SuvieD

Never store lego stacked if you can avoid it. The plastic will stretch and loose its grip over time. This is not universal but all LEGO parts are better stored unbuilt and unstacked.

It's beautiful. I don't like the non-blacktron containers but everything else is dreamy.

The loss of purple isn't so bad. Teal would be a shame though. All the other colors getting fixed is a good to know. I am really glad to hear that slopes are getting fixed also.

I really want to see this with some sort of enforced armor ramming type part on the tip of the nose. Since it has so few weapons I would like to see it have something to rely on in a tough spot. Missle are fine for air targets which must remain lightly armored but sturdy armored units would barely take a scratch. It would be reall sweet if this could use all its speed and momentum to damage an enemy or at least knock it down so it can run away safely. I also like the colors, it has a sports car fast appeal.

I must protest this. Not everything you have mentioned is bad. Of course I could not agree more on some items. I have added my thoughts to your. Please feel free to defend your positions. Insectoids were too much. UFO isn't all that bad but suffered from some over zealous printing and poor color choices. I actually like the classic space guns but I must admit a couple new varieties would not hurt. Just please don't give us SW left over guns. Space Police two was not awful and done right trans green would have worked really well in space. I personally think Mtron needed green instead of neon green and I hope to prove it in the coming month. I am just tired of the colors we have loads of already. Please bring out the trans red and yellow again. What might be really novel is to give us trans clear parts. Insane I know but it could work. Yes, you said it totally right here. Gaps and lazy building need to go! Don't be cheap, add in the two or three extra pieces to finish a model properly. I remember building some of the car engines of yesteryear and how they were made of a dozen or so common parts but ended up looking great in the end. Why not take a similar approach with the new sets. Use smaller parts to make a larger item. That way there are more opportunities for alternate models and other building that can be done. Big parts are okay if they work well and have plenty of uses but the parts that only have a few decent uses or or too large just need to go. I like colored wheels. Even orange ones. The rubber ones bring up the cost of sets. I would rather have the cheaper colorful wheels and get more set pieces than have rubber wheels that can only be used as wheels and get less set for the money or have to pay more for the set in general. These need to go. Flick missles, catapults, and shooters all need to dissapear. Ships will still shoot imaginary lasers with or without them. If you want to add play functions try landing gear, unfolding cargo ramps, rotating wings or cockpits, engine hatches for repairs or refueling, a detachable escape pod, cargo boxes that can be picked up or dropped off, or anything that adds play value over attack value. Pretend plastic lasers still shoot no matter what but a boring ship without any of those other things becomes just a weapon that needs to be reloaded all the time with flick missles, launchers or catapult like projectiles. Here, here! Levers, computers, and gizmos a good cockpit does make! Batman, Exo Force, and other themes suffer unjustly under the weight of technic. Over half of a given set in these themes is easily technic now. Can you at least cut back some. The original space police only ever had a dozen or so parts most of which were pins or axles and maybe a small brick or two. Having a few slopes, tiles, or other parts is nice to help identify a ship or any model for a certain group. Plastering a model like exo force model were says poor design and that printed parts or stickers need to make a lackluster model stand out more. It should not be so! Quality design from the beginning makes a model worth having, decorations should add to not be te main attraction. If you have to add printed parts, make them hologram screens of galactic maps that are inside the ship or give us an extra figure or two, even aliens (molded or printed heads on minifigure bodies) might be nice. Why? I like the white in Blacktron II, Futuron didn't suffer for it, nor Exploriens. So why no white? Color fastness maybe? I think white looks very futuristic. Just don;t make it all white like the town space shuttles. I like these parts actually. The more uses I can get out of a part the more I like it. Singular purpose parts have limited appeal. That said it is nice to have both. If there is no engine at least make something that acts as an engine. If it is too hard to be original just copy the formula for starwars engines. At least then people know what they are. I think that there should be an alternate online downloadable version of instructions for a large ship. Let me buy up the whole collection of a series and have someone at LEGO design a large alternate model ship out of all the parts for that series. That way there are no restrictions on what is built outside of the pieces included in all the models. Give us a huge dream ship built by a master LEGO builder. I don't want to pay $200 or more for a set like the crazy StarWars addict have to.

