This is a fairly new Lego set, which means this is a really recent price drop. According to our sister site HUKD it only went down this morning on Tesco's site and Amazon. You can collect instore at Tesco for free but do go to Amazon if you need it delivered as that's free there on UK Super Saver Delivery. The original price of the Lego Super Heroes Iron Man vs The Mandarin: Ultimate Showdown 76008 was £11.99. It is now £8.

• Click here for your Lego Super Heroes Iron Man set at Tesco Direct*

It's a Mandarin Face Off at the Miami dockside in the final battle between Iron Man and the Mandarin. Take on the ultra-tough armored car and its rotating flamethrower with dual flame flick missiles! Fly circles around the bad guy and don't let him scorch this super hero! Includes 2 minifigures and a weapon: Iron Man with Heart Breaker Armor and the Mandarin.

The age range on the set is 5 to 8 years old. However on both the Tesco and Amazon sites it is said to be suitable for ages 6 plus! Would make a handy gift to stockpile in the present drawer.

• Includes 2 minifigures and a weapon: Iron Man with Heart Breaker Armor and the Mandarin
• Features the Mandarin’s armored car with rotating flame thrower with dual flame flick missiles and large wheels
• Weapons include a pistol
• Rotate the flamethrower!
• Fire the flame flick missiles!

Thanks to Husain24 at HUKD!

If you have a Lego-mad and/or Harry Potter mad child you'll want to snap this up. These are the sets that were originally only sold with the Harry Potter collector's edition videogame according to a member of our sister site HUKD. Now you can get them on their own from The Game Collection. The site is selling the Lego Harry Potter The Lab (30111) for £2.95. Plus delivery in the UK is free, and the item is dispatched on the day you order.

• Click here for your Harry Potter The Lab at The Game Collection

There's very little info on the website. Just that there are 34 pieces. However it is very interesting to see what other people have said about this set on the internet.

It seem to be a very durable set, and Harry Potter having a dual head is seen as a plus point. One customer review had this to say: "It took me about three minutes to put it together as I followed the very clear instructions! When completed the Lego looks really cool, and I was very pleased that it came with some basilisk fangs and a Hogwarts letter. This product is excellent for Harry potter fans of all ages."

Well not quite all fans. Like all Lego sets these are not suitable for children under the age of 3 but I know what the reviewer means! I rather fancy getting one just for me. Would make a great stocking filler.

Thanks to Syzable at HUKD!

Tomorrow is May 04^th which is, as you all know, Star Wars Day – May The Fourth Be With YOU! Yes, very funny. Anyway, the Lego team have adopted this mantra and decided to give you a ton of cool things for free and as extras and some exclusives thrown in for luck.

• Click here to get some Star Wars Lego from Lego

You get free delivery on all orders of £25 or more, you get a free exclusive Han Solo (Hoth) minifigure when you place a Lego Star Wars order of over £50, and you get a limited edition exclusive Star Wars poster with every single order of Lego Star Wars.

The offer appears to be running already and there is no indication as to whether it will end at midnight tomorrow or if it will carry on for a bit. If you have a Lego and Star Wars mad kid, then this is the perfect chance to nab some awesome kit.

Thanks to mattgrant at HUKD!

If you're looking for something to start off or bulk up your LEGO collection, this collection from Smyths is perfect. It's selling for £14.99 instead of £19.99, making each brick 2.3p which is not bad at all. Shipping from Smyths is £4.99, but click and collect is, as always, free of charge. 

• Start a new addiction*

Lego is simply awesome, in my world at least. There's so much variety, so many choices, and an endless variation of things to do with it.

Winner of the 2010 Parents Choice Recommended award, these 600 bricks in a colourful collection that includes pink, red, yellow, brown, light green, green, light blue, white and black bricks, as well as 3 bricks decorated with faces and sloping bricks should provide hours of fun. If the pictures are to be believed, there's also a cat brick, animal eyes and some of those little button 'bricks' that can be flowers or lights or whatever. I'm sure they have a name, I just don't know what it is.

