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LEGO NEXO Knights year 3 Tech Wizard Showdown feat. mech-ception

LEGO Friends 41325 Heartlake City Playground review

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The social media popularity contest that is LEGO Ideas has produced a good number of compelling sets, but to date not a lot of real toys, like for kids.  UK LEGO Friends team to the rescue!  A set contest was run last year, open only to kids 6-12 years old, and the winning entry was used as the starting point to create... this!

LEGO NEXO Knights Twinfector review 72002

LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Outback Adventures review 31075

Mega Construx Destiny Heavy Pike Patrol review

LEGO Star Wars BrickHeadz Finn & Capt. Phasma review

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Yep I got a couple more of these little things and I'm not particularly proud of it.  I felt like they had limited potential early on, and the situation hasn't particularly improved with time.  They're not bad, I just think they're not particularly great.

LEGO NEXO Knights Aaron's X-Bow review 72005

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Just from the pictures I expected the main build in this set to have scissoring wing transformation, Technic geared rotors with remote activation, and trigger-launched missiles.  Well, it has none of that.  It's evidently... less than meets the eye.


Mega Bloks Call of Duty Zombies Nuketown set review!

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Timestamp 0:00 in this video sums up my strongest feelings about this set: "I can't believe I actually have this!"  High-quality photos of a pre-production version were leaked out in 2014 with an expected release of 2015, but that seemed to be the end of it.  Fast forward to 2016, and a few production sets went out to reviewers, suggesting that a release was actually going to occur, but that seemed to be the end of it, again!

Then, last week, I was browsing Amazon when the myth finally became reality for me, priced at $40 USD, shipped from Amazon warehouses with free shipping for Prime members.  Now, some viewers are reporting seeing this on shelves at Ross.  It's another case of a set that was produced in quantity, but never picked up by retailers as expected, then finally liquidated through clearance channels down the line.

LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Drone Explorer review 31071

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The word "drone" entered the popular lexicon via early media hype over the rise of military recon & attack UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) around the turn of the millennium.  Originally the term was a reference to the sound and "dumb" flight characteristics of UAVs, which resembled that of male bees.  A decade later, media again mucked with the English language by applying the term to any and all multi-rotor remote-controlled aircraft, including cheap toy versions, regardless of capabilities.  Many ignorant news reports would even call single-rotor RC helicopters & airplanes "drones" and use quadcopter visual references because that's what they had gotten the public temporarily worked up about (with worries over privacy & safety).  Now LEGO has picked up this linguistic misappropriation and applied it to a model of a flying vehicle that's clearly supposed to be operated by an onboard pilot.  In other words, it's just an aircraft.  To be more specific you could call it a twin-rotor helicopter or bicopter, but it's not a "drone" by any stretch.

That concludes today's unsolicited lesson.  For weekend homework, write a 500-word essay on the the legal and ethical precedents for government regulation of remotely-piloted model aircraft for commercial vs. recreational use.  Pass/fail grading will be used.

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LEGO Ninjago "garmadon, Garmadon, GARMADON" set review 70656

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A little bit of the spirit of Benny from the original LEGO Movie lives on in at least the title of this walking, large, yet miniaturized shark mech set.  This is definitely one of those times I do not envy LEGO designers, the development of this set being plagued by so many battling restrictions & requirements.  Against very difficult odds, I think they did about as good as anyone could reasonably ask.

LEGO NEXO Knights Axl's Rolling Arsenal review 72006

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I went down a bit of a roller-coaster of emotion with this set today, starting out liking & looking forward to it, then feeling really let down after completing the main chassis, and finally returning to a calm state of satisfaction with the removable components docked in place.

Mega Construx Halo Spartan CTF Base Crashers review

LEGO NEXO Knights Berserker Bomber review 72003

LEGO Ninjago Wu Cru Master's Training Grounds review

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In some regions this came out in early 2017.  In a limited number of others it came out in the middle of the year.  In my region, it just hit store shelves and was actually the first set of the season for me to come up with a "DO NOT sell until" embargo at the checkout register, listing a street date of Dec. 1, 2017.  A manager was kind enough to do an override... for this months-old... $4 set.

It's funny to see the diametrical shift in comments between two back-to-back videos, from "It is impossible for you to have this set because it does not yet even exist on the planet" to "This is set is so old it makes absolutely no sense for you to review it [sic]" in minutes!

LEGO City Heavy Cargo Transport review 60183

LEGO City 2018 Pickup & Caravan review 60182

LEGO Ninjago Movie Piranha Attack review 70629

LEGO City Ambulance Helicopter review 60179

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It's always good to see LEGO retaining their focus on making what their primary market wants & likes.  This may even be one of their better medevac chopper toys (for play) of all time, thanks to a handful of much-needed and often missing details.

LEGO Batman Movie The Joker Manor review 70922

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Here's another one of those reviews that took an entire weekend to produce, from assembly of the 3,444 piece set with the help of its 2 lb., 451-page instruction manual, through uploading of the 22-minute edited-down video that drew from about 60 individual clips.  What a shame it is, then, that my overall opinion of the flagship set is less than glowing.

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