Toys and collectibles, from building sets to designer art figures.
It's World Cup season, and minifiglabs.com has created custom LEGOfied minifigure sets for eight qualifying countries: Brazil, Spain, Japan, Germany, Italy, Argentina, England, and the Netherlands. Each poseable figure comes with a metallic gold trophy.
Amazon offers free shipping to Singapore through its AmazonGlobal Saver programme, provided your order tops US$125 and every item qualifies. If even one item doesn't qualify, the whole order misses out, so here I round up LEGO sets that qualify.
I received my custom LEGO Minifigures from Minifiglabs.com, a service run by Singaporean company Fish & Toast that lets you create personalised, printed LEGO Minifigures. I was given the Cool Denim Couple Set, two custom Minifigs printed with our names.
Picked up the yellow LEGO LED Key Light from Hong Kong's city'super for HK$80 (around S$12.60), plus a blue one and the Police Officer for friends. Wondering whether anyone sells these little lights in Singapore.
Li Xiang mentioned she'd never owned a Tamagotchi, so when my mom's friend visited from Japan on business, I asked him to grab one. Here it is, a Tamagotchi iD straight from Japan, as a belated birthday present!
Gizmodo visited LEGO and wrote up everything you ever wanted to know. One gem: why are there always leftover pieces after building a castle set? Partly because some pieces are simply too small and light to matter much.