I was presented with the decision, and I actually chose right again.
Thank God.

I was presented with the decision, and I actually chose right again.
Thank God.
I should have dressed up. I feel lame for not doing anything other than sitting here, handing out candy.
I just happened to catch notice of a website called My LEGO Network, a social networking site run by LEGO which seems to be another LEGO Club replacement. It’s still open to testers at the moment, but still seems to have a lot of work done to it so far.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I like social networking and the benefits it provides–if you know me, you probably know that I’m a member on Last.fm, del.icio.us, Digg, and a few others–but this is just ridiculous. For one thing, the target market for LEGO toys is younger children. Shouldn’t they be doing something worthwhile, like playing outside or something? What in the world could a child possibly productively do on a social networking website? Connect with lost friends?
Even if they somehow did have an explanation to be on websites such as these, the things you can do on the website are extremely limited–messages are kept down to a few predefined choices (no surprise there), profile information is restricted to cookie-cutter questions such as “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and “What is your favorite LEGO toy line?”–is there even a “social” aspect to this?
LEGO, please, for all of our sakes, stick more with what you’re doing right–making toys that children enjoy. Just about the last thing that needs to be done with your company is creating a silly website for children to waste their time on.
So, Avril Lavigne’s song “Girlfriend”, what do you think about it? Hit of the century, right?
LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya stays right on top of the news with his blocky replicas, and following up his Halo 3 Master Chief creation we showed you yesterday is his next LEGO model, an iPhone. #
I was going to post this on tBoM, but I decided not to (I’ll explain why in a later blog post).
In the box art for Super Mario Galaxy (taken here from Nintendo’s official press site), stars highlighting certain letters in the title spell out: U R MR GAY. The stars, which are attached to specific letters, are part of the original official art. #
Even if this isn’t a coincidence, it’s pretty hilarious.
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