LibraryBoy

Not exactly superheroes, per se, but here are my purist attempts at the 10th (David Tennant) and 11th (Matt Smith) Doctors. I'm pretty happy with Tennant (though now I wanna see if I can find an appropriate "flesh" colored head with glasses), but Smith was a little harder. The torso is just about perfect (think it's from the Orient Expedition line), but it was hard to find the right head and hair.

Clever! I particularly like your solutions for Fred's ascot and the villain.

I liked the Iron Man figure a lot. Mandarin left a little to be desired, but at least now I have an extra "widow's peak" hairpiece for my DIY Captain Marvel minifigure. The car's a little weird, but it'll make a cool addition to the big superhero slugfest scene I hope to set up soon.

I've never heard of that! Looking at the website now and thinking the kiddo and I may need to make a trip up for this.

Rhode Island, though I grew up in Maine. How about you?

If they're used in one of the video games, there should be minifigures, plain and simple! Supergirl, Batgirl, Nightwing, the Hawks, Brainiac, Clayface, and even Killer Moth are probably near the top of my list for DC. For Marvel, I think they've done alright with the movie characters thanks to Avengers, but I wish Lego had gotten the Marvel license sooner so they could've capitalized on the Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon. Ultimate Spider-Man is giving them a nice group of characters to pick from (who'd have thought we'd ever see Iron Fist or Nova before the rest of the X-Men besides Wolverine?), but Avengers: EMH had such a deep roster of characters between the changing Avengers line-up, guest stars, and villains... the possibilities would be endless. But right now I'm hoping they keep the license throughout the next slate of Marvel movies, because if we get Guardians of the Galaxy sets, that has to mean a Rocket Raccoon minifigure!

My son has a couple of Kre-O sets and figures mixed in with his Lego and it all seems to work just fine. Some of the Kre-O figures' accessories mix really well with Lego minifigures if you're not a purist (Jazz's "helmet," for instance, looks cool on pretty much any Lego head).

Ignore the haters. Like what you like and pay no mind to anyone who tells you how to enjoy your hobby "correctly."

I'm a librarian (hence the screen name), and I can tell you that the librarian/girl nerd/whatever is likely to be very popular in library circles. I know an awful lot of colleagues who own that Nancy Peal shushing librarian action figure!

Add me to the list of people who'd love to see Lego get the Doctor Who license away from Character Builders. Not only for the sets, which would be awesome, but just imagine the video game that TT Games could make out of that! Different Doctors having different abilities, all those companions and enemies to choose from to pad out the roster... it'd be glorious. I also like the Super Mario Bros. idea. My son would go bananas over that. Those K'nex Mario Kart sets... the figures look nice, but the cars don't stay together well at all.

Very nice! I doubt the "official" version looks much better than this (save for the inevitable decals, maybe). I like the Batman jetski set, but it always seemed kind of silly and situation specific (Lego sure loves them some Bat-watercraft), A motorcycle for Robin is a much more versatile (and, frankly, cooler) idea. Looking forward to picking this up!

I sometimes find the movie specific sets lacking, but there are some really nice-looking builds here, particularly the bank and the stagecoach (as others have said). Don't know that I'll be picking up more than the Cavalry and and maybe Commanche Camp sets just so I can get Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Silver, (though the $30 price point for the stagecoach makes it a real consideration) but still, these are nice.

I'd really like to see decals for Captain Marvel Jr. and Mary Marvel. It's probably as simple as color correcting an existing Shazam/Captain Marvel template, but I lack access to stuff like Illustrator or Photoshop and my skills in those are beginner at best, anyway.

I have been a fan of the Supermobile ever since I had the Corgi 1:64 scale toy as a kid, and I have to say that this is a brilliant build. I am determined to reverse engineer this now! (Unless you wanted to post instructions and a parts list... wouldn't be opposed to that or anything. Pardon me for noobness if that's a faux pas, but I'm just sayin'. )

Hi, folks. I was a Lego fan as a kid but kinda fell away from it over time, but started getting back into it a little with the release of the first Star Wars sets, and jumped back in more once my son discovered them, and have jumped back in big time since the release of the Marvel and DC lines. It has been a fun hobby to explore with the kiddo, even if we aren't always great at sharing sets and pieces with each other. :) The TT Games series of video games didn't hurt, either. Those have been pretty consistently fun from the very beginning.