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.....
Book Reviews
- Amazing Vehicles volume 1 (Spoiled for Choice)
- Beautiful LEGO (American Beauty)
- LEGO Space - Building the Future (Lost In Space)
- More Amazing Vehicles ((Even More) Spoiled for Choice)
- The Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder's Guide (Technic Temptation....)
- Tiny LEGO Wonders (Micro Machines)
Community, Events, Exhibitions and Displays
- AFOLCON 2012 (United in Manchester)
- ANDERCON 2014 (ANDER CONstruction)
- Brickish Association Christmas Party 2010 (Winter Wonderland)
- Brickset Forum (A new place for AFOLs)
- Bricktastic 2016 (Bricktastic!)
- Galaxy Squad Launch Event (Ready to Launch)
- Great Western LEGO Show at STEAM
- 2019 (Unfinished Business)
- 2018 (Letting Off STEAM)
- 2013 Preview (Full STEAM Ahead), 2013 Event (STEAMrollered)
- 2012 (Blown Away)
- 2011 (One Year On....)
- 2010 (OMG)
- Jurassic World Launch Event (Jurassic Perk)
- LEGO Inside Tour 2013 (part 1 LEGO Inside Tour 2013,
part 2 LEGO Inside Tour 2013 part 2)
- 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
Part 1 (Progress.....?)
Part 2 (Breaking Ground)
Part 3 (Change of Plan ?)
Part 4 (One step back and two steps forward....)
Part 5 (Whoops...)
Part 6 (Back on Track!)
Part 7 (Leaps and Bounds)
Part 8 (Raising the Roof)
Part 9 (The Countdown Begins....)
Part 10 (Shake Your Foundations)
Part 11 (Sidetracked)
Part 12 (Station!)
Part 13 (Hit the Road)
Part 14 (Modular Row)
- Ghostbusters
Part 1 : The Cadillac (Who Ya Gonna Call ?)
Part 2 : Ghostbusters HQ (Spook Central)
Part 3 : The minifigures ("We're ready to believe you")
Part 4 : On display (Showcase)
- Great Ball Contraption (Great Balls of Fire)
- 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
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...
Part 9 : UCS AT-AT : Raising the Roof
Part 10 : UCS AT-AT : The Home Straight
Part 11 : UCS AT-AT : They think it's all over...)
- UCS Venator (And the Mystery MOC is.....)
Themes
Adventurers
- Review: Set 5975 T-Rex Transport (Dino Crisis)
Agents
- Review: Set 8971 Aerial Defence Unit (Double Agent)
Alien Conquest - see 'Space'
Architecture
- Review: Set 21013 Big Ben (Hell's Bells)
Atlantis
- Review: Set 8080 Undersea Explorer (The Man from Atlantis)
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 4998 Stegosaurus (Dino-mite....)
- Review: Set 6914 T-Rex (3-in-1)
- Review: Set 30029 Pudsey Bear (Charidee)
- Review: Set 31011 Aviation Adventures (Old School)
- Review: Set 40026 Statue of Liberty (No Consolation)
Cuusoo
- Preview: Set 21108 Ghostbusters (Showcase)
Dino
- Review: Set 5882 Ambush Attack (Dino)
Education
- Review: Set 2000451 The Panama Canal (Lock Box)
Elves
- Review: Set 41180 Ragana's Magic Shadow Castle (National Elf Service)
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 !)
- Review: Set 41129 Amusement Park Hot Dog Van (Friends Reunited)
Galaxy Squad - see 'Space'
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......)
- Review: Set 4729 Dumbledore's Office (Box Office)
Indiana Jones
- Review: Set 7682 Shanghai Chase (Shanghai Surprise)
LEGO Employee Gifts
- Review: 4002016 50 Years on Track (Still on Track)
LEGO Movie
- Review: Set 70810 MetalBeard's Sea Cow (Part 1: Holy Cow !,
Part 2: Sea Cow review - the finale !)
Legoland
- Review: Set 346 House with Car (Ancient Treasures)
- Review: Set 355 Town Center Set with Roadways (Crosstown Traffic)
- Review: Set 368 Taxi Garage (Taxi!)
- Review: Set 40115 LEGOLAND Entrance with Family (Family Values)
Lone Ranger
- Review: Set 79108 Stagecoach Escape (Hi Ho Silver Lining)
Lord of the Rings
- Review: Set 9469 Gandalf Arrives (New York, New York)
Minecraft
- Review: Set 21121 The Desert Outpost (Desert Delight?)
