Action FiguresVideo GamesBikes & Ride-onsElectronicsBuilding SetsLearningGames & PuzzlesOutdoor PlayVehicles, Hobby & R/CPretend PlayArts & CraftsPreschoolMusical InstrumentsStuffed AnimalsCooking for Kids Hot WheelsMinecraftLEGOStar WarsTransformersTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles we got what's hot! Neil Blomkamp’s movie Chappie may have had some misteps, but the fantastic effects work in bringing the titular android to life was beyond reproach. Chappie, a disaffected robot in a future South Africa, is one of the more endearing robots to find its ways to cinema screens in recent years, and LEGO builder Pilation Pilation has made this awesome rendition of the wannabe gangster robot, fully poseable to throw some street moves, and he’s even built a great motorcycle for Chappie, which has hints of Bat-bike in it.Huawei Nova launched in SA, but what about Plus? Could we see HDR smartphone screens go big in 2017? Here’s what we know about Mass Effect Andromeda Gearburn’s definitive guide to Snapdragon smartphones [Update]
We went hands-on with LG G6 last week [SA Exclusive] Xiaomi’s budget Redmi 4A released in South Africa Nintendo Switch: better pack a powerbank for Zelda LEGO Dimensions is officially coming to South Africa (finally) That’s right, Lego’s minifig video game is finally (and officially) hitting SA shores on 26 August. Make sure your credit cards aren’t maxed out for this ever expanding series. Confirmed in a press release from Ster Kinekor, the company will be distributing LEGO Dimensions in SA. “Building on TT Games’ track record for exceptionally popular, engaging games, LEGO Dimensions expands our LEGO videogame franchise with a breakthrough, immersive interactive entertainment experience that will redefine the toys to life games category,” writes senior vice president of TT Games, Jeff Junge. The game is an amalgamation of different properties, such as Back to the Future, Dr. Who, and the LEGO Movie. Players use special, physical minifigs to unlock and play through different worlds with different characters.
In order to the LEGO Dimensions, you’ll need to pick up the starter set, which includes the game, a LEGO Toy Pad, Lego Gateway; Batman, Wyldstyle, and Gandalf figures, and the Batmobile. The series release in September last year and will be making its way to South Africa after almost a year. Some of the expansion packs so far include Portal 2, The Simpsons, and Ghostbusters. The base game will retail for R1499 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and R1299 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Funny packs will cost R249, which Team Packs and Level Packs will be sold for R399 and R449 respectively. Total War: Warhammer review: meticulous attention to detail - 1 year ago Do you like Marvel characters? Boy howdy, there are a ton of them in LEGO Marvel's Avengers! Courtesy of IGN Wiki, below you'll find a list of every character in the game (in the order they appear on the character selection screen), how to unlock them, and how much they cost. Please note, several of the character tokens share the same space on the character selection grid.
Characters marked as "Story Mode" in the "How to Unlock" column are automatically added to the roster as you play through the game in Story Mode (although you may still have to shell out some Studs to play as them). There are also characters you can purchase as DLC. For some reason, the Hulkbuster armor is not available on the main Character Select screen. Instead, you have to select it from Tony Stark's Iron Man Suit Select screen pictured below. Once you've unlocked the Hulkbuster (simply complete Anger Management in Story Mode), switch to Tony Stark or any Iron Man suit and pull up the Character Select screen. The below will pop up instead. That's where you'll find the Hulkbuster armor.Here at Toys and Parties we have been supplying customers with good quality, hard to source children's party supplies and toys since 2009.We have significantly grown our business and now also supply all the latest and popular character clothing and bedding.We have a network of suppliers in South Africa and the UK and add new products as soon as they are released.
We can also make up customised party supplies for those themes that are not in print or if you have a unique party theme. We deliver throughout SA and Worldwide. Click HERE to find out how to become a reseller of our merchandise. "Follow my Lead" Horse Duvet Set - Horse Bedding 3D Beach Horse Duvet - 3D Bedding 3D Beach Horse Duvet - IN STOCK - KING SIZE - 3D BeddingDUST AND THUNDER chronicles the meeting of South Africa with their long-standing favourite British band, Mumford & Sons. Filmed live against the beautiful Pretorian outback, award-winning director Dick Carruthers gets to the very heart of what makes Mumford & Sons such a special act as the band performs new songs and classic hits in front of an exhilarated crowd. Made for the big screen in stunning Ultra HD with 5.1 surround sound, this truly spectacular concert film may go down as Mumford & Sons’ finest. More Cast & Crew for Mumford & Sons Live From South Africa: Dust and ThunderIt’s the most wonderful, weirdest memory.
