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Well over 720 now, thanks to a few minifig buildings at the Lego Shop, some un listed randoms from eBay lots. I am going to eneed to buy more storage boxes for my minfig parts!

Ooo naughty. I just saw the advert and the fireman figure is a clone brand body (LEGO never made a red fire man). I do hope I can get the set today.

I build for the characters. My head is full of stories, some that have a real narrative others that are basicly some characters who go blazing across my imagination, demand some story and then run off to have adventures of their own. It is the most fun that way. Then there is the times I build just because I have an idea. A part or a picture on the 'net, a scene in a book or just another idea a simply must build. I mainly build vehicles, but I have recently got back into castle again. Little scenes of varied sizes are another thing I enjoy building, but they all match with my most recent and interesting characters. I build mostly what people would call Sci Fi and Action themes with a few slips into Town when I grab a building idea. The complexity of the build depends on what I want to build and how I want it to look. I build because I enjoy it, it is my hobby. I buy sets for parts and figures, very rarely do I buy a set that is what I want right away (Speed Racer cars, the Agents Truck and MMV are the only examples). Hope I understood the questions correctly.

Showing off! I drew this today at the Bristol Comic Expo. The tweeter is the comic creator and I drew my dino on the pad at the desk.

I love buckets! The Blacksmith set has them too! I am also very very excited for the chickenz. I love animals in LEGO form since I was small and had some Duplo farm and zoo. I think the bucket and chicken mean I will be getting more than one Blacksmith (besides the weapons, my other favourite LEGO things) the Mill is also high on my list of sets to buy. Goats! Honest to goodness LEGO Goats! (eyes tag speculatively). Every year the sets get better and more interesting!

"Did you wish very hard?" My favourite quote. The actress was channeling Helena Bonham Carter. She was fantastic. I knew this episode would be fab, Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite writers and everything that he writes is fantastic (even is sometimes themeaticly it is not my thing) one of my top episodes. "The pretty one?!"

I would just like you all to know, that if I was dirty stinking rich I would have organised for you all to be flown/boated/driven here for an event. Alas, as I am not, we must simply take loads of photos. Sorry to miss you 'kalle!

When it gets as low as ten and i still havent sorted the train i still dont have to worry! lol, will have to find out the best way to the hotel though. What sort of place doesn't have it's public transport travel directions!

What have we wrought! A monster for sure! Taa for the title Kiel, upside down was starting to confuse me

Hmm, better sort out travel arrangements.

-Homer Simpson noises- Mmmm... Dark Tan... Gotta keep going to the Lego shop in cardiff then. Maybe I should cultivate a staff member to let me know when PaB changes.

Dammit, bleh. I shall retire to bed now I think, I should have written I have Suspicions Certainly but got befuddled. I am dyslexic in a minor manner, so the doctory types say.

Her Royal En-Pinken-ness - I have often been known as "Queen of" and when adding new ladies to the Ladies group I said I was en-pinkening them (en-pinken is a word now) I have Certain Suspicions as to who did it, but I may be wrong.

I will be getting those. There is often a send off coupon as well, to get them all, that is my plan.

A base is what you build off, a plate is the name the flat leo parts are called. I call for flats or tiles (flats have studs y'see, but tiles are smoooth) I call the plate I build off a base plate and I call the flat floppy ones MOC death (when hacked off at them) or Big Grey, Green/Blue or 16x16. Roadplate is a roadplate. We all have words we use for parts and colours, often a relic of our cildhood. I for one have a dislike of the classification system used on Bricklink as it is near impossible to find some parts short of searching through a set you knew it came in. (Notto mention the search algorithms). So what a tragic disaster if someone is momentarilty inconveninced by a misnamed part... Not that knowing the umpteen million different names helps when the search bar on bricklink ignores you. So, can you drop the subject now?

Well rumours have it that a girls theme is turning up. For now you might as well send parents in the direction of City buildings and creator houses (my mother loves those). Or point out that girls can enjoy any lego (I myself am an example!) Welcome to the forum. With some staff jiggery poekery, I shall en-pinken your member group. (en-pinken is a word now).

Nice one Fangy! That was a great little set. Plus a little FYI, I sometimes see them on aisle strips in Tesco supermarkets, they are sold for about £1.99. I'll Index this now.

Mainly to spare the feelings of others. It's one thing to lose but entirely another to garner 0 votes, or a very small total in comparison to others.

Not Action themed... Moving...

If you don't know the tropes of steampunk, why are you building it? But as I used to build it myself... Steampunk doesn't have to be a specific colour, but you do have to get the grand and over the top victorian stylings to it. There does need to be plumbing but that is about it. Victorins had paint too you know, so colour is permissable. Look at victorian inventions and vehicles to get the general idea of the syling. Tan would be raw wood, but darker shades would do well, (stained or varnished). Really, if you look up steampunk art, artwork for Verne and Wells books and other such things, you will know what to build.

Goodness, was there a fire sale at the rose tinted lense shop? Lego is amazing today! There are so many lovely colours (mmm Dark Tan) and clever designs in sets. The minifigures are fantastic, instead of having a land of little staring smiling clones with strange almost unreal hair we have everything from a shark man to a rather concerned looking bloke in a hazmat suit. Not to mention the huge array of printed torso and leg parts. Then we move on to the themes: Brilliant designs this year Pharaoh's Quest being a spiritua successor to the old system Adventurers. Atlantis continuing the trend of under water action started in the early 90s. Alien Conquest giving as a great B-Movie style theme. City keeps on getting better, and Hero Factory is freshening up the buildable action figures (masterfully salvaged from that mess of Galidor back in the system days). Ninja Go is opening a new market that was certainly taking away some purchasers of Lego. The only issue I have with themes these days is the price of Licensed sets, I liked the Toy Story sets and PotC has a few nice features but too high a price. The only theme really retreading itself is Star Wars and that has been running over a decade and the repetition is more a fault of the source material. Design these days is much much better than ever before. The earliest sets looked unfinished and very very basic then in the 80s the sets look ok but the most design innovation was in Technic. 90s sets were still not quite as good and then became even more simplified in an attempt to attract more children (it had been well noticed that many children were moving past toys very early in life, even more so today). The issues they faced then forced them to focus on the brick and since the early 2000s, things have been getting better and better. The designers grew up with Lego and aren't afraid to include the difficult building techniques they know. Economic issues around the world are getting parents too look at the longievity of a toy over the current faddish wow factor of most kids toys. Also their nostalgia appeal. If Lego were to go back to System branding, the box would look so retro... If they were to go back to the system style a lot of the market would be unimpressed save a handful of belligerent AFOLs... until they realise what a load of rosey nostalgia they were speaking when they demanded a return. I like where Lego is today and I want them to keep

ʇuǝɯןıɐɹǝp ʇuǝuıɯɯı- ICS, wacky aussie needed to turn my title upside down to read it! (probably)

Well, that was a nice helpful post wasn't it. For anyone interested, I have reviewed the TARDIS set here, also once I have all the figures I will be reviewing them.

I don't think I will post the total votes awarded by everyone. Other contests never do and it isn't the best thing to do.

Name Badge? I could put in for a badge with my name on please?