LEGO Shop Girl

Just like to point out that the Production Department, and the Advertising and Printing Departments are not intertwined. On that note last month when PotC was coming out LEGO Brand Retail had three different release dates for the sets; the date printed on the In-store Events calendars, the official country by country release date emailed to every store globally, and the date of actual product arrival; the last being the date we ended up having to go by simply because we can't shelve what we don't have in stock, meanwhile our local TRU had them a week ahead of our earliest release date. As to quality control; my biggest personal gripe isn't with the colors it's with the quantity; I have to refer at least a dozen customers to the "missing bricks" link on the LEGO website during an average 8 hour shift. And why the heck do the faces on my keychains only last a max of 6 months before they fade away? Poor Doby was blind after about 2 months of being on my keys.

So as someone who grew up only aware of the very basic bricks and is now confronted on a daily basis with the complexity that LEGO has become; I feel compelled to ask the question: "Who do you build for? What kind of building appeals most to you? And most importantly; why?

Ok so I'm trying to do a build that opens up using LDD only I can't seem to get the hinge pieces to work, i.e. they only want to go in straight lines and not at angles. I'm I just bad at using LDD or is there some trick I haven't learned yet?

Not exactly.

Given their size I'm kind of expecting to see them as part of the Build-A-Mini accessories

Well here's fingers crossed that not only am I able to get my current idea approved but that I do a good enough job designing and/or describing it that it turns into a series she will want to play with.

I'm sending the file to LEGO Brand Retail's Southeastern Regional Manager, from previous conversations with her I know she already has LDD on her computers, so that's not a concern, so long as I keep my files to LDD and not some other non-official program.

My main issue is with the receiver being able to view the full 3D image and get the whole impression of what I'm trying for. This project has been consuming my (admittedly small amount of) mental stability; I can't afford to lose any sleep over worries of possible misinterpretations. As for them "stealing" my idea; 1. when I was hired as a sales associate I had to sign a waiver essentially stating LEGO owns my creative ideas, and 2. at this point so long as I get to build the display sets for my store when they come out I don't care about who owned them, I get to look at them and know I had the idea and I helped at least in part to make it a reality.

So about two weeks ago my store received most of the new Spring line of LEGO sets, and as cool as PoTC is, as great as the new Harbor/Marina City sets are, as cool looking as the new Alien Conquest line is; the thing I was the Most excited about when we opened the boxes; were the little LEGO buckets show in the Kingdom's set Mill Village Raid. Just wondering if I'm the only spaz out there, or if others thought this was cool too. So far it seems to be a nifty selling point if nothing else.

Ok so up until recently I was unaware that LEGO made sound bricks; as of writing this I have not yet had the opportunity to test one out. So I have some questions and I'm hoping to get some answers from those who may know. First of all; do they work the same as the light bricks in that you have to hold the button down to get them to play the whole sound? Secondly; any idea how many seconds of sound they are capable of holding? And finally; can they be reprogrammed to play something different?

We do this for every Grand Opening weekend, as well as many Grand Re-openings. Last year when my store opened we built Buzz Lightyear (coincidentally we also opened the same weekend Toy Story 3 was released in Theaters) Our store the Aventura Mall (Miami FL) location will be having a Large Scale Build Event next month to celebrate the one year anniversary of our Grand Opening; I'm looking forward to it.

I have a few complete sets of Series 3 plus a bunch of duplicates I have 7 complete sets of Series 4, and a few duplicates of those as well. I am looking for; Hogwarts torso's Series 1 Zombies(Lots of them) or Money

I've been asked to formally submit my ideas for a series of sets, I could simply do this in writing but I feel I'd have a much better reaction if I could also send completed LDD builds to show roughly what I'm interested in doing. Is there a way to save LDD files so that they can be emailed as attachments?