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  1. ArneNielsen
    Impressive! Just wondering, in the photograph the real train have the vents horizontal, while you did your build with them vertical - is that on purpose?
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    As a LEGO fan, I have always found great inspiration in trying to use everything LEGO have made incorporated in the same build. I have used System with DUPLO, Znap, Bionicle, Jack Stone, Belville - I just see it as an interesting challenge. An example, where a Belville baseplate is combined with DUPLO wall bricks and System bricks and figs: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=67190 Another example, where a Bionicle part is used as a window in an icecave: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=596348 I must admit though, that I still haven't managed to combine Galidor with anything else - but, hey, thats a mountain still waiting to be climbed. So I just dont get all the fuss about loving and hating different LEGO themes. To quote: "Everything is awesome"!
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    Amazing!!!! That ship looks a lot like a gas-tanker, like "Betty Nordgas": http://billedarkiv.mfs.dk/fotoweb/archives/5001-Museet-for-søfarts-billedarkiv/archive/Arkiv-73/000021266.jpg.info
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    That is a massive task indeed! I just wish I had the available space to do something similar, but a 3-room apartment dont leave much free room. Most of my LEGO bricks are in large boxes in a basement room I rent in a house a few hundred metres from mine, but its still a challenge to find what I need in a little box in a big box in a big heap of big boxes...
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    Over the past 60 years, I have collected a lot of other toys, but these days its only LEGO and Playmobil. Sadly, my eleven years younger brother inherited most of my childhood toys, so they are now long gone.
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    Nice figs, great stories. And I am really flattered, that one is named "Arne" :)
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    Well, maybe she has, but you know, working in an office is like working in any other office. It was back in the USSR times, where the Soviet Union didnt pay LEGO in money, but in commodities. My sister worked in this "toy-for-something" office, where she tried to negotiate which Soviet (and other Eastern European communist countries) odd toys and other stuff could be accepted as payment - as in, not another batch of Babushka dolls, rather something else that could be sold somewhere. But back in those days, all staff in Billund had to participate in test building of new sets. As my sister didnt really care for LEGO bricks (except Fabuland figs), she asked her little brother to do the test-build. So aged 15, I build new sets before they were launched. I still have a copy of the error-form I filled in for the prototype of set 855 Mobile Crane. Somewhere in my basement I have a large number of staff magazines from the 80ties - some day I will have to find them again... Thanks for your kind welcome!
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    Thank you for a great and comprehensive overview. Some might not agree, but I do think you are hitting the same vibes as i do regarding the different periods and their pros and cons. And that is spanning generations, as I was a child in during the Old-School period, my first set being the 330 jeep (https://brickset.com/sets/330-4/Jeep). One thing I would like to add for the Old-School period: innovation. The whistle-and-go train (https://brickset.com/sets/138-1/Electronic-Train) was decades before its time, only taken up again 30 years later by the Mindstorm line. Unfortunately my dark ages was in the Classic era, so I missed out on a number of the greatest sets ever. Like you, when I got a decent income as an adult, I tried to make up for that on ebay and other similar sites, but I still miss a lot. One other noteworthy aspect: how the number of sets per year have exploded, with 50 in 1979, to more than 800 in 2018. You could be a completist in the Classic Era, impossible to be that in the Modern Era.
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    What an attention to detail. You even got the one-eyed Wotan (or Odin) spot on, with his ravens Hugin and Munin. Excellent work!
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    Wish you had that as well - but more organized than mine. I used to have organized bricks in lots of containers, but with space filling up with new boxes, there is no room left to any resemblence of organization. The opened boxes are flattened and stored, the instructions are in binders on the shelves, but the bricks - they are all over the place. Some sets are disassembled, others are still assembled, but store in big boxes with other random sets. Like others said in this thread, I am dreaming of one day to have a big hall with space for everything nicely put on display - well, maybe a hall is the wrong word, an aeroplane hangar would be more fitting! http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=6607962 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=6607960 Those pics where last year - my living room is much more crowded now - I would bang my head into a wall in frustration over my foolishness in buying more LEGO, but I have no free walls to bang against...
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    Being 61, single, no kids - means that I am screwed too. With more than 30 years of LEGO addiction, space is the real problem for me. My apartment is filled, my storage room in the basement is filled - and the extra storage room I rented is filled too. The square metres are done with, there might be a bit of cubic metres left...
