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As do I. Maybe flesh is to a yellow minifig as yellow is to all us fleshies

I've always wanted to play this game but I'm the only one I know in the real world who likes Lego. Whereabouts in Germany are you? I moved here 4 months ago, I live about 2 hours west of Frankfurt near Pirmasens

More new pieces in whitecap bay: grey arches (introduced in PoP) A new 2x2 corner near the light There also appears to be a new clip on the cage with the cannibals

Just gonna throw this out there... I have a US address (APO) and a German address so I can order to either country's address and it gets delivered in Europe so you can bet your lucky stars I'll be ordering to whichever address is cheaper, and I'm cool with ordering and remailing within the EU if the cost is worth it to you. Also good for regional exclusives... If this line ends up having regional exclusives I'll order and reship for just the cost of reshipping.. To fellow eurobrickers I'll do it at cost

Yeah man, I could spend some time dwelling on the historical inaccuracies about the golden age of piracy or inaccuracies in ship building technics (or rather, continuity errors for the era) but I'd rather just focus on being entertained. I have a decent collection of piracy stuff to include books, movies and what not. When I return to the USA in a few years, I'd like to add some flintlock firearms to the mix, but that'll wait til after I get an Uzi and MAC10 :-p. I can't wait for these Lego sets.

Anyone else notice the new window pieces in the London set? This is the day you almost catch Cpt Jack Sparrow!

Well guys, it looks like I'll be broke again this year. I'm back in the Pirate game after a year and something off. I still have around $400 in unopened sets from the 2009 run of Pirates. POTC is my favorite film series ever. I don't even care what people think of 2 and 3. I love em, and that ride is my favorite ride at Disneyland. At any rate, Lego POTC is a win for me. I went to the local TRU and they had a 2011 catalog with a digital rendition of Jack Sparrow in it... pics?

I just wanna say... that's friggin awesome! It reminds me of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland. I love it.

They aren't that bad, but they're not great either. I picked up a few copies of one of the sets because it had a larger rowboat that I really like. I've occasionally used one of the figs as a giant pirate in MOCs. but by and large, for me they were just parts packs.

Please excuse me for not knowing, but does Greece use the Euro? I'm moving to Germany in November for my job, and since I'll be on a military base, I'll have access to US and European sets. I'd be completely cool with shipping you a copy if you just pay for shipping. I'll be getting sets from whichever source is cheaper.

I gotta have that!!!!! Maersk Blue is on my most desired color list. Some of those pieces are so damn expensive that it's next to impossible to amass a large amount of them, but a new set release opens up so many possibilities.

I have three Wal Marts within a 20 minute drive of my house. At any given time at least one of them has huge markdowns on a couple older sets. Sometimes, they accidently mark down new sets. I picked up 2 copies of the midi scale Millenium Falcon for $15 each when they "weren't on sale" I haven't bought Lego in forever though. It's been almost a month

It's never too late. Almost all the sets are still available at the retail level. I've spent a lot of money on '09 Pirates sets, gotten a bunch on sale, and generally hoarded them. If you end up making up your mind, I'll sell you some for a mark up :-p including Shipwreck Hideout and Soldiers Arsenal

Whenever sets go on sale at Wal Mart or Target, I frequently buy them out. For example, Galactic Enforcer was on sale at Target a week ago for $80, I thought that was a good price and considered buying it, but I had to hold off until payday. Low and behold, I walked into Wal Mart today and they had 3 copies of it on clearance for $35 each. Since it was a set I wanted anyways, I bought all three. One has been opened now, the other two are going to collect dust for a few years. I did the same with all the 2nd wave IJ sets, along with a few other sets here and there from the Construction line up, a few Creator sets, the Troll warship, Power Miners, Star Wars sets and so on. I probably have around 40 or 50 MISB sets that were all purchased for at least a 50% discount. For the Troll Warships, I bought 4 copies for $20 each, and turned around and sold the dragons on Bricklink for $15 each, along with all the minifigs for an average of $2.50 each. I essentially got a lot of pieces for free. If you play your cards right in Lego, it's completely possible to turn a profit. I'm getting stationed in Germany in November. Since I'll be able to order U.S. and European sets and ship to both regions for the same price, you can bet your @$$ if there's exclusives, I'll be selling them in the opposite region on bricklink, if for no other reason than to spread the Lego.

