Lego – Fooyah – Ian Parish

January 4 2025

It’s A Hard Knock Brick Life

Fortnite – the game [although I’m not sure what else you might think it is] – has now become a platform for loads of games. They have teamed up with Lego and now have a few official Lego based games in the Fortnite family. One of these is Brick Life and the other I enjoy is called Odyssey.

Lego Brick Life is game where you run around a little seaside town doing jobs, making money, and build your dream house and decorate it. IT’s an escape from real life where everything looks lovely. It reminds me of Playstation Home from about ten years ago. Brick World is a good place to spend some time enjoying yourself.

Fortnite Lego Brick Life - Chess Board — Fortnite Lego Brick Life – Chess Board

Just look at the view in this picture, the sea, the stars, the sand, the city.

Fortnite Lego Brick Life - Beach Views — Fortnite Lego Brick Life – Beach Views

Now, the following picture is not from Brick Life but I think it captures the thought and playfulness that has gone into creating the Lego games. Isn’t it pretty:

Fortnite Lego Odyssey - Aurora — Fortnite Lego Odyssey – Aurora

June 3 2020June 3 2020

Lego 67 – Model 75264

It’s been way too long for one of these communications so here’s a Star Wars miniature that was made recently in the May festival of Lego.

April 12 2019April 13 2019

Lego 66 – Magazine Kits

Here’s another couple of Lego models for me to catalogue. These came attached to one of those magazines that cost around GBP5. But I think the models look quite cool.

It’s probable that the U-Wing is part of the rebellion against the established government of the galaxy. If we use a neo-con view of the world then we would probably think they are rebel scum, all those terrible people fighting for the rights of everyone. Could it be that they are the bad side?

April 12 2019April 12 2019

Lego 65 – Model 31087

This is a Lego beach buggy. It’s pretty rad and I think you should chuck some Beach Boys on a music player somewhere.

March 3 2019March 3 2019

Lego 64 – Model 42091

This is a Lego model which has a pull-back spring motor. It’s pretty fast and good looking.

December 31 2018December 31 2018

Lego 63 – Model 76109

In the most recent season of Lego we have the latest addition to the family:

It’s a thing from a movie.

June 17 2018June 17 2018

Lego 62 – Model 76102

Possibly the last one from the mid-year season. This is a Guardians / Avengers mix-up. I’m not sure if I know which part of the MCU this actually comes from but that doesn’t matter. It’s got Groot.

June 10 2018June 10 2018

Lego 61 – Model 60177

Here’s the latest offering from Fooyah. A lovely little plane from the Lego universe.

May 20 2018May 20 2018

Lego 60 – Model 70911

It’s a mini-Lego season soon and for reasons that shall remain hidden some of the Lego has already been made.

Looking rather ’20s here is Penguin’s Arctic Roller. Another view here:

April 4 2018

Lego 59 Model 42060

Here’re two views of the latest addition to the Lego collection. This is a bulldozer?

March 31 2018

Lego 58 Model 42065

There was a mini Lego season recently and this is the first beast from that. Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the RC Racer:

This beast uses a lovely little IR transmission system. It’s pretty well designed and have 4 channels just in case you are near other systems.

Possibly the only drawback is that the battery pack takes SIX AA batteries, but then that does give a decent about of power. It’s the same battery pack as the Excavator I built about a year ago.

In this picture (above) you can see the right (front) and left (rear) motors along with the battery pack and IR receiver.

January 28 2018January 28 2018

Lego 57 Model 75110

Here’s the latest Lego addition to the family. This one was left over from a Lego Season in May!

October 24 2017October 26 2017

The Lego Ninjago Movie

I went to Rochester Cineworld to see the latest Lego movie. I’ve seen a few of them before. I reviewed the Batman one in this communication. The tide was quite low and the mudflats were exposed. I wondered about dredging for a while and whether there is a natural deepwater channel in the centre of the Medway. I rated this film on IMDB and the discussion about the ratings system is in this communication although I may have to change the system.

I rated The LEGO Ninjago Movie (2017) 4/10 #IMDb https://t.co/Grxjy02QlK

— Ian Parish (@iparish) October 23, 2017

I just didn’t really think this film was very good. It suffered with quite a bit of “too much in it” which I first noticed with the Transformers movie where the CGI is so fast and too much it’s hard to really see what’s happening on the screen. This problem could also be a side effect of me getting old, hence I loved Blade Runner because of its lingering shots.

The plot of this film was rudimentary and certainly wasn’t anything new. Largely it bored me. While I understand the Lego are on a massive expansion programme with loads of new sets being created and sales increasing I think that sometimes it’s OK for a company to say “You know what? We are doing OK. There’s no need for massive expansion, we can concentrate on doing what we do and do it well”.

July 15 2017October 21 2017

Lego 56 Model 60164

Here’s a lovely twin boom sea plane. I think it looks gorgeous. It carried the jet-ski.

This is a new view for me, the head on!

June 1 2017

Lego 55 Model 60163

Last one this week in the mini-Lego season. A surfing scenario! Just in time for the release of Baywatch, which I shall not be reviewing.

June 1 2017

Lego 54 Model 60145

More of the Lego mini-season here.

This is a pretty neat Lego buggy racer.

May 31 2017

Lego 53 Model 75132

Here we go with a Star Wars Lego kit. Just a mini one really and not worth building. It seems that the Lego people have been designing “scenes” rather than models that can create story. As an example here’s the Death Of Darth Maul Lego scene.