ArneNielsen

Well, in my country (Denmark, where LEGO originates), the average height of young males is 181 cm...

I dont know if you realise, that Billund is a very small town, less than 7.000 inhabitants?!?!!? So its not like there are scores of outside-Legoland restaurants to choose from. There is a Community Centre (Billund Centret) with a café, but except from that there are a full 3 restaurants in the whole city! Two Italian inspired (mostly pizza) Bellini Ristorante, and Restaurante IL Bambino, and American inspired Bones (spareribs). To find more tradional Danish food you have to go outside Billund, to the small towns of Vorbasse or Grindsted. And thats not feasible by public transport.

Thats waht a real rugby players head looks like after being squeezed at the bottom of the pile of players!

You should differentiate between The LEGO Company, and the Kirkbi Foundation. It is not TLC who bought back Disneyland, it is the foundation - and the foundation DOES have a lot of money to toss around. Kirkbi gets the profits from TLC each year, as they (for tax reasons) are the actual owners of TLC, so Kirkbi has amassed a lot of money over the past 50+ years. In the years when TLC did badly, and lost money, it was Kirkbi who covered the losses, so TLC could continue.

As always, a fantastic review! A small typo though, as the Bounty Hunters trans-red poster reads "Built or broken"

LEGO just released their half year report. Substantial growth in sales, but also growth in expenses, mainly due to heavy investments in the Chinese market. Of special interest is the statement, that the biggest sales are in 4 themes: LEGO City, LEGO Technic, LEGO Star Wars, and The LEGO Movie 2. Link to a Danish news website (in Danish only): https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/milliarderne-ruller-ind-hos-lego-men-der-bruges-penge-i-billund-som-aldrig-foer

Agree, and I really like your mod - but it is more of a fishing boat than a shrimp trawler. Traditionally, some small single rigged shrimp boats were just like the LEGO one, with one wheel for the trawling net at the back. Though more common are the bigger double rigged shrimp trawlers, with two arms making a big V.

Despite Mr Gold, I go for series 10 too. The Sea Captain with the seagull, the librarian, the oldtimer, and Paris Hilton with chihuahua did it for me on this set

This is only a guess, but it might be cultural. Trolls, like LEGO, was originally a Danish invention, called a GØL Troll back then. Doing a Trolls theme might be a homeage to a fellow Danish toy maker.

And that might be the inspiration to the Assaultron in the Fallout4 game. But your Automaton could easily work as an Assaultron in a Fallout apocalypse setting - with the exception that an Assaultron is military dark green. https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Assaultron_(Fallout_4)

Sorry, you are totally right - I got it mixed. Character Building was a subsidiary of the Polish clone company Cobi, not MegaBloks. My bad, I should never trust my memory.

Yes, but Character Building was a MegaBloks subsidiary - they are listed as MegaBloks sets in several databases.

Back in 2011, MegaBloks had the license to Dr. Who. They only made 5 sets and two series of blind-bag minifigs. ( - but they did make a TARDIS with opening doors - and an empty inside): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Doctor-Who-Character-Building-Tardis-Mini-Set-11th-Doctor-Amy-Pond-Figures/323870624649?hash=item4b68318b89:g:rWwAAOSwn4FdPdTq At least the minifigs must have had some acceptable sales figures since they issued another series, but all in all, the sales was not sufficient to make more than those first 5 sets. I am trying to make the point, that brick-built Dr. Who dont really have a lot of potential. The show has aired here in Denmark as well, but on obscure channels, and with few viewers. It really is a part of UK culture, that never fully made it out of the British Isles.

I would say series 11. But my opinion might be tainted by the fact, that this series were never available in Denmark (or the other Scandinavian countries, for no obvious reason?), so it was a hazzle to get it from Germany. Its nice that you can buy on the internet, but I missed out on the touch-and-feel...

I'm not sure, but wouldn't this review be more suited for a clone-place like Bloks Forum (http://bloksforum.freeforums.net/) than here ?

True! But then again, this was in Denmark, the home of LEGO, and it was in the COOP chain, the biggest chain we have, so at least it does carry some weight. But I admit, that it was only this set (which is the least interesting of the three sets); 6291 and 6292 were never on clearance in Denmark.