With so many bricks, colours and options, the sky really is the limit.

Thanks to kaz14783 at HUKD

LEGO's a classic, Starwars is a classic. What can possibly be wrong then, in a Storm Trooper LEGO watch? And when it's under £10, I can't think of a reason not to, really. Shipping is free with The Hut, so for £9.99 all in, this would make a fantastic gift. It's £11.99 on sale at Amazon, and upwards of £16 everywhere else.

• Tell the time like a military drone*

The great thing with this watch is not just that it's a proper watch, down to the Japanese Quartz, or the scratch resistant mineral crystal lens, but kids can create and accessorize their LEGO Star Wars: Storm Trooper Watch, which comes with multi-coloured, interchangeable links for kids to customize the strap, along with the option to swap the grey bezel for a black one.

The watch face features a cartoon image of a LEGO Storm Trooper on a brightly coloured background and has clear white hour and minute hands, and numeric hour indexes. It's water resistant up to 50m, the watch comes with a LEGO Storm Trooper minifigure. A battery is included with the watch, and it's recommended for children over six.

Thanks to persontypething at HUKD

Amazon have taken 25% off this really cute little LEGO Duplo Toddler Starter Building Set, which was £17.99 and is now £13.49 with free UK delivery.

• Get started on LEGO Duplo*

I've heard it said that children who play with construction sets such as LEGO develop fantastic logic and strategic skills, similar to those who play chess. I'm not sure about that, having not studied or done any research on it my self, but it's what I've heard. It's also going to have to be great for creative play - how can it not be?

These sets are aimed at 1 1/2 year olds to 3 year olds, so they shouldn't swallow it easily, although you probably want to stick around to make sure .

The extra-large LEGO DUPLO bricks are the perfect introduction to creative building. This 37-piece set includes patterned and eye-decorated bricks that are fully compatible with standard DUPLO bricks and elements. The box lid also doubles as a building plate.

It's not a huge set and it really is just a starting point, but there are so many Duplo sets available these days, you're bound to build a good collection really quickly. I know we did!I must say though - this particular set has a fair amount of 'it's cute, but what is it?' about it!

I've written about this LEGO Ideas book a couple of times before, but not for a while - I think it's that good that I'm going to tell you about it again, ESPECIALLY as I've not seen it cheaper than this before: £2.99 instead of £16.99 - the usual discounted price we see it for is around the £4.99 mark.  

• Click HERE to take a look at the LEGO Ideas book *

The Easter holidays are looming and if the weather's naff then this book and a box of LEGO might just save your sanity.  It features over 500 different model ideas and tips from expert LEGO builders on how to make your jet planes even more supersonic, create fabulous fortresses and all sorts - rather than step-by-step instructions.

My youngest has a ton of LEGO bits and pieces and already makes up his own models so this is something that he'd probably like, due to his not wanting to always follow the LEGO 'rules' set out by the model designer.

Opinion is divided among existing owners as to whether this book is rubbish or great: some think it's great as it allows you to be creative, with a little bit of help from the pros, and make your own models.  Others think it's rubbish because there aren't any specific instructions, and find that frustrating.

So if you have a LEGO free spirit then this is the book for you; if you don't, then it's probably not - you'll need to decide, but for £2.99, it's not going to be a financial train smash to find out.

Give this free delivery code a bash: FWELLB - I don't know if it's first time, or single use, only.  If it works then GREAT, if it doesn't then you'll need to pay an additional £2.80 - unless you have other things to buy and your order goes over £25, delivery is free after that.

Thanks to millarcat at HUKD

Amazon has a Green Baseplate for Lego on offer for £5.50, which I think is a pretty good price. They're RRP £10.49, and are selling at Argos for £11.99.

