Geki Brick

Sooner or later, you will have enough pieces to build any set lego puts out. I feel that after a $100 investment in lego, you can literally build any set.

To some AFOLs, liking Legos is something that requires no substantial reasons. "I like Legos because I do...and it's none of your business," some may say. I've recently began questioning my "addiction" to Lego products. I wonder, "Is it fulfilling something in my life that was once missing?" or "What about Lego products make me so happy?". Rationally, I feel that Lego is something I do not need in life. However, there's another part of me that really enjoys every spoiler season and treating myself to a set every now and then since heck, it's expensive. I want to know why I like Legos.

Well, there are some very good reasons to quit Lego. First of all, it's very pricey. Secondly, once you've built many sets you notice how they reuse a lot of the same elements. The only subtheme that doesn't use bricks is Technic and rods and pins lose their novelty after a few sets. Action figure sets get old even faster. The themes are repetitive as well. There's a Historic theme, and Space theme every year and heck, they remake Star Wars sets every couple years. A lot of the vehicles are cars, helicopters, and monster trucks just being piloted by different characters. A lot of the structures involve some kind of expensive castle and every year there's a Creator house and some sort of racecar theme. I'm sure there are more deja vu experiences but I'm just listing the ones that come to my head. It's not really bad that you quit since after a while, you've experienced all you could with this company and it's time to move on to better horizons like maybe taking up a trading card game that you'll get over in a few years as well. And then maybe learn to drive afterwards.

The coolest female character in Lego

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Ever give up in the middle of building?

I'm beginning to notice that regardless of what sets come out each season, there are very particular patterns that permeate through all themes. Vehicles, planes and boats feel very similar to each other regardless of which theme they're from. The build is nearly the same. The same goes for humanoid/robot builds, and structures/buildings.This trend of familiarity can also be seen in long-running television shows, and games where after you've interacted with the products for years...they begin to look and feel the same. So much deja vu during the building process.

It takes me about 2 days after I build a set before I get sick of looking at it and must take it apart and start MOC’ing. What I do is make a vignette-esque shrine for the minifigures and then with the remaining pieces, make something else (if possible).

You take your brickhead lifestyle way too seriously. I openly flaunt to my pals that I am a Lego fan and that when I walk into the Lego Store, I am not buying for my nephew's birthday party...I'm buying for Myself. Although I'm beginning to question my VIP status at Lego as the $5 reward doesn't beat the discounts offered at retail stores/Amazon on certain sets.

I haggled down a bootleg 900+ piece pirate ship for 16 USD overseas in China and was able to build it without it falling apart. I wouldn't mind if Lego's quality went down in order for price to go down.

Prolly wouldn't work in a set. Too much green and brown. However, it's the most realistic MOC of a Quidditch match I've seen so far. Good work!

Bought AT-RT, The Werewolf, and Batman vs. Mr. Freeze and received a free Republic Frigate and double VIP points.

You guys might think that living within walking distance of a Lego Store, a target, a TRU or a barnes and noble is a good thing. It is absolutely terrible for a Lego addict to be living within 2 miles of these retail stores because you end up going there every weekend and eyeing that set that you've wanted to buy. If I didn't actually live near these stores, I would stop getting the urge to stop by TRU when I'm getting groceries or at B&N when I'm getting lunch. Okay, nobody needed to see this and yes, I don't have a life, but for those of you who wish they lived near a Lego outlet...you are dead wrong!

During the time Prince of Persia was doing poorly, I walked in to my neighborhood Lego store to find that all the sets were selling for 80% off! The sets were respectively, 3, 5, 9, 12, 15 USD. I was so surprised since I had enough cash on me to buy all of them. This made me think how much of a margin Lego was making on their sets when they could sell them for so little if the sets didn't do well. Last week, I walked into the Lego store to see their 12.95 USD 2013 Calendar go for 0.99 USD. A 12 USD profit margin per calendar is amazing if people actually purchased the calendar at retail price. I am also suspicious if Lego's minifigures are actually their most expensive element since the minifigures line retails a minifigure at 3 USD if not more. During Christmas 2011, Series 3 Minifigures were going for 5 USD at my local TRU. That is absolutely insane.

