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i found these two pics of the exo force on brickshelf. i'm not sure if these are official sets, tho, they look like alternative versions of official models, still, the left speeder looks very good! hm... i may even buy that one.... http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery....y.cgi?i=1514833

That's correct, the Maersk ship is sold out in Austria ;) (and I missed it again... |-/ ) I think the Maersk ship is wrong to use for measurement. TLC is only allowed to produce a certain number of maersk blue bricks at a time. Hence the set is quickly sold out in some areas. The sets are distributed per size of country and market share ;) I'm sorry that it's sold out and you didn't get one. Better luck next time if there's going to be a next time. KimT at around june, several retailers in Belgium got a letter from lego saying there's a delay of the shipment for july. the new shipment will arive in september. I'm afraid lego is looking for cheaper ways to distribute the products, so it takes longer for the sets to arrive and obviously the channels they're using are far from perfect. for instance, they used to transport the sets from denmark to belgium thru holland, which is the fastest way to do it. Now it seems they're using british distribution lines, so the lego goes to the UK first and then gets shipped to belgium. lego is just trying to save money on transport, therefore relying on cheap, low-quality transport companies and becoming a very unreliable company herself. some sets are sold out for now, but you can still order them. That's a normal situation. When lego uses the term "sold out" it means the sets are no longer available, or in production. both aren't the result of bad production/distribution...

look, captain! there's another ship that got stranded on this table!!! why don't these bastards have a lighthouse around here?!!

i'm a bit worried about this Prusian guy. before he reaches france, he'll have to go thru a few other kingdoms, probably Beieren or so, then he's at the border of my own country. He'll have to go thru that as well in order to go to Paris. What makes you, Allies, think that he won't just occupy all those countries? This action against France might just be an excuse to occupy the entire continent of Europe... I don't trust him. i won't allow him to have a clear voyage thru the Lowlands. There is also another sensitive question: what side is Russia on? If Russia is on the side of France, then we can forget all about Prussia. It just cannot fight a war on two different fronts....

well i guess they didn't think their products would become so successful. the problem is most likely capacity. Perhaps they shut down machines that provide extra capacity for the production of specific parts during the year, perhaps they don't have enough resources, whatever... it's difficult for a management to predict how bad or good a product is going to sell 1.5 year after having designed it. Lego is going thru some changes which might also have a negative impact on capacity. They'll sort it out next year... They also have a poblem with distributing the lego products... they need to clear that up as well...

hm... i'm not really sure about this one. it looks good, but i'd like to see the real model first before making up my mind about this one... still, the t-rex looked more impressive, for some reason... did you guys see the number of awards the t rex got? impressive!

try not to see every object in terms of a creator or a purpose behind it. a tree doesn't grow on a certain spot because a god wants it too, it just grows there because conditions are good, that's all... the process of growing also doesn't involve a creator, it's just a huge collection of processes, cells, ... working together, leading to new cells, new offspring... I don't think Newton wrote something like: "Larger objects in space have a larger magnetic field, why? Because God says so!" gravity doesn't work like that... There is no reason for why we're here, even human beings are just the result of natural processes, we're just part of this huge global system... It's up to you to decide what the purpose of your life is. To some it's only to have a great time and to have fun, others feel they have to change society for the better,... whatever, that's up to you, not to any creator... by living the way you want to, you're giving purpose or reason to your life... that's it... sorry if that disappoints you...

ok... 1) first, i'm not offended, in fact, i was asking for it the moment i posted the previous message... 2) i don't "believe" in the big bang theory, i follow scientific methodoly: you want to understand, you observe, you study, you create a theory, you test, you conclude, you publish, you debate, ... for now, the theory of the big bang is the best scientific explenation for the way the universe is today... I'm very much aware of it's flaws, but it's a start... 3) the eye... hm.... first, the eye isn't perfect at all, many people wear glasses because something in their eye got messed up. in some cases, these things don't work at all. Surely, that can't be the work of a god, or a creator of some kind... that would be cruel from his part... In fact, human bodies aren't perfect at all: we even have bones inside us that we don't use at all, we need to sleep for 7-8 hours every 24 hours, we don't regenerate,... second, if darwin were to live today he'd be very surprised what humans can do from a medical point of view. Besides, several principles of darwin's original idea have been improved or changed. Like Einstein, Darwin wasn't right all the time... three, Gallop's idea that only god can get all these different functions working together doesn't convince me at all. super computers can also do lots of different functions and they've been designed by principles of nature, technology and human creativity... I do know that nature has been working on this project called human life for many millions of years, surely that's enough to get some of the work done... We most defenitely have solid evidence of evolution... 4) test 2 is kind of weird. no you cannot convince me... part of science is the requirement that if you repeat the test, the result should be the same... So if you succeed once, which i doubt, what makes you think you can get it a second time as well, and the third,... But even then, it does not lead to the conclusion that any kind of god is responsable for it... The sun goes up and down every day, that does not convince me to say a god is responsible for it, in fact it's gravity... 5) the difference is "there is no gold in China" can easily be verified. show me the spot in china where you found gold, we'll get a geologist to verify it actually is gold, and that's it: there is gold in China. the existence of a god, or even more than one can't be verified, it's a question of faith, not fact. therefore, it's impossible to compare both. God is a religious figure, there's no scientific fact that actually shows me his existence, at best, you're refering to complicated things (like the eye), or to weird, unverified things (like the oranges) but those don't give me any evidence of his existence. They just proof that the eye is complex and that oranges fall down if you drop them... as long as you can't provide me with some real evidence of his existence, i can clearly say "there is no god". it doesn't force me to have any opinion or insight about hairs, thought, history, whatever... there is a difference with the building. i can clearly state: this building is manmade, even tho i do not know who the builder was, but i recognice the concept of a building, made by humans, that leads me to the conclusion that the building was created by a person... So i do know there's a builder, i just don't know his name... I can do the same with humans, trees, animals: i recognice laws of nature, i can see them living in a certain context,... to me, they've been created by nature, by certain principles and laws... I'm not smart enough to understand all principles of nature, but biologists and others do... i don't see the work of a god...

