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An old rundown farm is haunted by a demonically possessed scarecrow, that harvests the souls of those, who dare to pass by. scarecrow1con von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr

They're gonna have a tv party tonight. ... 'cause they've got nothing better to do. ... than watch tv and have a couple of brew tvparty1con von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr tvparty2con von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr btw. does anybody remember test signals in tv?

While Bob tries on his old batman costume from the nineties, he suddenly is surprised by the pet, that live in his attic since last years halloween. ween2013con von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr ween2013hr-2 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr

For me it was the MMV, because the bags had not been numberes but sorted by colour.

I can't belive i got this set for 2,50€, so i post a pic with the bill in case you cant believe it either. I cannot believe i got it for 2.50€ von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr

In the rules you say: "No digital backgrounds please" Does this include putting the moc in front of a plain white backdrop via photoshop or gimp for presentation. (i just dont want to show my room)

Not playing (yet) but ive built an entry and its up.

Deep under one of the many mountains in the Dastan Empire a small group of adventurers explores an ancient tomb. Soon they find out this is not just any ancient tomb but the crypt of one of the Dastan Empires first emperors, buried with the skull of his dragon. Now they have to see that true kings never die... heroicacon1 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr heroica2con von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr heroica3con von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr

Update: Since i posted last time, we contacted TLC several times. Each time we were told a someone (a supervisor as far as i remember) will call back. this never happened. Finally we sent a letter (on paper, not an email) and soon after that we were told that someone from tlc will call me directly (guess what happened) finally my girlfriend got an email, which sums up like this: TLC didn`t recognize the high demand for that set, and now it is not availible anymore so the chancelled the order. (and that after four months) Of course the apologized and we are getting our money back (wich was originally the plan in mid april) but the discount we were granted as a compensation was not mention with one single word. The end of the story might be that i am not getting arkham asylum at all or for a higher price on the secondary market. AND I AM SURE THE SET WAS AVAILIBLE AT ONE TIME WITHIN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS. The person(s) responsible for this shall.... (fill out the blanks yourself, i dont want to get banned)

The car does? I didnt notice... i was looking at the figs.

Hi guys, i went to a flea market with my girlfriend today and found Police Set B form Weagle for 4€, but after some bartering we got it for 3,50€ (still to much you will see). P1010593 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr Note that the Name of the brand "Weagle" is put shamefully in the upper left corner, while there is this "TM2 to it. (as if Weagle was trademark... i even had to figure out what name this thing was called.) Also the name of the Set is "Police Set B". It's a great name for a playset isnt it. (it isnt) And also at the bottom of the front it says "Specifications Colours and contents may vary from illustrations. I am not a native speaker, but i guess it means "What you see, isnt what you get. And you will see back of the box (at least i think its the back), count the figs and keep the number in your mind P1010594 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr The side of the box: boxside von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr As i already mentioned i am not a native speaker, but i don't think this is good english. Now to the figs, P1010600 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr each fig is packed seperately, but this needs to be because they have to be assembled completely (no preassembled legs or torsos) P1010603 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr P1010604 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr Oh my god, i got a fleshy one instead of yellow figs that are on the box. But thats ok, because... you know... coulours and contents may vary from illustrations. P1010602 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr Look, this dude got two right leg. That is an interesting "variation", isn't it? Now to the model The instructions for the truck were openly in the box while the instructions for the car were contained in the plastic bag. P1010597 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr the instructions for the models are both on a single sheet of paper, printed on both sides. Both are very confusing because... you know... coulours and contents may vary from illustrations. Really the pieces in the instruction often have different colours and in some cases are different molds. Regarding the truck, you might also be confused about the sequence of building steps to the confusing layout. But i think they learned from their mistake, because the decided to design the instruction for the car in a different way. P1010614 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr P1010605 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr The pieces. Mostly standard bricks. They are compatible with Lego's but have a much lower quality. First, some parts come scratched right out off the box and second the also do not fit together very well. The latter you can also see on the box art if you look closely enough. Here are two examples of bad parts. P1010610 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr P1010611 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr The latter ones clutch very very badly. Also compare them with Lego's 1x1 brick with headlight or stud on side- (i did not bother to look for comparison as we are talking about a very common piece) The building processing itself, apart from confusing instructions and bricks, that are fighting back, was not very interesting. it was generally stacking brick on each other and the result are what i would call boxes on wheels. (btw those wheel fit very loosely and fell of several timer during the building process) so here is the finished Police Set B: P1010616 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr now compare it to the box art and try to find the mistake (and count the minifigs again, if you forgot the number) P1010619 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr P1010620 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr By the way i forgot one thing: the set includes accesories. They come on a sprue like the accesories from other chinese clone brands. For a change they look like the ones on the back of the box. but they tend to fall out of the figs hands. (forgive me that i did not show a pic) This is just BAD! First i thought this might be slightly better than the ones i already reviewed. But it got even worse. On the other hand I didnt know that Specifications colours and contents may vary from illustrations. I think this sums it up enough. May be i shoul give mega bloks and kreo give a try. What do you think? Please share your thoughts and ask if you have any questions. btw. you could get very much high quality stuff at the flea market like "charming citty" shirts (too bad i did not take pictures)

