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Not bad, they certainly look like their cartoon counterparts. But if you don't mind me saying, the paint seems a little sloppily applied is some spots on these. Also, the first two look almost a little too simple compared to your usually detailed works, however it works in this case since Sweet Tooth is a rather simple, cartoony character and Gentleman Ghost is a ghost. I do wish that you would have provided some info on those two characters, though, like you normally do, as they are not the most well known characters. I can't remember who Sweet Tooth was and I can't find much information about him. By the way, Sweet Tooth reminded me of a different character - Captain Clown! Have you made him yet? If not, that might be something to consider. He may not be a major villain, but I think he sure is an interesting fellow. And have you ever considered making some Batman Beyond characters? It would be really awesome if you could at least make old Bruce Wayne, Terry McGuinness, and the Batman of the Future!

Dang, they replaced the printed tiles on the Blacksmith shop with dark brown ones. Oh well, at least it still has everything else.

In the , you can see another new game in the background with lots of colorful 2x4 bricks.EDIT: Pics of Heroica: Those are the new weapons that are also in the kingdoms summer sets. The helmet is new however. It looks kinda weird. Isn't it too big for microfigs?

Are you kidding me? It just looks like they're re-telling what happened in ROTS. I'm not very fond of this arc either. It's just too weird and is really messing with the movies. I also don't see the point of introducing even more different kinds of force-users.

Looks like Lego does Dungeons & Dragons. Neat concept, but I'm not really interested. If these were at Toy Fair, it means they are confirmed, don't you think? And if you knew this should go into the games thread, why didn't you post it there in the first place? We've been discussing that game there for a while.

Agreed. I'd love to have those two, maybe even multiples! Just look at all the rare parts and figs!

Old Ben Kenobi will also be a playable character:

Thanks, guys. The first post has been updated with more pics! Please take a look and let me know what you think! Hm, now that you mention it, the windows could have indeed been higher. Oh well, they don't look too bad IMO. Yeah, I guess I was the only one who was brave enough to do something as boring as a bookstore. Hopefully my bravery will pay off. Even though it's too late for revisions, please keep the comments coming!

I thought so too when I saw those. Maybe the pic you saw was still prelim?

I still can't figure out what kind of piece the globe is. I don't think it's a Zamor sphere because it's resting on a stud. It could be a Technic ball joint, but it almost looks too big for that... Obviously you haven't seen the 2011 Kingdoms sets. They're full of those new buckets. Not just looks like, it is. And there's at least one in every set. There are ones in brown, black, and white.

Yeah, I think the whole autopsy thing is implied at best. I mean, what else would an alien do with a farmer? And there's a vehicle for capturing one of the face-hugger aliens in the HQ set, so apparently the humans intend to study the aliens, but whether that involves autopsy is unclear. I guess this is one of those things that Lego leaves to your imagination.

Uhm, I'm pretty sure that's just reflected light.

Alright, that settles it - I have to have them all! All of these sets look fantastic! So many great pieces and minifigs! I'm especially surprised by the awesomeness of the smaller sets which are usually not that great. The Fountain of Youth has changed quite a lot from the prelim, which is too bad since the prelim had some useful pieces, but this certainly isn't bad either, so I'm not complaining. Don't hate me for saying this, but I hope the ships on the bottles are stickers because I don't want all of my bottles to have a sideways-ship on it, but it doesn't look like it. I like the game trailer too. Jack's animation is spot-on and the way his ship falls apart rather than sink is a nice Lego twist on that classic scene. And since these pics are final, I don't think there's any harm in deeplinking them, so here it goes:

My title disappeared (or disaparated, to put it in HP terms). Is that normal? I thought you keep a title until you get a new one. Maybe the Brickster saw that I learned my lesson and am now watching my Ps and Qs and removed it. @ WhiteFang: Why did you add that last sentence about what Quarryman said to the description of my last title? I personally don't think that that's what it meant.

Happy birthday, Jolly Old Nick KimT! I hope you get lots more Lego to stuff into your attic add to your collection.

Okay, maybe "make up for it" isn't the right expression... "Temporarily fill the gaping hole" is probably more like it. Gotta watch my Ps and Qs... Perhaps, but maybe it's that little bit of work they need to do to make the game perfect.

Sweet! I was wondering when (or even if) this contest would come up. Glad to see you're continuing the trend, and very happy to see the generous prizes! I was debating whether to order some S3 figs from bricklink or not, but I guess I'll wait another month. Ideas are filling my head already... Hopefully I'll be able to enter on-time this time. Oh, and very nice entries in Category C already, especially from Izzy.

Hello and welcome to Flourish and Blotts, the best wizarding bookstore in England! Located in Diagon Alley, this store is where most Hogwarts students purchase their schoolbooks, including Harry Potter and his friends. Think it looks impressive from the outside? Wait 'til you see the intside! And look, Gilderoy Lockhart is holding a book signing here today! While Mrs. Weasley, the other witches, and the reporter from the Daily Prophet gather around Lockhart, Harry and his friends meet their foes, the Malfoys. Little Ginny is about to get a dangerous present... Meanwhile on the second story, a Chinese student is getting attacked by the Monster Book of Monsters while another customer literally stumbles upon the Invisible Books of Invisibility which the store had misplaced some time ago. The door behind Lockhart leads to a room in the back of the store where the store owner can retreat to. There's a desk for doing paper work, a cozy little fireplace, and lots of other things. Click the pics for hi-res versions. For more images, visit this Brickshelf folder. Have a magical Harry Potter Month!

Yes, that's great news considering how many eyes and decals there are on the cars alone. On the other hand it will make all the pieces harder to reuse in non-Cars MOCs. Oh well. By the way, I was wondering what 8678 Ultimate Build Francesco could look like, and a quick google search came up with pictures of a leaked diecast of the character. Apparently his name is Francesco Bernoulli and he's a Formula 1 race car. Click here to see more pics. If this is anything like those large Ferrari F1 racers, this could be a great set! Hopefully it wont have a lot of Technic. Oh, and could a mod please add the missing sets to the first post?

Well, this certainly was a weird episode. It kinda had more of a Star Trek feel to it IMO. It had absolutely nothing to do with the Clone Wars, and it opened up a lot more questions than it answered any. But then again, isn't that how almost all episodes in this season have been? So, unless something really crazy happens in the next episodes, I'm not really looking forward to them. The guest voices were great though. Did anyone else recognize Starkiller and Maris? And is it just me or does adult Ahsoka look kinda hot?

Good question. I've been wondering that myself. Looking closely at this picture, I think I see some Technic connections under Sebulba's cockpit and toward the back of Anakin's engines which seem to have been sloppily photoshopped out, so I'm guessing it will be studless Technic bars holding the pods together this time. I'm really hoping they will be trans-clear in the final version, but even if not, they should be much less noticeable than the tan blocks.

Well, according to Huw there are NO new characters in the advent calendar, "but one of them is in new clothes, and it's not a queen Amidala". I wish he would just tell us who it is already. We'll probably find out soon anyway.

He also says that Heroic Heroes is a vehicle set... That has me puzzled.