A very cool, traveling Lego display happened to be in town the week Chris’s parents were here. Nature Connects was doing a stint at the Phoenix Zoo. It primarily involved large Lego models of animals: Like all zoos, it also had plenty of real…
Lego Roadtrip to the West Valley
It’s funny how different two consecutive years can be. Both 2015 and 2016 have been crazy and intense for me and Chris, but in completely different ways. Last year driving a couple of hundred miles a day most days was…
Lego Baby
This is a short post about one the cuter things to come out of LEGO recently. This year for the first time, LEGO has released a baby mini figure: This baby was not the very first, but it was certainly…
LEGO Creator Expert Brick Bank
Chris wants to build a Lego city, so we thought he should get started by seeing how an officially designed Lego building is made. He started out with LEGO Creator Expert Brick Bank Building Kit (2380 Piece). It is a massive…
Adventures in Lego Trains: Part 4 – LEGO City Trains High-speed Passenger Train 60051
Here is the final installment of Chris’s attempt at making a 5 car Lego high speed train out of a 3 car set:
LEGO Ghostbusters Ecto-1 21108 Update
Here’s a quick video update on the Lego Ghostbusters kit:
LEGO Ghostbusters Ecto-1 21108
As a ‘congratulations on your new job’ gift, I got Chris something I had rightly suspected he would quite like based on his childhood taste in movies, the Lego Ghostbuster car from the 1984 film. It was generally quite a well designed…
Adventures in Lego Trains: Part 3 – LEGO City Trains High-speed Passenger Train 60051
In the process of creating this train and doing this blog, we have realized that our chosen location has another perk. Apparently Lego stores are not at all common. There are two in the entire state of Arizona, none in…
Adventures in Lego Trains: Part 2 – LEGO City Trains High-speed Passenger Train 60051
In addition to getting a better base for his Lego train, Chris decided he wanted to make more cars for his train. This led to a trip to the Lego store, which is conveniently located about a mile away. We…
Adventures in Lego Trains: Part 1 – LEGO City Trains High-speed Passenger Train 60051
Even though we have much more space in the US than we had in the UK, his new train, LEGO City Trains High-speed Passenger Train 60051 Building Toy, is still enormous when fully built, so it has been far more involved…