Lego madness

Too much Legoodness for today, so let's get right down to it, shall we?

We open with some proof that the Lego minifig is the coolest action figure of all time because it is imminently cutomizable from my personal favorite, the classic space minifig, to just about any combination of parts that you'd like to put together. As a good Princeton guy, I'm glad to see that Lego has finally even come through with a Viking set - something I'm clearly going to have to drop a few quid for before it drifts off into the land of unpopular Lego sets.

Plus, the all of the options and choices of minifig parts let you make Lego abominations or freakish Halloween creations and castle creations.

None of this even begins to touch on the idea of customizable digital minifigs that you can buy or the numerous minifigs - like Gregor Mendel - that have been set into tiny tales called vignettes (more vignettes) - a recent addition to the Lego canon and many of which use some rather impressive building techniques.

Ah, the humble minifig...desired by many, available in bulk.