Presidents’ Day is right around the corner, and so are the deals. There are a lot of pretty serious things to buy at a discount at this time of the year. You can get Presidents’ Day power tool deals to help you get your home DIY ready. Or, maybe upgrade your computer setup with Presidents’ Day Dell deals. Maybe even get a better night’s sleep via Serta’s Presidents’ Day sale. But why does it all have to be so serious, so future thinking? Sometimes you just want a good hobby or a thinking toy for kids. That’s why we’re looking closely at the Presidents’ Day Lego offerings. These deals on favored Lego sets traverse everything from Lego Marvel to Lego Harry Potter and every Lego franchise in between. Most items are 20% off as well, giving you healthy savings across the board. So, check ’em out and see what you want, because sometimes the play and fun has to take a front seat.
This kit, now marked down to just $16 possessed the ability to create a host of different objects, depending on how to configure the blocks. With just 270 blocks adults and kids 7+ can create a truck and helicopter, plane and fuel truck, or hot rod and SUV car. It’s a fun way to teach ingenuity, the “reuse” part of the recycling trio, and keeping fun in a compact setting. This makes a great gift for a child interested in vehicles, planes, and fast-paced action.
Whether you just like the Nissan Skyline GT-R, the 2 Fast 2 Furious franchise, or fast cars, this 319 piece set suitable for those aged 9+ is a great buy. The blue racing stripes across the door and body of the vehicle make it look fast, even when sitting still. This makes a fun action toy or a display piece for fans of the series, especially at just $20.
This kit has has a dual purpose. For many, it will be the perfect way to display that you’re the bad boy of your Mario Kart playing friend group. However, for others, there will be a greater component as the toy works alongside others in the Lego Super Mario series and has its own action tag for interactive play. At $24, buying this for either purpose is a good deal.
If you’re looking to cultivate a sense of wonder of the natural world without actually having to care for a living thing, this is the kit for you. Be amazed as the snappable plastic blocks come together to resemble a gorgeous plum blossom in this set that is now just $24.
This $30 Lego Minecraft set works as a great stand alone or expansion to your existing Lego Minecraft goodies, allowing you to enter the dangerous nether. Dodge the disc-shooting ghast’s fireballs or flee thru the nether portal you entered in.
Lego Marvel’s Dancing Groot toy is more involved than it looks. Once assembled, you can wind a lever on the model’s backside to make Groot move and dance. It’s one of those toys that makes you think about how it works as you build it and is a great $36 gift for kids 10 years of age or older.
Remember the last time you cried during a children’s movie? It was probably Disney Pixar’s Up. Now you can build the movie’s iconic house for $48. It’s 598 pieces and stands 10.5 inches tall when complete.
The increasing amount of franchise build-and-display models is in full swing with this Droideka model from the Lego Star Wars collection. While it is only 583 pieces, the model looks quite complex, so you should have a blast building it, especially if you can nerd out over Star Wars while doing so and only pay $52.
A 1,050 piece Lego Star Wars R2-D2 figurine for $82. Even if you snapped 75 pieces together per night it’d take you 2 weeks to complete this model, which stands 9 inches tall upon completion.
The mystique of the Japanese woodblock print comes to life in Lego form with this creative set. Everything from the faces of the men on the boats to the display frame itself is made in delightful Legos, with the waves jumping out of the page for an awesome textured look at the artwork. Perfect to display on your wall and a delightful “print” at just $85.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.