Skillet Cooking For Sale

LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar [75146] (Do not open!) A white wookie, a silver droid, and a whole lot more! What else can a Star Wars fanboy ask for? The LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar [75146] is now available! It truly is the most wonderful time of the year! It's funny that LEGO released the advent calendars as early as September (The  LEGO Friends Advent Calendar [ 41131 ] and LEGO City Advent Calendar [ 60133 ] are already on sale as well ). This reminds me of the blissful Filipino tradition of starting the holiday celebrations as soon as the -Ber  months arrive. I really can't think of a perfect holiday themed Star Wars pun for my title (my brain is currently limited to the likes of  Silver Droid, Silver Droid  or  Wookie guide my sleigh tonight? ), until I settled with the one above. I truly wonder who the white wookie is. All signs seem to point to a snow-covered Chewbacca with a peppermint flavored bandolier. But I can't build or even see him yet. My...

Death Star [75159] (Photo grabbed from  https://www.facebook.com/LEGO/photos ) With the upcoming release of  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story , almost everything is painted black, or going rogue, and that includes the toys... LEGO recently announced the future release (or re-release, depending on your perspective) of the Death Star [75159] Ultimate Collector Series set just in time for the showing of the first film in the Star Wars Anthology Series. The set will retail for US $499.99 / UK £399.99.  A lot of AFOLs are crying foul that the new set is a recycled version of the recently retired Death Star [10188] set with only a few upgrades ( It's a Star Wars recurring theme! ). Personally, I think the LEGO Death Star play set design is great. Maybe it's too great that LEGO is trying to make it close to evergreen. The first Death Star [10188] lasted for about eight years. Who knows how long will the second Death Star [75159] last? This also gives the chance f...

Royal Guard Announcement A new LEGO Store is coming soon to the heart of London’s theatreland, Leicester Square! Back in May 2016, it was announced that the construction of a new store in the United Kingdom  ( 37th in Europe)  has started. Specifically, it is located at 3 Swiss Court, London, with the postcode  W1D 6AP (just in front of  M&M's World! ),  covering 5,420 square feet in over two floors . The official press release said that the  flagship store  follows the recent unveiling of the LEGO Store in the Les Halles district of Paris, France, and the Asian flagship store in Shanghai, China (translation: the store will be massive!). A recruitment drive has also commenced along with the construction, and is currently still ongoing. Head on to  https://www.lego.com/en-gb/careers/search-jobs  for more details. Almost Done?! It has been over a month since I last visited Leicester Square, so imagine my surprise when I saw that the st...

National Museum of Scotland Tower Roof Terrace   In the National Museum of Scotland, there is a museum within a museum, and it's made entirely out of LEGO bricks... Measuring about 3.5 meters, the  LEGO model of the National Museum of Scotland was built by r enowned brick artist Warren Elsmore (his  largest single model yet! ) and his team. It took them over 350 hours, using almost 90,000 bricks to build this masterpiece. Museum of Scotland Building Royal Museum Building The minifigure scale model (about 1:50), depicting minute details of the galleries and the exhibits, was designed u sing scale-plans and elevation drawings.  Every single brick used is a standard LEGO brick, though some were sought from all over Europe to finish this grandiose beauty. Main Entrance Scottish Galleries Art, Design, Fashion, Science & Technology Galleries The Grand Gallery Natural World Galleries The miniature museum model commemorates the 150th anniversry of the National Museum of ...

Knight Racers Ask and you shall receive... I know this verse is usually a metaphor for prayer, but sometimes in life, you just have to do it literally. As I went to check my local convenience store for the latest issue of the  LEGO Nexo Knights Magazine, I noticed that there were detached free gifts from the previous issues sitting on the shelf. These are the Knight Racers from copies of Issue 07, which were already returned to the publisher. Nicely, I asked the sales assistant if I could just buy them. She consulted her supervisor and they have decided to simply give them all to me, as they will just discard them anyway. I know this incident is beyond routine, but I can't deny that it is indeed fortuitous. For the Knight Racer, I said in one of my posts that the vehicle could do better, but now that it belongs to a fleet, it definitely is. This small encounter is a reminder that sometimes, all you have to do is ask...

LEGO Nexo Knights Magazine Issue 07 LEGO Nexo Knights Magazine Issue 07 has just been released, and this month's wicked gift is a Globlin Catapult. Jestro made sure that the Nexo Knights are in for a sizzling surprise in their seventh issue. He has built a mean machine that launches the nasty Globlins through the air. The Globlin Catapult is not just a free LEGO toy in this issue, but also a featured evil weapon in the epic adventure comic. This month's free gift is very reminiscent of the small Chaos Catapult [70311] set, minus the monstrous vehicle (and everything else). And instead of lava stones, Globlins are the ammo of choice in this stationary weapon. I think it is more logical to use Globlins balls in this foil set, but the use of Globlin discs with slide shoe rounds delivered the promised fun. The inclusion of pyramid ridged tiles in the frame is a very nice finishing detail (or maybe I just simply adore those brick pieces). Globlin Catapult All in all, the Globlin Cat...

LEGO Star Wars Magazine Issue 14 Issue 14 of LEGO Star Wars Magazine is now available, and this month's free gift is none other than Jedi Master Yoda's Hut! When I first saw the preview of this issue in last month's, I thought LEGO Star Wars Magazine is finally giving away minifigures, and the first one will be Yoda. But obviously, I was wrong. Maybe I wasn't the only one who made this mistake because in the final foil packaging, Yoda was printed in 2D, instead of 3D, to make it clear that a minifigure was not included. As I've said in my previous post, it really is quite reassuring to know that the LEGO Star Wars Magazine is a medium to explore the untouched corners of the Star Wars brick universe. Because truly in Star Wars, everything is important! Surprisingly, this is not the debut of Yoda's Hut in brick form. The Hut was first featured in the X-Wing Fighter [4502] set back in 2004. The set included Yoda's Hut in the background to recreate the scene in ...