Lego Universe Pre order is open

You can now pre order Lego Universe.  The game will ship later in the year but your pre order gets you a code to play as the limited edition spaceman.mini figure.

The official launch date is October 26th but pre ordering will get you early access on October 12th.  You can only get the game in the Lego Online Shop or Official Lego Retail Stores.

Lego Universe Official Site

Lego World Cup Football

I’m not the worlds biggest soccer, sorry, Football fan but I can appreciate this. How about Lego recreations of World Class matches. 

There are some cool videos  here. The site is in German (I think) but you can still get around and find the videos.  Now if someone can only make a Lego Vuvuzella

Check out the videos here

Lego kid's new lego indy set

   The Lego Kid had a visit from his Nana today. She took him to get a new small Lego set because that’s whant Nana’s do.  The Lego Kid has been on a Lego Indana Jones kick since he got the Lego Indy 2 game so he chose the Lego Indana Jones set 7195 Ambush In Cairo.  This is a small set but it comes with four minifigures. You get Indy, Marion, and two bad guys.  The reason The Lego Kid wanted this so bad is because one of the bad guys looks like a Ninja.

You get a cool little cart, a fruit stand with a gold bowl full of Lego Apples, and barrel. Marion also has a frying pan which she used in the movie to knock out one of the bad guys. Not a bad deal for $10

 

 

Lego Indiana Jones 2

Well the Lego Kid has not been doing a lot of creating lately.  He has spent a great deal of time this past week with his new game.  We found Lego Indiana Jones 2 at a local store for $20.  This was too good to pass up.

This game is very different from the previous Lego games.  You still play levels, collect studs to try and get “True Adventurer” and unlock characters and vehicles.  The structure of the game is a little different though. 

You start out in common areas which aren’t levels but still hold hidden items  which you can collect to unlock other items. You can play the levels in story mode, but when you go back to play in Treasure mode, you will need characters with certain abilities.  In the previous games, you entered the level  in free play with all the characters you needed, not so in Lego Indy 2. The other cool feature is the split screen. In the first Lego Indy, if you strayed too far from each other one got pulled toward the other.  In Lego Indy 2 the screen will split and you can each do your own thing.

The coolest new feature is the build your own level section.  You can create a level complete with traps, vehicles, creatures, hidden items, and weapons.  The Lego Kid had the great ideal of creating a capture the flag ty0pe level.  We each built a fort with a a crystal skull buried in it. We had to try to navigate the traps and obstacles of each others Lego Forts to get to the prize.

This is a great game with lots of different types of game play.  At $40 it’s still a worthwhile buy but if you can grab it for $20 you will be a happy camper.

How not to clean up Lego’s

Ok, so we had that picture of the giant mess of lego’s on the Lego Kid’s floor last week.  I knew it would be a task to clean it up.  Well after that, Lego Kid had friends over and and they did in fact clean up.  It wasn’t the best clean up job. 

We had originally bought this desk thinking that it would be a great place for the Lego Kid to build his sets. It soon became the place to put the sets up at the end of the day.  Now it seems that this is the Lego bone yard where old sets go to die.

I realize that I’m am partially responsible so I will be trying to help the Lego Kid make some sense of this pile of little plastic bricks.

Lego Kid strikes again

This weekend the Lego Kid did some lego madness.  We created a cool assault vehicle with Dastan as the driver. 

This thing is part tractor, part tank, and all cool.  It has some missiles on the front, a heavy cannon, and two storm trooper blasters on either side of the drivers cage.

For some reason the Lego Kid thought it would be cool to put the little blue ninja on the back.

 

 

This thing can handle anything. The drivers cage turns all the way around so Dastan can take out any bad guys sneaking up behind him while he is still moving forward.

Lego Amp

Since I posted last month about the Lego Guitar I have been thinking about music related Lego’s.  Once again the world of Lego and music collide with Lego Instruments.  

 

Here we have a very detailed Lego amplifier.  This is an amazing creation.  It has all the bits and pieces that go inside the amp too. This creation by Dave Chatterson first appeared in the Fender site last spring.   You can check out the whole story and more pics there

Lego Deadliest Catch

Ok so we watched a lot of the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch marathon over the Memorial Day Weekend. Since we enjoyed watching the crab boats in action we thought we’d make one out of Lego’s. 

This boat is very much inspired by the Northwestern.  Unfortunately we couldn’t make a Lego Sig or Lego Edgar to work on the boat.  The boat is complete with a pot launcher and crane.  I don’t know how the crab fishing is but it looks like they have found a giant octopus.  Watch out guys,I think this octopus is the deadliest catch.

 

 

  It looks like the giant 8 legged monster has gotten a hold of the boat.

While we were at it the Lego Kid also created a strange little fish man.  Pretty cool huh.