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Great avatar! I cleaned up the colors a bit and some other stuff, if you like to use that go ahead!

Staring down the barrel of a hand mixer, do you feel lucky punk ?

Not really the same but about plain baseplates, from Jan Beyer, TLG: I´ll ask about the road plates also.

Cool, seems like a great competiton ! Octopuses are a challange if any! And such an awesome prize ! So c´mon everybody - enter and you might win!

We went there and it's was really fun ! Lots & lots of stuff to buy and about a hundred? Moc's of very accurate military vehicles to check out! Though I hope you'll be back with BW next year!

Loads of sweet megablocks ! Welcome PF - now get that copier fixed!

As posted on the frontpage, Eurobricks won the prize for Best Group Layout AND Best small building ! So congrats to the 21 of us who came together for the Pirate group display, and a special congrats to Pandora & Rufus who won the Best Small Building prize ! And of course a well deserved congrats to Si-MOCs for being in the top five competiters in the Best Sea Vessel category and voted Brickworld Master 2012 More to come later on!

And finished packing my two suitcases. Lots of parts, probably loads of the ones I wont need and few of the ones I have to have ! Now for the luggage crushing ceremonys at the airport tomorrow and a pick-up at the luggage carusel in Chicago where brightly colored ABS plastic parts will go round and round and round and ........ Looking forward to meeting everybody again - See ya soon !

Great contest idea, great contest prizes - Let´s go people !

Touchdown Chicago on monday at lunch. Already and continuously will be in panic mode ! Will be super great to meet all of you again !

Wow - four LUG's, that's impressive ! It's great to see so many LUG´s and that members can both get involved depending on location and different themes changing during the year. I see a strenght in attending shows/having different projects where people can get together. Take us here at Eurobricks for example - a virtuell "LUG" that has had two Brickworld displays so far and a third one this year. We have had different themes: , (on LSD ) and this year Pirates. So congrats to all of you in that big area and good luck with the building and meeting - after all it's about friendship and fun as much as SNOT-ing !

Actually, I checked that today with the CUUSOO team and it´s to be able to moc the set. They are not used in the build following the instructions but will come in handy when you put your own touch to the set .

Thanks - fixed !

And now you can go here to check out the review !

It has arrived, the first worldwide availiable CUUSOO set - the 21102 Minecraft Micro World ! Go here to the Special LEGO Themes forum and check it out!

