Lego Otaku

< snipped > That picture was wrong. LEGO used it for their sets but the parts shown in the picture were different than what LEGO actually offered. I'm sure there were quite a few irate resellers who jumped on the picture only to find the masts aren't in the actual sets. Without the masts, the resell value of the rest won't come close to paying off the price of the set.

Just one suggestion: pop an arm off a werewolf type minifig and leave it on the floor as memento :D

I have one damaged series 12 CMF that is most definietly not to feel method. I have the goth girl with the goth teddy bear, her skirt is missing about 2mm off one end, making it useless. Try telling me that is not factory error, yes I checked the seams the missing piece is not there. If I had cut it, the piece would still be there. So it had to be a bad cut at factory.

What's even worse, the store still tries to sells defiled book for full price

I got 75053 The Ghost at Walmart for $19.88 plus tax. It was supposed to be $90 but due to an error in ad that I didn't know, they allowed me to buy one (was a last one) and they put up ad correction notice. The ad expires tonight. The ad came in either Sunday newspaper or at the front of stores, it was a 4 page 1-sheet ad paper just for toys. The correct ad was that 75048 was on sale for 19.88 instead of the usual $25 but they used picture of The Ghost by mistake. I'd imagine by now all of the stores have the correction notices up and will not sell the set for the ad price but if you were there with the ad paper and the store hadn't put the correction notice up, you likely could get one.

cheese slope is *tiny* it'd be hard to repair that and keep it from re-cracking. It is however possible to modify uncracked cheese slope if you have a good drill press and a plastic-safe vise to hold it exactly centered and drill out just a hair bigger than original so there'd be less stress and flexing plastic when it goes on a stud. Stud is 5mm, you'd need to find a precise drill bit that is just a tad bigger than the brick but not so big it ends up making the piece loose and pop off easy.

X-1 Patrol Craft

Wouldn't this fit in SW forum? Great visual!!!!

dang now I must go to get some!!! Dang now I must go to get some.

And the box and book won't be MISB anymore. Plus with current trend LEGO have minifigs mixed across multiple bags in larger set one would have to open almost all of them to find all of the minifig, there'd be risk of losing a piece or 2 plus dishonest cashier can still pocket them. I often see books with missing minifig at Walmarts and other stores. It's like they don't care because they still try to sell it as new. Same thing with DVD set like Padawan Menance, I saw a few at Walmart with big ripped out hole where the minifig Han/"Ian" used to be. Of all the DVD with bonus minifig there's only one title that weren't left unguarded: the $50 3D LEGO Movie with Vivitrus minifig, all of the local stores have them protected in spider wrap mostly to prevent people from stealing the disc.

I must steal this design!

How many turn 2's are you going to type out? Or did you mean the last one should be labeled turn 3? I'd go both ways.

You guys keep finding 1x1 round tiles. They never appeared at Troy store and never when I asked if they had any.

Toying with an idea... I was just watching a comedy western sci-fi type film Wild Wild West with Will Smith. I'll keep it realistic 1800's and not silly like giant mechanical spider.

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That must have taken titanic effort. Hope that didn't sink the owner's wallet!

I'd like to sign up but not too early. after 4th turn at the soonest.

4000013 LEGO Christmas tale 2013 - Theme: Holiday - employee promotion [Brickset] [Bricklink] Like other 40000xx series sets, this one was available only to LEGO employees and is not available in retail channels. Error: printed face not right could not place 1x1 lime tile in the sleigh could not place 2 other tiles in little minifigs' hands Instruction is currently not available online and could only be built once I got a real set. LDD File:

