Darth Dino

Hi as kid i was a grat fan of Classic Space. And i started my dark age when Blacktron (which i dislike) came up. Rescently i saw someone finding his old Lego collection with a lot of CS. That was truely awsome! I would like to get at least "all" the sets i had as kid, but i do not where to start. Unforunately we did not have a pictoral Classic Space Review index like e.g. Special Themes. I do not know (m)-any setnumbers, so please, how can i get a good overview? I have a memory like a trap, so i can recognise mosts sets i had when i see them. But setnumbers... i allways hated them ;) Dino

Hi i just found yesterday in my "hidden" toy store a sealed 10199 Winter Toy Shop. This set is from 2009 and still there for the listprice 59.99€... I see a good chance getting it cheaper because its 3 years old plus out of season! I did read the reviews. Wgat do you think, it is a wothy set? Funnily i would get this at bricklink for 45€ plus shipping, also sealed. Dino

Hi yesterday i had been in three diffent stores, only one had the Galaxy Patrol left. The two others had together 6 open boxes with no Galaxy Patrols. Even the Aztec was gone, i think people missmatch this like i did too. I did not want an army of them, but maybe 8 or 10 would e nice ;) Dino

Hi @legolijntje: Yes you are right, the GE building is in some images not 100% straight. A small tile or plate has fallen onto the "streets" ;) I had to put ky large King-Kong-ish fingers through the buildings to get the missing part. That might be a reason for the bent building. But i had seen it not before i "closed my photostudio". Everything was completely disassembeled :( It would cost me an hour or so to redo the shot. @ Rufus and Whitefang: Thank you for the kinds comments on my photography. I really care about that. Unfortunately doing a review, even for such a small set, is very time consuming. If i have time to do so, i better spent it into a new review than onto the Reviewers Academy. Sorry i do not want to sound arrogant or similar - i am no native englsih speaker - but i did commercialized macro product photography since 2001. I still know there is ever improvement on ANY image possible, but it is also a question of time. If i had to setup the lightning and background for 1-2 hours to review a 1 hour set (building time) there is something wrong ;) Unlike some others (i have seen that) i do not have a permanent photobooth for macros. Right now i am more into people and architecture ;) On the other hand: do not expect much reviews for me in the near future. I promised some day to do a review on the Lego 8466 Offroader. This set is huge and i was not able to to the photography for all the building steps. I better kept building it with my son, than caring about the right light ;) The only change to do a review again would be a smaller set that out of production, because all new sets are review by the "real freaks traveling to London to do a comparison" - even before it is released! :) Dino

