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And Peter had been looking for his chainsaw all afternoon...

Really, really, really cool. Really. Hope you get a chance to finish the whole tree. I'd love to see a spot where Luke and Leia have their strange brother-sister chat

Walking Dead will not dissapoint! I read up until about issue 55ish, and then, to be honest, I got too overwhelmed with the depressing plot to keep going! It is really awesome though, and my friends who keep up with it are still loving it. I read Lost At Sea when I was in highschool. It is pretty deep, not the fast-paced funny book that Scott Pilgrim is. The title is a reference to a line from a Smashing Pumpkins song called Stumbeline - there's my nerdy fact-o-the-day. I hope you enjoy it! Really great. Some book stores in Canada carry it regularly, I'm not sure if B&N will have it in the States.

I probably don't need to tell you guys by now, but Superheroes arrived at Fairview yesterday. The place was a madhouse! I felt like I was acting out dynamic duo escape while trying to purchase it!! Long lines (probably just for Christmas) but I noticed a lot of people picking up one, two, or ALL of the sets very cool.

Lots of great comments here, just wanted to throw in my two cents... Here's the thing - no matter what kind of Lego you buy, it all has one thing in common: you have to build it. I think most people are assuming that TLG is simply selling pre-fab, easy-to-use, brainless toys shamelessly aimed at girls when they are clearly selling what they have always been selling - a toy that you BUILD YOURSELF! LEGO is not comparable to other toys because of that fact. I think Lego is, in some ways, an alternative to other hands-on, creative passtimes like crochet or model airplanes - you're given the raw elements and an instruction manual, and you can't play with it until you've built them. Thus, TLG cannot really be accused of any kind of shameless sexism because any person who enjoys these toys is going to have to work to enjoy them. Whether or not Lego is inherently unisex is an interesting discussion, but when framed the way I'm hoping to portray it, I hope people will recognize that building the set is the first aspect of satisfaction from any Lego toy, and playing with it is secondary.

Wow, this is really great! Praise all over. I feel like this is something I might have crudely drawn in elementery school - seeing it happen with lego blocks has thus completed the circle. Thanks! That croc is toooo cool.

Hahaha, caught!!! props to a dude from rl called GB.

LEGO is asking interested parties to vote on the next lego architecture set! Personally, I would like to see some from OUTSIDE the United States! Hit this link to have your voice heard! http://architecture.lego.com/en-us/inspire-us/ Candidates: United States Capitol Coliseum Eiffel Tower Habitat 67 (has my vote!) Montjuic Petronas Towers 30 St Mary Axe Golden Pavillion Taipei 101 HSB Turning Torso (also has my vote!) Feel free to discuss your picks, discuss the merits of each building, or inspire others to use their votes for your pick! Here's hoping we get some interesting new builds

Those sold out within two weeks at my local Lego store - I managed to get one of each colour before the madness ensued! Whew!

I haven't seen much non-SNOT hate on EB, but what about this... In building anything, we should always be concerned with texture. Sometimes we achieve texture with a variety of like colours, or have slopes or other bits jutting out of places to illustrate complexity or unevenness (think bottom of the Super Star Destroyer ) Studs are also a method of creating texture. You may make a placid lake or pond with tiles, but a rushing river would look much mighter with studs up (or, even partially studded). Similar principle with snow - trodden snow will likely be studs up, but undisturbed snow can be SNOTted for great effect. To reference the 'mad physicist's house above, the studs towards the roof present a subtle but important aspect of the architecture. Is it an ornate eavestrough? A Georgian stylistic norm? I don't know, but it definitely isn't the flatlaid brick that makes up the rest of the house! So, texture! texture! texture! ...right?

In our campaign, we LOVE the rules! We out-do each other by how rulesy we are, and constantly challenge on DM on every rule. We play by the book, quite literally, for battles. In RP, however, there's lots of room for fluidity. Our DM is pretty cool about that. The other thing is we only use Lego for the battles. All RP is done without any visuals (unless the DM has given us some kind of map, or a code or something). Using Lego to RP or set up RP scenarios becomes incredibly difficult, as fred67 has described, and can easily slip into a glorified way of playing with dolls (though outsiders already think that's what we do anyways...!) Thanks for the detailed concerns, Legoist. 'Facing' has not yet been an issue, though I hadn't considered that initially. It does play a psychological element that you don't get when you use dice, bottlecaps, or salt shakers (which we commonly use for minions or large creatures!) For the 'what you can see' element of the game, the DM currently only draws the parts of the area we can see on our erasable graphchart grid. We'll lose that ability if we switch to a lego tile base. Very good observation, I hadn't thought of that! However, we have managed to do secret doorways and invisible characters pretty well. Our campaign is anal about perception checks, looting, and looking for secrets All this has been very insightful. Though we are anal about rules and treasure hunting, we've all been pretty accomodating for the visual aspect right now. No one complains if we use toy girrafe for a dragon, as long as it takes up four squares. Same with minions - using 8 d8s with each one numbered one to eight is way easier than using, like, 8 minifigs with different coloured pants (or something!) We just want to take our experience to another level by wowing ourselves with what we can use based on the fun stuff available from Lego! If anyone has tried something that hasn't been mentioned or thinks of some cool possibilities, definitely post! I'm very encouraged by the responses so far!

Wow, that Zoroark is brilliant! You really take control of the small scale, I can easily recognize each one. Great stuff! (p.s., I still need a Zoroark and Zorua... feel free to message me if you want to trade!)

Being a Toronto native, I loved Scott Pilgrim! In fact, my ex-bandmate's ex-bandmate's brother is the author! No joke! This is pretttty much the only webcomic I really follow, also a Toronto thing kinda. Kinda bizarre, lots of words, http://www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html

Coming late to this, want to address so many things...! If you're tired of the big DC/Marvel comics, then read some of the smaller titles or the non-canonical sides. I don't think anyone has mentioned Neil Gaiman's 'Marvel 1602' which was simply brilliant. Most libraries will have the TPB. DC fans have Vertigo to look to, as well. If you're new to Manga: don't expect it to be like American comics. I've seen the most wonderful and bizzare things happen in Manga that could never happen in any other medium. Same could be said about anime, I suppose. Try reading 20th Century Boys - if it doesn't blow your mind, I'll punch myself in the face. Also, and this is a travesty, but how has no one mentioned IMAGE COMICS? Image, which is best known now for Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead, is far and away the best alt comic printer. Best titles: -Invincible (my favourite superhero story ever... ever!) -Walking Dead -Spawn (SPAWN! did no one mention Spawn!?) -Elephantmen -Savage Dragon -The Astounding Wolfman -Haunt (Todd Macfarlane and Robert Kirkman) -Girls If you like comics, you owe it to yourself!! I mentioned recently in another post that most of the Lego licences regarding the comic heroes really have nothing to do with the comics and everything to do with our familiarity with the characters from TV and movies. I was so glad to see a topic regarding actual comics and very interested to see what the Lego community, in general, enjoys reading. Thanks!