snefroe

yes, as Natelite said, try to stay on topic guys. If you wanna discuss movies, there's a community section on eb or just visit a movie website :-)

I was bored at work, so i started browsing BS... and found this peculiar ship: here's the rest of the folder i think this is a gutsy MOC: sails in plates, no typical hull parts... the techniques this guy is using are older than most fans on EB, but together with some creative thinking, this guy turned something pretty old looking into a pretty nice boat! :-$ now this is what i'd like to see more in the future... may every pirate fan read this X-D

well, my guess is that they're spending as much money on creating greedo as they do for the entire MM line X-O X-D but let's face it: Lego has never been all that brilliant in creating aliens. I used to like the UFO people, but really, that was waaaaaaaay before the sw stuff that is infinitely better! Insectoids... hm... don't like them all that much... too much printing... but i guess they're ok... the LOM creatures.... i only got them for the arms, all the rest was a waste, and the MM... well they ARE a waste...

well i'm not really impressed to be honest... looks average at best...

to be short: pissed of a frenchman, the frenchman retaliated X-O X-D

yeah, sorry, i should have given you guys the link. it only holds three shots though, the ice reminds me of the castle moc over at classic castle a while back. it's the second moc called "Winter home of the happy sunshine people"

you're right! that IS a huge concern for me too. It doesn't really "feel" right... a brick without "Lego" on it. it adds to the feeling of having a cheap plastic toy...

Think this is really cool 8-

I don't mind if people ask noobish question, but please keep them Lego/EB related. :-)

i also have a problem with the playability factor of the bricks. a brick or a plate used to be very strong. smaller sections of a brick, like the side of a plate wouldn't just break off, they wouldn't show cracks after years of playing with them. Now i find that several plates get broken as soon as you apply some strength when, for instance, you want to remove them from another plate. X-O think Lego still needs to resolve this matter. I do realise that costs need to be limited, but maybe they should do so by spending less on paper and boxes...

i think you're right, this is fishy, however, the technical staff of paypal should be able to tell you if this is real or not. any evasive answer from their part would be very weird. it's their policy, their action or it isn't and if it isn't, they should have taken action already. in any case, i didn't get a request from them after having logged in.

don't think they'll drop the line, it's a success, so why throw that away... However, i can see a moment when Lego will decide to only release the sw sets in the US, which is a very big market for sw, once the sales are going down... but that's still far away...

honestly, people are buying truckloads of Lego in Belgium. Right now people are buying stuff for Sinterklaas, which is a kid's day, with lots of presents and... the inevitable chocolate, this is belgium after all, X-D , then there's christmas and newyear... it seems people are spending about 150euro per child, so Lego is doing some great deals here, the only thing is that i havent really seen big discounts and most of the sets right here are months old... havent seen anything new :-X So i'd have to say Lego is doing very well. They sell pretty well and the quality of city, castle and sw is quite good, even though i think most of the models are a bit too large. the only problem that still is unresolved is the quality of packing (many instruction books are in a bad shape when i get them out of the box) and the quality of the bricks. ah yes, prices are quite high too. Sure, they've done quite a lot already to push them down, but many sw sets are really too expensive for what's actually in there.

ok ok ok people... let's not lose our heads over this, shall we? it takes more than a grumpy old hooded granddad to turn me over to the dark side.... X-D besides, i'd lose my job as SPACE mod ! so what are you offering as compensation? X-D and can you show us some pics from the side too, My Lord, as well as from the underside?

free bird live on youtube :-$ *wub*

thanks, My Lord think i'll get this one *sweet* if it's not too expensive... looks cool... *sweet* what strikes me, yet again, is how much lego has evolved sing the red-white fighter... redesigns look waaaay much better than first attempts...

well i'd have to seriously mod this if i want this to be a real space fighter, and not a ..... sw set. X-D it looks good though... for a sw set... i'd like to see a comparison with the red-white fighter (that's a JSF too, right? all that freaky sw talk gets me sooo confused... wtf is an "SI" btw? :-| ) i'm also surprised to see that Lego is going the SNOT-way. 5 years ago they would have used yellow plates instead of yellow tiles.

i think that Lego is no longer in control of the production process. That's been outsourced to a company in Tchechnia. think it's called "flexotronics" or something. Anyway, it seems to me they're producing the bricks at a lower production cost than Lego ever could, hence the better price for lego these days. the only problem is degrading quality. the obvious example for that, to me, is the bley and light new grey in "Castle". In the case of bley, you just get different shades of bley. sometimes the color is a bit darker or brighter, sometimes you see it really well , but very often it's quite subtle but still visible. the light grey arms in Castle on the other hand, look like cheap plastic. don't like it at all.

i think the problem is more the size than the large parts. I can live with large parts if they're good. The city planes all have large parts, but they're not bad designs because of it. However, they've been adding so many large parts in one set that many models have become very big in size. They become the big sets: sets with only 400 pieces or so, but large in size and with lots of big parts, and very often hardly with few small parts. Why do they do it? -kids love big sets -kids want to play more than build, so they want bigger parts -big sets are more attractive, the help profiling a theme in the catalogue -big sets are commercially more interesting -big sets with big parts are safer for small kids -big sets are waaaay more attractive in a shop. Seen the boxes of other toys lately? they're big too!

i've never been a fan of Exo, but i like this. think i'll buy it...

don't like this. this looks like a cheap copy of the older alpha team jet :-X

this is sooo cool! want this *sweet*

you took the words right out of my mouth! If this isn't old lego space, then i really don't know what is! i don't know if this is what many people are waiting for because it looks like a copy of an old set, but if this a first step to some more "down to earth space sets" with a little bit more normal (space)bricks then i'll take a dozen! :-$

yeah.... well don't tell anyone but i not only collect the space sets, but also the WW sets... you could say i'm only collecting quality :-P , and if there's a topic you started, it probably is about WW sets... close enough anyway :-P and btw, there are azillion ghost towns in 'lucky luke', but then they often are towns haunted by ghosts... or Daltons... or somebody else trying to make a buck out of it... Gardaland was the one i was looking for. we went there 25 years ago and i'm quite sure it was all western back then. I still remember the gunfights and a small dark house with a cowboy in it... i didn't dare to enter that house though, afraid of being shot :-X :-P

ok... so basically, a ghost town would be a settlement that was left behind by the inhabitants once the reason for having a settlement there disappeared... nope, don't think i've ever been in such a WW settlement, however, there are many roman cities who could be seen as ghost towns, towns that were completely evacuated before or after a catastrophy... There is a WW theme park in Italy, somewhere close to Verona, but can't think of the name right now...