Clara43

I totally agree! I also have a fondness for sets from the 2000's like Exo-Force and Mars Mission. My personal favorite is the Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon.

The Flickr user "Legalize It" has created some truly stunning insect-inspired spaceships. I particularly remember some incredible builds based on a fly and a mosquito. The whole insectoid range was amazing and I am excited to continue this theme and create a series of insect-themed sci-fi crafts. Keep an eye out here for more updates about drones as I fill in the gaps left by those sets.

I don't see a problem here, for Lego or anyone who might want to print their own blocks, as long as they don't print the Lego logo on them and try to pass them off as the real thing (in which case they'd be violating the trademark). Patent protection for the basic Lego blocks expired a long time ago, so that's not an issue. And there's no way that printing blocks at home will ever be as time-efficient or cost-effective as injection-molding them, even if costs come down substantially. Lego expends a lot of effort on quality control, so their blocks are always going to work better than any home-printed copies. While it's certainly possible for people to use these printers and print Lego-compatible parts to customize their own creations, that seems more likely to spur demand for the basic bricks than to supplant it. Lego is a very savvy company, which has pioneered home robotics kits (Mindstorm) and taken advantage of crowd-sourcing to generate new product ideas. It looks like they are more likely to turn the 3D printing craze to their own advantage than to let it harm them.

I somehow missed the new album by Alter Bridge (which came out in October)

same here, it irritate me so much.

Currently buying a new 3d printer, so excited:)