I am looking to sell it all at once. The figures are worth at least $185 or about $2 per figure. Of course some are less but a few dozen are obviously worth more then. The hulls along with the masts and riggings the are worth at least $100. The sails will go for at least $78. The accessories I guessed low at putting most of them at $0.10 a piece with nearly all of those parts going anywhere from $0.15-$1.50 a piece. Those along with the chests, crates, any extras like the ancors/wheels and the 13 canons end up being worth at least $115. $185 $100 $78 $115 Total $478 Thats the least what I would get on Bricklink. I am hoping someone here on EB would like to start or add to their collection instead. Bricklink can take a long time to sell all of this as well. By offering it here I get to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. I get to trade in parts I don't want for tuition money and someone here gets a good deal on pirate LEGO.

I am loving the concept of this. If you are looking for rubble just try using plates, which are the approximate size of our real life bricks, and try laying those out in small pile or haphazardly. 1x1 square and round plates would look good and maybe add a few red, green, or sand green ones on top to simulate moss. I think that a scorch mark and some ash under your fire would be a nice touch. I would also like to see a forest or graveyard just outside the church. Something more of the surroundings to help fill out the MOC.

Townsfolk, specifically women. I would love to see a castle version of the large town minifigure boxes. I would gladly pay $45 for 30+ non military castle figures with accessories. Heck, you could even have a few knights or wizards or something just as long as there are 25 or so peasants, farmers, artisans, smithies, bakers, jesters, maidens, and noblemen and women to balance them out. Toss in some accessories, some animals, or maybe even flags and I would do the best LEGO set ever dance. In fact I would likely buy four or five of such a set and then check that off my list of LEGO wants, knowing that LEGO has made every dream of mine come true and that no set will ever compare to such a set. Unless of course they release a retro version of the same set with all the classic 80's figures at which point I would sell a kidney or something so I could buy more. By the way if anyone at LEGO or an ambassador reads this please feel free to pass it on to product development and know that this idea and any like it are the sole property of TLG, and that they can introduce such a set anytime now.

Seems hodgepodgy at first but upon closer examination it seems as if everything is weel thought out and placed. Is this a copy on an actual Gundam? I really like the design overall, it is easily recognizable as Gundam but also has an earthy look to it unlike the very futuristic look of the classic Gundam I know. My favorite details are the legs and hip armor. I really like the look of the knee and the white portions of the legs and arms. I don't like the bits attached improperly for decoration. Those things never seem to stay put and worse is that they often deform overtime and become unusable for anything. Can it squat or do any dynamic poses or does it only stand upright? MOC on!

I am only going to focus on the castle and space themes I listed. I don't have the room for all the lego I have and I need the money for tuition. I have two years at the university left and I need at least $15,000 more to pay for it. Selling my extra LEGO is a good way to help with that cost and helps me get some new lego every once in a while.

Here we have a large lot of pirate specific parts and accessories that I am offering up to EB first. There are parts here for four complete ships and only one part needed for a fifth vessel. There are 95 minifigures 70 of which are standard pirate crew, 11 redbeard the captain, and 14 various other less common figures including for imperial fellows in full gear. Also included are over 500 pirate specific extras. Everything you see pictured is included in the lot. If you have any questions about specifics just post them. If you would like to make an offer please do so through pm's. Sails for BSB, RBR, and two of the Jackstone pirate ships are included along with some others. This is a used lot, there are some pieces figures that are not in great condition but the majority is in good condition. Minimum Bricklink price for this $474.88 plus shipping. That is if you could get it all from one store and they priced everything at the sold average for the last six months. I would expect the actual cost without shipping to exceed $550 easily. I am sure ebay would be less but similar in cost and with loads of extras you may not want at all. I am asking for something near $350 plus shipping at actual cost. Shipping within the US will obviously be cheaper than international but even then I think the amount and quality of the parts would make up for multiple orders/won bids to get these parts otherwise. I will take offers until Satuday the 13th. I prefer paypal but other payments can be made including trading in full or in part some of your LEGO for this. I collect Castle (Lions/Falcons/Wolfpack/Forestmen/any castle women) and Space (Futuron/Space Police 1/Blacktron 1&2/Mtron/Ufo/Spyius) and all the parts that are associated with those themes. After the 13th I will list this seperately on Bricklink. This is the first of many offers like this, if you are interested in lots like this, in a particular theme let me know what types of extras you would like to see included. This will be by far the largest lot I have exlcuding town which will likely be multiple smaller lots. Future lots include Adventurers, Western, Harry Potter, Space Police 2, Ice Planet, Exploriens, Star Wars (no complete figures), and multiple town lots (police/fire/train/services/and generic town) unless someone is looking for a huge town lot. Thanks for looking and be sure to let others who might be interested in this lot or lots like this to check this out. In case you are wondering I am on the EB straight shooters list and can my bricklink store and feedback can be found in my signature. -SuvieD

Better not be, but it wouldn't surprise me. I just hope they use lots of dark teal like the former rock raiders did. I love that color and there is just not enough of it to go around.