The lot has Malum, Strakk, Tarix, Vorox, Vastus, Stronius. There are broken pieces (mainly the notorious socket joints) and the berries are not all there. Any offers? The broken pieces are negligible as you can get them replaced by Lego for free.

I get it. Lego brings you joy, and perhaps meaning to life. I was a brickhead from 2010-2012. I'm still kind-of one after seeing the truth behind Lego's market strategy especialy for licensed Lego sets. There's a little rumor going around that Legos are no longer the bricks they used to be. Now they are marketed as playsets with specific building instructions to appeal to people who want movie memoribilia like their most lucrative licenses: Star Wars and Harry Potter when it used to be up to our imagination what we built. However, we know that licensing is a lucrative business decision. Heck, we even have a "Dream Licenses" thread on the forums itself. Along with a pile of colored plastic bricks, Lego is also attempting to sell the emotional connection that comes with our favorite Star Wars vehicles, battles and events. Lego can only charge $300 for the Death Star if it has the instruction booklets to back up the fact that the 3000+ elements in the box when put together, will form a fuzzy likelihood of the Death Star. Otherwise, the "Death Star" set is simply a 3000 elements with infinite possibility. However, because we call it the Death Star, it deserves the $300 price tag. Don't fall for it SW junkies. The same goes for HP. They limit important minifigures like Yoda or Voldemort for a reason and throw them into the expensive sets so that they can sell on eBay for so much more. This is quite greedy from my point of view. Please don't go make a comment like "This is capitalism. Lego wants to maximize profits." I'm only saying this so that AFOL addicts can view Legos in a more objective light. Why are AFOLs so excited about spoilers. This is especially prevalent in the Star Wars sets. Why must Lego officially make a set for you to own it. Why can't AFOLs MOC their sets and call it a day? We all know however, that forumers make the "This season is gonna break my wallet" or "Lego take my money" remark when they can alternatively, MOC the set they want. This thread was really for myself as I was shrouded by the pretty colors of Lego spoilers. Unless what I'm saying is old news, and AFOLs voluntarily become Legos' zombie fans, let me know. But if not, I hope I've helped you think outside the box. Btw, I like that they're going green with smaller boxes.

I can imagine the havoc that will ensue if Batman Poly-bags are released. PotC and Harry Potter both had polybags and they are both licensed sets.

This could just be talking about the sets that we've seen so far. The article doesn't specifically say that there will be additional sets released in May. But the fact that Green Lantern and a Harley sets haven't been leaked yet may debunk this or it could just be like what somebody has said: TRU/Target/Walmart exclusives.

They're starting to do 9" heroes again. Why would Hero Factory end here? Bionicle didn't have their 9" figures until Inika and that was 4 rotations into the line itself. Hopefully Hero Factory is just reaching it's climax at the moment, but Lego has learned their lesson about extending lines into the double-digits. Bionicle's story was more intricate and thus harder for beginners to get into. Maybe that's the problem and not "time" itself. Anywho, I'm pretty excited about 4.0 although there doesn't seem to be much of a motif. It's similar to 1.0 with a Piraka feel.

What's good to know is that we know exactly what hero/villain mini figures we will be getting next year for Lego Heroes. No more, no less.

So what does Mini-mates think of all of this?

Are you telling me these figs are in TRUs now?! (I'm from NYC btw)

12/ Attack of the Dojo 3 points 13/ Attack on the Nile 1 point 28/ Excavation 2 points 40/ Altair Underwater Station 1 point

At first glance, this looks exactly like the Hot Wheels 1:30 BTAS batmobile. Kudos. My friend who's a huge BTAS geek will go crazy when he sees this. He's also been vying for Lego Batman sets, but I tell him Lego might do it for the new Batman movie.