This is a look at The Child (baby Yoda) LEGO set available for preorder now from LEGO (shipping October 31st). The $80 set includes 1,073 pieces, stands about eight inches tall if you assemble it correctly, has rotating head and hands and posable ears, but is still kinda lacking the
This is the LEGO Star Wars Mos Eisley Cantina playset dropping October 1st for a cool $350. The 3,187-piece playset includes a hinge-opening Mos Eisley Cantina along with removeable roof, 21 minifigs (seven unique to the set, three with unique molded elements), a V-35 Landspeeder, Dewback, AND MORE. “Like what?”
In other world record news, this is a video of Paul Scardino of Winchester City, Virginia, providing a tour of his basement, where he stores his world record collection of Funk Pop! figures, with a staggering 5,306 Pops. For reference, that’s about 5,303 more than I own. I’m honestly surprised
This is a video of hardware hacker and Twitter user @r1ckp (sweet Penfold profile pic, btw) demonstrating the new interactive LEGO Super Mario toy that he modded to function as a controller to play the original Super Mario Bros., including the ability to shoot fireballs and go down warp pipes
This is the real life Toy Story Woody doll crafted by figure-maker toyman___zhao. He, uh, he definitely looks like a doll that can come to life. Now what he does when he’s alive is anybody’s guess, but based on the expression on his face, it’s gaze in wonderment at my
This is a series of renderings of pop culture homes reimagined as Polly Pocket playsets by the folks at The Toy Zone. The homes include the Byers residence from Stranger Things, Monica’s apartment from Friends, The Simpsons’ home, Bilbo’s Hobbit Hole, the Tenenbaum residence from The Royal Tenenbaums, and The
This is a video from the Brick Experiment Channel of the creation of increasingly larger LEGO powered water vortices, ending with one that’s so powerful there’s hardly any water in the bottom of the bucket as the vortex spins. Now that is powerful. Now I hate to point any fingers,
This is a clip from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s show Going Great, starring a 19-year old Keanu Reeves reporting from the first Canadian International Teddy Bear Convention in 1984. Come on, Keanu, who cares what my friends think about me collecting teddy bears, I’m living my dream, not theirs. Besides,