M-Tron - see 'Space'
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)
- Review: Set 10224 Town Hall (Hall or Nothing)
- Review: Set 10243 Parisian Restaurant (Playing Catch-up)
Monster Fighters
- Review: Set 9461 The Swamp Creature (What's that coming over the hill....?)
- Review: Set 9466 The Crazy Scientist & His Monster (Monsters, Inc.)
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 !)
- Galaxy Squad Launch Event (Ready to Launch)
- 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 918 One Man Space Ship (One Man Show)
- Review: Set 924 Space Cruiser (Hen's Teeth)
- Review: Set 3367 Space Shuttle (Humble Pie)
- Review: M-Tron Set 6896 Celestial Forager (Retro Space Revisited)
- Review: Space Police 2 Set 6897 Rebel Hunter (Alt. Space)
- Review: UFO Set 6900 Cyber Saucer (Poor Relation?)
- Review: Alien Conquest Set 7050 Alien Defender (Neo- Neo- Classic Space ?)
- Review: Alien Conquest Set 30141 Jetpack (Here comes The Sun)
- Review: Galaxy Squad Set 70703 Star Slicer (Galaxy Squad - Like a Prayer)
- Review: Shuttle Transcon 2 (Shuttle Love)
Space Police 2 - see 'Space'
Star Wars
- General
- Falling out of love with the theme (Blasphemy)
- Collecting LEGO Star Wars sets (One Hundred Percent)
- No longer collecting Star Wars sets.... (End of the Road?)
- 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 4501 Mos Eisley Cantina (A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy....)
- Review: Set 7146 TIE Fighter (Old School TIE)
- 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 41498 Boba Fett and Han Solo in Carbonite (Don't mess with the Fett....)
- Review: Set 75003 A-wing Starfighter (A-wing and a Prayer)
- Review: Set 75030 Millennium Falcon (A New Millennium)
- 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)
- Review: Set 76021 The Milano Spaceship Rescue (Redemption?)
Technic
- LEGO Technic - is it fun ? (Technic Torture)
- Review: Set 851 Tractor (Favourite Sets #6 : Tractor)
- Review: Set 8070 Super Car (Technic Temptation....)
- Review: Set 42049 Mine Loader (Mined Out)
- 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)
Trains
- Review: Set 10016 Tanker Truck (Strange Cargo)
- Review: Set 10133 BNSF GP-38 Locomotive (The Other Santa Fe, Strange Cargo)
UFO - see 'Space'
Ultra Agents
- Review: Set 70162 Infearno Interception (Agents Rebooted)
Various Stuff
- Added extras in second-hand purchases (Lucky Dip)
- Bargain Watch relaunch (Bargain Watch lives !)
- 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 !)
- Gerry Anderson (Gerry Anderson Returns....?)
- 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....")
- Gimme LEGO Awards 2013 (The Gimme LEGO Awards 2013) and Readers' Choice
Award ("And the Gimme LEGO Readers' Choice Award for Best Set of 2013....")
- Gimme LEGO Awards 2014 (The Gimme LEGO Awards 2014) and Readers' Choice
Award ("And the Gimme LEGO Readers' Choice Award for Best Set of 2014...." )
- Gimme LEGO Awards 2015 (The Gimme LEGO Awards 2015) and Readers' Choice
Award ("And the Gimme LEGO Readers' Choice Awards for Best Set of 2015....")
- Gimme LEGO Awards 2016 (The Gimme LEGO Awards 2016) and Readers' Choice
Award ("And the Gimme LEGO Readers' Choice Awards for Best Set of 2016....")
- Gimme LEGO Awards 2017 (The Gimme LEGO Awards 2017) and Readers' Choice
Award ("And the Gimme LEGO Readers' Choice Awards for Best Set of 2017....")
- Homemaker Figures / Maxifigures (Home Truths)
- Interesting Discoveries at the Big Shop (Christmas Surprise)
- 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)
- One Million Pageviews ! (Who wants to be a Millionaire ?)
- Pick-a-Model (Pick up a penguin)
- Remakes of classic sets (Back to the Future)
- Social media comes to Gimme LEGO.... (Social Phobia)
- 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....?)
