Lego Otaku

Agreed. When I needed help at Walmart, all I got were "¿Usted quiere las patatas fritas con eso?" or just blank look. And if I try to put more than $150 worth of anything, I get followed by someone and their ceiling mounted security camera.

Canon? No one knows, but surely there had to be more than a couple for that missing scene of wampas getting locked inside the base, and later them attacking snowtroopers. Defiantly. At $2 per fig + free parts, BL can't match this deal at all.

Long ago, I got a free SNES cart from a Toys R Us this way. It was an old stock that got lost for many years and no longer existed in their system. SO when it turned up, I asked and got to take it for free. Moot point since XBand service was closed a few years before I found it. Still a neat piece of MISB history to have. But if you find something that is not listed on store's system, ask if that means it's free.

Last Kmart within 50 miles from my place: 5 Wampa sets $27.20 each and 2 snowtroopers BP $8 each. THey also had rebel BP but they were 11.99 and not on sale like other Kmart. That brings to total of 13 wampa cave sets and more than 30 of each BP. Clearance sales + bonus 20% off "clearance sale" sale are very nice.

I didn't have a limit at my local store either. Maybe it's just that one store that has many reseller trying to pack in a lot and the store were running out of horses too quickly? I got 12 horses that one time and I wasn't trying to maximize it. I could probably do over 20 if I worked but I'm not a reseller and I have loads of brown and black horses from older sets and I'm not going for a horse farm. Anyway the only official LEGO horse whose head didn't move are from mid 70's when they were brick built! Look at set 375 yellow castle for such horse. Virtually all horses from 80's and on were the same mold with poseable head. I didn't have a limit at my local store either. Maybe it's just that one store that has many reseller trying to pack in a lot and the store were running out of horses too quickly? I got 12 horses that one time and I wasn't trying to maximize it. I could probably do over 20 if I worked but I'm not a reseller and I have loads of brown and black horses from older sets and I'm not going for a horse farm. Anyway the only official LEGO horse whose head didn't move are from mid 70's when they were brick built! Look at set 375 yellow castle for such horse. Virtually all horses from 80's and on were the same mold with poseable head.

I just caught this but I didn't get a picture of it or specific episode of it. On "Who wants to be a Millionare" one question was "At over 5,900 pieces, the largest-ever LEGO set" or something like that since I was surfing channel and barely caught it. The answers were: A: Eiffel Tower, B: Taj Mahal, C: White House, and D: Kremlin. The woman initially thought B but guessed A instead and lost. If someone could figure out which episode that was and get the correct question, then it can be added to the index.

Since RC train can run on just about all type of tracks (excluding the narrow track such as Indy Jones mine car track), and people have used 9v metal rail without a problem (to power PF and /or recharge PF battery) so I was wondering, can the old 12v conducting rail be used the same way? Surely there's a few dead 12v motor that could be used for pickup. Or rig the 12v pickup plate with an adapter cable that connects the 2 pins to the PF cable.

Show her this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerburrows/sets/72157626512173154/with/5650278989/ Not just a lot of minifig, a huge building to go with them.

trans-black can still work for oil. Trans-red for blood and gore. Trans-green for someone who had too many beer or from dead alien. I'm hoping for trans-yellow for when drunk misses the toilet

Your best choice would be the "turoblaser" in the upcoming Executioner set

You could start here: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=7751stk01 Not the best but a start.

Then series 6 comes out...You might end up building a display for 10 series and then spend 2 years waiting for them to come out. It's a very neat design, I'm stealing the design but making a variation that doesn't group by 16 per section. Since I don't collect minifig but I'd like to display some minifig from my original collection ('79 to '90)

One of my cat has a favorite play thing, and where she got it I have no idea. She loved to play with blue chest with yellow H emblem from Hero Factory. I never had any HF, been living in the same house for almost 20 years so it can't be previous owner, no little kids in the house for over a decade, and nearest neighbor is about 1/4 miles away. So where she found that piece will remain a mystery forever. I let her keep it because I don't like HF anyway. http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=92201 in blue with yellow H badge

You should try putting together set 10179. 5200 pieces and no numbered bag = 1 hour looking for 1 piece. If going by BL route, it may be possible to save a bit if you skip on the useless minifigs (not to scale ) and skip part of the bridge. If I get this (either by BL or whole set) I'll see about filling in that ugly gap.

