot on likeness of the Funko POP! Heroes version that he built for his son. I’m a fan of the vinyl toys and have wanted to buy a few of these for some time, but again, I don’t need to start another collection. Thankfully once again, a builder shows me I could just be building my own.

  • Wicked Wicket

    Wicked Wicket

    It would appear baronsat built this for no particular reason…

    “Yub, Yub.” That is all.

  • LegoManiac’s Hold On Spidey! Game

    LegoManiac’s Hold On Spidey! Game

    Our old friend LegoManiac is back playing in the super hero sandbox and has reproduced this game in LEGO form for his daughter. I’ve never seen this game before, but it looks like my son would also love it so I may have to reproduce his reproduction so we can have a go at it ourselves. Being a big fan of the LEGO board games, I love seeing people make their own or even recreate existing ones out of brick. You can check out more pics of the game on LegoManiac’s family blog here.

    This does give me another idea too, guess I’ll add it to the pile.

  • 9509 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 – Day 3

    9509 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 – Day 3

    Day 3 – Gungan Weapon Depot

    Three days in and we get a weapon rack. I think I liked the walking chair better, but at least the Gungan gets his nifty shield/sled. This is really where the advent calendars value bugs me. If you put the one or two accessories that each fig needs in with it (like they already do with the exclusive figs) you would only need to add 2-3 extra models to fill out the days where they stick the weapon caches. Those three extra models would require maybe 50 parts on the outside which would still be well under 300 pieces for a set that costs $40-50. So what’s driving up the price? Desirability? The cost of the tray inside (which is awesome for sorting)? At least this weapon stand is a weapon itself, but they lose points right off by only including one of those blue energy ball things. The city set last year came with three white ones for snow balls.
    Not cool LEGO. I want more blue balls.

    To Be Continued…

  • Mech Madness Final Round All Week Long

    Mech Madness Final Round All Week Long

    My apologies for the unexpected delay, but worry not. The final round is upon us and this time you will have until this Friday night to cast your votes. The polls got pretty close in the last round so I thought some extra time might be beneficial here. First up in the Winners Bracket we have Wolverine and Juggernaut squaring off:

     

    (You can click on each image to go to their flickr page to browse more build photos). These two will be competing for first and second place, obviously. After that we have the Losers Bracket, with Hawkeye taking on Mr. Freeze:

     

    These two will be battling for third place. As usual there is no prize for fourth place. So take your time, check out each mech again, then sign in to the forum and cast your votes!

  • Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 – Day 2

    Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 – Day 2

    Day 2 – Gungan Soldier

    Seems LEGO did learn something. Last year the figure was Nute Gunray and this year they kept it a bit more generic with a simple Gungan Soldier. You can decide for yourself if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but at least it’s not Jar Jar and if you do have a thing for army building here’s another one for the battle of Naboo. Did somebody complain to LEGO that the problem with last years calendar was “not enough Gungans”? It’s Ok. We’re all friends here, you can tell me. It’ll be fine.

    To be continued…

  • Amazon Discounts 79010 The Goblin King Battle

    Amazon Discounts 79010 The Goblin King Battle

    Amazon has almost all of The Hobbit sets now. The only one missing is 79004 Barrel Escape. They are even offering a small discount on 79010 The Goblin King Battle. The going price as I write this is $87.74, a 12% discount off of MSRP of $99.99. Full list of the sets available from Amazon is below except, of course, Barrel Escape.

  • Review: 9509 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012

    Review: 9509 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012

    It’s like déjà vu, all over again. Another year, another ridiculous amount of money spent on little plastic bricks and the biggest toy sellng season is officially in full swing. When the Star Wars Advent Calendar came out last year, well, it earned a lot of hate. It seemed to linger on shelves (not here, it sold quite well and cleared out quickly) and I believe is even still available in some places at discounted prices from time to time. It was a farce! An insult to the fans and the children it was aimed at alike! It was obviously a complete and total failure on every conceivable level and a perfect message to LEGO that they were sure to hear loud and clear and never, EVER would they make the same mistake again! Well, they got the message and the answer is… The LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 edition! Yay!

    It’s back Baby, and so am I to spam your December with a micro review for each and every day. I’m so very, very sorry. Let the fun begin!
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