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The two PotC pirate dudes can be found in a small, "cheap" PotC set called Captain's Cabin, and there's also a battlepack coming out soon that has both of them as well (in addition to 2 or 3 other figs).

I assume you mean that everything is to be sold in a single sale, and someone must pick these up by hand (with their own car etc). I recommend that you provide the set names along with the numbers. Or at the very least, sort it by ascending/descending number and maybe even group them into themes if you can. That will help you to sell these. And if you're really only selling locally, listing on craigslist will help you.

Can you give examples of "special LUG events"? Does TLG give goodies out to LUGs?

If they had pieces facing the other way (mirror image reflected), you could use two and make an insect-winged minifig. There might be other uses for that element like sign posts. I wonder how much they're going to ask for this product.

I may as well be the one to post it. The gentlemen/ladies at FBTB have posted a nice flickr stream of photos for the new winter set. Take a look:

Looks legit to me too. Look at that fold on the bottom-right. Someone in the retail chain must have gotten their dirty little mitts on this early. Question: were the 2010 bricktober magnets glued? I'm interested in the forestman for nostalgic purposes and for the torso. P.S. 1999 being referred to as "retro" makes me feel old.

For s3 and s4, they had a similar system. The widely distributed dot sheet was valid for quite a while, but then people were seeing different patterns with a different printed code. I've been wondering if Lego might get more aggressive with mixing it up, and it sounds like they may just be doing that. I had used the dot codes as a secondary tier of indentification. I would identify by feel and then go to the barcodes if I needed a "tie breaker" or as additional verification that I had it identified. It's nice to have when you're like me and only want one of each figure - I return most duplicates to the store for money back.

This is really top-quality work. That really is a fantastic technique with the water, to make it look like different depths. I like what you did with the sail for the cabana and the tied-up pig. I'm curious, what piece is holding the minifigure hands for the guy in the water? That must be a hallowed out stud of some sort, right?

That's a good idea that works pretty well. It feels very close to nature and reminds me of the forestmen and their forts in the woods. I would recommend using some dark or light gray for the cave part, just to differentiate it from the tree. When it's all brown, it can be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Or if the whole thing is meant to be a tree trunk, I would make the top part wider with more branches to make it seem more like a great tree. How about some furnishings inside the cave? You could put weapons and armor in there, or maybe some food.

You can make a better version with paper, scissors, and a hole punch. You pretty much have to use paper and scissors anyway to tape it on the plastic part anyway. This is kind of intrusive. Some of these extended product line things get a little gimmicky. This and the calendar rub me the wrong way, although the calendar has some use in that you can use the printed numbers for some projects. I didn't like the use of CMFs in the calendar. Wait a minute that link is the CMF racer guy, isn't it. Crap. I wish the extended line products would stick to kitchen utensils, alarm clocks, and things like that... or do a 180 and make them much more useful for MOCs. And please stop taking the C out of my CMFs.

7187 Escape from the Dragon's Prison 30083 Dragon Fight I got the polybag at my local Target. It scanned up as "not in system", so I talked the customer service desk guy into giving it to me for 1.99 (usually they're 3.99). This will probably be the only Ninjago set I buy.

I declare the Statue of Liberty figure to be a trick-or-treater Halloween figure. I love the Halloween subtheme in the CMFs.

I was just regurgitating what I had read on a Lego forum somewhere. I don't have any links or hard evidence regarding the US and piece counts. For all I know it could be a myth. I wouldn't be able (or willing, to be honest) to come up with better information than brickmack has here.

I just want to say good job, everyone! It's looking pretty sweet. Everybody seems much happier in space.

Wow, I would have lost all self control over those, but I was in my dark age. I wonder why they wouldn't just market it by weight instead of piece count. I read there was a law in the US saying you had to put the piece count on the packaging, which is why US sets have piece counts, but some other countries don't. Maybe that's why. This reminds me of the collectible minifigures a little bit, with the randomness aspect.

