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That shouldn't be too hard. I own both sets and I really think the exclusive TRU 8404 Public City Transport appeals to me the most. Not because of its exclusivity but for the fact, that this set boost a greater and stronger presence of LEGO public transport system to cater for your City population growth and at the same time, it can always be revamp and integrated into your City layouts very easily. For the Farm, the selling point could be its unique cows. If you own the current City Farm collection, then this is the main highlight and you shouldn't miss it for anything. Of course, if you are planning to build a countryside, this is also a good set to start with. But I couldn't really bother with this set, if you only have just one choice. If I was you, the 8404 Public City Transport System is the one for me.

Thank you Rufus! I think this set appears in UK before, along with the Daily Mirror 2010 giveaway promotion.

You can use all kind of minifigure parts from the LEGO licensed themes. But you cannot create a custom Star Wars or Indiana Jones minifigures for example. These are allowed.

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Congratulations Rick and def! You guys totally deserved it.

Indeed, like the one taken below.

Thank you guys for all of your kind thoughts! It is very encouraging to know that you have enjoyed reading this review. Whenever LEGO polybags is concerned, you ought to get them as they are hard to come by, at least for me from where I lived. I hope you will have another chance to grab it again! I hope you will complete your collection soon!

Great to know that you enjoyed these photos now. For myself, I don't really find a problem to have identical zombies as I will be gladly to build a zombie crew for the shipping vessel. In your case, customisation is your forte, you infuse personalities into each individuals, so I can understand from your angle. Nevertheless, these zombie crews are not restricted merely to Pirates? It could be explored as mercenaries, Indiana Jones villains, etc. That's what I have in mind, when I first meddle with those minifigures. I am sure in time to come, you will find an ingenious way to utilise them. Hope to get another POTC set soon! I am not sure if it will be anytime soon, but so far I am enjoying this theme very much. I fully agrees with your thoughts. IMHO, the trade-off is worthwhile to get exclusive new rare printed parts to complement to your MOCs and other projects which one could plan. Thank you Belun! You knows better, and yes, it is a new camera.

I like elephants too!

Thank you everyone for all of your kind comments and thoughts with regards to this set review. I supposed mine wasn't that fortunate to get the pearl gold coins, but the thought of not getting the chrome gold bars irk me. I hope this will resolve soon. I will prefer all mine gold and treasure to be shiny gold. Thank you for your suggestion. I am not aware of picasa's capabilities and not sure about the auto contrast. I will check it out to see if it will meets to my requirements.

Awesome! It reminds me of Resident Evil I.

