Lego Maleficent

Grand opening of one of the 3 local Lego stores finally finishing their remodeling.

i'm wondering if that this is permanent or just a temporarily display. i'm thinking of the local birds perching themselves onto the dragon from sleeping beauty's wings and laying their wastes onto its now dark but soon white gooped body.

i havent been inside yet.... but there seems to be an impossible wall of pick a brick, thats pretty cool as the selection at this location was fairly lacking before. however, i am thinking that only the first 8 of so levels of bricks will be for sale. i highly doubt that the old fashioned library sliding ladder is for patrons usage.

The black dragon seems at home with the current dark sky.  i've got my fill of series 7 as well.  i wonder what series 8 will have to come.

Summer Releases '12

Aw shoot! its official! these sets are coming out for the summer! even if i pick up the ghost train and the jabba's palace, i wont get to build them till later.

summer...is for being outdoors this year, and maybe do a lil traveling. i will however still fit some Lego related things in there. i dont like gungans. so that gungan sub isnt something that i would pick up. but the queen amidala figure makes it worth the buy. i may just very well pick it off from BL instead. save me the trouble of paying more then i actually want to for my minifig army.

This year... i will try to finish more films, i have a few in the works, but i keep running into snags in the production. one of them i should have finished last year...but didnt, because coordinating with other people for sound and voice recordings....wasnt easy to say the least. everyone is busy with their lives, and i can't blame them. aside from finishing up that video, i have 2-3 in the works. whether i finish them at all, or get them off the ground to make interesting will it then be brought to youtube. (one of them actually needs to be shot done in a specific place...and being rather busy with other things... and again coordination... has made it rough.)

i'm also actually going to put a production team logo in front of my newer films. which would feel more fresh. (but not so much the one that i should have finished last year.)

(pics from Grogall)

Star Wars Summer Sets

There's been such a HUGE amount of infomation going on with new sets to come and i haven't had the time to go and just write about the new stuff i'm anticipating... i wonder if there's an app for blogging...

so finally, there's going to be another twilek besides aayla. its the slave dancer in jabba's palace this time. i've had two of the twileks in my jabba's barge set as it is. a green one and a white one. now this scared one here is scared, mostly because she's not comfortable with so many younger kids playing with her. (well, the fanboys will have something to play with as well...)

JAbba, and salicious crumb from the palace set.

an actual queen amidala figure. crazy head dress and a bell shaped new piece just for her dress. i'm expanding my minfig collection quite broadly here...

the new sae sae tin characters.
oh my, the new vadar with breathing apparatus. kinda like the space marine in series 7, or if you're old school.... an aquashark.


i should update more often...even weekly...but swamped with adventures. maybe i'll add another blog. (its actually more work to run more then one theme at a time. i'm very much behind on zach and squad526. lots of pictures....but not yet on the blog.)

Colorful Wildlife

Thats nifty! makes me want to make a bunch of these and put them at the local tide pools, so that we can have a more colorful, art exhibit by the sea. i'm sure it would cost a bundle, and the wild life activists would come to my house... so no. i won't. but so cool. =D

Taxes.... no $$$ for new sets...-_- (avengers & s7s)

these guys are out! its a bit steep for what i'm getting... and wolverine is a nice addition to have. altho, i am ecstatic about having a deadpool and a magneto figure soon....hmmm wonder which set will have the black widow figure? (they are currently showing three sets, one with steve rogers, one with logan, wade, and erick, and one with hulk, hawkeye (?), and loki) i'm noting that they have not brought any mention of the sets that will contain tony, sasha, and dr blake)


lastly, i got this in an email. i dont know if thats alot of sets sold or not, mostly because my own pile from that year alone towers over 24 ft high easily. and the local LS sells ALOT of Lego sets. easily 600k-2 million worth in a month. are they referring to my LLS or statewide, or nationwide, or worldwide or what? where do they get these statistics from?

(as mentioned... series 7 is out. i'm not going to rush. i'm going to wait a month before i pick mine up this time around.)

DC Universe was OK. Avengers look Better!

yes... the previous post was a joke. =D altho those figs should be coming soon.


these figs however, are NOT a joke, and are coming soon to a toys store, target, or Lego store near you. there's alot of chatter about how iron man's helmet is too big for him, but how else would TLG be able to make a moving visor for tony stark? if the helmet is made to show his face... why isnt there a suit for him to remove, and why is steve roger's mask stuck to his face? where are the trademark ears on the side of his head? side note... black window... that hairpiece looks like the new standard for all the pretty ladies (eg serena, hawaiian girl, and dr. pamela lillian Isley).

series 7. nice.

and they are out already? i had barely finished my fix of series 6...

almost every figure has a large piece in it, so that they can no longer be felt like the minotaur in the last series or radioactive suit guy. the sea king has no feet, and a triton, the lil red riding hood has tiny feet. i dont recall enjoying any of the minifigs with short feet. this one i DO like. the bagpipes are the most interesting hand held accessory to date, and to hold it in likable varies positions, the hands must be turned around several times.

and just like the pot of gold guy from last series was perfect for st patty's day... there's a bunny suit guy ready for easter... he reminds me of the winnie the pooh keychains they have in the slotted machines at the japanese supermarkets. i'm already ready to paint one grey... and add some ninjago items on it ...so to speak. =D