• Build on solid ground*

My daughter has a pretty decent Lego and Duplo collection for a three year old and from time to time she asks us to build something that we don't have a plan for - usually a house, a castle or a palace. We don't really have the pieces for all that, but hey ho - a three year old can do a lot with imagination. It's all fine and well, really, but our double story house normally falls apart because the two baseboards that we use to make up the foundation are different sizes. So I think a baseboard for this price will save a lot of rebuilding in our home!

The baseboard on this offer is 25 x 25 cm - 10x10 inches - so should make a good foundation. It measures 32 studs squared.

The bricks in the image don't come included though - this is for the baseplate only.

Thanks to Mandissima at HUKD

Argos is selling the Lego Games Harry Potter Hogwarts Board Game for £12.99 instead of £24.  It's out of stock for home delivery, but there's still good stock around the areas I tried. It's a pretty good price though, so wouldn't expect that to be the case for too long.

• Run around Hogwarts like a master*

The aim of the Lego Harry Potter Hogwarts Board Game is to be the first to successfully navigate the magical castle to collect all your homework items and get back to your common room. There are loads of accessories and fun goodies around the haunted school, like the clock tower with singing pendulums, moving staircases, magical classrooms and secret passage.
The game is for 2 - 4 players and is the domain of the 3+ due to small parts of Lego and so on.
Thanks to timnlaura at HUKD

The Book People have a really good offer on The Ultimate Lego Ideas Collection -  3 Lego themed books for £9.99. It really is a good deal as two of the three books on Amazon will be £16, and the third isn't available at the moment. Add the code FREE268 for free delivery and you've got yourself a bargain.

• Fuel the habit for any Lego Fan*

There are three books in this collection: The LEGO Ideas Book, The LEGO Book and the LEGO Standing Small book on minifigures.

Between these three, you'll find a "rich history to a celebration of the minifigure and 500 enlightening ideas for model masterpieces to make." It's sure to provide plenty of brickmaster inspiration and provide all the information you could ever wish to have about the brand.

The LEGO Book has been expanded and fully revised and gives an in-depth look at the history and facts about LEGO. The LEGO Ideas Book has over 500 ideas for building projects, and Standing Small celebrates 30 years of minifigures - from the traditional to Harry Potter and Starwars - and is the one not currently even available at Amazon.

Thanks to xxsammie1 at HUKD

It's funny, you know - I still have a hard time getting my head around Marks and Sparks selling games, but sell games they do and they're currently selling the rather cool LEGO Minotaurus game for £8.75 instead of £17.50.

• Click HERE to take a look at the LEGO Minotaurus game *

Based on the Minotaur legend, you have to get your knight(s) to the middle of the maze.  You build the basic maze with the LEGO pieces and then you block your opponents knight(s) by moving the walls of the maze, you can also send in the Minotaur who can move eight places at a time.

There are various ways to change up the game play to suit the time you have available to play and the ages of the little ones you're playing with; awesome, I'm buying it for Edward, my youngest son, but will have to brace myself for losing tantrums!

He loves to play games, you see, but only all the while he's winning and  OHHHHH the tears, tantrums and declarations of, "That's not FAIR!  I'm never playing with you AGAIN!" when he's not.

Edward loves all things LEGO, so even though he'll run the risk of losing this LEGO Minotaurus game I think he'd quite like it; it looks fun!

Thanks to rayne at HUKD

Toys R Us hold the crown for the 'lowest price for Creationary' at the moment - they're selling it for £18.74, rather than £24.99.  Argos are next in line, with their selling price set at £19.96 - if you were to have a mooch around Amazon, you'd find it up for grabs for a whopping £38!

• Click HERE to take a look at Creationary *

Creationary was the hot topic of conversation between myself, Edward (my youngest son) and his dad a couple of night ago - basically, think Pictionary but using LEGO pieces instead! - and whether or not it should  make Edward's 2012 Christmas list.

