Friends Are A Little Bit of Sunshine

I have a very good friend, Andrea, who lives and blogs over ate Maybe It's Just Me. Although we live hundreds of miles apart, I feel as though we live next door to each other. We share a fondness for Legos, likely brought to the surface by our male progeny.  We are particularly fond of the mini-figures, which are just plain cute.  I just love them all. I know--weird, huh?  I don't care.  I embraced my nerdiness years ago!

As we were waiting in anticipation for the opening of The Lego Movie, I mentioned that I had not been able to find any of the movie mini-figures anywhere. Toys R' Us, Walmart, Target...it was no use crying about it. The "collectors" had cleaned them out. But I did get a bit verklempt when I mentioned it to Andrea. Well, as tearful as one can get via text and emoticons.  Google can only do so much.

So it was with great happiness that I found a package in my mailbox this weekend.  Larry and Zane were sad, because they didn't get any package in the mail.  But when I opened the envelope, out popped three Lego mini-figures, each one with a note on it. 

You would have thought it was Christmas all over again.  Larry and Zane practically bowled me over grabbing their mini-figures, and the next few minutes were spent opening the packages and putting together the figures. 

And indeed, everything was awesome!  Zane got Emmett, the star of The Lego Movie, I got Wild Style, and Larry got Larry the Barrista(which was funnier because my Larry drinks tons of coffee)!  It was a perfect little family bonding moment, each of us with our mini-figures, reciting lines from the movie.

Then we had to go find Batman and Superman, and build a space ship so that we could fly over what's left of Helms Deep and look for Bigfoot.  Good clean fun.  But in this darkest part of winter, when the blahs are rampant, it is nice to open a package of sunshine.  Thank you!

Superman!

This mini-figure cracks me up.  It's that little curl!  It makes me giggle every time I see it.   (And yes, those are Cheez-its in the background.  Superman likes them, and unless you have kryptonite handy, when Superman tells you to buy Cheez-its, you buy Cheez-its.  The fact that I love them, and tend to eat an entire box during the random movie-of-the-week, is irrelevant. Really.)  I love that Lego is going to be releasing all these DC Universe mini-figures.  I really am fascinated with all of the Lego mini-figures, and not just because I can actually put them together by myself.  But I've enjoyed the trip down memory lane as I play--er, hand the superhero mini-figures to my son.

Of course, we all know that I am not a Superman fangirl.  I am all about the Bat.  Superman was always way too goody-goody for me.  He ate his veggies and drank his milk and was never late with his homework.  Superman was smart, but sort of gullible.  Yeah, I said it.  Superman would always believe Lex Luthor.   Superman trusted people to do the right thing, even when they'd done wrong the last fifty times.  While it is good to hope for the best, at some point Superman should have started basing his decisions on Lex Luthor's past behavior and just left him in prison.  Batman would have just let Lex rot in his cell, and not helped him get out of prison repeatedly just so the writers could have another storyline.  That's one reason why Batman is my favorite.

But I still love that little curl!   And I'm not saying that because I'm hopped up on Cheez-its.