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NOTE: AS OF Aug-12 THIS COLLECTION IS STILL AVAILABLE, THANKS! Hi all! I have a decent sized collection of complete sets from the mid 1990s that I'd like to sell as one collection. I came across this collection as a giant bucket, and spent a good amount of time cleaning, sorting and finding the missing pieces via Bricklink. If you are interested, please PM me and we can talk. Thanks for looking! (please note that all of these sets are 100% complete, but have no boxes and most likely no stickers; all instructions are included in varying degrees of quality) Dark Forest 6046 Hemlock Stronghold 6079 Dark Forest Fortress (this has the worst condition instructions; it has a large tear missing on the front cover; the rest of the booklet is fine) Exploriens 6815 Hovertron 6815 Hovertron 6856 Planetary Decoder 6899 Nebula Outpost 6899 Nebula Outpost 6938 Scorpion Detector Spyrius 6835 Saucer Scout 6939 Saucer Centurion 6959 Lunar Launch Site Space 1785 Introducing Crater Critters RoboForce 2152 Robo Raptor Space Police II 6897 Rebel Hunter Ice Planet 2002 6898 Ice-Sat V Dragon Knights 6020 Magic Shop 6048 Majisto's Magical Workshop 6082 Fire Breathing Fortress Police 6664 Chopper Cops Aquanauts 6125 Sea Sprint 9 6175 Crystal Explorer Sub Aquasharks 6135 Spy Shark 6155 Deep Sea Predator 6190 Shark's Crystal Cave Unitron 1787 Crater Cruiser 1793 Space Station Zenon Additionally there is a large bucket of pieces of similar vintage (including minifigs) that I could not properly classify into proper sets (probably too many missing pieces to identify). I would also be interested in selling these.

Sure thing. I may take some time in the future and make some more (nicer ones too), with a little variety. I'll post them if I ever get around to it.

Here ya go, I 'shopped one up for you real quick. Feel free to use it... or not Full rez link (1920x1080): Futuron Backdrop (imgur)

I was wondering this as well. Anyone have any information about this?

Signed! It would be great if we didn't have to jump through hoops like last year for the castle set, but even that is better than no chance at all! :pir-skull:

Smeg! ...give quiche a chance...

Hide and go seek olympics. 'nuff said

Oh you've found a hole in my tutorial!!! Well I'll have to plug it at some point For now, however, here's a (less than desirable) solution for you: It seems that the colors on Peeron don't perfectly match the ones from Bricklink (which is where that color palette was built from). If you go to the Bricklink Color Catalogue, you can see where I got the colors from. I used the HTML (hex value) colors to build the colors in that palette. Back in photoshop, if you open Image->Mode->Color Table... and then click on one of the colors, you can get the hex value of the color from the text field labeled with the # sign (under RGB, it should be a six digit code, including some letters). For example, the brightest green color (actually Medium Green) in the palette will have the value #62f58e. Back to the bricklink colors, if you view the source of that page (in Safari, this would be View->View Source; I expect its similar in IE/Firefox), you can extract the HTML that was used to construct that page. Now here's the less fun part... do a find on the page for the hex value of the color. It will be embedded in some HTML TD tags. You want to follow two TD tags over to get the name of the color. You should find it to look something like this: <TD BGCOLOR="62F58E"><A HREF="/catalogList.asp?v=2&colorID=37"><IMG SRC="/images/dot.gif" WIDTH="15" HEIGHT="15" BORDER="0"></A></TD> <TD><IMG SRC="/images/dot.gif" WIDTH="3" HEIGHT="1"></TD> <TD><FONT FACE="Tahoma,Arial" SIZE="2">Medium Green </TD> YUCK! I'll need to extract those and add them to the tutorial above when I have some time, so that others won't have to do the same Hopefully that'll be enough to get you going on your mosaic (and share it with us when it's done!!). Sorry for the trouble

The calendar is available at the Lego stores. Usually they have a pile of them at or near the register; sometimes you have to ask. Its just a sheet with the current (or upcoming) month on it, with some news and specials marked on certain days, and usually a coupon on the bottom with offers similar to this one.

I have the July flyer for the Lego stores (US) and this is available (free) if you spend $75 during the month. I don't have a scan of it unfortunately, but it looks like this won't be for sale, just a promo thing for coming in and buying some stuff.

Totally awesome!! (Saw it on BB too, grats on that!)

Thanks a lot everyone for the feedback Perhaps there will be future adventures of the Office Troll...

I recently bought a large collection and went through and sorted out all of the TYCO. I agree it can be hard to spot them as they are so very similar (although after going through this really large collection I've become pretty good at it). I stuck all of them aside and when I was finished sorting I donated them to the local Salvation Army.