I'm surprised no one reviewed this since I found a couple Youtube reviews and one on a (I think) HK site, it's all in gibberish Asian language :D. Plus there's no scanned instruction anywhere. Not even on LEGO's instruction archive, I guess LEGO didn't want to share this yet? Whatever the reason, I plunked a fair amount of money into this because I wanted it as well! Set: 4000013 A LEGO Christmas tale 2013 (yes, a lower case 't' in tale) theme: Holiday, employee only promotion 435 pieces (plus 45 leftover pieces) for 10+ price: not sold in any retail channel, about $100 to $125 on various marketplaces like Bricklink.com and eBay.com price per piece: over 20 cents per part. I got mine sealed so I can be 100% sure it's not missing any piece or any special additional materials. Yes it kinds of hurt to cut the seal on a $100+ set that may number less than 500 worldwide. But sometimes sacrifices have to be made to actually enjoy the set and to post a review, pictures, and more on this site. Later I will scan in all 5 books and upload them somewhere since no one else has made one. When I first heard of this set a year ago, I attempted to reverse-engineer it from just a few pictures: 4000013 was close, about 90% of the pieces were right. Missed a few pieces here, wrong pieces there, etc. I'll also do a revised LDD version and post it in official LDD set thread later. Upon opening the box, I was greeted with 4 numbered bags of about 110 each, 2 large white plates, and 5 books. 4 are instruction books which is a bit unusual. Small set usually have one large instruction book. I guess LEGO wanted this to be special. The 5th book is about this set, basically Holiday greetings from LEGO to their employees in 6 languages total. laid out. 2 of the large plates goes with bag 1 and 2 lots, bag 3 and 4 has the same plates inside. No idea why LEGO did it this way. The 5th book, a Holiday greetings. I'll include this book with 4 instruction books when I scan them in. the 4 instruction books First page of book 1. All the minifigs are assembled first as usual. The instruction always started with the white plate and added border and grey feet before proceeding to the rest of the build. unsorted assorted parts from bag 1. Nothing too spectacular although all of the white 1x1 round plates are glow in the dark color Part way through the build Completed build #1 This is the ONLY minifig head in the whole lot that has 2 sided face. He's probably sad because he just heard someone got added to the Naughty list! Leftovers from bag 1. Unsorted assorted parts from bag 2. The white 1x1 round plates are also glow in the dark. The green 1x1 with studs on 4 sides are plenetiful here. Before this, only 2 sets has 1 each so this is a great source of green dalek bricks. Part way through, the sleigh is complete. Reindeers are still not complete. completed set #2 leftovers from bag 2 Assorted parts from bag 3 and the first few steps done. More green dalek bricks here!!! Building the tree level by level can get tedious, and if you have fat finger, it can be hard. 2 large tree with Santa set, 3 large tree and a small one with this one plus one more tree to assemble, all the same way. Fortunately it's fairly sturdy and you can simply leave the tree assembled when you take it down at the end of Holiday. Leftovers from bag 3. The extra brown carrot stem (along with 1 in snowman's arm, 1 leftover from santa set, and 2 in reindeer's head) means one more reindeer or 2 snowmens. These part exists in only 1 other set. Unsorted assorted parts from bag 4. Still more green dalek bricks. Part way through build 4. The fireplace are assembled separately and installed in the corner. It has 2 glow-in-the-dark round plates in the back which is a bit unusual. Completed build 4. yet more leftover pieces. All 4 completed sets together. In all it was a fair amount of fun but I noticed many of the inventory listing on sites like Bricklink are wrong. I guess whoever did the inventory didn't have the actual set on hand and as seeing instruction was never released, the person could only eyeball it and assemble a list of guesswork. So on top of scanning instruction book and revising LDD model, I'd have to compare Bricklink inventory and note the error and missing pieces and add the leftover pieces. Bonus: no DSS at all!!! While this set do have lots of parts such as brown carrot stems and green dalek bricks, the high cost of the set makes it somewhat impractical to part out just for a few rarer pieces. Fun: 9/10 just a few repetitive builds on those tree and the 4 bases are the same Parts: 10/10 lots of colorful pieces including a number of green dalek bricks to make people drool Price: 7/10 only because it's a very cool looking holiday set it's almost worth paying a lot more than 10 cents per piece. Still a bit high. Functions: 8/10 it's only for display, not for playing with. Still very cool display with cute mini-minifigs Overall: 8.5/10 the high cost and rarity is hurting, PS with Christmas just a few months away, I wouldn't be surprised if this set goes up in price by a bit, maybe $150 minimum? Get em now or wait until after Christmas.

Be glad you started with LDD and not LDraw. LDraw has more (older mostly) parts and more flexibility but it has a very steep learning curve. You'd be lucky to get 2 regular bricks joined together on the first try.

That. LEGO also does this in their factories, all the spurs are separated after ejecting from the mold, chopped up, and reintroduced into raw plastic with the dyes. You may have seen something like it in one of the Megafactories episode.

Probably with a very tiny drill bit to get the corner as square as possible.

I have never seen any shade of orange beside eye-melting bright orange on PAB. I didn't ask, there were about 20 little kids running around I was too busy keeping my cups from running away. I'd imagine the employees were busy as well. PS where the heck is trpy? ;)

Troy, MI store updated! I may be wrong on pink shades and I may be wrong on 2 of the tires but I'm 90% sure I got this right: http://www.wallofbricks.com/pab-display.php?country=USA&pab_store_id=61 Still never any 1x1 round tiles or olive green parts, and no horse. What happened to consistency among stores? I did pick up a lot of black 1x1 bricks with studs on 4 sides, always useful for snots. 2x10 tan plates they also had medium sized propellers but nothing to connect it, 2x4 slopes in 2 different colors, and jet engine units with 1x2 plate on the side. Not too spectacular as it's mostly regular bricks and still too many pink and purple but no empty bins this time. A few bins are low (2x2 red tiles, 1x2 clear plates, and 2x2 slope with computer print for example) and could be emptied into a small cup easily. Only got 3 large cups, mostly for tan 2x10's and green 6x8's plus a few propellers since they can be turned into ceiling fans easily. Stuffed the empty spaces with red gem pieces to go with other color I got last time and such. Now who do I bug about having a LEGO store closer to me? 90 minutes drive still sucks. If one appeared in Great Lakes Crossing mall near the Palace of Auburn Hills, it would shave about 30 minutes from my trip. I'd be happy for one in Flint or Saginaw but I doubt it'd happen, those 2 cities are festering cesspool of murderers, rapists, arsonists, and other thieves. They make Mos Eisley look like family resort! Those people probably can't afford LEGO at retail price, if the security straps on Walmart's $20 sets are any indication.

Can't be official LEGO ads at all.