CP5670

Thanks for the welcome and the compliments about my stuff. :-) It's basically random nonsense. I was trying to sign up for an online game service in 1997 but was finding that all the names I tried were already taken. After trying a bunch of crap that didn't work (even names of dll files in the windows folder), I mashed the keyboard a few times and the system accepted that. The name has sort of stuck since then, since I have used it on other forums and games for many years. :-P Nothing in particular, lol. I don't really have any Castle or Pirate stuff though, apart from a few small things (the Shell sets from the late 90s). I mostly just prefer modern and futuristic stuff in general. I like pretty much everything up to (and including) UFO. My favorite one as an overall theme was probably Space Police 1, although their actual sets were pretty hit or miss. My main project at the moment is a Blacktron 2 carrier that will have a basic shape similar to these, but is much larger and carries four of those fighters inside. It should have various L&S light bits and some pneumatic functionality. I haven't had much time to work on it lately but plan to get back into it soon. There are also a couple of smaller Technic WIPs I work with on and off, like this thing.

Nice article. The Onion never disappoints. :-D As for the issue about Lego having superior part quality, that was definitely true in the past but things have changed a lot in the last year or so, seemingly ever since TLC started outsourcing the production of their bricks. Some of the pieces they're coming out with these days look indistinguishable from mega bloks in terms of the colors and opacity of the pieces, and they don't grip together as firmly as they should either. I posted some thoughts on the issue here some months ago. They say that these issues were due to a manufacturing glitch and not something intentional, but I don't know when they are supposed to get it fixed or if they have done so already. I have actually held off buying a lot of sets I want during the last year because I haven't heard any updates on this issue and have still gotten some of these dud pieces in recent Bricklink orders.

I just registered here a few days ago. Looks like a nice place. :-) I'm a 21 year old AFOL and have been a Lego fan for pretty much my entire life. I am mostly into Space and Technic, although I collect stuff from other themes too. I used to post a lot in lugnet.technic several years ago, but haven't been there much recently (just got a bit tired of their forum software and interface). Some of the stuff I've built in the past is on here, although I haven't gotten around to updating it with a few of my more recent things. If anyone here is going to the Brickfair event this year, I will probably be there as long as I have time. I'm from that area, although I currently live a bit further away.