I bought the following for $240 on clearance at Wal Mart. 3X Galactic Enforcer (list $300, paid $35 each) 1X Temple of Doom (90, paid $35) 2X Venice Canal Chase (80, paid 15) 2X Fighter Plane Attack (100, paid 25? each) 2X Ambush in Cairo (22, paid 4 each) 1X Space Truck Getaway (30, paid 10) I'd say I made out like a bandit... $622 worth of Lego for less than half that amount. It also makes up for paying full price for the last remaining Pirates sets on the shelves. 1X Soldiers Fort 8X Cannon Battle

Most difficult set - UCS Millennium Falcon. It took me 4 or 5 hours of sorting pieces before I even got started, then it took me a month and a half of building on my spare time to get it assembled. After I got to putting together body panels, I finally started seeing progress. Most frustrating - inbag assembly of X-Wing Fighter 30051

It does, but a lot of the ice in the world is located on land as glaciers, like the whole Antarctica and Greenland. But the rising of water levels is just one of several theories about what effects global warming has on the planet. It's not as simple as media describes it and we shouldn't look at just parts of it but the entirety. Actually that's not true. It has more volume displacement but since roughly one third of it is above the surface when ice is floating, once it melts, water level won't rise. Proof of concept would be to take a glass of water and drop a few ice cubes in it. Once the ice melts, you'll find water level has stayed the same. That being said, I believe that global warming as perpetuated by environmentalists is a politically motivated farce. I am not saying that it doesn't happen, just that it's causes and effects are overexaggerated to tug at the heart strings of people, and gain fame and fortune in the greater population. Examples of this would be The Day After Tomorrow, Al Gore, the growing ethanol movement, biofuels, electric cars, and so on. Electric cars, there's an effing joke, but that's another story. Every few thousand years, or tens of thousands of years or whatever, the earth goes through completely natural freeze and thaw cycles. This planet has had ice ages, heat waves, floods, meteor strikes, and a host of other natural phenomena over the course of its life. Apparently, things have worked out pretty well for planet earth, because evidently there is still life on it. Don't get me wrong, that's not to say we shouldn't take care of our world, and do our part to keep it clean. I do not endorse rampant polluting, and I think that we should all pick up after ourselves.

The last time I visited back home, I hit up all three Lego stores, here's my opinion. The Galleria is well stocked, and in 3 times of going there over a 3 week period, it was always packed, but they had a lot of the current sets on the shelves, I would expect it to be the same. It's pretty spacious. The Downtown Disney store has a rather "small" PAB, but it was the only store to have an assemble your own minifig station. At the time, I scored a lot of yellow Princess Leia slave torsos, even though they had been unavailable for a number of years. It's also a huge store, but they rarely had things on clearance. I dated a girl that worked at Disneyland, so I was in there a lot... I've probably made 20 or 30 purchases there, I have bought a ton of basic bricks at their PAB. I can fit a few hundred 1X2's in a PAB cup by stacking them, and I've found the employees there to be pretty tolerant of you taking forever to fill cups. When you were done, they'd tape the lid on (no upc, so there's no discount for bringing the cups back) Ontario Mills is my favorite store. They have a pretty big PAB wall, and it's the only store I've ever seen the grab bags at. These are a great opportunity to pick up specialty pieces you won't normally find in a PAB wall. It was also the store I found to have clearance sets the most, for things like damaged packaging, or end of a production run clearance. There's sets on sale at this store that you wouldn't find elsewhere, but they only had a clearance palate once a month or so. The sets were usually marked down at least 25% In general, around 50% of the stuff in a PAB wall will be at all three stores, the Disney store seems to rotate stock the fastest, it seemed to be around every two weeks or so

3 years ago, the Ontario Mills store in Ontario, Cali always had grab bags. I picked up a few licensed pieces from Batman sets at the time because I was looking for the cheapest way to get 2X4 bricks in yellow and white, and behold the grab bags had what I was looking for. I dunno how frequently they still have them in, but I'm really hoping for it when I go home to visit in 6 months.

I goofed up by attaching this piece in the middle of a plate for a nice little patch of grass. Next time, I'll do it on a seam.

That rocks!!! I'm moving to Ramstein for 3 years. That'll be the closest store to me, and I will have to hit that up for European exclusives to sell on BL.

Well, Bricklink isn't a very good way to design digital MOCs, but LDD isn't a very good marketplace.... so what was the question? Nah but seriously, design using LDD, buy using Bricklink.

Another option I suppose is to create one building on a 32 X 96 baseplate, with apartments, a barber shop, a bar, I dunno. You can also free up some pieces by only having 1 window washer, 1 ice cream cart and so on too. Maybe... an up and a down escalator too. The possibilities are endless!

I vote side by side with 4 floors. Buy one more for that extra floor. I'd also modify it so that it's one building on a 32X64 plate. you can then rework the middle of the building where the two sets meet, and make it look like it was designed that way, and by eliminating the double wall that exists when you stick two of them side by side, you give yourself a lot more pieces to work with for the customization.

GG and MS are still put together, but CC is torn apart for cleaning.. it's actually been torn apart for around a year now. I still need to get the other two buildings.