IAmWillGibson

Thanks, guys. I'll try to get up some pictures of the cemetery that [sort of but not really] goes with this, although I'm having trouble getting good photos of it. Now I just need to print off some stickers to give the organ proper keys and it'll be set. Although I think it works well enough as is.

Are minigiure packs like that usually available in stores? I really want the sarcophagus and the flying mummy, but I'm somewhat leery about having a huge glut of mummies just hanging around, and as such would opt for that figure pack instead of the Golden Staff set... assuming I'll find the former at retail. Now if the figure set squeezed an Anubis in there [who I'm extremely unlikely to get otherwise], I'd be sold on it right out of the gate. There's always Lego.com, of course...

Just to add to this, I see now the Bat I picked up at the start of October has three 1x2 bricks, each of them splitting up the bottom. Maybe this has always happened and I'm only noticing now because I've been out of the scene for so long. Either way... el stinko.

First post, so here goes. I was always under the impression that Lego was impervious to harm [except Technic... that stuff broke on me with relative frequency]. But I noticed lately that a lot of bricks seem to be splitting, far more frequently than I thought possible. I have a 1x2 flat plate from, I think, one of the Creator mini sets last year and it's split up both sides. Worse, the 1x2 brick with knobs on it from the micro crane in the Advent calender is cracked in two lines up one side, and it's only been built for 9 days [the calender makes it easy to back-date it]. They're both yellow... Is this a colour thing? A manufacturing thing? Lowering quality? Am I doing something wrong here? It's distressing, to say the least.