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The PerthLUG “Horrible Horticulture” Building Competition

Here they are, all the entries for out latest build competition. Participants were tasked with creating a scene depicting some truly horrible horticulture and they didnt let us down. Onto the entries! Max Shailer – “Ferocious Flora!” “By day, a garden of succulents. Come nightfall, bugs beware. Equipped with a spiky cactus tail and aloeContinue reading “The PerthLUG “Horrible Horticulture” Building Competition”

Full Review – Hogwarts Magical Trunk 76399

Box of tricks and treats! The Harry Potter design team at Lego keep surprising me with their creative set ideas. The Hogwarts Magical Trunk set 76399 has to be one of their best efforts. This is a set so much more than the sum of its 603 parts but rather something more akin to anContinue reading “Full Review – Hogwarts Magical Trunk 76399”

PerthLUG Nov/Dec Building Competition – “Horrible Horticulture!”

Better homes and gardens? Not today! We want to see your best (worst) designed gardens imaginable. Sausage plants? Sure. Minifig head trellis ivy? Yep. You get the idea. Try to keep your design to a 16×16 baseplate, though a little bigger is fine too. 3 winners will be chosen, and they’ll each take home anContinue reading “PerthLUG Nov/Dec Building Competition – “Horrible Horticulture!””

And the winners are…

Drumroll please! Like all of our building competitions, picking the winners is a hard job and this competition was no easier, but there can only be one, so without further ado… Congratulations to Kim Blackman and her wonderful Grub Hub build! An excellent story, a great build, and a worthy winner! Well done Kim, we’llContinue reading “And the winners are…”

Full Review – Hogwarts Hospital Wing 76398

What the doctor ordered Looking for an excuse to expand your Hogwarts playscale castle just a little further? Why not the Hospital Wing 76398! As the first Lego Harry Potter set to feature the fantastical infirmary, this alone might just be enough to tempt you to part with a few galleons. In muggle money, you’reContinue reading “Full Review – Hogwarts Hospital Wing 76398”

Full Review – Demogorgon & Eleven 40549

Plain Strange Lego Stranger Things options are slim right now with not a lot on the horizon sadly. The Upside Down set number 75810 was an underappreciated set at the time and now recently retired, is going for an absolute bomb. Having binged season 4 of the Netflix mega-hit, this BrickHeadz set is about theContinue reading “Full Review – Demogorgon & Eleven 40549”

Full Review – Boba Fett’s Throne Room 75326

Out of the sarlacc pit and onto the throne! Boba Fett is back! With more limelight shone on him than a pair of blazing suns, the beloved character has returned to our screens in the second season of The Mandalorian and in his own series earlier this year. With all this attention it was onlyContinue reading “Full Review – Boba Fett’s Throne Room 75326”