First you need to roll the dice to select a category: vehicles, buildings, nature or 'things'; next, pick a card and build, according to the category, whatever the word on the card is. You have limited time to build a model which will allow your team mate to guess the word on the card.

There are three levels of difficulty, so youngsters can play along with adults.  I've read a fair few reviews and there is a common theme running through them - adults say the game is HARD, whilst their kids are finding it 'easy' .  Some think it's because their adult brains are trying to make it too complicated where the kids just build the bare minimum to get the guess done - interesting, I thought!

Adult difficulties aside, almost everyone comments on the hilarity that's been enjoyed whilst playing; it sounds like a winner for any LEGO fans to me.

Happy Lego model creating!

What child – and if they were honest, what grown man – doesn’t love Lego? My husband has been collecting Lego ‘for the kids’ since we first met, and he has had our daughter building Battleships and what not with him since she was 18 months old! It’s one of their favourite bedtime activities! I also don’t think we’ve had a Christmas that hasn’t seen Lego of some description or another under the tree for a good few years now.

When the Lego Ninjago Epic Dragon Battle* set was delivered to PlayPennies HQ, there was just about a fist fight over who got to take it home, and Tamsin was the winner (she has deceptively strong biceps!). As the sorry runner up, I get to tell you all about it though!

Here are Tamsin’s thoughts:

What is one thing that every kid loves to get for Christmas? Lego. It’s true, this is one toy that has been around forever and seems to keep on creating fun and funky things to make. I have been a bad parent in that I haven’t really done any Lego with my daughter so I went out and got the Lego City Mining Truck set for us to review for the PlayPennies Christmas Gift Guide.

It seems to be my week for Advent Calendars from LEGO this week, what with last night's Lego City offer and tonight we have the LEGO Friends Advent Calendar on offer at both Amazon and Play.com for £15.99 instead of £19.99, and both including free delivery.

• Click here for the Advent Calendar from Play.com*
• Click here for the same thing from Amazon*

These are just so gorgeous. I saw the design for the LEGO Friends advent calendar at their launch event earlier this year, and absolutely loved it. We definitely want these for our collection.

With 24 windows to open, this set is full of fun and exciting LEGO pieces. Friends Olivia, Christina and their dog Coco come with this set. They build a snowman, go skiing, warm up by the fire and eat cookies and milk. There are gifts to deliver, a snowmobile to ride, a tree to decorate and holiday cards to write.

The set includes individual gifts and loads of accessories.

Thanks to leeds_united_afc and Inventive Sole at HUKD

My focus in looking for bargains at the moment is on stuff that will make a great main Christmas present at a reasonable price. This fits the bill nicely. Amazon is selling this Lego Duplo 5507 Deluxe Brick Box for £20, instead of the RRP of £35.99. Plus, it is delivered free in the UK with Super Saver delivery.

• Click here for your Lego Duplo Deluxe Brick Box at Amazon*

A great introduction to Duplo construction, the Lego Duplo Deluxe Brick Box 5507 provides lots of creative fun. Build cars, trees, buildings, animals and anything else that comes to mind.

The Lego Duplo Deluxe Brick Box contains lots of colourful Duplo bricks for hours of fun. This Duplo set features a reusable deluxe storage box with removable lid and includes 2 minifigures , windows, a building plate , lots of bricks and a wagon base for building moving vehicles.

Also included is an inspirational instruction booklet , filled with construction ideas for creative minds. The Lego Duplo Brick Box 5507 is an excellent way to develop construction skills among young children.

This is typical of the customer comments on the website: "My daughter has had plenty of enjoyment out of this toy and her Dad seems to like it too. There are plenty of bricks to make many different creations. She is 23 months old and learning her colours, so this has come in useful. The leaflet inside has a few ideas of things to make, if like me you have no imagination."

Thanks to aliciashea at HUKD!

Argos are selling this box of LEGO wheels for £5.99, instead of £9.99, with free delivery - you can't collect them in-store, this is an online offer only.

