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I have a small compressor, but strong enough to blow all loose Lego parts away. I used it to clean my computers every once in a while. I have not tested but I can't see it cleaning the white dust. The white dust is kind of glued to the surfaces, I am finding that only by using a soft cloth I am able to clean it, without resorting to a more drastic solution like washing the pieces. But then, it must be piece by piece. The "glasses" of the houses is where it shows the worse. Dang, I had everything new, recently assembled, now they look weird, depending on how the light reaches them. If the white dust does not permanently damage the plastic, if left unremoved for a long time, then it is ok, sooner or later, one day, I will end up cleaning everything, after all, I don't have many sets, "only" around 20k pieces should have been exposed. But I am afraid this thing can permanently cloud my glasses, no basis for this fear, just a fear by looking at the glasses. Anyway, I'll have to live with the issue for a long time I guess. Dang! I hate myself when I do dumb things.

According to the BrickLink database, Pet Shop should weigh around 2150 grams, which makes it a 14.3 g/$ set. The PR should weigh around 1910 grams, which makes it a 11.9 g/$ set, so 20% more expensive. Call it inflation...

That's very true and I am always concerned about it happening with my posts because I have this tendency to tell things that, if you look at them at the wrong angle, you may see a different thing exactly because words can be deceiving without those cues you mentioned that are only natural to spoken language, not to written one. That is why they invented the smileys... My previous post was not intended to offend no one, of course this thread is just an exercise on our dreams, but upon reading many of the comments, I couldn't help but think what I said, but again, I meant no harm.

You may have a point. But, I've come to realize that Lego hobby is like Cityville, the Facebook game from Zynga. I was very addicted to Cityville for almost six months, a couple of years or so ago, specially after I found about a bot that would help me play the game and a myriad of hacks that would allow me to progress in the game much faster than intended (both forbidden according to Zynga's Terms of Service but Zynga actually never cared much about it). What was the catch about Cityville? The catch was that you would go crazy to make your city bigger and more beautiful so that you could be proud of it, and being proud of it meant also knowing that your Facebook friends (which you need to play the game and they need you to play their game) were watching. It was a lot about showing off your "creation", your city. Lego hobby is similar, specially for MOC's and MOD's. What's the fun in creating them if you will not show them off? No fun! Showing our creations is the core thing about them. Imagine you alone in this world having all Lego bricks that you could possibly want, but having no one to show whatever you would come up with? No fun! This hobby is a lot about recognition. Lego knows it and that is why Lego encourages any kind of instrument (like this very own site, for instance) that would facilitate the "recognition" part of the hobby. But you may have a point. It all depends on the contract terms, if there is one, that he signed with the company. And I hate lawyers... lawyer =

Beautiful. I like it. Congrats, nice work.

I'd say I am glad none of you run TLG because certainly running a company based on your personal interests is a bad idea and that's mostly what happens here.

You have a point.

$2.50 a month!?!? That's a steal! I pay $5 a month for my server and I find it a very good price. Two domains are included (worth around $20 a year). IP has been sent to you.

FYI, I tried to download the file again, just as a test since I already have version .91, and I still cannot connect to your website. There is some permanent problem between my ISP and your server. I have no idea what it could be. But, again, since I have VPN, it is not a problem. And I noticed you shared your application through Google Doc which I had no problem using.

It seems big companies found the gold pot that Lego has been using for ages. Design a set using Lego bricks, put your brand in it (but don't call it a "Lego set"), build a few, build no more, and then let its scarcity drive the prices up as people will get to know about the set and will want one copy due to its "exclusivity". Only big brand name companies can use this formula though. If a John Doe try to do this, nobody will want the "exclusive set" with John Doe brand in it. If enough companies started doing this, BL prices that are already too high and going ever higher, will skyrocket.

There must be a reason, a sponsor, an explanation why someone would make a 250k piece Lego project. I can't imagine someone doing this just for the sake of a hobby.

And I thought I was crazy by spending money in BL buying 6000+ pieces over the course of my 3 months in BL...

Oh, so the "advent" word comes from the Christmas season! I didn't know this word and always read it and thought of something like "advanced" and would think "why call advanced something that is the opposite of advanced", after all, it is for very simple builds, isn't it? And they are only sold before Christmas? How many days of the month do they cover?

If I ran TLG? If I am running it, it means I am its CEO, not its owner, because the owner owns it, does not run it (he used to run, but not anymore, I've read he was doing a bad job so he fired himself...). As for me being TLG's CEO, it will never happen so I see no reason to conjecture. I could though accept a position as CIO...

I gave up trying to understand or explain Lego's actions. I have been happier with Lego since then.

I don't even know exactly what they are. Something for you to build a micro-something each day, I think. Sounds very uninteresting to me.

Oh, ok, sorry, I never realized the existence of that button... :dumb:dumb:dumb:

A suggestion to the admins: you should allow ONE post a day for new forum users, until they have like 10, then they would be free to post any a day. by doing this, you probably can avoid these buggers, like the one above, to post multiple spammer's posts in the forum. They would post just one, then you would ban the retarded before s/he has the time to post another.

SPAMMER ALERT, SPAMMER ALERT... RETARDED ALERT, RETARDED ALERT...

I much prefer the old bigger blue "soft" instruction books to these new small hard'ish cover with black pages that I am finding in new sets like Architecture and Cuusoo. I could not find either. Pics too small, I hate small pics ...

I have a limit of 5 pictures and 4 links for my signature (which does not make much sense for me since logically speaking it should be 5 pictures and 5 links or 4 pictures and 4 links since if you have a picture you will mostly want to have it linked to someplace else) but I have been seeing users with many more pictures and links in their signature than this limit would allow, like one that has 10 pictures, one link for each picture and additional 5 links which makes it with 10 pics and 15 links. Why are there differences in limits for users? Why limit number of links if you don't limit number of lines? Someone could post one thousand lines in a signature but can't use more than 5 pictures... Why not limit the size of the signature (width and height) in pixels and let the user do whatever s/he wants in that area (as long as morally acceptable, of course)? If I can use up to 5 pictures and each can have up to 500x200 pixels, that is a lot of allowed area to use but who wants to have 5 big images like these in their signature? A signature is supposed to be something small and compact, so better more pictures of much smaller sizes, isn't it? Note: this is not an important issue for me, but I like to understand the "why" behind things and I can't understand the "why" behind the signature limits, that's why I ask. Thanks!

For mobile devices better would be to have a dedicated site like those sites that detect the device and present the site accordingly. Your site in my mobile looks just like here, in my PC, which means it is not comfortable to use the mobile for this website anyway. I understand the spirit of and agree with guidelines, my questions were more complex than that and unfortunately you have not answered most of them but it is ok since, as I said, this is not an important issue. Understanding is more relevant to me than actually having the right for more pics and links. Cheers.

Yes, I guess so, the user that has a signature with 10 pics and 15 links is full of badges (like you, but more) and has a lot of stuff and stars in that area with the badges, so I figured s/he must be pretty important, but then I thought why relate signature limits to importance, of number of posts or whatever, does not sound much "democratic" (although I understand that this is not a public server but a private one - but still one expects equality usually in a public forum, right)?

Click the link MyBrickLink, on the top menu, and you should be directed to a page that has a link named "Stores with Items in My Cart". Click it.