Toy Bender

Wow, this set is something I’d never see from Lego as an official release. It’s the Lego Gunship/Dropship complete with a AT-OT Walker:

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I meant to post this awhile ago and then I realized I was posting Lego news almost every day. Since I realize you guys and gals can only handle so much Lego, here it is today.

There were a few Lego sets shown at the Canadian Toy & Hobby Fair held a few weeks ago that were notable for Star Wars fans in that one set gives us the first ever Lego Tauntaun. What? What?!

Now that is totally awesome balls. I’m pretty sure my wife would divorce me if I didn’t do whatever I could to get one. After all, she is sporting a nice collection of Star Wars themed animal buddies at this point, which includes a vintage Kenner Tauntaun that I picked up for a whole two bucks at a toy show.

Another set that I’m going to have to sell my kidney to get is the Endor bunker:

Why do I love this set? Well it’s the perfect excuse to get Ewok mini-figs and a great piece to display figures. Having vehicles is fine and all, but I’d like a more of a playset for my figures and this would be perfect. It would go along great with the now pricey set I forgot I had and then opened up about a year ago during my Lego-mania that temporarily gripped me.

For the rest of the coolness, I’d recommend clicking on this link right here.

I’m sure you’ve all seen the super awesome Lego Aircraft carrier that was built to scale with the mini-figs, but have you seen the 20 foot long replica of the HMS Hood? Check this out:

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With this site blasted away into nothing, it’s hard to tell what’s old news and what’s okay to post. Well, this YouTube clip was interesting enough to me to save for when ToyBender came back up. If you thought the pictures of the new Lego Death Star were cool, just check out this video highlighting it:

Just look at that thing; it’s hard to believe that they could pack so much action into one set. It’s too bad that that hunk of plastic is going to run for around four hundred bucks, because this is one set I’ll never be able to own. Do Lego fans have unlimited funds or something? I can’t imagine that there’s more than one person out there who can buy more than one of these huge expensive sets that Lego is putting out now. Anyway, it’s hard to believe that this set comes with so many mini-figs, but I guess with the price being so high anything less than half a dozen would be a slap in the face.

Here’s a cool Lego set on the horizon that I hadn’t even known existed until cruising the Brother’s Brick Lego themed blog the other day. Apparently, images of a new Lego Death Star was discovered by intrepid Lego fans (i.e. Bothans) browsing the image cache of Lego.com. This set is different than the previous Death Star set because this one is an awesome cross section of the feared planet killer:

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The coming of the Star Wars Clone Wars animated series brings the promise of new toys along with it. We’ve already seen the figures Hasbro is bringing us and now it’s time for Lego to show us what they have. In the latest issue of Star Wars Insider they are doing just that by revealing their Clone Wars mini-figs:

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Thanks to our fine friends at Wizard Universe.com (and a chap named Zach Oat), I got some Star Wars lego info from that very fine website. The biggest (news for me at least) is that the Lego Gunship will make a return.

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I bet that post title got your attention didn’t it? Well, if you live in the U.S. don’t worry you’re safe to shop in your local Wal-Mart and purchase everyone’s favorite building toy, but kids and collectors in Canada will not be able to get any Lego toys at their nearest Wal-Mart.

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The newest Lego catalog had lots of new items and while they can’t all be as excited as the Indiana Jones sets, they are still pretty kick ass. Let’s take a look at the newest Lego sets to make their appearance in the catalog.

TIE Crawler

This set wasn’t that new, in fact it was a Target exclusive, but this is the first time it’s been in the Lego catalog. I made my opinion known about this some time ago so there’s no need to go there again… except that while this is a nice Lego set, it is based upon one of the dumbest Expanded Universe vehicle ideas ever.

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The first Lego catalog of 2008 has hit my mailbox like it was a ginger child through marriage and there is a ton of great stuff in it. Mostly involving…. INDIANA FRIGGEN JONES!

Aww man, now this is what I’m talking about. Who would have ever thought we’d ever seen Indiana Jones Lego sets? What a wonderful world we live in… if you ignore all the suffering.

We have some great pics here of the sets after the more button, so be sure to click on them to see them in a much bigger and beautiful size.

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The newest Lego At-At is a pretty cool looking set that comes with some nifty accessories. Another important selling point is that it is supposed to walk. Since I don’t plan on budgeting for this thing, a video of it in action will do lieu of building it and testing it out. The geek gadget blog Gizmondo comes to the rescue with their video of the Lego AT-AT in motion.

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The Fall 2007 Lego catalog finally arrived at my door and let me tell you, it was a welcome sight. Without the internet at my home (don’t ask me how I’m updating), I’ve got nothing to do but stare at all the boxes piling up as we prepare to move. Now I can drool over Legos! And drool I shall. (click on most of the pics to make them bigger)

Lego is already filling your face full of more awesome you can handle with this cover. Yeah, you are seeing that right. It’s a skeleton pirate ship. If there’s one thing Lego does well, it’s combing my many different obsessions in one artistic medium.

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My last installment covered Lego’s space battling Mars Mission sets and the mind blowingly cool Castle sets found in the 2007 Summer Lego catalog. Now it’s time for some licensed Lego action!

First on deck is Batman. While there weren’t a lot of new sets that got me excited, the new Bat-tank is pretty awesome. (Click on the pic to make it super sized)

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Recently I shared the news of the licensing agreements made for Indiana Jones. One of the agreements was with Lego. Well, this image of an Indiana Jones Lego mini-figure surfaced on the web recently.

Is it real? Who the hell cares? It friggen rocks my face off!

Seriously, I had my doubts about Indiana Jones Legos for a few moments. To me there really wasn’t anything special enough about old cars and trucks to warrant whole sets devoted to Indiana Jones. The only thing I thought it would be good for would be as a source of mini-figs of Dr. Jones… but then my temporary retardation passed and I started getting excited for tomb playsets filled with traps and Nazi thugs. Where are my Indiana Jones Legos? I demand them now!

Source: The Brothers Brick

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I really need to get better sources for my Lego news, because I’m missing some cool stuff. On a recent trip to Toys R Us, I discovered one kick ass Exo-Force set had hit the shelf. More importnatly, I saw a new Lego line that I didn’t know existed previously. It’s about time to do some Lego catch up work.

When the Exo-Force line took off, I thought it was great that there were some anime inspired giant robots in the Lego style that I could call my own. I’m not a big anime person, but I love me some giant robo-suit action. What red blooded nerd doesn’t? This new set is the prime example of Japanese Anime, a robot suit with a ridiculously large and impractical jet pack that looks insanely cool.

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