Remember when you were a kid and you’d play with Lego and, when you were done, you would have circular impressions on your thumbs from pressing the bricks into each other?Nathan Sawaya, otherwise known as “The Brick Artist,” knows those impressions well—and not just because he has them tattooed on his wrist. “I had a tattoo exactly like that on my thumb, too, but little did I know that the thumb regenerates its skin so fast that it wiped off after a few months,” he tells me. “My tattoo artist expected it to last six months to a year, but given my profession, it was less than three months and it was gone.”Sawaya’s profession, as it happens, is a sculptor. A Lego sculptor whose exhibition, The Art of the Brick, is breaking attendance records around the world. (And, just in time for the release of The Lego Movie, it is about to return to Manhattan.)Yes, Nathan Sawaya is paid to play with Lego. And yes, it’s every bit as cool as you’d imagine.Like most of us, Sawaya got his first set of Lego when he was just 5.
Like many of us, he tormented his blessedly understanding parents with his playtime career choice as architect. “They did let me have a 36 square foot Lego city in the house!” he remembers. Like some of us, his love of Lego lingered as he entered adulthood, even stowing a container of bricks under his NYU dorm room bed. (His roommates never found out.) Like very few people, he quit his cozy job as a corporate lawyer to pursue his love of art and creation. And like almost none of us, he’s made a second career out of fashioning Lego sculptures.“Some people go to the gym at the end of the day to unwind, but for me it was all about creating,” Sawaya says. “I was drawing and painting and writing and then I was sculpting.” After doing a series of sculptures using candy, Sawaya challenged himself to create a piece—a self-portrait, as it would happen—using his favorite toy from childhood, Lego bricks. The results were more poignant than he could even imagine.“I was using bricks from my childhood,” he says.
“They were 20 years old and still snapping together perfectly with brand new Lego sets I was buying. There was this crazy aspect about it, that this toy continues on, that it’s recycled through generations and still works. That you can take a toy from the 1970s and it still snaps together with a brand new brick 30, 40 years later is amazing.”PHOTOS: 20 Amazing Lego SculpturesSoon, he was getting commissions to create custom pieces. Then requests started pouring in from all over the world. One day his website crashed because it was getting so many hits, he says, “so I left the law firm to play with toys full time.”It wasn’t an easy transition. His colleagues and his family thought he was out of his mind. Quit corporate law to play Lego … can you blame them? Other reactions ran the gamut. “Some of my colleagues were jealous because I was following my passion,” Sawaya says. “Others were just confused.” But even after making the decision, it wasn’t all child’s play (heh) to go from the lifestyle of a lawyer making six figures to the lifestyle of an artist, unsure of whether he can pay rent each month.“
In 2007, I got my first solo show,” Sawaya remembers. “At the time I thought it was going to be my last solo show.”Years after making the bold move in pursuit of what most people would consider a very, very niche form of art, Sawaya is seeing his idea to turn a toy into an artistic medium ride a wave of insurgent Lego popularity. Not only is Sawaya’s exhibition more popular than ever (after touring as far away as South Africa, China, and Taiwan, it’s returning to Times Square in February), but The Lego Movie is opening this weekend, already scoring rave reviews and has the second-highest advanced ticket sales of any animated movie ever, according to Fandango.More than 65 years after children first marveled at those circular, Lego-shaped impressions on their thumbs after building with the bricks, the toy is having a bit of a moment.By clicking "Subscribe," you agree to have read the Terms of Use and Privacy PolicySubscribe“When I started doing this art, even after I had the first exhibition, galleries and owners laughed,” Sawaya remembers.
“I had doors slammed in my face.” Now, he’s making replicas of tyrannosaurus rex skeletons that measure over 20 feet in length; blowing people’s minds with uncanny recreations of works like Mona Lisa, Whistler’s Mother, and The Thinker; harboring four or five million bricks between his two studios in L.A. and New York; and, through the success of his exhibition, seeing how universal and instant the appeal of the Lego is.“When I was in South Africa I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks,” he says. “And yet when I was like, ‘Here they are,’ they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.”Lego’s continued popularity is astounding considering the countless toy fads coming and going over the decades, ever-evolving technology introducing revolutionary new ways to play games every day, and the fact that a toddler who played with one of the first sets is now old enough to retire.
Part of that is owed to the simplicity of it, the flash of ecstasy that comes at the sound of two bricks snapping together as you construct buildings with your own two fingers, using your imagination as the only blueprint. (The wonder in the eyes of anyone who sees Sawaya’s work comes from their awe at the wonder of his imagination, seeing the possibility of his sculptures from a pile of Lego bricks.)The other part of it is the renewed importance of nostalgia in our lives, with an entire “Buzzfeed generation” creating a culture around the celebration of activities and memories that meant a lot to them as kids. The excitement for The Lego Movie certainly speaks to that, as does the reaction to Sawaya’s work.“I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood and it brings them back,” he says. “They’ll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.” That response bridges generations, too.