Category Archives: Caught My Eye

AFOL A Blocumentary

While I dislike (despise?) the term AFOL, this video (direct link here) is very well done and worth 25-30 minutes of your time to watch.

AFOL A Blocumentary from AFOL on Vimeo.
What is it about the term AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) that I don’t like? It is hard to put it into words but it [...]

Toy Fair 2010 Pictures

A few years ago I found a link to a site called Altered States Magazine.  ASM had very good Toy Fair coverage, particularly of LEGO.  These days pictures from Toy Fair are pretty prevalent but ASM still has very good coverage.

Unfortunately there are no pictures of the 2010 trains.  At least none that I [...]

Cool background on the Emerald Night

I am not sure how I missed then when it was posted, but I just saw the link today on Eurobricks  (which admittedly I don’t visit very often).

There is some pretty cool footage in the video and some insight into the LEGO Vault. There is also an brief view of the LEGO Hobby Train [...]

2010 LEGO Train Sets

I saw a link to this image on the WamaLUG mailing list.

You can read a bit more about 2010 LEGO Trains in this article on BrickSet.  A couple of initial thoughts:

It is nice to see LEGO Trains coming back and as expected, they are Power Function based.
I really wish LEGO would release individual train [...]

LEGO needs more $10 sets

Yesterday I was out doing some Christmas shopping and Wal-Mart was one of my stops.  On my way out of the store I checked out the LEGO aisle.  There were lots of sets in the $30+ prices range on the shelves but nothing in the sub-$30 range.
I don’t understand why LEGO continues to ignore a [...]