It’s no secret we love LEGOs here at Chip Chick, and they’re consistently one of our parenting picks as far as toys go. Our Parenting Editor Brian got the opportunity to review these incredible new sets from LEGO along with his young son Nathan, so read on to find out what they think of them! […]
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Affordable, fun, creative, and accommodating of all age levels, LEGOs make a perfect pick for Easter baskets! Here at Chip Chick, our Parenting Editors love LEGOs and have selected their favorites for you. So, help the Easter Bunny out and check out the best LEGOs to put in your child’s easter basket this year! BrickHeadz […]
We’re not going to pass up a chance to celebrate a Lego milestone! They celebrated the 60th anniversary of their world famous plastic-studded brick earlier this year with a handful of play sets, and now they’re in line for another anniversary celebration! 2018 marks 40 years of the minifigures that have been at the heart […]
It’s our favorite brand of moderate spoilers — official Lego sets! Every time a huge-budget movie is about to come out, Lego unloads a bunch of really sweet sets that also happen to give hints, if not straight up revelations, about what happens in the movie. Infinity War is, unsurprisingly, no different. Over the weekend, Lego started […]
Too busy to keep up on all things geeky this week? We’ve got you covered with the trailers, merch, and news coming out of the week that was! Here’s what playing Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery looks like As we’ve noted, 2018 will see not one, but two mobile Harry Potter games. We’re still waiting for […]
Every weekend, we’ll cruise around Amazon to find a few good tech deals! Who knows, from time to time we might even spot some non-tech deals we think you might like! Don’t hold us to it. As Chip Chick editors, we write about products we love and we think you will too! Chip Chick often […]
Shari Austrian is on a mission to find her Lego bricks some good homes. She runs the LittleBrickLane shop on Etsy, a relatively new addition that sells only one thing — accurate, lovingly crafted miniature models of homes out of Lego bricks. The Lego fan is offering custom-built Lego homes on her shop now, and she’s […]
Too busy to keep up on all things geeky this week? We’ve got you covered with the trailers, merch, and news coming out of the week that was! The first photos of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel make their way online See the first photos of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel https://t.co/M5PysAdUR7 pic.twitter.com/4FWoU8lTMX — Page […]
Sorry to start your week off with this, but it’s the hard truth — that super rad Gilmore Girls Lego set idea we got excited about last year isn’t happening. The set was submitted to Lego Ideas, a site Lego uses to crowdsource set ideas. Luke’s Diner quickly racked up the 10,000 supporters needed to make […]
Too busy to keep up on all things geeky this week? We’ve got you covered with the trailers, merch, and news coming out of the week that was! The Vampire Chronicles TV show gets Bryan Fuller to help with the pilot When Anne Rice revealed that the planned movie revival of The Vampire Chronicles (the one […]
Lego was born in the wooden toy workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932, but it wasn’t until 1958 that the plastic Lego brick we know and love today came to be. Those little studded building blocks became what might be the perfect toy — not only were kids getting playsets, they were getting bunches of bricks […]
Childhood — when our imaginations were the most active! I can still remember the joys of taking all my loose Lego bricks and building rad ships and Moon bases of my own devising. Good times! Well, the only difference between me and the people behind these sculptures is that while I stopped, they just kept thinking […]
One of the coolest things Lego has going for it right now is Lego Ideas. It’s a site where anyone can submit their idea for a new official Lego set! Those ideas can become reality if a set gets 10,000 supporters — any submission that hits 10,000 will be put on a list by Lego for […]
With all their movie tie-ins, Lego has become a mainstay at comics conventions, and it seems like they’ve come to understand the scene pretty well. Their BrickHeadz line — big-eyed buildable figurines that could be compared to Funko Pops — has provided fertile ground for convention exclusives before, and it’s proving true for this year’s New York […]
If you want the ultimate Lego experience, you’re going to have to go to the company’s hometown. Lego House had its grand opening yesterday in Billund, Denmark, treating Lego fans to a collection of restaurants, play areas, shops, and loads more. Is it a museum? Is it a theme park? We’re not totally sure, but […]
It’s that time of year again! Ever since Disney brought Star Wars back, we’ve had Force Friday every year — actually more like a week, it’s when we see all the new Star Wars toys that are about to blast a Death Star ray at your wallet. As we well know, no one does this more […]
Just about everyone has holiday traditions — why should Lego be any different? They’re gearing up for prime toy shopping season with yet another addition to their Winter Village, a series of sets that are someday going to demand their own display room during the month of December! This year, they’ve prepped this cute train station […]
Today is National Coast Guard Day, and unlike way too many national days that have been invented in the past few years, there’s good reason for that. 227 years ago today, the Coast Guard was founded by Broadway star Alexander Hamilton, and it’s been watching over the seas ever since. This year’s celebration brings particularly […]
At this point, it’s practically tradition for Lego sets to reveal little secrets about major superhero movies before they hit theaters. That’s not exactly the case with these Justice League sets — thanks to an additional scene in the extended version of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, we already knew that Steppenwolf was going to be the main villain […]
Lego and Warner Bros. have this thing down to a science. With The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie in the brick books as successes, the duo is keeping the good times rolling with The Lego Ninjago Movie. Based on the original Lego idea of mashing up ninjas with mechs, the movie is once again packed with stars […]
With a new Marvel movie comes new merch, and some of our favorite merch consistently comes from Lego. For Thor: Ragnarok, they’ve come up big once again — literally. As we know, the Hulk is showing up in the new movie as Gladiator Hulk, which is basically Hulk with a sweet hat. Because Hulk with a sweet […]
