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I'm wondering which version is the one currently in production. If I ask for another, will they just send me the same as I already have? Has anyone tried asking for a replacement yet?

I've added a photo of the sticker applied to the brick to clarify what I mean. The other two stickers aren't affected as they are completely covered by the printing. I don't think it looks too good in white

Having bought my new AT-AT from Toys R Us in the UK, I opened the box to find that the stickers have been printed on a white sticker sheet rather than a clear one. This means that the grey view port at the front is looking a rather white now. Not good! Here it is applied. You can see that it is opaque white rather than transparent. It should show the colour of the plastic through it like the one in Jammiedodger714's review: Has anyone else had this problem?

There are some incredible entries. Too many deserve a mention, however this is my choice: 3 points to 52, graznador's Diver It's very topical and imaginative too.

I've had an email from LEGO Universe today saying the keys will soon be on their way and not to worry.

I went on Universe for the first time today. It's looking promising although I didn't get very far as my kids were constantly fighting over who would play it!

Interesting comment on 2 million US households accounting for 50% of sales. Is Lego really perceived as a product for 'braniacs' in the US? Here in the UK it seems to have a much wider appeal.

The tree is made of the same plastic that has been used in the last few years. It's a harder plastic than the trees in the 1980s were made from. Rick77 you're right about the hook from the tow truck. There's no way to attach it from the front. You've got to be really careful when towing it from behind though, as the front has a tendency to scrape along the ground, which is really going to be bad for the shiny red paintwork!

Thanks for putting the poll up. I've given it an average rating. It's an ok set, but I've found it hard to get excited about it, despite spending all that time putting the review together.

The red grill pieces appear in two other sets including the Star Wars Republic Fighter Tank, but they're still hard to get hold of. The set is definitely poor value for money. the 7638 tow truck is only £2 more yet it has nearly double the number of pieces. The price really makes it hard to buy this set with a smile I have to agree about the wheels being too big. This is my biggest problem with city sets. Cars and lorries shouldn't have the same size wheels. The ones most in use are too big for cars and too small for lorries. I've never understood why LEGO likes using them so much. There are only a handful of sets where they look the right size for the vehicle they're on.

INDEXED Name: Sports Car Theme: CITY Year: 2009 Pieces: 68 Minifigs: 1 Price: £6.99 form TRU 1. Introduction This is a good year for civilian sets. Finally a more or less average car for your minifigs to drive around in to get to work, escape to the beach, but not to go shopping - you need some luggage space for that! 2. Box, parts and instructions The front of the box: Unfortunately the box got a bit squashed on the way home. Doh! As you can see LEGO cars just aren't as reliable as they used to be. Good job there's an emergency phone on the side of the road! The back of the box: Here are the contents. Look no DSS! Pieces loose: Lots of good red pieces, although nothing unique except for... The LEGO friut tree makes a welcome return after 3 years in the wilderness! This has to be my favourite green piece of plastic ever apart from the long departed cypress tree. I'm not sure why it's in this set except to try and justify the price tag. Still, I'm glad it is. You can never have enough trees. Random instruction pages: 3. The Build - Minifig and Emergency Roadside Phone City guy: He looks like he's glad to be out of the office. He's got one of those smirks that says, "Look at me, I'm a big shot in my fast red car!" It suits this set perfectly. Emergency phone: It looks like mobile phone technology hasn't reached LEGO City yet. Just as well there's one of these to the breakdown call centre. It's a quick and easy build and looks the part at the side of the road. "Man, I wish they wouldn't make these handsets so huge. I could do reps with this!" 4. The Build - Car Nice blue trim, shame about the orange dashboard: The front makes good use of the cheese grater parts. This is my favourite part of the car: Finished car: View from the rear: From this angle you can see the HUGE void in front of the steering wheel. It gives the impression the designers were trying to cut costs and couldn't be bothered to fill it with something. Also I'm not really sure what's going on at the back. Is this supposed to be a convertible with the top down? And is that a vent for the engine at the rear? if so, why does the picture on the the box have the front of the car smoking? The back also looks like it's missing a number plate sticker to go on it. View from the side: This is a big car for one guy to be driving. Do you think he's compensating for inadequicies elsewhere? Final shot of the complete set: 5. Bonus Do you ever look at the box art on a LEGO set and wonder what happened next? Well now you can find out! High flying office worker Eddie has just taken ownership of the latest high performance car from the downtown LEGO dealership. On the way home his new purchase grinds to a halt. He gets out and has a look. "They told me this car has a V12 twin turbo, but I can't find the engine anywhere!" Three hours after Eddie realised he ground to a halt next to an emergency phone and made a call, the breakdown truck arrives. "I wouldn't have bought this one mate", says the truck guy. "This is the third one I've had to tow away this week". Soon enough the car is hooked up. "We'll have her back home in no time!" says the truck guy while Eddie is still wondering how long it will be before he can start trying to impress the girls with his new wheels. Moments later he sees his car disappear into the distance, with no other way to get home. "Stopppppppppp!!!" 6. Overall Rating Minifigs - 6/10 - Nothing to get excited about, but a good civilian figure to add to the numbers Parts - 7/10 - Some nice red pieces and don't forget the tree! Build - 6/10 A quick and easy build Overall - 6/10 - If your city is crowded out with police and fire vehicles then you need this set, but don't expect to get thrilled by it This is a good little set with more playability than it would have been with just the car on it's own. It goes really well with the 7638 Tow Truck. Having built it there are a few niggles. It feels like this set was thrown together in an afternoon without much thought. It's crying out for some doors, the back end is uninspired and the big hole in the dashboard is just annoying although easy to correct with a couple of bricks. Having said that, this is the sort of set any LEGO city is crying out for, so buying this at the end of the day was a bit of a no-brainer for me.

