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    Big Farm

    Gryphon Ink replied to keko007's topic in LEGO Town

    This is a beautiful layout. I would like to see more closeup pictures of the individual sections and the vehicles. I'm a sucker for tractors.
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    I just put in an order for the T1 Camper Van. So excited. I hadn't realised it was still available until a couple of weeks ago.
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    That's pretty much what I thought. I was thrown off because the first I heard of the F40 set was in a Lego Store display where I also got my first good look at Speed Champions, and the two things sort of blended together in my head.
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    I have to say I regret buying a lot of smaller sets instead of saving that money for a few bigger display-worthy sets. I'm not much of a MOCer, so when I dismantle a set it goes into "the tubs" and just takes up space. I have some nice big display sets like MMM, the Burrow and the Constitution, and I'm always conscious of how many more of those I could have had by now if I didn't fritter away the money on $20 sets that I eventually dismantled and will most likely never rebuild. This is on my mind right now because I've discovered I really, really want the T1 Camper and the other large-scale cars, and while I technically have the money for the camper, I really should have skipped some smaller sets to buy the one big one.
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    I saw a few people talking about a $100 set. Do we expect that to be a big minfig-scale set of multiple cars, or are you talking about another large-scale car like the Mini and the F40? I was a bit confused this year with the big Ferrari sort of seeming like it goes with the Speed Champions theme but not being branded as such. Either way, I love the bigger cars and would be ecstatic if they turn into a yearly thing.I did like the "proper" Speed Champs cars for the $15 price point, and they have the bonus of being just about the only Lego sets that catch my wife's eye, but I wouldn't buy a $100 "car and a truck" set like the Ferrari trailer rig. Doesn't seem like enough for the money to me.
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    My, my, aren't we dramatic. I think if TLG re-releasing a Winter Village set is the worst thing that happens to you this year, you're having a pretty good year. I mean, I understand being disappointed if you have the previous version, but to talk about how FURIOUS this makes you, and how this is a knife in the back/slap in the face/first harbinger of the Apocalypse is just a little excessive IMO. It works out well for me, since I never did get the Toy Shop. I do hope the Winter Village continues. Hopefully it comes back big nect year with something that amazes long-term fans and newcomers alike, and no one will feel like they've been slapped in the face with a knife in the back again.
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    My wife bought me the Pickup Truck today, and I really loved building it. I haven't built any other really big Technic sets, so this was my first experience with some of these features. I laughed like a child when I built the engine. I can't wait to show the kids tomorrow!
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    I'm sure the rejection from Lego Ideas was due to licensing issues and not thematic objections. Unfortunately Hasbro would almost certainly defend their license with every bit of their legal firepower. And although it's never been declared officially, I suspect that TLG's Star Wars license comes with a "No Trek" clause forbidding thwm to pursue a license with Star Wars' biggest rival franchise. The MOC itself is very pretty, definitely more elegant than the Kre-O version. It bothers me a tiny bit to see those cheese slopes sticking out along the front arc of the saucer, but I know how hard it is to do the saucer right at this scale, and this version is as good as any I've seen. Keep on Trekking!
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    Wow, this is so wonderful. I don't usually buy modulars, but I think I have to have this one. I love that TLG is moving the modulars to the low-rent side of town. Never would have expected to see a pool hall in an official Lego preoduct!
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    I'm very happy that they are using the Dino 2012 molds again. It will allow the sets to be significantly cheaper. Many of us didn't get all the dinos we wanted last time around (I only got a trike), and most importantly those molds are really good-looking dinosaurs. I'm hoping there are a couple of other sets that they are keeping tightly wrapped. It would suck if we never got a stegosaurus or ankylosaurus to go with these guys. They are classic dinos on a practical scale, and they would make our dino ecosystem much more complete.
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    Excellent tribute to one of the greatest sitcoms ever! I really love the tiled floor.
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    I just want to say thanks, TLG, for making my life easier this year. Normally my Chanukah list is clogged with potential Lego sets including a Winter Village set. It's good to see I don't have to worry about that this year. Thanks for caring!
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    I bought Rapunzel's tower today, and I must say it's a nice little dollhouse. The minis, including Pascal, are very cool, even if it is a little odd that they have the generic minidoll faces. Pascal is also not exactly in line with his movie appearance, and I suspect there is going to be a Friends Animal set featuring a recolored Pascal somewhere down the line. The construction is not terribly interesting, but it's about on par with similarly sized Castle sets. The furnishings are nicely built, and there are a LOT of nifty parts here. My daughter had a blast building it with me and immediately launched a whole storyline only tangentially related to the movie Tangled. Overall it doesn't scream "licensed Disney product" and would make a cool addition to any generic fairy tale layout. it would even go with a regular Castle layout if you switched out the pink plates. I've got my eye on a couple of the other sets now. I'm just trying to convince myself that a pink rowboat could come in handy someday, because there are some really nice parts in that Enchanted Kiss set.
