To celebrate the 40th anniversary of their creation, the LEGO minifigures are throwing themselves a birthday party, costumes strongly encouraged.  This series has a literally & figuratively odd number of entrants thanks to the presence of a bonus "chase" figure, of which only one is placed in every box of 60 individual blind bags.Videos:LEGO Series 18 Collectible Minifigures reviewed! All 17Full box worth of LEGO Series 18 minifigs! Rarity & distributionOriginal linkOriginal author: theJANG

Two more small sets with long names!  One of these seems to prove that no matter what LEGO does, they just can't win in the court of Internet (TFOL/AFOL) opinion.Videos:LEGO Star Wars Imperial Patrol Battle Pack review! 75207 (Solo movie)LEGO Star Wars Jedi & Clone Troopers Battle Pack review! 75206Original linkOriginal author: theJANG

I bought my first few Solo movie sets and, as a special message to LEGO Brand/IP Protection via the company MarkMonitor which falsely and illegally threatened me the last time I reviewed Star Wars sets quickly after they hit the market (resulting in the need for a public apology from The LEGO Group itself), I am reviewing these sets as a consumer who purchased the products and is using 100% of his/her own exclusively owned & produced images & video footage, as protected under Title 17 US Code section 107 and by the First Amendment.Videos: LEGO Star Wars (Solo) Imperial TIE Fighter review! 75211LEGO Star Wars Han Solo's Landspeeder review! 75209Original linkOriginal author: theJANG

I've been happy with my underwater display(s) since I first tried such a setup in 2015, but that doesn't mean I'm just leaving it alone!  Most of the space has been and still is quick & easy, temporary filler, but I keep adding more detail in small batches.  This weekend I caught a burning desire to add a noticeable amount of new life to both halves of the setup, including establishing the start of some reef-like elements.Video: LEGO deep sea exploration scene tour! ? New 2018 update ?Original linkOriginal author: theJANG

The set with this light rail tram came out in 2015 and I've kept it intact, because I rather liked its design, but I've kept it out of view because there's never been a place for it in either my current city or either of my previous ones.  Thanks to the Mellemby District project, there's finally a place for this to live for awhile, and in the last update for that layout I showed it actually rolling itself around the rail loop.  I'm sure this simple conversion has been done plenty of times by other people in the past three years, but a fair number of you wanted to see my version up close, so here it is (for what it's worth).Video: LEGO light rail tram + Power Functions motor & RC installed 60097Original linkOriginal author: theJANG