It suddenly dawned on me this week that this year is the 30th anniversary of being presented with my 1st LEGO set at the tender age of 3. It was this ambulance and helicopter: I still have the pieces although the stickers are long gone now. 30 years means that I have followed the rise of the minifig as well as castle, space and pirate themes to name but a few. LEGO has always been a part of my life even during the handful of years in my late teens and early twenties when I didn't buy any sets. Fortunately Star Wars LEGO brought me back and I now get to share my passion with my kids who love it too. So one question to all Eurobricks members: Who has been collecting LEGO the longest and what was your first set?

Mine arrived today, but I've got to wait until Christmas before I can open it. It's going to be a long three months. Fortunately your pictures should keep me satisfied for now... Thanks.

That's a shocking price considering you can buy them new for less than half of that still. It's not even got a low edition number. Only a fool would buy it at that amount. Knowing some buyers on Ebay though, it'll probably be gone by the end of the week...

Mine ended up costing £42.18 including the S&H. I paid in Euros so the cost will probably be a bit different now depending on exchange rates.

I've posted my details on the website. Hopefully if enough people do it, it will give an interesting demographic of who buys this sort of stuff. Nice review Holodoc too. A quality compliment to mine. Always good to get in first though! My LEGOfan brick had the gunk on the back too, but it had still become detached from the packaging. I had to turn it round for the photo. I've spent some time looking through the book and its a great read although I can't make out how they've calculated the rarity of each set. There are some odd results.

Well look what turned up in the post today! Originally I was going to get the standard edition, but as usual I was a sucker for a special edition. Anyway this is what you get... Nicely shrink wrapped in a sturdy presentation box. The book does rattle around inside a bit, but it's in place enough not to get damaged. As you can see, as well as the hardback book you get a gold brick, 50th anniversary minifig and a yellow commemorative brick too. Here's a close-up of the extra goodies. The back of the box has the 50th anniversary logo and a hole so that you can see the number of your limited edition book. There are 3,333 copies of this hardback edition and mine is 276! Close-up of the gold brick. It's really shiny. The minifig. Again very nice. His back is plain and he's not glued. And the LEGO fan brick. I don't really get the point of this so much, but there was a nice surprise on the back... Wasn't expecting that. And finally the book. I'm really glad I've got the hardback. Having seen a paperback version already starting to look worn out, this should stay in a good condition for much longer. Nice silver detailing on the lettering too. And the back with the edition number again. I'm not going to show any pictures of the inside in case I get in truble with the copyright. It's 800 pages long with almost all the sets from the last 50 years. I'm looking forward to spending a few evenings pouring over it. It's very well laid out and the majority of the sets have got pictures. There's also a keyrings section at the back. I've heard that ther are a few errors, but only serious LEGO historians are going to notice. I really recommend this version to any LEGO collector if you can afford the extra cost. It really is a fantastic resource and the extras are a great touch too.

My local Woolworths had the Magna Droid Starfighter for £39.99 today. Nice set, but not a good price.

This is me: Rally racers I'm pretty pleased with that.

My set arrived in the post today. I was going to do a review, but there's really not enough to say about it that hasn't been said already. I was hoping for something interesting on the back. Maybe a little bio of each figure saying which set it first came in or how many have been sold or, well, ANYTHING!!! ARRGH! Well no, a you can see there is basically nothing to this except the five figures in a nice presentation box. There is a clear plastic sleeve for the box that's easily removable. So at least you can get to the figures without damaging the box. £12.49 was too much to pay in my opinion, although I'll enjoy looking at it on the shelf. I don't think I'll be getting Vol. 2 unless it's reduced on sale. That's if they actually get that far. I can't imagine this selling that well even with a nice shiny red classic space torso to drool over.

Thanks for the link! One Premium Edition ordered. I can't imagine these will be around for very long before they sell out.

Yeah, in a strange sort of way it's a bit like building a really complicated LEGO sculpture without any instructions. The feeling of satisfaction when I finally finished it was gooooood!

Thanks! I've looked around, but as far as I can see I don't think that ProDesktop is compatible with POV-ray files. POV-ray images are the best I have seen, but I'm pretty happy with the results I've got.

I've been having a play with ProDesktop, which is a 3D modelling package that is used in a lot of schools and colleges in the UK. I thought it might be fun to see how LEGO might turn out using it. Starting off with a small project, the classic space set 886 seemed like a good choice as there are only a few parts and they are mostly simple (apart from the minifig-ugh! ). I've had to model each LEGO element individually and then assemble them just like real life. The simple ones have taken 20 minutes or so and the tricky ones have taken several hours to create. My aim was to make it as close to the real set as I could achieve. If there is a positive response, I might go ahead and do some more if people think it would be a good idea. Here we go. Enjoy! :

Not seen this posted. UK: Argos has almost all of its LEGO at 25% off until April 1st! *sweet*