Here's my Pokemon story. I'm not a Pokemon fan at all, but I figure it might make some of you laugh or smile. It was I think 1997 or 98 maybe, just before I got a Playstation. I still had my aging Game Boy, with the original spinach green screen I'd had since I was nine. At this point I was just entering high school. I had heard a little bit about "pocket monsters" as the English translation was before the game came out in the US. I got a copy of Pokemon Red for a ski trip, I think the week it came out. Basically, Pokemon Fever hadn't caught on yet, and most people didn't know what Pokemon was. I was under the impression it would be similar to a Final Fantasy game, but you used monsters to fight with. Which I guess isn't far off, but not quite it exactly. Basically, I was expecting something more challenging and complex. Anyway I ended up playing it just a little bit and got bored. Every fight seemed to be like rock-paper-scissors. The game, at least that original one, was really geared for younger kids, but I was more like 15 years old at that point. The game was really one last hurrah for my original Game Boy. I think that cartridge was one of the last that was actually playable on the original, and it was really meant for the Game Boy Color, if I'm remembering correctly. Good times. A short while later, I would tell people that I bought Pokemon back before I knew what the heck it was. But it was known as a kids game so we would have a laugh about it. Just to put it in perspective, I had been playing other Squaresoft games like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III on my Super Nintendo, and Ocarina of Time on the N64, in the couple of years prior. I kind of purchased this one last Game Boy title on a lark. Oh nostalgia. I would kill to have the time to play those types of games these days. Have the Pokemon games gotten more complex or geared toward older people, as people age who played the originals? Or is the target age group still kind of for elementary school kids? Keep in mind I'm asking this as a grownup who plays with little plastic toys, lol.

War. It means war.

I read a webcomic called Freakangels. It's actually ending either this week or next, after about a 3 year run. It is truly exceptional among webcomics (which can be pretty mediocre). It's got great dialogue and artwork. Check it out. From the beginning: http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23

It's actually called something like "Lego Sort-and-Store Head". It's just like box4blox with the holey trays (with one less tray, iirc) but I guess it's better at staying as a container and you can theoretically store all your bricks that way. (Some moms would probably love that for their kids.) So yeah, it's a storage device as well.

Very interesting, I would love to see the devices you use. I was thinking of getting a box4blox, but I don't think I will because I don't buy huge lots of mixed bricks. But if I did, you had better believe I would use some kind of sorting tool. One idea is to have more levels than the box4blox (4) or the Lego sorting head (3) have. There's probably more room on the larger side of the elements (e.g. large plates), but maybe also on the smaller side like for 1x1 studs. Another way to improve that design is to simply make one that has a larger surface area, for a more hardcore/adult use. The sorting head seems pretty small, and I hear the box4blox gets cracks if you accidentally drop it. So you could use sturdier particle board, for example. Another possibility is to just filter multiple times. Separate the trays, and then send the filtered larger pieces through again, and I suspect smaller pieces will fall out of it again the second time through. Another idea: make a mindstorms robot to help you sort by color!

I voted "other", because I want to see a forestmen theme. I'd like it to be nature-oriented with a lot of greenery. You could have tree forts and wooden structures. Some bridges over water with play features. Some cool new accessories and outfits for the minifigures. Oh and don't forget a horse cart ambush!

It's interesting that the alien has red hands. Perhaps that's preliminary like other red test elements you sometimes hear about. I think the printing on the alien torso looks very legit. The thickness of the lines and the style definitely look Lego to me. The statue of liberty is really cool! The torch piece has probably never been in that color. And that head piece is going to be great. You might be able to use the head to make a female version of an "army man" (the green guys from Toy Story sets) - but I think that's a different shade of green there. I wonder if they'll end up putting a printing on the skirt. Usually the dress print goes on the vertical side, though. That alien is going to give me nightmares! That's got to be the first scary lego minifigure ever.

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I keep my bricks stacked to save on space. I asked around about warping, clutch power, and other damage but didn't hear any troubling responses. I figure that people report models and mocs kept together for decades without damage, so I don't think theres any real fear of damage storing stacked bricks. Damage aside, I like keeping things stacked for storage. It almost eliminates time consuming rummaging when you go to build. And the bricks take up less space.

I saw How To Train Your Dragon. It was pretty good for a family style movie. It kind of lacked some of the depth and feeling of a Pixar movie (read: didn't make me cry big man tears) but it had some good visuals and fun moments.