Lego and other brick toys
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I'm now mad at Lego, back in Feb, I placed a pick a brick order and as of today, they cancelled that order, because they couldn't get the blocks I desired despite the fact most of them are fairly common, so what I wanted to do, has now had a change, thou thanks to a site called aliexpress.com, I've been able to get some Minifigures and a model that I plan to build, thou its not offical, it looks nice and I might get another copy for other ideas AKA use the blocks, so now I just need to find some black blocks for one of my ideas as that has NOT changed in the slightest but setting it up will be the challange as it involves lights, I have the lights but not the blocks as lego just dragged their heels on the order and it never happened, so I am kind of mad about this as it took me ages to setup the order in the first place!
Well I just put together another order, with the instock stuff and hopefully in a couple of weeks, I'll have it, at the same time, I ordered the new LOTR set with the Balog, not sure where I'm going to put it when its done, but I'm more intrested in the Balog its self!
Eariler on I was setting up my lego market of sorts and got various minifigures on it which include a few KOs, also added to my D&D model with Mini figures, one of which is a KO of Blade from Marvel and the resent D&D Vampire should be worried as where I put Blade within, the market place is a bit chaotic as its all rather bunched up, but I have a Batman stood on top of a barrel, while on another stand is Manbat holding some explosives, there's a elf with a gun on the street level, with Manbat, there's a KO of a Wolfpack who got an axe, yet just sat down, across the way is Stone Knight Clay from Nexo Knights and my custom Monstrox as a person having a battle! The roof next door has a KO He-man fighting one of Monstrox's lackies, while down in the market place is some soldiers from the Dragon knight faction, attempting to hide their bad intentions, plus some old Lion Knight soldiers! Walking around is a UFO alien and his robot aid, they are simply exploring the market! Its rather crowded on the street level as elves are walking around, some armed with bows and some not! I still need some figures for manning the stands, thou two already got people manning them and one is a criminal who got to man the cheese stand, why, because he is a criminal and his punishment is to put up with the cheesy smell and sell the cheese, the meat stand, the bender has two boney friends helping him to sell the meat, there's one man selling fruit and veg, another old figure of mine, in charge of the Newspaper stand, with a not so good person for the shady stuff and that leaves four stands without anyone to actually man them, currently, but I already ordered from aliexpress.com some figures and they aren't due for a few days yet!
I also did a lego horse count, earlier and realised that I got WAY more Black Horses than any of the other colours and most are owned by the Raven Knight faction as that's what I bought them for!
The D&D set front is rather busy currently with various peaple while the Inn Roof has Wildstyle or Lucy from Lego the movie, using a rocket launcher, aimed at the Red Dragon, no idea if the shot will hit or not, it all depends upon the dragon mood
not to much going on with the inside as that I don't look at due to how I placed the model, but Blade is visable from the side, while the upper part, as some wizards and the Dragon born Knight, lets just say its a busy time with most going about their business despite the dragon!
Eariler on I was setting up my lego market of sorts and got various minifigures on it which include a few KOs, also added to my D&D model with Mini figures, one of which is a KO of Blade from Marvel and the resent D&D Vampire should be worried as where I put Blade within, the market place is a bit chaotic as its all rather bunched up, but I have a Batman stood on top of a barrel, while on another stand is Manbat holding some explosives, there's a elf with a gun on the street level, with Manbat, there's a KO of a Wolfpack who got an axe, yet just sat down, across the way is Stone Knight Clay from Nexo Knights and my custom Monstrox as a person having a battle! The roof next door has a KO He-man fighting one of Monstrox's lackies, while down in the market place is some soldiers from the Dragon knight faction, attempting to hide their bad intentions, plus some old Lion Knight soldiers! Walking around is a UFO alien and his robot aid, they are simply exploring the market! Its rather crowded on the street level as elves are walking around, some armed with bows and some not! I still need some figures for manning the stands, thou two already got people manning them and one is a criminal who got to man the cheese stand, why, because he is a criminal and his punishment is to put up with the cheesy smell and sell the cheese, the meat stand, the bender has two boney friends helping him to sell the meat, there's one man selling fruit and veg, another old figure of mine, in charge of the Newspaper stand, with a not so good person for the shady stuff and that leaves four stands without anyone to actually man them, currently, but I already ordered from aliexpress.com some figures and they aren't due for a few days yet!
