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talos, It looks great the way you expanded the toyshop! I am sure that lots more will do similar builds as the month progresses. WF, This review was just lovely and so helpful. Your photos are dynamic and provide the flavor of the set, which is no longer just pieces in a box. Thanks for all the great work! (Most of the stickers we apply are crooked. We just now laugh and say, Jeez, this does look like a kid built it! Your stickers will get more crooked as your eyes get older, so get used to it or hire a teen with perfect vision to apply your stickers. With all that snow at the North Pole, everything looks a bit crooked because deep snow tends to make you dizzy.) We built the workshop last weekend and love it! The brick built reindeer look great! Will add five more reindeer soon. And lots more packages under a much larger tree. It does not bother me that the torsos are mostly repeats. They can't print new figs for every set. Hubby is building a wooden platform for all of the WV sets so they can be lit up on our circular stair landing using his N scale railroad lights. This is a fun project for sure!

It is wonderful to see RI sell so well. Maybe LEGO was testing the waters to see how well it would go over. The answer is a resounding "Yes!," so let's hope that they sell it for at least a year. It makes a wonderful gift at 20US and is based on real life, not something dreamed up...which is okay as long as there are still some interesting sets that are based on reality. Many of us want to build museums, and this set opens the door to that. Add the small museum set and you have a great start for a larger museum build. We are hoping that there are more sets in this "research" line showing scientists at work. And it is very cool that the figs are female. Wow! All four of the adults in our house have science degrees and work experience in scientific jobs. Hoorah for a focus on science! What other types of scientists would you like to see portrayed in the "Research theme?"

Stunning design! We watch live birds every day from our back porch. A definite purchase for this household. (Praying hard that TLG does not slay us with another Research Institute logistics scheme like the one we just endured. Puh-lease make enough the first run for most of us who want one to get it. ) We hope that they will introduce many more bird sets because these do a lot more for us than the typical blocky-looking vehicles. They make us smile, smile, smile and think of lovely birdsongs we hear most of the day outside.

Wow! Quite a story....fun watching the build. Fantastic display inside your coffee table...congratulations on a fine build!

The story of my life it seems: "Everything Is Broken" by R.L. Burnside in the film Big Bad Love. Also some other hot tracks on the same soundtrack..."I Love You" by Asie Payton sounds a bit like a train wreck at times...and "Spiritual" by Tom Verlaine and Kronos Quartet. (Enjoy but don't wallow too long.)

Wow! Lovely details like the pavers and leaning trees. The design of the station building is quite touching. You nailed this one! Congratuations!

Same at Raleigh LEGO store. Very low turnout. Picked up new WV to get second holiday freebie. Like the free turkey set, train ornament and calendar. Would like some discounts in the store, but double points were it this year. Awaiting a new modular and a Creator house. Hope they arrive soon.

Very, very cool and recognizable! Love the way you used faded white pieces to look old. Just like the faded white cases of all computers in the Eighties. I used a luggable Compaq between 1982 and about 1990 because it had to go to my home some nights. It weighed a ton and had a six inch screen. Now a basic cell phone does so much more than any computer before 2000.

Big Sal: Laughing my big behind off (LMAO) after seeing your photo! Wow! What a great idea for all kinds of invaders, insects, etc. Now if we could just get them to chase out the hordes and swarms of real insects that invade our abodes on a cyclical basis, that would be outstanding! Goodbye beetles, ladybugs, whitefish, cockroaches, spiders, wasps, flies, moths, dragonflies, daddy longlegs, mosquitoes, knats, ants, termites, cicadas, rollypollies, and sometimes even little lizzies and snakes. And a few other invaders I have forgotten at the moment. Ultimately mother nature always wins, but it would be fun to give her a fight with brick separator insectoid defenders.

Love your color scheme, too. Excellent furniture and fireplace details. The only thing missing is an Oriental rug on the tile floor.

I like the design well enough but have problems with the use of so many bright colors. A bit too busy for my tastes, but yup, I will build it. And just change a few of the colors to cool it down a bit. I am assuming the yellow is bright light yellow from Friends. It looks too bright to be the original light yellow, which is one of my all time favorite colors. Maybe I will switch out the bright shade of yellow for the lighter one. The use of unusual parts is brilliant! Cool to see so many weird uses of parts that don't come to mind when making a building. Do wish it arrived on two baseplates so we could move it around the hood more easily. So glad the photo finally made it to EB! Today we just finished building our last unbuilt modular, Palace Cinema, which appeals a bit more to my tastes. Ready for another modular to arrive.

WOW! Nice tent! Could you possibly place poles over each tent rope stake maybe with flags flying to keep horses and folks from running into the stakes and lines? I agree that some elevation differences would add interest to the "plains" which could be rolling hills in Mongolia. Your use of dark orange on the ground is really eye catching. And usually it seems that there are some sheep and/or goats close to the tents. (To see this, try watching the film Babies; one of the four children starring in the movie lives in Mongolia.)

