New for Winter 2024 we have another series of collectable minifigures one again being in boxes.
Inside the box you will find 1 random minifigure and instruction sheet. There are 12 different minifigures you might receive here is how we would rank them from best to worst and there own rating.
Name
Ranking
Position
Vampire Knight
4.9 stars out of 5
1st
Train kid
4.7 stars out of 5
2nd
Fierce Barbarian
4.4 stars out of 5
3rd
Goatherd
4.3 stars out of 5
4th
Fitness instructor
4 stars out of 5
5th
Sprinter
3.9 stars out of 5
6th
Film Noir Detective
3.8 Stars out of 5
7th
Triceratops Costume Fan
3.6 stars out of 5
8th
E-Sports Gamer
3.4 stars out of 5
9th
Pet Groomer
3.3 stars out of 5
10th
Mushroom sprite
3.2 stars out of 5
11th
Harpy
3 stars out of 5
12th
overall rating of series 25 46.3 out of 60
Overall rating
I would highly recommend this series though maybe you should consider buying seconded hand to guarantee you get ones you want also the list was our opinion.
one random pack will cost £3.49 and amount of pieces will vary
A post on Twitter (now X) grabbed my attention this week. It was a simple video of an Automatic paper airplane folding machine created by Ken Lego (Lego Technique Club, Osaka University, Japan). Osaka University LEGO Users Group (OULUG) is the only University-based LEGO Users Group in the world to be officially recognised by the LEGO group. Managed mostly by university students, the aim of this group is to have visitors enjoy science through LEGO.
I wasn’t alone in being amazed at this Lego Technics build. As of November 4th 2023 the video is week on it’s way to 900,000 views and has received over 6,000 likes. Perhaps the best signal of interest is that fact that over 800 people have bookmarked this on Twitter, which usually means they will want to review the post later and share with others.
This is version 3 of Ken Lego’s paper airplane system. Looking at the Ken Logo channel on YouTube you will this longer video of the Version 3 and earlier versions. It is very interesting to see how the design has been simplified with each version. Earlier versions remind me more of old LASER printers and photocopier mechanisms whereas version 3 is clearly inspired I would say by the minimalistic paper handling design of a modern budget inkjet printer.
Clearly the ability to feed a sheet of A4 photocopier paper into one side of this Lego Technics machine, have it folded and then launched automatically is very impressive.
Lego paper airplane folding and launching machine video
From an educational perspective this project is probably only suitable in Higher Education (HE) as the number of skills, knowledge, time and patience required is so high. However I do think this would inspire younger children in secondary education to research and build simpler machines.
From an HE perspective, the refinement of this project from version 1, 2 and 3 could make an interesting research project.
New for winter 2024 we have a brand new Jurassic world set this time being a 4 plus set with lots of baby dinosaurs.
The set consist of 139 pieces, 2 minifigures and 5 dinosaurs in the build you get a car and 2 buildings.
The Car is very basic using the 4+ bike pieces which have been coming in sets for a few years. the rest of the car uses a red and brown colour scheme and has room to have a box of vegetable’s on the back.
The first of the two buildings uses rock pieces to make it look like a cave it also uses lots of tree pieces to make it blend in. Inside of the cave is a computer a dinosaur egg and and more making it good for play.
The seconded area is a place for the dinosaurs to eat with lots of boxes of food. Also behind there i think there is a recolour of a panel piece.
The Dinosaurs in the set are quite small although some are bigger than others. They also have lots of detail on them. the figures you get in the set are Darius and Sammy but for us the dinosaurs are the thing your spending money on.
Overall I think this is one of the better 4 plus sets the only thing i would point out is the price which is £34.99 but Jurassic park sets are always more due to the dinosaurs.
This set releases January 1st 2024 alongside the other Jurassic park sets.
New for Autumn 2023 we have a brand new UCS Star wars set. This time being the long waited Venator from the Prequel Trilogy
The set contains 5374 and 2 minifigures the only build of the set is the Venator itself. Which will go well next to the imperial star destroyer. and it is a bit more colourful then it what came after it.
The ship itself is very long and big. Measuring in at 109cm long and 32 cm tall making it one of the longest Lego sets.
The minifigures are very good giving us Captain Rex and Admiral Yularen both of which our exclusive and are good choices
Like all UCS sets the price is always quite high if you want this model you will have to part with nearly £600 which is alot to spend on a set.
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