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    My name is Arne, I was born in 1958, and have had LEGO in my life since I was 6 years old. When I turned 15, my sister got a job in the LEGO Company in Billund (in sales), where she worked for 12 years, leading her little brother into the LEGO world. I have been a member at LUGNET since 2001. However, despite the fact that I have more than 4000 LEGO sets, I am not a LEGO purist; I also have MegaBrand and other clones. Arne, Copenhagen, Denmark
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    Thanks for an excellent review! Right now I am enjoying building it. However, the "shovels-for-roof" idea is not new; as far back as 2003 I posted a MOC on LUGNET https://news.lugnet.com/castle/?n=18969 Here I used brown shovels, but the building technique is basically the same.
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    Well, for one thing, H.P. Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos" is not that well-known outside the US. Many games and comics are heavily inspired by Lovecraft, but e.g. here in Denmark the original novel is almost unknown, except by a few die-hard fans. Stranger Things, on the other hand, is big on cable-TV all over the World, so there is a much better marketing potential in that.
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    Fantastic work, really inspiring! Not sure from where, but many years ago I did get some octupussies in green: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/albion/strangebricks/green_octopus.bmp And yes, they are LEGO, they have the @LEGO stamp. Arne, Copenhagen
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    Of course, but...- its in Danish!!!! https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/lego-stopper-nedtur-vi-er-glade-vaere-tilbage-pa-sporet
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    LEGO is privately owned, but not by a family, but by two fonds. Its common in Denmark to have large private companies owned by fonds, in order to avoid inheritage taxes. The family might control the fonds (Kirkbi and Lego Foundation), but there are rules and regulations that prohibit the family to be totally dominant. The fonds have a massive capital, that could keep TLC running for many years even with large deficits - which is partly how they survived the heavy losses around 2003. TLC both diversifies and consolidates. The LEGO Parks were sold off, even if they made profits, as they were not part of the core company. The clothes lines went the same way. Being a Dane, I find it hard to believe that LEGO will disappear soon - maybe in 50 years, but who can tell how the World looks like in 2070?
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    I put them in plastic sleeves, and then file them in binders. The shelves in my LEGO room is filled with more than 50 binders (sorted by set numbers). The boxes are flattened, bagged, and stored in the basement (hoping they stay dry)
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    At an interview in Danish media, LEGO CEO Niels B. Christiansen comments today on the latest financial year results, where the sales in China has grown more than 10%: "We have in many years had great succes with Star Wars and Harry Potter, coming from the Western culture. But one could also imagine, that stories coming from Chinese culture could have a global interest" (my translation). That sounds like the few Oriental sets we got last year is only the beginning; maybe some of the many Chinese Legends will come to life in LEGO in the coming years...
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    Back when Harry Potter sets started, I was an avid collector, and bought almost all of the sets, many of them in multiples. Thus I have hundreds of minifigs from the Harry Potter Universe. Which means, that I will skip this minifig series - a first to me, as I have 3.700 minifigs from the first 25 series. But this series just leaves me cold - there are hardly any figs I want to have. I did buy 10 random bags, just to see what this series was like, but that will be it. I SOOOOO much wait to see another normal, non-themed, non-licensed set!!!! Last one was series 17 in May 2017.... White Fang, I dont know what I would do without your reviews - they are simply the golden standard of reviews!
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    Actually, that brick appeared as long back as 2005 in the Harry Potter set 4762 Rescue from the Merpeople. I can see that the eye-printing is better, but the dolphin brick with different eye-print has been in abundance in Friends sets, like 41015 Dolphin Cruiser from 2013. So I dont get the hype about this one. When you lists the parts of Soccer Mom Batgirl, you forget the hood - isnt that a unique piece? As always, a fantastic review - I aprreciate the your reviews more than the actual minifigs. As a completist, I will of course get all 20, but the set as such leaves me unimpressed.
  22. ArneNielsen
    Because thats the bathing suit Alfred wore when he was younger - around the time of the first decades of the 1900, striped full-body bathing suits was the shit.
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    In Denmark, single bags is sold at full prize 4 EUR, but most places sell them with discount at appx. 3,3 EUR, whoch is the normal full prize for single bags in other series..
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