I also did a lego horse count, earlier and realised that I got WAY more Black Horses than any of the other colours and most are owned by the Raven Knight faction as that's what I bought them for!
The D&D set front is rather busy currently with various peaple while the Inn Roof has Wildstyle or Lucy from Lego the movie, using a rocket launcher, aimed at the Red Dragon, no idea if the shot will hit or not, it all depends upon the dragon mood
not to much going on with the inside as that I don't look at due to how I placed the model, but Blade is visable from the side, while the upper part, as some wizards and the Dragon born Knight, lets just say its a busy time with most going about their business despite the dragon!
LEGO ONE PIECE sets revealed!
LEGO ONE PIECE was announced in January and the first wave of sets inspired by the Netflix series has today been revealed!
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Lego One Piece set pics are out!
I dunno man, I'm looking at them: and there are clearly more than one piece in there.
Pity they haven't done a scene for Roger's execution as that one of the most Iconic parts of the early days of the series:
"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I gathered together in one place, now you just have to find it!”
"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I gathered together in one place, now you just have to find it!”
It would be cute if they leaned into that joke on the packaging.
I'll probably get the Windmill Village set. I wanted the Buggy Circus tent before I saw pictures, but that is not a compelling set, imo. Best parts are the mini Buggy and the brick built head - rest just feels like kind of plain window dressing.
The Merry looks great but is too far outside my budget to consider, unfortunately.
The Merry looks great but is too far outside my budget to consider, unfortunately.
The buggy circus is definely the weakest set along with the brick heads, I never understood people's fasnation with those kinds of sets! The best two sets appear to be Arlong Park and the Going Merry
The Buggy Circus does have the special sword for Zoro, and is probably the cheapest way to get that in a set.
I always assumed that the Brick Headz cater to the people who live in the Venn diagram intersection between "people who like Lego" and "people who like funky pops". I am not part of that group, and only see their value as parts packs.
I'm not apart of that group either, I never saw the attraction to Funko pops
Looks like these are starting to get clearanced. I picked up the other set I had an interest in at $10 or so, and thought I'd share some pictures.
The outside
The inside
My favorite parts. I love the gumball machine, the way they inset the shelving, and particularly the drink station, and the building technique used to create the cup advertisment.
269 pieces, 2 figures both with unique prints)
Bout $20 bucks if you don't find it on clearance/sale.
Thoughts: Really like this set, reminiscent of the Lego Animal Crossing sets, but I kind of prefer this. I have Isabelle's house visit and it kind of disappointed me. The modularity of it was good on paper, but made it hard to handle or display with everything it came with. This feels like a more streamlined process that accomplishes the diorama/half house concept more effectively.
Holds together extremely well, looks good from the front, from the back or opened up. Really only have nitpick complaints, namely a few QC issues. One of the glass doors has a noticable scratch that at the right angle/light makes it look damaged and one of the door frames warped/bent in slightly - doesn't effect the ability to keep together, but creates a small gap
Overall, I'd have been happy with this $20, I'm over the moon on it at $10. High recommendation.
maybe the design team should've taken ANOTHER pass at this one.
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LEGO Lord of the Rings Balrog Raises Eyebrows for What Some Fans Say Is an Unfortunate Pose - IGN
A new Lord of the Rings LEGO set featuring the iconic Balrog is raising eyebrows among fans, due to an oddly-posed product photo.
maybe the design team should've taken ANOTHER pass at this one.
LEGO Lord of the Rings Balrog Raises Eyebrows for What Some Fans Say Is an Unfortunate Pose - IGN
A new Lord of the Rings LEGO set featuring the iconic Balrog is raising eyebrows among fans, due to an oddly-posed product photo.