Hi as photographer, great fan of New York and its architecture and AFOL as well the Lego Architecture Set 21007 Rockefeller Center seems to me to be a must have. I also have been there many times including the famous “Top of the Rock” observation platform – so there is no hesitation from my side. But i am sure there are many of you out there been interested in this set but not 100% convinced to get it. Although it is a set from 2010 there are no reviews of this set at Eurobricks right now. Time to change that: Review: 21007 Rockefeller Center Set Information: Name: Rockefeller Center Number: 21007 Theme: Architecture (Landmark Series) Release: 2010 Parts: 240 (Bricklink) and 3 Extra Items Price: EUR 39.90, USD 39.90 The Box: The front shows the common design of today’s Architecture boxes: with black background and prductshot on a building plan. The back shows a photograph of the real building and gives some additional information. As special we get an “explosion” render on the side of the box. It shows the whole model and gives us a first idea how many small parts are used. Contents: If you open the black box from the front side you will get greetings in form of well known phrase “Enjoy your building experience”. That is exactly I am going to do! You will also mention three bags (medium, small and smallest parts) but now unsealed parts – I welcome that! Beside the bags there is the obvious instruction on high quality paper. You only got three main colors: black for the stand, light bluish grey for the basement/pavement and tan for the buildings. The fouth color is the rare pearl gold, but there are only two 1x1 round plates of them. The Parts: The big bag shows you mostly plates, a couple of smaller bricks and long 6x1 and 8x1 tiles. The content of the medium bag contains a nice bunch of 2x1 tan tiles, tan jumpers and 1x1 tan bricks with two studs on their sides. There are also the unique printed 6x1 black tiles with the Rockefeller and Center printing. With the small bag comes some 1x1 tiles in light bluish grey and tan, 1x1 and 1x2 tan plates and two (one is extra) 1x1 round pearl gold plates. I made all three parts images with the same scale that you can see easily how many parts are in and which dimensions they have. Overall there are 243 Parts (240+3), but many of them are small or very small (1x1 tiles, 1x1 and 1x2 plates). No wonder they are all together only 160 grams (5.6 oz or 0.35 lb). Compared to that the Lego 5512 box (4+, generic brick box) contains 1600 parts at +2 kgs for a similar price tag (40 €). Instructions: Like the box, this is in landscape format. There are a couple of (high quality paper) pages that show the history of the building complex. E.g. it is mentioned that the well known “construction workers sitting unsecured on a beam at lunch” originated when they build the tallest building (former RCA, now GE building). The random instruction page shows you always the piece callout, red surrounded parts for better differentiation and renderings of substeps. Sometimes there are steps where you have to place ~20 pieces, and sometimes only a single 4x1 tan plate, followed by another single 4x1 tan plate. It seems to me they had to fill empty pages. The Build: As real buildings you start from the bottom. The basement is 13x12 studs wide and shows the Rockefeller Plaza right in the center. That is the place where the skating rink is in winter. Like the real skating rink its level is deeper than the pavement. Step two adds tan for the buildings (only one parts is in light bluish grey) and grey for the walkways between them. The small pearl gold 1x1 round plate symbolizes the golden Prometheus Statue – bringing the sacred fire to man – and rare colors to AFOLs. Step three shows the jumperwork. This is necessary because the real building is highly interlaced. Step four shows the finished buildings along the W48th Street (south side). Step five adds the 70 stories high GE Building (former RCA Building). The snotwork captures the shape of the building very well. When closing my eyes I can see myself taking photos from “Top of the Rock”, the (most?) famous observation platform. Step six adds the missing buildings along the W51st Street (north side). The Radio Music Hall is in the rear right building. Building and photography takes more than one hour together. I am sure fast builders that do not follow the “Enjoy your building experience” rule can be much faster. But maybe not that fast: The Complete Set: The Lego model of the Rockefeller Center building complex is easy to recognize for those that know the real buildings. But maybe it is not that iconic that non-visitors know what it is like. My wife for example did not know what it should represent, although half of my house is full of New York photographs (including the Rockefeller Center). Nevertheless it is very detailed for the scale. I also like to way it produces shadows on the other buildings and add so more detail and realism. But is miss grillie tiles for the front of the GE Builsing to add virtual windows. The bird’s eye view will get a look at the plaza and the Prometheus Statue surrounded by the buildings. They all together never look dull because of the individual but related design of each building. I am glad Lego did this set as “Rockefeller Center” and not only as “GE Building”. Comparison: My last time I have been there plus making photos, I took not care to get all buildings together on a single picture. But this one shows in a good way how Lego reproduced the assembly levels of the GE Building both on the front and on the sides. In the front of the picture you see the Prometheus Statue and the skating rink. It is a wonder, 80 years ago, they did most of the buildings exactly Lego did today! Conclusion: Design: 9 - Unless someone did it better in the same scale it must be a 10, but is see some space for improvement (grillie tiles). It is also easy to recognize. Build: 9 - Only the main building build was a bit repetitive. Lego surprisingly often uses jumper constructions where only one (of two) stud is connected to the next level. Nevertheless it is well connected and do not fall off easily. Parts: 8 – nothing special, beside the pearl gold plate. If you like tan, this is a set for you. Value: 8 – it is a 2 or 1 if you do not value the work Adam Reed Tucker spent into designing this model. It is very expensive just looking at the parts (243) or grams (160) you get. As mentioned a pure part pack (5512) is 15 times heavier and has 7 times more parts for the same price tag. But I care about the designers work and I am willing to spend money on that. I think every Architecture customer is doing that too. Overall: 9/10. I care more about the design and the whole building process than on money. That is what Architecture sets are made for - to “Enjoy your building experience”. Enjoy the reading too and thank you for all the comments. Dino

Hi to say something new beside the wow, WOW and WOOOHAAA! : Even the use of the typical ugly and not often used grey technic stuff fits to this beautiful car perfect! Opening the hood looks like a real hybrid car. Dino

Hi i have a more general question regarding PAB cups: I have on every empty cup a sticker that tells me i will got a 75 € cent discount for the next cup if i bring it back. I have many empty cups - can i add all discounts and spend it on a single new cup or is this a discount PER new cup? Dino

Hi Ralph, it is a pitty not posting your excelent MOCs here. It is more than that, it a crime! Dino

Hi LOL! 10 points out of 10 for using a white horse as cloud! Somebidy should give him an avatartitel that regards it ;) Dino

