Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Thursday Morning Spice

Two teenagers kidnapped outside Brits school, Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI secrets, Safair ‘too big to ground’, The former-lawyer who became the world’s most famous LEGO artist, World’s oceans reach highest temperature on record, and What Trump says he would do in a second term.

Tuesday Morning Spice

Lego’s arms race. Egyptair didn’t swerve. KZN premier resigns. Facebook’s never-ending live streaming. Unabomber ready for interview. World’s longest train tunnel. London gets 24hr tube. MArk Cuban for Hillary VP? Kanye sued. Trump called Miss Universe ‘Miss Piggy’

Mini and Lego Together At Last: You Want One Of These!

We remember happy childhood memories of building Lego houses and playing with elaborately real toy cars. Many happy hours spent in the land of imagination, battering your siblings over the head for the sole rights to your favourite toy, on the lounge carpet…

SPL!NG Movie Review: The Lego Movie

It seems strange that LEGO, the beloved building block toy brand, has only just got a movie adaptation in The LEGO Movie. Well, it was worth the wait… because The LEGO Movie is nothing short of AWESOME! While still regarded as a toy for kids, it’s a rite of passage for many people who used to […]

Please Enjoy The Lego Movie Blooper Reel [VIDEO]

Blooper reels for movies consist of the many mistakes actors made during the filming of the movie. But how does that fare with animated movies? Warner Bros. have released this blooper reel with the supposed mistakes made “on set” during the making of ‘The Lego Movie’.

The LEGO® Story, Celebrating 80 Years Of Awesome [VIDEO]

A few days LEGO® celebrated its 80th birthday and to commemorate the occasion they made a touching animated short which traces the origins of the company from its very humble beginnings to its now almost ubiquitous presence. If you’ve ever laid your hands on the famous bricks, which I truly hope you have, watch this and try not to reminisce at least a bit.

The World’s Most Elaborate Lego-Based Prank [VIDEO]

So the employees at Legoland California decided to pull a prank on general manager Peter Rochetti, by replacing his Volvo XC60 with a life-sized replica made of these Lego bricks they just had lying around. 201,076 bricks, in fact. It’s hard working at Legoland.

Badass LEGO Guns are Badass [VIDEO]

Everybody loves guns. My proof: Ask a child aged 7 what he’d like for Christmas and he’d say: “An AK-47 please”. Ask a Nigerian drug dealer what he’d like for Christmas and he’d say the heads on his enemies, a brick of coke and a gold-plated Desert Eagle. Now simply extend my evidence to include all the people in between my two examples.

Movie Scenes Reconstructed With Lego

Did you parents ever yell at you for spending all your time recreating famous movie scenes with your toys instead of doing something real that would get noticed? No, me neither. But maybe Alex Eylar did, and if so, now’s his chance to tell his parents that his carefully-reconstructed LEGO reproductions amounted to something after all.

LEGO FUSSBALL – IT’S TOO AWESOME

Remember the time when you were talking to that perfectly normal friend-of-a-friend at a braai? He was into futures trading or whatever, and didn’t have any abnormal ticks of any kind. A totally enjoyable human being. And then, WHAM, he tells you he’s crazy about Lego. Thirty years old, and still clinging to Lego. You […]