LEGO Chinese Zodiac Animal Sets Review

In this Chinese New Year season, I decided to open and build the few LEGO seasonal sets (Piggy, Rooster and Monkey) that I collected.  Here's my opinion after build:

• I like the Rooster most because it is the most colourful set. The downside is the eye stickers, I prefer if LEGO could use a printed eyes. The head is rotatable as it sits on a turntable piece, the beck, wings, feet and tail are movable too. You can find 3 colours combination on the tail (blue, green and white).
• In term of building, I prefer the Piggy. Her head, arms and tail are rotatable. Unfortunately I can't set the arms and tail at the angle I want. The printed eyes are common but the printed nose is specific on this set. 
• The Monkey uses mostly brown colour bricks with some tan colour bricks on the face, torso, hands and legs. Just like the Piggy, the ears, arms and tail are movable. The head is rotatable too.

Each set comes with an Angpow Packet (which is much bigger than the normal Angpow Packet that we use 😆) that printed with very nice picture on both sides.

Here's the photos of each of them.

First Lego League Competition

We are very pleased to become one of the sponsor of TEAM APHELION to take part in the yearly First Lego League Competition.

First Lego League is an International competition organised by FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) for elementary and middle school students (age between 9~16)

Every year, First Lego League introduces a scientific and real-world challenge for the teams to research on. The challenge involves:

1. the Robot Game
2. the Robot Design
3. the Project and
4. the Core Values. 

The team will design and program an autonomous robot (LEGO Mindstorms/EV3) to score points on a themed playing field (Robot Game), develop a solution to a problem they have identified (project), share their knowledge and display their robot design, all guided by the FIRST Core Values.

TEAM APHELION is the first team (in Negeri Sembilan) to take part in the First Lego League Competition. The team is formed by 10 persons (8 students from age 9 to 16 and 2 adult coaches).

Team Members

No.	Name (Job)	Role	Experiences	Exposure
1	Sean Lam Chi Him	Strategic Planner	10 years	Local & Int’l
2	Bergmen ooi	Programmer	10 years	Local & Int’l
3	Joey Lai Shan Xin	Researcher	8 years	Local
4	Evan Lew Wen Kai	Strategic Planner	11 years	Local & Int’l
5	Wong Yong Onn	Technician	Newbies	Nil
6	Max Lim Feng Jie	Researcher	5 years	Local
7	Mok Jun Xi	Builder	5 years	Local
8	Nicholas Quah Nien Fung	Builder	5 Years	Local
	COACHES / MENTORS
1	Lew Yoong Yee	Mentor	n/a	n/a
2	Alison Lo	Coach	n/a	n/a

The team members consists of newbies and experienced students that participated in local and international robotic competitions since 2011, such as:

• National Robotics Competition, organised by Sasbadi, Malaysia
• World Educational Robotics Contest, organised by Abilix, China

And awards received by the team are:

• Best Teacher Awards and Best Innovation Award - NRC 2012 (Malaysia)
• Best Innovation Award and Fourth Placing - NRC 2013 (Malaysia)
• Third Placing - NRC 2014 (Malaysia)
• Best Innovation Award - WER 2016 (China)
• Participants - NRC 2016
• Champion - WER 2017 (China)
• 1st Runner's Up - NRC (Malaysia)

The project had started in September 2018 and the competition will be held in mid year of 2019.

Model Paints and Tools restocked 28 Jan'19

Tamiya Enamel Paints are back in stock! Check out our latest restock on model paints, top coat, surfacer spray can, Gundam Markers, Tamiya Panel Liner and tools. Online store updated, click here to order.

Gunpla restock 24 Jan'19

Check out our latest restock items. Online store updated, click here to buy.

Gunpla restocked 20 Jan'19

Check out our latest restock items. Online store updated, click here to order.

HGCE Destiny Gundam Finally Revealed!

Bandai announced the new HG Cosmic Era Destiny Gundam will be released in May 2019 and expected to arrive our shop in May/June 2019. We accept preorder for this item now. Preorder it here.

Model kit restock 16 Jan'19

Some nice model kits being restocked today. Check them out at our online store now.

Gunpla and Model Kit restocked 15 Jan'19

Check out our latest restock on Gunpla and Model kits. Online store updated, click here to buy.

Tomica New Arrival

Check out our latest Tomica new arrival! All sets are with "2018 New" sticker. Online store updated, click here to order.

LEGO 60239 Police Patrol Car review

In the 2019 new city sets, I noticed that design is better compare to the previous city sets. I feel LEGO put more effort to design the new city sets. Today I'm going to review this simple LEGO City Police set - 60239 Police Patrol Car.

S.H.MonsterArts Godzilla is coming to DeToyz!

The new Godzilla movie - King of The Monsters will be on the screen in 2019 and Bandai Tamashii had announced that their 2 new products S.H.MonsterArts Godzilla (2019) and S.H.MonsterArts King Ghidorah will be released in May 2019 and June 2019 respectively.
We will bring in these 2 new S.H.MonsterArts Godzilla (2019) and S.H.MonsterArts King Ghidorah (2019) to our store and accept preorder now! You can preorder them now at our online store.

S.H.MonsterArts Godzilla (2019)

Keroro Spirits Keroro Robo UC & Tamama Robo UC!

To celebrate 20th anniversary of Keroro Gunso, Bandai Tamashii is releasing these 2 Keroro Spirits Keroro Robo UC and Keroro Spirits Tamama Robo UC. Each model is designed to be able to transform into 3 forms. We accept preorder for each of them now. Click here to preorder or click on each title to preorder each of them.

Metal Robot Spirits Destiny Gundam!

New year new product line! In 2019, we will bring in selected Bandai Tamashii products. First item we bring in is this: Metal Robot Spirits Destiny Gundam! This item will be released in Japan in May 2019 and expected to arrive our shop in May/June 2019.
We now accept preorder for this awesome set. Click here to preorder it now.

Double DeToyz Rewards Points!

In this Chinese New Year festival, we are giving out double rewards points to our customers. You will earn double reward points on every purchase at detoyz.com from 10~31 January 2019.
So, don't wait, visit our online store now! 😀

Gunpla & Model kit restock 7 Jan'19

Check out our latest restock on Gunpla and Model kits. Online store updated, click here.

2019 LEGO New Arrival!

Check out our 2019 LEGO New Arrival! Online store updated, click here.

71023 The LEGO Movie 2 Collectable Minifigure revealed!

More images of the upcoming 71023 The LEGO Movie 2 Collectable Minifigre were revealed from the internet while we still waiting LEGO to officially release the images. This new series is expected to release in Feb 2019. We can see from the picture that there are total 20 characters to be collected.