It is a well-known fact, that Playmobil has been very "inspired" by LEGO throughout the years, blatantly copying ideas from sets and themes. But sometimes I would wish for the other way around: that LEGO got inspired by Playmobil. Playmobil of course copied LEGO Desert Adventurers with an Egyptian theme - but unlike LEGO, much focus was on the civil life of the ancient Egyptian civilization. Why didn't LEGO make a set with a gem like this: https://www.playmobil.de/aegyptisches-haus/6485.html Or this (even if it is a warship, not a civilian): https://www.playmobil.de/nilschiff/6486.html I could also have used these in the LEGO Western theme: https://www.playmobil.de/windrad/6214.html https://www.playmobil.de/grosser-wasserturm/6215.html (I know, there was a simple windtower in the Outback series, and there was a simple watertower in the Lone Ranger series, but both were very basic) I would so love to have LEGO make a History theme without it being all about war and warriors!

I got 6290 late in 2001 - on sale for less than half the original price, only a few months after release. So I guess its true that they didn't sell well.

During my 40 years in different jobs, I never met another AFOL at work. I have never hided the fact that I love LEGO, and have always had at least one LEGO build at my office (presently I have three). But even if none of my colleagues think highly of LEGO, they still respected the fact that I do. At my last job, my boss tasked me with the building of two sculptures of DNA-strings (it was a genetic research centre), for which the centre payed me generously. At my present job, a department wanted to make a LEGO stop-motion movie as an introduction to new students, and they came to me to ask for bricks and minifigs. In that way, even if nobody understands why I collect and build with LEGO, they do come to me about everything LEGO, like buying old out-of-stock sets for their kids from me.

Well, now that this thread is bumped, I will add a few words of my own. When I build MOCs, I dont use my brain - I just sit down with the bricks, and my hands do the thinking. I too have a job sitting in front of computers and using my brain, so it is really relaxing for me to shortcut my brain and just let my hands work. I have also published a lot of poetry on the web. A few times I got a comment or two, but most of the times nada. Thats OK, because I dont post to get recognition, I post because I want to share - if just a single person likes a poem I wrote, my job is done well, even if that person never commented on it at all. Same with the few MOCs I posted pictures of here - its just to share, not to get likes or comments. I was active on Lugnet back from 2001, so I am one of the old farts - not rich though, I just put what little extra money I have into LEGO - I dont smoke, I dont drink alcohol or use weed, I dont go to cinemas, I dont go to restaurants - all extra money is solely used on toys (LEGO, Megabloks, Playmobil - I am no purist). But my love for LEGO is the love of being creative with my hands - I love to feel the bricks, I love to hear the "click" when they snap together, I love the smell when I open a brand new bag - its all physical.

At Danish TV, Jeppe Kyhne Knudsen has built dioramas commemorating the 50 years anniversary of the first moon landing. It is schematics of how the scientists plan the coming moon base to be. The text is unfortunately in Danish, but the bricks are multilingual: https://www.dr.dk/viden/webfeature/maanebase-50aar I know, that this is close to science facts, not Sci-Fi, so this may be in the wrong theme, but I could'nt find any better place to post it.

Well, you did use the Spanish ñ, so you could continue with the Danish alphabet: after Z comes Æ, Ø, and Å !!!! Anything to keep these miracles coming!

I have almost all the Elves sets, and I love the minidolls, even if I normally builds with minifigs. About using minifigs instead of minidolls in Elves sets, take a look back at Paradisa. A true minifig series, with buildings easily incorporated into traditional City. But AFOLs back then hated Paradisa! And LEGO sells much more Friends sets to girls, than they did with Paradisa. So yes, in my opinion, it is the right thing to use minidolls, not minifigs, in the Elves theme.

Amazing! Like others, I too like the small details. Especially how you use a wizard hat as blue milk tipping out of the barrel - it looks just perfect!

I dont recognize the set, but the design of the instruction sheet looks very much like the ones I have from the East German clone brand PEBE On second thought, I dont think its PEBE. Difficult to see at the small picture, but it dont really look like PEBE bricks. Maybe another clone? Does it say "LEGO" in the small text at the bottom of the sheet?