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LEGO for Easter

April 11, 2011

LEGO makes little mini figures for most holidays and I usually forget until it it too late, but I just remembered in time for Easter. This year they have two different sets, an Easter Bunny with eggs and an Easter basket with eggs. I have to say that the LEGO eggs don’t look as much [...]

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LEGO MiniFigures

December 19, 2010

Looking for a little something for someone’s stocking? Or maybe the perfect little something for the LEGO obsessed in your family? LEGO has several collections of minifigures. What are minifigures? That is the fancy name for the tiny little LEGO guys. I am loving the LEGO Maraca Man MiniFigure pictured above. My other favorite is [...]

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Halloween LEGO

October 28, 2010

I may have mentioned that we have two almost eight year old boys obsessed with LEGOs. They came home from a birthday party this weekend with some fabulous Halloween themed LEGOs. Each pack builds a pumpkin, a ghost and a bat. They are very simple compared to most LEGO projects, but much fun was had [...]

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Star Wars Lego Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter – The Christmas Present Roundup Part 1

December 27, 2008

Woah. So we’re still trying to recover from Christmas morning and the living room remains strewn with new toys in various states of play. The dining room table has become Lego and Bakugan central, much to the chagrin of Mrs TR who still has one more plush Rocket Boy Rocket to make for a friends [...]

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This Year’s Champion 6th Birthday Present Is…

November 30, 2008

The Lego Star Wars video game. That’s right, not just a Star Wars video game, but a Lego Star Wars video game. I believe it is technically called Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. The characters are all made of Legos and they don’t die when they get shot, they just fall into their [...]

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Lego Yeti

November 3, 2008

I think I am in love. Can you believe how adorable this Lego yeti is? Can you believe that Lego made a Lego Yeti? With his own hideout, even! It is part of a series called Orient Expedition. There seems to be a card game that goes along with this set. It isn’t clear on [...]

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Gifts for Children – The 6 Biggest Mistakes

August 14, 2008

The following guidelines should be followed for giving gifts to other people’s children. To those of you with children, these guidelines may seem obvious. But just think, there are people without small children, people who don’t have a section of their brains dedicated to scanning the ground for choking hazards as they walk through a [...]

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