ANother Update: We had to call the customer service again, and my girlfriend mentioned my angry posts i did on facebook a few days ago, and my contact with alyssa lego and the Team Leader of the customer service. The woman at the hotline told us that the order is in progess and we had to be patient because we were getting the set für 75% off. REMEMBER: Last tuesday we were told that the package already left the depot. (at least that is what i understood) I am really pissed off, when i am told that the package left the depot, i expect to recieve it within a week. AAAAAAND I feel personally insulted by the customer agent. What do you think about the issue. Have you any advice, because customer service apperantly does not work

Update: my Girlfriend called the Customer Service this morning, and was told that our set finally left the depot today and the money is going to be remitted. I'm still curious when my set arrives and sadly if it will arrive. Besides it is two weeks ago that a supervisor of the customer service apologied and promissed they were sending replacement. i expected that the set would leave the depot in 2-3 days after our last contact with customer servise.

Update: Two weeks later we did not get arkham asylum, nor did my girlfriend (as far as i know) her money back. I am starting to get a bit angry again.

Thanks for your commentaries. Lego already has sent us a letter in wich they apology for everything and promise to sent a replacement and give us a big discount for the whole purchase. (in other words we are getting arkham asylum for less than a half of the original price) I think the problem is going to be solved soon

Before i forget it, i built an entry too. Minifig: Pirate Captain Theme Pirates The Captain watches his crewmember burying his treasure. Unfortunately they are about to hit ground water minifigcontest8a von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr

My Girlfriend and Me are very unsatisfied with TLC at the Moment. We already contacted TLC directly often enough so i decided to discuss it here. It start in january, when my girlfriend ordered 10228 Haunted House at the S@H on my behalf, because she already had collected some vip-points. After some weeks we did not get a set, so my GF called the customer service and the agent told that the set wasn't availible back then (and we are both sure it said availible on Legos homepage) and we have to wait a week or so. After another week or so, my GF had to call the customer service again and this time the agent told that the VIP-points could not be billed properly. So my GF chanceled the purchase in order to order it some time later and use her vip-points. Btw: the customer service agent told us that we are getting something small as a compensation the first time. After Valentines day i decided to get 10937 Arkham Asylum instead and so we ordered this set and some minifigs and small sets too. After a week we got the minifigs and the small set and the money had been debited too, but there was no 10937 Arkham Asylum. Btw. the vip point had not been billed again (no idea if this was ours or TLCs fault so lets forget about the vip points). After some weeks we called the customer service hotline again and we have been told that the set is not availible again. During the following 3 or 4 weeks the shipping status changed from waiting, not availible and shipped severel times (according to my girlfriend) We also called the hotline several times again, and there have been several connection aborts (we think the customer service agent might have hanged up during the wait loop on purpose) Finally we were told (a month after we purchased the sets at S@H) by a customer service agent that the set had already been shipped but had been lost in the shipping process. We were told that we are getting our money back and shall order the set another time as soon as we have the money back. (yeah, and not getting an purchased set another time. EAT MY SHORTS!!! i'm going to a lego store if we are buying the set at all). In the week before easter we had not got our money back so we called the the hotline again and were told that the instruction to transfer the money back had been sent to the accounting just that day (march 28th or so 2013). Now we are still waiting to get our money back (my girlfriend checked last time april 19th and there has been no in-payment) I thinks that is enough. If the set really got lost during the shipping process it is not TLC's fault, but i am very unpleased TLCs way to deal with this issue. We would not be angry if Lego told us, that the package got lost earlier or at least would have checked this earlier. Also i think we can expect to get money back sooner than 3 weeks, if we did not get, what we paid for. To be fair i still want to have 10937 Arkham Asylum (but that might change soon-depends on TLC reaction) but befor we go to our local Lego store in cologne and buy it there, or buy lego products in general, we want our money back and an official response from TLC. As you might guess we already contacted TLC directly already (often enough here). Now what do you think? Am I overreacting? Did you have similar experience? What would you do in our place? Feel free to comment. @admins, mods and ambassadors: if you or tlc needs more information to solve the case, just send me a pm

