Peppermint_M

Well, I don't display anything due to lack of space, everything is stored away. I also don't often keep sets together, I am mostly a MOCer and the bulk of sets I buy are for parts. That said, I do keep sets of exceptional quality (maybe with tiny modifications). Many of my Agents sets are in one still built but everyhting else is taken apart as soon as i decide i want the parts . I think the "for parts" set that stayed together the longest was the Sentai Mountain Fortress, it was so large and took me so long to build that I had to have a really special project in mind before I took bits apart (I still have one module together for another project).

Hello. Looks like Windsor 2010 will be an interesting meet-up now I'm sure you can win your fiancee over with some of the amazing modular buildings posted in the Town forum

I have seen some great deals on ebay.co.uk I typed Lego Animal into the search bar and there were lots of about five or six that cost about £5 buy-it-now and not too high postage. If I hadn't been a bit broke I would have snapped them up! The pictures of the figures on ebay give you a decent idea of how they look/condition (my one issue with Bricklink is the nice shiney image of the part, but it saves on bandwidth, so *shrug*). Having hit a roadblock with my Agents MOCing (no dark blue ) I think I will try some more fabulandy Fabuland MOCs...

I was on first thing this morning GMT 7:30am 16/7/09. So updates that happen while i am asleep I only get first thing. The wonders of time difference, something I am not looking forward too for my holiday to Canada (13 hour flight and a major time difference, I will be a zombie).

The radio works now, if you click it some audio is played. The box also has more clippings of posters that featured on facebook. Mainly the radio is now interactive instead of a background object.

The website also has some updates, more poster images and a radio announcement.

When I make a set I don't often sort the parts, unless I have had trouble finding the smaller parts while building it. If I start taking to long to find parts, I'll sweep parts into similar piles, but often times the numbered bags are easy to find parts trough anyway.

Exclusive Art from the film. Link to io9.

Today I am reading the manga Pluto. I only heard of it this lunch time (surfing the net) and found it online. I love it. Tightly plotted, engrossing and an amazing take on the classic Mighty Atom characters. I am only up to chapter 16! I reccomend it if you like SF, Asimov, mystery stories and The Mighty Atom/Astro Boy.

Clearance tent? Pick-a-Brick? My family takes a trip to Legoland Windsor once a year and I buy sets on clearence in the shops and in a large tent hidden behind one of the attractions (JCB challenge the last few years) full of last seasons gear and older sets. The Pick-a-Brick is in the big shop.

The dice prototypes are really interesting to see. It must be hard to create such a completley functional element that conforms to safety rules etc. After all, most new elements are for shape not functionality.

Yup, I need multiples (Price and availiablity) and i can't answer some as i don't read it. Not sure what to suggest as a remedy. It is rather rudimentary poll software.

I am reading Bored of the Rings. It is good so far, for a lampoon. That and I have never read the origonal work... I recommend Chrono Code as a good manga series that is only two volumes long.

Poorly. I set myself limits, i.e. Only buy the sets under £10, even then only if I love the theme/sets. I have all the pirate and Power Miner sets under £10, but most of the City sets just don't tempt me beyond the £2 impulse sets. I avoid using Bricklink more than once every few months or use it purely for parts and colour refrence. I don't buy online often, to avoid buying many sets over the course of a few months. If I buy, say, half of a theme in one go I don't feel I need/must buy more for months on end. I suppose it is a blessing that the supermarkets that stock lego near me have very little selection. I find I buy a lot of lego during the start of the wave and really only get one or two impulse sets later on (to tide me over to a big blowout purchase) or sets from a theme I am not overly fond of because they finally won me over. I also believe that being a MOCer I have slight protection from rampant Lego purchasing. I rarely buy the biggest sets in a theme (In fact, I must say that apart from in clearance, Agents is the only theme I bought the largest sets from) because I have so many parts and prefer to make my own things with what I have. Brickset calculated my boxed set purchases to amount to 22006 elements, not counting those sets I forgot and the boxes of hand-me down bricks, so I do take stock of what I have and whether I want a new set for the sake of it or for a real reason. I will always buy Lego, and many (including my self) will cringe about the amount spent, but if no themes bother me particularly once Agents ends then I suppose I will spend £20 tops on each wave of a theme and only if I decide I must have it and said wave has sets under £10. Now clearance is another matter, and it is a good job Legoland happens once a year and TKMaxx barely ever has anything other than Bionicle....

