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  1. gylman
    Wow. Amazing. LEGO should license this. I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Best technic thing I've seen in a long time. Maybe ever.
  2. gylman
    This! is amazing. Best set I've seen in a long time. Very very nice. Multiples.
  3. gylman
    I didn't much care for the Simpson's House, but this is a whole different matter. Very nice. Now let's wait for the Piece of Resistance - Moe's.
  4. gylman
    There is truth in this. In the period from 2010 to 2012, LEGO released the best castle sets ever, from Medieval Market to Kingdom's Joust. Most of these fall under Kingdoms, except for Medieval Market, which doesn't really fit anywhere. It's just an amazing set. I have pretty much every set from every castle series ever made, and now Kingdom's is my favourite for pure quality of build. Sentimentality for childhood might make some think of classic castle or Forestmen, but the quality of the build, the parts, the colours, etc mostly can't compare to what's in the Kingdoms series. Anyway, Forestmen were my favourite before Kingdoms came along.
  5. gylman
    Look up My Gifted Child. Their store or or near Victoria Park always had shelves in the back with some old LEGO. You will never find any store as good as Lasting Toys. It's by far the best. Last time I was there they had a back room with stored LEGO sets that would boggle your mind.
  6. gylman
    If he has 300,000 subscribers, he can afford it because he is making a lot of money, probably 6 figures, from his LEGO work. That's how. It's a full time, well paying job. EDIT: by LEGO work I mean what he is doing on Youtube. 300,000 subscribers is huge. Lots of money to be made.
  7. gylman
    LEGO has always been expensive. And it's worth the money compared to what other "brick" makers produce. Also, to me the boxes are a form of art onto themselves. I love LEGO boxes - wonderful display pieces. What has changed from 20 or even 10 years ago, is that LEGO is making more sets than ever, and many of them are high quality. So a collector like I used to be would be spending more money than before just trying to keep up. I have a huge LEGO collection from the 1980's to about 7 or 8 years ago, but it just got too much - too much money, too much space taken up, etc. So I mostly gave up, and I am slowly clearing things out through Bricklink or by gifting. LEGO is a more expensive hobby now than it was 20 years ago, for sure.
  8. gylman
    Wait - where can I get that LEGO store set 40145! I like that more than any of these City sets.
  9. gylman
    A slightly smaller scale Japanese castle, with the same Japanese-style detailing but not so huge a base, would make an excellent LEGO Ideas project. I'd buy, for sure.
  10. gylman
    I've been a bit Japan obsessed recently and have been watching a ton of Japanese historical movies with lots of these castles recently. This is truly excellent work. I'd love to have something like this on display at my house - if only I had the skill (and parts) to build it.
  11. gylman
    This is my favourite LEGO collection, and I always look forward tremendously to these sets. It's a very nice set, but somehow the colour scheme slightly rubs me the wrong way. I haven't built it yet, but at least for now this one does not match up to Green Grocer. Still, it's in the top half of the batting order. Thanks for the review - it was enjoyable.
  12. gylman
    Green Grocer I think was the best looking and most fun to build. It has not been equalled or surpassed. Then: Cafe Corner (just because it was the first, and such a great departure from previous LEGO efforts) Parisian Restaurant Grand Emporium Palace Cinema Pet Shop Fire Brigade Last is Town Hall. To me, Town Hall was a disappointment. Big, but not at all pretty like the others, doesn't really fit in well. I think it was done by a totally different designer, and that shows. I did't count Market Street, because it seems to be almost a separate attempt from the other much more elaborate and detailed modulars
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    Modular buildings, but maybe it's not a fair comparison because they are so much more expensive and detailed than anything else. A few years ago I would have said Classic Castle was my favourate regular LEGO theme, especially the Forestmen. But now I'd say Kingdoms was the best castle series. It had some wonderful sets in the series, especially the Market Village and the jousting set, but Village Mill Raid and even smaller sets like the Blacksmith.
  14. gylman
    I have lots of great memories from Bionicle. Looking forward to seeing your animation.
  15. gylman
    That is really REALLY nice. Thanks for sharing it.
  16. gylman
    This will be a great set for giving as a gift to a child or friend, even a professional colleague. Great decision by TLG to choose it. Simple but effective.