isn't this the scene where golum is washing himself while being watched by men (Boromir's brother and his group of rebels)? i think Two Towers...

hm.... i find this to be a weird moc... surely there's something missing, like Minifigs or so... there's also something wrong with the waterfall. looks like a stairway, it doesn't look like a waterfall, it needs light blue and white bricks.

i saw the film today and it was most defenitely the best hp yet! Finaly hp-films are evolving into more serious hp films. especialy the first 2 films were still very much like fairy tales, you tell your children before they go to sleep... i wouldn't do that with this film. this was also the first hp film that did not annoy me at some point, so this must be a good film! the film is, like the story, a lot darker, after all, Voldemort is alive and kicking, ready to change the world for the worse. Surely, no one would accept a bright, shining film when a story is that dark. i've read the last book, i guess that would be hp5, and that's even darker than hp4. i guess we'll all leave the cinema hugely depressed after having seen hp5. :P i can't really think of a major bad thing... there's the question of the Malfoy family. Lucius will be, that's in the hp5 book, brought to azkhaban, but a few other people are hardly in this film: snape for instance, or malfoy junior... but they're not particularly important for this section of the hp-story, anyway...

hm... there are a billion times a billion stars in our galaxy alone. So even if there's a chance of 1% or even less, that still means there are millions of planets with potential... you're assuming that "our path of evolution to humanoid life" is the only way to come to intelligent life, i don't know if that's true. i don't think that if temperature would have been 20

there is a kind of arrogance in the idea that there's nobody else. As if the infinite universe is only for us to use, study, whatever...

well... to link this with Matt's thread, the ship at ebay for 25

i wish!

damn! he saw right thru me! :P

hm... i think this belongs in the non-system forum if this is about the large castle figs... personaly, i don't understand what people see in these figs.

same here!

Makro also sells the blue buckets 3033, from 1998. it's a weird story. i think they discovered an extra stock somewhere in their warehouse, must have been the year 2002 or so... Since then they're regularly selling them in the shop... sometimes you're lucky and you'll be able to buy one for about 39

yeah... i guess they will be looking for the general lines, still, good luck to the people who are going to analyse all this information! i think they will find at least two major requests: 1) army building historical theme, like "Rome" 2) based on the popularity of the old Pirate sets, a new Pirate theme

isn't it generaly known that many ebay buyers are very often not well enough informed about the lego products they're bidding for... nothing surprises me anymore in this regard....

outch... it seems to me the fans are asking for practicaly everything they can think of... in any case, i didn't get any message, so it might be an american initiative

ah... ufo's! as a child i was amazed by the phenomenon :oD creatures from outer space visiting earth... that was kind of fun... i've outgrown the phenomenon, tho... at some point, you just realise how unlikely it is to get visitors from another planet... I remember our UFO wave in Belgium, early 1990's! wow! that was fun! there was one particular case that even our best specialists never solved tho. it was a black triangle flying very slow just above the trees, somewhere around Charleroi, i believe... A ground radio from a nearby airbase pick it up, and directed two F-16's to the target, but only one was able to manualy set up the F-16's radar to get a "lock"; then the thing just outmanoevered the vipers and was gone... many thought is was a stealth but a) it didn't exist at that time, b) it can never outmanoever an F-16... lego's UFO theme was a mess, unfortunately.... terribly printed parts, useless and large pieces, and too bright minifigs...

There is an action between lego and LU, but i don't know if this is part of it...

Dear Allies, I received a letter from my scouts in the Northern parts of France, indicating the French are marching for the Belgian border. However, i'll take them by surprise in the area we know as French-Flanders (the area of Duinkerken, surely that must ring a bell to you, brits!) In doing so, i'll be retaking a part of France that is rightfully ours! However, i won't stop there. I'll go straight to Paris and plunder the city of lights! I'll just sell whatever i can find, like Yoda's Lego collection, on ebay later on... doesn't that sound like a good plan? oh btw, once that's been done, i'll just leave you people to your fights at sea... I only have pirates, mercenaries and lowlife , but no boats