Huge thanks for a very tiny prize!

We don't win an awful lot here at Nich About Town, but perhaps our luck is changing!  Last week I entered a Twitter competition run by the jolly folk at the Book People on the subject of Tweeters' favourite Lego minifigures of the past 35 years.  Much to my surprise and delight, I was one of ten winners, for the tweet below:

Well a few days passed, and then my prize arrived with a tiny flick of the letter box.  In dropped a mini book charting nearly 50 iconic minifigures, and a limited edition to boot, being number 112 of only 260 printed!

Naturally, this mini edition is the perfect companion for the bigger, more informative cousin I bought recently, which dedicates chapters to the rise of these popular plastic people, and their development through the decades.  Through the pages, a Lego history lesson, and a million memories - spacemen, police officers, knights, pirates, wizards, chefs, kings and cowboys, a wonderful celebration of Lego Man's 35th anniversary.

So thanks very much to the Book People for this great prize!  I'll let these two soldiers do the hard work of finding a space on my bookshelf!

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