Tuesday, January 26, 2016

LELE Ninjago with mini builds

For those that like to have minibuilds of Ninjago characters rides, LELE came out a 4 boxes set for this. Quite nice and cute. These are copies of ori Lego Dimensions Fun Pack, think its a video game
The mini Boulder Blaster - the front shooters are loose

The boxes illustration
The Original Lego Boulder Blaster (SY has a copy too)

Saturday, January 23, 2016

KSZ Ultra Builds - Star Wars

Star Wars fever.
Read from the net this KSZ release is only from bootleg company. Smaller scale version from earlier KSZ Star Wars ultra build series. Only now I know Treepio always has a silver shin.
My son says Vader do not look nice in "wide awake" mode. Ha, funny why they made his eyes look like this.
Actually, all the body pieces look alike for all the designs, only change of printed details and colors except Boba has extra pads (hence Treepio looked "Steroid")
Those Eyes can blind you
Young Boba
Really a little short for a Stormtrooper
Did not remember Treepio has a silver leg 

Dargo 867* Space Wars

This is the first Dargo minifig set I bought. It uses the replacement name Space Wars similar to SY. Dargo is the first brand who came out the characters from the Force Awaken Star Wars movie. Well, this set is a bit Dark, the characters is mainly from the Dark Side (first order) and mostly black or grey colored. Anyway, Sabine (from Star Wars Rebels) adds some colors to this dark set. Quality wise, at least it is better than what LeLe's early days, with some of the minifig having some detail fixtures, most of the printing is good, but mainly simple. Many came with dual face - Sabine has a girl and boy face - haha
The better figures - Sabine, TFATie fighter pilot (with breathing pipe), First order storm trooper, Kylo with dual head gear
The Astromech printing is a disaster
Buying all 8 boxes - 0ne can build a mini-lium Falcon and Tie Lighter
I think when this set was out, the SW TFA movie has not been shown yet. Hence they cannot put a face to Kylo Ren. But at least they got the CROSS Saber correct. Has a torn cape too.
Take off the helmet so that I can talk to you face to face
.Er.......


Thursday, January 14, 2016

SY230C Death Stroke

I saw from the internet SY came out with a 8 box minifig (SY295) which consist of DeathStroke, but it did not come to my place. SY230C consist of a Big cannon together with DeathStroke minifig. The other A,B and D are all DC heroes - Superman, Batman and Flash with vehicle. BUT, all the other minifig is repeats (so, may not get them - the vehicle is just not good enough). The gun is OK, but kinda loose, but the orange is a bit striking. The helmet is good, but it also has a DeathStroke head inside, like DeathPool minifig.
If not for this set, I do not even know DeathStroke
With the Cannon
Under the mask helmet is a dual face Deathstroke head

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

SY363A Bat Mechabot

The mechabot do look good, but...as it is Batman, I kinda expect something much cooler, like all those vehicles from Batman. My elder son is busy "mindstorming" these days, so, get my 6 years old to build it. Hey, not bad, those leg joints are not those ball joint type, these are strong and sturdy. This set do not come with stickers, all are printed. The joker sure look different. After assembling, I do find this mech set is good, no easy to loose joints unlike earlier mech design. Batman always has the best design.

Bat man is Angry
Fighting with Red Mech
Different Joker with an Ace Card (why not Joker card?)

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Alvin and the Chipmunks - The Road Chip

Movie time - the kids won 4 movie passes for Alvin and the Chipmunks TRC movie during a Q&A session at the Popular Book fair. They also won some movie merchandise. (Who says TV is a waste of time) So. only need to spend money on the Pop Corns.
This is the WORD that wins the movie passes


LELE 79191 STAR Wars

For LELE- it is STAR WART. This set consist of a 6 minifig release, where if one buys all 6, a big space ship can be build from the accompanying pieces. But the pieces itself per box can also be build into either a smaller spaceship or a walker. I only got 2 boxes, both with walker, did not buy the remaining as mainly the minifigs are similar to earlier Star Wars bootlegs minifigs releases.
Both actually havethe same walkers, I only built one
These are the boxes that contains the small spaceship

DLP9018 Star Wars

DLP uses STAR WARS at its original font, well, cashing in on the Force Awakens. The street peddler asked me how come out of a sudden so many Star Wars toys come out  Anyway, this 8  minifigs set DLP mainly came out with troopers, so, I only got 4 of them, the others mainly similar to the recent SY battle packs.
Finally I got Darth Sidious. Those Droids glows in the dark, but day time it is weird looking.
Like those additional side cloths

Friday, January 8, 2016

Sheng Yuan SY 289 (DC) Heroes Assemble

SY DC Comics Heroes released in 8 boxes set. Yes, most of the characters have been released before, but what's unique on this set is the side printing on the arms. SY printing detail is getting better.
Grey Batman, Green Lantern has a funny face
White Cyborg? I only know Cyzarro is White (Ghost White)
Supe and Tornado man came with flying display stand

KSZ Obiwan and Luke Skywalker

The light saber dudes
Obiwan Kenobi with Cape
Luke Skywalker - Notice the dual colored hand

Monday, January 4, 2016

MINDSTORM

Mindstorm - an Educational brick toy from LEGO. Come with a "brain", motors, sensors and mainly LEGO Technics bricks, hence building a design is just like playing LEGO. There are a lot on information from the internet on this, so no need to elaborate much. Together with software (programmable SCRATCH approach) and an expansion pack, this is really an expensive "toy". Come with two free classroom lessons. My elder son likes to play with the set, which can build a total of 5 designs and additional 4 designs with the expansion pack.
Gyro Boy

Carrying his favorite black bird

Sunday, January 3, 2016

SY Ninja - Ghost Ship

The first set bought with Sail.
Sailing through the sunset
The good guys
The baddies
The good guys came with some accessories


SY501 Space Wars AT-RT Walker

Another bigger walker set from SY. The legs are strong, but not easy to make a walking pose. Funny the Destroyer droids do not have the twin blasters. I checked that this is a Sniper Droideka, hence only a single rifle blaster. Also found out that there are actually many variations of Droideka. This set although is a copy of LEGO 75002 set, but it only has the same old Battle droid while Lego gives a Commander Droid captain

501st Clone trooper (coincidence this set serial number matches this)

YODA vs. Sniper Droid
Maybe we can change the Sniper Droid into a Destroyer Droid (Droidekas)

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Popular Book Fair - Activities for Kids

Popular do not usually held book fair. A one week event with with lots of events and activities for the kids. One of the booth is introducing Mushroom plating kit for kids and adults. The small kit they gave does not work, but the big box mushroon kit, it can really grow mushroom.Nice.
The mushroom is actually edible




Friday, January 1, 2016

Happy New Year 2016

Others 2015 toys purchased and some 2015 flash back......
Lets roll on to 2016
Make way for POLI
We have a winner here
Marvels Avengers Age of Ultron with a Vengeance
Papa, Mama and baby Iron Hero
Minions has their own movie in 2015
Jurassic World - Top grossing movie for 2015, but NOT for this set from XHS 
The kids did not catch Jurassic World, but I can't count how many times they watch SpongeBob the movie in DVD