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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!

Don't know if there are any comic readers out there, but with the new DC licence appearing soon, I thought it might be cool to see some of the comics people actually STILL READ REGULARLY come into a Lego set! Right at the top of that list is Invincible (Image). My favourite superhero comic of all time, closing in on 100 issues... so many characters, especially villians, I think it would actually make a really fun series! Alas, it won't make it into the likes of Lego until it does something silly like spawn a television show or have a boring movie with a tedious love plot. Sigh.

It is my understanding that on Friday there will be sale pricing on some more recent sets over $140, which is pretty cool. As to which sets those are, well, I'm sure not even the employees will know until they print the stickers! It should be worth checking out, though, especially since it is a sort of unique in-store event. I'll be at Fairview for sure .

Interesting point about non-articulating raptor tail. For some reason, that didn't occur to me at first, possibly because lizards and reptiles are not as tail-conscious as, say, the feline or rodent families. Would have been sweet, though, particularly for a raptor! (Of course, if I had my way, the raptors would have feathers like chickens, their closest living relatives, but I'm a party-pooper like that )

One of the intersting questions that has come up about this series is, basically, "what the hell is going on? what is the context for this dino/human interaction?" I think MOCs like these are going to really define what the value of this set is going to be to both adults and kids. I would bet that most of us wouldn't think twice about it - like, Dinosaurs, and we're there too, what's there to think about!!! - but anyone who invests in this set will have to define the context of this interaction in their own terms, and I think that adds a sweet dimension to the overall appeal of this series and, in particular, what it seems like you're beginning to do with it! Thanks!

I was also wary of the yellow scheme at first, but two things came to me: 1, where Red and/or Black would have been preferable, it may have been too close to the Jurrasic Park conception of human/dino interaction. 2, Yellow actually works brilliantly against green rainforests as well as the colours of the dinosaurs themselves. Something that's lost in the reptillian conception of dinosaurs' skin is that reptiles exist in the wet forests as well as the desert. The yellow brings a sharp colour contrast as well as that desert aspect often missed in this type of dino concept. Give the yellow a chance! It may grow on you

There are never enough cool zombie mocs! Wicked! Any plans to expand on this?

Getting a D&Dinsider subscription can be expensive but the Character Builder and online books make it totally worth it. Unless you absolutely need the hardcover Dungeon Master's Guide on your bedside table, this is the way to go! I've been playing SUPER GHETTO DnD for the past three years (I used a d4 as my character for an entire 1-year campaign) but in the 4th ed campaign we're making a slow but steady transition over to Lego-based play. We started by building minifigs that were representative of our characters. Our Eladrin and Half-Elf used the Elf heads from Series 3 and customized their bodies with various armour and pants. One wears a cape and the other a robe (two Elf capes!) and both hold wands, all of which I got in the small HarryP Forbidden Forest Set. Also from that set, our Genasi Battlemage is using Voldermort's angry white head with the helmet from Series 5's Evil Dwarf. My character, a Wilden Shaman, was seriously tough to build, and I'm still not happy with the final results but hey, its tough to build a tree-creature thing out of minifig materials! My spirit companion is a dinosaur, and I use the lizard head from Series 5 on a parka body piece with green bricks for his legs. (And that's how far we've come without using Castles!) All our allies stand on white 2x2s, and all the enemies stand on black 2x2s. We use a graph paper board for now, on which the 2x2s fit really well. The extra two studs on each platform are reserved for status effect markers (like, attaching a red slope for bloodied, blue tile for marked, or a green tile for poison, etc) remaining flexible based on what the battle calls for. That's the system so far. What we're looking to do is build up a solid minifig collection, particularly from Castle, and then build a proper lego board with 4x4 tiles deliniating positions (so every figure has lots of room to lay prone, fall over, or whatever!) What I'm looking for in particular, however, are lego pieces I can use as LARGE size enemies. Currently, I'm thinking the Fire Dragon from Ninjago, which I would mount on a 6x6 and put its wings up high so that the figures can go right up to it underneath the wings. That set is kind of expensive, though, and has much more than just the dragon. Anyone know of any cool Dragons (or other LARGE creatues!) that might be cool for Dungeons and Dragons? Or has anyone encountered a system that totally trumps this humble upstart? Please share!

I recently joined a new band and they decided to give me a nickname. My first name happens to be the name of a particularly popular popsicle character, and so I was popsicle p____ (I'll leave that one to your imagination ) Well, that mouthful was shortened to pp, which inevitibly found a 7 attached to it (the N64 generation cannot forsake its ties to Goldeneye). Adding the 'silencer' was out of the question - drummers are sensitive about that kind of stuff. I now find myself meeting people for the first time who only know me as pp7, which is kinda cool. This is the first time I'm using the handle online, so hopefully no one mistakes me for a gun enthusiast or Goldeneye snob!

How about Neon Genesis Evangelion? The new anime movies are coming out. You can build Tokyo 3 and it will move around and sink. You could build the NERV HQ, each of the Evas, and a few of the Angels. It would have brilliant colours and incredible detail with small pieces for the Evas. Anyone else think that would be awesome? I know of someone who started to work on Eva Unit 01, incredible: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=53378&st=0&p=953522&hl=evangelion&fromsearch=1entry953522

Hello other new people, I'm new and feeling my way around the website. Looks like fun stuff! Looking forward to geeking out with everyone.