It’s been a while since I’ve thrown one of these up, but then, it’s been a while since I’ve watched a movie.
Saturday night, Luscious, Lord 15, and I had tickets to see the new Terminator dumpster fire, but illness and mentals meant we stayed at home and consoled ourselves with lollies and watching the original (ie: The Good One) on Blu-ray instead. 35 years later, it’s still unbelievably good. And so you get this:
“You know, it’s a bit silly having that ‘worst’ rating for this Lego 250 review series. I mean, I’m a fan. Most of the sets I bought myself. It’s a bit much to expect that I’m going to hate many of them. Anyway, let’s see what I’ve got next……………….. Ah.” Continue reading “LEGO 250 REVIEW: 76064 SPIDERMAN vs GREEN GOBLIN”
It was eight weeks ago today that Blake left us. Today, Luscious and I had these done.
“Me hath the main of much bereaved.” (Sonatorrek, Stanza 10*)
My chest, Luscious’ arm. The vikingr compass he wore above his heart.
For our boy.
(*This comes from the translation I read at Blake’s funeral. If it’s incorrect, or you have greater knowledge, please don’t tell us right now. It’s not our time to hear it.)
Naturally, when you hate a movie, the first thing you do is run out and buy the merch, right? In other news, the Lego Batman Movie makes the Lego 250 review list. Continue reading “LEGO 250 REVIEW:70911 PENGUIN’S ARCTIC ROLLER”
When is Lego at it’s absolute best? When it combines playability, rebuildability, and a certain insanity in its design brief.
On a completely unassociated topic, it’s time to introduce Ninjago to our Lego 250 review list. Continue reading “LEGO 250 REVIEW: 9441 KAI’S BLADE CYCLE”
I turned 49 this week. Lucky me: I’ve now lived longer than the likes of Hawley Harvey Crippen, Al Capone, Joseph McCarthy, and Charles I.
I won’t deny, it’s not a good time. After a positive start to the year, everything has turned to dust. My weight has ballooned again. My writing has shrivelled and died. All the things I can to Karratha to achieve have faded and become ash. I’m sunk in misery, and it’s no real secret as to the reasons behind it– firstly, the death of my father, and the realisation of just how little it meant to me; and then, of course, the loss of our son Blake to suicide. Against such things, and the grief under which our family is struggling, it’s hard to find any positives in the world.
They exist, of course, in the lives that our other children are living, and the plans we see them making and carrying out. And I’ll talk more about those elements of our life more in my yearly round-up.
For now, I take pleasure in the gifts I have received from my loving family, and simply hope that my 50th journey around the sun brings better experiences than my 49th. It surely couldn’t bring worse.
Time for another Lego 250 review. It’s beyond time we left all the licencing, and special themes, and special events, and bells and whistles and falderal and gewgaw behind, and concentrated on the core of Lego’s popularity. The base upon which all other themes stand. The gold standard. The theme that lit the flame of our childhood creativity and remains central to Lego’s plan for plastic domination.
It’s time we talked Lego City.
Sort of.
Continue reading “LEGO 250 REVIEW: 60194 ARCTIC SCOUT TRUCK”
