UPDATED: LEGO Lord of the Rings Again

I feel as though I should apologize for all of the focus on the upcoming Hobbit movie and LEGO getting the license for LotR and the Hobbit. After all there are many geeky things out in the internets and I am severely focusing on one small aspect of geeks taking over the earth. I could talk about the amazing Superhero movies coming out like The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises. Both movies look to be wicked awesome! I could point my readers to the hilarious SNL video (weird right?) that shows a middle-aged Harry Potter still trying to relive his glory days at Hogwarts in 2020. Man, that's a great balding wig Radcliffe is wearing! But I won't!

Na na na na, too bad! Cuz here's a little more LotR LEGO. Specifically LotR LEGO posters. You have already seen Frodo. Most excitingly here is LEGO Legolas! With apparently a new hairpiece and probably a new quiver and sword and bow.

And for good measure here also is Aragorn/Strider/Elessar. It'll be really neat if we get a new mold for Andúril his sword.

And now, I'm going to say that all day LEGO, LEGO, LEGO, Legolas! Hee hee hee!

More LEGO HP News!

 This game looks great!  It encompasses the darkest of the Harry Potter Books and (as you can see from the trailer) has a mini-game for the Brother's Tale of Beedle Bard.  Sweet!  It will come out in December, so for those of you that have a Christmas list be sure to put this on it. (And for those of you that do not have a Christmas present list you can ask for it to celebrate my birthday!)  Check out the video!

Also here is link to the Amazon page for pre-order: PS3 Harry Potter LEGO

Drive Recklessly?!

What would you do if you had a chance to kill someone with reckless driving?  Would you drive sixty-five mph rather than sixty?

Would you be willing to spin a thing 262,031 times and go back in time?

What if that person was a terrible person? I think we all have something to think about. Also I'm never going to stop drinking Honey Badger Anti-venom. Seriously, why not? It's delicious! And it takes what it wants, anyway!

LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7

I was putting off buying LEGO Harry Potter years 1-4 for a while. Very recently I started in with the videogame version of plastic-brick Hogwarts and spell learning! And it is awesome. Traveler's Tales--the company behind other LEGO games like Star Wars, Batman, and Indiana Jones--continues to build amazing and enjoyable games. And each time they build one, the game gets better and more complex. (See non-force using builds, equipment, and batarangs!)

This time, one of my favorite parts of LEGO Harry Potter is the game's use of polyjuice potion. You use cauldrons to brew potions. Once you know the recipe for polyjuice, you then have the option of choosing between characters that you have located in the game. Those who have played LEGO games before will understand that this allows the "free play" aspect of the game to be used while still playing through the first time. What a clever use of the game's already predetermined mechanics! Awesome LEGO! Awesome!

There are many other sweet innovations to this game like shuffling spells and abilities, etc. Consequently, everyone has been very excited about the sequel to this game: LEGO Harry Potter years 5-7. Wait no longer! Apparently it is coming this winter!

And here is a preview:

Enjoy it quickly as I can see this being pulled down rather fast. And keep your building hat on! LEGO wins again!