You know that feeling when you suddenly remember something you should have done but forgot? Well, that was the feeling I had this morning. I was sipping my tea as usual, surfing around for some news…
So, here’s a confession; I don’t just have LEGO in my toy box. I suspect that a very large percentage of the target audience (i.e. children) aren’t tied to the single brand either. My collection includes…
It’s Halloween season in LEGO City – and you know what that usually means. Brickbucks are selling their world-famous pumpkin-spice Blokacchinos, and the minifigures of LEGO City are donning their favourite costumes as they head out…
In the classic vampire horror films, Count Dracula always appears with a cape. Similarly, Superman and Batman would be nothing without that shield of cloth that hangs from their shoulders. I was creating the Halloween figure…
To be honest, I’ve never bought one of these LEGO Advent Calendars before. I've been tempted by the LEGO Star Wars ones, but the price didn't seem to justify what I was getting in it. I'm…
I was listening to some classic Motown the other day and I thought “I wonder if I could recreate the song in LEGO?”. I had a word with my LEGO house band, “Pick n’ Chew” ,…
If you have written anything regularly, then you know the term "writer's block" is no joke. Everything seems to be going well, and then the block comes along. Suddenly, you have no idea what to write…
As we’ve discussed in previous posts here on the Firestar Toys blog (check out Pinar’s piece on LEGO Animals, and mine on the history of LEGO Dinosaurs), there are a ton of different dinosaur moulds from…
If you’re living in the Northern Hemisphere, you have probably started to feel the effects of summer. But are you the only one? Certainly not. Your minifigures need their summer outfits and accessories as well. So…
When we think of The History of LEGO Dinosaurs, it is very easy to think of the 2015 Jurassic World line – which brought us a plethora of different dinosaurs in different shapes and sizes. I…