Skip to main content Skip to groceries navigation menu Stationery & home office DIY & car care Cars, trains & planes There are no products on this shelf at the moment. If you're looking for a particular item, you may be able to find it using the search box above Enter your postcode to check we deliver in your area. Alcohol promotions available to online customers serviced from our Scottish stores may differ from those shown when browsing our site. Please log in to see the full range of promotions available to you. Collections & Our Stores Sign up for our emailsThe new Lone Ranger movie (out August 8) might not have set the box office alight in the US. But if there's any justice, the film's now almost-obligatory Lego tie-in sets will prove to be big hits. Because these are the best sets we've seen in a long, long time. (And yes, that includes the Back To The Future car.) The sets we got to play with - the Silver Mine Shootout (£69.99) and Constitution Train Chase (£79.99) - are evocative and beautifully constructed, as ever for modern Lego kits.
But what they get right that other themes haven't of late, is that they're able to encompass the movie while also embracing the timeless, Western fantasy in which they're set. Above: Click around our Lytro image to refocus. The problem with Lego movie toys is that they're often based on such specific scenes they're almost useless out of context. Take the Superman sets. Perfectly well made and realised they might be. But when kids play Superman, they have the Man of Steel rescuing buses, fighting tons of villains and lifting trains into the sky. They don't have him - with the best will in the world - driving in a sports car. So what do kids do when they play the Lone Ranger - or the now non-PC 'Cowboys and Indians'? They make up train robberies, fort battles, stagecoach escapes and town-centre showdowns. And that's exactly what they get here. Perhaps that's down to Disney, who in 'Pirates of the Caribbean' style may well have made a movie comprising every standard trope of the Western genre (and maybe that's why it didn't work?).
But whatever the reason, these kits are Lego Western in all but name, and they deserve to be around for a long, long time. The Constitution Train Chase is perhaps the best of the two sets we tried. It's a really stunning kit. The train is realistic, solid, full of details and not too specific to the film. It comes with a jail, a coal cart, a Lego Gatling gun and a collapsible water tower - plus a Lone Ranger riding Silver, able to rear up on its hind legs. The track is long, the train is huge, the Minifigs are great - and not too movie-dull - and the result is a stone-cold classic train set. The Silver Mine Shootout is also wonderful. It's full of details - a slide, a trap door, a runaway mine (through which it's possible with a bit of adjusting to fit the Constitution Train, incidentally) and a baddies hideaway with cooker, bottles and mining equipment. It's like the best of the old Lego castles, with passages connecting all the different areas, fun escape routes and set-piece 'explosions' (complete with TNT) and a good sense of scale and value.
We really can't recommend these sets enough. They'll be great for any kid - or adult fan - regardless of whether they like the Lone Ranger. And if they do happen to love the film too, they'll probably explode with happiness. Lone Ranger Movie Lego Toys Uk News Lego Reviews LegoAs a Tamiya UK Dealer, Retailer and Official Stockist, Wonderland Models are a specialist in the Tamiya range of model kits including plastic model kits, radio controlled models, tools, paints and accessories.To be notified of any new products or offers in this category, please sign up to the Wonderland Models newsletter.You can find conversions for all major model paint manufacturers on the Ultimate Model Paint Conversion Chart. Plastic KitsNew Tamiya 2017 | 1/20 F1 Car | Display Cases PaintsAcrylic | CementRadio ControlRC Cars | On Road Cars | XB Expert Built | 2WD Monster Trucks | 4WD Monster Trucks | 2WD Off-Road Buggies | 4WD Off-Road Buggies | Nitro Monster Trucks | RC Car Tools | Polycarbonate PaintRC SparesSpares |
Lunch Box-Midnight Pumpkin | Rough Rider-Sand Scorcher | Wheels and Tyres | What are the top toys for Christmas 2016? This Morning reveals what children REALLY want CHRISTMAS is 46 days away, and many parents are now turning their attention to making sure they get the toys their children really desire this year. So what are the top toys to buy for 2016?This Morning had a countdown of the twelve children’s toys that are sure to delight any child this Christmas.First up was the incredibly popular Hatchimals, priced at £59.99 - and Holly and Phil advised viewers that despite the product currently being sold out, it should return to the shelves this month.Explaining the toy, their expert said: “The child looks after the egg by keeping it warm and then a pair of glowing eyes appear.“One of five different species will then hatch out of the egg - it takes 30 minutes to hatch - and the child raises it.”Moving on, the team then looked at the other toys to buy this year.First up, the Selfie mic, priced at £19.99, with an app which has over 1000 songs.
