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What year did you start Bricking? 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2010 Or this year this was back in 1984, It was Xmas and my moms side of the family gave me nothing but legos that year, I must have had like 40+ boxes and well this was the one I loved so dearly back then.... still have most of the parts but I removed the stickers later on, like the bike store logo and window stickers.... After fining it today, my heart stopped and well, I am going to pick it up used now and rebuild it in my town.... Wow, I never felt nostalgic before like this... Thats the reason I posted this thread, may who ever posts back have the same feelings as me right now.

I went there today to check on some sale prices and well.... almost every thing is out of stock for online orders.... and if you go to the stores in the coming weeks, you will find empty isles and shelf's.... bummer in a ways, but at least we know it is a hot ticket item this year, too bad when you want to build a city and need a certain set it will 95% chance not be easy to find.... I wanted to do a color change with the camper for example and well even those are hard to fine at local stores.... This is why I hate the holidays

The only bad thing is it turns crazy wide.... But then again it is full sized to the max..... I need to make wide load markers for it....

I think it came out ok...

LOL IPod LOL thanks, it was on the mind for a bit now and after demolishing a building today, I had enough blue so I went at it... I hope it helps you with an idea... if any one wants detail shots just ask for what angles... PS.. while every one was watching a movie, Rapper "No money" was buying some illegals from Boss Hawg...

OMG thats ugly... what the cop sells ice cream or does he just have no balance?

Ipod? LOL No sir....... Thats a Blackberry storm2...LOL I dont touch apples.... But then again, an Ipad would be thinner and probably work better. Now I have a place for my phone to watch movies and pod casts when I am bricking... woohoo! The unit has two round bricks at the base in back of the phone to prop it against the front tight... one round is connected to the door so it is not stuck in there when you open the door to retrieve it. The storm2 works great because the touch screen is more sensitive then any other MP4 device and the controls are in frame when you want to change the movie or fast forward or what have you... I know the one plate set up is cramped but I dont have that much plain plates not in use right now so it is what it is... it works great though... may get some cheep MP4 players and make them new automated street advertisement billboards... The knock off Ipods would be perfect for that and I have seen at least 10 so far that would be in the $20-30 range so it will look cool and still be crazy cheep to pull off a one of a kind layout.

High piece count + small layout = lots of small details

ouch... that hurt my feelings I would rather it be one piece then a ugly Multiple part bike Realistic? please! the old one piece bikes looked like bobbers to me and classic Harley-Davidsons and Moto Guzzis and Triumphs and oh ya BSA's for you UK guys... All of those bikes my father had in his garage and that created my love for the old style lego motorcycles... the new ones appall me greatly..... Dad used to call those bikes lego makes now J#p-Cr#p (put in # or it would be racist, one thing I am not)

that street came out killer.... I love the side walk... going to do that to my city soon.. but the $250 for 2816 gray 2x2 flats is killer for my 9 foot by 3.5-4 foot layout

LOL... I have one I use and one sealed... Look at my avatar but ya.. thanks for the comment... maybe I can make a lego rap video with the two... He He.. thats a good idea

So today I dished out $12.95(including tax) US at TRU for the army men set... 4 minifiggs and a jeep... you cant go wrong.... Besides I am building a 50-80 person army base in my city(reason I posted this in town) First off I had to swap heads and hands for a better look... may use the green heads later on special forces as if they had camo on their face.... I used the instructions to make an extra jeep to see if I could pull it off with out having to wait a week for bricklink parts.... I think they came out great... Now I need to buy like 15-20 more boxes and my army will be ready for the green and black base.... that will be a 4 plate build alone taking up 3,000 parts easy(base alone) any comments and suggestions would be appreciated greatly... I my self am against war themes, but every city has a National guard out post.... He He, I will put the bar right next to the base so the requiters have a easy job signing on drunken civilians... LOL like the way the navy was back in the 40's

Di, amn.... I wish my girlfriend looked that good... Great job :thumbup: :thumbup:

well not to mention this earlier, but the new style motorcycles kind of look like mopeds to me as well.... Lego cops must be on a hard budget this year and cant get a real bike...LOL So what will happen when the high speed chase takes place, what the cops on under powered three wheelers and motorcycles will have to call in the helicopter(that's not included on the landing pad on the HQ set? WTF ) because last moped I had only could do 70mph after I modded the hell out of the engine... All of them are a joke... Look I loved the old bikes... they looked real and well sure the side cars looked fake, but in the end it was a lego style that was around for well over 2 decades and well the new bikes will surely get taken off the line up and replaced before they get 10 years old.... to call them motorcycles and not mopeds outrages me.. I ride my self and those new bikes... all of them look like something some one in a third world country would ride..

