Just the other week I told JPX that late July would be the earliest these sets were available -- WRONG! A generous sampling of the new Space Police and Agents sets have suddenly blammed their way onto the Lego website and stores.
Which is making me downright
sick because I am so broke right now, and work is thin on the ground. Today I went to the Glendale Lego store and got Squidman Escape (above). Fortunately I had a half-spent gift card and only had to shell out $1.99 in cash. The set is 5.99, and well worth it. Both minifigs are great; in terms of theme design, they've really knocked this one out of the park.
These sets are an excellent combo of reasonable price and show-offy minifig awesomeness. Freeze Ray Frenzy here is ten bucks.
Gold Heist has this adorable Space Police hover truck thing and a freakin' four-armed lizard alien.
Even as the sets get more elaborate, the prices don't get too crazy. Space Truck Getaway is the third biggest set of them all, and it's only 30 bucks. This set is a maybe for me, but the last two will definitely be coming home if I ever have any money again.
Likewise a couple of these Agents sets. I dislike the Agents' designs in this theme (although that new body armor piece is cool), but the villains are great. In Gold Tooth's Getaway you get a gold flat-top hairpiece, a gold baby T-Rex and all this other crap for only ten bucks!
I don't know if River Heist is a set worth getting, but check out those two villains, the bad guy with
green Clone Wars Dooku hair and the bad girl with
red Cate Blanchett from Crystal Skull hair. Those villains will be a Bricklink purchase in my future, at the very least.
Robo Attack is a big one at fifty clams, so I may cherry-pick this one as well. Particularly for that new dome piece and the hilarious civilian characters.
I don't know if these have hit the regular stores yet, but at least it won't be long until Ben runs ahead and finds some plastic gold. They're putting out some really great stuff this year. I've been meaning to post about it, but in the meantime check out this
flickr collection of 2009 Toy Fair.
And if you want to check out the Lego website, go over to
The Brothers Brick (my favorite Lego blog) and click from there. It helps them out.
Oh, by the way, I did a new census of my Lego minifigs. I counted a bunch of weirdoes, like R2 bodies, skeletons, Martians, Technic figures, Jack Stone figures, etc. The total?
One thousand, five hundred and fifty.
For seven of the past eight days I have been working furiously on sets for a Power Rangers toy commercial. We had to make a huge set of a post-apocalyptic urban wasteland on which the colorful members of Power Rangers RPM fought the evil Grinders. The spot is the lead-in for a contest, in which kid fans of the Power Rangers make their own movies completing the story we started.
As toy scoops go, this is fairly huge. I got to see prototypes of the spring line, including one Megazord that still had its pre-production red and green coloration. Unfortunately, if I showed off any groovy pictures of the sets or the prototypes I'd honk off the Bandai bigwigs and damage the rep of my good friends who hired me. So groove on the sheer quantity! The boxes above were actually the second batch of toys we had to wrangle after the batch being sorted in the top pic.
We stopped at Target for a quick refill on diapers, and lo and behold the toy section had one each of these little items. And... I actually wasn't going to buy them. Work is patchy for me and we were on the eve of a big vacation, it just wasn't the day to drop forty bucks on toys. 
I've actually had this guy kicking around since before Zack was born, but I just took some pictures today. It's a robot helper for busy vampires who have appointments to keep during the day.
Comes equipped with air exchanger, on-board wifi connection, and patented Darkbomb security package. 
Brought to you by the good folks at Osiris Ltd., making fine goods for the undead since... longer than we'd care to say.
I just started sorting this tub after not bothering to all year. In there is every set I've acquired, including some big ones from last year that I just dissembled, and every brick I pulled to build the murder beach and the pirate podracer. And general random acquisition.
I threw this little piece together to commemorate this ongoing process. I think I'm the one rowing and the angry guy is my Lego obsession.
A while back the shop I work for needed some prop barrels, so we bought several "Barrel Full of Monkeys" toys. The monkeys were dumped into a tupperware container which got stuck out of the way in various places for more than a year.
Last weekend Julie arranged her friend's baby shower, and thought hook monkeys would be a good decoration for the little gift bags of candy. I found the dusty container and emptied it into my backpack.
So of course when I got home I had to make a big monkey chain. There are ceiling hooks left over from a previous tenant, and they were perfect. Then I took some artsy-fartsy pictures and took it back down. Zack liked to chew on these, and while they're too big for swallowing I was worried he'd hook his cheek with one of the sharp little monkey paws. But there are a LOT left over, and they will be waiting for him when he's old enough.
Look what I found when I was searching for Superwoman images! Slated for summer realease, according to Action Figure Insider. Click here for more.
Just the other week I told JPX that late July would be the earliest these sets were available -- WRONG! A generous sampling of the new Space Police and Agents sets have suddenly blammed their way onto the Lego website and stores.
These sets are an excellent combo of reasonable price and show-offy minifig awesomeness. Freeze Ray Frenzy here is ten bucks.
Gold Heist has this adorable Space Police hover truck thing and a freakin' four-armed lizard alien.
Even as the sets get more elaborate, the prices don't get too crazy. Space Truck Getaway is the third biggest set of them all, and it's only 30 bucks. This set is a maybe for me, but the last two will definitely be coming home if I ever have any money again.
Likewise a couple of these Agents sets. I dislike the Agents' designs in this theme (although that new body armor piece is cool), but the villains are great. In Gold Tooth's Getaway you get a gold flat-top hairpiece, a gold baby T-Rex and all this other crap for only ten bucks!
I don't know if River Heist is a set worth getting, but check out those two villains, the bad guy with green Clone Wars Dooku hair and the bad girl with red Cate Blanchett from Crystal Skull hair. Those villains will be a Bricklink purchase in my future, at the very least.
Robo Attack is a big one at fifty clams, so I may cherry-pick this one as well. Particularly for that new dome piece and the hilarious civilian characters.
