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Yo Joe! GeekDad Visits G.I. Joe Con 2009
“No other toy has saved the world, millions of times over, one backyard at a time.” That’s the go-to line that G.I. Joe Collector’s Club president and the driving force behind G.I. Joe Con, Brian...
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SWAT Team Takes Down Man Armed With LEGO Gun
According to the National Post, a Toronto man who happens to be a big LEGO fan, was working in a downtown office on Friday when the replica gun made from LEGO that he’d ordered from online retailer...
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Sealed Game Collecting Preserves Our Heritage
I’m always amazed by how many different sorts of people enjoy video games, and how many different ways they play them. The most unusual of these I’ve had the pleasure to come across recently was the...
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GeekDad Falls Head Over Heels With LEGO: A Love Story
There has been much written about the little plastic brick that hails from Billund. Some books talk about the history of LEGO … and you could fill a library with the how-to manuals and blueprints that...
View ArticleBrickstix: Could Be Great For Lego Poetry
You may have already heard this story, but an innovative young geek named Greyson Maclean has developed reusable LEGO decals. Only 11 years-old and with the help of his family he has created a product...
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Building LED Models With Laser Pegs
With three kids in their prime Lego years, we have amassed a considerable collection of bricks. However, while we do have some motorized components, we don’t have any illuminated gear. I know Lego does...
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General Grievous vs the Cats: When Is It Okay to Glue Lego?
There’s a bit of an unwritten law among Lego geeks that gluing a kit together is taboo —unless you’re creating something for use in Legoland, where presumably, large scale models that could be pulled...
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Silver Figures Are Skylanders‘“Golden Ticket”
As any series of toys increases in popularity and becomes scarcer on store shelves, it’s inevitable that their value increases. In many ways this is a bit of a shame, as the children who would enjoy...
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How Do I Protect My Toys From My Kid?
“It’s a toy.” She repeated her answer three times, each time accentuating the word toy. It’s the same tone and technique she uses on the kid for the words “milk” “bedtime” and “poopies.” “It’s a...
View ArticleBuilding LED Models With Laser Pegs (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
With three kids in their prime Lego years, we have amassed a considerable collection of bricks. However, while we do have some motorized components, we don’t have any illuminated gear. I know Lego does...
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A Subscription Service for Wonderful Things
Quarterly.co is a subscription service that has found some creative thinkers, bloggers and creators of lovely things - and offered them a channel to share what they produce with us. Or, put more...
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The Economics of Swapping
We take a look at the economics of swapping and whether there are some toys you should keep hold of.
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