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Tom's Guide
6 days ago
- Business
- Tom's Guide
Huge Lego sale from $4 at Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart — 15 deals I'd shop now
Looking to fill your cart with Lego deals? You're in luck. I've been searching the web for the best discounts on Lego sets, and I have a ton of great ones to share. Right now, Amazon has Lego on sale from $5. In particular, you can score great deals on popular Botanicals sets, like the Lego Botanicals Lucky Bamboo on sale from $23 at Amazon. Over at Best Buy, you can score the impressive Lego Architecture Great Pyramid of Giza on sale for $114. Or, if you're on a budget, you can score this cheerful Lego Daffodils set on sale for $7 at Walmart. My favorite Lego deals are listed below. For more savings, see our Amazon promo codes coverage, and check out the Crocs deals I'd buy from $14 at Amazon. If Maple lives on your Animal Crossing island, you pretty much have to get this set. It's a simple 29-piece build that comes with a Maple minifigure and a small pumpkin garden to take care of. Every Lego build starts with sturdy foundations. This Lego Classic Green Baseplate is on sale for just $5, which is perfect if you want to get started on a city or park build. It's square-shaped with 32 studs in each direction. I don't know who was asking for this Airplane vs. Hospital Bed Race Car Pack, but now that it's on sale for just $6, it's tough to resist. Like the name implies, it comes with an airplane and a hospital bed that have been converted into road racers, as well as two minifigure drivers. 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. Add a little sunshine to your day with these pretty Lego sunflowers. This simple build is excellent for anyone of any age or skill level. Plus, you can display them however you like in a vase or amongst real blooms. This Lego Marvel set is on sale for a nice discount, so it makes a great addition to your collection. You get minifigures of Thanos and Iron Man, as well as the Hulkbuster mech and a glider for the figures to pilot. Another great addition to your Lego Botanicals collection is on sale at Amazon. This Lucky Bamboo set comes with three stems in a pot, with a plinth to display it on. There's no watering required, so this is a great way to add some greenery to your home. Who doesn't love dinosaurs? This Lego Classic Creative Dinosaurs set comes with a bunch of colorful bricks, eyes and more. You can either use the instructions to build a T Rex, Pterosaur, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, baby T Rex, palm tree and volcano, or use your imagination to bring your own creations to life. Animal lovers will definitely want to pick up this cute Lego set. It comes with seven figures, five animals and a colorful array of festival booths and balloons. There are also plenty of accessories to help take care of the animals, including food bowls and brushes. Terrify and amaze all visitors with this Lego Jurassic World Dinosaur Fossils T. Rex Skull! This set comes with 577 pieces, allowing you to build a T. Rex Skull, footprint and an information plate. It's perfect for dinosaur lovers aged nine and up. 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. Score a nice discount on this Lego Ideas Polaroid Camera. While it doesn't take real photos, it faithfully recreates the OneStep SX-70 and comes with a box of film and cute pictures of Lego minifigures. The iconic design of the Vespa 125 scooter is recreated in this Lego set. It comes in a beautiful pastel blue color and has accessories to boot, including a helmet and a flower vase. The Lego Architecture Great Pyramid of Giza is a truly impressive build, and now you can get it for a lower price. With 1,476 pieces included, you'll be able to recreate the Great Pyramid, surrounded by a river, buildings and foliage. The top even lifts off to reveal a detailed look at the Pyramid's interior. This is a pricy set, but there's nothing better to represent Marvel's Black Panther. Coming with 2,961 pieces, this is an awesome build, and the model even comes with poseable, jointed fingers.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dinosaurs crash land into Bishop Museum this weekend
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Something is stalking the grounds of Bishop Museum as a new exhibit prepares to make its debut. WakeUp2Day's Chris Latronic went live at 'Expedition Dinosaur: Into the Deep' to learn more about the prehistoric experience. Explore the prehistoric past in Big Island's new exhibit For the first time on Oahu, guests get up close and personal with oceanic and aquatic reptiles from the Jurassic period, including favorites such as the T Rex and Stegosaurus. According to Bishop Museum's Vice President of Public Programs, Brandon Bunag, there are many new, exciting and interactive exhibits available to experience this can become scientists with a new exhibit that features an interactive fossil scanner. Just grab a fossil and scan it through the high-tech scanner to learn all about it. This exhibit also features many life-sized fossils of prehistoric dinosaurs from the ocean, showcasing some creatures that may have once lived in our oceans. Looking to travel back in time? Visit the time machine, a 13-minute show that will take you back to experience the many different periods of dinosaurs, like the Prehistoric and Jurassic eras. Visitors can also come face-to-face with an actual dinosaur. Meet Moʻonui, a juvenile T Rex, every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Check out more news from around Hawaii Schools can start booking field trips for next school year now, and the exhibit opens to the public on Saturday, May 24, at 9 a.m. For more information, visit the Bishop Museum's website. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
NDTV
06-05-2025
- Science
- NDTV
T-Rex Luxury Bags? Scientists Plan To Use Leather From Dinosaur DNA
Regarded as one of the most fearsome creatures on planet Earth millions of years ago, the 40-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex (T-Rex) could soon be used to make a fashion statement. In a first-of-its-kind approach to luxury fashion, researchers and bioengineers in the UK are planning to use lab-grown leather from fossilised T-Rex remains to make purses, clutches and totes. Known as the King of the Dinosaurs, T Rex lived 68 million years ago in North America and Asia. Now, using T-Rex collagen as a blueprint, the researchers are hoping to develop the first example of leather, created from an extinct species. 'We're unlocking the potential to engineer leather from prehistoric species, starting with the formidable T-Rex,' Che Connon, professor of tissue engineering at Newcastle University, said in a statement. "The hard bit is making leather from cells, and we've done that. The upstream bit is using existing technologies, which is why we're confident we can do this so quickly.' The joint venture between creative agency VML and biotech companies The Organoid Company and Lab-Grown Leather Ltd. is hoping to produce a luxury fashion item as its flagship commercial product by the end of 2025. "The material is fully biodegradable while maintaining the durability and repairability of traditional leather, offering a sustainable, cruelty-free, and traceable alternative for future generations of consumers, who demand both innovation and environmental responsibility." While the claims by scientists are audacious, some palaeontologists have called them out for being 'misleading'. "We have NO preserved tyrannosaurid DNA (indeed, not Mesozoic dinosaur DNA sequences), so there are no T-Rex genes,' Thomas Holtz, Jr., a vertebrate palaeontologist at the University of Maryland, told LiveScience. Notably, DNA starts to decompose and decay as soon as an animal dies. The oldest preserved DNA on record is about two million years old, while the T-Rex went extinct 66 million years ago.
