Here are blog entries past and present indexed alphabetically by theme or subject. This is work in progress - I haven't yet indexed all the old postings - but I'll get there. A few postings are indexed more than once if their content strays over more than one category.....
Community
- Brickset Forum (A new place for AFOLs)
Events, Exhibitions and Displays
- AFOLCON 2012 (United in Manchester)
- Brickish Association Christmas Party 2010 (Winter Wonderland)
- Great Western LEGO Show at STEAM
- 2012 (Blown Away)
- 2011 (One Year On....)
- 2010 (OMG)
- LEGOLAND Windsor Hotel and Star Wars Miniland launch (part 1 Sneak Peek,
part 2 Sneak Peek part 2 : Star Wars Miniland)
- London Westfield LEGO store - Building models for the store (The perfect job),
opening event (Grand Opening)
- National Space Centre Exhibition 2011 announcement (Star Wars Building Frenzy),
event review ("You have reached your destination")
- Science Museum Event 2011 (Weird Science)
Favourite Sets
- Dragon (Set 3724)
- Emerald Night (Set 10194)
- Tractor (Set 851)
Minifigures
- Minifigure display cases (Dust)
- Collectable Minifigures Series 3 : How to identify figures from the packaging
(Bye bye barcodes)
- Review : Collectable Minifigures Series 6 (The Joy of Six)
- Review : Collectable Minifigures Series 8 (Still Going Strong)
MOCs (Designed by the Fans)
- Amazing MOCs - Spitfire, Victorian House, Nathan Sawaya (He's at it again.....)
- Building my own LEGO City layout
- Stage 1 (Progress.....?)
- Stage 2 (Breaking Ground)
- Stage 3 (Change of Plan ?)
- Stage 4 (One step back and two steps forward....)
- Stage 5 (Whoops...)
- Using LEGO Design-by-Me (D.I.Y.)
- Using LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) and Factory to design MOCs (Withdrawal)
- Star Wars Mini MOCs (Mini Me)
- Star Wars UCS MOCs (Lazy)
- UCS AT-AT MOC (Part 1 : Building the Perfect Beast - the UCS AT-AT,
Part 2 : Building the Perfect Beast - Anatomy of an AT-AT,
Part 3 : UCS AT-AT : the build begins...
Part 4 : UCS AT-AT : Tricky
Part 5 : UCS AT-AT : Body Beautiful
Part 6 : UCS AT-AT : Once More Unto the Breach....
Part 7 : UCS AT-AT : Heady Days
Part 8 : UCS AT-AT : Beside Myself...)
- UCS Venator MOC (And the Mystery MOC is.....)
Themes
Alien Conquest - see 'Space'
Architecture
- Review : Set 21013 Big Ben (Hell's Bells)
Cars
- Review : Set 8200 Lightning McQueen (First impressions....)
- Review : Set 8484 Ultimate Build Lightning McQueen (Ultimate ?)
- Review : Set 30121 Grem (Here comes The Sun)
Castle
- Revealed : Kingdoms Set 10223 Royal Joust (Revealed....)
City
- Review : Set 7696 Commuter Jet (Every Cloud.....)
- Review : 60008 Museum Break-in (Night at the Museum)
Classic Space - see 'Space'
Creator
- Review : Set 6914 T-Rex (3-in-1)
- Review : Set 30029 Pudsey Bear (Charidee)
- Review : Set 40026 Statue of Liberty (No Consolation)
Dino
- Review : Set 5882 Ambush Attack (Dino)
Exo-Force
- Review : Set 7714 Golden Guardian (Going for Gold)
Friends
- 2012 sets (Girl's Stuff)
- Review : Set 3931 Emma's Splash Pool (Taking the Plunge)
- Review : Set 41011 Stephanie's Soccer Practice (Yellows !)
General
- 2011 sets (Q1 Perspective, Summer That's more like it !)
- Too many good sets ?! (Too much of a good thing...?)
Harry Potter
- Review : Set 4720 Knockturn Alley (Once Upon a Time......)
Legoland
- Review : Set 346 House with Car (Ancient Treasures)
Lone Ranger
- Review : Set 79108 Stagecoach Escape (Hi Ho Silver Lining)
Lord of the Rings
- Review : Set 9469 Gandalf Arrives (New York, New York)
Modulars, Landmarks and Scuptures
- Review : Set 3724 LEGO Dragon (Here there be Dragons)
- Review : Set 10214 Tower Bridge (Part 1 : Big, Part 2 : Big.......and finished !)
- Review : Set 10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van (Van-tastic)
Monster Fighters
- Review : Set 9461 The Swamp Creature (What's that coming over the hill....?)
Ninjago
- Review : Set 9448 Samuari Mech (Bling)
- Review : Set 9455 Fangpyre Mech (Fangs for the Memories...)
