Toy Bender

Let’s say you’re a fan of Star Wars and want to stand out from all those other guys at convetions wearing Boba Fett costumes? You make a Boba Fett costume out of Legos, of course!

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The black suited version (blue suit was already gone at the con) of Cobra Commander with podium is now available to purchase at HasbroToyShop.com… but it’s probably gone by the time you read this. Good luck!

The other exclusives are also available as well if you’re interested:

Combat Heroes Snake Eyes & Timber

Savage Land Box Set

My Little Pony (For the ladies or gay fellas)

Darth Vader with Holographic Emperor

Titanium Skywarp

Nemesis Prime

There’s also some Mighty Muggs, but I don’t condone that sort of purchase so you’ll have to find them yourself. Plus, Hasbro Toy Shop is running slower than molasses with everyone rushing to purchase their toys.

UPDATE: Cobra Commander is now gone and it looks like they did have the blue one briefly. Crap!

Update 2: Cobra Commander went up again for a few minutes, but I think he’s gone now. Some other items became available again as well. Where are these figures coming from? Some are guessing canceled orders.

Ever since the release of the last Indiana Jones film and the subsequent release of Indiana Jones Lego sets, there’s been all kinds of new Indiana Jones Lego goodness. Two sets that I found on Brother’s Brick that rocked my socks were by a fellow named Brian Williams.

Check out this Flying Wing from Raiders of the Lost Ark… ahem I mean Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark:

There’s no way you can get any better than this. I doubt that even Lego could put out a set that looked as close as this does to the plane seen in the film.

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Lego bricks can take us many places, from the deepest depths of the oceans to the farthest reaches of space. They can also bring us to the fast food joint down the block. This Lego White Castle is a cool Lego work of art and also makes me hungry for the patented burgers known as sliders:

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Tim Goddard is a man who loves blowing my socks off with insanely cool Lego creations. I’m usually not that hot on microscale Lego work, but Goddard’s Imperial Base captures so much awesome into a tiny package, it reminds me of the Speedo I wear to the community swimming pool.

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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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Even if you aren’t a Dr. Who fan, you must recognize that the Daleks are one of the greatest sci-fi villans of all time. That’s why it’s nice to see a really cool representation of the Daleks (and Davros) in Lego form:

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This video has been making the rounds lately, but if you haven’t seen it yet check it out. It answers the questions, “What if you had five million Lego blocks and too much time on your hands?” The answer is quite simple, make a giant Lego boulder and have it chase you down a hill while you pretend to be Indiana Jones:

I’m surprised this went as well as it did. Somehow having a giant uncontrollable object rolling down a hill in a heavily populated area doesn’t seem like the brightest idea in the world to me. I think if I was the mini-van owner that I’d be seriously pissed at something like this, but I guess we’ll never know what happened since the video stops at that point.

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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Over on the Lego blog Klocki they have a neat Indiana Jones themed Lego contest going. For the contest details, head on over there. The prizes include a couple of free sets. The best prize is a Temple Escape set that’s signed by the designer. The real prize for fans of Legos and Indiana Jones is the images of sets that should come out of this contest. The first small dio out is by a fellow named Piotrek Builder and it recreates a scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:

This is the memorable scene where Dr. Jones Sr. shows us just how bad ass he is; he can take down a German fighter plane with an umbrella and the aid of some unfortunate seagulls.

Be sure to keep checking out Klocki for more entries to the contest.

Lego creator Matt De Lanoy has blessed the world with an ultra cool Futurama creation. Check out his Lego take of the Planet Express:

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I ran across the video on Brothers Brick.com. It is a former Lego community team manager, Jake McKee, giving a talk about how Lego changed it’s non-interaction with it’s fans into a company that communicates with and pays attention to its adult collectors.

Yes, this video is boring, but if you’re in the least bit interested in how the toy industry works it’s a great watch. He goes into detail of why Lego made the change from a company that seemed almost clueless to one that is more open and tries to please it’s core audience. McKee gives a great example how Lego was a bit clueless about it’s own deep history and the knowledge it’s fans had about it’s products, “What’s funny is that… five years in my work at Lego I could not find one person that even remotely approached the level of knowledge that the dumbest fan had about our product line.”

Near the end of the video McKee gets into Lego’s first big set, the three hundred dollar Star Destroyer and how everyone had said they would never sell anything that large and that expensive. Wow, how times have changed, huh?

UPDATE: I want to thank all the Lego fans coming to see this video at the moment. I hope you like my site and I welcome you to check out any other articles that may strike your fancy.

I’ll go on record saying that I detest April Fool’s Day Jokes, that’s why you didn’t see any on this site yesterday. Why on Earth does a date on the calender give you license to act like a complete asshole for 24 hours? Every time I see a fake news story on April Fools, I think the person pulling the lame prank is the fool themselves. For every story I read on April Fools Day I have to wonder if it is real and if I figure out it is fake, I realize I just wasted my time reading something that wasn’t funny or worth it in any way.

However, I’ve come across one lone exception this year. On April 1st Brothers Brick, a super awesome Lego blog, started posting some fake stories and some even faker (faker?) posts showing off custom Lego pieces like this Mother Goose:

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I’m a big fan of Dune. I’m not just a little fan. I’ve got a huge veiny nerd-on for Dune. Not the book, but the David Lynch mega bomb of the nineteen eighties featuring both Kyle MacLachlan in one of his greatest roles (although it is hard to beat Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks) and an almost nude Sting. If you only ever see one movie with a nearly nude Sting, make it David Lynch’s Dune. Don’t forget other mega stars like Max von Sydow and the preeminent British actor, Captain Picard. But I could go on all day, I love that damn movie too much. That’s why I love this little Lego custom:

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