Hi everyone! I have another MOC to put up: Office Troll! I used a little camera trickery to get a shot of this grumpy co-worker tossing a paper airplane. His desk is disturbingly clean, probably because he spends 95% of his time messing with the rest of the cube farm inhabitants. Here's a shot of his desk up close (monitor, keyboard, mouse, jar of pens). Here's the bulletin board up close (post-it and bus pass). Here's a close up of the trash can (thats a bandana in case you were wondering). And here's a shot of the office chair (which I'm particularly proud of). Also, you can see that the paper airplane is being supported by one of the new skeleton arms. C&C welcome! MOC Pages: Office Troll

Hi fellow Baltimore resident! Crazy coincidence, I've been looking for some time to check out your museum

I wrote a tutorial not too long ago (link) about making mosaics using Photoshop. I'm not too sure custom software, but this method allows you to set the exact resolution and color palette you want to use. It is, I'm sure, more time consuming than simply plugging a JPG into custom software tho

Thanks everyone for the compliments! Ahhhhh you spotted it! That would be a "booster seat" if you will Its my sneaky way of having the vampire perched so oddly over the woman. In truth, she is also holding the other end of that part (a black 1x2 tile), both of their hands are rotated in odd ways, allowing the vampire to be elevated a bit off the ground and twisted at the odd angle that you see

Hi all, here's a quick MOC I threw together to play around with atmospheric lighting and photoshop. (And the MOC page for it, although there's only one pic! MOC Pages)

The black friday add for TRU is available online, and there is quite a lot on sale: 50% off many Bionicle sets 50% off all Aqua Raiders sets 40% off Mars Mission 7699 40% off Star Wars MTT 7662 TRU Black Friday Ad

Good! Count me in then :pir-skull:

Good point! To get a solid contrast in foundation colors, you can actually reduce the brightness and raise the contrast. This will really dramatize this difference in colors and may help when switching to an indexed color palette.

Yeah I definitely have this issue from time to time. It can be very satisfying, and dangerous, to by addicted to any sort of shopping. Personally, I tend to buy lots of new lego on serious sales (like TRUs buy 2 get 1) and then shove it all in the closet. Then, one day, when I really really really have a jonesing for a new set I can go "shopping" in the closet. I actually have so much in there at the moment that I couldn't even list it all from memory. This tactic serves me well in that I am getting everything as cheap as is reasonable to find, and I do so when I have the extra cash for it (again, to use the TRU sale as an example, I know that it comes up twice a year or so; I can save up for it intentionally so I can get the most out of it). This makes the spending substantially more controlled, and still allows me that fix whenever I want as there is a store full of unopened stuff in the closet waiting for me at a moments notice. This, however, may not be remotely helpful to you, as it seems that you're more inclined to target older sets (luckily I still have all of mine, and the collection is fairly complete so there are only a few that I keep an eye out for on ebay). This being the case for you, I'd recommend taking a look at some consumer friendly websites that have real advice on how to reign in spending in general. A blog that I read daily, The Consumerist has had many articles that talk about how to resist the urge to spend money when you don't have it. And some of the advice is really creative, and certainly can be extreme. If you are real serious about wanting to stop spending, and places like ebay and bricklink are genuine problems I'd recommend adapting the advice that you'll find around about curbing credit card spending. Basically, the advice is usually something like "freeze the card inside a block of ice, so that if you really really really want/need it, you have to wait a few hours to get it out, which give you time to reflect on its use". You could do a similar thing, by "freezing" (ie. blocking) ebay, paypal, bricklink, and other websites from your computer. This block surely wouldn't be permanent, but you can make it just inconvenient enough that you'd have to have more than an impulsive reason to go to the website. Tactics like this can be very effective. Basically, every chance you can give yourself to pause for a moment and realize what you are about to do is another chance you have to change your mind. Best of luck!

There is a 1 x 3 x 5, and a 1 x 6 x 5, but I don't think there is a 1 x 4 x 5.

I can't guarantee that it's 100% complete, but if you go to www.bricklink.com, then click on the Catalog tab, select "Minifig, Headgear" from the "All Categories" tab, and type "hair" in the box. Then click "Go!" and you'll get a list of all of the headgear molds that are listed as being hair. You can click on any of them to get more info, such as what colors they are available in. In the event that this doesn't cover everything, try taking "hair" out of the box and searching for all headgear. You'll have to root through hats and helmets, but there aren't actually that many unique molds so its not that big of a deal. Hope that helps!

Any chance these might show up in other lego stores, or do you think this will be confined to build event?