Entries for the ‘Toys’ Category

First LEGOLAND Discovery Center in U.S. Opening Monday!

When the LEGOLAND Discovery Center opens this coming Monday, July 28th in Schaumburg, IL, it’ll be the first one in the U.S. It’s a 30,000 square-foot LEGO wonderland where parents can take their kids to see awesome, large-scale models, see how LEGO bricks are made and much more. But best of all, it’s the coolest […]

TRU Kindly Offers Countdown to Wallet Emptying

A long time ago, in this very galaxy, there were Star Wars toys. Lots of them. And they were good. They were very, very good. And then everybody wanted them. And then they were worth a fortune. It was the late ’70s / early ’80s and there was no eBay. Then in the mid-’90s we […]

LEGOLAND Goes Green. And Tall.

Do you yearn for the good ol’ days in LEGOLAND? No, I don’t mean the amusement park in Denmark. I’m talking about the real deal. The Town sets that LEGO released between ’78 and about ’96 when everything started to get “juniorized”. If you’ve fallen into your second Dark Ages because of a lack of […]

XBox 360 Premium About to Get a Price Cut

Somebody over on the HiDefDigest forums posted some scans of a K-Mart flyer that show the XBox 360 Premium at $299. Good news for all of you frugal shoppers (read: cheapskates) who’ve been waiting to join in the fun.

Amazing LEGO Death Star has Split Personality

This September your dreams will finally come true, provided that your dreams entail re-enacting scenes from Star Wars and Return of the Jedi with a single, ginormous LEGO Death Star diorama. Yes, LEGO has announced a spectacular, 3803-piece set (10188 Death Star) to be released on September 16th.