Lee Dixon

So I booked a week off work over the Easter Holidays. Got two days out, and 5 days decorating.....  The first day out was to Blackpool Tower. Not been there in years. It's such a nice building, and the ballroom is lovely, wish we could have spent all day just in that room. Takes me back to when I was a kid and me and my older brother would go with our aunty and uncle who would dance while we just walked around the place..

Well they have been dropping hints that something big was coming for the 1st of September and they were not wrong.....  With 7,541 pieces in total it's the biggest Lego model they have ever sold, but at £650 UK, I don't think it will be making its way to our house sadly.

A large amount of trailers have been released in the last week or so. Thought I would do a post of the ones that caught my eye.  I know that I haven't got them all, but this will keep me going all year in the films and tv viewing... READY PLAYER ONE

We are a bit of a fan of Lego Worlds here at the Dixon's. My youngest will happily site and just make up his own games while running around the sandbox game. It's an amazing creative game for any fan of Lego or just building.  Anyway now that the game has been released as a full game now, and has been out for awhile I have been collecting a few of the codes you can input to unlock sets and also world codes.  I haven't tried them all but give them a go.

Time for a Lego Build update....   Two new sets have made it into our house lately Iron Man LEGO BrickHeadz and Ninjago Desert Lightning.  My eldest son, now is "not interested in Lego" but can not help picking the odd set up, this one caught his eye when we visited  Legoland in Manchester  lately. Buildable Iron Man LEGO® BrickHeadz construction character features colorful and authentic detailing, BrickHeadz eyes, plus a display baseplate. Each LEGO® BrickHeadz construction character comes with its own buildable collector’s base plate featuring series number and BrickHeadz icon.

 I don't often post family pictures, but I'm somewhat behind on organising our images, so while I have a few moments and I'm in my photo album folders he you go.  Just a few from the last 4 months. January:

Well as I'm back messing with my blogger site, and I promise to write more posts this year, I thought I would do a quick family post with some of our pictures from December, which of course is really just Christmas.....

So we got two new mini Lego figures thanks to the sun newspaper give away offer. We have The Hawk with some equipment and a kind of zombie and coffin car from The Monster Fighters set I think.

Finally, it was only a matter of time before they made an official Lego movie. The cut scenes in the games were getting better and better, and longer and longer. And with the added use of voices now, it was only a matter of when and which franchise would be first.  Well its Batman and the DC Superheroes Unite, and was announced at NYCC 2012!

I know that most Lego fan's will have seen this already, and most of my Lego G+ guy's but I found a few more images of this amazing build and thought I would share a post. Carlyle Livingston II & Wayne Hussey, took 800 hours to put this together, and over 20,000 Lego pieces! It also weighs over 100 pounds! It has inspired my 8yr to make a batcave, good luck Sam!!  ;)

 And just after the pictures released of the Turtles making it into the lego world, we have pictures of the new hobbit sets that will be out in December just in time for the first part of the Hobbit movie.    The two sets are called "The Goblin King Battle, which will sell for about £70, and Riddles for The Ring, which will sell for £10.

 Well it was only a matter of time I guess before the Turtles made it over into Lego. What with the cartoon network and its new show which my 8yr son is enjoying, and the talk of a new reboot into the movies.  From the pictures I'v seen and posted here they do look good, but my favorite has to be Shredder.

This is a great short video using Lego to make a scene out of the Gears Of War game. Also there is a behind the scenes video on how Kooberz Studios put it together.

1,322 pieces. US $99.99 CA $129.99 DE 99.99 € UK 79.99 £ DK 799 DKK This authentic camper van is a replica of the classic Volkswagen Camper Van from 1962. Every iconic feature is here! On the outside, the terrific detailing includes ‘V’ shape three-way color split at the front, rounded roof and window frames, opening ‘splittie’ safari windshield, opening doors, iconic pop-up roof with textile curtain surround, roof rack, rear side air intake vents and lots more! The detailing is equally impressive on the inside, from the authentic VW air-cooled flat four cylinder boxer engine, front cabin bench seat, gear stick, angled dashboard and iconic spherical speedometer, to custom LEGO® features like folding rear bench seat, folding dinette table, closet with mirror and even a painting! Features 11 windows, authentic plaid-print textile curtains and wing mirror! Rear door opens to reveal detailed engine! Interior also features rear bench seat that transforms into a bed, ‘Make LEGO Models...

 this is a really good video of the star wars trilogy done in lego, we like a bit of lego here at tech-n-stuff!