Someone help me...
/We went to Leeds today. The reason we went was so that I could buy some more Lego bricks. I was hoping that my family would stage some kind of intervention, but instead they just came along for the ride…
Lego Addict
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When we were in Leeds last Saturday I went into the Lego Store and bought a box of their “pick and mix” bricks that they have at the back of the shop. Then I went home and did this. Do I need help?
Lego Radio
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It makes some great sounds too
The Lego Radio is a lovely build. It comes with a little sound brick that plays different sound effects as you scan through the radio channels. Great fun. You can put your Smartphone inside it if you want to turn it into a bluetooth speaker.
Animal Crossing Lego
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Tom Nook and his money
Turns out that the Animal Crossing Lego sets are a satisfying build and make really nice models.
Lego Camera
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Can you spot whichi is the LEGO camera?
I got given a Lego Camera kit on Saturday. It’s awesome. And there are two other models you can make with the pieces. And it comes with little rolls of film with pictures on them. Great fun.
Lego Ghetto Blaster
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It’s become a kind of ritual. When we go up town in Leeds we visit the Lego store and fill a plastic cup with bricks from their “pick and mix”. I like doing this because you can get a huge number of one particular Lego piece. On a previous visit I got an enormous number of Lego gear levers and we used them to make a brush, among other things. This time we got some funky angled pieces and I used them to make a Lego Ghetto Blaster with six speakers and a sub-woofer. Great fun.
Hull is Awesome
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Culinary innovations at Ferens Art Gallery cafe. We call it the “shot sandwich”.
What do you do if you have a five year old that you want to impress. Why, you take them to Hull of course. We started with a coffee (we had coffee - she had juice) at the amazing café in Ferens Art Gallery. Then on to the next room, where they had a fantastic Lego exhibition. Then down to the Museums Quarter to scoot round searching for robots and dragons. Then back for lunch in Ferens, a look at the fountains and then back home for a rest.
Hull is awesome.
Lego Orchid Fun
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I’ve spent a happy few hours building a Lego Orchid. It looks very realistic. The only slight issue is that the plastic bits waggle in a non-realistic way when you walk past them, but it is very nice to have a Lego Flower build that comes with its own vase.
Muppet Lego
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Went on our first proper “up town” shopping trip for ages today. In the Lego store they were selling Muppet mini-figures. Managed to get this chap. It says a lot about me that I’m very pleased about this.
Lego Bonsai
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Lego are billing their bonsai tree kit as “their most therapeutic kit yet”. I’m not sure about that, but I did rather enjoy building it. There are two variants. A green one and the blossom one you can see above. Fun fact, some of the blossoms are actually little tiny frogs, there are 101 of them in the model.
Lego Bouquet
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The flowers arrived on Valentine’s day. We’ve just finished building them and finding a vase to fit. This is just half of the set, we thought they’d work best as two bunches. Great fun and almost romantic.
Lego Super Mario 64 question block looks awesome
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This looks completely awesome. Not sure where I’d put it though……
Lego Vidiyo is a good value at knockdown prices
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Not everything that Lego touches turns to gold. Lego Vidiyo has not been the success that Lego hoped and figures and sets are now on the market at temptingly low prices.
The idea of the product is very good. Place animated mini-figures in augmented reality pop videos and control the action using collectable tiles that you scan with your phone or tablet camera. Add in some stage sets that can be incorporated into the videos, tie in with the music publishers so that there’s a good range of 1 minute music clips and you’d think they would be on to a winner.
And I think they would have been, if the application that underpins the whole thing had been a bit better. As it is, the program ls clunky to use, insists on downloading stuff when you start it up and has a confusing interface. The videos are great fun, the sharing element is well implemented and safe for kids, but the whole thing is just that bit too painful to enjoy using.
This has of course not stopped me from picking up a bunch of figures and sets at knock down prices. After all, Lego is Lego. Although I’ve not managed to pick up the party llama yet.
Lego say that they are only resting the project for now. I hope this is true. I think it has massive potential once they’ve sorted out the software side.
Appropriate Lego
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We bought a Lego magazine yesterday (actually, it wasn’t entirely for me). This was on the cover.
Lego Space Shuttle
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Number one son has come to see us for the Easter break, which is lovely. He’s managed to get hold of the new Lego Space Shuttle kit and has spent the last day or so building it. The model is really good. You get a Hubble Space telescope which fits inside the cargo bay. The level of detail is excellent and it looks great on its stand. I’m only a bit jealous.
Rocket Girl to the Rescue
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What do you give a little lady who has fallen over, grazed her elbow and is really not very happy with life?
You give her a Rocket Girl mini-figure.
Actually it was dumb luck on my part, I had no idea what was in the packet. But I’m really glad it came out the way it did.
Lego Happiness
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This pleases me a lot more than it probably should. Sometimes I think that I only build the models so that I can take them to pieces and put all the parts in the right place.
Dropping Lego
/One of my Lego models got dropped today. I watched with a mix of horror and fascination as it shattered into a large number of pieces. As I was searching for the bits under the furniture I wondered whether taking videos of falling Lego was a thing. It turns out that it is, as you can see above.
Gotta love Lego
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One of my attempts from yesterday when we were al trying to take a picture of something small and make it look large. I think that the binary on the girl’s T shirt spells “LEGO”. Awesome.