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Audrey Hepburn and Marc Bolan among blue plaques honourees
Actress Audrey Hepburn and glam rock musician Marc Bolan are among the blue plaque honourees for 2025. The London scheme, from English Heritage, will also celebrate novelist Barbara Pym, artist Graham Sutherland, ballerina Alicia Markova and Jamaican writer and campaigner Una Marson. Belgium-born Hepburn, who will be commemorated with a plaque in Mayfair, was sent to a boarding school in England by her parents Irish-English businessman, James Hepburn Ruston, and a Dutch-Hungarian-French noblewoman, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra. She landed her Oscar-winning role as Princess Ann in 1953 romance film Roman Holiday while living in Mayfair, after spending her early years in London. Hepburn also has four Academy Award best actress nods for romantic comedies Sabrina and Breakfast At Tiffany's, drama The Nun's Story, and horror Wait Until Dark. Shortly before she died aged 63 in 1993, she was presented the British Academy's Special Award by the Princess Royal. English Heritage curatorial director, Matt Thompson, said: '2025 marks an exciting year for the Blue Plaques Scheme as we honour these outstanding individuals who transformed the cultural fabric of London. 'From literature and art to dance and music, these figures helped shape the London we know today. Their contributions not only had a profound impact on their fields but also continue to inspire generations.' T Rex frontman Bolan will be marked with a plaque at one of his west London addresses, while English National Ballet co-founder Markova is set to be honoured at her childhood home in Muswell Hill. Get It On hitmaker Bolan died aged 29 in 1977 when his car smashed into a tree in south-west London. More London locations will be picked for Marson, claimed by the BBC to be its first black producer on the payroll who would go on to develop Caribbean Voices, part of the Calling The West Indies series, as well as Excellent Women author Pym. Sutherland – known for his controversial 1954 portrait of Winston Churchill that was later destroyed – will be honoured at his childhood home in the suburbs of London. An episode of Netflix royal drama The Crown revolved around the creation of the painting, and last year Sutherland's preparatory painting of Churchill was sold by Sotheby's auction house for £660,000. The blue plaques, which need the owner of the building to approve them, are set to be installed throughout this year. The markings on buildings began in 1866 and had been run by English Heritage since 1986. In 2024, the scheme was officially expanded outside of the capital, with the woman credited as the first black matron in the NHS, Daphne Steele, becoming the principal honouree with a Yorkshire plaque.
Sky News
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News
Audrey Hepburn will get blue plaque in London - as list of honourees revealed
Audrey Hepburn and glam rock musician Marc Bolan are among the stars being honoured with blue plaques celebrating their "profound impact". Plaques will also honour novelist Barbara Pym, artist Graham Sutherland, ballerina Alicia Markova and Jamaican writer and campaigner Una Marson. The blue plaque scheme has been running since 1866. Hepburn's plaque will go up in Mayfair, a high-end neighbourhood of London where the actress landed her Oscar-winning role as Princess Anne in 1953 romance film Roman Holiday, starring alongside Gregory Peck. The actress was sent to a boarding school in England by her parents, Irish-English businessman James Hepburn Ruston and a Dutch-Hungarian-French noblewoman, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra. She has four Academy Award best actress nods for romantic comedies Sabrina and Breakfast At Tiffany's, drama The Nun's Story, and horror Wait Until Dark. Shortly before she died aged 63 in 1993, she was presented the British Academy's Special Award by the Princess Royal. English Heritage curatorial director, Matt Thompson, said: "2025 marks an exciting year for the Blue Plaques Scheme as we honour these outstanding individuals who transformed the cultural fabric of London. "From literature and art to dance and music, these figures helped shape the London we know today. "Their contributions not only had a profound impact on their fields but also continue to inspire generations." T Rex frontman Bolan will be marked with a plaque at one of his west London addresses, while English National Ballet co-founder Markova is set to be honoured at her childhood home in Muswell Hill. Get It On hitmaker Bolan died aged 29 in 1977 when his car smashed into a tree in south-west London. The location for a plaque commemorating Jamaican writer Marson, claimed by the BBC to be its first black producer on the payroll who would go on to develop Caribbean Voices, part of the Calling The West Indies series, is yet to be chosen. The blue plaques, which need the owner of the building to approve them, are set to be installed throughout this year. Previous honourees include Princess Diana, Waiting for Godot playwright Samuel Beckett, and Great Expectations author Charles Dickens. In 2024, the scheme was officially expanded outside of the capital, with the woman credited as the first black matron in the NHS, Daphne Steele, becoming the principal honouree with a Yorkshire plaque.
