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Hiatus

I'm putting my blog on hiatus for a little while.  There are events occurring in my personal life that demand my full attention.  I'd like to thank everyone that reads, comments on, and supports my work.  Hopefully I'll be back soon.

Review: 40090 Halloween Bat

I came across this the other day while shopping for some other Lego sets.

Box.  $4.99 at Toys'R'Us for a $0.03 Price per Piece.

Instructions.

Parts 1.  A fair amount of Plates here, along with a few Bricks, Tiles, Slopes -- regular & Inverted -- some 1x2 Mod. Bricks w/Studs on side, a 1x2-2x4 Bracket, some 1x2 Vert. Clip Plates, and a couple Mod. Plate 2x2x2/3 w/2 Studs on Side.

Parts 2.  Once again we have a lot of Plates, but we also have

Tooth Plates, Bar Plates, Clip Plates, Flower Plates, Cheese

Slopes, Headlight Bricks, Clip Bricks, and Eye Tiles.

Build.  A walker frame. (2Rd+d8/1G/1Y/2W)

The Questions:
Can you build something -- a frame, station, or starship -- right away?  Yes.  (+5)
Is it below, at, or above the golden ratio?  Below.  (+5)  (The Golden Ratio is $0.10 per part.)
If you can't build a frame right away, or choose not to, does it have parts you should be able to put into use right away?  Yes.  (+5)
Does it have more than a handful of immediately useful parts?  Yes.  (+5)
Score: +20 (A+).  Run, don't walk, to get this set.  It's a seasonal set, and at that PpP it's a steal.

Non-Human 21

It's a holiday for me and I'm feeling lazy.  Have some neat mecha to ogle.

MT1.1 by Marco Marozzi.  Nice use of Constraction
parts for what looks to be a really solid design.

Desert Scout by John Kupitz.

Great use of color in this build.

upload by [MIXBRIX].  It looks a little fiddly in the feet, but
there are some interesting techniques being used with this one.

Dino Squad by P. B.

They're dinosaurs, and

micro mechs.  Win win!

Scylla by Max.  This guy looks to be about
7 studs tall, or, just perfect for 4P scale.

Review: 40077 Geoffrey Polybag

I've had this set sitting around in my "To Do" pile for about two years.

Bag.  MSRP is $4.99 from Toys'R'Us, which gives us a $0.06 Price per Piece.

Instructions.

Parts.  That's a lot of Yellow.  I see some Clip Plates, Bar Plates, Slopes, Headlight Bricks, plenty of 1x1 Bricks, some small Radar Dishes, Jumper Plates, Tiles, regular Plates, a Round 8x8 Tile, a couple of Cones, and some Round Plant Bricks w/Leaves.  That's a pretty wide cross-section of parts.

Build.  A small Frame (2Rd+d8/ 2B/2W) with some terrain.

The Questions:

Can you build something -- a frame, station, or starship -- right away?  Yes.  (+5)
Is it below, at, or above the golden ratio?  Below.  (+5)
(The Golden Ratio is $0.10 per part.)
If you can't build a frame right away, or choose not to, does it have parts you should be able to put into use right away?  Yes.  (+5)
Does it have more than a handful of immediately useful parts?  Yes.  (+5)
Score: +20 (A+).  A TRU exclusive gets the top score.  Now I really have seen it all.

Review: 30265 Worriz's Fire Bike Polybag

This was available at Target earlier this year and as a Lego "free" giveaway last year.

Bag.  MSRP is $3.99 for a $0.13 Price per Piece.

Instructions.

Minifig.  Standard Chima minifig.

Parts.  there's not a lot here.  It's bad when the greatest quantity of parts is the three different varieties of Technic Pins.

Build.  I managed to build a clunky Frame out of the parts available.

The Questions:
Can you build something -- a frame, station, or starship -- right away?  Yes.  (+5)
Is it below, at, or above the golden ratio?  Above.  (-10) (The Golden Ratio is $0.10 per part.)
If you can't build a frame right away, or choose not to, does it have parts you should be able to put into use right away?  Yes.  (+5)
Does it have more than a handful of immediately useful parts?  No.  (-5)
Score: -5 (B-).  Like most Chima sets it falls down on the price.

Sales Alert

It's sort of the second week of Bricktober and the sales are picking up.

Toys'R'Us has the second Mini Modular set on sale.  They also have a Mega Bloks sale going on.

Target has a FREE LEGO Mixels (a $4.99 value) when you buy any LEGO City, Ninjago or Friends toy $24.99 or more sale.  They also have an online free LEGO Creator set when you spend $100 on select LEGO sets sale.  They also have a 10% off sale going on for certain Mega Bloks sets but it doesn't seem to be listed online.

The Lego Store has double VIP points running until October 14th.