Tag: Toys

Aboard NASA’s journey to Jupiter will be LEGO mini-statues of Jupiter, his wife Juno, and Galileo. Why? CNN reports, “LEGO is partnering with NASA to promote children’s interest in science, math, engineering and technology.” Are they going to offer these…

There are only five different kinds of ewok LEGO mini-figs. They are sold buy hundreds of dealers on bricklink.com. I’m thinking of buying all the LEGO ewok mini-figs under $10 and start selling them for ten bucks each. People gotta…

(if you cannot view the above video, you can view it on my flickr account, “Talking ferret scoozie stuffed animal plush.”) Sometime during the late 90s, I bought this plush ferret from a grocery store. He has a voice box…

A selection of photos from various flickr groups on LEGO steampunk, tanks, and war. Some of these creations are just so COOOOOOOOL.

I have a backlog of videos to post to YouTube. About once a week, I’ll post a new video. Here’s one showing the big collection of Hot Wheels cars available at a Shelbyville, Indiana flea market. The end of the…

300,000 Lego bricks were used to create a 10ft by 26ft miniature city of the 2008 Beijing Olympics including the Bird Nest Stadium and the Water Cube swimming center. How much would this cost? I have a general rule when…

I’ve been into the idea of photographing LEGOs, so I did some research on flickr to see what was possible. Here are photos by other flickr members: These are all in my flickr favorites

“A senior Chinese official said that 85 percent of the more than 20 million toys recalled by Mattel were caused by problematic designs from the US.” (source: China Daily) China’s all like, “take that, be-yatch!” Next thing you know, America…

Gross sales in the last quarter: +20%: Hot Wheels (worldwide) +12%: Fisher-Price pre-school toys (worldwide) +6%: Barbie (worldwide) -1% Mattels girl division (worldwide) -5%: Barbie (in just USA) -10%: American Girl (worldwide) No word yet on Hasbro with Transformers Source:…

Walgreens no longer has a toy section in its downtown Chicago stores. With the redesign of Walgreens floor layout last summer, they completely eliminated their toy section. So now other than the Lego Store on Michigan Avenue, there is a…

My girlfriend and I decided to be LEGO blocks for halloween. Here’s what I found online for LEGO costumes. Almost all of them are based on wearing a box. We both know from the past that is way too cumbersome.…

I have a new piece of art in the art gallery on spudart.org. Feel free to leave a comment at the lego mosaic robot page.

This coupon expires 10/31/2006. It got it in an email from LEGO.

Okay, so i’m obssessed with spider monkeys now. Or you could say I’m ape for spider monkeys!!!!

LEGO Master Model Building Event Friday, August 18, 10:30am – 6:30pm Saturday, August 19, 10:30am – 6:30pm Sunday, August 20, 11am to 6pm The LEGO Store at Westfield North Bridge 515 N State St, Chicago, IL Ever wondered how those…

This little lego figure is a dude listening to a boombox. However, I cannot take credit for this little guy, TMS copywriter Lisa Schryver is the one who created him. But she did use my lego pieces. 🙂 It was…

What is up with all these new lego-like plates being installed at the edge of sidewalks in Chicago? Purpose A) General Safety: The bumps would (in theory) make it harder to slip into the street. (I’m not sure of that,…

We all know that dart guns are fun at work. They should be a standard office equipment of any good corporate America worker. Right next to your stapler and scissors is your dart gun. Here’s one way to target higher…

Every Friday at work we have New Toy Friday. Yesterday’s toy was the Animal Cracker (thanks to Lisa Radke). How many Animal Crackers can you eat in 60 seconds? I was able to down 10 Animal Crackers in 55 seconds.…

Here’s some clips from the LEGO PressRoom, “LEGO Group on the Right Track.” The strategy is a continuation of the Action Plan implemented by the Group in 2004 05 to overcome its financial crisis. The company will, therefore, continue to…

Lego is going to be revamping their Mindstorms line–the robotic line of Lego. 9,600 people worldwide applied for Lego’s Mindstorms call for great developers. Lego selected 100 people to work on the product line. In Lego’s image library for the…

The most rad Xevox figure has to be: Xevoz Infil-Traitor – Biomecha. This IS the coolest Xevox toy. Check out the rest of the Xevoz figure and tell me if you think there is a cooler one.

Read the press release. I can see how Lego must protect their market, but c’mon, really. It seems like such a waste. How about shipping these toys off to some 3rd world country where they can’t even afford toys? Actually,…

The 2004 most dangerous toys list is now released. It’s funny how the advertiser links on this “Top Ten Dangerous Toys” list has links to other toys not on the danger list. Having this little call out box makes it…

Hotwheels makes some nice die-cast metal cars. Matchbox on the other hand makes all very crappy ones. It’s embarrasing the stuff that matchbox puts out. Then much to my surprise, I just found out today that hotwheels and matchbox are…

Within the last two years, ALL the toy stores in downtown Chicago have closed. * Toys R Us on State Street (Summer 2003?) * FAO Schwartz on Michigan Ave (January 2003) * KB Toys in Merchandise Mart (January 2004) Where…

Toys and weapons have always gone hand-in-hand. But have they gone too far? Witness as brutal, medieval weapons now inspire a new breed of toys. It’s so dangerous, it appears on the official top ten worst toys for 2003!

This morning on my bus ride to work, I was standing below the speaker on a overstuffed bus with people. Every time the bus would accerlate, a weird high pitch buzz would emit from the speaker in the ceiling. Then…