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I think this would be more at home in Town, so I'll move it along. A very nice build though!

So, shall we talk about sets instead of potential drawings of possible leaks?

So today's shopping list: Bourbon, Rum, Beer, LEGO, Kinder Egg with My Little Pony toy inside... Only question: "Do you have some ID?". A common ask, I do not look 25, let alone my actual 27 years. Good genes, my parents do not look old enough to have kids in their late 20s. I have been roped into a LEGO club for kids, touted as an expert to their parents and thanked for being good with the children at the end. I am the go-to for questions on sets to purchase as gifts and if parts are missing from their kids. My colleague (same age as me) and his housemate spent Christmas building the Millennium Falcon LEGO set.

You know, I went nuts for plants at a pick-a-brick once. ("ARghlblragh!!! Sooo much greenery I need it alllllll!") because I wanted to move from my building all vehicles all the time. Diversify a little. That said, anyone who wants to build cars can't go far wrong in picking up the Creator car builds, Speed Champions and the appropriate City/Friends sets. They provide all the basic parts anyone could need to get started and a crash course in techniques to build with. Once you understand how parts can be used to create the basic car, you can learn to make new shapes using parts that fit the aesthetic you want. Oh, and if you want to build Action? You need Colour, Crystals and bombastic appeal! All right, so the best way to start there is to choose where you want to set it, study the design cues from former themes and the kinds of media that fed the idea and then collect parts that re-occur in the thematic colours you decide on. Aquasharks is lots of trans-orange, black and blue. Power Miners used plenty of lime green and orange. Adventurers are rooted in pulp-serial tropes and a 30's design look. A great way to get parts is on eBay when people are selling lots of old parts for spares. Plenty of sellers at least know the theme the parts are coming from, so you can pick up a lot filled with 90s Aquazone, or Dino 2010. Those sorts of sellers usually sell the figures separately, but reliably have the unique parts in a lot that can work out cheaper than choosing parts on bricklink.

The difference five years makes to available parts! This design is still great and now that it is functional there are even more possibilities. Certainly borrowing that for my Adventurers!

Well, they were in the Discount shops before Christmas , I will keep my eyes peeled to see if they show up elsewhere.

MMm, eating Spam for breakfast

Sometimes sending messages is suspended for members for varied reasons. You have enough posts to send a PM, so that is the only issue I can think of.

It has been explained that a lot of people abuse the system to get free parts from expensive or popular sets. Licensed sets are ones that get a lot of abuse and the system will flag up an email or an address if you have asked often for replacements. A phonecall would work to clear it up, explain your frequent purchases as a set collector (I do not know many MOC-ists who would want stickers) and that you are fastidious about them (again, I sometimes chuck out the spare instructions, or look up online for missing booklets). Hopefully you will get your replacement.

For there lurks the Spurdog! Eurobricks member and Aquazone builder Pimbo has created this impressive submersible. Check it out in Action and Adventure Themes

I think this would work out better in Community. So I'll pop it over there.

Well, some intern got to play about for five minutes or so. Not the most well produced video.

It is a fan made thing on Youtube by Dino5500 so anyone can take a look at everything this animator has made. It was a surprising mention in the interest of balance after all the furore over Ai Weiwiee having a wah wah about not getting cheap bulk bricks. In that the reporter/presenter mentioned that the old TLG policy of "no LEGO sponsored supplies for political creations" (now overturned after the fuss) might have had a good reason considering these animations. Not raking it over, just giving some context. The animator has some decent stuff posted.

Welcome to EB! Sorry you had some issues making an account, sometimes Gmail sends the registration confirmation e-mail to the junk/spam folder. What username was your first registration attempt under? Staff can do a check around to find out what the problem might have been. Though two accounts are frowned upon, so I'd advise you stick to this successful one!

Looks like this has been dealt with! I catch a lot of the Spam in my morning time before work (7-8 am GMT) and try to figure out the e-mail providers we can block without affecting members. Like dr_spock said, report it and any member of staff will be notified. Someone who has the time (we're all volunteers after all) will zap it as soon as they can.

Hmm. I think this is a little more suited to the Media forum (and that is stretching it a bit). Could you also refer to Eurobrick's guidelines on spelling and grammar here please?

Hmmm, is this plotline discussion anything to do with the sets at all in any way? If not, please take it to the thread in media.

Now that would be a big-box sdet (with a window to look in at the parts under the flap) to put on the wishlist! Great build once again.

Right. This can all be done now please. It honestly does not matter at all, it in fact sounds like a bunch of six year-olds arguing. It is a minifigure in a set, once the show (that is not something we discuss in this thread, but in the show thread.) gets to the character something might be confirmed. As this thread is about the sets and the supposed gender of a plastic figure has been discussed to death, we can please move on. Thanks

Those armour parts in transparent colours are really quite cool looking. The theme as a whole is an interesting new spin on the traditional.

If you use a regular brick that is a good contrasting colour (Say a bley brick with the tan profile bricks) it will look like real-life buildings, the architectural choice on the construction often used contrasting stone at the edges.

Hmm, I think the Inn and the School are on my list. (Mainly for parts, but still...) Thanks for those pics. I will get to uploading and adding to the first post.

Urgh. Waiting for the sets to turn up in the UK in my area is horrible. The Entertainer toy shop has had new City and Friends out since before Christmas, but no Nexo Knights. Argos has new City, but no Nexo. ASDA has empty shelves where the LEGO was but no new sets at all! Smyths toys had new city and Star Wars... I only want to see them in person! Also: Does anyone have an ETA on the magazine? I think me and my brother would like a copy of the first issue at least.

I'm afraid I just had it on in the background, Channel 4 can be very hit or miss with a documentary. It was decent, but it mostly filled the quiet while I added books to my library app...

Tesni had spent some time wandering the environs of the freeport, it had been good to be out in the fresh air after time spent under a mountain in the realm of dwarfkind. A whisper on the wind had told her that the houses were working together and against each other for the fate of Eubric. It was time to pledge the support House Ji Pei was owed her. Qilin Blade prominent amongst her weapons, Tesni entered the meeting space. "Hail Shanxian, as was entrusted to me this great sword so do I pledge its support to you."