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.

http://legomyphoto.wordpress.com/ is a project by a chap called Dan who resides in the States. He’s in the process of posting a LEGO minifigure photo every day for a whole year. These aren’t just the standard portrait type photos that I do of my minifigures, they are well thought out scenes involving several minifigures.

Well worth spending a while going through his shots. He’s also on Flickr too, as am I. You can see all Dan’s photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rattleandhum/ and if you’d like to see my photography, you can do so here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gazraa/

Keep up the excellent work Dan, I’ll be dropping by to see how the photos are coming along.

Since my last update many moons ago, I’ve acquired more minifigures, mainly from the Star Wars themed sets, as well as several of the kits so I’ll be busy taking some more pictures and posting them as soon as they are ready.

If you run a LEGO related blog, please leave a comment on this site. It’s always good to see what other people are up to in the LEGO world.

I have nearly completed my Batman themed figures, with only Mr Freeze to get as far as I can see. Most have the magnets in the legs but that doesn’t really bother me at all.

My Star Wars collection is growing slowly, although the figures I have left are some of the more expensive ones on ebay. Figures like Yoda, Darth Sideous (might have spelt that wrong), some of the Han Solo variations and others meaning that I’ll have to save up my pennies a bit more and look out for some good deals.

I have a few Spiderman themed figures now, but I haven’t really checked what figures are left to get here. A LEGO Spiderman figure was one of the first figures I got after deciding I would collect them, and as you can see, along with Boba Fett, forms part of the header graphic on this site.

I have various other themed figures, knights, samurai etc but there are a few themes that I really want to start collecting, but as yet have none. These are the new Indiana Jones sets, the Viking sets and the Castle series with the dwarfs and trolls.

My mini figure collection currently stands at about 210, but there are plenty I haven’t got, and several that I need to replace as they are either in poor condition or are hybrids that aren’t quite as they should be.

If you have any LEGO mini figures to sell and want them to go to a good home, please let me know.

Do any of you have complete sets, and if so, how do you check that you have them all. Are there any lists, books or web sites that have complete listings of available mini figures? I’d like to see them if there are.

Happy New Year everyone!

Santa was good to me and I got a few bits and pieces, and some LEGO too. I got a small LEGO Star Wars set with some droids in it, so I’ll be adding the droids to my photo catalog very soon.

I have also just got an email from the LEGO Store saying that the Indiana Jones themed sets are now available, and as luck would have it they supplied a nice banner to link straight to them, so if you want to check them out, just click through on the Indiana Jones banner at the top of this page. Might even get the credit card out myself!

I also made a New Year’s Resolution to update this site more regularly. As it’s for any mini figure, not just LEGO, I’ll be trying to cover a few other options, some may be a bit retro such as Transformers (great film!!) or others may be other popular mini figures like Warhammer, although I confess to not knowing a great deal about Warhammer… is White Dwarf still being printed?

Anyway, for those that celebrate it, I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and get lots of mini figures in your Christmas stocking. I’m hoping to get a few.

Creating these type of characters was one of the reasons I got back into LEGO, but up to now I haven’t created a great deal that is non standard. One day….. one day….

I’ll be working on them during the week I expect, providing work doesn’t get in the way too much, so you should start seeing the free wallpapers appear around next weekend. I’ll be making various sizes to cater for standard and wide screen monitors to keep everyone happy.

So here it is, another web site to add to my collection. I’m not sure how this site will evolve just yet, I think it’s going to be a way to catalog my collection and hopefully be a bit informative too.