FelixTheCat

No lego for me I got a new motorbike though so who cares.

Prices are fine. This is Australia. A discontinued set no longer in shops can sell as a used set for more than what it originally retailed for. Plus our RRP is higher than the States.

I count about 60 minifigs in there? A minifig has to be worth at least $2, plus you have a couple of real good ones like "Steve" (the pirate with the brown vest) and 2 red governors. Add in 5 cannons at a couple bucks each plus the 3 ship hulls, baseplate and other bits and you should be getting up around $150 easy. I'm guessing you had the Imperial Trading Post set from those figs. Might even be worth going through your collection and trying to build the set. If you can complete it you should get a pretty penny, especially if you still have the sails for the small trading ship.

Awesome. Only problem is that Blondie is smiling too much. ;) Wonder how long it would take to redo the entire movie in Lego Stop/Go animation?

Clarified. I remember going into the shop with all my birthday money ready to buy an awesome Lego set. I sure wasn't disappointed when I saw Control Centre 1. That set provided hours of amusement and some awesome MOCs when I was a kid.

Mines done it pretty much from day 1. I fixed it by replacing the 2 same sized cogs behind the engine block with a small cog on the bottom and a big one on top. The blade moves up and down pretty slow but it's strong as an ox.

7 different moving functions is boring? Jeez, you're hard to please.

Nice job. Thats an AU Falcon 1 tonner if ever I saw one. Curvy roof and bonnet, headlights sloping off to the outside. You even got the grille right.

It was the Lego that got me the girl. She'd just bought the house next door and didn't know many people in the area so we started hanging out. One day she comes into my house to get a book and see's all my pirate ships on the dining room table. She was recently separated from her husband and with all her newly acquired spare time had gotten her old Lego collection from her parents place and started to put the sets back together. This of course led to spending time together building sets and sorting lego collections I had picked up. Of course when 2 single people who haven't had a decent shag in a while spend till the early hours of the morning sorting a massive pile of Lego, things tend to happen. Now we both spend as much as each other on Lego. There isn't enough room in the house right now to build a city so we tend to build the sets, the 4 year old plays with them for a few weeks then we store them in our Lego building at the farm and move onto the next sets. The kids are right into it too. The 4 year old has been saving up all the spare change I leave around the house all year and just got his new Lego Space Shuttle Adventure set.

Anyone else see the similarity between Japanese roof tiles and Lego studs? I reckon you've nailed it.It may be the most simple solution but it's also the one that creates the best effect. Love how you've used a standard Lego minifig head on one character too. Don't see those round much these days.

Anyone else noticed a lack of Technic sets lately? I was waiting for tyres to get fitted the other day and did a lego sweep at a nearby mall. Tried Kmart,TRU and Myer and didn't see a single Technic set on the shelves. On another note (not quite sales but specifically for Australians) if anyone here missed out on series 1 minifigs and happens to pick up a box of series 2, I've got a full set of series 1 I'd happily swap for a full set of series 2. The wife got really lucky at TRU the other day and spotted a full box under the counter. Given the rate at which Canberra sold out last time I don't relly want to have to go looking for series 2.

I'd all but given up on finding any series 1. Every shop in town had sold out within days and there was only a couple I really wanted. The only reason I have them now is because my lovely wife was treating the 4 year old to a new toy at TRU and she happened to turn around while at the counter and saw a boxfull underneath the closed checkout next to her. Pure fluke. She had a crying baby and couldn't be stuffed finding the ones I wanted so she bought the whole box which was presented to me as a fathers day present. I suspect ulterior motive however cause she's the big town collector and I think she was excited by the variety that the collection would give to her town. The main benefit of a boxfull is that rather than looking for series 2 I may just be able to swap an entire set of series 1 with a set of 2 from someone who missed out on the series 1. As for the hype, definately not worth it. It repulses me to see that people are asking up to $20 on ebay for zombies and cheerleaders. The whole ebay reselling thing shits me to tears. Everytime theres a good sale at Myer the big ticket items pop up on ebay at MORE than RRP and people buy it (eg cargo train, RRP $299 ,on sale for $229, with Myer card discount I paid $189, couple of days after sale ebay is flooded with cargo trains Buy it now from $299 to $349). We've learned pretty quick that if theres a decent sale coming up you need to be there when they open on the first day to have any hope of getting the good bargains. I've seen the resellers clear an entire shelf of heavily discounted lego.

Why's that a problem? I just read the site guidelines and theres nothing in there about keeping it clean. In fact, I've seen an 11 year old kid post on here just trying to get some info and all he got was abuse because he was 11 and this is an "adults only site". Got my son an iPhone for doing well in his exams. Bought my daughter an iPod for her birthday. I was over the moon when the family chipped in and got me an iPad for fathers day. It was our anniversary last week and I gave the wife an iRon. Been sleeping in the garage ever since.

Exactly. Passenger trains stop at the station, cargo trains stop at the cargo depot. You could even do the reverse and embed a code on the bottom of a train which is read by a scanner on the track to activate points and send different trains down different lines or to stop a train in order for another one to pass. I reckon you could do some really cool stuff with this.

I assume the grille is 4 studs wide? What I would try to do (and try to describe) is. See the white bar holding the headlight 1x1 tile. move it forward one plate width to where the headlight tile currently is and turn it over so that the stud faces rearward. Whack a cheese slope on that rear facing stud to form an angle for the front inside of the fender and put a 1x1 plate headlight brick back on. Move the whole grille forward 1 plate width as well and thicken the front bumper with an extra plate to push it out 1 as well. It may involve some strange snot behind the grille to allow the grille to face one way and the headlight holding plate the opposite but as long as the grille is 4 wide it shouldn't be too hard. Hope that makes sense. The rear of the fender I'd try to have a 2x2 white plate somehow held at 45 degrees

Awesome stuff. Are you able to use 4 sensors in a row and then use 1x1 plates for your coding strips to maybe give more options?

If Paypal is not an option then how do you propose payment be made? Also, have you got any pictures of the actual items?

You don't have to apologize for living in the UK. I realise it's unfortunate for you but it's probably not your fault.

Here you go http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=1040&colorID=1 Plenty on there in white. Suprising considering this set was the only one with a white one in it. The jail door frame in black is used in the set as well. Is that the one you got or did you get 2 jail door frames from the seller?

The 2x2 light bricks were from the early train sets usually. yellow ones were 4.5 volt and the others were for the 12v sets.

Holy crap, what a turnout. I got there at 11 and figured there were somewhere between 700-800 people just in the line and it wasn't moving real quick. Had a 3 month old in the carrier and a commitment at 12.30 so figured I'd come back later. Made it back at 3 and there were still 200+ in the line and took a half hour to get in. You pretty much had to wait for people to come out before you could get in due to space restraints in the room. Some pretty awesome setups in there though, well worth the wait. Didn't bother with the camera as there were too many people around to get any decent shots. I'll be putting together a layout for next year for sure. I've got a ton of classic town sets that I didn't see there and should be able to whip up a decent pirate scene too with a heap of Mocs and original pirate sets.

Nah, we just pretend to be real boring to keep away the Melbournites and the Sydneysites.

Good thing ISC posted in this thread just before I logged in otherwise I'd never have known this was even happening. Have you had any advertising up anywhere to publicise the event?

I reckon SlyOwl has hit it on the head. The BSB actually makes a really good imperial ship simply with a change of flags and crew. I've got an imperial BSB with an extra midsection and mast. The cleanness of BSB always looked a bit too neat for the pirates anyway. SES is so much more piratey. Carribean clipper can always benefit from an extra midsection and mast as well. Might work well as your French vessel.