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    I actually didn't care for this set much. it wasn't a very interesting build to me, and as soon as I finished it I started to find its whole shape unattractive. I understand it's a realistic design, but it doesn't feel right next to any other Lego vehicle that I own.
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    They didn't "forget" the antagonists. The Disney Princesses license does not ALLOW antagonists. Once again, Disney Princesses is not an open license to make sets based on anything TLG want from these characters' movies. The sets have to follow the "standards" of the Princesses brand. Conflict is not a Princesses ideal. Disney are very strict about this. If you want to see Marduk, Shan Yu or Mother Gothel in Lego sets, you're going to have to wait until there are Brave, Mulan and Tangled themes, or at the very least a general Disney theme. It will not happen under the Disney Princesses brand name.
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    On the other hand, wind-lance doesn't make a lick of sense, since the weapon in question is not any kind of lance. It's a heavy crossbow or scorpion or mangonel, not a lance. Perhaps you could stretch things a bit and call the bolt itself a wind-lance, but the bolt itself already has a name in context - the Black Arrow. it makes a lot more sense that the word being used here is windlass, since that actually is a word that, historically, was used to refer to the mechanisms used to draw heavy crossbows. Unless anybody has an official reference saying that wind-lance is the actual word they made up for this weapon, I have to believe that they're talking about the windlass and the context just isn't very clear. This whole business reminds me somewhat of Han Solo boasting about the Millennium Falcon making the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. My suspicion is that one of the screenwriters knew the word windlass and thought it meant the whole weapon or the aiming mechanisms.
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    Just out of curiosity, has there been confirmation that Smaug is molded and not brick-built? It seems more likely to me that he will be brick-built. I mean, it's Lego, not action figures.
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    Personally, the more Star Wars stuff of any kind gets released, the less I like Star Wars. I have no emotional connection whatsoever with the Clone Wars, very little interest in Rebels, and hardly any curiosity about the upcoming movies (especially after Abrams trampled all over Trek with ST:ID and was immediately hired for the Star Wars movies). It's just... too much Star Wars. I liked SW when it was "only" the most successful trilogy of movies ever made, with a small group of protagonists fighting the good fight. This is all about Star Wars in general, but it applies equally to LSW. I just don't have any interest anymore. If the franchise died overnight, I might get a little interest back just from nostalgia.
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    There's certainly a lot of action in those descriptions. Mia flies a helicopter? Andrea with a rescue boat? Pretty awesome stuff. And then, of course, when they're all done rescuing animals they can go hang out in the mall and try on bridal gowns. There's something for everyone here!
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    Woo-hoo, off to the jungle! I love the idea, wonder what it will look like. Let's hope for some practical new clothes for the girls. Looking at the set list posted on the last page, the Jungle Base is strangely priced. $70 for 473 pieces? It's way out of the norm for Friends sets. I wonder if this means new large animal molds in that set, or another large molded piece - small boat hull for river travel, maybe? Very curious!
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    This looks like something straight of a Kirby game. A lot of those parts would be useful for recreating parts of the Wonka factory, too. Is Unikitty's tail a new part? I don't think I've ever seen that before. Looks like a great piece for making Lego versions of a certain herd of little ponies.
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    Very nice gate construction and a creative B-model (or is it the other way around?) But it's not compelling me to buy it.
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    Ye gods, another baby catapult?!? The junkyards in Middle-Earth must be absolutely filled with these things. I might buy one of these if I see them, just because the guard's torso is beautiful and you don't often see a minifig wearing a fish on his head. But I really don't have a need for an army of Laketown guards. In any case, I will never see this in the wild. I'm cursed. The only LOTR polybags I've ever seen were Gandalf and Frodo, both of which I already have enough of from all the other sets.
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    I like the eclectic look of these vehicles, but it's insane that they aren't 2 in 1 builds. I would have liked actual transformers even more, but I imagine TLG would have gotten into some IP infringement issues if they had transformed. But I don't see how they could have gotten into trouble with 2 in 1 sets - Lego had 2 in 1s before Transformers were even a twinkle in their inventors' eyes. Huge wasted opportunity there.
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    Great review, Deathleech! I had the impression you hated this set - I'm glad you liked it more than I thought, because I think it's quite a nice set for the price point. I do wish they had either made the walls taller or built the water gate, and at least one orc could have used a headpiece. But it's a solid base for modding and a great beginning to an Elf faction, IMO.
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