SheepEater
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:laugh: Their international headquarters is in Montreal, QC Canada and I personally put the blame on them for NO Lego Stores at all in my province. When I lived in Montreal, I went to their warehouse once on my bicycle. Circled the entire area. Could have entered their shipping area easily if I wanted, there were no fences or security guards around.
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The 8865 is one of my favorites of all time. To this day, still boasts the best suspension of ANY technic set, even 8880.It's one of these sets I looked at in catalogs as a kid, yet was beyond my reach, but bought it as an AFOL. I also love the blue header, acknowledging 90s motors and pneumatics. Probably from the box of 8868. Please don't ever change it. Thanks.
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So if I DID get a message that my mini-mech freebie has shipped, then it confirms that I WILL be getting my 41999 eventually??? :cry_happy:
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How many of you are in my situation- had their mini-mech shipped out, but crawler still backordered? EDIT: I ordered many times from Lego, last time was a $500 order (the entire 2013 LotR wave)
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My situation: - Lego has shipped my mini-mech (the crawler still shows "backordered") - My order was placed August 1st, 7:30 AM eastern time
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I don't see how a well designed, sturdy brick built creature isn't any less playable than a molded one. Look at Shelob.
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Ugh!! In one single article she reiterated the large majority of ALL annoying sayings we listed on this thread, with the obligatory "stepping on bricks". I like how most of the reader responses demolish this ignorant dummy's piece of crap article.
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I strongly disagree. I own the vast majority of technic sets produced between 1978 and 2010, plus a good bunch of the better recent ones. The 8258 is "meh" for a few reasons: - LAs instead of pneumatics. Plus, the LAs you might get from the set are of the older type, before they got improved in the 8043 reissue, after the recalls. - The outriggers are only partially motorized. After the outriggers are out, you need to deploy each feet by hand! What was the point of using a motor then if you're just going to use manually operated gears anyway? - The crane's winch, AND the crane extender, are manually operated. What's the point of having a motor to rotate and move the crane arm if you're going to use your hands anyway? I actually prefer 8285's alternate model to 8258's main model. The 8285 B model not only has a crane, but an interesting way the trailer is attached to the truck, via pneumatics.
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If LEGO is not sure that they can fulfill all orders that were already placed, then why does it still say USA & Canada "Out of stock, expected ship date 16 Aug 2013" Europe, Australia: Out of stock, expected ship date 22 Aug 2013 With all of them being available to add it to their shopping cart?
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It says out of stock but I think you can still add it to your shopping bag. My story: I planned on placing my order last midnight. But the website experienced some heavy problems and long delays (there was a red error message acknowledging it). It also charged me for shipping, and tripled my taxes when it shouldn't. So I said, screw that, I'm waiting for the morning. So this morning (7h30, Eastern time) I placed an order without a hitch. But a few hours later I got an email that said it was out of stock and would ship later than expected. (But my order wasn't under verification or anything of the sort that happens when Lego gets suspicious) Assuming everything is fair and it's first come first serve basis, what are the odds of me getting my set? Can someone please reassure me
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I'd prefer it in the style of the 10193 Medieval Market Village.
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Excellent MOC! Nice gondorian soldiers. Added to index under the "Minas Tirith" subsection.
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Is that a Jack Stone fig I see? I don't see too many of those lately, especially in large complex MOCs. Well done.
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That certainly didn't stop TT from putting a minifig of him in the videogame.
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Pretty much a thread winner right here. Alternate wording: "You have way too much time on your hands". The same people saying that usually spend hours watching mindless TV or football or facebook.
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Have you ever had your LEGO thrown away?
SheepEater replied to bgalakazam's topic in General LEGO Discussion
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While I share your opinion about the Laketown set, I beg to differ about Hobbit Wave 1 only having Bag End as good set. The Goblin King battle is a great set... with minor modifications (3 hinge bricks and a few technic bricks and other basic parts to connect the components). Very easy to do. The other 4 sets (apart from Riddles) are decent. Yep. I"d rather they hadn't released ANY castle sets at all while the LOTR license is active and instead concentrate on it. That would be good (especially since we'd get a huge dwarven fortress), but the downside to that would be no huge brick-built Smaug.
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Well... they ARE toys. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with adults playing with toys
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- "I've stepped bare feet on LEGOs once. It hurts so much!" *yawn*. Really. Can't you think of anything else more original to say? - "Today's Lego sets have way too many special pieces that are only good to build one thing" Those people saying that clearly don't build and have never seen any MOCs other than sculptures made out of 2x4 and 2x2 bricks and have no clue how those insanely detailed MOCs (like this week's front page MOC, Steam Castle Falls) use TONS of those supposedly "one-use-only" special pieces. About the only parts that I would agree fit this are the large airplane parts from Lego City. - "Legos are way too expensive." You get what you pay for. You see something else cheaper and just as good, by all means buy it. - "Where are the basic bricks sets that I used to play with when I was a kid? I swear these days it's only licensed Lego and wacky themes." There's still generic Lego, stores just don't stock on them as much as Star Wars /Super Heroes etc. because they simply don't sell as much! I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but oh well. Rant over.
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I can perfectly live with missing prints. I can perfectly live with missing complicated minifig parts such as hairpiece, accessories, etc I can somewhat live with missing recent specialty parts. What I find unacceptable, however, are absent older specialty parts. This makes reproducing classic sets such as 6542, 10001, 8860, or 8868 impossible. http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=73037 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2648 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2649 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2917 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3739c01 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=4266c02
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I'd love a "Battle of the Pelennor Fields" set. With mumakils, Grond and a section of Mnas Tirith. All we have right now of the mighty Mordor army besieging Mnas Tirith are.... 2 orcs and a catapult. These 2 orcs must be pretty special. They get to take on Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas and the entire army of the dead on their own!
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Here in Quebec province (Canada), publicity aimed at kids is illegal..
SheepEater replied to SheepEater's topic in Community
Maybe, but you never lived with this law as a kid like I did. Me and my brother were dumbfounded that the ads were on all english channels, but not french ones and never really questioned why. That didn't stop us from bugging our parents about toys, games. I think were actually starting to feel excluded from the english speaking world. So all these cool toys are only for english speaking boys and not us? Yeah call me spoiled, but I don't see how toy ads are negative towards kids. As a 9 year old, I LOVED those ads - their rarity added to their appeal. Furthermore this was pre-internet, we lived in a small town with no big stores and it was the only way to know more about toys than a small picture in a catalogue. -
I will. Thanks!
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Thanks! Now for my next question: I have made a mod (in real life) to the 79010 Goblin King battle where the components are connected with hinges. http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=80391 Another person has been kind enough to build the official set in LDD so obviously I'd like to apply my mod to the LXF file. How do I rotate a huge entire section in degrees that aren't 90? 45 degrees would be fine.