Beautiful set and a great review. I wish I had a dozen of those beauties sitting on my shelf.

Nice review. The figure fitting inside is great. I think the price might be a little high but you did get it from TRU so what else is to be expected.

What is the intent on a modular castle at that size, are you trying to create something others could add to at a lego event or is it simply part of a challange to yourself of some kind? Personally the scale and realism ruins it for me. While it does look impressive and is surely more correct in keeping with actual castles it doesn't look or feel like the modular lego castles of old. Which is fine for you of course but I prefer an older style and much more color. So try not to let my comments put you off in anyway. If you are looking to create modular landscapes I would suggest working on square baseplates and leave areas purposely flat and blank while other areas woould be allowed variation. Leave all you plant life off until the very last step in putting it together. Of course a true castle would have little to no plant life near it unless part of a garden. Part of a real castles defense was a tree/shrubless area near the wall to allow more warning of oncoming threats. This looks like a military castle and not a place called home for a king, you should consider adding a keep to the inner court. Nice build altogether, and the colored plates really added a lot, good choice.

Star wars lego sells well. That means lego makes profit. If and when it ceases to do so lego will not pursue a renewal. Why argue about it?

What a cool looking ship design. I love the guns intakes and the main thruster. I only have two complaints. It is nearly all black. LEGO doesn't feel right without a little color in it, even if it is just a stripe or something. And second how do you find time to build such sweet stuff with all those awesome DS games right there.

The custom stickers are looking really nice.

Holy bat building mocs of glory. These are battastic! I always like it when people expand on a series and give it a fuller treatment than LEGO does. A lot of this are just small extras that make the series better overall.

Excellent MOC. The letters on the front look great and this has a very cool feeling. I like the place filled up much better than empty though. It has so much going on it that way and it has a hectic gotham look that way.

Shop at home if I remember correctly is not a direct portion of the TLC business but is a separate entitiy. One thing people often forget is also to account for is product saturation and demand and not just costs. 90% of homes in Germany already have LEGO products in them whereas the US has something closer to 35% of homes. Which means LEGO needs to have a greater quantity ata lower price to make it available to more people in the US, whereas EU is already a saturated market. If LEGO can get in more homes and establish themselves as the best construction toy available then I would think prices would begin climbing to match EU prices. As it is there are six aisles of construction toys at TRU and only two are LEGO, which means there are still four ailses of lower priced competition that LEGO needs to outsell. If prices were equal to the EU price it would take three years for all of it to filled with clones and competitors while LEGO would only be found in imports shops at insane prices. And with lower profitable markets, guess whos prices would go up. Demand for new products in Europe is obviously high enough to warrant a higher price. The basics of economics is price your product to meet your demand. Ideally that means pricing items at just high enough that they all sell. Europe in general is still willing to pay the prices LEGO has, they are not going to lower prices until that changes. Another thing to remember is that wages in the US are much lower than in EU. I could be wrong but I would say that 70% of people in the town I live in make less than $20 per hour and after taxes and other paycheck takeouts they end up with something closer to $14 per hour take home or less. Which means that there are nearly 84,000 people living in my area make between 3.90-8.40 Euro per hour. Tell me that wages in the EU are that bad and then you will have my sympathy.

The whole concept seems a borrowed hodge podge of ideas from sorces like eragon and toilkens books. It is often said that there are no new ideas or concepts just fresh workings on older ones. It doesn't really matter though. If you are into it and it leads to cool mocs or more artwork like what you have done I think it is cool. Just don't get hung up on a single idea or ideal. When you begin to trim down life into neat little boxes of the easily explainable you miss out on a broader and richer fantasy world.

Those ships and mecha are really sweet looking. Some are better than others but I liked the design especially for the queen bee and the wolf.

Moonbase implies no oxygen or gravity and must therefore be enclosed. I suugest thinking in terms of terraformed planets or colonized earth-like planets/moons instead. That way you gt to build what you want the way you want without all the restrictions of the moonbase idea. The LDD palette is very limited anyway, I think you are looking to make something with so few options you just need to open it up a bit. I have found that dumping out a bucket of parts is better for inspiration anyway.

Space sets are over rated. Space is not though. You should build your own. $5 on bricklink could get you some great classic ship parts and I am sure you have enough to finish a ship. Even the figures are fairly cheap. I suggest choosing a neon green for windscreen. If you have to buy something, choose something older.