@Aredhel: Sorry but I can't make it. Just rely on Skalldyr for entertainment as he is so darn smart and such a quick builder. (Hint: I definitely would put my money on him!) Have lots of fun and please post some photos for those of us stuck at home with minor inconveniences like ......work. What are you building for the event?

Nice truck, too. The red cab really pops. And the two vehicles work well together. All you need is a load of LEGO dirt, rocks, bricks or whatever to fill your dump truck. Looks like a lot of fun, too. My son at age three spent days digging up our gravel driveway and moving the gravel two feet using his Little Tikes vehicles resembling yours....a blast to watch!

The colors were very cheerful earth tones of the seventies and eighties. The design makes it look real; congrats on a fine build resembling kitchens many of us had.

Ooops! You are right. Way to go!

Wow! That was quite a weekend! NYC Marathon AND BFVA! Makes me exhausted just reading your post. Way to go!

This really is lovely! Makes me want to visit there, which is a sign of a really well built MOC. It looks magical, which is how much of the Netherlands and Denmark appear to us Americans. We just don't have anything that compares even though the cliff dwellings of the Anasazi natives at Mesa Verde, Colorado, are probably as old or older. But definitely not as detailed as your part of Europe. The perspective and how it all fits together is quite special. Thanks for sharing with those of us who can't make it to Legoworld.

Wow! Looks great! Congratulations! Love your trees, too. Glad you had fun at the first BF NJ!

I like this rumor! Could I sign up for one of those interior decorating sets, too? ( I just furnished 20 Duplo apartments and have oodles left over, but my System/regular LEGO furniture store is a bit low with only 15 keyboards/pianos and about that many sofas.) Time to restock the furniture store so none of my modular floors are ....... empty. I used to buy the lovely furniture pre made by LEGO, but that seems to be no longer available online at lego.com. Have you noticed how much furniture an oversized modular requires?

Tom, What a wonderful idea! Maybe they can audition oforthe next LEGO movie. Great costumes!

Guess it is time to stand up for one of my favorite themes, FRIENDS! Hard to define worst theme offered by LEGO because it depends on how you define that term...worst? Does it refer to the one that 1. interests you the least? Or the one that 2. looks the most awful? Or the one that 3. fell apart most often? Or .....4. whatever. So for the sake of livening up this thread, 1. would be (wait while I grab a full set of body armor and run for the nearest bomb shelter, this could take a while....) SW. Except for a few outstanding female figs and Lando Clarissian ( a real hunk,), I have to admit that I have never seen this show in any form, and never will. And never will understand who these people are supposed to be and all the uproar over such non-fiction. But then I am not into sic-fi or fantasy type themes. And as a woman in my sixties, definitely am not in the target market for this theme. Nuff said. 2. Lots of today's fantasy themes, but I do admit to owning the lovely Temple from Chima....it is just flat out gorgeous, so I consider it an Architecture set! 3. Lots of sets have fallen apart easily in our household, but then we usually don't follow instructions very well or can't see all those little parts and colors well enough to build things right. Yup, we just throw the little buggers together however we can and brace them as needed so they don't collapse too often, but we never use glue. (Have threatened to kill hubby over that topic....he threatens now and then when he can't understand the instructions, but he has never been an instructions kind of guy. ) Waiting for incoming mortars, cheerio!

After reading several pages about bricklinking CC and GG, the thing that comes to my mind is that when you find a color you really like for a reasonable price, buy as much as you can afford for future buildings. Sand green has always been one of my favorite colors; there was a lot of that color for sale when Harry Potter sets became popular around 2006 or so. I picked up a ton of those bricks, and now can build anything I want in sand green. Have done the same with sand blue. So start collecting the colors you like when they are not expensive on BL, and you will have the stock needed to build in the future. It is exciting to read how many people have brick linked these modular sets! Keep up the wonderful posts!

Y'all are just hysterical! Bout fell out of my chair reading some of this sh*&^%$$^&*)t! And am plum wore out after reading just a few pages. Yikes! I think that all we know is that 69 pages later, EVERYTHING MUST BE A RUMOR/RUMOUR! We might be better off spending our time BUILDING LEGO! (Just started Friends' Shopping Mall, and it looks like fun even though I detest most malls.) It will come out... whenever it comes out.

It seems to me that they are going to have to shrink wrap with plastic over every product soon. So we can tell if it has been opened and pilfered. This is indeed sad. It seems that four to six plastic seals per box is not enough protection with all the thieves about. I wonder what per cent of the minifigs for sale on eBay have been stolen this way...