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” →

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” →

From the futury-futureness of space, to the Lieberal Party dreamscape of the medieval past. Today’s Lego 250 review touches on one of the mainstays of the Lego empire — at least until Harry Potter came along and fucked it up for everybody — the world of knights and armour.

Continue reading “LEGO 250 REVIEW: 7950 KNIGHT’S SHOWDOWN” →

Space. The frontal finial. The most beloved section of my Lego collection. In today’s  Lego 250 review I head to a very Terran corner of space, and one of the newest — and, honestly, best — space-based themes Lego has produced.

Continue reading “LEGO 250 REVIEW: 60224 SATELLITE SERVICE MISSION” →

I’m trying to re-establish my routines and habits while I hope time and reflection will help repair the damage to my family caused by Blake’s suicide. As part of that, I’m continuing my Lego 250 reviews from where I left off. Today, I’m looking at an entire range of sets, because they’re tiny and I’m damned if I’m going to review each one separately.

Mixels. They’re totally a thing.  Continue reading “LEGO 250 REVIEW: MIXELS” →

I’m doing it hard today. It takes a huge commitment of energy for me to remain focussed right now, energy that ran out this morning and left me completely non-functional. In getting Luscious, Lord 14, and Erin through each day I’ve been stressing the importance of routine and habit: when the will is suffering, and the emotions are unravelling your day before you, routine and habit can be the difference between achieving the one thing you need to make the day a functional one, and laying on the bed counting the non-existent cracks in your pillowcase all day.

So, I need routine today. I need habit. And as I couldn’t manage to get up, dressed, and through the three-minute drive to my workplace, I’m going to get a Lego 250 review up. Then I’m going to go count pillowcase cracks for a while.

Let’s make it a good one, shall we? Continue reading “LEGO 250 REVIEW: 5973 HYPERSPEED PURSUIT” →