Bricklink, a popular online marketplace that Lego bought in 2019 where fans can buy and sell parts and sets, has been down for a week and the company doesn't know when it will return. The team who runs the site has been sharing updates over the past week including estimates of when it will be back up. It was last expected to return on November 11th, according to Jay's Brick Blog, but a statement Lego shared to the site yesterday says there's currently no estimate of when BrickLink will be back online.

Lego hasn't explained exactly what happened with the marketplace, but says it "took BrickLink offline after identifying unusual activity on t …

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Watch a rubber snake toy turn into a gigantic monstrosity when someone fills it with water from a garden hose. The snake toy starts off quite small – just a few feet long and as thin as a real garden snake. — Read the rest

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Toys "R" Us and Halloween went hand-in-hand back in the day. It's impossible not to feel nostalgic when thinking about it if you lived through that era as a kid. Luckily we have old commercials like this one from 1983 to remember how much fun the store was. — Read the rest

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