It’s Thanksgiving night, 9pm PST, and I am a little sloshed from some Mangria and other spirits. I just got back from a 2-day camping trip where my whole family reconnected from being...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Original link

When I see a spectacular futuristic micro metropolis like this one from builder Didier Burtin my first instinct is to build an enclosure, smoke it up, light it carefully and use a real-time motion control setup with a snorkel lens to do some Blade Runner type sleeping flyovers, doesn’t everybody? Original linkOriginal author: Tommy

While adult me finds the womanizing and chauvinistic overtones a bit unsettling (we’ve come so far, sort of) I’m still a bond fan. And while this piece by JS_Ninjnerd depicts MI6’s most infamous agent as a silhouette, I’m choosing to see him as my personal favorite Bond, Sean Connery. And admit it, the theme song is in your head now huh? It’s in mine, and it’s totally agreeable. Original linkOriginal author: Tommy

The LEGO Shop’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales and deals are happening this week, with UK sales already underway and US & Canadian sales starting at midnight Eastern Time on Friday, November 23rd (that’s Thanksgiving night at 9 PM for our readers on the west coast). Various LEGO sets are 20-30% off or more, and the holiday promotion this year is a Buildable Holiday Present set with purchases over $99/£85. LEGO sent us an early copy of the promotional set, and it’s a lovely little set with 301 pieces that opens up, reminding us of both 75952 Newt’s Case and 21315 Pop-up Book. We’ll update this article with specific deals we find, but in the meantime, you can click through to the US sales and deals page from the images above. Each day this week, the UK LEGO Shop is heavily discounting one large set: Thursday 22 Nov: 76112 App-Controlled...

There’s a new product in the increasingly crowded third-party custom brick world. Mbriks are a way to bring new life to your LEGO (and compatible brands) building bricks by adding additional dimension and display options. These custom magnetic bricks have shown a lot of promise in the professionally produced videos and other promotional material during the month-long Kickstarter campaign ending this week, but we wanted to weigh in ourselves. [Note: We received a pre-production version of Mbriks, and we now understand that some of the issues highlighted in this review may have been resolved in the final production version that will be shipped to Kickstarter backers.] A brief history of LEGO and magnets LEGO has a long and evolving history with magnetic bricks. As new and stricter consumer protection laws have arisen to address the dangers of ever-stronger magnets, LEGO has introduced a range of different magnet products. The changes along...