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The problem with a lot of the raised baseplates is the dead space inside and the ultra basic shapes of the moulding. Not to mention the shoddy printing on most of them. If Lego brought anything back I'd like it to be train platforms. Those at least have sharp details and can be used in different ways.

That is motherchuffing awesome! Raptors in space. Lego sooooooooooo need to make that happen as a theme

I remember phase IV. Multicoloured ants. arranging the dead ants in rows. Brilliant 1970's sci-fi. Slow but brilliant. Cool vig' btw. Love the landscaping and it takes a moment to see the monolith but then it's like the scene comes alive.

I did notice that the base boards were the same thick card covered by paper construction as board games boards. There's a fold in the middle. I'm just too young to have seen 'THE BUILDING TOY' on packaging. 1970/1971 would have been when I was first introduced to Lego. With 650: Car with trailer and racing car from 1972 being the first actual set I can recall. I don't think I actually owned a set until 615: Forklift in 1975.

That's really interesting. I can't recall ever seeing anything with British LEGO Ltd. on it. I suppose I must have done but just didn't pay it any attention. So if Courtauld's Corp. had a license until 1992 when did they actually cease producing Lego? I know sometimes having a license to produce doesn't always mean that a product is actually in production.

Cheeeeee-mah Cheeeeee-mah. Think Chinese 'Qi' (Chi), not Greek 'Chimera'.

I always butter my bricks. D'OH!

I think there needs to be some sort of survey done on this issue. To find out if environment plays a part in the deterioration of parts. Is it more common in certain parts of the world? More common in certain indoor conditions? That sort of thing. Perhaps someone more competent in the field of data gathering could make a thread with a standard report form and then each post in the thread follows the form and data could be more easily collated. Such information must be useful to Lego.

Nawwwww, pigs are cute. The coast guard plane at least isn't as humongous as the police seaplane you mentioned. Better for small hands and at least the set includes a decent boat. The best set out of the summer bunch to me is the coastguard ship. A lovely white hull which is far more useful than the rainbow of colours we've had previously. It's got a green rubber dinghy, helicopter and lighthouse. Cracking little set. The cargo terminal doesn't actually have a terminal just a honking great plane no-one has room for. Also the white and green plane has grey wings. Odd. The cargo heliplane is ugly but so is the real plane it's based on. I actually love the new large nose piece. If I don't buy the set I'll definitely buy a few of the nose pieces that will certainly deluge Bricklink. It'll be useful for space MOC's. The cargo truck just looks like the last one but with less in the set to me. One thing that worries me is the sudden appearance of sharks in the waters around Lego City. The guy in the seaplane set is gonna need a bigger boat........

The large panels and nose pieces might not be to everyone's liking but if you don't have a lot of parts they sure help.

Grandpa is holding a mug with something printed on it by the look of it. World's best Grandpa?

Yeah but doggy gets a bone.

ERMERGERD!! by total coincidence a building toy model with a dome vaguely resembles a real world building!!!!!!!!!!! Someone should point them in the direction of George Lucas.

I *@!?%!* hate chase figures. It's bad enough that the minifigures are blind packaged without giving scalpers added incentive to buy up boxes and boxes of them. I'm not even interested in gimmick items like gold or chromed or limited edition. This sort of thing drove me away from action figure collecting. I really don't want to see Lego go down this road.

can't say much, spilled a drink on my laptop and the keyboard is dead, using a usb one but my lappy is playing up. anyhoo, Supposing GS gets a third wave in the winter of 2013/2014 I guess that would be the place to give the red team a large vehicle. I'd like to hear from Lego how long this theme will live for. We know Chima is a three year theme but is GS 2013 only? Could an ambassador chime in with some helpful info here please? Also if the red team is shifting to dark red are the other teams also getting different shades of uniform colour or is the report of dark red wrong? in other news, pup and DraikNova, thanks for the comments, the base is no more. It was just for photos. I don't have anywhere to keep something that big on show. I've used a lot of the parts to expand the base mess hall I built fot the FAPC entry. and I'll be taking apart the RAIDr ship so I can build a bigger ship that has split apart features. Using build techniques from the other GS vehicles so it's more in keeping with the theme. Which is very optimistic of me as I'm really rusty regarding building stuff. Just waiting on a Bricklink order to arrive before I get started.

From Brickset: Dark red-?

For me, what makes the design a win is the use of that particular cockpit bubble which echoes the shape of the horses head. And the cheese wedges on the side give a nice segmented armour effect.

The crater is cool. And I love the flying pig.

*Jaw hits the floor* OMG! I'm not a fan of greebling but the body shape is awesome. It really has that 1980's sci-fi feel to it. The cockpit interior I'm going to have to up my game.

Star Wars and classic space shouldn't ever be mixed. It just seems like blasphemy. Sure they're both made by Lego but Classic space is precious and Star Wars is - something else..... I saw a picture somewhere of a classic space logo on a beige/gold distressed t-shirt which looked brilliant. The logo is perfect in it's original form it doesn't need messing with like this.

The whole gallery is viewable so you can check out the undercarriage etc. Also just ordered some dome cockpit bubbles so I should have something new soon. And somewhere on this planet is a package containing a Billy S and robot that is repeatedly not arriving at it's destination. The postal service is getting in the way of my army building. However, my partner has just wiped the images drive on our server in a freak OS update installation accident and 16 years of images have vanished into a black hole. So Obviously I'm laying on the guilt trip quite heavily and I'm sure I can wangle an 'I'm very sorry' gift of a few Billies out of this.

The front end resembles an animal head too. Sort of a crocohippo....

There's something not right with the build. It's only supposed to be a starbase mess hall but those x beam panels at the back with red behind them together with the shape of the ceiling opening make it look like a barn. I think I'll rework it on a 16x32 baseplate. Add some greebly bits and generally open it out so you can see what's going on. It'll still be the same entry, but different.

Very nice. Raising the suspension would allow you to use 2 of the the 2x3 window for the door. which kind of hangs below the body of the bus in reality. Then all It needs a suspension bridge to hang off for the classic school kids in peril scenario.

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