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The cycle of themes is sort of pointing towards an underwater theme again though. If you think about it.

Sorted. Can't help with the Question though, I wasn't able to buy all that much during that period.

I advise you try building a set or two, or at least look at the instruction books. There are a few techniques that have reached official set design and the step by step guide is a great way to learn.

A return of the Adventure subtheme but with a female lead, basicly (gah, looks like my phone derped up)

Essentially. An Adventure subtheme (As PQ and the different Adventurer locations have been. Just like Alpha Team/Agents/Ultra Agents are Spy theme) but instead of a male lead we have a female lead. Taa Daa. I don't mean a straight up copy of Tomb Raider, just a character that borrows from Lara Croft. (I thought that was clear enough?)

How about a Tomb Raider style Adventure theme eh? Now that would tick all the right boxes! (okay, I have been watching the films again...)

Okay, so, there are not enough women minifigures but then there are minifigures made to look 'female' inasmuch a manner as achieveable in minifig form and this is sexist and wrong? I put the question about so called "hourglass" printing to four of my fellow ladies and my mother (A woman always keen to buck the trend and the reason her daughter #me# still plays with LEGO) it was thought by us, all from different backgrounds and all in different careers that: Healthy women have their bumps and lumps and wobbly bits usually in such a manner that there is a curve in their form. AKA - Boobs and hips+bum with a (Slight or not) pinch in between. Thus the minor curve represented in the minifig printing is as much an indicator of femaleness as coloured lips and eyelashes on a minifig head. So it is a little hard to fulfill the MOAR LADIES if THEY CAN'T LOOK LIKE THEM. I can't ever say I am a femenist because of the straw(wo)men out there spoiling it for us.

One rule- it has to withstand existing. If touch or movement collapses it then that MOC is a failure.

Not LEGO's opinion, Merlin's opinion.

It was okay, but as a long-time fan I found it a little lacking in some areas, thought it is great to snare other AFOLs or to introduce the concept of grown-ups+LEGO=Awesome to the naysayers and mundies. My friend is a casual fan (more of a general geek/nerd type) and loved it as LotR and Star Wars are his favourites. I will keep an eye out for a second issue though, a physical magazine is much easier to show to someone than a webpage.

When the filter was customised they were the only real clone brand on the market. The software provides an option to prevent cursing at varied levels and what to replace instances with and Eurobricks has been running a long time now so the market competitor to LEGO seemed like the best option eh?

How about a Landscaper? I have an idea that I want to start from but then as I build it just grows. There may be one or two key features or effects I desire that I will lay in groundwork for but I will happily cultivate as I go along. Sometimes I do have a seed piece that grows into a cool MOC, sometimes I am building from a photo/diagram but most of the time it is an Idea I wish to create from.

Creativity. In a word anyway. Since the Duplo boxes that I can't even remember when they were bought right up to the last set I purchased, I use the parts more than I build a set. Sure, I have bought a number of sets that I have never taken apart but 80% of my purchases are for parts alone (and occur during the sales when there is a nice discount). Whether it is a case of I chose the set for specific parts or it was super cheap so I just picked it up. I guess this is why I do not have very many of the licensed sets, not many of them have good price/piece comparison. I think the only thing that would swing me on them is if there is a horse or a motorcycle. I like to add those to my collection and fairings/printing is nicely varied in those sort of sets.

No LUG! Show yourselves and CymruLUG can become!

You could try using poster-board and dressing it with LEGO. Using paper printed like roadplate and double-sided adhesive tape to fix LEGO plates to the edges as road verge or footway.

There is a whole community of Fabu-Builders here on EB (most had the sets as children too) so don't worry about things seeming childish! Embrace the LEGO love!

I was going to mention Gorillaz too then! Very impressive. http://youtu.be/d4wkPoVILSQ In fact, here is the one!

So, I finally bought all three red Mixels, I thought it would be a fun challenge to build a Dragon from them. With all the hinges and clips/bars not to mention the new ball joints, I knew I could build something half decent using just what was in those three bags. In all I used 110 parts out of the total 172. It took about an hour (with a break for Cake, seeing as some was on offer while I was building!) and I only ended up re-doing the head when I finished, this head is the one I decided on. I think Flame Wing is a good name for this guy. I might try and make more dragons or creatures with other Mixel trios.

This MOC is based on the Transporter Bridge in Newport, South Wales. I built it to a LEGO Architecture scale as an entry to the 2014 Eurobricks Event: Architecture Contest. We had to build a local landmark. Ever since I was a child I always found the bridge fascinating, looking at it as we passed it on the road and operating the model that was in the Kingsway Centre. So I just had to build it for the contest. While I had hoped to build it out of blue bricks, some of the more vital parts don't appear in that colour so dark blueish grey it had to be. I also used embroidery thread to get the cables as correct as I could, regular LEGO tubes were too rigid to use and the string from sets was too thin. It seems I am not the only one to think it is rather representative of the local area since it also appears in the NATO Summit logo. A big thanks to CopMike for the custom printed (bi-lingual!) tiles I finally got 'round to posting it.

If you aren't going to return the non-LEGO parts or other such things, donate to charity or thrift or a local family center. You may not want it but kids will have plenty of fun. :-)

Oh. I shall have to keep an eye on the progress here. I inherited that exact set from my uncle, only his spent fifteen years on a shelf collecting dust and bug carcasses. Not quite as icky.

Epic stuff! Way to go on the first build front! Now you have to get her to come join EB!

The difference between a lesson plan and an agenda is if you start bleating about it on the internet afterwards. A lesson plan is say, What I like to do After School. It turns into an agenda when someone then posts on the internet or in the media about how - say ten year olds- only play video games and that this is a terrible thing. It isn't pretending to say the methodology is flawed, it isn't difficult to ask kids to think about something and how to approach looking at something. I didn't do graduate level sociology research, yes I suppose it was high school level but it built from skills and methods taught when I was in "grade" school. Most LEGO sets are marketed in a gender neutral manner honestly. The only human in the City TV ads is a pair of hands that could belong to anyone. It is annoying that the theme created from researching how girls play and what girls want in their toys is now being waved around as a terrible stereotype toy trying to keep girls in their place. It is more than a little problematic that they are calling racial exclusion (or what have you) because they have decided that yellow=European (Licensed themes are only let down by their source material) whenever certain, not racist at all, racial characteristics are introduced in the plain yellow figures people start to cry racism because the figures have any racial characteristics! (wonderful conundrum that). I'm going to stand by my earlier comment that schools should focus on teaching children to think and to think well, it is just as much a life skill as reading ability, spelling and arithmatic. Though society runners still prefer people to swallow what they are told, so it is unlikely that many students will be given the gift of thought.

Utterly off topic, but there is going to be a whole generation of girls who will never, ever run off with a guy named Hans. Dead cert on that one. And for the record: Schools are rarely about education these days, see the too-many-to-count incidents of children being "punished" for progressing too quickly. All education establishements have an agenda to herd children into the neat little boxes society wants us in. While you can buck the system without being called a delinquent, you have to be careful about it.

They should have taught critical thinking, the methodology used in this and many more studies, even the serious ones, is terrible. I have noticed that there is far to much bad research practice and a poor knowledge base. Then again, it looks like an exercise in politicising children more than educating.