Here’s a synthwave mix I discovered yesterday evening. The header art was really neat to look at when I pulled it up on YouTube. Hopefully your Monday is off to a good start and the week ahead is drama free … Continue reading Nanobots Day Thread (07/22)

Today is my 42nd birthday. I’m not sure how I feel about that as I type this roughly a week and a half before today. The march of time, things of that nature. Let’s instead talk about another Super Sentai, … Continue reading The Yearly Super Sentai Birthday (Day) Thread: Cops Over Thieves (7/21)

I actually had something else planned for this thread but I was feeling lazy. So here’s an Ateez song and video I’m currently obsessed with instead. Have a good/great/better day! Continue reading Bouncy Day Thread

I originally had this to talk about State Fair food but got an earlier one instead. So talk about other stuff I guess! But also, here’s the video that got me into Julien Baker: Continue reading The Day Thread of, I dunno, somethin (7/18)

(I signed up for some Open Threads and decided for each one I’ll take a snapshot of a random shelf and pick one book from the photo to highlight. Please feel free to discuss adjacent books as well and critique … Continue reading The Dogsbody Day Thread (7/17/24)

“That’s what Prime Day is all about, Charlie Brown.” Continue reading Optimus Prime Day Thread

In 2013, the very same year that the sun set on Lego Space themes with the release of Galaxy Squad, Lego was made to realize just how much love people have for the history of the entire Lego Space concept. … Continue reading Classic Space Nostalgia Revival Day Thread (July 15th)

After Galaxy Squad, Lego abandoned its original Space efforts. Evocative box art and comics in a free magazine just didn’t move the needle with children anymore, not when Star Wars and Marvel sets were sitting right there on the same … Continue reading Lego Space Leftovers Day Thread (July 14th)

In 2013, after a one year gap, Lego released its final original Space theme (thus far). The action once again returned to the outer wilds of the cosmos, where a race of “bugoids” is assimilating world after world, and only … Continue reading Galaxy Squad Day Thread (July 13th)

*runs in, out of breath* They’re here! The new foods for the MN State Fair are here! (Well, they were announced on Tuesday but this was the first open thread I could snag) The above is but a sampling, you … Continue reading The Day Thread of the 2024 State Fair

2011 brought Lego Space to a bold new location it had never visited before: Earth. This was Alien Conquest, where the little green men decided to turn the tables on those imperialist Mars Mission miners and see how we liked … Continue reading Alien Conquest Day Thread (July 11th)

In 2009, Lego revisited an old Space subtheme concept with a whole new approach. The previous two Space Police themes in the early 90s were only out to arrest the members of the human Blacktron faction, making them seem more … Continue reading Space Police 3 Day Thread (July 10th)

This series previously jumped from Algeria to Andorra, but on looking at a different list specialized to elevation extremes, I decide that it was worth including American Samoa, which though a territory of the United States, has a somewhat unusual … Continue reading The Day Thread of Highest Peaks: Lata Mountain (07/09)

Real Avocado open thread not a knockoff. Please post in comments below not a knockoff. Continue reading Dayth read

For several years after the end of Life on Mars in 2001, Lego did not attempt an original space theme. Waves upon waves of Star Wars sets filled that niche and then some, with a few officially licensed NASA sets … Continue reading Mars Mission Day Thread (July 8th)

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Here’s one from punky hard rock group Girlschool. Continue reading The July 6th Day Thread Decides to Go

The Lego company licensed Star Wars in 1999. It was the first time they had brought in outside IP to be rendered in Lego bricks, and it was a smashing success: it’s widely credited with saving the company from bankruptcy … Continue reading Life On Mars Day Thread (July 5th)

“Today on Jackass, Fred Astaire will…” Continue reading The 4th of July Day Thread Says It With Firecrackers

In 1997, Lego finally released a space theme that was a pure, clean break from the Classic Space -> Exploriens continuum that had been their vernacular for almost 20 years. Its name was appropriate for its novelty: these were the … Continue reading UFO Day Thread (July 3rd)

In 1997, Lego was entering a bit of a rough patch. The number of types and colors of pieces they manufactured had exploded in the 90s, and their inventory management systems were not up to the task of making all … Continue reading Roboforce Day Thread (July 2nd)