Hello everyone, After reviewing the 4181 Isla De Muerta set, I will continue to review the complete Pirates of the Caribbean series. This time, I am reviewing the smallest looking set in this series. Please note that this set is part of the fourth upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean, On Stranger Tides, blockbuster movie, so some part of the co-relations might be some form of inference and guessing on my end. Without further ado, let me continue with this new epic release. Name: 4191 The Captain's Cabin Theme: LEGO System / Pirates of the Caribbean Year: 2011 Pieces: 94 Minifigs: 3 minifigures Price: USD$11.99, GBP 10.49, SGD$29.90 Resources: Brickset, BrickLink An original box image of the 4191 The Captain's Cabin Back view of the original box image of the 4191 The Captain's Cabin You think a couple of cosmetic zombies will scared Captain Jack Sparrow? The Captain's Cabin is part of the movie settings and I haven't got a chance to watch the movie yet as it is due for release on the 19th May 2011. And, my assumption is thinking this settings is actually can be integrated together with the 4195 Queen Anne’s Revenge. This is the smallest set in the entire range and I am actually more surprised to see such a tiny box containing the parts. I am glad that LEGO is deciding to compact the box to store the content. The box is measured at 14cm (length) x 12cm (wide) and 4.5cm (depth). The content of the sealed POTC LEGO box In this tiny little box, you will get an instruction manual package along with 2 sealed polybags. Instruction Manual Package I am so pleased to see that it is continuing to come in cardboard backing to serve as a support for the instruction manual, poster and card. Front view of the POTC Poster This poster is definitely one of mine favourite as it contains all of the recent LEGO POTC playsets in this illustration. I will love to pin this up onto my office cubicle to admire this scene! Furthermore, I am sure this posters is one of the most easily available as compared to the rest of the much expensive sets. Back view of the POTC Poster The back of the poster shows the upcoming video game release of the Pirates of the Caribbean. POTC: Jack Sparrow Collectable Minifigure Card In this set, it comes with a Jack Sparrow Collectable Minifigure card and at the back of it, there is a cryptic game code or some sort for us to activate. I am not very sure of what it can do though. In any case, this card will be good for any LEGO card collectors. Pouring the building bricks and parts Jack Sparrow and his nemesis in the latest upcoming movie, "On Stranger Tides" In every set, we always evaluate our minifigures and in this case, this set offered 2 nasty menacing looking zombie, along with an unique expression of Captain Jack Sparrow. As always, the amount of details entail onto their torsos and facial expressions especially for those zombie crews are just amazing. They look so incredibly taunting and made you want to build a whole crew of them. You can also take a look at this image without the accessories, so you can admire the sheer prints on it. There is only one thing which disappoints me. For that kind of exorbitant price which we are paying to TLG and Disney license, we ought to get one more minifigure. In the past, most of these sets like the 7195 Ambush in Cairo and the 7569 Desert Attack, for example. They, each comes with four minifigures instead of three minifigures. I did wish it can comes with an additional zombie crew or something else, but I believe there is a possible explanation for such reduction which will be explained in the sections below. These are the amazing minifigures back printings You got to enjoy every bit of these detailed printings and the one on the right is my favourite. Let's split! Useful parts and accessories that can be found in this LEGO set This set is simply parts galore! I am loving it. It comes with so many cool and useful elements like those dark brown tele-scopes, cutlasses, giant bones cub, 1 x 2 x 1 trans-clear panels, flintlock pistol and etc. But, what I love most are the printed parts. My favourite new LEGO printed parts! These incredible printed LEGO parts could be one of the possible reason which lead to the reduction of one minifigure. We have printed LEGO elements like the 2 glass bottles which inscribe prints of sail ships which illustrated those sail ships in those glass bottles for decoration, along with the circular map known as the Mao Kun map or the Map to the Land of the Dead, that was kept by Jack Sparrow and originally owned by Sao Feng. The original map was quite a big piece and it was cut out by Jack Sparrow to prevent from leaving it to Barbossa. So, I think TLG has done a great job to capture the map design in this rightful circular piece. Of course, you have to mention the unique printed compass that doesn't point North but pointing to the one which you strongly desires. Every bit of these printed fiesta, simply drives me crazy. You can't deny the fact that such licensed themes can actually rid those stickers by quite a significant amount. The Captain's writing desk Seeing this writing desk, reminds me of those small little advent calendars built and for this, I find this design quite unique by making use of skeleton legs which can be seen here. This writing desk contains a burning torch, golden cup and the Mao Kun map. The fabulous globe stand Who doesn't love the world atlas? I love studying Geography and this first printed world globe which is placed on this stand, is simply so incredible. I am actually loss for words when I was playing around with the globe. The prints are extremely detailed. You can also swirl the mechanism below to depict the turning of the globe in 360 degrees. You can take a look at bottom of the stand. The glass bottles rack The simple glass bottles rack built in dark brown and decorated pearl gold to house and placed those glass bottles ships onto those racks. Matching the design with the Queen Anne’s Revenge vessel, it combines with those skeletal designs to blend in together with the vessel. You can also take a closer look on the shelves. Side view Back view The whole Captain's Cabin set-up Placing all of the 3 components together, you will get a complete Captain's Cabin set up. It is pretty fitting as these components help to complements one another in the vessel decorations. After the building, these are the remaining spare parts. I must get back my stuff for what was stolen from me! You will never live to catch Captain Jack Sparrow! Don't try and best them in combat! To conclude, despite of the roaring high price of this tiny little set, it is expected that the Disney License is one of the reasons behind it. The reduction of the usual four minifigures to three minifgiures are some of the disadvantages of this set. However, on the overall evaluation, I find this set very amazing as it helps to reach a new milestones on new printed parts. In addition, the new minifigures especially those zombie crews entails amazing details and I could see that they are not saving cost on those prints. Furthermore, this is more of an useful parts packs filled with loads of amazing new parts and elements. I, for sure will be picking up more of it if only the price can be made a lot more affordable. Summary review Playability: 8/10 (Merged it together with the Queen Anne’s Revenge to increase its playability.) Design: 9/10 (Detailed looking designs with loads of new printed parts.) Price: 6/10 (Pretty costly to own new LEGO licensed sets even for such a smallest set in the entire range.) Overall: 7.7/10 (You won't want to miss these new printed parts and minifigures.) I gave it a "4" based on my Review Score Card. What about yours? I hope every one of you enjoyed reading this simple review of mine. Comments and Criticisms are strongly welcomed. Pictures can be found in My Flickr and My Brickshelf (When moderated)

Thank you for sharing with us. I am looking forward to pick up mine too. I am going to use the small boat for something fun.

I hope mine will turns out well... even though there isn't much hope into it...

I moved and merged your topic in here.

Thank you for sharing. It is good news indeed.

Amazing stuff. This topic is best discussed in our BSTF. Topic Moved.

