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Well done Louloute The composition of this creation is nicely done. The mini surface world is a nice touch, the Pleiosaur is great and the raft and figure posing is brilliant. I love the rough water but would prefer to see more white curved slopes instead of dark blue to represent foamy water as the great beast thrashes around. I also find the two-tone rocks to be distracting, especially as the top of the rock is only dark bley yet the bottom is a mix. Best of luck on a great entry.

Pretty much what I was thinking too, a great looking display set. Slave I sounds yum too.

Well this is indeed a neat little set. I had to laugh at the exorbidant price listing on eBay though The core is a nice addition and you are right that the designers didn't have to include it. Nice work on the structure of the review and photos. if I was to suggest a way to improve the review, I would get a couple of white carboard sheets to remove all the background items, this will maintain the interest solely on the review subject and not the old rum bottle, mmmm rum

Well the set looks nice, though it feels lighter on for parts than the Motorized version. The motorized version seems to have more greebling in the form of cheese slopes etc than this new version, it looks like they have sacrificed the number of parts to try and keep the price down. You certainly do get 3 more figures than the motorized version though, and I for one really like the new "pupil" eyes. Han looks all grown up. As for the review itself, Jamie you have done a great job of presenting all the quirks and tidbits of this set quite well. The photography is nicely done as well. So for me it appears more money is being spent on figs and cutting back on parts for the set itself. Still divided on whether to get this set or not

Beautiful work Davey This was at Brickworld if I am not mistaken, and it definitely caught my eye. I remember looking over your varied engines with joy. Great stuff mate.

A really great vignette Love the phoenix and the posing and photography are really nice. Well done.

Nice review Brickster I was fortunate to see the unveiling of this beauty at Brickworld 2010, and whilst it is quite unique and nicely built, it isn't on my list. I agree with you on the parts usage too.

Miser Good for you buddy. I could always use more naked legs from the yellow spaceman Hands off all the Colonels Copmike You must have an itchy trigger finger pardner.

A beautiful re-imagining of a classic set, well done on the nice details like the ladder. Keep em coming.

Happy Birthday to our fearless Dragon and mAlice, may all your aBS dreams come true.

A nice build, well done.

A very interesting topic to read. First of all we are consumers buying a product. In some respect we have a minimal say in shaping what TLC releases, but its really up to Lucas and TLC as to what they feel will sell and for what price they need to charge to make a profit and pay royalties. They may indeed be testing the waters with higher prices, or it may be a simple fact of rising costs to produce etc raising the bottom line. As for new molds, I am all for it, yes occasionally the quality of the total set suffers due to budget restraints from making new molds, but the figs are a major selling point (and what fetches the most money on Bricklink ) The new characters may appear more cartoony, and perhaps for OT characters this isn't realistic, but that is the direction TLC has taken to best sell their toys to a predominately kid orientated marketplace. I for one love the new Slave 1, even though I have 6209, and am seriously considering getting it just for Boosk I can see how the yellow technic bricks are ugly, but the contrasting colours will help people build (it is after all quite difficult to tell the difference between black and dark bley on instructions). I actually find this set dissapointing, it really is a big lump of plates and ugly wheels, basically a good new figure set which I will pass on. If anyone else dislikes this set or other SW sets, vote with your wallet and move on to something else. As for all the remakes, we have been dining on a steady set of remakes ever since CW came out. This is a good and bad situation. For new kids coming on the scene of Lego, it is an ideal situation, they see the cool vehicles on the CW series and want to own the sets. For adults, this is of course all been done before (or in my case I missed all the originals, so I was very grateful for rereleases) and it is a chance to get new figures, new colours or newer parts. To compare the past pricing with today isn't a viable arguement due to inflation etc, and if you don't choose to buy the remakes that is your decision. You have to look at it from a marketing standpoint, TLC will make the more recognisable sets that kids recognise first and foremost, otherwise they wont sell any sets. It is a little hard to get my thoughts together in a logical order with two kids running around, so I may yet repost in this thread. Vote with your wallet people, if you don't like a set, don't buy it. Cheers ISC.

That's correct, NSW. I guess that means we wont get a price stuff up from S@H then This happened to me one year with Castle sets. Its a two week sale and the shops managed to get the set I was after in by the second week, so don't give up, they will continue to get more in over the sale period Welcome to EB faish888. The prices you are seeing here on the sales thread already have the GST included in them, so its probably still a bargain for you.

Thanks to the intel from you Aussie members I was able to score 2 Galactic Enforcers and 2 Temple of Doom. Oh yer!

Amen ...and some more Part number: 3005 Name: Brick 1 x 1 New Colour: Dark Brown Part number: 3005 Name: Brick 1 x 1 New Colour: Dark Tan Part number: 61068 Name: Slope, Curved 2 x 4 x 2/3 No Studs New Colour: Dark Red and just cause I can.... Part number: 2409 Name: 10 x 10 x 12 Quarter Dome Colour: Trans Red Panel Part number: 2466 Name: Panel 3 x 2 x 6 Colour: Trans Red Panel Part number: 2468 Name: Panel 3 x 3 x 6 Corner Convex Colour: Trans Red Panel

Here are some more pics of the action around the rails. Get some lovin. Full set I had a blast hanging out with Copmike, Quarryman and Stash, as well as all the great AFOL's I met at Brickworld.

I had a quick look today and it had fairly good quantities of 1x2 bricks in most of the colours (up to 70 of some colours) A bit too many 2x bricks for my tastes. lots of eye bricks and roof tiles etc. Works out at 4c per piece, which is amazing. It isn't out in US and no inventory available on Bricklink or Peeron yet Seems its too new to document. Stick to the 6 months from release rule and you will have a good starting point.

Wait till you see all the things your fig got up too!

Don't expect the UCS shuttle to show up in retail till 6 months after the release on S@H. Thats how the exclusive adult sets are sold in chains other than Lego stores. Let me know buddy, I picked one up and its scanning for 89, but they had at least 8 at one of my three local Kmarts, so I could surely get you one. No luck in my Kmart for marked down/reduced to clear Toy Story sets yet though

Oops, so you did Its tough to get one going again, what with the recent spate of community builds on EB. The original has only just been unpinned a few months back too. Time will tell how it progresses in future as it is a great way for people to improve upon their skills and work as a team too.

Not sure if this is what you are after, but we had a Community Castle Build on eurobricks which lasted over a year including over 100 modules. Loads of ideas and modularity to boot. I built a castle gatehouse for this project that had modular towers as well. Cheers ISC.

I really like the look the look of both sets. the colour schemes look fantastic on the bus and light rail I like the look of the house with its treehouse, green rubbish bin and red mail box, nice little details that really add to the appeal of the set. The figures all look really nice as well. Thanks grogall and TLC (though not in the same instance)