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Ultraman, is there a chance that you are Santa Claus and you don't know it? A GREAT thanks for these infos! Civilians, take over the City streets!

Excellent article TheBrickster! It is the best introduction for our passover to the new Pirates. Can't wait for the release!

Yesterday i bought the 7893 Passenger Plane and tomorrow i'm going to open these 2 (bought them 2 weeks ago, they are still in my car so it's like a new purchase.)

A last comment from me about the size issue because we might get derailed from the main topic. Cars (and buildings) being more detailed is progress and evolution. It's just that re-entering the world of Lego after 15 years i was struck by lightning. I have bought some 6-wide vehicles lately, all of them being as close as they can get not to look too odd amongst classic town vehicles and i 'm starting being familiar with the 6-wide picture. Most of them look amazing. Still, there are some vehicles that is maybe too early for me to accept like the 7743 Police Command Center, 7998 Heavy Hauler and 7900 Heavy Loader. Time is my friend i think. After all, the doctor said one step at a time.

If we take into consideration that during the past years, no house that TLC had released had toilets, that means that they didn't even have a**es!

The first ever Pirates sets -we 're talking about 1990- was The second one was was more interesting -still 1990- and a little bit bigger

You 're absolutely right about those two ...ehhmm... monsters . What i wanted to say (and should have written it-my mistake) was that having "new" edition sets already released in some form as Classic Town sets, the comparison between the two is like David and Goliath. In this case the new orange Helicopter Transport vs 6357 Stunt 'Copter N' Truck. I know this is old news but everytime i see a new big vehicle been released, the classic hemisphere of my brain just reacts by itself and wants to protest!

A portable stereo playing audio cassettes....... We 're back to Classic Town!

U2 (pre 2000) This is like Classic Town vs City. The Who

When i first saw the Brickbeard's Bounty pictures -especially the box photo- i thought that this wasn't Lego, but it was just a regular pirate ship toy. Some elements work but in my opinion, nothing beats Black Seas Barracuda. I own it from 1990, it is still builted from back then and it is a masterpiece. Adjectively, one of the best sets TLC has released

Vehicles are getting bigger and bigger. Although it is a very detailed set at it seems, it is too big for my collection. Oh, well i better get used to this situation...

Thanks for the good word of welcome guys. I know that i i'll have a good time in here . Judging from the change i have seen in the Lego sets, bricks and parts, i feel that is almost a century!

Greetings Eurobricks! I was lurking (this is the second most popular word after "bricks" in this forum ) here for over two months and i finally decided to give it a try. I’m from Greece, i'm 30 years old and since i were a child i was a Lego fanatic. City (mostly) and Pirates were and still are my two favourite themes and i have a great number of sets from the Classic era (90% City - 10% Pirates , one small Castle and one small Space set.) My first Lego set was a Basic set with the armless blue and red figures and my first Legoland set was this (analog camera- o tempora o mores..) Unfortunately, the dark clouds of Mordor Dark Ages made their presence around 1993-94 and not until this year's fall, almost no Lego experience occured. Studies, career in the work field and later family were the priorities. So, 2 1/2 months ago, i was surfing through internet, can't really remember how i ended up in here and BAM! the fever returned. I started observing the new sets (all the last 15 year's sets were like brand new to me), searching for pictures, reading articles and opinions from other AFOLs ("AFOL"?) *looks up in the dictionary* and finally made the first step. I brought the 2 large suitcases i had my Lego collection in, from my grandparents house and the journey to the past begun. All the pieces and all the sets were there. Nothing was lost. Not having a "contact" with the Lego world doesn't mean i didn't care for the collection. I had stored them very carefully. The only set i didn't "unbuilt" back then and is still intact ( the first-1990- was the only built) is the Black Seas Barracuda and that was because i had lost the instructions so I treated it like gold. I even had covered it with a plastic bag and there is, until now, hardly any dust on it. Anyway, the last two months i have bought 27 sets (from the impulse sets and the police bike to the City Harbour the Creator houses and Police HQ - i overdid it, i know, but i don't care, I can buy my Lego now ). Some things about those really excited me (new brilliant colours, new building techniques -my oh my! ), some were a little dissapointing ( too many stickers, no car doors(!), too many "service - duty"sets, many big "<insert that tiresome argument>" pieces, almost one wheel type for all vehicles) but i guess maybe some innovations are part of what we call evolution (like the 6-wide cars, still trying to get used to those). I have also rebuilt the majority of my Classic Town collection and luckily only some not crucial bricks are missing. My City collection continues after a 15-year break. The only thing that i must find is enough space for it. The MOCing experience I had was a hovercraft-catamaran like ship, an ancient greek temple with a roof and a statue inside and of course zillion of cars and no-identity buildings (if you can call the last two MOCing). Perhaps i 'll try to get into the sport again in a more "advanced" way. I could write for hours now, hope i didn't become tiring so i better pull the handbrake. Very happy to be here, greetings again!