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If I'm seeing things right, there's 2 robots lying on their backs, head to the front of the ship, foot to the back. I don't have bricks handy or LDD so I will try to explain what they look like to me. Looks a lot like this one, but the body is 2 bricks high or 2-and-a-bit rather than 3-and-a-bit. It either uses 2 grey bricks with studs or just the modified video camera looking part. The dish is dark grey. The arms are grey. The lever base is blue. The robot on the left has a trans yellow cheese slope on its chest, the one on the right has trans red. The belly has a blue cheese slope facing the opposite way to the trans slope. Anyone else seeing it?

(Quick fix that poll question "How should the entries be sorted?") I said "no" because I don't think it's needed. It would be really good, and would bring out the depth of this sub forum. But it would be a lot of work, and if it's incomplete it would be of little value. As far as how to organise it, I think start with a "by author" index. That would be complete. Then to make it better, add a "by theme" (and be really specific about what the themes are). This would be official TLG themes, other companies' IP (except SW obviously), steampunk or anything thematic, so long as it's specific. Not everything would be in that index. Some things may be listed under more than one theme. Then do a "by category", including different scales, size classes of ships & vehicles, moonbases, monorails etc. Again not necessarily everything would be in this index, but some things may appear in more than one category. E.g. a micro scaled Blacktron moonbase could appear in multiple categories.

Weird!

Yeah I was keen for that as a laugh, oh well.

You can always ask for a quote or an estimate. Many BL sellers will have the rates spelled out in their shop. I have bought big sets (not mega huge ones) like castles & space ships using eBay & Bricklink (boxed & otherwise) and the postage prices are always higher to send to Australia from US than from UK or Europe.

I stood and looked at my Castle 2013 sets for a while last night. Gotta say, I prefer the new castle to the previous. You might say "that's because you've augmented it with 2 gatehouse sets" and that's because you're absolutely right but have missed the point. It's up there in my favourite castles of all time, and I have all of them except the 2006 "Legends" abomination and the yellow one. It's like the 4 from the 80s but bigger, and more detailed. It has a functioning drawbridge & gate that mounted knights can go through. It doesn't have silly looking sections like the Crownies castle or Fright Knights. It doesn't rely on a raised baseplate. Unlike the Kingdoms castle it doesn't have a ridiculously oversized pointy roof. By expanding it out a bit with the other set, it becomes far more spacious with room for activity, even better than those early "modular" castles. It only has 1 mounted knight with the set, that's a bit disappointing, but as a castle it's awesome. They just took most of the things that annoyed us about previous castles and fixed them. They even added a ladder and stairs. Just get rid of the king & "throne room" garbage and I'll be happier. For reference, my favourite 5 castles are the 2 Black Knight castles, the original King's Castle, Vladek's Dark Fortress and this new one.

Utapau Troopers & Grievous Wheel sets are already out of stock on S@H... You like what?

Galactic Titan is $98 on S@H, 30% off.

Are we talking about where the red and yellow trans cheese is? If so, I think the pointer to "engines" is pointing to the general region where those 2 freaking huge engines on the back of the ship are. There could very well be brick-built detachable robots lying down in front of them there, a la on those classic or futuron ships & vehicles.

The 2nd minifig on the cart is wearing a crown, but it looks to be dark grey. It certainly doesn't look gold. Although there's a white horse, there's no saddle for it. That is a downer.

I don't know what that was about either. And the van is in his post signature.

Your sig photo is waaaaaayyyy over the size limit! It's quite distracting. Quick fix it before an admin sees it.

I can make one... Here's one with all the stuff, I didn't think to photograph just the planets.

This cool stop-motion video was posted on TLGs YouTube:

EXCEPT... that the raffle instructions specified how to PM your details. They said: your name on one line. Then, your address on one line. Then, your country on one line. "It's best" to do what you're told! Address-writing convention is irrelevant to your PM. Your mail will be addressed appropriately, but the instructions didn't say "type out your address in 5 line format"...

You'd think that different but not too dissimilar actors for background characters could easily go unnoticed, and actually BE the same character... I think it's more the fault of wardrobe that they look so different? Wardrobe malfunction strikes back... Unless they were instructed to make them look different for no good reason (ie to make more money). And yes it has been a long time.

nice try. Yeah that was the one I could think of, and is supposed to be an army builder. That set was released 3 years ago! I wasn't sure about the cavalry set (I don't have it yet, but have the others on your list, plus a few others with more than 2 identical microfigs) but the faces are different. Even if that counts, it's an army building set. Perhaps if there was a Bith band army?

I challenge you to find 5 such sets from the last 5 years. Any theme. (Droids don't count, BTW) I can think of one off the top of my head, but I think you'll be hard pressed to find that many. Well-gone are the days of the Blacktron MIB with 5 identical minifigs! I seriously doubt that there will be 3 or more of the same minifig in the Cantina.

Bad news guys, but here's another nail in the Galaxy Squad coffin. The Dutch catalogue has no Galaxy Squad pages, but it does have 2 pages for the already existing Castle line and 1 for TMNT (but no new sets for either). So I can only assume that since they aren't even advertising this theme in the first half of the year, there won't be anything new out in the 2nd half either. Other than Lone Ranger I can't think of anything else released last year that doesn't appear.

Probably these:

It's called The Hobbit

It's an exclusive/hard to find whatever they call it. I don't know what that means in UK, but in Australia that means you can't get it anywhere but 1 specific retailer, and the price seems higher than it should be.

Perhaps specify that the 2 blue clones are the 2 versions of Captain Rex? Here are a couple more: Agen Kolar vs Eeth Koth Mandalorian/"Mandalorian" variants:

Knights Kingdom III? I don't mind this, except that there are 2 factions, not one. The 90s were simpler in that a wave of sets had 1 faction plus a few ring-ins here & there, so you could easily just say Royal Knights, Fright Knights etc. I would be happy to call these factions "Red Dragons" & "Crown Lions", but the over-all line should have a different name, if it needs one at all. I don't know where this "gold" term is coming from, other than the box. Vintage sets had gold boxes too, and nearly every castle set since the days of Noah has gold in it... BTW the movie castle set is available on S@H in Oz. It's $40. That's anywhere from 20-30 USD. edit: Cloney-o's review indicates it is $30USD.

S@H has a whole bunch of this and last year's sets at 30% off. Mostly Chima, Ninjago, Lone Ranger & 2012 SW. They are probably on clearance, so once they're gone that's it. Unfortunately. I was hoping to grab the Hoth Echo Base at the huge mark-down but it is gone.