Yucca Patrol

I think the Town Hall is so large and rather boring looking that it is the sore thumb sticking out of any modular city block it is included in. It would look much better if placed on a 48x48 baseplate with a bit of greenery around all sides of it, as it would look much better as a stand alone building. This is why it is the first modular that has come along that I have not wanted at all. But I did score some nice accessory pieces, minifigs and parts like the clock face in a parts draft.

I'm building my own modular based on the Harry Potter "The Burrow" set, so I'm using a lot of this unusual color as well. I chuckled when I saw that your red awning on the second floor is nearly identical to the awning over my first floor door. At least I can feel good that I did it myself before I saw you had beaten me to the idea! I really like your creation, and it is great to see someone else building with this color. Now that the new 1x2 textured brick is out there, I expect to see more of these and for the price of this color brick to go up. Glad I bought a huge bag of assorted bricks in this color when they were cheap and undesirable before that new brick appeared on the scene.

I had a very expensive nearly new North Face rain jacket that I discovered had been peed on repeatedly in the bottom of a closet. i was certain it was ruined forever. I did a little research and found that the problem with cat urine is that the uric acid crystals are not readily soluble in water, but are soluble in acid. I put it in the washing machine on a pre-wash/soak cycle and poured half a gallon of white vinegar in the machine. I let it sit in there overnight and washed it like normal. Every trace of the pee was gone. I'm certain this would work with your LEGO too, but I'd hand wash any printed bricks in case the long term exposure to acid might affect the ink. But you can probably wipe them with a vinegar solution without any problem.

I've been using this other site for Amazon pricing, and it seems to be picking up more Amazon sets than your site is right now. http://www.brickset.com/buy/us/Amazon/ Hopefully, you can figure out why some of the Amazon stuff is not finding its way onto your site, because having all the different online retailers displayed together like you have is really fantastic! For now, I'll use both of these sites, but once your site picks up all the Amazon stuff a little better, it will definitely be the winner. Again, thanks for doing this.

Ask everyone you know that has teenage boys if they still have their old LEGO collection. Chances are that you can find someone willing to give up a big tub of bricks for a good price. You can even bribe these teenage boys with an offer to buy them the latest, most violent video game on the market. This will give you a good starting collection of bricks to begin making your own MOC's without having to raid your very nice modulars or other sets you want to keep together. I got really lucky last fall and bought 60 pounds of LEGO bricks for $100. Another good way to get a lot of bricks is to seek out discounted sets on the clearance aisle of Target/Walmart/etc that have desirable bricks for the sort of MOC you are planning. The best time to do this is after Christmas and there is probably not a lot left at this point, but remember this tip for next year. If you are lucky, you can find Harry Potter or POTC sets that include very desirable minifigures that you can resell on ebay to further decrease the cost of your bricks. I am planning my second custom modular building and want to build it using an unusual color scheme. I was able to find three of the Harry Potter "The Burrow" sets at 50% off. This gives me a bunch of architectural details like windows, roof slopes, etc. The nice thing about this particular set is that the rare minifigures are worth as much on ebay as I paid for the entire set, so now I have about 1500 free bricks in awesome colors to work with. To ensure that I have enough bricks to build this MOC, I made a bricklink order to get a lot more of the medium dark flesh colored bricks in whatever assorted shapes and sizes I could find at a good price. So after selling the minifigs, I've paid about $50 for over 2000 really nice bricks.

The new Dino theme with all the new dinosaur molds?

this is really great. I've seen one for Amazon that is pretty good, but this one has lots of sites. However, the other Amazon-only price checker site is picking up Amazon items that your site is not? Thanks for making this. I'll check it daily! Also, a price per piece column would be handy. And it took me a while to discover the bricklink icon on the right side of the chart.

I saw this at the LEGO store today. It did look very nice, and I like that LEGO is offering such an item. However, it is just too small to do very much with. The only thing I could really use it for would be for very small parts like minifig accessories. For now, I am sticking with the larger sterilite drawer carts with sorted LEGO's in slide lock zipper bags. Right now, I am using one of these Stanley boxes for organizing my minifig accessories and other very special small parts. The larger versions of this organizer with fewer, larger, deeper trays is also very nice. I especially like that the individual trays are removable, as this makes it easier to move a few of these to my table while building without having to have several of these organizers taking up too much space.

Could someone smarter and more knowledgeable than me examine these photos to see if there are any unique pieces that have never been released in sets by LEGO? Maybe a minifig torso or something? That would certainly provide some solid evidence if there were some unique new pieces.

I wouldn't feel the bags at the local LEGO store, even though I'm friends with some of the employees and I often see them feeling the bags when they have extra time or are bored. But at Wal-Mart or Toys-R-Us, I certainly do buy only the figs I want. If LEGO really wanted to prevent this, they could certainly come up with a form of packaging that would make feeling the bags impossible. But then we would all just figure out how much each fig weighs to the milligram and bring along little pocket sized digital scales to figure it out! I also once helped a kid at Target find a couple of the figs he wanted and told his mom about the dot codes. They were in a rush so I suggested that she simply buy 20 or so packages, take them home to figure out what they are, and then return the unopened unwanted figs the next time she came back to the store. She thought that was a brilliant idea and bought a bunch of them.

Interesting contrast of materials storing plastic LEGO in those custom wooden trays.

Often times it doesn't even matter if it is curved since the bricks you place on it will bend it into its proper shape as you build on top of it.

Quite frankly, if we can't eat it and it costs more than $10, we almost always buy it on Amazon. Our local sales taxes are too high and it costs $5 in gas just for me to drive to the local stores. So why pay more when I can get it delivered to my door in just 2 days? And in the couple of rare occasions when i have had a problem, Amazon customer service has been a breeze to work with. I never even would have considered demanding a 50% refund for our Fire Brigade and would have been thrilled with 20% considering that the box damage was not too severe but just enough to ruin the collector value of the box for those curious folks who believe empty boxes are valuable. . . . .

We ordered the Fire Brigade from Amazon and it arrived inside a box that was big enough to hold 5 of them. Because the shipping box was almost completely hollow, it got crushed in shipping and the LEGO box was also damaged (but of course the actual LEGO's were perfectly fine). I contacted Amazon and they gave me the option to have them replace it for free or keep the damaged item and receive 50% refund. I went for the refund and was thrilled to get a Fire Brigade for $73. I only hope they slightly damage MORE of my items in the future if I can expect this sort of top notch customer service! Just work with them and they will make it right. And since you are buying them to resell, you've got time to let them send you new perfect ones.

Creator car sets are definitely my favorite sets, but I won't be getting this one. The car just looks goofy and amateurish with the wheels too small and other parts just not looking like they are finished. For a MOC, it is nice, but I expect a lot more from LEGO designers. And the yellow just makes it all even worse. I still want the white Cool convertible if I can ever find one for a decent price. But despite the fact that I don't particularly like this set, the review is incredible! Great job on that and I enjoyed reading it a lot.