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The building of this Lego train set has been a long time coming.  I searched back and I first blogged about my anticipation for putting this set together back in October 2012! To be honest, this thing was pretty fiddly to build.  The carriages are very fragile and I had to have three gos at putting the window sections together ...

The Lego Minifig Series 12 arrived in Australia recently.  You might recall that I mentioned in my blog that after Series 11, I was feeling a bit of burn out with the Lego Mini-fig range.  They pump them out at a rate of one every four Although Series 12 has a number of repeated characters (robots and construction workers), I ...

The Lego Minifigs Series 11 came out about a month ago.  Using the time honoured ‘bag-feeling’ method, Jen and I have picked up 14 out of 16 characters so far.  We’re still missing Grandma and Blues Brother.  We’ve been pretty successful with our blind buys so far – we haven’t bought a single duplicate in the entire series. I have ...

Mother of God, it looks amazing. Day One.

Over the long weekend Jen and I built the Palace Cinema, Lego’s modular building for 2013 in its Creator series.  Clocking in at 2196 pieces, its actually a tad smaller than some of its counterparts like the Grand Emporium.  Clearly influenced in design by Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, I thought the set was aesthetically quite pleasing and a lot ...

Series 10 of the Lego Minifigs have finally begun to arrive on our shores!  This weekend, Jen and I picked up a handful of packs.  As usual, I sat unhelpfully on the sidelines whilst Jen felt the bags and identified the minifig inside.  She hit a 100% accuracy rate on 14 bags.  That’s right.  We didn’t get a single duplicate. ...