The Middleman

I'm guessing the id number on the end of the URL he gave us tells them that it's his link.

Damn them!

If you get yours in, I'll buy mine. THANKS! PS - saw your Brickshelf gallery. Fun stuff! That ATAT might need longer legs, though. ;) EDIT: Oh, and... don't put this anywhere else. And mods, keep this on the down-low on the main page - let's keep those SWL-hungry folks at FBTB in the dark for a bit, eh?

But as LEGO is spending money on this, it affects their budget and it gives us an idea of what they think appeals to kids - two things that seriously affect all LEGO fans worldwide. ;)

Actually, 'Vikings' are not who they were, but what they did. To 'vike' was to go and raid and pillage and plunder and rape - generally what pirates did. When they weren't viking, Vikings were called Danes or Northumbrians (the Danes were a faction of Northumbrian population, there were two others, but Danes were the main ones). So as a 'pirate' is one that pirates, a 'Viking' is one that vikes. And since viking was the first term, let's assume its superiority by age. ;) Athos - Vikings didn't have horned helmets. Also, as master explorers and mappers, they covered a much wider area than pirates, although most of their raiding was consolidated to Western Europe, because the Americas weren't colonized heavily at the time, and were therefore unprofitable to raid. Otherwise, I'm sure they would have raided that as well. Mister phes - I've already contradicted your other two points about Vikings, so the only thing left to cover is your weapons argument. It's a simple matter of the state of the world at the time, just like with the 'area-covered' situation - if firearms had existed, Vikings would have had huge stocks of them. However, that's part of what made Vikings Vikings - they didn't need firearms to defeat the enemy. Long-range weapons such as that were not in the Viking style - they preferred hand-to-hand combat. In fact, if a Viking that believed the religion of Northumbrians did not die honorably in battle (i.e. not showing cowardice such as using long-range weapons), he would not arrive at Odin's corpse hall, the heaven of Vikings (with, as it is told, many beautiful women and lots of meat and ale). Oh, and wouldn't 'imperial naval frigates' be more of an imperial thing than a pirate thing? ;) Yours, Viking Junky

They probably won't come out with a new Pirates line because of the failure of their 4+ Pirates line (presumable failure, that is).

That's almost down to 'Galidor' level.

Yeah, it looks a little more in-scale in this pic.

I think it's a preset team trying to break the record. Don't think entries are accepted, are they?

I need to find this guy and mug him for his sets! :P

A greeting that isn't a pirate joke!

I doubt it, they're on their side and the boxes aren't pristine like the ones at Toy Fair. Not to mention a few of them are open and they're all sitting on what looks like his bedsheets... :P

Vikings were a form of Pirate! They raped, pillaged and plundered! Skeleton Viking Ship huh? That sounds interesting! I look forward to seeing that. Actually, pirates were a form of Viking. Vikings came way, way, way before your puny little privateers and schooners. :P I can't wait to see that Viking ship, V()()D()(). We should have a Viking contest a couple weeks after their release... maybe Jipay or Apo or someone can arrange that? :-D

Personally, my favorite part is the Monty Python reference. ;)

Damn, that lucky megablok! Where are you guys FINDING these?

I can't wait to see it when it's finished! Hopefully it'll be airtight and look a complete model? Great little mini-rooms!

It's a little scene on an 8x8! :-D I love the funeral one, Athos. You like doing vignettes, eh?

Did you see the other sets?

I hope this means we'll continue to have good events/promotions at TRU!

One thing would solve all their problems: putting it to the vote. For themes/sets, maybe not all, but for some, just do this. Have people submit ideas, via submission cards/links in LEGO Magazine/Brickmaster/LUGNET/lego.com/shop.lego.com. The most popular ideas are picked over by the people upstairs at LEGO, and the most feasibly marketable ones are put onto a ballot that's put to the vote on all the aforementioned sites/publications (limit one vote per IP address for sites). It would reach into the KFOL and AFOL markets, and it would give everyone what they want.

Wolf, if LEGO made 'realistic' fire stations that looked like that, they'd be around $100-$200 instead of $20-$40.

Did you really expect anyone to get that joke? ;)

I was a Pirate fan back in my midget days, but since they're discontinued, I'm not a huge fan now.

Hey Jipay, would you mind sending me one, then? :-D

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