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27. Capt. Kirk - Le Quartier Brique 36. Lord King of Everything - Die for the King! 2. DNL Le Quartier Brique is one of the best competition MOCs I've seen in any competition, Lord King of Everything's Ship is a thing of beauty, and while DNL's entry is excellent, the collapsing masonry is special. all the entries are great, best of luck to all, timbutnice

Hi emilec, your post has made my day may I ask which Lego store you mean? I'm fairly equidistant from all three but prefer Brighton. cheers, timbutnice

I voted 2007: Y-wing (my favourite fighter so far) MTT (lots of lovely brown piece goodness and enough blasters to start a small war) Republic cruiser (dark red, mmm) and of course the mighty UCS true minifig scale MF! cheers, timbutince

Hi The Kid, Try Argos here Its currently £19.49, and they had loads left (in SW London) when I picked mine up last week. I guess the original price was just too crazy cheers, timbutnice

Thanks for the great review - I'll be getting me one of those. I'm with Sinner on the Crane Arm - great to see its not one big pice of bendy plastic! The XXL crane a few years back got me into City (always been a space and castle boy), so this one will join my construction firm. cheers, timbutnice

Just picked up some great deals in John Lewis in the UK: MT-61 Crystal Reaper for £29.25 (down from £40) MagnaGuard Starfighter for £22.50 (down from £40) And last but not least, the Coast gaurd Patrol Boat and Tower, for £22 (down from £45-£50)! I'd post these in Buy, Sell, Trade and Finds, but I'm only a lowly vassal There were signs up saying that the prices where in response to a competitors deal, so I don't know how long they will last - the Crystal Reaper is online at this price at John Lewis though... hope this helps someone, cheers, timbutnice

It does feel like this was definitley AFOL focused for a change, e.g. the 9v, colour and quality questions. I voted for more exclusives and more in the Cafe Corner modular range. My 'secondary market' ie bricklink, spend came out at around 10% - is there an EB poll in this somehwere? cheers, timbutnice

Mine was the Legend BSB: Picked it up when it was re-released, still sailing in all its glory on my pride-of-place Lego shelf. cheers, timbutnice

Welcome mrchris, if you liked Cafe Corner you'll love Market Street! cheers, timbutnice

Lego are at it in the future too: or is it the past? They previously tracked things in the future? err, they will have done this before?... Lego reverse engineered tracking, from the future, into the present, 29 years after it will be available (sorry, its been a long day) Nice article, thanks, timbutnice

Picked this up at Argos (UK) for 50% off! Really enjoyed building this set - I'd put off buying it due to the ridiculous retail price tag cheers, timbutnice

Hi Simply Bricks, bought from you at least once, great shop and welcome here! cheers, timbutnice

Picked up one of these 25% off love the jet, don't love the jeep with its silly little-wheels-on-stalks. the pic is also misleading as you don't get a gold uzi - its just a gold fire hose nozzle instead cheers, timbutnice

Well I went to a different Woolies this evening on the way home from work, and found a 7298 Dino Air Tracker for only £20. Can't remember what it was back in 2005, but that's at least 50% off. Not much else left in the way of Lego - I guess they won't be restocking now cheers, timbutnice

Just picked up this: From Woolworths in the UK ... for only £20!

Well there IS a sale of sorts going on - I bought the Coastguard Helicopter for £25 yesterday from Woolworths. Although it was marked as £35 on the price sticker, it was £25 at the till. On Monday Woolworths removed all their Lego and other toys from their website, but right before they did almost all the Lego was a good 1/3rd off - I assume that these prices carried on into the stores, but the price labels weren't updated. Weirdly, the V-19 Torrent was priced at 49.99 and 37.something on different shelves in the store I was in. cheers, timbutnice

Picked up 7738 Coastguard Helicopter & Life Raft for £25 from Woolworths - was actually advertised at full price (£35), but I'd heard that there were blind-sale type reductions. My luck was in! cheers timbutnice

Any chance the new Brickbeard's Bounty can be added to this poll (I assume someone is going to point me to the ten polls that already do this ) cheers, timbutnice

Interesting stuff, not sure I agree that Lego represents a shift to imperialization - I mean you can take it too far, e.g. do the construction vehicles in Town / City represent the rape of our precious planet to build nasty roads etc. On the creativity side, I'd argue that Lego has many more possibilities now than it ever did for four reasons 1. More different unique pieces available now 2. Many more colours 3. The exploration and use of 'advanced' techniques to combine Lego (e.g. SNOT) 4. (this is the biggy) The internet - before the net all we had was the Lego magazine, a few very localised groups and the occasional Idea book for inspiration. We now have Brickshelf, MOCPages etc etc with (I'm guessing) 100,000s of MOCs, numerous sites including the illustrious and supreme EB to support and grow the community, and the extension of the Lego marketplace away from a B2C model to the C2C model in eBay and Bricklink. Of course this is largely AFOL facing, or at least to me, an AFOL, it feels like it is. So to turn my above argument around, does the plethora of ideas and opportunities out there strangle an individual child's imagination, as they no longer have to think for themselves? I hope that this isn't the case. According to this there are 915 million ways to combine 6 bricks - and that's just 6. With that scope to experiment (i.e. play) in, I'd argue that there is no way our, or our children's, imagination will ever be constrained by the multitude of MOCs that exist today, only inspired to greater things. Anyway, good luck with the presentation, be interesting to hear how it goes down, cheers, timbutnice

Trip down to Brighton today, rather cold, but picked up Two 7040 Dwarves' Mine Defender One 7038 Troll Assault Wagon One 4993 Cool Convertible cheers, timbutnice

Re-opening this thread spurred me on to update my Brickset list - thanks! Here's mine cheers timbutnice

Hi Jones, I've probably made around the same number of purchases as you, some quite large, never had a single problem hope your luck improves! cheers, timbutnice

7724 City Advent Calendar looks like I missed the castle one timbutnice

FreeBee, here you go, with the middle floors out: From above, looking down the street and Cafe Green Street by itself, cruelly truncated cheers, timbutnice

Most dust in the home is made up of minute particles of human skin (which is falling off us all the time as it dies and is replaced), animal hair, pollen etc. Dust outside tends to be from wind driven soil / sand and more pollen. Cushions, carpets etc attract dust, as it gets tangled in their fibers - so they look dusty. Humans don't have a fibrous surface, well at least normally not all over, so dust doesn't stick to us, so if you like curtains and their friends are unwilling victims of the dust plague caused by us wicked humans. cheers, timbutnice