YUP... I was like WTF the first time I seen the new bikes.... Some one at lego was smoking some hard core drugs when they made that change.... Back in the 1980's Didn't they stop making 3 wheelers in real life because they were found to be reckless and unsafe and not to mention the over sized front tire if under pressurized would flip the bike into an end over end roll if the brakes were applied hard ya and the bank truck should have come with stacks of Lego money flats My next building would be a money themed house... roof, walls... and lawn... all money flats...

yes a city version would be a lot better.... like a Emporium sized cop "Station" like in Rochester NY(my home City) The past three lego cop sets have no real look to them... yes playability, but if you go out and buy one of those "Play sets like from playschool or other "some assembly required toy companies...You then give it to your child, they play with it for like 10 minutes and walk away never to play with it again.... So should playability be incorporated into a Lego city set (keep in mind it has no look to real city layout) so us as adults would help build the cop shop and let our child play with it... sure as Shite, 10 minutes later he/she is walking away or have destroyed it already.... But if it was modular, then the ability to change the floor layout or even add a floor would be a nice replay value... As for adults buying it for them selves, 5 days after I buy a booooooring set like those cop shacks, it is break down time.... Like I stated before, if and when I buy a cop box, I will be getting both 2008 and 2011 models to morph together... I need the back blocked off... wal to wall "WALLS" I require! But yes... if they can make a fire house modular, then why not a police office as well?

thats got to be off.....

well hope fully the rest of the 2011 stuff is not being designed by the same person that did that new shuttle... Lego needs to remember that 25% are kids buying and 25% are adults buying for kids and the big 50% is adults buying for themselves... if they can't be clued in on this major thing then the adults will probably start buying less and Moc'ing up stuff from scratch instead of buying such a under thought kit as that new shuttle... I hate that they leave the hinges right out in the open and malty color them like so say "Woopy Look at me" For real does city sets need flaps on their wings? Really? Look at the air port theme... No flaps right? Then why lego why... if it was not for them loud color flaps the shuttle would not look AS bad

it was my 8meg Blackberry storm2 phone messing up... it yellows everything! The Nikon was again on charge and not ready to shoot so I used the phone because that car was built and broken back down in less then an hour. if I make an idea piece, most of the time after I see how it comes out and I have learned from it, I break them down for other ideas... six wide really is hard for city to pull off details and durability, you know? oh ya... it could fit two minifiggs

my black dose not have those turn down slopes like the green one has... I was going to make it gray, but did not have the detail parts that I needed... this Mod is not totally done yet... so keep checking.... Wait till I build the rest of the jeeps and make the special job ones... Gunners and lighters and six wheelers and maybe a trax truck and a pair of tanks... But I do plan on doing the base up on LDD so you all will see what it is going to look like.... trust me, may not be military themed Totally, but it will be funny and OMG at the same time... this will be the first detailed project I will be creating since my dark age....

well the launch pad is said to cost $69 US and well even though I am getting that one, the shuttle transport from the 1990's was way better then the modern shuttle...geeeeeeze that one looks cheesy. very nice CHEEEEZY!

ouch... I only paid 3.10 each for a box order... I am now feeling better that I over paid but under paid what TRU would have charged me..... WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO TRU, you can brick the block off! well then again them BOGO sales are nice

it is nice, but I think the dog box opens kind of tight and I have to fix it every time... as for design, two studs would have been nice for inside the box to maintain good contact for the dog... he never stays up right I am going to MOD my truck a bit and I will post the fixed version with the problems I stated. I liked the simpleness of the build, but the quality was a bit under par

ah.... indeed

being that L-U has dropped in price in its first quarter says it is not doing too well who wants to pay to play and pay for software as well