Its not a bad kit, a lot of the build piece count is taken up by the frame, prefect, no, but it does do a desent job on the Balrog, but then lego don't tend to do full buildings as they are desgined around the playset format, besides the flame parts look good in a dimmly lit room
As I said in the random thoughts thread, happy Moon Landing Day! And to that end, I have a (glare-y) box:
Kinda marathoned this one, and yes my hands hurt, but this is such a neat kit and I have very few nits to pick with it. As much as I have cut down on Lego, NASA sets will always get me. It's a big'n completed, standard Lego Astronaut for scale. Almost R/C car sized.
There are tons of details that I couldn't get a reasonable picture of with my phone camera - the control panel, the cargo locker in the back with the brick-built tools, the moon rock tucked back in there...it's good stuff. I'm not a big Technic guy, so the number of times I was going "what the hell is this supposed to do" stayed on the entertaining side.
But the really neat trick is that it can break down and fold up more or less as the real article did to be stowed in the Apollo lander. There's practically no cheating - lift the modules off, pluck a couple of antenna mounts, and unlock a few sliders and levers. The chassis crumples in on itself, and the modules all have their own display alongside the, uh, wad of wheels:
And purely coincidentally, it also looks pretty right with last year's buildable astronaut dude, which is a happy coincidence. The scale's not quite there, and he can't sit down (at least, not without a complete hip rebuild), but for it to look as good as it does is great.
Really, I have two quibbles with this set worth noting. One mechanically - that yellow antenna in the back is made out of rubber bands, 'cause there's no way to get that shape in normal pieces without some chicanery; I always worry about rubber band durability. My one actual complaint has to do with stickers - there are a lot, and for the most part they're not bad. Even the chrome ones don't trouble me after doing Discovery's payload bay doors. But I said 'for the most part'. There are no fewer than four UCS plaques in this set, for the display stands, and those always bother me; they're so hard to get an acceptable degree of straight, even, and clean. I could swear I read somewhere that Lego was going back to prints for the UCS-style plaques, but I can't find hide or hair of such a thing now.
So. This is a big, expensive, and pretty niche set. If you're a NASA fan? Definitely recommended. If not, that's up to your wallet. I got my copy from Barnes & Noble, and had enough points to bring it down to just under $200. Which is still a lot, but I made budget room for this one!
Kinda marathoned this one, and yes my hands hurt, but this is such a neat kit and I have very few nits to pick with it. As much as I have cut down on Lego, NASA sets will always get me. It's a big'n completed, standard Lego Astronaut for scale. Almost R/C car sized.
There are tons of details that I couldn't get a reasonable picture of with my phone camera - the control panel, the cargo locker in the back with the brick-built tools, the moon rock tucked back in there...it's good stuff. I'm not a big Technic guy, so the number of times I was going "what the hell is this supposed to do" stayed on the entertaining side.
But the really neat trick is that it can break down and fold up more or less as the real article did to be stowed in the Apollo lander. There's practically no cheating - lift the modules off, pluck a couple of antenna mounts, and unlock a few sliders and levers. The chassis crumples in on itself, and the modules all have their own display alongside the, uh, wad of wheels:
And purely coincidentally, it also looks pretty right with last year's buildable astronaut dude, which is a happy coincidence. The scale's not quite there, and he can't sit down (at least, not without a complete hip rebuild), but for it to look as good as it does is great.
Really, I have two quibbles with this set worth noting. One mechanically - that yellow antenna in the back is made out of rubber bands, 'cause there's no way to get that shape in normal pieces without some chicanery; I always worry about rubber band durability. My one actual complaint has to do with stickers - there are a lot, and for the most part they're not bad. Even the chrome ones don't trouble me after doing Discovery's payload bay doors. But I said 'for the most part'. There are no fewer than four UCS plaques in this set, for the display stands, and those always bother me; they're so hard to get an acceptable degree of straight, even, and clean. I could swear I read somewhere that Lego was going back to prints for the UCS-style plaques, but I can't find hide or hair of such a thing now.
So. This is a big, expensive, and pretty niche set. If you're a NASA fan? Definitely recommended. If not, that's up to your wallet. I got my copy from Barnes & Noble, and had enough points to bring it down to just under $200. Which is still a lot, but I made budget room for this one!