Minifigures Series 5 Fitness Instructor

Posted on | January 17, 2012 | No Comments

This minifigure is full of life, well you have to be to be a fitness instructor don’t you? She comes complete with a bright pink ghetto blaster with some, no doubt, cheesy euro dance rubbish music on it, but I won’t let that put me off adding this figure to my ever growing minifigure collection.

I do get the impression that this minifigure has too much energy and will become one of those annoying people who are always jogging or doing star jumps. Still, as it’s still January, no doubt the new years resolution will wear off soon.

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Minifigures Series 6 Clockwork Robot

Posted on | January 16, 2012 | No Comments

With the new year comes a brand new series of collectible minifigures from LEGO and once again they have some great figures in the collection. One of my favourites is this one, the Robot.

It’s such a simple design, the square head, key in it’s back and the decals. I reckon LEGO have got this one spot on and this figure is probably one of my favourites out of all 6 series so far.

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Photographing LEGO Minifigures

Posted on | January 15, 2012 | No Comments

This is just a quick post really to let you all know that if you are interested in taking pictures of your own minifigures, or any small item for that matter, against a white background, then pop over to one of my other web sites and read about the technique that I use to take photos of my minifigures.

Skeleton

Posted on | January 15, 2012 | No Comments

This particular LEGO skeleton is from one of the Pirates Of The Caribbean themed sets, but the skeleton has appeared in a lot of sets including Indiana Jones sets and castle sets too.

As minifigures go, it’s not particularly exciting but none the less it’s a pretty different from most other minifigures with it’s moulded body of bones. Really it’s the head that makes this figure skeleton like as the design is pretty spot on while still keeping it ‘LEGO’.

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Merry Christmas

Posted on | December 22, 2011 | No Comments

It’s that time of year again when hopefully lots of kids, and adults too no doubt, will be building new LEGO sets on Christmas day and adults will be treading on LEGO bricks and trying not to swear.

I want to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a great new year. Hopefully I might get the odd minifigure or two over Christmas to add to my growing collection and I hope you all get what you have asked for.

I would also like you to spare a thought, and maybe a few pounds, for a charity which is close to my heart, Kidney Research UK. Nearly four years ago I donated one of my kidneys to my sister. Kidney Research is doing a fantastic job and the advances in medical research and care for people suffering from kidney problems is improving all the time. With just a few quid, you can help improve someone’s life and go some way to help fund the research that is fighting Kidney Disease.

All the best and enjoy yourselves this Christmas.

Minifigures Series 5 Evil Dwarf

Posted on | December 21, 2011 | No Comments

With the recent news that LEGO have got the rights to produce official Lord Of The Rings sets (which is amazing news as far as I’m concerned) I’m sure we’ll be seeing more dwarves from LEGO.

This is the Evil Dwarf from the series 5 collectors set. Why it’s evil I am not so sure. Maybe he’s just a little bit grumpy.

This isn’t the first dwarf figure by LEGO as they featured in the Castle sets along with ogres and goblins, so I have a few already. Along with the Elf minifigure from series 3, I would say the LEGO have been preparing for the Lord Of The Rings sets for a while.

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Blackbeard

Posted on | December 20, 2011 | No Comments

Blackbeard, one of the most famous of all pirates and Jack Sparrow’s nemesis in Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth film in the series.

Once again LEGO have produced a lot of great detail on this minifigure. The beard, black of course, is the dominant feature, but the hat and the sword both make this a great minifigure to add to the collection.

Who’d have thought under all that facial hair, it’s just an antiques dealer from East Anglia (target reference there).

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Captain Jack Sparrow

Posted on | December 19, 2011 | No Comments

Drink up me ‘earties. Yo ho.

The Pirates Of The Caribbean themed sets are relatively new to the LEGO collection and I’ve had a few of the figures for a while. This is Captain Jack Sparrow, the main character of the films and what an ace minifigure he is too. I love the detail that LEGO have created on this character, plus there is the hidden extra of another, more scared, or possibly more drunk, face if you turn the head round 180 degrees under the hair.

As with any franchise sets, it’s always good to have them in your collection as they can become quite collectible.

I just hope he doesn’t find my rum!

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Minifigures Series 5 Egyptian Queen

Posted on | December 8, 2011 | No Comments

Does my asp look big in this? Well, she might have said that anyway.

This is the Egyptian Queen Minifigure and as with all LEGO figures, it’s quite clear to see that this looks like a well known character but they can’t use the proper name. In this case it’s Cleopatra’s ancient copyright lawyers that LEGO are trying to keep at bay.

There isn’t really too much to say about this minifigure, the hair is the thing that gives her the more Egyptian look I suppose along with the decals on the body parts. As with all the Collectors Edition figures, they are all worth having but some stand out more than others.

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Minifigures Series 5 Zoo Keeper

Posted on | December 7, 2011 | No Comments

We’re going to the zoo zoo zoo, how about you you you?

I love going to the zoo and seeing all the animals and I’d love to be a zoo keeper too. This minifigure is lucky enough to be one and it looks like it’s feeding time for the baby chimps, but all they seem to have are giant bananas!

I like the LEGO chimp that comes with this figure and the fact that you can hang it on things. The zoo keeper isn’t anything out of the ordinary but with the figure, the chimp and the banana it becomes a great minifigure for anyone’s collection.

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