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yes, the ship and the soldier castle aren't <insert that tiresome argument> in a single way, honstly. As far as i can see, there ar mostly normal piecs, which are used in many sets these days.

These pictures just almost made my computer explode. Please don't post such freakin' huge pictures directly here! Anyway, these are the same ones as in the brickshelf folder we already saw.

I think one set i always wanted badly was 6543 Sail N' Fly Marina. I still think this is one of the best classic town sets ever made by TLG, and i still wanna have it. It summarizes perfectly many of the cool aspects from the sets in the early 90's, you get boats, a plane, mechanical stuff and holiday-related things. It also points with the octan styled building combined with the yellow/red style watersport club.

Actually i like the farm too, it doesn't even look too <insert that tiresome argument> to me. You can't exactly tell that by this picture, as it is really blurry The only pieces that disturb me are the ones of which the roof is made, i never saw those before.

Of course i'm in for the kill, too! Just one question: how exactly will be figured out who the winners are?

I really love those sets. I think what makes them look a bit strange particularly is, that the pictures look so "modern-style-like". The sets will look different for sure when you see real pictures of them which have not been photoshopped to death.

Oh my goodness, i just realized there ARE pictures, for a few minutes i was like "wtf? no way we already got pictures of real sets!" I can't believe we really get farm sets, that's so awesome! And the big pirate ship looks stunning, also seems there might be some nice interior in it Must go now and save the pictures before they get removed

Is ther an actual DAY when it comes out, or do we only know yet that it's september?

If that's true, that's VERY promising. I'd buy them all

Wow, that really looks great. very realistic too, i like the roof in between the towers and the bridge lifting mechanism

They are both available for pre-order at amazon, as far as i know.

All these pictures have been posted several times. The castle on has ben posted a few months ago in the castle sets 2008 thread, i believe.

Wow, now that's what i call hi-res pictures. I'll buy this set right away, but i already decided for the giant castle chess set. Sorry, you must wait until next year death star

By far the super chief! It's got the best overall look for me and also has superb interior.

It actually also comes with this year's advent calendar

If you still have all the parts, try to rebuild it, you'll see that it's a great feeling!

It took quite some time, but now i'm finally continuing with city reviews. This one beeing about a really good set of the RES-Q theme, and also one of my favourites of this theme. It brings a lot of playability and an incredible amount of useful pieces, even with only 145 bricks in complete. Set Nr.: 6451 Name: River Response Number of minifigs: 3 Number of pieces: 145 Release Year: 1998 Price: ~20 USD (Back then, when it was new) Unfortunately i haven't got the box of this set anymore, but the instructions are still there in good condition: We get 3 RES-Q minifigs in this set, from which i really love the detailed torso's: A shot of the complete set with both the boat and the little car off board: The before mentioned car is really, really little, but it still got enough space to transport 2 minifigs: A closeup of the rubber dinghy: The speed boat as stand-alone: As already said before, this set brings a big count of equipment and accesoires with it, which is really good for a set this size: In the middle section of the boat there is enough space for a minifig to sit in and put on his diving equipment: And last but not least, a shot from the whole set wirh everything attached, at the front section you can see a wench which also adds a lot to the set: When i got this set back in the day, i was really happy about it and for sure spent a lot of tie playing with it, because of it's great features as the wench in the front of the boat, or the car the boat can transport. I hope you like my little review, stay tuned for more in the next days! edit: I forgot the poll, can sombody add it please? I don't know how to do or if it is possible to do that myself

Cool, then i think i'll do a review of 6451 River Response later today or tomorrow, stay tuned!

Thanks for this review TheBrickster, i also have this set and think it's one of the best helicopters TLG made in the 90's. It's quite big and has got place for 2 minifigs in the cockpit. I also like the fact that there's a victim included in form of the x-treme diver, which also is a theme i always loved as a kid. Do you have any other Res-Q sets left to review? It would be an honour for me to also do a review of one or more sets which are left, but unfortunately i got not much time at the moment.

Metallica - Whiplash Goin' to see them the 4th time this year sunday in switzerland, yayyyyy

Thanks very much!!! I wonder why these aren't in the list when you enter 7898 at lego.com, this seems to be the case with quite many instructions..

I think this is beeing offered already for quite some time now. I subscribed there about 3 months ago, but i never received any magazine or something else.

Yes, i know. But i would want it in pdf format to display it with acrobat reader. They only have photos there.

That's what i'm talking about. They only have the books 1, 7 and 8 uploaded, but not the ones in between (where it comes to build the wagons and the crane wagon).

This might seem a bit odd and most likely nobody will have it anyway, but i'm searching the instruction books in pdf format from the 7898 Cargo Train Deluxe Set, which are missing at the official lego site (they only have books 1, 7 and 8 uploaded there). I know all these instructions are up on several other sites, but nowhere in PDF. If anybody has got these on his pc and could send it to me, i would be very thankful!