Excellent start to the Fabuland reviews index.

Seeing this thread especially the ones with images, simply made me drool with envy. We don't have such service and you guys are extremely fortunate to enjoy these kind of purchases.

Thanks everyone! I am so glad that you guys have enjoyed viewing these new images! I have added the prices in the Set Information. Thanks Peppy!

The objective for this rule is to increase the entry barrier for participates who take sloppy photographs and wishes to enter, so to deter them from submitting poor images of their entry which resulted in cluttering of the overall index during the voting phase. Yes, the judgement of results will take place and it is up to the voters to decide. To keep things neat and tidy and at the same time, doing some form of basic enforcement to ensure that the entries is up to a minimum viewable standard, it actually helps the participants to be alert. If the participant is able to use a 5 megapixel mobile phone camera and pull it off nicely, then go ahead with it and make sure it doesn't comes out dark, blurred, messy, etc. Those are tell tale signs and for sure, I can't tell for sure what kind of device that they are using. I could only infer and flagged the most obvious. Hope I have clarified your above points.

I haven't bought Civilisation V yet, but I am actually playing II during my free time. I don't think I am able to adapt to those new high end graphics. I think generally, it will be a fun strategy game. Maybe I will grab it if the price ever drops.

Hello everyone, It has been quite awhile since I last re-visited the Atlantis theme. I wasn't a huge fan of the Atlantis but those small little promotional polybags are simply the best appetiser to get you interested in it. Unfortunately, this set was not available as part of their regular release. In some countries like the United Kingdom, it was part of the Daily Mirror 2010 promotional giveaway. Luckily, if you are intending to pick it up, your best bet will be in Bricklink since the listed prices for this polybag is reasonable. Name: Mini Sub Theme: LEGO System / Atlantis Year: 2010 Pieces: 42 Minifigs: 1 Price: USD $3.99, GBP 1.99, SGD N.A Resources: Brickset, Peeron, BrickLink An image of a 30042, Mini Sub Mini Sub 007 scouting ahead in Regina sector The Mini Sub is sturdy enough to venture into the depths of the ocean. I am very surprised that such a small built of the mini sub can actually survive the unforgiving cruel pressure of the ocean. Of course, technology plays a huge part in all Atlantis expedition and this mini sub is no exception and is ready to go for some treasure hunting. Instruction Manual This tiny little booklet reflects the comprehensive building steps of the mini sub. While, the back of it actually shows the releases of the first Atlantis sets. Pouring out the content Atlantis Diver, Lance Spear This Atlantis Diver is known as Lance Spear. Each Atlantis Diver is given a sort of identity and in this case, he is the First Mate of the Atlantis Expedition crew. He is given the deep ocean diving expedition diving suit which is meant to venture further than anybody who has gone before. I supposed the complicated looking breathing apparatus will allow the diver to survive for long hours and at the same time, withstanding the extreme cold harsh temperature. Like the rest of the Atlantis crew, the outfit is identical for the 2010 releases. This is the back view of the Atlantis Diver. I like that expression! Building bricks for the Mini Sub The given parts for this polybag set is pretty common and it can be acquired easily. Some of the useful parts includes the yellow gem, clear crystal ball globe and those 1x1 round studs. These are the remaining spare parts after building. Front view of the Mini Sub Side view of the Mini Sub Back view of the Mini Sub I really like the shape of this mini sub. At first glance, it gave me the impression that it was a diesel generator, but I was mistaken. In fact, I find the design much better than the 8072 Sea Jet. The colour theme for the Atlantis expedition remain black and red. The Mini Sub also comes with a bright torchlight and a mechanical arm to hold the treasure gem, pushing forward by the engine rotor at the back of the sub. Up... Up... and away... Overall, I find this set very enjoyable to play. Not much of a building experience and special parts galore but it definitely gives you so fun to get yourself acquitted with the Atlantis theme. As I mentioned earlier, this polybag set makes a fine Atlantis appetiser. If you are able to get it within a reasonable amount, you should grab it. It will be a very good introduction set to this new theme, even if you are not really very interested in this new LEGO action theme. Summary review Playability: 6/10 (On its own, it can't play much except adjusting the mechanical arms.) Design: 8/10 (The Mini Sub design is wonderful and worth to add into your underwater expedition equipment.) Price: 9/10 (Affordable polybag set if you are able to find the right source.) Overall: 7.7/10 (A good impulse set for someone whom wants to try out the new Atlantis theme without spending too much money.) I gave it a "4" based on my Review Score Card. What about yours? Hope everyone of you enjoyed reading this simple review of mine. Comments and Critics are strongly welcomed. Pictures can be found in My Flickr and My Brickshelf (When moderated)

A nice military Humvee with good piece of suspensions. I really like that nice touch.