PRIMITIVE SCREWHEADS

The LEGO Movie The Second Part 2019

The LEGO Movie The Second Part 2019 Story by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Matthew Fogel, screenplay by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, directed by Mike Mitchell. I got the DVD ages ago and it's just been sitting there.

Emmet lives in the rubble of the first movie, it's called Apocalypseburg, and he's still an upbeat guy. Duplo aliens have been attacking and a space-suited alien kidnaps some of Emmett's friends. Emmet and Wildside go rescue them.They have a lot of wacky adventures doing so.

It goes on and on for 107 minutes, about 25 minutes before the end we get to the human side of the story and that kid's pretty much a dick who didn't want to play with his sister. He has to have all his LEGO put in tubs to change things.

I found I wasn't as enthused by the movie as I was by the first movie. None of the songs were as good as Everything Is Awesome and I have kind of hear that song enough for now. I'd be less likely to watch this again than the first movie.

A Big Lego Christmas 2016

I missed A Big LEGO Christmas back in 2016, it just turned up on YouTube. It's a Christmas themed documentary, narrated by Stephan Mangan, about the opening of LEGO store in London. The store is  massive and it's got a huge model of the Elizabeth Tower with it's well known clock. 

That's Paul on the left, he's the manager of the new store they're working feverishly to open before the Christmas season. His staff is all new, so is Paul, he's hiring his new employees three days after starting himself. The other's are various LEGO employees. The guy in the blue shirt is in charge of the photo booth that takes your picture and dispensaries a ready to build mosaic of the person who got photographed.

Another project featured is the giant LEGO model of Tower Bridge by the UK's only LEGO Professional Duncan Titmarsh. It broke the world record with a total of 5,805,846 white bricks. It can hold two large Land Rovers. The Yellow Submarine set is featured in another segment. The hour long documentary ends with a bit on the store's opening day and a nice Christmas display by Duncan.

LEGO 60248 Street Sweeper

Though I'm not much of a fan of the LEGO City theme I do like the occasional vehicles. 60248 is the latest in a series of small street sweepers. Target had a 20% sale and I picked up the $10 set.

You got 2 pair of wheels, a pair of blue gears for front sweepers and a pair of bright blue brushes, all turning. I like those brush parts, especially the green ones from the Mixels set. I see there are red ones but they are pricey on Bricklink.

I like the green garbage can and those bottom arches might come in handy sometime. It's a decent looking vehicle with a good nondescript minifigure. Glad I picked one up, better that it was on sale.

LEGO Aston Martin DB5

The Aston Martin DB5 is the car James Bond used in several films, the first being Goldfinger. The car used in Goldfinger was sold back in 2010 for $4.6 million but you can pick up a regular one for about a half a million. You just need to sell off a couple of your houses, right. Lego had just released their version and it looks stunningly poor.

To me it looks like it was designed by Cold War Era Soviet designers. The elegant lines of the real car are gone. Mind you I often find LEGO versions of real cars to suck the big donkey dick. I get that there's a lot of work going on here, moving parts, etc, and that's fine. Good work. It's just the parts don't lend themselves to sophisticated curves and the cars often look terrible. I'm lacking any real need for speed, as in getting down to the LEGO store to buy one. I might take one for half price, the full price is $149.99 for just over 1200 parts, but then again, it's almost all gray parts that I don't really need.

100 Greatest Toys with Jonathan Ross 2010

There's a watchable copy of the three part mini-series 100 Greatest Toys with Jonathan Ross. It originally aired in 2010 and all three episodes are packed together on YouTube in one 2.5 hour video. The British public ranked the shows in order of popularity. There's a mix of old and new going back to the era when I was a kid. I won't tell you what #1 is but I bet you can guess.

30478 Santa Claus

There's a nice little Creator polybag in the new Christmas crap in Target's seasonal area. It's 30478 Santa Claus and it's got 74 parts for $3.49 plus tax. It makes a rotund Santa and three presents.

40263 Christmas Town Square

The second of the two Christmas themed sets is 40263 Christmas Town Square. It's got an even better piece count than the other set. At $9.99 for 179 pieces that comes to just a smidgen more than 6 cents each after you add the tax.

There's a large brick built tree in an enclosure, a pretzel and cupcake stand, a light pole with mailbox, a snowman and a lady pulling a sled. Lovely, and combined with the other set, you can make out a nice little scene. Of course, add in some imagination and ambition, and you can add more detail to your own town square.

Some nice minifigures that were made of pieces that have been in several sets already. The head of the little girl in the middle has been in 52 other sets, her nice blue sweater is in 3 other sets, same as the brown sweater on the little boy. The woman's purple top has been in 6 other sets, but the short pants in flame yellowish orange has only been in 1 other set. I was surprised to see that the top hat has been in 70 sets total, but not surprised to see that the 1x1 round plate has been in 701 sets. Sets worth getting for the right person. Certainly they would make great gifts for the right person.

 

40262 Christmas Train Ride

I picked up the two new Christmas LEGO sets at the LEGO store today. 40262 Christmas Train Ride might lack imagination in it's title but it's got a plethora of little bits going on.

There's a train, a bench, a hot chocolate and cookie stand, a tree, a light post and bench, and a stall that seems to be for selling tickets to the train.

One guy sells the hot chocolate and cookies, the other guy drives the train, the little girl is ready to go for a ride. It's all pretty cute, and at $9.99 for 169 pieces there's very good value too.

Knock Off Batman Minifigures

I'd been looking at the Knock Off figures on eBay and Amazon to see what was in production. The material changes all the time, there are windows of availability, then it's gone. That's the business of cheating, make the product, sell it, move on to the next product.

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LEGO Batman - Chaos In Gotham City

I'm not sure why I bought the Tartan Batman minifigure. but, now I have it. The 32 page magazine is filled with puzzles and other activities to do. So many will be wrecked by kids coloring in but not mine. I even discovered that you could remove the Batman, and replace it, without damaging the magazine.