Sunday, June 16, 2013

Hi Ho Silver Away!!!! - The Lone Ranger makes an appearance!

 While down visiting family in northern Wisconsin the wife and I decided to take a day trip over to the Mall of America.  It had been probably 7 or 8 years since I had been there and my wife had never been, so why not take a road trip to decompress from all the family time?

My wife had lots of stuff she was interested in seeing, but for me there was only one store I really cared to check out and that was the Lego store.  I had never been in a Lego store before and I was plesantly surprised that the prices were as cheap as anywhere and the all the store workers were just as enthusiastic about Legos as the patrons shopping there.

I wasn't going to buy anything oddly enough, being a little overwhelmed and realizing that almost everything at the store could be had for the exact same price here in Alaska and I wouldn't have to lug it home with me. But in the end I did pick up two things and a few mini figure packs.  I was tempted to pick up one of the new Iron Man 3 playsets, but instead settled on the new Lone Ranger play sets that had just come out a few days ago.

I was only going to pick up the one set, but one of the Legoteers talked me into picking up the Cavalry builder set, because not only do you get 4 mini's you get the Lone Ranger and Silver.

The cannon actually fires those black pieces. Notice in the photo above I only have 3.  I lost one somewhere while playing with it.
On to the mini's!!
One of the selling points was that you get Silver with this set.
You also get 3 calvary men.  While the bodies are all the same they each have different faces.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Minifigure Spotlight - Series 10 - Bumblebee Girl

I'm never really got the minifigure costumes.  I mean there's the Dinoguy, Chickensuit guy, Bunnysuit guy, and maybe I'll even count the Gorilla in Series 3.  But who am I to complain.  I still love the diversity that Lego puts into each Series and in Series 10 we get Bumblebee Girl.

She comes with a pot of honey and a antenna hat.  Probably not my favorite of the series, but a fun one none the less.  And yes she's easy to find too with the pot, wings and antenna topper.  


Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Minifigure Spotlight - Series 10 Revolutionary Soldier

I'm down to needing just two more mini's to complete the series.  Another great historical mini in this series is this guy, the Revolutionary War soldier.  Another figure that's pretty easy to find as the musket is pretty easy to feel in packaging.
Some very nice detailing on the body and he even comes with a ponytailed white wig.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Know your Iron Man Minifigures!!!

Finally saw Iron Man last night.  Other than utterly destroying one of the franchises best villians to a gag it wasn't too bad.  And as an Iron Man fan seeing all those cool Iron Man suits I was in total nerdvana.  

Anyways here's a quick visual for all you Iron Man and Lego minifigure fans to help tell apart the 4 different Iron Man minifigures.


War Machine
Iron Patriot

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Iron Man 3 - 76008 Iron Man vs the Mandarin: Ultimate Showdown playset

The first Iron Man 3 set I've picked up I couldn't resist.  This is the cheapest of the 3 sets so far with a MSRP of $12.99, but you get the two main characters and you get Iron Man in Heartbreaker armor. The other two sets feature Iron Man in Mark 42 armor.  I do believe between these 3 sets and two previous Marvel Universe sets there are 4 different Iron Man's in various armor types. There is also a Mandarin with a diffent body decals.

As a huge Iron Man fan growing up I'm finally glad to have added at least one of the Iron Man to my minifigure collection.

Here we have Mandarin's assult card with missles and flame thrower.

Here we have a close up of the Mandarin. Both minifigures come with two faces.
I've taken the beard off so you can get a good look at the both of them.


I love the detailing on the Iron Man armor.
I've read a few complaints about the size of the head makes the minifigure look disproportionate and that's kind of true, but that face that the face plate lifts up is pretty cool. So take the good with the bad I suppose.