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there was a time when lego pirates (minifigs i mean) in belgium were quite cheap, however, it seems to me that that is no longer the case. i'd say it's become rather expensive in the last couple of months...

how much did you pay for all that? and do i see that legendary helicopter all to the right? could you post some more pics of that beauty? :-$

think it's crap, really... no not the review, the set... X-D i don't see much Lego in this set! are you sure it's Lego? I don't think so... looks like 'Fisher Price' with studs...

my sister bought me a few more old pods... think i have about 70 now... why do i keep buying them? good question... I just do... ... for whatever reason... :-|

well, i guess it's the same as with pirate ships. if you're building a pirate ship you'll need to add canons, a rudder, sails, steering wheel,... so when i decided to turn this 'bubble', as I called it then, into a small boat, i just asked myself what you'd need for a typical vessel of this type. i also had that feeling when i worked on the model. i was going to attatch the rotor at the side of the boat, but then figured out that they wouldn't be submerged completely; the only other spot was all the way down, underneath the tailsections. the entire ship is actually part of a larger moc, but i'm not there yet...

hm... i guess the girl saw something like this on tv or in real life and 'tried it out' as well... I don't think she understood the gravity of what she was doing.... why does a girl do something like that? i think she was doing what so many kids do: she was copying the behaviour of adults ...

first, Vikings were traders when they arrived in western europe; they were not armed, nor were they at war with europe; they settled in several villages and cities and used their longboats to get deeper inland. once in a while they decided to raid other towns, but mostly churches and monestaries, places where people kept gold, money, ... nobody really knows why or how that worked in reality, we only have religious documents talking about them... the viking era started about 800 to 1000 . that was a vital timeframe for europe. Carl the Great's empire was falling apart, that's why there was no army crushing the viking troops. there were knights, obviously, but not in the way as Lego created knights. for instance, knights back then did not have painted shields, heraldy is something of the 11-12th century... castles must have been fairly primitive as well, probably built with wood instead of stone... a sea battle with vikings is in any case out of the question. the longboat was a ship for undeep waters, like rivers and coastal areas. they did have other ships as well, but nobody knows what they looked like... don't forget, most longboat examples come from burial sites... pirates are a lot more recent, not before 15th century anyway... a fight between vikings and pirates is like Roman troops fighting Napoleon...

this is pretty much amazing! 8-

ah yes..; maybe i should have mentioned it's a boat 'from the near future', you know me... space is never far away X-D

V-W-04E i was taking a closer look at the parts from the large airplane the other day... the large wing is pretty much useless, so that went straight into the crappy parts bag... the windcreen looks quite nice, so i decided to buy a second plane and just smash these two fuselages together. then i only got stuck with the tailsections which were pretty cool as well, even though rather difficult to use in any moc... that got me thinking... and I ended up with this: sure it looks like a real submarine, unfortunately, i haven't been able to build an actual sub yet... there's lots of space inside these two large parts, but i'll have to make it a bit longer so i can have some room for a decent door or a hatch... anyway, this is a submerged ship. it sinks almost entirely into the water, basically untill the water level reaches the blue line on the ship. the hull has two large tanks inside, one filled with fuel to power up the ship's rotor underneath, and an oxygen tank to keep a decent supply of compressed air for the divers... this ship is designed to map large areas of the ocean, to look for whatever you want to look for in the water of the deep... it has all the equipement you need: diving equipement, weapons, sonar/scanning equipement , sonar bouys that can be dropped into the ocean, and a communications uplink to send all the info to satelites or any other communications unit... ah..; yes... forgot to add the small robot ... :-X rest of the gallery

i don't work in a toy store or any other store for that matter, it was just an observation during my Lego shopping in the last few weeks. the shop that was practically 'overrun' by Lego fans was 'Dreamland' in Turnhout, just a week or so ago.

to be honest, i've never seen that many people buying Lego than in the last few weeks. even adults (men mostly... :-| ) can't take their eyes off of the airplane and the crane. Compare that with 7-8 years ago when Lego was not particularly the customer's best friend... In fact, this year, I've seen more people buying Lego than playmo...

this may be interesting, yoda... please check it out what is available and maybe i just might ask you to get a few sets for me... i'll be in Paris early next year (there is an expos

honestly guys, we had this UCS poll before. remember a majority saying "we don't want any of these!"? besides, Lego knows damn well what UCS we'd like: a decent AT-AT, a MF,...

i agree... calm down... don't take it so serious... sure, if this was about the new space sets, sure, but it's only about the AR sets... g... :-P anyway, since we already have the actual sets in a US shop, it's clearly a mistake by Lego. Don't tell me that's a too farfetched theory... :-|

yeah, except for the engine

g... only 200? even though the box is included? hm... i thought it would be higher, given the good condition of the box and this time of the year when everybody seems to want Lego

well, if we are talking about expensive castle sets, I wonder how high this one will go...

saw these on brickshelf. i like the notion of turning the old sets into a modern style, however, some improvements would be nice: rest

hm... a company this size usually has an archive for these things. However, that may only be accessible for historians doing a Phd on the Lego Group, depending even on the family and the board. i also wonder why we don't have interviews with designers of the past. Surely several have been retired by now and shouldn't be to difficult to locate. I wonder why 'Brick journal', Lego ambassadors, websites or Lego themselves haven't tried to get them talking about the sets of the 80's. Who came up with the idea of the galaxy explorer? what did yellow castle's prototype look like?, stuff like that...

g... i hope so for his sake, or maybe he's just showing off? |-/ anyway, i got a package from canada yesterday. that only took a week. He may also have to pay import tax for these packages.

honestly, I think all end-products look waaaaaaay better than the prototypes... i'd like to see the prototypes of the old 'classic' sets :-$

in any case, i'd prefer my microwave... :-P

well they turned me into a chairman of one of these election offices last time, so i wasted my entire Sunday in there, especially after 12, when only a few people came in to vote every hour. Since they always take people who are 30 or close to 30, and since our next election is yet a few months away, chances are that they'll pick me again... but not this time! >:-) i'll just make sure i have reservations for a trip to paris when they pick me... >:-)