7 Year Old Lands Work Experience Gig at Legoland!

Just imagine getting to do work experience at Legoland.  7 year old Stanley got to live that dream – and all by his own initiative! Stanley applied for a position for a Stand-In Model Maker that Legoland Windsor had advertised, and while they couldn’t consider him for that position, they did offer him a day’s […]

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Lego to cut 8% of workforce

It’s our hobby but for over 18,000 people Lego is their livelihood, so this is really not good to hear. For the first time in a decade revenues have fallen at Lego. According to today’s Financial Times: Revenues fell by 5 per cent in the first half to DKr14.9bn ($2.4bn) while operating profit dropped 6 […]

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The Kindness of AFOL’s

The world can be a scary place. But no matter what certain media outlets would have us believe it’s not all bad.  Not all people are ‘out to get us’, or ‘steal from us’, or ‘kill us’, and most people are in actual fact nice.  And kind. Irish Suicide Prevention Charity Pieta House  have launched a […]

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David Beckham Builds Lego

David Beckham with Lego Disney Castle

Yep. Especially for his daughter Harper. Jealous of a 6 year old, who moi?  Well kind of but not really. Yes I’m jealous because Lego Disney Castle, but no because I would want to be the one building it!! But hey, who’s to say that she didn’t help out – I’m not going to berate […]

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Lego Ninjago City – Available NOW!!

Level 2 of Lego Ninjago City

Lego have just announced early access to buy Ninjago city for Lego VIP’s!! Unfortunately my children do need to eat so I won’t be able to avail, but I’m looking so forward to seeing pictures of this set popping up on Instagram!! If you’re a VIP and have €299.99 handy, head over here and buy […]

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Lego Ideas Space Pod Project

Lego Ideas Space Pod

Blacktron, M:Tron, Futuron (with its Monorail…swoons)….Space Police….boy, the 80’s and 90’s certainly were the golden age of Space themed Lego.  Since then the Lego Space eh space, seems to have been filled by the Star Wars franchise, however there’s still a lot of love out there for Classic Space. Space Pod is a Lego Ideas project by […]

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