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Nice, it looks pretty smart! Great idea to turn the date bricks into a drawer. I've been meaning to do my own custom calendar but the set has been sitting unused for months... feeling inspired again now

Glasgow (apparently)... behind the counter. I read so on Brickset.

I blame tiberium_blue for seeding the idea in my subconcious! Well that would just be silly. Um... maybe cos they look a bit like tortilla chips? I must say, I do like wedge plates in real life. Not that much though. I think printed ones would taste awful, stickers even worse and they'd get stuck to your teeth. Mmm... now tiles, I reckon they would be yummy. One would hope so, as the solid ones tasted of nothing. I would like it if trans ones tasted of Gummi bears.

I had a mad dream last night, very long so I'll skip to the LEGO bit at the end My friend had died and I was very depressed. And I began eating wedge plates! They were edible, but pretty tough, like a really dried out old wafer. The different colours were all equally tasteless, but I noticed the dark brown ones were a little too tough - I still ate them though. My grandfather asked was I was eating, and I said in a nonchalant way, "LEGO," like a child caught doing something they know they shouldn't.

Fallingwater brought me out of my Dark Age but I guess the one that was most treasured to me was... It was the first set I bought when minifigs (and round trees!) arrived and I adored it.

Went kookoo with the grab bag crate at a LEGO store yesterday, got most of a UCS Obi Wan Starfighter, City Park Cafe, Butterfly Beauty Shop and several 650pc bags of Friends' colours bricks and plates as well as ice cream scoops. Charged me £35 for 4,000 pieces :O), I reckon worth about £1,000 on Bricklink. Not that I'm selling them, I want to see what on earth I make from them! There was also a bag of 32-stud axles, 320 of them, from a Harry Potter wand-making store event. Hell knows what I will do with those, but it will be crazy!

I'm glad it got bumped, I wouldn't have seen it and started thinking about a new MOC. Maybe I'll start a new topic called "LEGO Shame and Guilt"

Ooh really? I was very disappointed when I missed that last year, thanks. Any good Grab Bags?

Your drawing and writing style perfectly captures the melancholic aspects of shame and guilt, this is the most interesting short LEGO comic I think I've ever seen. I think these difficult, strong emotions strike all AFOLs in different ways and with different reactions and the one presented here is quite heartbreaking, as he carries on judgmental 'conversations' with a baby and an imaginary brick; nothing changing months later. Really thought-provoking stuff. Checking out your deviantart now Tim

It does, Chris, though they often have similar parts e.g. there are a lot of white horses about at the moment. Brickbuildr iPab is great when people bother to update it - the two London Westfield stores have recently been updated. But generally speaking, now is a VERY good time for PaB walls because the new European catalogues came in recently. So most stores have quite a few new parts and, if they are clued up, are desperately re-ordering further parts whilst there's still good stuff on offer.

Ooh, design it!

Awesome - thank you.

Looks great. My favourite bit is the radar dish nestling in the arch.

I haven't much to say that hasn't been said already - but this is too wonderful not to chime in! I especially love the lintels of 'studs-in' bricks! It's sucha beautiful texture and it doesn't often get used.

Great idea and quite surprising how recognisable they are!

Nice spot. Some ~30% off deals I can see on there are 7962 Podracers, 3182 Airport, 7065 Mothership, 4645 Harbour

Given the topic of this thread, I'm surprised there's no mention of CUUSOO in it, unless I missed it. A lot of these suggested ideas, and many more great ones, are on CUUSOO - with paltry support. I know the non-FOL community will never get behind piece designs on CUUSOO, but surely we can muster 10,000 FOLs across the interwebs? Surely we'd all like to have the vast majority of the piece ideas on CUUSOO? As for what piece I want, well... it's on CUUSOO! (and in my sig) But I would recommend checking out DagsBricks ideas, most of them are really fantastic.

In terms of sets, obviously check out Mini Modulars and the Architecture series. On Eurobricks have a look at all the entries in the current Architecture competition - use the Advanced search and use "Architecture contest" as a term, each entry has its own thread. Also have a look at the LEGO Architecture pools on Flickr, lots of great stuff there. Obviously it's really hard getting detail with just bricks and plates, so I find myself using lots of headlights and other SNOT, jumper plates, plates with door rail and other 'modified plate', and generally thinking up inventive interpretations of what a piece is representing - you can get away with a lot if the piece manages to give the flavour of what you're building. And you can never have too many 1x1 plates! Micro scale building is very intense and rewarding! Good luck!

What a bold choice! You've definitely captured it.

Go today - last double points day!

When I were a lad, all round 'ere were green fields and we used t'ave t'build them 'orses out a bricks.

Oh wonderful, Trajic Banjo! Great to see a Hadid building. I look forward to more pictures!

Went to Shepherd's Bush today. They definitely got a wider range in the recent round of orders than Stratford, and I was thrilled with the amount of trans available - the containers were full to overflowing with pretty pieces. They are expecting more parts next week, and are placing a third order too! It's a new catalog bonanza. iPab is updated, but a couple of notes - The red flowers have a closed stud, this is the new 2012 version. Bricklink doesn't even list them in red yet. It looks nice, but is clearly less useful! The 1x4 tiles I marked as Reddish Brown are actually (old) Brown. iPab no longer has that colour in the list! Shame the hinges were in red, but I got some anyway. They were fun to pack in the cup - I attached them in a big ring that fitted neatly round the rim of the cup! Oh they also gave me one of the Friends mini-build packs as only 20 people came to the event over the 2 days. Most interesting pieces were 3 ice creams, 3 trans clear goblets and a 2x6 bright pink plate. The rest of the packs are going into Grab Bags, so it may be worth heading out there if you like the sound of those pieces, but I would ring first as they had no Grab Bags on display today. There was also some chat going on amongst them which I didn't quite follow about trans-red jewels going into Grab Bags too...

Whoa! Crazy, would love to see that animated. Did you eat too much cheese yesterday? Or too many cheese slopes maybe...

Wow. I wish we got PAB like that in the UK.