Category: Site News

Site Update and We Have Atlantis!

By Chad, November 14, 2009

A big site update: We are finishing up reviews of three new Atlantis sets, and even though we have not imported all of our old reviews and blog posts and finished the site design/layout, we’re going to go ahead and take the site live since we have these reviews just about ready. We are actually going to redo our old reviews and upload them to flickr in much higher resolutions, so look for those over the next few weeks.

In honor of the Atlantis launch, we’ll be going with an aquatic theme for the time being.

Just a quick note: The site will be kind of wonky on and off as we tweak the layout (colors, etc.). It’s taking a little more time than we expected, but things should be in order before the weekend is out.

As for the Atlantis sets, I picked up the same three that were mentioned yesterday, at my local Toys R Us.

The prices and SKUs are:
Monster Crab Clash # 8056-1 : SKU: 673419128742 Price: $6.99
Guardian of the Deep # 8058-1 : SKU: 673419128780 Price: $14.99
Typhoon Turbo Sub # 8060-1 : SKU: 673419129626 Price: $24.99

I’ll be publishing full reviews tonight.

A small teaser:

LEGO 8058 Atlantis Guardian Deep Shark

MostlyBricks.com Update (November 10)

By Chad, November 10, 2009

MostlyBricks.com is now live as you can see. Some site layout and theme work is still being worked out and will be worked out over the next few weeks. Things will still be screwy for a few days as the transition from a certain free blogger service is complete – you’ll see some weird dates and some story and image formatting that doesn’t make sense, but we’ll get them straightened out There are still 15-20 posts to be imported, and I’m working on getting the flickr integration finished.

Our main goal was to get MostlyBricks.com up and running and then bring over any relevant stories and posts before Thanksgiving here in the US, and we are way ahead of where we expected to be. I’ve removed the posts from the blogger service as I put them up on here so that there isn’t duplicate content floating around out there on the web to confuse people. It shouldn’t be a problem though – the original blog wasn’t being indexed by Google, etc., as we were still unsure of whether we wanted to commit to it back then and had turned off indexing. Now that we have obviously committed to going through and doing this, it makes no sense to refer back to the original blog either – the number of readers was small anyways.

You can contact us (for now) through:
mostlybricks @ gmail.com or
mostlybricks @ yahoo.com (for our flickr stuff)

Where we go from here, once the rest of the stories are imported and the theme/layout is finalized – who knows, the sky is the limit and we are pretty excited about it.