snefroe

why don't you use these: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=3876

hm... I see... it's another baseplate! so our poor ship still has a chance to escape!

i'd be more worried about that small boat, pirate... i mean, how is that ever going to reach the ocean? it's entirely surrounded by land... :P

i have a similar question about part 4151. there is a guy at bricklink who's selling these parts in yellow, even tho peeron doesn't have this piece in that color. Would that also be one of those collectable parts, Suvie?

they look very good! how many of these are you actually capable of building before you run out of parts?

i think the lego company and Maersk have build a very large ship like this as well. I guess it's on display at Maersk HQ : http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=114781 i wouldn't want to build one, tho. the red and blue bricks would make it very expensive...

And this is good? TLC has tried many new things and lost a bundle of money on it. The fact that TLC was impenetrable was due to the fact that it had been a family cooperation for many years and this had affected how TLC worked - not allowing visitors and so forth. This changed when TLC has a survey that showed they were dinosaurs in leading and managing a cooperation - which meant they lost money |:| and nobody likes losing money 8-| So they remodeled the entire construction of the firm. They are aware of fans of all ages and they have put focus on the fans along side the changes in the firm . they no longer know best, to try to listen to the users. [change from family control to business cooperation]. What I'm saying is, I'm not sure the change is due to fake LEGO firms, but more to the common change in running businesses and the threat of several non-LEGO toys - playstation/collectible card games / cheap toys and the ever terrorspreading enemy Playmobil *sick* KimT i think they lost money because: 1) bad decisions/management (at some point, they even tried to create electronic games instead of signing a contract/license with a specialist) especially a few years ago, they just spent far too much money on stuff that simply wasn't priority (they bought companies in the US for whatever reason) they also owned the billund airport, they had an airplane standing by all they time... 2) i'm not sure how this went in other countries, but management of Lego Belgium was terrible! First, Lego had a terrible rep with the retailers, so many retailers weren't really interested anymore in getting lego. Second, profit margins were terrible, very often, less than 10%, so customers would never get any discount because that would force retailers to sell lego almost at a break-even point... at the same moment cheap competitors stepped in and sold immediately. Other toys also had a major breakthru, PC games, nintendo... This all changed this year: new manager, new strategy, lots of discounts, sales increased with 20%! 3) and to be honest, lego's products were at the end of the 90's, to 2004 not very good. UFO, insectoids, the city lines, jack stone, ... The traditional lines just didn't do well, for reasons of quality in all possible aspects... So it all came down lego sw...

good point!

well i don't remember this very well, but if i'm not mistaken, the lego company tried to keep Megablocks out of the EU, based on the notion that megablocks was using their concept. they lost... something like that...

it looks terrible... the problem is that the European Union feels that the Lego Company does not own the concept of a construction toy, therefore, it is allowed by other companies to use the same concept, even to create practically the same bricks. The EU has always been extremely sensitive to one company monopolising a market. i'm afraid the ruling of the EU in this regard is far more influenced by the political guidelines of the Union than by their concern to protect intellectual or creative property. as a consequence, it's going to be very difficult to fight these rogue companies in the future, even tho Lego may have a victory once in a while...

i think he means "mine is bigger" :P in other words, the biggest moc's around, are castle mocs, not pirate

hm... i'm wondering what it is that we're seeing... i mean, is this a raid by pirates against a trading post,...?

i was hoping you wouldn't be smart enough to come to that question... i know, i was stupid to think just that... :P

i think it's possible that a small group of pirate fans built this moc together especially for this event, whatever event it may be...

this thread used to be about customised minifigs of Ancient Times, so i'll just add this brickshelf find here, ok? i think these are brilliant! if only lego were to produce them... http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=93342

Oh yes, its purely subjective. Some hull colours go better thanother with hull colours. Its always important to choose a hull colour that goes with most of your outfits - you wouldn't want a clash otherwise you'd be a sitting duck against against hostile emenies. Take the Armada Flagship for example. To be truly safe you'd want to wear a white suit with blue pin stripes. That way you'd camouflage into the sails and be able to move around more freely on deck. or you could paint your hull into dark blue and all the rest like, masts, sails,... in licht blue. a perfect camouflage for a ship at see... so here it is then: the best colour for a hull is dark blue...

looks to me like yoda is going to cook spinage! :P

me too!

i guess, the ISD is the last old grey set still in production...

hm... so the pirate fans are losing this poll... for the time being however, there are far more pirate threads on this forum than castle threads, so i'll assume: 1) castle fans aren't really castle fans, they just dislike pirates 2) castle fans just don't have the imagination/creativity to produce decent castle threads 3) castle is in fact so boring and dull that nobody finds it worthy of getting any thread 4) this forum should be droping the castle section all together because there's no one posting castle threads voil

You're just saying that because you're prejudice against the Crossbone Clipper! Count Sneffy is right, obviously brown is the most realistic, but isn't it also the most boring? sure it's boring, but a hull is not supposed to be a work of art that rivals Rubens' paintings. it's supposed to be functional, that's it... sure, you can paint your hull in any colour you like, but then your ship probably isn't a 18th-19th century battleship...

even tho it would be nice if apo could change the yellow colour to a darker one. it's rather difficult to read the yellow text on a white/yellow background

voted brown, it's the most realistic...

i gues the lego company is just a little bit to blame as well, as some indicated. they very often produce conflict based themes, and the element of violence is always there, even tho they're often trying to create monsters to play the bad guy, not MFs... The innocent stuff of the 80-90's is gone... So in many ways , they follow the new tv-series, movies,... The concentration camps was, i think, promoted by the company. However, instead of turning it into a commercial product, they should have just put it in a museum on the holocaust with an explenation why they created it... the purpose was to educate, to teach people, to tell people to be critical about what happens in the world... if i'm not mistaken, we discussed this a while back: http://eurobricks.hosting.ipsyn.com/eurofo...l=concentration