You film yourself singing and share the footage with other users.ITVThey also listed:Shopkins kitchen £24.99.Paw patrol air patroller £39.99.Snuggle puppy £49.99. You must look after and feed the puppy and it makes noises. Top 50 Iconic Toys Buzz Lightyear, Furbies and Tamagotchi’s have been named as some of the most iconic children’s toys ever. Top 50 most iconic toysDo what he saysSpeak out £19.99 - put a clear mouthguard into your mouth and then try and say phrases.Your team then has to guess what you are saying.Lego - star wars U-Wing fighter £69.99.ITVLego friends funfair kit £89.99Nerf blaster hyper fire elite £49.99, which is the fastest nerf gun so far.Hot wheels ultimate garage £89.99Thomas the Tank Engine sky high bridge jump £99.99Fancy yourself a robotics expert? Own a smartphone or tablet? Lego Mindstorms EV3 might be the type of toy for you. Lego Mindstorms, a programmable robotics kit, has been around for a number of years, but the latest kit coming this fall finally adds support for smartphones and tablets via an app, an exciting development when you consider that this app could act both as a remote control and a programming tool.
Alas, that iOS/Android app isn't available to test yet, but the rest of the EV3 box I was sent to play with matches what will be available on September 1. Like previous Mindstorms robots, you can connect to a Mac or Windows PC connectivity via software and a USB cable that plugs into the central Mindstorms Brick, which houses an ARM9 CPU and an LCD screen. You program Mindstorms robots this way, or on the Mindstorms Brick itself. CNET last got a peek at the Mindstorms EV3 robots and their potential back at CES, but we've finally gotten a chance to look at the product for ourselves, with no hand-holding. The $349 Mindstorms EV3 set has more than 550 pieces from the Lego Technic system, and all the parts you need to make a variety of robots, from a tanklike Tracker to a scorpionlike crawler to a mech biped with a pellet-shooting gun. There are three motors, an IR sensor, a color-sensing module, and a touch sensor. You could even connect Mindstorms up to Wi-Fi via USB, or add extra memory via an SD card slot.
The Brick has 16MB of flash memory, 64MB of RAM, and Bluetooth 2.1, four input and output ports that connect using phone-cord-like snap-in cables, and an LCD display with speaker. So, how easy is it to make a Mindstorms robot? Lego's documentation claims it should take no more than an hour to get up and running. I'd never set up a Mindstorms robot before. But, who better to use as a guinea pig to test how easy Mindstorms' setup is?I admit, I have previous experience putting together tons of Lego sets with my son, but I'm not a robotics person. The Lego-like documentation made sense to me; it would make sense to anyone who has bought Ikea furniture, too. It walks you through creating a beginner-level robot with easy step-by-step pictures. From there, you need to install the software to learn how to make other robots, and then take on preinstalled missions for each robot to learn extra features and programming steps. The box even unfolds to form a test-track surface. An included remote control works with the IR sensor to execute preset functions or enable newly programmed ones from up to 6 feet away, and the IR sensor can also be used to detect distance and objects.
Like all previous Mindstorms, the capabilities are vast -- the central Brick runs on an open-source Linux operating system, and new robot programs and builds can be easily shared online. This year's software also introduces 3D building instructions created via Autodesk. It took me the better part of a day to assemble the starter "Track3r" robot, and you could always stop there and use it as an expensive remote-control toy. But the real fun is in continuing to build -- there are already 17 robot projects you can assemble, five that are official parts of the Mindstorms EV3 kit, and 12 additional creations from the Mindstorms user community. Or, you could dive deeper into the programming experience, and just make that your pastime. Needless to say, the Mindstorms online community runs very deep, and EV3 is backward-compatible with older versions. Should you want to turn your kit into a full-blown computer-science project, you could. I'm also here to say you could just enjoy playing around with building cool robots, like I did.