Yesterday, while i bought a dvd for someone else, i bought a small Banbao set at Saturn (a german electronics store). For only 2,99€ i got this "nice" police car. P1010554 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr Nothing of interest on the back of the box. P1010555 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr The side of the box. It says "Die ist einProdukt der Marke Banbao und sollte nicht mit Produkten anderer Hersteller verwechselt werden." and translates to "This is a product of the brand Banbao and should not be confused with products from othe manufacterers." (ironically Banbao is clearly a copy of lego) P1010556 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr And now, lets take a look at the fig. First there is a sheet with severel figs released by Banbao (as if there are collectors) P1010560 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr on the back of the sheet there is an instruction on how to "sit" a fig on a horse or a seat. ... a bad sign already, but i'll come to this later. P1010561 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr The fig's parts P1010563 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr P1010564 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr I tried but the visor just does not fit P1010566 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr Can you guess which one is the real thing? P1010568 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr There are only instructions on the car itself on a single page P1010558 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr P1010559 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr and i guess this is getting tiresome, so i show you the complete thing already: P1010574 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr tying to sit him in the car P1010575 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr actually sitting in the car P1010576 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr Commentary: BAD BAD BAD. The Fig: First it looks like a cheap knock off of Lego Duplo (those old duplo-figs) but when you see the parts of the fig the look worse than those cheap minifigs you got out of kinder-überraschung in the 90s. The legs and the head (an the helmet) are actually worse than the ministeck fig i showed you a while ago: http://www.eurobrick...34&hl=ministeck The parts: The pieces are slightly taller than real lego but otherwise are compatible. The quality is not as good as legos but the bricks are slightly better than ministecks. Design and instructions: The desing in my opinion is nothing special for that size and price. But the instructions are lackluster as they only show the main set, but the other stuff does not include much to build anyway. The Minifigure-sheet on the other hand is a bad joke if you ask me, because i can see no good reason to collect these due to poor quality and availibility. Conclusion: hmmm... i do not want to waste any more time on cheap knock offs. Draw your own conclusions. (and feel free to share them=

No, but close. It is from the escape of the mirkwood spiders, wich is a hobbit set

castledetail6 von tobiasgeserick auf Flickr already posted in an other thread because i wanted to show the scale of my latest moc

i get the point of splitting the demographics and i think it would be ridiculous to assume that sets are purposefully designed bad. BUT a theme that is designed for younger audience can be brighter without beeing that bland or recycling old ideas over and over (2 of only five set look like copies from kingdoms sets). Given that there is market research, does anyone know if kids in the age range 6-12 prefer these kind of sets/simple building style over more sophisticated builds? ( the sets from the 80s early 90s were much more challanging, given what was possible 20 years ago) ANd yes, i am repeating myself: a proper castle theme needs (more) knights on horseback.

am i horribly wrong or is there actually less cavalry in it than in the initial kingdoms wave? if yes, why does tlg save on horses in the theme the introduce new horse armour (barding AND headpeace) other than that, i share the disappoitment, especially since i dont like licensed sets due to the price and the specific characters (well at least lotr has good sets and generic enough minifigs) i am curious about the figs itself, if the do well next to kingdoms/fantasy era figs... the sets themself are mere parts packs AND WHY IS THERE NO JOUST SET AGAIN (...as a cavalry army builder, you know?)

I think legos main strategy is to sell all sets of a wave (especially the big oes) to as many customers as possible instead of one small army builder set multiple times. Remember: there are more casual.customer than serious army builders. And thus lego strays the main characters of a (licensed) theme through all sets of a wave. But dont worry about eomer. He can easily be customized into a generic rider of rohan or any kind of gneric knight by replacing the face and the arms

I alreay got from by girlfriend for christmas: riddle for the ring uruk hai army (my second copy) escape from the elves mines of moria ...and i definetly will order the haunted house

Thanks for the comments everyone so far. Additional pics have been edited into the first post.