Wardancer

Thanks! Oh, I didn't know Eomer's helmet had a leathery backside. Amazing!

I am not sure what to think about the gap between the horse's back legs and the main body. As great as it is with being moveable, this sort of disturbs me a bit. Bardings will hopefully fix that one day. I still can't believe the common rohan soldier is as rare as any special character in the sets. I would like to get 8-10 of them, which would be easy if I were looking for uruks... His torso in combination with Eomers legs would make a fine new regular soldier, but for what a price. Edit. The review showed that the horses hooves are are a bit rounded now. I like that.

One of the best Bag Ends I have ever seen! Truly spacey inside, not just a facade. My suggestions are to give the interior (even more) details to make it look fuller and to expand the hill around the walls a bit more to give it a more "built into the hill"-look.

Perfect sets! I would buy them at once, especially Edoras!

I am only sometimes in Hamburg, but I know that their LEGO store is located in the main shopping street. This means it is very likely that big stores which are not focussed on toys but have toy departments will be nearby. With some luck, you can find old sets for a reduced price. Many German shops clear out Atlantis sets at the moment. I was fortunate to get some POTC sets for 50% less a few weeks ago. As Series 7 was just released here, maybe you can find a few olders Series for 99 eurocent a fig. But these are just guesses. Buy one get one free is for example not a common thing here.

Very good! Is borders on the organic and the technological and this works very, very well. And still posable! There is one free stud on the torso, maybe you can experiment with putting something on there, a decorated 1x1 tile or something.

A great idea and well done decals! These also reduce the amount of silvery spikes on a fig, which is pretty overloaded on the original fig. Users might be a bit disppointed by the boar shield, which is not red, but reddish brown or something even darker, as discussed and proven in the CMS 7 thread.

On the page to 6018 he says: "Die Minifigs sind sehr untypisch. Sie tragen die Kettenhemden der Drachenritter, eigentlich deutet nur der Schild auf Adlerritter hin. Oder ist der Schild eine Kriegsbeute? Oder ist der rotgewandete Ritter ein zum Ruderdienst gepreßter Gefangener? Die auf ihn gerichtete Armbrust könnte das nahelegen." Which translates to: The minifigs are very untypical. They wear the dragon knights' chainmail, actually only the shield makes them look like falcon knights. Or is the shield a bounty of war? Or is the knight clad in red a prisoner who is forced into the duty rowing. The crossbow pointed at him could be a sign for this.

I choose to believe it will just stay as it. Those who want surprises can get surprises. Those who want to enjoy the feeling of beating the system can enjoy it. I think it is a marketing strategy: People feel smart because they beat the system, they exchance stories on how they did it, they conspire to find better ways, they share the fear of "being caught" in the shop. This it nothing but making figs "viral" by this clever trick. Do you know which experience is recreated in feeling the packets? Feeling christmas presents before christmas! Same struture: feeling, hoping it is what you expect, fear of getting caught. TLG creates a emotional, exciting, haptic experience that mirrors events from our childhood. This creates a emotional connection with the product. I love my 60 elves, because I fought for them. Why on earth would they change that? And WE think it's US who outsmart THEM?!

Oh great, I was not sure if this was just a way to cut off one's fingers or mutilate expensive LEGO Parts.

Everything for my fellow Eurobrickers: Is this supposed to be red? von MWardancer auf Flickr The picture was taken with a high end LED bicycle lamp pointing directly toward it. As you can see, that is not red. The piece on the right is reddish brown. One eyesight I would say the boar is even darker than that. The fig is regular red. You can see that on the shields on the right, the boar is not visible any more because the Iphone camera is too weak. Can this be a copyright issue?

I managed to get all the figs I want in one frenzy today. (Germany has them now!) Some observations: The boar on the shield of the dark knight is extremely dark. I am not sure if this is wanted. It's not even recognizable as red anymore. I don't care as I will customize the shields (elves don't like boars!) anyway. But it looks nothing like the official pictures. Is this a China issue? I got 11 black knights. It's awesome, so much weaponry and armor for this price. But I agree, it is too much of that particular pattern, so they need to be taken apart. I am a bit underwhelmed by the actec. Too much gold and the pearl gold is somewhat cheap looking. The bride is really great, much better than the one from the wedding set. Women at war! I got 11 valkyries. Too bad the shield is a bit boring, but I have ideas. The fig is kind of limited to viking aesthetics though if left unchanged. I accidentally bought a space marine. The guy is epic, makes me wish I was into this sort of thing.

I had a nice incidence today. I was feeling the packets eagerly, because I was confused. I had already gone through 3 boxes looking for dot codes. I could not identify a single fig, because I used dot codes I had compiled for myself from packets from a different shop. It had never happened to me that two different sets of dot codes appeared in shops merely 200m apart. So, as I resorted to feeling, hurried, annoyed and feeling a bit surveilled by the store employees, one of them came and said "If you find a bagpiper, let me know." They told me that all the employees feel the packets for their personal supply. So I took my time undisturbed. The best method so far is combining feeling and dot codes. Feel until you get the first definite hit, then code on.

Hi everyone, I bought an interesting machine today which I hope I can use for customizing: http://www.tchibo.de/Mini-Schleifmaschine-p400010858.html For 20 Eu I thought I'd give it a try. Has someone tried something like this? Any experience?

It's hunting season. They have arrived in Germany. Karstadt has them. The figs are amazing. Please leave all the valkyries to me, ok?!

http://www.rittersets.de/ http://www.rittersets.de/minifigs.html

I am happy about the new horse. It still feels close enough to the classic. I hope they keep up the habit of adding more prints to the new horses, too, I like for example the ones from the kingdoms carriage a lot and also the one in Mill Village Raid. The Black evil new horse is nice, but of limited useability. I had a short feeling of "Meh, now I don't want my old horses any more.", but that is over. All my horses have helmets or bardings which cover what is their main flaw, the head. So I guess it will not look awkward when old and new are mixed. We should have some kind of memorial thread, competition (MCW?) or community build in honor to the old horse once its time has come.

I am happy for those who are interested in these while I am not. The guy on the left might be interesting, also the black bow, but that already exists... How come we still don't know about Series 8?

Great! This is so big you could have a monorail train riding on the rings.

Very nice. I especially like the sentinel's weapon, also the chaos paladin's color scheme.

This is great, the second shield is very funny. It is important to carry more than one shield at any time.

He is a whole army in just one guy! Great idea! I woul have liked to see him from the back, too, but now he is already deconstructed.

I am not sure about the prices, but I guess you can get 2 or more 7946 for the price of 1 7094. The dragon and its age make it expensive. I got a new 7946 for 50 Euro. If I were to choose between a full price 7946 and a Joust, I would get a joust. The building is more detailled and the figs are better. In comparison to the MMV, a normal castle might look underdetailled in comparison. A good source for dragons are used trollships.

This night I dreamt they sold CMF only in bags with three different figs per pag. For 10 Euro. Feeling the content was impossible, because there were so many different parts in each bag. All army building plans were destroyed instantly.

Do 12,99 Dollars make 9,99 Euros or will they make it 12,99 Euro? Is there any experience on that? I am thinking about buying 4 or more Gandalf carriages, for the horses, the cape and the tan and dark tan bricks mainly.