• Click HERE to order your LEGO wheels *
  

Now, the prospect of owning a box of LEGO wheels will either have you jumping up and down for joy, or utterly bemused as to why on earth anyone would get excited about a box of LEGO wheels - if you're in the latter camp then you obviously don't have lots of LEGO in your house.

If you're a member of the 'jumping up and down with joy' brigade, like me, then you'll have the same MASSIVE box of mixed up LEGO that my youngest has; you, will also know the agony of not having enough of the right wheels to be able to build a 'million-wheeled' monster vehicle!

And even though we know this collection of different LEGO wheels is destined to join the other LEGO bits and pieces in that huge storage box, at least we'll know they're in there somewhere and, for just a few fleeting moments, have enjoyed the sight of them all together in the same place...if only for a little while.

Remember, you can't click and reserve this box of LEGO wheels - delivery is free though (normal delivery charges are £2.95) and your LEGO wheels will be with you in around four days from order.

Thanks to uglybeautyqueen at HUKD

Use this Smyths Toy Store promotional code to get a further 10% off Lego Star Wars. It will work when you basket contains items that are already discounted as well.

Click here to use your Smyths Toy Store promotional code

• Discount: 10%
• Applies to: Lego Star Wars
• Promotional code: LEGOSTAR
• Expires: 3rd October 2012

To use this code, go to the Shopping Basket page and enter it in the Voucher Code box. You'll see the discount appear in the totals column.

I tested this out on an item that was already reduced. The Lego Anakin's & Sebulba's Podracers 7962 set was £79.99 and had been reduced to £64.99. The code took another £6.50 off making it £58.49. A nice little saving!

There's quite a few packs in the sale, and a number of these are also reduced. Some by just a couple of pounds, while others such as the Millennium Falcon have about £20 lopped off the price.

Thanks to djmetsandy at HUKD!

The lovely folks over at The Book People are selling this LEGO Batman Visual Dictionary for £6.99; the other usual suspects are selling it for between £10 and £20 so I think we'll stick with the Book People, don't you!

• Click HERE to take a look at the LEGO Batman Visual Dictionary

LEGO Batman fans everywhere will rejoice not only because this LEGO Batman Visual Dictionary is rather fabulous, but because it comes with an Electro Suit Batman minifigure too.

It's a hardback book with 96 pages of descriptions and photographs, revealing everything anyone could possibly wish to know about all the LEGO Batman figures and their vehicles.

The LEGO Batman Visual Dictionary is aimed at children who are seven years or older, although I'm sure if you have a younger LEGO Batman fan then they'll enjoy it just as much with a bit of help from you to read the words.

Single item delivery will usually cost you an additional £1.95 but I have a free delivery code for you - hurrah! - just enter code OFFERSEP into the promotion code box in your basket and free delivery will be yours!

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD

This price  is nearly half the RRP for this Lego set, and it also includes free standard delivery in the UK. Amazon has reduced the price of the Lego Creator 5891 Apple Tree House from £40.99 to £26.29.

• Click here for your Lego Apple Tree House at Amazon

According to the original poster on HUKD, our sister site, Tesco has price matched this set, however you need to collect in store whereas Amazon delivers for free.

Build a 3 in 1 classic family house. This modern country home with an apple tree outside is full of fun and realistic details, including a working mail box with letters inside, a satellite dish on the roof, a basketball net and lawnmower, opening front and garage doors, a ladder up to the attic and more. Includes 3-in-1 instructions for rebuilding into a tall townhouse or a relaxing summer home.

There's quite a few positive reviews on the site. This is fairly typical: "The models weren't that difficult to make, and the very long list of instructions breaks the steps down into small enough chunks for most children to be able to do. Also, for a change the country house model pieces were put into bags that had some logical order, with most of the wall pieces in the wall bags, roof pieces in roof bags and accessories in another bag. This is good as it makes it that much easier to build the model, as you're not constantly looking in five different bags for the different pieces you need."

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD!