gylman

Wow, these get better and better. What a great idea. Paradisa one my fav now.

Hey, that's really nice. Never appreciated this before. (I'd be up for a contest like this if there is interest from others)

I'll post a couple more pics of the one I made based on the photos which will reveal any other details you need to know. It's really very simple to build. I totally don't have time to make instructions, and the parts can vary.... it's Lego after all, you can build the same thing many different ways. The only "hard" parts to get are the hinges, and you need a dozen jumper plates. The rest is just colour matching. You don't need instructions or a parts list. Give me a few days for the photos, though.

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It really bothers me, because unlike you Yoda, I browse the shop several times a day, just to relax for a minute before I return to my work. Although this year I have bought much less set because I am unhappy with the Canadian dollar pricing, in the past I have done MOST of my buying from Shop@Home, and I still buy accessories, sales, and miscellaneous bricks, from S@H. Because of this incessant browsing, a couple of times (you guys may remember this), I caught the shop when they made mistake, pricing stuff in US dollar amounts for Canadians. They fixed the mistake in 1-2 hours, but I ordered before they fixed it, and I got HUGE bargains on choice sets. Oh well.... I sent them an email expressing my unhappiness. Maybe they will at least improve the ability to scan for really new items.

Having used it for a few days now, I have decided that i hate the new look. The worst thing is that I can't get a quick look at "what's new". I have to click each category in turn, and then it shows me all of the sets in the entire category, not really the new ones. Also, it clearly requires more clicks and longer loading time to get to what I want. Definitely this is not a improvement. >:-(

That's a good deal all right. Personally,I was somewhat disappointed by the Batman sets. They were OK, but the price point in Canada was too high - I didn't buy any here. Seriously, I think that Lego has ripped off Canadian buyers so badly... 50 or even 60% higher cost in Canadian vs US dollars, when our exchange rate is 10-15% different only. That's just offensive. If they reduce Arkham and the Batcave below 100$ Canadian dollars, I'll probably buy one of each. I AM curious about how they are selling. Based on the quantities I see on TRU shelves, I would suspect they are not moving very well. Anyway, pretty much every Xmas there is some really good deal for Lego at TRU... I'll wait for the Batman sets at that time.

Parts from my bins (plus I cannibalized the yellow chest-cover hinges from my Sheriff's Lock-up set (6764)- the hinges in yellow are the only rare parts in this set I think) I don't think you can buy this set (ebay etc excepted of course)

They are worth almost nothing if they are full of crappy bricks, mixed in bricks from other Lego sets, missing stickers, no box and no instructions. If they are in good condition, with instructions and especially a good box, they could be worth 10-50x more. So, if you are serious about knowing prices, we need more info. 1) Box? 2) instructions? 3) stickers (if applicable) 4) brick condition, yellowing, warping, etc etc.

I am something of a keychain collector :-) but have avoided collecting these ones... Just don't like 'em I can assure you, though, that they are official product and totally NOT rare.

Hmm... still exploringt this new look. One thing I don't like is that I can look at ALL recently added products on the "What's new" page. In general it seems a bit harder to navigate, but of course that could just be a matter of getting used to it.

Took about 30 minutes to make. I got the back wall wrong at first. I believe it has to shift in by a half stud thickness using a jumper plate, otherwise the chest does not open and close properly. I think that you can appreciate this in the pictures on the eBay link. Maybe I'm wrong and there's another way to do this - I didn't give this a lot of careful thought or anything. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gylman/P...st/pa210102.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gylman/P...st/pa210103.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gylman/P...st/pa210104.jpg It's kinda flimsy, especially at the back, because in order to get those nice yellow corners on the chest, the back wall is a single block with no overlaps to any other walls to make it strong. It only attaches at the floor. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gylman/P...st/pa210105.jpg It could be easily fixed up using a few corner bricks or plates on the inside of the chest, but I didn't see them in the pictures. The front latch in yellow was the only part I was missing in yellow, so I used black, and I didn't quite get the height of the latch right, but otherwise I think it is identical externally. It would have been nice to have a picture of how it looks like from the back. Like many such models, it tends to look better from the front than from the back.

http://www.lowlug.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3262 Hold on!! Based on the pictures in this link, Tiny Turbos are not dead yet. These hideous piles of poo are actually the more expensive racers (that I have always hated),, and it looks like we have some good TT still to look forward to. Phew!

