Interesting Wheel Fit

Sorting some loose parts recently I discovered that the small, thin tyre, the ones used for scooters fit perfectly around a half-height technic axle fasteners. I'm not sure what it could be used for specifically, but I thought it was worth sharing.

Frustrating Flags

Far out, this bothers me a lot. It just seems like a stupid and illogical thing to change that only causes problems? I know that pieces change and molds need to be updated and replaced, but why do this? I'm assuming it would have been around the time that brown and light and dark grey were changed, but I'm not sure? I have the old flag, the bottom one in the picture in red, yellow and blue and dark blue, and the newer one in Knights Kingdom blue, pink, gold and green.

Minifigure Leg Height

Playing with a few pieces of table-scrap, I realised that a 1x2 plate atop a pair of mini-legs is exactly the same heigh as a pair of normal legs!

Sushi Truck MOC

Built for Minifigure Series Four Kimino Girl is my latest food-style vehicle, the Sushi Truck! Built using eight collectible minifigure plates, I unknowingly used studs on every side but the top! It isn't the most sturdy build, but overall I'm fairly happy with how it came out, especially considering it was built for a minifigure without bendable legs.

Custom Design Spidermen

The first of these two is just an colour swap of the 10665 Spiderman, swapping all the blue for red and vice versa. I like this design, it makes the blue colouring a lot more central, almost removing that 'underwear on the outside' look of most super heroes. The second design, and one that I'm really fond of, is my own version of a Spiderman/Batman cross. I really like the '60s-ish look, and I personally think the duel cape works really well with this minifigure.

Bionicle 8743 Instructions Error

Looking through an original copy of the Bionicle Visorak - Boggarak set from 2005, I found a strange mistake. On page 7, the picture goes from being blue themed to red themed, appearing to be a page of Boggarak's red counterpart Vohtarak (8742) instead.

I'm not quite sure how a mistake like this can happen? The addition or subtraction of a piece I can understand because it might not be immediately obvious, but a whole palette swap for just one page?

And as if that wasn't bad enough, the back of the book, which gives you half the instructions on a combined build for two of these Bionicles, shows Boggarak above Suukorak as the two sets needed. Only Suukorak's image sits over that of Oohnorak (8744), the black Bionicle of this series.

I know this is an old-ish set, but really Lego? These things are such easy pick-ups, and I can only imagine how confusing this would be to a child...

Vending Machine MOC

Here's a nice little design that uses jumper plates to offset that 1x3 row of minifigure snacks inbetween two 1x2x3 panels. I'm really happy with this design, and I feel like it works out really well at real life scale too.

Ultron Scrap Robot MOC

Playing around with parts from the Bionicle minifigures (circa 2006), I've made my own version of the junk robot that serves as the first physical form for Ultron in the recent Avengers film of the same name. For the head, I used an offset Lego Movie robot head from 70801 underneath the Hero Factory helmet from 44023 to create one red and one silver eye. Overall I'm pretty happy with this, especially considering it was more of an accidental build.

Bat-Venom?

Using the Lego Venom head (I used the one from Juniors set 10665) underneath any standard Batman hood, you can create this really demonic looking Batman, which I think looks pretty damn great. The same effect can also be achieved with Carnage from Super Heroes 76036, but a little bit of his red colouring shows through the mask.

Keep Your Lego Clean People!

Delving through my yellow Lego recently, I found this; a cobweb and a spider's shed skin up inside a 2x2 block. I was more shocked than anything, I was amazed that this brick went unused for such a long time that someone else moved in and moved out? Maybe I do have too much Lego...

Dump Truck MOC

Here's a dump truck I've been working on for the past couple of days. I'm really pretty happy with how it turned out, except for the height of the windscreen. Unfortunately, I had to add an extra level of plates above it, which I'm not a huge fan of. Other than that, I'd say it's not too bad!

Review - The Farm, 21114

One of the first Lego Minecraft sets, The Farm features a fenced area for the included brick-built cow and sheep, as well as a farm, where Steve is growing wheat, sugar cane, carrots and pumpkins. Personally, I really enjoyed this set, and I really like how all the Minecraft themed sets have this really big focus on being able to pull apart the sets and rebuild both the secondary ideas in the back of the book, as well as making completely new creations - as seen in my photo. I feel like this isn't something that Lego has really put lots of focus on since about the late '00s with the really common 3-in-1 stuff you sadly just don't see anymore.

This set includes a cow, and sheep, a skeleton, Steve, and a pumpkin. I've decided to put the pumpkin on the list, as it's the same piece as Steve or the skeletons head. I think this is a great idea, as it allows you to recreate the in-game feature of wearing a pumpkin on your head to appear invisible to enemies.

The brick-built animals in this set are great, and I think using the 1x2 groove bricks as legs is absolute genius. However, I'm really disappointed about their heads, and that they can't be used on minifigures. Granted, I know it would have been difficult to make it work, but it would have been a great feature, not unlike the game's many different player skins. 

I'm pretty impressed with the set itself, the terrain is nice, and there's a lot of brown bricks, which are always helpful. There are a lot of other great pieces too, like the cheese-yellow carrot stalks, the trans blue water pieces, and the all the light brown blocks and plates used for the fences. I feel like there's quite a lot in this set that would ordinarily be really hard to come across in other Lego themes.

Cost wise, the set isn't a bargain, but for the amount of new molds and colours of pieces, combined with the really high amount of good old bricks, I was pretty happy with the cost - around $50 AUD.

But my favourite piece by far is the new Minecraft shovel, which, when held in this position looks just like a bass guitar!

Cost - 3.5/5, Playability - 4/5, Parts - 4.5/5

Overall - 4/5