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Now this is a minifig I have limited or no use for... but it looks okay all the same. It would be really cool if that printed tile had different codes in each copy, as with the exoforce tiles - just to make car numberplates, of course. But I wouldn't expect that here....

That is just great, it matches Appa perfectly. I tried it myself about a year ago and got a perfect looking head but go nowhere at all with the rest...

sorry, I voted in the wrong thread. this fig is okay but nothing special... my 5 should have been a 3. The five was intened for Mr Caveman...

The first of the collectionables I really don't care about. I would not have been able to tell that this is supposed to be a wrestler. I am not even familiar with normal wrestling, let alone with the American or Mexican show versions of it. The torso could be of some use for something, for the rest it's unimpressive.

It's bio-nockles all over again and apparently you can't sell those without pre-cooking a storyline and saying they fight evil, or something. Oh well, at least their names can be pronounced this time. On a positive note, the blue guy has some greenery is its paws that could be nice to make some bushes or jungle. If it comes off its handle, that is - I remember getting the big Bionicle castle (well, 2nd hand for 10 euros, worth it for all the dark red) and being disappointed that the big flames were attached to the flamethrowers or whatever tool it was supposed to be they were on.

I just can't really believe that separate passenger cars aren't profitable. They tend to be very expensive seenig the number of parts (not so many) and special parts (just the train bottom, couplings and wheels - for the rest it's bricks, doors and windows...) that are needed for it. Even if retailers tend to not put them on the shelves, they would do great with online sales (hey, it would be nice to find a train car coupon in a complete train set!) and they would make great value packs (and retailers do put value pack on the shelves - or rather, on the ground because they won't fit the shelves...)

But Lego does not do military sets, for good reason. These are not Lego representations of soldiers, these are Lego representations of toy soldiers. Still, it is going down a slippery slope for Lego. But I will get the set in case I need some military looking bad guys - and you guys have listed more use for the green heads than I could have imagined already.

Hey Copmike, apparently we had the same idea! I had not seen your mini Emerald Night but well, the shape of the monorail train just asks for it, right? So here's mine: Click for more detail shots and a Youtube video. Does yours also have space for microfigs inside? I wonder how you solved the battery box problem - the thing is 4 wide (or are there smaller ones which you used?) but I don't really see where you hid it. Mine is behind those faux wheels, which does make the engine a bit wide.

Hey, in Holland it surprises us a bit that you live one side of the country but we can collect the sets in a small village in the other side of the country. Also, you want us to pay first and then collect them at your place instead of hand over money when we really see the set. And you claim to be able to order sets that are sold out for prices lower than we've ever seen before. So we're not really sure about what you're doing and how. If you really could get all those sets that cheaply, you would certainly allow us to collect them ourselves and pay cash.

(sorry, didn't read well. question already answered)

Some toy stores over here in Holland used to have a PaB - the carrousel kind, not the wall. But it wasn't a great success, I think for the stores it was too much a hassle for not enough profit, so they have all disappeared. Toys 'r Us doesn't exist anymore (actually it changed its name to Toys XL) and at least in my city it used to be in a very awkward location (semi-industrial area with lots of furniture and carpet stores and IKEA - and if you're hunting for that kind of things you're not spending money on toys) so I think they never had enough people to keep up the store, really. The regular toy store chains are in every downtown areas of every city and village.

I think they cater for children mainly, who will get one of those sets so they have some figures to play with and to build a ship around. So it's nice to have one captain and three pirates. Now the few AFOLS who want to build battle scenes that fill a room with 5000 minifigs will just have to find a use for those officers and use the other figures included... I could imagine buying that 'battle pack' (I hate that word, why do they always have to battle? Call it playset!) as a gift for children, maybe to combine with a brick bucket or with the 6192 basic pirate set.

Hmm I would not mind if they were not yellowed, but well... Lego's screwdrivers can be used as pencils but I'm pretty sure they don't come in dark pink.

Yesterday I got the milk white trees I ordered on BL... so I built a MOC around it. Click pictures to enlarge or go to Flickr Photoshopped for brightness/contrast and white background, but the parts I used are all white (except 17 dark pink, 8 trans-clear and 2 milky white - and 1 blue in the last image)

Flickr is just brilliant. Even without a pro account but you'll get hooked and go pro anyway. Not just for Lego stuff, by the way, it's great for all photos. MOCpages is the best Lego specific sites because of the possibility to comment, make contacts, etcetera. Brickshelf I don't care about. No way to add text, contact people... and a lot of things that aren't really MOCs. I only go to Brickshelf when somebody on Lowlug or Eurobricks etc. posts a link to a Brickshelf picture or folder. And the fact that things become public only after moderation is also a big reason for me not to use it. When I finish something I want to show it NOW and not tomorrow....

Wow, I cant believe I actually won something! It was fun to build something so different from what I normally do... Sorry for not voting, I didn't know who to vote for so I thought I'll vote later... and then I was too late.

I'm not a big space fan overall, and most space lines of the past years just don't convince me at all. Too much trans-neon-heaps-of-bricks-if-we-say-its-a-spaceship-it-is kind of stuff. Only Star Wars sets had decent designs... Now this one looks promising. The design of this thingy looks like a credible spaceship to me as far as spaceships can be credible. In a very cartoonish sort of way - this is much more playful than those trans-neon-with-way-too-many-stickers sets. And I love that alien. The basic thing I do not like is that it has to be space POLICE. Apparently in Lego's limited imagination a playset for boys needs good guys and bad guys and they will tell you which is which. I had rather seen Lego sell this as a space ship and leave it to the kids' imagination whether it's the flying car daddy takes to work every day or a police thing to catch villains. Oh, and control panels should not be stickers, of course.

Really classic looking, very believable as an early 80s set. Great work!

On Lowlug somebody has seen these games and he claims the microfigs are in one piece. So there go our dreams to make baby/toddler minifigs... if you can't change the heads, they're pretty useless. The microfigs were my trigger to try and get these games, if they're really in one piece I'll forget about the whole games, probably.

Oh, is this set still around? Last year a Dutch dept. store sold them for 50c each - they must have made a typo in their central computer system, but the sets were actually sold for that price. They were not presented as an offer, you had to notice the pricetag. I got eight copies and built a farm:

This looks like a very good set to me. And I haven't seen any of the Indiana Jones movies! Loads of must-have parts and figures, though at first glance I have a few minor issues with certain things: - Too bad the dark flesh figures have those weird painted faces. Hard to use them for different persons in MOCs. - Will there also be straight bits of track for the new system? It would be excellent track for miniscale trains. lightrail, peoplemovers and whatnot but with only curves and ramps we'll end up building rollercoasters only.

Very nice scene and I esp. love that pipe, what parts was it made of? I understand Lego won't make pipes but it's great that you managed to make a credible one anyway.

It looks very much like Classic Town to me, and yet it's quite different from any real classic town set I know - and despite the use of quite a lot of modern parts/colors. Great work! Whitefang, I can clearly see a mailman with red bags on his bike, emptying a red mailbox. I see no puddles?

All of this for 11 dollars (maybe 10 euros?) ? That's not bad, certainly for a licensed set. Looks like I might get two!

This is a very interesting contest indeed. a real challenge. I have not seen any Star Wars movies (okay, just one, 15 years ago. Didn't like it) and I never built a spaceship. That means it's a REAL challenge to re-do a SW vessel in another theme's style... but not undoable at all. So who knows what I'll come up with!