Tag: LEGO

  • Star Wars Day LEGO Haul

    Star Wars Day LEGO Haul

    Not that I really need a reason to visit the LEGO store (other than it’s all the way over in Washington Square), but I was lured out today by the Star Wars Day gifts with purchase (GWP). Particularly the coin that is the $85 GWP. I went not realizing that the GWP was only for […]

  • LEGO #40587 – Easter Basket (April 2023 GWP)

    LEGO #40587 – Easter Basket (April 2023 GWP)

    TL;DR – LEGO #40587 is a surprisingly fun build Long- (and probably even short-) time readers of the Turtlshel Project may remember that I am Buddhist. I don’t get into the Christian holidays much – even the ones, like Easter, that have trappings coopted from other places. So when I received LEGO’s April 2023 gift-with-purchase […]

  • LEGO #21324 – 123 Sesame Street

    As a child, LEGO was a major existence of my life. Between the ages of 3 and 14, I could be found laying on the floor with a massive scene – all rendered in rainbow-colored plastic bricks – set out before me. I didn’t know the words at the time, but I have aphantasia. I […]