I've been out for a while...

[Henchmen4Hire]

Yar, so I haven't kept-up with anything LEGO since mid-1990, mainly due to poverty and a dislike for the world in general (gotta love adolescence, haha). I've been reading BrickJournal, The Brick (the annual mag LEGO releases), and various other sites with "brick" in the titles, but what I really want to know is, is there a place we can go to read in-depth reviews of LEGO sets?

A friend and I are starting a LEGO review-site very soon (don't worry, I won't cram advertising down your throat :) ) so I was wondering if this has been done already, what are we up against?, that sort of thing. I have 3 reviews written so far, trying to find a voice that won't annoy adults too much and kids won't ignore because of the fancy words. I like to think I'm improving with each successive review, but the fact is that I just don't have enough sets to keep refining. (I'm already borrowing friends' sets)

Anyway, I settled on writing like I usually do (I review action figures) and including a bunch of comics with each post for kids, does that seem like a fair trade-off?

What would you folks like to see on a LEGO review site? I don't think I'd have to cover much news because there are already plenty of sites to read that, so that lets us focus on other fun stuff, how about:

-constant flow of Comics

-overview of the Lego Magazine?

-weekly/bi-weekly MOCs by readers of all ages

-the occasional goofball article or interview with LEGO fans (both kids and adults are free to email us their stories about how they started to love LEGOs and we'll post them)

-coverage of LEGO-events if I can go

The reviews themselves will always have comics and alternate models you can make with the pieces in the set, along with notes on how fun it is, how hard it is to build, and what I think of the design in general (lets face it, some sets look like junk, sorry!).

Enough of my lip-flappin'!, what do you think?

Here are some sample-pictures, if nothing else, at least you'll get a clear view of the LEGOs on our site, haha.

Edited July 3, 2010 by DrNightmare

[Shadows]

You may want to take a look at the Eurobricks Reviewer's Academy as a start. I'm not sure there's a huge need for a LEGO Review blog out there, but if there was, I think it would work best if it featured the best and newest reviews (not always the same thing) as found across all of those Brick sites on the net.

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing some comics, alternate builds, and goofball randomness as well.

[Henchmen4Hire]

I have a feeling that'll be the general consensus, that's why I'm adding all the extra content. I also plan on linking to any other reviews I find about the same set, mainly shorter more concise reviews, because I can type indefinitely if left unchecked, heh. I think eventually I'll end-up setting-up a page with a link to all half-way decent reviews across the net.

Newer sets would be ideal, but I don't have that kind of money (I'm gonna try to squeeze some sample reviews out of the LEGO guys at SDCC, though from what I hear, I shouldn't hold my breath, haha), what I'm going to do is hopefully help people see that old sets aren't obsolete and have lots of uses still. I mean, it's one thing to see a set on Brickset, but I think it's even more helpful to have someone show you what the set is capable of.

[DLuders]

If you want to review TECHNIC sets, be advised that there are only a handful of these issued per year, and many of them are already done in the TechnicBRICKS website: http://technicbricks.blogspot.com/search?q=review .

[WhiteFang]

Seeing this, reminds me of a blog project which I have attempted to start early last year, but it did not really take off due to committing additional time in it. I will strongly advice you to think it through carefully before doing something like this as it will definitely involve lots of time and planning to pull it right.

[Henchmen4Hire]

If you want to review TECHNIC sets, be advised that there are only a handful of these issued per year, and many of them are already done in the TechnicBRICKS website: http://technicbricks.blogspot.com/search?q=review .

Noooo, I'd go bankrupt reviewing Technic sets, the only two I have are old Robo-Riders I got from a school christmas party.

Seeing this, reminds me of a blog project which I have attempted to start early last year, but it did not really take off due to committing additional time in it. I will strongly advice you to think it through carefully before doing something like this as it will definitely involve lots of time and planning to pull it right.

All I have is free-time, haha. I'd be glad to hear about your project! We'll most likely need an additional contributor or two, so there may be plenty of room for you to add content. :)

Edited July 3, 2010 by DrNightmare