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My new expanded city (still in the planning stages) will have an airport so I decided to make some planes which did not end uptaking too much space. The first is a compact jet plane that will be part of the aerobatic display team (catchy name to follow). I would also like to add a passenger plane with a limited wingspan though still working on that. I wanted it to have retractable wheels but I did not have any in my parts.

The problem I find today is the vast amount of specialised pieces when compared to the Lego I had as a child. One of my first sets was the police headquarters 370 with the police car being one of my all time favourite vehicles, I still have a built-up one on my bookshelf. I like your minivan version and takes me back to the models I built as a child with limited pieces.

This is truly inspirationally, I love the decking you created.

Wow, this is something completely different, great work, just don't sneeze.

Great review, I would like to get this set and the ice-breaker to create an arctic theme to my city.

I received my Tower Bridge today and and feeling overwhelmed by all the thousands of pieces, I started building and after two hours am only about seven bricks high on the towers. Looks like its going to be an impressive build.

I like the tent technique, something to copy.

The little details you put in really create the scene and has given me some ideas I am going to try out. Great work.

I prefer these to the bigger official firetrucks which I think tend to get too big, I am going to have borrow some of your techniques to make my town vehicles slightly smaller. Great work.

I faced a similar problem. Previously Lego shipped missing parts to South Africa when I contacted them, now South Africa has been removed from the list. I was given as a gift one of the Shell Lego promotion packs which had two pieces missing and was not in a postion to return it to the petrol station. I could not even email Lego as the drop down menu would not let me unless I chose one of the countries on the list. I eventually chose UK and explained in my email the problem. Lego, to my great surprise, responded and said they would post the missing pieces to me in South Africa. While I applaud the customer service I find this change in policy upsetting as it makes me question my further purchases based on whether a missing piece would detract from the set or not. When I bought the Grand Emporium it was missing an entire bag of parts, which Lego posted to me without query, now if a similar situation arises I can just imagine the lack of customer service I will receive from the store I bought it from. I seriously think Lego needs to reconsider this change in policy considering the sheer volume of sets it sells around the world. but when you do that it prompts you for a valid address and postcode to progress further.

Looking good, you have put some great detail into these creations and have a nice balance of detail without it being overcrowded. I like the way you created the road.

As a kid I bought a number of classic space kids and still have them and am busy reviving them to create a space theme moonbase. Not having any of the other sets my bias is with classic space sets. I have a number of Star Wars sets that I tend to build and leave. The classic sets are basic sets that allow for more creativity than the current sets Lego produces. While I am amazed the way new sets look I dislike the specialisation of the pieces. When trying to build something new I often have one or two unique pieces that prevent any real creativity. The classic space sets, I think are true to the original idea of Lego.

Truly impressive constuction, it's a pity Lego does not produce Star Trek models while over-producing neverendless Star Wars ones. I would love to see a Klingon Bird of Prey made out of Lego in this scale.

This is great, I am busy planning to revive my classic space collection and you have given me some ideas.

I bought 8 random packets and the only duplicate I bought was two Romans, which I really like, its a pity I never managed to get any of the other series Roman soldiers. I like the themes that get carried through in the series, Like the Romans, also the Indian chief from a previous series goes with the soldier in this series. There are quite a few possibilites to make some nice scenes with these recurrent themes, like using Roman soldiers and gladiators, or Cleopatra or Medusa. So I quite like this series. As for Mr Gold, if he was one of the 16 in a series he would not be on my list to buy, so now that he is rare, quite frankly I am not that eager to get him. Must have more Romans.

Let me add my compliments too as this a truly architecturally superb build, I love the touch with the occupy protestors, I was visiting London when they were there and it brings back those memories.

Very nice design,I would love to see it in the canal.

I think you have done a very good job with these buildings and the colours used are not too unrealistic which I find can be the case when using red and blue. I have a problem with too many primary colour bricks and not enough earth tones which lead to garish looking buildings. Your design has avoided this problem. I would though, as another post mentioned, change the colour of the front gate to maybe just white, otherwise my compliments.

That's quite a simple design yet is quite intricate in its detail, I particularly like the water effect you created.

Great review, it helped me in deciding to buy this set. It cost R1984 ($239 here in SA) but worth it as it is a fantastic display model, along with my imperial shuttle perhaps the best yet. If only I could buy three and make it slightly longer and a double decker, what ship that would be.

A really great job, you managed to create a great scene which could be too much but the different aspects all work so well together. A lovely construction.

I ordered the Imperial Shuttle last week Thursday, should get it around Wednesday, I was planning to wait as it is quite pricey but kept worrying that it would be out of stock. I have just blown my Lego budget for the year.

Really love the Hoth scene. That is something I want to do one day.

Kind of reminds me of those posters showing how planets compare in size to the sun etc. This would make a great poster. Really good work. You need to include an x-wing fighter as the next jump in scale.