Sophie

I saw Sophie a few months ago at a shop. I really liked it. Afi wasn’t impressed, but I thought the rubber giraffe was cute. Besides, Omar was then too young to appreciate it.

Now, however, Omar is at that phase when he wants to chew everything he can get his little hands on. Then, I came across Sophie again online. After thinking about it overnight, I bought it via Amazon.

Sophie arrived on Friday morning. I ripped it out of its packaging and gave it to Omar straight away. Then, I took that picture above.

As usual, I googled Sophie up before I bought it. Apparently it is quite a famous toy. Watch out for the Malaysian connection in the video above!

More Lego

Lego has released item 4184 The Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow’s favourite ship from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. It comes with six minifigures including of course Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Davy Jones.

Sailing ships are my favourite Lego models, though I have never owned any. :( While the 804-piece Lego is interesting simply for being The Black Pearl, it is not that impressive. The model ship does not look as menacing as the ship in the movies, and the all black colour scheme while true to form gets a little boring.

More interesting is the 1097-piece Queen Anne’s Revenge, item 4195, from the latest Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. This earlier release is a bigger model than The Black Pearl and comes with seven minifigures, which again include a Jack Sparrow. I particularly love the blood red sails.

Movies tie-in aside, item 10210 Imperial Flagship is the best. It is not only bigger with 1,664 pieces and nine minifigures, but also has a lot more detail. The full-featured gun deck has four cannons. There is even a full-featured galley, or kitchen for us landlubbers.

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All pictures from Lego.

Surprise Arrival

Meet Leo.

I was in the living room with Omar this morning when the intercom buzzed: a delivery. I wondered if we were expecting any deliveries today. When I opened the door, a lady handed me a package from Mamas & Papas, addressed to me. Inside, was this cute toy lion.

It was a surprise present from Afi. No wonder she asked me the days before when we browsed the catalogue which one I liked. Nobody had ever given me a soft toy before.

I like it very much, and of course am sharing it with Omar.

:)

OMG×2!

I received the latest email newsletter from Lego earlier on Friday that they are releasing a new Lego Star Wars Super Star Destroyer—the Executor! To jog your memory, the Executor is the massive 19-kilometre long ship that crashes into and destroys the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi.

Item 10221 has more than 3,000 pieces, measures more than 1.2 metres long, and weighs about 3.5kg. It goes with saying, I want one. Of course, it is not in the same scale as the recent Millennium Falcon. If it is, the Super Star Destroyer Lego will be over 270 metres long!

Looking at Lego’s current line of Star Wars Exclusives, there are two more items that I really like. The first is the Tantative IV, the ship that carries Princess Leia at the beginning of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. That’s item 10198.

The second is item 10195, which consists of a Republic Dropship and an AT-OT Walker from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

But then, I want all of them, of course.

I Want One

Lego recently released its latest edition of the Millennium Falcon, item no. 7965. Fully playable, it comes complete with six figurines of Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, Obi-Wan, and... Darth Vader?

At over 38cm wide and 10cm tall, this 1,254-piece Lego is nowhere as complicated as the epic 5,195-piece ultimate collector’s item 10179 released in 2007. I saw the latter offered at Amazon UK for a jaw-dropping £1,400! Item 7965 sells at £133.