Pharaoh's Quest
- Review : Set 7307 Flying Mummy Attack (I Want My Mummy !)
Seasonal
- Favourite Christmas Sets (So this is Christmas....)
Space
- 2011 City Space sets (Space !)
- Review : Set 367 Space Module with Astronauts (The Real Classic Space ?)
- Review : Set 894 (U.S. Set 452) Mobile Ground Tracking Station (Spaced Out)
- Review : Set 3367 Space Shuttle (Humble Pie)
- Review : Alien Conquest Set 7050 Alien Defender (Neo- Neo- Classic Space ?)
- Review : Alien Conquest Set 30141 Jetpack (Here comes The Sun)
- Review : Shuttle Transcon 2 (Shuttle Love)
Star Wars
- General
- Falling out of love with the theme (Blasphemy)
- Collecting LEGO Star Wars sets (One Hundred Percent)
- LEGO Star Wars Maquettes (It's LEGO Jim, but not as we know it.....)
- Mini Scale Star Wars Models (Mini Me)
- Review : Brickmaster Star Wars book (The Other Brickmaster)
- Review : Set 4480 Jabba's Palace (Jabba Dabba Doo !)
- Review : Set 7159 Star Wars Bucket (So Bad it's Almost Good)
- Review : Set 7958 Star Wars Advent Calendar (The best things....)
- Review : Set 8099 Midi-Scale Imperial Star Destroyer (Midi-chlorians)
- Review : Set 9490 Droid Escape ("The damage doesn't look as bad....")
- Review : Set 9676 TIE Interceptor & Death Star (Baubles)
- Review : Set 75003 A-wing Starfighter (A-wing and a Prayer)
- UCS (Ultimate Collector Series)
- AT-AT MOC (Building the Perfect Beast - the UCS AT-AT)
- Building UCS models for an exhibition (Star Wars Building Frenzy)
- Death Star II Set 10143 ("That's no Moon.....")
- Decommissioning the Millennium Falcon (End of an Era)
- UCS MOCs (Lazy)
- Super Star Destroyer Set 10221 (It's arrived !, review Part 1, review Part 2)
- Venator (And the Mystery MOC is.....)
Super Heroes
- Review : Set 4526 Batman (A Different World)
- Review : Set 10937 Batman : Arkham Asylum Breakout (Moonlighting)
Technic
- LEGO Technic - is it fun ? (Technic Torture)
- Review : Set 851 Tractor (Favourite Sets #6 : Tractor)
- Review : Set 8070 Super Car (Technic Temptation....)
- Review : The Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder's Guide (Technic Temptation....)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Review : Set 79100 Kraang Lab Escape (Cowabunga !)
Time Cruisers
- General thoughts about the theme (What's that coming over the hill....?)
Town
- Review : Set 6552 Rocky River Retreat (Rocky Horror ?)
Toy Story
- Review : Set 7592 Construct-a-Buzz (Better late than never)
Various Stuff
- Added extras in second-hand purchases (Lucky Dip)
- Big, Ugly, Unnecessary LEGO pieces (part 1 Proper LEGO, part 2 More POOP)
- Brickmaster books (The Other Brickmaster)
- Collecting LEGO Star Wars sets (One Hundred Percent)
- Confidential images (Top Secret)
- eBrowsing and random purchases - the perils of eBay (Dangerous)
- Exclusive promo frustration (Headache and Scalpers Rejoice !)
- Gimme LEGO's first (I am One !) and second (Happy Birthday to Me !) birthday
- Gimme LEGO Awards 2011 (The Gimme LEGO Awards 2011) and Readers' Choice
Award (The 2011 Gimme LEGO Readers' Choice Award....)
- Gimme LEGO Awards 2012 (The Gimme LEGO Awards 2012) and Readers' Choice
Award ("And the Gimme LEGO Readers' Choice Award for Best Set of 2012....")
- Homemaker Figures / Maxifigures (Home Truths)
- LEGO discount listings (Bargain Hunt Lives !)
- LEGO Freebies (Unexpected Pleasures)
- (LEGO-related) Injuries (Ouch)
- LEGOLAND Windsor (Winter Wonderland)
- Limited Edition Pick-a-Brick Models (Block-tastic)
- Maersk-branded sets (The Power of Advertising)
- Newspaper LEGO give aways - The Sun, October 2011 (Here comes The Sun);
The Mirror, October 2010 (Paper Chase)
- New York LEGO Rockefeller Store Exclusives (New York, New York)
- Remakes of classic sets (Back to the Future)
- Top retired sets (part 1 Bucket List, part 2 Bucket List Reloaded)
- Treating discoloured LEGO bricks (Bleach)
- Watching non-LEGO fans build models (Not Rocket Science....?)
