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You can also use a pen eraser (the hard blue one, usually joined with a pink eraser).

Well I plan on being there and exhibiting again, it was a great experience last time.

Mine is homegrown, but it's not hard to make.

Excellent work, and very clean too! What did you use for the decals?

Not yet, looks like they'll be there by the end of this month.

One of the new City sets reminds me of 6351: I remember getting one from Toys 'R Us way back, and it was one of my favourite, most anticipated sets.

Very well done! Just wondering where those heads came from.

If possible, please add: 92814 Minifig, Headgear Cap, Graduation Mortarboard with Tassel 93228pb01 Minifig, Headgear Gorilla Mask with Light Bluish Gray Face Pattern 87997pb01 Minifig, Utensil Cheerleader Pom Pom with Blue Top

The caravan and recycle trucks are must-haves for myself, and the new Ninjago sets could be very interesting in terms of new parts. However, I think my wallet is safe for next year right now.

That's a good idea, until now I've just had all the parts in a single box. Thanks for the comment! If anyone wanted to make a cult-based MOC, this or the other storage boxes would be very good. I was going to do one but I didn't have the audacity.

I don't think there's anywhere else more suited for this particular review, but feel free to move the thread if there is. Sort and Store Set 81010 Release year: 2010 # of pieces: 5 # of minifigs: 0 RRP: GBP 34.99 / USD 39.99 I have a rather large collection of parts, all mixed up, and I wanted some way of making sorting a lot easier. It's somewhat therapeutic - but absolutely no fun - spending hours sorting the small parts from slightly larger ones. I bought this Sort and Store - a storage item that also "sorts" Lego parts into big, medium-sized and small parts - to see if it would be of any help. From the outset I wouldn't have expected it to do any colour sorting, but I thought it might be useful for separating all those studs from tiles, for example. Although the Sort and Store is listed on the US Lego shop site, it isn't on the UK site, nor have I ever seen it in a Lego store over here. The only place I know that sells them is John Lewis. Anyway, here's the back of the box: And one of the sides (don't worry, both sides have the same information on them): The plastic corner insert at the front basically has the same info on it. Inside the box is a basic instruction pamphlet describing how to use this contraption. This thing is HUGE. To give a general impression of how big this thing is, I've asked a couple of volunteers to stand next to it. I guess it stands to reason that it's large, especially if it's going to house and sort a large number of parts. (Volunteers may have been reimbursed for taking part in this review.) The head has a carry handle, but I find it hard to lift because of the small indent. Both sides of the head have clamps for keeping everything intact. And in case you're wondering if this is a genuine product... (What's my name?) Chilled monkey brain... But seriously: the stud eventually lifts to reveal an opening in the head, with which you fill the Sort and Store with your various bricks and things. A little peek inside the head shows there are no brains to speak of, but a series of lattices to do the sorting. To save a bit of time I've separated all the parts that make up the Sort and Store, all displayed here: two sorting trays with lattices make up the back of the head, with the rest of the head catching the tinier parts. Here's the back of the head without the sorting trays. The test To test the sorting capabilities of the Sort and Store, I filled it with the contents of three different containers of random parts. ^ The first container mostly comprised of items from various Bricklink orders that people were generous enough to trade with me. ^ The second contained a bunch of parts obtained from grab bags at the Westfield (Shepherd's Bush) Lego store. I was particularly lucky this month as the bags contained a number of useful and unusual elements, including from Alien Conquest and the Fallingwater set.</brag> ^ The third was a random assortment of small parts, all obtained from the PAB wall at Liverpool One's Lego store. So after inserting the contents into the Sort and Store, and giving the whole thing a good shake for several seconds, here's what happened. The top tray managed to retain the larger pieces (which, given the size of the holes, was no surprise), and a few of the wider elements. You can also see some small elements that got trapped next to or inside some large ones. The middle tray was where things got a little concerning. Some of the 2x4 plates and 2x2 bricks made it through to here, but this tray didn't seem to hold much at all! And the bottom of the Sort and Store was basically full; quite a few elements, including some 1x3 bricks and the flower brick, were ones I didn't expect to find there. The verdict This is obviously aimed at kids, who probably wouldn't have nearly as many elements as an AFOL in their collection. It's a big enough container to be effectively used as a storage solution, and it's a great novelty item. As a sorting solution it's let down by the holes in the middle tray being a bit too big, as well as (in this case) not enough space at the bottom for the parts that do get down there. One thing that would have helped make this an easier purchase is the inclusion of parts: perhaps a minifigure or just a handful of bricks to test the sorting with. As it stands there's no real incentive to buy one of these things, other than as a fancy Lego-themed toy box to show one's friends just how much into Lego they are - especially at the RRP. If I had to give some kind of score out of thin air, I'd say it's worth a 4/10. "Who ate all the dim sum?!"

You've done it again Excellent job on all of them, I like the Zookeeper and the Graduate vignettes most of all.

Not bad at all. Machines like those could be potentially useful for making custom minifigure parts.

Finally caved in and placed an order for Fallingwater.

The minifigures:

Back when I was building one of the things for my AFOLcon display, I found myself having to purchase of those brick packs just to get a few bricks in a certain colour and size. I would definitely go for boxes of parts (bricks, plates and tiles) in just one colour, especially white and greys because I use a lot of them.

Manually counted all those damn parts. (BTW "Tan" was meant to be Dark Tan).

Didn't get one, but I'm about to grab one from feeBay.

Four large and one small PAB cups worth of parts from Bluewater's PAB wall, and two BAF packs (mainly plain yellow torsos).

Hopefully this is the right place to post this bit of news, but... at long last we have 2x2 tiles in dark tan and yellow over here, at the Bluewater store. Of course, I was there just a few hours ago, and I didn't put any in my four large and one small cup.

One, damnit.

Glad I was able to pull it off! Thanks very much for the comments and appreciation. I'm a little confused as to why some of you were surprised - didn't you guys know I had 99 Gorilla Suit Guys? I've got plenty of spare tiles.

Just a little something I put together recently. Apologies in advance for the numerous images, the picture qualities and blurring - I guess I was in a rush but it takes a while to get these photos together. I actually haven't been to or participated in a graduation ceremony, so I've purely been guessing what happens. "That's a nice camera you got there... I love it when a camera has a nice big zoom lens." "DEAN MORRIS!" "Hey! Don't touch me there!" ... More on Brickshelf.

Eh?

Does anyone know when (or if? ) the lego store in Stratford will be open? I've heard that Westfield Stratford is opening.