the vynsane asylum

On my facebook I posted a bunch of pics from an exhibit I saw back on Thursday called The Art of the Brick by Nathan Sawaya (his website: http://www.brickartist.com/). He makes sculptures out of Legos. It was awesome.
Here is one (with three others in the background).

EDIT: OK, I resized it.

Toys R Us is having a sale this week. Buy 2 sets, get 3rd free.

Sadly, those sales always exclude StarWars sets.

Its coming up on Christmas, I'm gonna have to start buying gifts for the kids. Some of those new Castle sets look sweet.

Ran wrote:Toys R Us is having a sale this week. Buy 2 sets, get 3rd free.

SOYES, i spent a LOT of money this past sunday. plunked down $356.70, saving $153.95 (of course, my wife will tell you we could've saved $356.70 some other way, but I didn't hear exactly what she was saying...) i basically spent all the money my wife has to spend on me for christmas and my birthday.

~$60 category:
Atlantis Neptune Carrier (for me)
Creator Sonic Boom (for me)
World Racers Blizzard Peak (for me)

~$40 category:
Creator Apple Tree House (for my daughter)
Space Police 3 Lunar Limo (for me)
World Racers Gator Swamp (for me)

~$30 category:
Creator Ferocious Creatures (for my daughter)
Space Police 3 Undercover Cruiser (for me)
Toy Story Buzz's Star Command Spaceship (for my daughter)

~$20 category:
City Camper (for my daughter)
City Horse Trailer (for my daughter)
Prince of Persia Ostrich Race (for me)

Target has the mini-figure single packs for $2. They were over by the Halloween stuff.

yeah, i filled most of my needs with a couple trips to the LEGO stores on long island and in NYC, but got a few more at target and picked up three more at TRU with the above B2G1F sale (since it brought them down to MSRP, as TRU jacked them up to $2.99 per).

All Legos are 30% off this week at TRU. Their ad also has a coupon for $10 off $75 purchase.

they also have the 'Bricktober' promo going on - if you spend $35 i think, you get a free 'vintage minifigure magnet'. if the promo were a bit better, or if i hadn't already spent way too much money during the B2G1F sale, i might have been tempted.

I figured you probably spent your allowance for Legos, but I posted the sale anyway just in case you hit the lottery or something.

Someone made the GI Joe base out of Legos.

http://picasaweb.google.com/oobrick/GIJ ... arters1983#

Not a big deal, but figured I'd let y'all in on it:

Target has a Lego giftcard. Get a giftcard, and it's bagged with some pieces to make a crude version of their dog mascot. In other words, free. We picked up a giftcard and put $5 on it, and are giving the Lego pieces to Anarky Jr.

I was at TRU the other day and saw they mini Lego Christmas sets (Christmas Tree and Snowman), which I was going to get for a certain someone's twins, until I saw the price - $3.99 - for what appears to be a 30 piece set.

Fuck that.


(Amazon wants to charge more than $8 a pop!)

For Easter (?) we bought one of the mini sets they have in Target's stocking stuffer (or basket stuffer) section. The packaging indicated it had a man, two animals, and some bricks. Turns out, it was one of those shitty "guess which one piece you get!" deals. We haven't repeated that mistake for Christmas.

My friend out in Cali says he likes to buy those "Limited Edition" Lego Figures in the checkout line. He says they are like $3 or $5 or something. I said 'WTF? You're paying $5 for a single Lego guy?!? Are you batfuck insane?"

They do the same thing with Galactic Heroes and similar minifigs that are supposedly for little kids but we all know they're really not. They pack them individually and sell them at Big Lots for $4, when a set of two is between $5-7. I only ever bought one, a Plastic Man, since $4 for one figure seemed better than $7 for Plastic Man and yet another frigging Batman.