Ambush in Cairo I buy nearly all Lego sets under £10 that turn up in supermarkets. It's a bad habit when you are saving money No more until I have paid off half my credit card bill....

The Knights and Pirates are a romantacised fantasy version of events making it unreal, a fun game for children to play. They may get "killed" but five minutes later the combatants are up and running around again. Exo-Force was against malfunctioning robots and not one human was even hinted to be killed, the fantasy element of the giant robots made it unreal. Agents doesn't have to be violent. They have guns, but so do many law enforcement agencies. The Agents are supposed to be bringing in larger than life fantasy baddies. Star Wars is unreal Indiana Jones has soldiers but in the context of the film, hunting down mystical treasures and trying to beat our hero, not waging war. The World Wars were terrible events, not a game. Children play war, but Lego isn't going to make war toys. I repeat the others: If you want war, buy a pile of parts (Dark Green, sand green, tan and dark tan are all there) buy a bunch of Indy sets and fetch a pile of rifles. Then all you need to do is get a cheap Best-Lock/Cobi army set and equip your guys.

Today I am listening to the FFVII Advent Children Complete Soundtrack. I can't wait to get it, this is the film that is motivating me to upgrade to Blu-Ray, so I am listening to the music until the day I get the film (/reveals self to be fangirl)

Those casting choices make me think it will be Kyle, not Hal in the film .

Mah, sports didn't do so well did they? The football sets were ok, I think I got one of the smallest. The basketball was fun enough but the springy legs were naff. I suppose the size of the American market could make it a viable theme, but not global (the only other place baseball is hug is Japan, however there isn't much market for Lego there). Cricket and Rugby are more popular in countries besides America. Lisencing would be a pain for Lego too...

Another thing I have been trying with a medium sized project is just sketching what it should look like, then figuring out what lego shoud be put where to make that look. One MOC is a fun WIP that will take me as long as I like, the second I have been planning down to the last detail at 1:1 scale on AutoCAD LT, for a part count and shopping list and hope to start buying parts later in the year (after Legoland PaB in september, and the clearance tent...). Would like to find out which method works best for you!

Hah, Twilight. Never been to bothered after I read an excerpt and it was so poor... Plus some of the "themes" in there are disturbing.

It's all looking so cool! The facebook page has been having updates, the website has more info and the blogs I read are getting pictures and trailers! I really want to see it now

There are two methods. Method the first: Have an idea, fixed or changeable, in you mind and grab all the parts you could possibly need. Have no issue with taking apart MOCs and Sets for parts, unless you can find a substitute. Then you sit and build until your MOC is built. Method the Second: Draw every possible view of it that you can. Figure out which part is where and how many of them you need. Then start buying the parts then decide when you can start building it.

Old chromed parts chip all the time. The aquazone knives I can find (issues with thieving little boys...) are white now, all the chrome came off. One or two of my oldest coins and the spot on the harpoons where the minifig always held it are rubbed clean. If you aren't really careful, the visors for space helmets rub to silver from gold or blue. It happens, sadly. The new pearl ones will last a lot longer.

I am going to Hay on Wye on saturday I can go to my favourite place in the whole world and just look at old books and wander around countless second hand book shops. My head will be full of even more ideas, stories to tell and things to draw/build/write. I might have a MOC or two to build afterwards. Pratchett and Heinlien are my to buy list, alongside anything else that takes my fancy. Currently Reading: Somthing Rotten, by Jasper Fforde.