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I plan on picking up one Brickbeard's Bounty and two of the Cannon Battle to fill in the cannon spots that are missing on the ship

What interests me is the free gift that you get. If I lived in Denmark I would have to consider this.

Actually the venator has around 1169 pieces so its closer to 1200

Happy birthday person I don't really know yet. So this is what I present you (not mine):

Arg, another scurvy rascal is upon the port bow. Welcome to Eurobricks mate.

Well if you think about it, it was also explained in Star Wars : "Luke I am your transcendentalistic enemy, I am your Over-Soul, I am your father." - Darth Vader Transcendentalism

It can help you build a better moc actually. It will make you have more self respect and the ability to moc to a greater extent is a power that it receives. Also, it will make you have the ability to put on decals. It is explained in this by Thoreau. There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean. We think that we can change our clothes only. It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind. Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come out of the ground? The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks which the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets. Every one has heard the story which has gone the rounds of New England, of a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood, which had stood in a farmer's kitchen for sixty years, first in Connecticut, and afterward in Massachusetts -- from an egg deposited in the living tree many years earlier still, as appeared by counting the annual layers beyond it; which was heard gnawing out for several weeks, hatched perchance by the heat of an urn. Who does not feel his faith in a resurrection and immortality strengthened by hearing of this? Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society, deposited at first in the alburnum of the green and living tree, which has been gradually converted into the semblance of its well-seasoned tomb -- heard perchance gnawing out now for years by the astonished family of man, as they sat round the festive board -- may unexpectedly come forth from amidst society's most trivial and handselled furniture, to enjoy its perfect summer life at last! I do not say that John or Jonathan will realize all this; but such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE I heartily accept the motto, -- "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, -- "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and, if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions, and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads. But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience? -- in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried." The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others, as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders, serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it. A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will not submit to be "clay," and "stop a hole to keep the wind away," but leave that office to his dust at least:-- "I am too high-born to be propertied, To be a secondary at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world." He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist. How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave's government also.

Nice moc. I believe the tentacle is supposed to represent the United States economy going down and down. Notice how it goes from bigger to smaller. Also, the tentacle is brown due to how penny's cost more than a penny to make.

Every site that I have been to has called it the Solar Sailer. I bet it just started when a few people spelt it wrong here.

I think anyone can join by: Clicking here

This was my first try at creating a custom minifig. I used MS Paint along with some paper and tape. I have yet to buy some waterslide paper. Her he is in all his glory (sorry about the pictures, camera is on the fritz). Hardest part was getting the ring to stay.

No problem I'll have better pictures soon ( hard too due to the glare) and I will post a review in the Reviewers Academy.

I thought the Costco's one of last year used the prexisting pen's and just made them into a bulk pack.

They are actually fleshie. I don't know if these were delivered to BJ's early or something?

These actually cost ten dollars but they were in "bulk" so if released seperately will cost more. Should I do a review for the Reviewers Academy even though they aren't a "set". Also, they had just this one and no tag to go with it on the shelf.

These are from South Attleboro actually. They are removable per sei. Their legs cant move and their made of a cheaper plastic. That is Jango Fett by the way with an overly shiny helmet.

I recently went to BJ's (awesome place due to the fact that the V-19 Torrent is $47 and other sets are cheaper). I plan to do a review on this pen set but I have no idea what its name is and if it has a number to go with it. I don't think it has a set number due to it not being made directly from TLC but I thought I would check. Here it is:

I'm guessing the front piece (chisel or something) moves forward and the rubberband pulls the piece back so it moves while you push the vehicle forward.

I didn't notice a topic for this so I noticed on Brother's Brick the LEGO Collector's Guide is now available in the U.S. It costs thirty dollars and the premium edition isn't out yet, if ever. The link is here. I might even pick on up.

TLC used to make wooden toys like the one pictured here: http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=timeline7 Later on they started making the LEGO bricks we see today.

I would like to join since I have been wanting to put up review since I first came here (weeks before I joined) and didn't want to do a bad review. So count me in if possible.

Oh sorry I misunderstood. That is why I need to sleep more .

Sorry to tell you but this was already discovered in one of the stickied threads. But it is good to know that TLC is still updating old sets with new packaging.

Hopefully the one in Braintree is this good. By the way what type of phone did you use because those are awesome pictures.

BOO! Ok I will say that it is indeed excellent and not let my Boston fanism overtake me.