Titans Terrors and Toys

When I was a kid, I collected small, die-cast Matchbox cars. Matchbox cars were fun, durable toys--three-inch cars and trucks of a wide variety of colors and shapes that were ready for play. Now that I'm older, my tastes in scale-sized car replicas have become more ambitious, making them the perfect fit for Nifeliz's 1:10 scale R18 race car kit. Nifeliz sent me a kit to assemble, and here's my review of this impressive build. Nifeliz has established a great reputation for ambitious brick car replica kits, and the R18 kit ably lives up to that standard. This kit consists of 1,685 pieces (including rubber tires for the wheels), and the finished car is 19 inches long and 9 inches wide. Below are pictures of the R18 box, which has a front graphic that's designed to look like the hood of an R18 car. The instruction manual is printed on glossy paper and features 162 pages of instructions that line up with the numbered bags which contain the parts. The instructions are clear a...

The internet is loaded with countless examples of how Lego fans use their brick skills to construct a wide variety of impressive builds. However, there’s nothing quite like seeing these builds in person. Last weekend, I went to the Lego BrickFair , which was held at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia, where dozens of Lego fans and groups displayed their creativity through an impressive array for builds that moved, lit up, or depicted detailed landscapes. Below are some of the pictures I took, along with a few descriptions of what the builds are supposed to be and who made them. Plenty of builds were based on different pop culture icons and franchises. The pics below include nods to Ghostbusters , Godzilla , The Muppets , Scooby-Doo , and video games such as Animal Crossing and Pac-Man .     The Pac-Man sign below could be viewed from two angles. On one angle, Pac-Man is chased by ghosts; on another angle, Pac-Man is chasing the ghosts. The castle below is a d...