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Might get it if it goes down in price, but I really can't see spending $70 for this. It does look cool though.

I first started collecting in 2007, with the Star Wars sets. I haven't gotten many recently though. It's not really that the sets aren't as good, but licensed stuff is just SO EXPENSIVE, I can't afford to get SW and other themes. Normally I only get one if it has lots of new parts, a rare color, or just a REALLY awesome design. Also I'm not really into the Clone Wars series, so that doesn't provide anymore reason to get them.

So, I just started watching Monty Python (Started with Holy Grail, now working my way though the skits) so I was wondering if there were any other Monty Python fans here? Favorite skits?

The only MISB sets I have are the Raanu and Ackar BIONICLE sets, which I got for christmas with no receipt, so I figured I'd keep them and sell them later. Since they were free, even if the price falls I still make a profit, which can be turned into more LEGO.

Interesting. Hopefully within the next few years 3d printers will be a bit higher quality and more affordable, I might have to get myself one and make some custom parts.

I designed it that way to give the pilot the best possible field of vision, I think the normal orientation somewhat restricts vision a bit. Because of the slight tilt, and also the not-very-streamlined shape of the wings/cannons, it's not able to fly in an atmosphere though.

A small interceptor fighter.

Well I only sleep about 6.5 hours each night, go to school about 7 hours (and not on weekends), and only really do any stuff around the house on weekends (perhaps 3-5 hours?), and for all the time I take about 2 hours daily for eating. So that leaves about 7-8 hours in the week, and like 9.5 minimum on weekends, most of which I spend with LEGO.

Well for Blacktron 1, I would recommend, in addition to the actual Blacktron sets, the Lunar Limo, some of the recent Atlantis sets (Not much black but they do have trans-yellow, all too rare a color these days, and also some yellow, which will be needed for highlights), and perhaps the alien sets from Mars Mission, lots of black parts there. Also just looking around on Bricklink might be helpful, especially for trying to get the parts from the Atlantis sets since I don't think they are out anymore and only have a few useful parts anyway.

Very well done MOC. The house looks very realistic the way it's damaged.

Heh. I might have to get involved in that, sounds interesting.

On Ebay I once saw a Classic Space minifigure (Advertised as an original blue one, though at least the helmet is modern) for $400.

There most likely is an option (probably in like the tools menu or somewhere similar) to change malware alerts and that stuff, there might be a way to tell it to ignore Eurobricks and other sites.

Japan never attacks America at Pearl Harbor, so America is never involved in World War 2, causing Germany to win the war. Germany fights the soviets, and Russia falls in weeks. Eventually America becomes involved, and helps defeat the Germans, but at the cost of nearly a billion people as several nuclear weapons are used against Germany and eventually Japan. Much of Europe remains uninhabitable to this day, and the world population is much lower.

I haven't ever played D&D but it looks like a fun game. Might have to ask some of my IRL friends if any of them play it.

Oh. well that makes it much easier. You could just find the designs for an ordinary vending machine online and elongate it.

Yea, I'm still a bit of a Futuron fan also. I personally tend to think of most of the "good guys" as being the same faction, since they all seem to have the same or close to the same logo (Classic Space, Futuron, Ice Planet, Mars Mission astronauts, etc). Then they would just be different branches of the same group, perhaps from the United Earth or whatever they have in the Space time.

Not sure if anyone said it or not, but there is a Syfy commercial in which sculptures made out of lego (Or some similar building toy, or perhaps computer generated) build themselves up from the ground and move around.

I often find that a bit of building sometimes helps with headaches. Not always though, sometimes it just makes them worse and I have to go to bed or whatever.

For spaceships, it's usually: cockpit, engines, wings, weapons, greeblies For ground vehicles: Chassis, cockpit, weapons, troop area (if any) For mecha (I never finish any but I start on them often): cockpit, legs, arms, guns

Just depends. Sometimes I get up and instantly (as in before I even have a chance to eat breakfast, get dressed, etc) start MOCing, other times right after lunch, etc. I notice I tend to start on huge projects after 1 AM most of the time, most likely because around that time my brain is half asleep and doesn't realize that I don't have the parts to finish it, but I keep working on it and usually end up taking it apart, unfinished. Sometimes I get it done though, like my apocalypse gas station (Will post in a week or so, still finishing minor details).

Two parts: Finding that LEGO inserted unneeded parts into a set, probably just because they are new (2X4 white tiles under towers in Tower Bridge set) and dumping the parts out from a huge set all over the floor.

Perhaps something like what they have on a regular vending machine would work, with a small hole through the bag, which a stationary technic axle would fit through. Underneath that would be a piston type thing that would push the bags from behind until the first one dropped off the axle at front, and fell into the bucket or whatever. I might suggest also that it would probably be easier to have buttons on the machine (NXT touch sensors perhaps?) to choose what bags to get, with a removable paper card next to it showing what part type each button is for. It probably should have a light or something next to it also that would come on when it runs out of each part type. Unfortunately, this would take a lot of mindstorms bricks to control the various motors and lights and everything. Maybe you could put in a small laptop (a netbook would probably work) programmed with all of the stuff needed to control the machine, with some sort of adapter to connect to the motors and whatnot. There should also be some sort of sensor to detect how much money is being inserted to get paid, this you might have to use an actual vending machine coin slot for since I don't think there are any LEGO sensors accurate enough for this. Unfortunately, to get enough parts for this (especially the sensors and other electronics), plus the computer if you don't already have a useable one, is going to cost a LOT of money (probably nearly a thousand dollars would be my estimate, assuming a machine the height of an average vending machine, and going back a few rows, not including the computer and cable adapters. Because of all this, you're going to have to mark up the prices a lot to even break even probably.

Depends one what I'm making. I also sometimes use a mixture.

Perhaps. If there is time left in the day after I finish my food, and visit the market, I will join you. *Takes another bite of his chicken*