Set Information Name: Minecraft Micro World Number: 21102 Theme: CUUSOO Release: 2012 Parts: 480 Figures: 0 (but 2 brick built characters) Price: GB £34.99 | US $34.99 | EUR €34.99 | SEK 399 | DKK 299.95 | NOR 349.50 | CAD 39.99 | AUD $49.99 | Description from LEGO Shop@Home: Links: LEGO CUUSOO blog - LEGO Minecraft Facebook - LEGO Minecraft CUUSOO - Mojang - Official Minecraft homepage Where to get it? LEGO Shop@Home - https://www.jinx.com/legominecraft - Amazon.com Now let´s go to the set review :The Box The box has a more squared shape than we´re used to see. It measures around 12 x 12 x 14 centimeters and weigh about 310 grams. Here are some pictures from the different angles: Front Left side Back side Right side Top side Bottom side Close-up of the bottom The Parts There are six polybags containing all the parts, they practically fill the whole box. So for once we don´t need to complain on the size of the box not matching the contents . The polybags are not numbered like we´re used to nowadays but that´s not a problem when building the set, the parts can all easily be found when put on the table (at least I thought so ). Here are the contents of the different polybags: Larger plates & bricks and the new brick separator. Mostly bricks and medium sized plates & tiles. In this bag is the 1x1 green Creeper brick. 1x1 tiles and smaller plates, and especially the 1x1 tan plates with the Steve eyes & mouth print on its sides. Notice there are two of each! Close-up of the Steve plates. Lots of 2x2 corner bricks and 1x3 bricks. And a lonely 2x3 plate ! 1x1 plates and tiles. A total of 63 1x1 green tiles which up 'til now either only has been in hard to get special sets or in the LEGO games (and then only one in each set!). I personally give that a big ! And last but not least more 1x1 plates & tiles and some other small bricks & plates & tiles. We need a close-up of the Steve tiles and the Creeper brick, don´t we ? And yes - the print on one of the plates isn´t that great but the other three were ok. The Build Ok, first things first. It´s not like any ordinare build which has lots of different parts in colors & sizes. It´s basicly a large amount of 1x1´s and then some. But you know what? I really enjoyed it ! Small and quickly built modules with basic SOT-technique (Studs ON Top ). Sometimes it´s good to go old school! Here are the four different "modules" built in the order of the instructions, each one consisting of a 6x6 base in greyish colors and a top in brownish/greenish colors: Module One: The base The top Finished Finished & stacked Module Two: The base The top Finished Finished & stacked Module Three: The Base The Base close-up. Notice the 1x2 plate with cheese slopes, it only connects to one stud. I guess this "technique" wouldn´t be allowed in a regular set. The Top Finished Finished & stacked Module Four: The Base The Base close-up - same technique as above. The Top Finished Finished & stacked The Creeper and Steve The whole set finished and the modules put together as shown in the instructions You can of course connect any module to any other module in any way you like, and you can also stack two or more base modules on top of each other before putting a top module down. The Extra Parts You get nine extra 1x1 plates, six 1x1 tiles, a cheese slope, two technic pins and of course the two Steve plates. And then it starts to get a bit weird ! You also get seven extra light bluish grey 1x1 tiles - the build only uses two so that´s extra if you ask me! And then ......... You get thirteen (yes 13!) extra dark bluish grey 1x1 tiles when the build uses zero-zip-zilch-nada at all!! That´s extra extra ! I´d love to see this more in other sets, like having two to three extra Jabba the Hutt in the upcoming Jabba´s Palace ! The Instructions There are two booklets each consisting of 24 pages. They measure about 20 x 12.5 cm in size and weigh around 30 grams. In the first one there are two pages with some Minecraft & CUUSOO information, otherwise it´s the ordinary look and layout. You can download them here also from TLG: Booklet 1 Booklet 2 Front of booklet one First inside page Second inside page Front of booklet two Random page Another random page The inventory parts list page The whole Minecraft set displayed again ! The Final Verdict Design - 7/10 Simple and clean with no surprises. Building experience - 8/10 As I wrote above I enjoyed the build. Because of the simpleness but still non-repetitive build that you sometimes find in larger sets, I give this rather high rating, bash me all you want! Parts assortment - 6.5/10 Nothing really special, except of course for the Creeper brick and the Steve plates. But the 63 green 1x1 tiles gets my attention and adds the 0.5 rating. Value - 6/10 If you look at it by strictly going on the PPP-rule (price per part) it gives you $0.073 ratio. Compare that with some other newer sets like the Sopwith Camel ($0.11), the LOTR Attack on Weathertop ($0.14) or maybe City Mining Truck ($0.13) it´s not bad at all. But as I mentioned above the parts assortment is to common and has nothing really new & useful for Moc´s, so that why the rating gets as low as a six. Overall inpression- 6.875/10 I started this review by saying this set is basicly a lot of 1x1´s and then some. That makes this set not so exciting for the ordinary AFOL. But I understand that the Minecraft fans will buy at least on set each to build and have on the side of their computer when they play the game, I know I would. And I really like that this is a CUUSOO set! IMO it´s a good set to start off the more worldwide use of the CUUSOO concept. Now we´re ready for bigger and more fun-to-build sets! So my final werdict words would be: A nice little niche set that regardless of the rather low PPP is overpriced for what you get in experience/parts BUT I think it will sell well because of the hardcore Minecraft community. I hope you enjoyed the review! And a big thanks to the TLG CUUSOO Team and especially Tim C !

Happy B-day Sinner/Siegfried or whatever ! I hope your day will be filled with lots of and !

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Happy Birthday Shadows, I hope it has been great !

A bit late because of the Eurobricks Event in Billund and lack of internet but here goes ......... Congrats marshal_banana to all well done CUUSOO campaign ! Now let´s see what happens !

Just arrived home after the last 3½ hours of train from Gothenburg. Thanks everyone for a great event, I had a blast ! Now we´ll start the countdown until next years event in Günzburg !

Great discussion everybody, I'm really enjoying reading all your arguments ! I'll stay back myself but I will say it's a pity when good sets don't make it. Trust me, TLG gets lots & lots of market research information from CUUSOO!

EXTRA EXTRA! For those with an IPhone - please download the Life Of George app from iTunes before you leave home, might come in handy at the event ! See you soon !