The first batmobile is quite excellent. I think I'll make one...... The others are... meh....

TLC are not idiots (despite what we often say). I presume the added sales/profit from putting small and otherwise likely almost invisible sets more visibly on the shelf is worthwhile. Sales success is 50% retail display success. I suggest that TLC does an experiment. On one side: a barrel full of bagged Tiny Turbo sets. On the other side, a shelf with neatly piled up tiny Turbos in crapisters. Dunno what the price difference would be (the bagged sets are cheaper to make, store, and ship, as well as to display) Then, wait for 1-2 months and see which way more money is made. Obviously all here would just buy a handful from the barrel. But, what about the more typical customer.

Very nice! I guess you have your town in the attic. My suggestion is that it does not all need to be so packed together. IF you have the room, why not seprate it out a bit? Also, and again only if you have room, the city does not have to be square. If you have a central area, with some parts of the city emerging to the side of it, like a peninsula, you can build more things and also access them. Perhaps you already have done this, but it is hard to tell from the pictures. An overhead shot or something which shows the whole thing would be great

These are not nearly as cute or useful parts packs as previous years. No chance I will buy this, and I have multiple copies of all the previous, which I thought were great. I don't get it. Why don't they just eliminate the expensive packaging, put the TTPP in baggies, and sell them for 2 dollars each. Tiny Turbo Parts Packs.

I'm with Yoda. This 430 is not significantly different from last year, and we don't need yet ANOTHER F1 minifig scale. I really liked the 430, but don't need two versions of it. I'm hoping we still have a 699 coming (or something like that, I forget which model, but the real life car looks nice).

8270 looks like a good small technic model for me. The other two... nah. This is the first year that I have had more interest in system than in Technic, and these sets will certainly not reverse that. The big technic sets this year were very disappointing (to an old classic technic guy like me... damn I hate liftarms). Here's hoping for more original and nicer looking big sets next year.

THanks Joe, these are always great. This issue looks to be the best yet@!@!

I have no issues with this approach. I don't like it, but I can choose to ignore it. Heck, I even create links to it! Too bad this doe not seem to be the way of our world, and so we get the grovelling and excessive (frankly, fearful) statement made by TLC in response to a couple of minifigs and a few words.

I thought some might find the blog of Jamie Berard, former AFOL, now real-life Lego Company set designer, interesting. http://sideshowjamie.livejournal.com/

The MISB castle lego price insanity continues. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...11606&rd=1&rd=1 I bought this set MISB for $110 just a couple of months ago.

No doubt. I'm not saying that I dislike his work because it "insults" the bible. Far from that - as a militant atheist I couldn't care less if it did or didn't, and judging by some of his other work, the "reverend" is not a religious fundamentlist. He may actually be trying to make a point about violence and our hypocrisy with regard to it. Which I would normally be cheering. Whatever. I just wish he wouldn't use Lego to make ugly scenes. It's just not right. Yeah yeah, "art", "juxtaposition of contradictory elements making the message more powerful".. blah blah artsy fartsy megablocks. Leave Lego out of the world's evils.

No theme has more potential for fun and interesting building than the Adventurers. They go anywhere, do anything.... that's why it's so sad that TLC seems to have abandoned them. By the way.... it is a general rule of mine that NO communication I have with TLC, whether phone survey, internet survey, or email contact, ever fails to mention that we want the Adventurers back. If we all do this, for long enough, I believe they ill listen.