Legogal

Just returned from BrickFairVA last night. Have posted many of my favorite MOC photos at: Sorry that they loaded in reverse order on flickr....anyone know how to reverse that error? Thanks!

Fantastic review...as usual! Most helpful as usual! So good to see more city and town figures because...surprise of surprises...many of us DO NOT build armies....phew! Glad I finally got that off my chest! Why can't they just make more or less equal numbers of these little buggers in each case? Why should LEGO be telling us which ones we should buy more of by the uneven distribution of figures? I spent at least four hours fingering Series Ten from unopened boxes just to bring home two measly Trendsetters. My thumbs ached for three friggin days. It us very hard to feel these itsy bitsy pieces when you get older. If there is an eight to ten year old child looking at the packages while I am there, I often bribe them with a free figure if they will help me find what I want. Or I buy a lot and just trade the little buggers to other customers right in the store. I even had to buy some Series Ten figures off eBay to get what I wanted AFTER buying fifty plus in the LEGO store. COULD WE MAKE THIS A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT, folks? (Yup, I had to capitalize each if those letters one at a time on my tablet.) That said, after I figure out which pre- S 11 minifigs to buy at BrickFairVA tomorrow, I can go to bed. At least with a whole lot of luck, I may be able to find a partner for the adorable little old man/gramps I found during my marathon Series Ten buying session!

Congratulations! Superb details take your breath away....railings, tire bumpers with diagonals, colors so perfect, ... Wow!

"Man, does that sound weird! You must be kidding...you collect LEGOs at your age? " NOPE. I AM PROUD TO BE WEIRD! (THE WEIRDER THE BETTER IN OUR BOOKS!) And the older I get, the more I collect. TAKE THAT!!!

This suffers from being TOO REALISTIC! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Thanks for the review of this very interesting "set." Because it is the first of its kind, it is difficult to judge how well it will do in terms of sales and if we individuals will need one of these. It is great to see another Architecture theme offering because these sets have been well received by so many adults. I attended one of the Barnes & Noble play sessions based on this set last Friday, and decided to hold off on the purchase because all I really want at this point is the book. Most EBers have oodles of white pieces, so the book may be of more interest to many. Has TLG said if it will sell the book alone, for how much and when? That seems to be the big question here. And it seems a tad unreal that they would use photos of models one cannot build with pieces in the set; not sure why they would do this, but it is upsetting. Again it is great to see another set in this line. Like many others, I am more focused on collecting the other Architecture sets before spending this kind of money on random white parts. But I can see how it may be very appealing to those with few bricks.

Wonderful Saguaro! And very nice pot, too! Looks quite real and would be much easier to keep alive than a real one. Should we replace all of our inside plants with LEGO? We would have to dust them....uh oh!

When you have to store new LEGO sets in the trunk (boot) of your car because your house, basement, and garage are full of you know what!

Wow! Can't pick a favorite part because it is such a wonderful build in every aspect. And sand blue....oooooh la laaaaaaaa!

Witch Doctor, Wooooohoooo! (Nice ship, too!)

LegoDr, The sand colors are some of my favorites, too! They are very easy on the eyes and look great with darker color trim. The dark green/red/blue colors also are a good choice with lighter trim. All of these colors have PERSONALITY!!! But please don't let them do another primary color building in red, green, yellow, or blue. Enough is enough. Same for white. And please, Lord, do not give us another red roof. Those caused me to go into 15 years of Dark Ages after creating one large building for my 3 year old son. And while You are listening from wherever, Ditto for Duplo colors! The playhouses in dark pink and medium blue are outstanding!!!

It will be at the top of my list for sure...love Parisien architecture...so many fine details and NO UGLY STRIP MALLS. which are becoming the national symbol of US architecture.

Kermit, hahaha! Wonderful idea!

Thanks! Does anyone have the instructions for this giraffe? Maybe it is buildable if one has the instructions. THANKS!

Plus one to GRogall!

This looks like a cool polybag item. Has anyone seen it in the US besides the two on eBay for $30 each? (See Item 390629096708) I can trade a couple of hot dog stands (the July special at the LEGO stores in the US) if you have an extra Geoffrey. Or something else. Thanks!

Tom, hahaha! Jluck, find a theme that she likes and give her a set as a present. My guess is Friends, architecture or Creator. The smaller sets could be a good starting point. You might choose a set of a building she loves....maybe the Gugenheim or Fallingwater. From Friends you could get the karate or clothes designing or scientist set. Any of the houses from Creator might fill the bill. And if you have children, it could be a set she enjoys building with the whole family; our favorite was building the Taj Majal over the holidays with our college senior son at home for the break. So put on your thinking cap and take her to a LEGO store if there is one nearby or another place with lots of LEGO, and listen to her comments. Show her amazing builds posted online and find out which colors of bricks she favors. You can order those colors from BrickLink, so she can build something she likes. I began collecting pastel bricks five years ago and still enjoy building houses with them. And take it slow and gentle following what she says and not forcing what you like down her throat. My husband is an expert N scale train modeler, and I fully support his hobby. When we were in Tokyo four years ago, I enjoyed our four hours in the Kato train museum and store just as much as he did even though I am not into trains. And I gladly paid the $2,000US we spent there on the mist amazing trains and helped carry them home on the long trip back because it was very important to him and he is a big supporter of my LEGO hobby. We enjoy doing our hobbies in the same room often helping the other with design decisions, finding parts, and figuring out where to display a build. Good luck and let us know how it goes. If you are near a Barnes & Noble, see if they are offering the Architecture Studio program one night this week, and maybe she will go with you. Do sign up soon as they are filling up. And maybe she would go to a LEGO event with you and meet other women who can be examples of how LEGO has enriched their lives. Cheers!

Ditto Kristel's remarks! Lovely!

Double WoW! Very, very nice model with perfect proportions. What a monument to hard, hard work! Way to go!

The crab and the turtle are two of my polybag favorites...thanks for the review! Sometimes you have to promise the neighbor's kids a gift if they go to the store for this build; that is fine with me. But it can get expensive! They need to sell these polybags in the LEGO stores and online in the six months following the store build because most folks don't have access to a kid and a store at one particular time each month.

I like the weighing approach. We have scales in our home office that are so accurate, buyers have to be registered with the US government...to deter drug dealers and others with building skills we can't discuss here. Guess it is time to take the plunge because I need to do an inventory of parts, which mostly are sorted by color and type. Does anyone know the weight of 50 or 100 one by one bricks, plates, rounds, etc.? That seems a good place to begin followed by one by twos and one by threes and one by fours. Once I have about 11 spare days, this should be a doable project!

Vincent, Thanks! These Friends' sets are fun builds...I have multiples for extra parts, too. And the prices are low enough for children to buy them. Polybag builds are a great idea because the sets fit in small pockets and are easy to build in limited space. Must have been cool seeing two guys build a Friends' set on the train! Way to go!

Vincent, So what did you tell her...Pet Shop or something else? Glad you got that call!

As long as no one breathes (especially on the way back to DE,) you could make it home, too. And if everyone quits eating a month in advance except Si and maybe Rolli? Can you fit a canoe on your rooftop rack so you could stuff it with light weight things? That works well if you don't put too much weight up there and tie eveything down well. One time we threatened to strap one of our young boys in the canoe...of course wearing a bike helmet and a life jacket to be safe! Placed him up there for a minute while parked... just to scare the heck out of him; he behaved really well after we put him back in the car!

Red, Love your train and the landscaping that makes it look so real! Your trees are the best for sure. This must be on a mountain because the trees are so thin and leaning and not that tall. Your train cars have lovely exteriors and interiors....another skill to add to your long list! Cheers!