Secret Life Of Pets

So exited to see that the creators of Despicable Me are bringing out a new film and it looks like its going to be another absolute cracker.

The new film is called The Secret Life Of Pets and I was pretty much hooked on it from the title, I absolutely love animals, me and my wife have 3 cats and I am always pondering about what they get up to when we aren't around.

The trailer has a slight Toy Story feel to it with the way its going to tell a story about what animals do when there owners backs are turned, the same as what toys do when we aren't around, and I think that is a key reason why this film will be so successful as we will never truly know what animals do when know ones looking at them, its like a blank space in our imagination that this film is going to tap into and fill in.

I love how they have captured the individual characters of the animals in this trailer, when I was watching it with the wife we could relate the fat cat to one of our own, I swear he steals food when we aren't around.

I also loved the posh poodle at the end of the trailer, you can see it coming a mile off but the choice of song for me anyways was just perfect (I am a System Of A Down fan).

So that will be a definite watch for me when it comes out in the summer of 2016, cant wait! :)

SH

LEGO creator Toy and Grocery shop

 So my newest hobby is creating a LEGO town, and I've decided to start off with my first shop which is the LEGO creator Toy and Grocery shop which I picked up from Toys 'R' Us.

 Priced at £35 I didn't think it was too expensive, however after purchasing it I later saw it at a lower price elsewhere such as Argos for £28.99.

It's a 3 in 1 kit so you can choose to make either the Toy and Grocer shop, a news paper stand or a post office depending on your preference, I suppose it also gives kids the ability to deconstruct their original build and make something different which as a kid that would be something that I would have done. However for this build I just made the Toy and Grocer shop shown on the front of the box.

The kit contains 466 pieces and was fun and reasonably easy to build, it took me about 2 hours, has some really nice pieces such as the vending machine and the angled door which is always interesting to see how they accomplished some of the design by using different pieces in a way I would have never though to use them.

The thing that i really like about this set is the way that the centre of the shop is hinged so it can close together like a doll house which gives it lots of playability for kids and also makes it easier to pose mini figures inside the shop.

This shop also has a upper floor apartment living area with a bed and a chest of draws as well as access to the balcony were either the shop owner lives or rents it out to other people.

Here are some pictures of the final build.

 I think my favourite parts of this build was the small details like the Wall-E style looking robot on the shelf and the model train in the window, and I love how the vegetable display is on a 45 degree angle showing off the little apple and banana.

The set also comes with two mini figures, the woman shop owner and an exited customer boy who would be perusing the toys, the kid also comes with a little scooter that he can pose on.

Overall i was quite pleased the set and would recommend it to any beginner LEGO builder and children, the other thing that i could criticise the set for was the build quality of the kids scooter as the handle bars often fall off as they are on balanced in place and not fixed down, but that is a very slight inconvenience.

SH

Welcome to the hobby hole!

Welcome to the blog of a 25 year old hobby hopper, I can't explain why I jump from one hobby to another but it happens all the time. I've always wanted to blog about my hobby but always change what my hobby is, so be prepared!

So the in thing for me at this moment in time is that I'm really into LEGO, playing the drums and playing PS4 (mainly because of Elder Scrolls online).

The one thing that always bugs me about my hobbies that I choose is that they are never cheap hobbies at the dismay of my lovely and very understanding wife Jen who I have been with for 7 years, married for 2 of them.

There may also be some personal blogs within this hobby blog so its not all gonna be about what I do in my spare time.

So anyways enough of the introduction and on to my first blog post that will be up soon. :)

SH