Too Much Awesome

It’s easy to buy video games for the people on your Christmas list, but you can get a lot more for a lot less if you look beyond the television.

Minecraft. You’ve heard about it, read about and maybe even tried it. Minecraft is to PCs what Angry Birds is to the iPhone…a simple game that everyone talks about and can’t stop playing. I took a glimpse at Minecraft several months ago and wrote it off. Now, however, I’m changing my tune.

When it comes to building toys, most people will instantly think of Lego bricks. I know I do and I was as much a Lego maniac as Zack, but Lego wasn’t the only option if you wanted to create castles, spaceships, trains and towers.

Haven’t I talked about LEGO bricks before? Yes actually, I certainly have. But I’m never quite done, no matter what my better judgment may think. The reasoning is because LEGO (yes, it is proper to capitalize every letter every time) is a brand you can expect to continually churn out the biggest and most creative [...]

With the arival of Lego Pirates of the Caribbean comming just in time for the new movie, it seems that more and more popular movies are converted into Lego games every year. Here are the franchises I’m still waiting for.

One of the most popular children’s toys of the 20th century, Lego formed both the literal and figurative building blocks of many a childhood, including my own. But these simple plastic bricks brought hours of fun to me and my friends as they have almost every child that’s come into contact with them in their [...]

Remember a Christmas or birthday when you wanted that one special toy, but no one got it for you? Now you understand…it was ridiculously expensive, or impossible to locate. You were disappointed then, because there was no such thing as ebay or Amazon, and instead you got a sweater.

I don’t want to jinx this, but I’d really like to see Toy Story 3 receive a perfect 100% at Rotten Tomatoes, thus making the Toy Story series have a perfect score. While it’s most likely not going to happen since at least one reviewer will be jaded for no reason other than to cost [...]

When I was growing up, almost every kid I knew had LEGOs. We all enjoyed building different objects, letting our imaginations do the work. There were instructions to follow, but individual creations were always more fun. And with the LEGO Ultimate Building Set, it seems that the trend is still going strong today.

The year is wrapping up, but there is still just enough time for you to get out and grab gifts for everyone on your list. It’s tough to create a list of the top toys of 2009 without repeating myself quite a bit, plus everyone else has the list somewhere. But you come here to [...]