MoonCheese

They missed Michigan too. At least I finally got King's Castle Siege, and it was $30 US off, too! Of course, Michigan has no economy these days...I'd go back to Europe if I could.

What's wrong with buying the set but not using the decals?

King's Castle Siege, definitely. I don't have it yet although I do have a lot of Lego Castle stuff.

Yeah, I keep thinking of the Nintendo DS when I read "DSS"...or like Death Star Station or some other SW thing. My grandma also had a lot of a particular clone brand that was a bit bigger than Lego bricks and had fairly tall studs and like...slots on the bottom. Mostly they were white or transparent, with some black and blue (diagonal slopes were usually blue) and a few other colours. Plates were half brick height. There were a lot of curved "slopes" too, including a corner curved slope 2*2 with no stud.

I would intermix them in any setting as I like diversity, of I had any dark fleshies to mix in! When Lego switched to fleshies, I was already in my dark age, and after the end of my dark age I mostly am buying Castle. I might have some fleshies from a few SW sets I got in the meantime, but that'd be about it. And yes, I think there should be a dark female fleshie head. I also remember seeing different skin colours in a Duplo catalogue a while back.

That's too bad...I wonder why Lego themes and sub-themes seem to be so short-lived these days. At least I got around 30 skeletons.

I think generally, lego.com gets more of my money than toy stores, but maybe not this year as I bought a lot of Lego from stores in Germany. Legoland Deutschland also got some of my money this year -- I went twice, once in March (alone) and again in June (with both of my parents). In the future I'll probably get a lot more from lego.com and other places like Bricklink.

Wow, that's more Clone Troopers than I have bricks, and by approximately a factor of two!

I think mine are just in various bags and boxes. For a while, I had 64 minifigs arranged on the Lego Castle chess board though.

Those baseplates look familiar for some reason. I think I had some knock-off castle set in the early 90s with baseplates like those...

I don't have a huge amount of bricks of the same colour and size either. When I do walls, I tend to use those prefab wall pieces everyone hates so much, to save bricks for other things.

Ya know, I think the puberty thing was a joke...

I found a lot more Lego being sold in Germany than in the USA...in metro Detroit it's mostly Mega Bloks and other clones.

What's a DSS? I didn't really get Lego from anyone older, although my grandma did buy some at a thrift store or something many years ago and I recently incorporated them into my collection. I think some of those are from the 70s. She didn't use them though, she just bought toys for me when I was really young, and they stayed there for the most part. (For many years, she lived in Metro Detroit while we lived around NYC and Buffalo, so it's not like I could go down the street to visit her like a lot of people could with their grandparents.)

Yeah, I never liked those "threaded" forums. I'm used to posts all being in a continuous coliumn, not some being considered "replies" to earlier specific posts rather than the thread in general. I don't know if that style is from Usenet or something...I started posting at forums in 2002 when it was already dying out at most places. Alkthough I'm not used to forums with zillions of features in general...one of my first forums didn't allow avatars, images, formatting (even stuff like bold or italics), quoting, etc. and now almost all forums are overblown with way too many settings for me.

Yeah, the first boards I visited usually had rules even banning the revival of a thread last posted in a week ago! At one point, they closed all the old threads so people wouldn't bump them, but maybe it's beacuse they had problems with troublemakers going into an old thread and saying something like "I LIKE TETRIS" (and not in a thread about Tetris, either). I got so used to it that I think it's really odd now when I see a thread from like 2004 bumped to the top...

Whoa, I didn't know there was an age limit...usually if a forum has an age limit, it's 13. I remember one forum that had several users under 13 that had to put fake birthdays in their profiles. (The site admin didn't care, but they were on ProBoards, which had the rule) I'm 20, almost 21, though, so it doesn't matter to me specifically...

As a kid I'd always put the stickers on, but now many of them are ugly and peeling off (particularly the ones that were originally affixed to more than one brick).

Set #2952: Girly Duplo...hmmm...

I'll vote for the cow...it fits the theme well AND is useful for other themes. The buffalo does fit WW, but isn't as useful outside of WW...

I solved the problem by having been the only child.

No 4chanization, please. I wish image boards could be uninvented. They killed my enjoyment of forums.

I have a cousin who is colour-blind (and also legally blind, I believe) but loved Lego several years ago. His creations tended to be random colours. I recommend that you sort by type and not colour...then maybe do colour sorting on types you have a lot of. It's a lot easier to find a yellow 1 by 4 slope in a bin of slopes than in a bin of yellow pieces. With black, it's even worse.

A bicycle. I don't want a car, they're too expensive, and I will be living in Europe where I can take buses, trains, and airplanes to get to farther away places.

Hallo. Mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut, weil ich weiß nicht viel Wörter. Mein deutsche Grammatik ist auch schlecht.