  17. gylman
    I agree that 8043 is a great set. Best released in a long time. And please god, no dinosaurs. I thought that 8094, the Control Centre, had a number of unique "non vehicular" ideas, and wonder why we can't get more of this. Not constrained to the vehicle format, we can get both interesting machines and realism, instead of using 600 parts to build the perfect suspension and gearbox. What I find is that the big Technic sets have more parts than they did 20 years, but they don't do more. There is far less efficient use of the pieces, and more very repetitive building. I recall how disappointed I was with the big crane 8421 a few years ago. The "biggest Technic Set" ever at the time, but a boring build and very little fun after it was built. it marked the end of my years of strong Technic interest, though I still dabble when a really good set comes along.
  18. gylman
    I'd settle for models other than the same old tired themes: -car -racing car -truck car -utility car of some kind -crane -smaller crane -front loader -smaller front loader And really suspensions and gear boxes aren't that interesting to 99% of the people that build Technic models. It's the functionality that counts. Anyone remember the Control Centres? And TLC still has not surpassed the Airtech Claw Rig for functional complexity. Even its alternate model was more interesting than most of what is being released these days.
  19. gylman
    I'd bet that a significant number of these were ending up for resale at a profit on places like Bricklink,eBay etc. I've been buying thousands of dollars of LEGO every year for over a decade, and never bought one at a discount like this. Oh well, you can't miss what you never had.
  20. gylman
    Meh - I don't care if two stories or three. A town can have buildings with both. Personally, I'd buy any detailed high quality building/structure model. Making it 50-100$ cheaper doesn't influence my decision. The quality of the model does. By quality I mean - accuracy, visual appeal, challenge of building, use of interesting techniques, etc. However, if there was a new series that did not fit in with the old modular series, because of scale or general appearance, I suspect I would not commit to starting a whole new collection.
  21. gylman
    I don't see it. This is not a kids' theme. And the Simpsons audience is too old for LEGO for the most part. Moe's Tavern as a set? Nah. I can see the Kwik E Mart, though. I think this will be a very short license. *(and by the way... the "Excellent...." comment in under my avatar comes from Mr. Burns, so I am a fan of this show)
  22. gylman
    Absolutely. I can't stop looking at it. It's magnificent. Enter it in CUUSOO http://lego.cuusoo.com/
  23. gylman
    I collect these each year, and the kids' winter Christmas village grows and grows. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4794289 This one seems a bit more elaborate internally than usual, yet a bit less "special" from the outside. Whatever.... it will fit into the village and I'll be buying the usual number: one to build, one to store in the vault and take to my grave or give to the kids in the will, and one to resell or gift as needed.
  24. gylman
    For me the golden age of Technic was late 1980s to mid 1990's, from the Airtech Claw Rig to the Space Shuttle, the pneumatic cranes, and the various control sets. At that time this was really leading edge construction, and the sets were far more creative and did more with less than the current Technic lineup. From a brick-building perspective, the modular buildings, beginning with Cafe Corner, totally changed what retail LEGO sets were all about for me. Amazing techniques, beautiful constructions. They are a golden age in themselves, 2007 to the present time. This is an adult's perspective. As a child, nothing equalled the castles from Legoland (6080), Black Knights (6085) and Royal Knights (6090), and Forestmen were great too. What followed was much weaker. The modern castle series don't really excite me the way those older castles did. So that would make the mid 1980's to mid 1990's a golden age of castle.
  25. gylman
    Some thoughts: 1) I think the value for money with this set may be the best in the entire series. Though I've shunned the smaller sets (Burj Dubai...UGH!) I will get this one. 2) This is ideal for a work desk somewhere. 3) The booklet does add value, and I've enjoyed them all. By the way, I find the SMELL of the booklets inside the architecture sets quite wonderful. In this age of eBooks and online reading, it's easy to forget that books are a multisensory experience that cannot be full fully duplicated by a Kindle or Kobo. 4) There might be a way to rebuild the top of the tower so that the clock faces look a bit nicer. Obviously it would require some ninja building techniques given the scale here. 5) This is a really great review. Eurobricks should publish a book of their best reviews. It would be up there with the Brick Testament. Maybe we should call it The Eurobricks Testament
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