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Hi Lasse! I always love seeing Russian religious (and other) architecture because it's so idiosyncratic. @Pdaitabird has already mentioned the domes but I like how simple yet effective the capitals are on the columns. The textures you built into the walls are neat as well. Nice build of a nice building. Thanks for sharing!

What a cool build! The ants look super detailed, especially with the minifig hand spikes! Good luck on Ideas, welcome to Eurobricks, and thanks for sharing! @WhiteFang this probably belongs somewhere other than Community.

You're both right; it's more subtle than I made it out to be. And sometimes there aren't any BL sellers with nearly enough of the part you want, so it's convenient to buy from PAB.

"Poo!" Emily inspects the doors and body of the closet for graffiti of any sort that may reveal what the required code is.

What a ridiculous picture! A horse equipped with thrusters... goodness me. As far as my favorite pieces... the headlight brick for sure, flex tube maybe? I think this type of bracket is pretty useful as well:

What a lovely little diorama, and what a clever way to display several builds in a small space! I said on the review of the new cantina that I really liked the water vaporator, and I think your design is really great as well (and more brick-efficient, it looks like!) Thanks for sharing!

"There! I never invaded anyone's room!" Emily looks around the bridge and wonders. Emily looks inside the closet, which Pierce is standing by in the second picture.

Let me point you to this other very old topic: Most of the time it involves saying or doing something a mod or admin thinks is funny, which is why I have a disgusting pun from 6 or 7 years ago as mine

"Do we get any exotic decays in this process? What energies are we talking about here?" Emily is offended to hear that the staff have been accessing passengers' rooms without authorization. "Arthur, you're the sort of PR person here, aren't you? I wish to make a complaint." Emily scans her key card on the terminal in engineering.

I suppose it was inevitable someone would bring this up! Sometimes I think about the issue of optimizing the purchase of lots on BL and you’re right, it is a hard problem. A very interesting one, too! Integer-type problems are horrible and I can imagine the space of BL purchases has lots of local minima separated by the choice of when to buy from one more store. Of course it’s easy when one store simply does not sell the item you need! Perhaps thinking of this as a version of the multiple knapsack problem may help? The following paper touches on the more general problem, including when profits vary: http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~vassilis/co/MultipleKP.pdf Not sure I have any more to say except to reiterate in an almost exasperated fashion that this stuff is hard. Honestly I don’t recommend this because LEGO’s parts are almost invariably more expensive than those on BL, and the selection of pieces is weird as well.

There are plenty of users here whose writing skills “aren’t the best” and aren’t even native users of English but they still manage to post far more interesting and thought-provoking content than contrarian one-liners that reliably miss the point.

Yes and a plastic bucket is cheaper and more useful than a Cloud City Boba Fett but that’s beside the point isn’t it?

I have similar feelings about 3 sets, all of which were around when I was slowly getting back into LEGO: the 4504 Millennium Falcon, the 10123 Cloud City, and the 10020 Santa Fe Super Chief. That era of trains was amazing, where locos and cars were available separately. Wish I’d put together a set of them at the time, but that was when I was a bit busy playing with my dad’s old OO trains.

“I’m sorry but my dream is just a dream, unless there’s more to it. Would Dr. Wotsit like to psychoanalyze me just in case?” Again, in her heart of hearts Emily isn’t desperately bothered which way the party heads next, and is happy to acquiesce. ”Let’s head to Engineering. Come on, Georgie, let’s go!”

I liked the progress shots you shared a few weeks ago and the finished product looks lovely! Your solution to the big grey wall syndrome is at once detailed and clean, and the colours on your half-timbered buildings are so lively as well. Simultaneously classic and modern — I'd have loved it if LEGO had made something like this back in the day.

"Not much to go on yet, is there? Bit disappointing. Perhaps we should visit engineering next to follow up on that dream I had..." Emily finds the lack of pancakes disturbing but she keeps her thoughts in third-person omniscient narration rather than bringing the issue up directly with the chef. "We've looked in the oven, under the sink, and in the drawers, but has anyone checked under the countertop with solid wall that is close to Chef Baker?" Emily checks under the countertop with solid wall that is close to Chef Baker. "Thank you for your concern, daaaahling, and I would be just as worried if anyone threatened you!"

Looks nice! I like the sand blue colour scheme and I think the binocs as guns are a good solution (I agree with your original post: those cannons look like the 6L bars and you’d have to attach them underneath and it would end up bulky). Those engines are delightfully greebly. Well done and thanks for the update!

Emily tugs her lips sharply to one side to express disapproval of Gabriella's plan to inspect the kitchen. "We ain't found shit, unless you wanted to search for a smoked salmon frittata." Let's find some self-raising flour, some baking powder, an egg, some sugar, et voilá, pancakes!

Oh yeah it's absolutely possible this gunship will be minifig scale. That would be a blessing for me since I missed the very original one, passed on the 2008 version because of the horrible figs and (to my great misfortune) missed the 2013 version (too busy doing chemical reactions, I think ). Can't really think how they'd put 11 figs in a Gunship set unless they want to do a mashup of AotC (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Padme) and RotS (Yoda, Windu) with additional clone figures, but we'll see.

It's very true that Flickr has issues but the key is really to upload the image somewhere in the appropriate size, find the direct link to the image, and post it in the thread — whether it's Flickr, Brickshelf, Imgur or, indeed, Pinterest. Happy building @Ignatius666 and I hope to see more!

Emily is grateful there is still a pie to be shared, but she hopes that by poking around she will find additional food to eat. Emily looks at what’s under the sink.

@Ignatius666 welcome to Eurobricks and thanks for sharing your build! I like the shiny futuristic vibe of your tower although the red corner slopes are a little out of place (I know how hard it can be sometimes to find exactly the right pieces). Your comment on image hosting comes up frequently. EB is not an image host, so you should store your images elsewhere and link to them when you post a topic. Take a look at this topic for detailed instructions about how to share photos from Flickr:

The loco itself is a looker, but the tender is really slick! You hardly notice that 1/2 stud gap and it goes around the track like a charm. Excellent work and thanks for sharing!

I've ordered my copy from Newsstand (hope it comes with the TIE Dagger and Luke) and they seem to ship worldwide, if you're happy to pay the postage.

That seems like a bit of a non-sequitur. People feel more nostalgia for classic space sets than they do for the Nexo Knights wingsuit. So what? Does that contradict @TeriXeri's assertion that classic space sets seemed to represent near-future tech at the time they were released?