Hi thank you all posting your max. poster numbers. I think it is confirmed right now that the north america market seems to be twice as big (regarding promo ordering freaks like us) as the european market. Although both markets are 300 million big. I did not expect that - but obviously Lego did that. Dino

Hi you might be right. I think its the 48k for north america and 20k for europe. Althought both markets having 300 million people, NA gots twice in promo posters. You guys have more freaks than we europeans ;) Dino

Hi interesting find! So we can see how Lego sees the AFOL market (i do not think the target market, 6-11 kids, care much about promos, or be able to purchase online. So Germany 20398 Canada (plus US maybe) 48000 something ;) more? Dino

Hi that reminds me to a Donald Duck comic from the mid-80s. Donald was duelling himself with his neighbor. Both had noisy lawn mower ;) At first they where manual, later remote and at the end full of weapons (hammer, circular saw etc.) to destroy the other one ;) We could for example build MOC just out of the excavators parts and lets see who is winning ;) Dino

Hi if you had been out of minifig scale you could easily present this as architecture MOC! That is really cool design plus minifig scale. Well done! Dino

Hi i finally got my order - complete. @clanure: i hope that i am not annoying you, but i got all promo parts (TC-14, the mini-Tie and limited Poster) only from a Archtecture purchase: The Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Center. Both are close to the limit 50€ so i added a Star Wars Keychain... Funnily it worked well! I hope all the best for people like you (SSD purchaser) to get all promos. One word to the Poster: It says it is limited to 20398 copies. And it says the copy i have. Is that the worldwide amount or just the german release? Can anybody outside German confirm its charge? Dino

Hi funnily i got mail half an hour later my post here. I seems Lego is reading the forum ;) Funnily too i got a second mail AFTER the shipment confirmation that "people have to eait because the mass of May 4th orders". They better send that mail before they confirm the shipment, when people are still waiting ;) I got in my cart the fig and the poster combined with the TIE. Lets see what is arriving tomorrow. Dino

Hi did you all get your May the 4th orders? I ordered on saturday with TC-14 and Poster in the cart and this orders are still in progress. When i did my last order at S@H i took one working day to get the fire brigarde. Everything i ordered (mostly Architecture) is still available in he shop, so there is no need for a delay because out of stoch sets. Dino

Hi you can see in the video why they needed a Syncro. Syncro is the VW naming for AWD in the 90' . In some shots the car drives back just on its frontwheels and forth just on its backwheels. Therefore you will need the AWD. Dino

Hi i do not think that heavy parts have to be in the front. At firtst that will help you to turn over - but not completely. I think you will stuck right on the cars back. The more the heavy parte in the CENTER of the cars circular cage, the less this parts have to be lifted or moved in some way. Think of a ball will very heavy center, it still moves/rolls easily. If you have the weight centered somewhere outside the middle, it will not roll anymore. Dino

Hi it looks very to the game version, well done. Would be worth to build that in bricks - but dark red is expensive. I had to laught because of the german "Doppelhaus". I did not know that tis is also used in british or US english. I still know there are some words like Kindergarten or Rucksack. A Doppelhaus is a very famous housing style for the middle class. Then you typical live in a "Doppelhaushälfte", the half of a "doubblehouse". So if you take the half something that is doubble, it is still a whole house ;) Strange german! Dino

Hi thank you very much! That was what i am looking for but too afraid for asking for it! Dino

Hi THAT is funny! I would love to have my own, but unfortunately i am not as good as you to get out the idea out of a single iamge. Dino

Hi if we say yes, are you going to buy one? If we say no, are you saving your money? I got the FB right now, because i am able to get it for a reasonable price. And i decided to go into the modulars, so getting them for the listprice is the best you can do. No one can promise to you how the FB will go, or if it will going to be as expensive as like the GG. I only can say that most of the five-digit exculsice hard to find UCS collectors sets having a higher price tag than their former listprice. So making money i luck (and not my aim), but saving money if for sure (buying at listprice). Dino

Hi gratulation! It was so exciting to see most of the sets i had. That was pure DejaVu, but with a 25+ years lag ;) I can not say how i miss those "more realistic" classic space set in pure grey or white. Even the box layout with a real moon background is sooo cool! The new colorful space stuff today can not mess with that old classic! And even those forgetable set like the snackbar comes hard back into my mind when i saw those "ice on a stick" bricks that i had and loved too. EDIT: WOOOHAAAAA! Did you took a lok how much they take for the Maersk truck? Up to 500€... You found a treasure for yourself and your wallet :) Dino

Hi have you seen the contest and its rules? I would be a worthy MOC for this. Dino