Toy Bender

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.

Here’s that kick ass skeleton pirate boat again in a two page spread. The set is appropriately named, “Skeleton Ship Attack”. I suppose, “Skeleton Pirates Rock Your Face Off” didn’t test as well.

It comes with a smallish castle for the skeleton pirates to attack. What could be better? Nothing.

Moving on to other fantastic playgrounds of the imagination, one of the new castles that really got me excited is this King’s Castle Siege:

Seriously, this is what my dreams are like, sans big breasted samurai chicks.

We need to take a break from all the killing, dragons, and other assorted awesome for just one minute. There’s one set that catches my eye every time I get one of these catalogs, but I never talk about it because I’m busy blabbering on about spacemen and balls. This set is really great because it is so realistic and, damn it if it wouldn’t be cool to have a couple of these “Cafe Corner” sets to put together:

Even better, Lego has a new set to go along with the “Cafe Corner” to make one hell of a great looking building set:

This is “Market Street” and according to the catalog, it’s designed by a fan. Talk about mega-cool. The only thing I could ever design by myself was a lumpy pile of mismatched colored bricks.

Back to the kickassery, the Fall Catalog has a few new additions to Lego’s Mars Mission line:

This is the “MT-101 Armored Drilling Unit”. I think it’s funny that there aren’t a lot of vehicles made by the “good guys” in the Legoverse that purpose is strictly for killing. They usually have some other function. Like a tank that not only kills robots, but also will mow the lawn. Anyway, I like the independent suspension on each of the wheels. I wonder how that works when it is built.

Now the moment you’ve all been waiting for, the cool new Lego Star Wars sets. While each of these sets have been seen before (like in my Star Wars convention coverage), this is the first time we get to see them looking kick ass in the Lego catalog:

The “Hoth Rebel Base” certainly looks cool and comes with some neat accessories, it really isn’t much of a base. It’s more like a Hoth rebel wall and a Snowspeeder. Still, the set packs quite a nice punch with the combination of a new Snowspeeder, Snowtroopers, and a Lego probe droid. The only thing this set is missing that it desperately needs are Lego Tauntauns. Where the Hell are they?

One of the most attention grabbing and widely reported Lego sets in the last few years was the new Lego Millennium Falcon. Well, it finally made it into the catalog:

I’m disappointed that you can’t open the thing up see any kind of interior, but I realize that structurally the set wouldn’t hold up very well being as large as it is. It still looks pretty sweet in this two page spread though, and if I had that kind of dough and I was really into Legos, I think that this would be a must have.

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