Don't forget shipping cost from Bricklink. For some colors, it can still be cheaper to get em locally than to buy online with shipping.

I've done it with 1x3 brick and 1x1 round brick. A bit more stable than 1x2 bricks and 1x1 round bricks for handling or rolling but both are fine as towers or something in a MOC.

8 large PAB worth. I wasn't planning to go in the first place but I had to come visit my brother to fix his computer. He needed to run to Brimmingham, MI and I realized that was 5 minutes drive from LEGO store so I went with him. Largest piece by far are the 6x12 plates. Also I had 126 2x4's in a single cup, probably close to the max possible number of 2x4 in a single cup. I didn't ask about the K boxes as they were very busy that time. **the fence was an oddity, they cost twice as expensive on BL as on S@H That reminds me, I got a picture of various blue bricks: Maersk and medium blue is very close. Under good light, one could tell that Maersk blue has a very slight yellow tint that medium blue doesn't. Because they are very close, be careful when buying Maersk blue pieces from eBay or BL.

I had an unplanned trip to my brother, which ended with a stop at an out of the way Kmart and I got these: 2x 8089 Wampa cave $26.20 ea 6x 8083 Rebel pack $8.00 ea 4x 8084 Snowtrooper pack $8.00 each. They were on clearance sale, like last week stuff I got. Plus they forgot to take down the sign advertising additional 20% of all clearance sale, Kmart honored this for me so I saved over $30 off regular clearance sales :grin: This makes 6 wampa cave sets and loads of rebel and snowtroopers. With a pair of AT-AT, an AT-ST from Endor set, and old Hoth set I'm ready to recreate the infamous battle of Hoth. Just waiting for the new Hoth set for the interior area that original Hoth set was missing.

Bricklink is not the best source regarding colors. I'd check Peeron first for color.

Sending large set oversea will be expensive. I did a quick check, using Millennium Falcon (10179) as an example. I figured both might weight the same. The estimate was about $100 to ship at the cheapest. That would bring the set to over $500 (more if local sale tax was applied). Unless it's more than 400 euro in Netherlands, buying in USA and shipping may cost more.

Cue: Admiral Ackbar "It's a Gap!!!"

IMO LDD is a bit easier to use for designing but for manual part, LDD is weird at time with floting bricks, build order from top down, and order of assembly that don't make sense. I had a round tower made of 1x2 bricks and 1x1 round bricks. I used the instruction just for fun, and I expected the instruction to do it layer by layer from the bottom. LDD instead did vertical strips, which would be much harder to keep stable at first, and quite impossible to connect the final strip in the end. I tried using LDraw but I kept running into problem just getting it to run, dunno if Windows 7 64-bits isn't friendly or if it's just my laptop. I didn't pursue any further on this issue.

If you still think $400 is a bit high. consider there are a lot of large pieces in the set, and large pieces = more raw materials needed to make it = high $. Taj Mahal is cheaper and has almost 6,000 pieces but they are all tiny pieces so that keeps the set a bit cheaper. I'm planning to get one eventually. I have a fleet of 12 mini ISD (4492) around ready to escort Executor.

Minifig would probably not work there since it'd be a bit big, and would likely sticut even if you matched the color perfectly, unless you used minifig without leg. Microfig may be still a bit large but they are available in light bley and could hide well in plain sight. Trophy also could work but the best color would be metallic silver and it would kind of stick out, not like the movie where no one would have seen it if you didn't know where it was hiding.

Penguinz, you're a beast!!! I don't see how you could recreate so many sets in a short time. Keep it up :thumbup: