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Thanks Yes, the colour, the studs on the edge and the style of the boss all match the knight's armour well. In addition to the minifigs pictured above, I also used various parts from S15 with existing minifigs in my collection. For example, I replaced my S6 genie's hands with the mech's medium azure ones, used a spare winged warrior's head on an elf, put the astronaut's flag on a white antenna ( http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=3957b#T=C ) next to a yellow-suited Classic Space astronaut, and used the jewel thief's head under this Catwoman's mask: http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=98729&idColor=11#T=C&C=11 - it really looks like it was as TLG intended.

Perhaps the Rogue will be like one of these two from my display collection:

{voice=yoda} Once you go down the army building path, forever will it dominate your destiny!{/voice} If you're going to give in to the urge to amass a particular CMF, now is probably as good a time as any. While prices of some CMFs do eventually go down due to sales or lack of popularity on the secondary market, I don't see the S15 Knight being one of them. Kids love knights and it's an obvious army builder for AFOLs. So go for it now while there's maximum availability.

Me too Apologies for the rubbish photography.

Some of my favourites CMFs from series 15 slightly modded using LEGO and/or BrickWarriors parts. Apologies for the rubbish photography Questions, comments, urge to get some CMFs?

Some of my favourites from the series modded with LEGO and/or BrickWarriors parts:

Fantastic in every sense! Among the best MOCs I've seen in a long time. If I can recommend one small change, it would be to give Medusa a quiver. I wish TLG did a Greek mythology range. Given the number of mythological CMFs, I doubt they will anytime soon however. I'm lucky that I've been collecting minifigs for over 20 years and got the CMFs I wanted when they came out. I feel sorry for newcomers who have to rely on the secondary market to get cool minifigs of the past.

WH Smith. National chain. They're best known as stationers and their selection of LEGO is limited and not particularly good value. But they do get stock of lots of CMFs usually fairly early and are not too fussy about observing street date embargoes, limits per customer etc. For those series that I didn't get a box, the staff/managers there were happy for me to stand by the till and feel the packets.

I'm already on the Anthony Nolan register of donors and have twice gone through to the second round of testing and provided a blood sample. Unfortunately, in both cases, I wasn't required in the end. It's true that all it takes to see if you can help is a saliva sample (it used to require a blood sample). But if it turns out you are needed as a donor, it's more involved than that. There is then a 90% chance that you'll be required to spend 4 to 5 hours hooked up to a machine in a hospital after having received injections for a few days prior to that, and a 10% chance that you will have to have an operation under general anaesthetic in which doctors make a hole in your hip bone and draw out some of your bone marrow. Both are small prices to pay for a chance to save someone's life but a bit more than just spitting in a tube.

According to the BBC ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35496381 ) and other news channels, Mega Bloks' owners Mattel are in merger talks with Kre-o's owners Hasbro. Would a single Mattel-Hasbro be bad news for TLG? Mega Bloks has always made low quality products while Kre-o has been pretty decent quality but badly designed (have you seen their minifigures?). Together, they could be OK quality and design and therefore more of a threat to TLG. What do you think? Apologies if this should have been in the Community forum. As it concerns TLG, I thought that it would be alright in General. Please move it if it isn't.

For one of the early series, the Argos nearest me at the time limited customers to four CMFs each. I wanted a lot more than that so went to the WHS round the corner instead and bought a sealed box of 60. If TRU or whoever isn't providing a good shopping experience, don't put up with it; go somewhere else. There are lots of options including online ones such as BrickLink and Ebay.

Welcome back to LEGO! In answer to your question, it depends on who you are and the store. Some stores keep the minifigs behind the counter because so many get stolen otherwise. If you don't look dodgy and explain to the store staff that you would like to feel the packets to identify particular ones without damaging them, most stores are happy to hand you a box and let you feel the packets while you're standing next to the till. I've even been asked by staff at one place to help them find the minifigs they were looking for! I haven't been to the LEGO store nearest me in a while, but they used to be OK with customers feeling the packets by the till. If you go at a quiet time, the staff may even help you to feel for the ones you want. Of course, you don't know how good they are at it and it's a bit awkward to doubt them to their face.

I've been told by the manager of a LEGO store that if they suspect someone of buying for the purpose of reselling, they are to refuse the sale. They don't have a hard-and-fast rule for determining suspicion but a large quantity of the same set or even a small quantity of a very large set (say 3 or more) could get your purchase declined. Of course, the staff want to sell as much as possible, so are not very keen on enforcing the limit. And if they know someone is an AFOL and therefore buying for themselves, they are flexible.

I wouldn't and here's why: Imagine two EB member enter the competition. Both of them use CAD software to design their MOCs but only one of them goes to the trouble of sourcing the required LEGO and photographing his creation. Both entries are considered equally valid by the judges so why did one of the contestants bother to physically make his model? There's no point. Next time there's a contest, he needn't bother. And that's the problem. Accepting LDD/LDraw/other CAD entries discourages people from buying and collecting LEGO. Surely, a site such as EB which is dedicated to LEGO shouldn't be encouraging people to do without it. I'm guessing there are sites for people who are into CAD. Hopefully, on their boards there are forums for virtual construction toys.

How about...? http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=33048c01#T=I I know, I know: it's not a minifigure and turkeys don't originate from Turkey but from India. It would be memorable though.

Don't know about Polish consumer law, but in most countries the sales contract is between you, the buyer, and the store, the seller. There's no contract between you and the manufacturer, LEGO. So if there's something wrong, the store is responsible, not the manufacturer. The store can claim from the distributor/manufacturer, but that's not your problem.

I can't tell which country you're in because I'm on the mobile site, but if you're in the UK, you can return it to the store - online or off - from which you bought it and they have to offer you either a replacement or a refund (their choice). If they offer a replacement, it will probably be another blind packaged minifig. However, you can request to feel for a mech if it's a bricks & mortar store. They don't have to accede to that request, but if you explain, they probably will.

I do know and in fact I said as much when I said "VAT is levied on profits" (emphasis added). It's a pretty big deal. A VAT-registered organisation has to dedicate non-trivial resources to managing VAT: accountants/book-keepers, legal teams/compliance, IT systems & IT admin to name some of the costs. Sure, you would have to dedicate resources to those functions anyway, but there is additional cost that's specific to VAT. I used to have the UK tax authority's leaflet on when raisins are and are not subject to VAT. It runs to several pages. Imagine if you're a supermarket or in the supermarket production/supply chain and have to ensure that all of your products - including raisins - are charged at the right VAT rate or changed to ensure they comply with VAT rules. It's a significant cost which gets past to the consumer in higher prices. And if you're a company producing and selling goods in international markets, you're disadvantaged if you have to account for VAT compared to competitors in jurisdictions that have a sales tax because of your extra costs.

I've never glued LEGO and hope I never have to, but I used to be into fantasy miniatures including ones that required assembly, so have some experience of gluing plastic kits. You need to be careful to ventilate the cyanoacrylates for a long time: days or even weeks. If you don't, the vapours from the adhesive will settle on the surface of the plastic removing its sheen, leaving a matte effect. I believe that Krazy Glue is a cyanoacrylate. I haven't used that brand, but I would be cautious if gluing LEGO with it and then keeping it in a confined space.

There was a feature-length LEGO cartoon a few years ago that had a character called Clutch Powers as its protagonist and supporting characters named Peg Mooring, Kjel Playwell and Artie Fol. I vaguely recall that Artie Fol introduced himself that way but his name badge said "A. FOL".

Everyone? I've had all the ones I wanted for a week and a half. Others on this board have had them even longer.

I reckon there are two effects at play in people's dark age: a generational one and a cohort one. The generational one is what's mostly been described in this thread so far. It's a time in one's life - often in one's teens or twenties - when one loses interest in LEGO. I had one from late childhood to my early twenties when I rediscovered the joy of LEGO. The cohort one is related to when one was born. When I was a teen, there were cultural and societal pressures that discouraged people my age from pursuing interests associated with childhood. For example, teens and adults didn't buy superhero paraphernalia: superheroes were for kids. You couldn't find Batman or Spider-man clothing in teen or adult sizes and action figures were aimed at children. Likewise, LEGO was a kid's toy and if you were seen to have an interest in it in your late teens or into adulthood, you were thought of as developmentally arrested or even deviant. Nowadays, it's very different with the stigma of infantilism being significantly less. This is down in no small part to the internet. I suspect that a smaller proportion of KFOLs will enter a dark age than they did in my day when AFOLdom was largely unknown - and the acronym AFOL not invented! Edit: Aanchir beat me to it

Alcohol, perfume and cigarettes have no lower threshold in the UK, that is, there's duty on all purchases however small. Not everything is subject to duty though. Books aren't. But toys including LEGO are. Sure, they're both consumption taxes, but that's where the similarity ends. VAT is levied on profits at every step of the production and supply chain. As a result, it's hugely expensive for the state to administer. As consumption taxes are designed to be cost neutral to the taxing authority, the level has to be significantly higher to yield the same revenue as a sales tax. Moreover, VAT is also costly for VAT-registered organisations to administer. And guess who pays that cost? Yes, the consumer in the form or higher prices. More but not all because there are all sorts of costs associated with buying from overseas (or outside the EU as the case may be). For example, there's extra postage and insurance; it takes more time; there are fewer or more complex legal protections; and it costs more to return items. But there's no fundamental reason why a consumption tax is required at all. Until 1989, Japan didn't have one. If I understand correctly, you're being charged German VAT on goods imported from elsewhere in the EU that have already been taxed in their country of origin. That doesn't sound right at all. VAT in the EU is levied in the country where the sale takes place and that's it. So if I order LEGO from a store in Germany to me in the UK, I have to pay German VAT on my purchase but not UK VAT.

There is no exemption in the UK that is specific to goods from Hong Kong. However, there is a threshold of £15 (US$21, Euro 19) for all goods from outside the EU beneath which there is no VAT. Above that threshold, there is duty of between 10 and 15% of the goods, postage, packing and insurance, plus VAT of 20% on the goods, postage, packing, insurance and duty (yes, you get taxed on the tax!) and an £8 (US$11, Euro 10) post office charge. If you go over the threshold, your total cost can easily be double what you expected. Import duties and any other kind of trade barrier impoverish both the sending nation and the receiving one, so they aren't just unnecessary, they're damaging. And VAT is a completely unnecessary tax. If a government wants to tax consumption (deleterious as that may be), the most efficient method is a sales tax, not a VAT. But my objection was in relation to the OP's experience of goods being seized/delayed for possible IP theft. My guess is that the total of all bootleg LEGO - by which I mean infringements of TLG's IP rights - from the US to Germany is minuscule and has no appreciable impact on TLG and wouldn't even if there were no IP infringement checks. I suspect that even the effect of Chinese bootlegs on TLG in Europe overall is negligible. It may play large in the minds of AFOLs, but the real consequences to TLG are trivial. I reckon that they worry a lot more about legitimate competition such as Mattel.

Nice design! Did you glue it together for durability? It's called a tea caddy.