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Tom's Guide
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
Amazon drops Lego deals as low as $7 — 21 deals I'd shop right now on Botanicals, Star Wars, Minecraft and more
We're entering the final weeks of summer, so if you want to finish out your summer break with Lego, make sure to get some of these Lego deals at Amazon. A ton of popular sets are seeing price cuts that you don't want to miss. For starters, you can snag the Lego Classic Medium Creative Brick Box on sale for $17 at Amazon. This is a nice 49% discount on a 484-piece brick box, that's great for kids or adults who want to set their creativity free and build whatever their heart desires. Or, you can grab the Lego Botanicals Mini Orchid on sale for $23 at Amazon. This is a super attractive build to add to your home decor, as it comes with five pretty blooms in a peach and gold-colored vase. Check out all my favorite Lego deals below. For more savings, see our Amazon promo codes and the Adidas deals I'd shop from $9 at Amazon. Bring on spring with this Lego Daffodils building set. This simple build comes with 216 pieces and is great to brighten up your home, whether you display them on a shelf, in a vase or amongst the rest of your plant collection. These Lego Roses really brighten up a living space, and they make for an excellent gift. The Lego flowers set comes with 120 pieces and is relatively simple to build. Bonus: these roses will never wilt! Right now you can add this cool Lego Minecraft set to your collection for just $9. You get a Minecraft minifigure equipped with diamond armour, and three Illagers to take on. Plus, there's a desert castle build with a treasure chest to keep safe. Which aircraft is king of the skies? With this set you can build your choice of either an airplane, fighter jet or helicopter. There's also a stand to show off your chosen model in style. Lego and Fortnite are a perfect match. This Lego Durrr Burger set is a nice pickup at just $10 and makes for an eye-catching addition to your collection! The burger comes complete with a bun, cheese, patty and an olive on top. You also get an Operation Brite Starter Pack to use in the Lego Fortnite video game. This is a super cute Lego set for Minecraft fans. It features a pig-shaped house with a bedroom and farm, as well as some pigs for your minifigures to take care of. Just watch out for the zombified piglin who wants to crash the party. Your Lego collection isn't complete without a Batmobile model. While there are pricier versions available, this one is awesome because it comes in at just $15. As well as the iconic car, you get minifigures of Batman and Mr. Freeze, and some icy accessories to slip the caped crusader up. Not a fan of themed LEGO sets? Want to flex your own creative muscles? Grab this 484-piece assorted set and dream up your own perfect LEGO build with this collection of mixed LEGO bricks. It comes with parts in 35 colors and includes parts like tires, windows, and eyes so you can bring anything you want to life. This Lego Minecraft set is a nice addition to your collection. It's a simple but attractively designed build that embodies Minecraft, with a lush tree placed over a cave filled with rare ores. There's even a waterfall built with transparent bricks. This Mini Orchid is a gorgeous addition to the Lego Botanicals collection, and it's even better when it's on sale. This set comes with five pretty peach blossoms in an orange and gold pot. If you have kiddos that love animals, then these buildable buddies are just the thing for them. You can build a cat on a stand, a dog with a bowl and bone, a hamster with an apple, a rabbit with a carrot and a bird on a perch. You have to admit, Heihei is an iconic Disney character. This Lego set recreates Moana's sidekick in his full glory, with a poseable head, wings and tail feathers. Not to mention the pretty floral stand he can be placed on. This popular Lego Technic Bugatti Bolide Racing Car is now on sale for $31. It comes in an iconic yellow and black color scheme and includes stickers to recreate its design details authentically! A diverse collection of succulents have been arranged in this Lego Botanicals set. You can display them all together, or split them apart and scatter them throughout your home to enhance your decor! What's better than plants? Tiny Lego plants! This botanicals set contains a variety of brick greenery, including cacti and colorful flowers. Each one comes in its own pot. The iconic New York City skyline is recreated in miniature with this Lego set, from the Chrysler to the Empire State. There's even a tiny Statue of Liberty, too. You're seeing this right — the Minecraft Movie chicken jockey set is on sale for a discount. This is a nice build with a viewing platform and interactive fighting ring, featuring minifigures of Steve, Garrett and Henry as well. A villainous pair of iconic dresses have been recreated in Lego form. This set comes with Maleficent and Cruella De Vil's dresses, minifigures and sidekicks — and the bases combine to create a small play area. Who wouldn't want their own Droid on display? Right now you can get a small but still appreciated discount on this Lego Star Wars R2-D2 Building Set. It stands 9-inches high and comes with an information plaque, making it a great display piece. The Lego Architecture Landmarks kits take historic landmarks and turn them into beautiful Lego models. This set is of the famous Japanese Himeji Castle. It's an impressive model at 7.5-inches high and 12.5-inches wide with 2,100 pieces. This Lego set is gorgeous, but pricy. Make sure to grab it while it's discounted! This set is part of Lego's Modular buildings collection and comes with a three-floor hotel on a street corner. It also comes with seven minifigures to work at and attend the hotel.
The Guardian
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
My son has found a way to beat me at chess – replace all the pieces with Minecraft Lego
My son stares at the board. I've slid my rook to corner his closest pawn. He wavers over his zombie for the briefest moment, before manoeuvring and taking my rook with his skeleton. My son's obsession with chess has waxed and waned since he started playing – and teaching me – the game, around this time last year. Lately, however, this interest has resumed with a passion, and with it several novel adaptations to the game itself. On one inauspicious evening some weeks ago, I managed to beat him twice in a row. The only way my wife could mollify his distress was gifting him a book named, with pleasing specificity, How to Beat Your Dad at Chess, which he's been poring over every night since. I've not read it – my own dad doesn't play, so I don't feel the need – but I presume it doesn't have a chapter on swapping out the individual pieces for Lego Minecraft figures, which is the current mode of play I am beset with. It's my own fault, since he's wanted a proper Minecraft set for ages. We did buy him one once, but the pieces had been so badly 3D-printed they were incapable of standing up on their own, and so hastily packaged that they came nobbled with sticky-out bits of thermoplastic resin around the areas where they'd been cut from their moulds. Charmingly, the laborious task of cutting the little nodules off one-by-one resulted in razor-sharp edges where once those lumpy plastic had been. Better parents would probably have taken stock of the stumpy detritus they now held in bleeding fingers, and taken them as a signal to buy the second-cheapest Minecraft Lego set available in the western world, but the moment passed. And he reverted to our traditional chess set. That was, until last week. Surveying his extensive selection of Minecraft minifigs, he decided to improvise. For pawns he chose, quite obviously, individual heads, removed from bodies and providing a size and uniformity that earmarked them as the lowest-ranking pieces on the board. The king and queen, too, followed arelatively straightforward logic that even I could parse, with the game's lead characters Steve and Alex standing in for their gendered, respectivelyregents. Then, things became more opaque. Skeletons were enlisted as knights on the somewhat spurious grounds that they occasionally ride horses in the game. Creepers became rooks, because my son felt their rampaging straight-line action comported well to that of said castle-shaped piece. Finally, zombies were recast as bishops, purely because they were the only remaining characters he had two of. The end result is that I haven't a clue who or what I'm playing against at any point in any game. 'Which piece was that?' I ask, as his skeleton takes my rook. 'The knight!' he says, before reaching for the written record of his new game pieces that he drafted a few days ago. 'I don't want to see the list!' I splutter, with rather less decorum than is respectable. Having now gone a week without a win, I can't fault it as a winning strategy. My fate is sealed, the board reset. If anyone has a copy of How to Beat Your Son at Chess, I'm in the market.
