Peppermint_M

Ok, awake and the rum wore off. Space is one of the best themes for creativity, town isn't the most creative in terms of imagining your own fantasty world. Don't even get me started on Star Wars (Indy is ok as I can use it to improve my Adventurers, dieselpunk and steampunk and MOCs and I like the Speed Racer sets) it is really no good for creativity on its own, I mean I buy some sets for parts to make different SF creations. At the moment Agents. Mecha and spacecraft are my most MOCed subjects I also plan to make some more Zeerust themed. As for the restart from zero deconstruction I stand by my earlier statement because it is my personal plan (too enact during my summer break from uni).

I am debating breaking down and sorting, some MOCs have sat there for four years... I'd say: go with what your heart tells you. Save those MOCs that give you a sense of nostalgia you don't want to lose and take apart the MOCs that once you were proud of but now wonder how much better it could look, how the greebling went too far or just how much you crave that part for a new MOC. Take plenty of photo's before deconstruction so even if you have regrets later you can enjoy it in picture form. As for all the SF lego from Star Wars: try and make some future buildings, after all the children who saw it back in the 70s are now the architechts of today and the near future, influnced by its athsetics. Make some themed areas of the town (after all, real cities have historic areas, modern areas, culturaly influenced areas). Anything is possible. this is the best I can come up with at 11pm and after some rum, so I may have better ideas tommorrow

We are much friendlier than that. Welcome and never feel like Lego is a shame. It is certainly a relaxing hobby. I'm glad you found eurobricks so you can feel normal or at least not the only adult in the word who dedicates time, effort and money to a "children's toy".

I have megablocks, when they were new in the UK my mum bought me a big box (the racing box, I wanted the space box but there were none in stock) and we noticed that it wasn't as good as lego but the price meant we could buy larger quantities and bigger sets. I bought the skate park megablocks too. Now its still there and I am going to sort it out of my lego at some point. Now me and my mum know it's not great quailty and there for not worht it. I might donate it and the other non lego bricks to someone who appreciates it.

So yeah... Any one from the UK remember to get one or siddown and shaddap if you miss it.

29 I like your hat, it's dark blue, a nice colour but can be mistaken for black. There were rules for that contest?

You know, I have NO idea how you managed to rub all the gold of those torso's in the short time you've had them... How do you store them? How often do you handle them? What do you do with your hands all day before touching you minifigs???! That can only happen to a minifig that has been rubbed and handled and maybe even sucked, unless a chemical agent has been introduced. Like comics, minifigs react to their storage and handling, If I leave my comic in a nice clean comic storing baggie with an acid free backing board in a sealed box and look at it once a year it will be mint and unfaded, if I flip through it daily and throw it in a plastic bag and store it under a great big pile of old magazines book and cookie crumbs then I wont be surprised if it falls apart after a week or two. Do you have a job that requires you to handle anything that might alter the pH of your skin, making it react with the paint? Do you stroke your minifigs? Or are you constatly playing with them? As I mentioned before my gold visor rubs on the helmet, therefore I have stopped raising and lowering it to avoid removing the gold paint. I have noted that the chrome chips (from other posts) so I am going to put it seperate to my other bricks and aviod rummaging through it (once I take it of the models). Just as white bricks yellow in sunlight, paint fades from handling, you take steps to avoid it and cest la vie when it does fade or yellow. It is a problem that has a simple solution at home but costly research and probably a costly solution at manufacture. T-Shirt prints fade and split, books left to sunlight fade. It happens, we can't avoid it if we want to continue enjoying our hobbies. So there we go. (why is it we moan so much about what we love?)

Hell Naw Damnation its even infecting eurobricks.... Those books are aweful, I read one and four chapters in I realized my brain had glazed over and I had no idea what anyone was on about. I promptly shelved it and went off in search of some Discworld. Never again will I read it. From what I can tell from later research I don't seem to be missing much at all.

yeah, one free rock monster is totaly compensation for not having Brickmaster or being allowed to have the regular club magazine (i tried to renew but 18 must have been too old, i only get catalogues and emails to buy things for my children.... im only 20...dude..) I'm going to get myself and my little brother a copy

Jetix magazine's Easter Special has a free Sulphurix figure in the polybag (I'd say stuck to the front but that is no longer true,) Found this out while wandering the internets and thought I'd let people know

I never really had a dark age but for a while it became hard to play with my lego and I couldn't afford many sets a year until I started sixth form (I got EMA money then). Basicly money was always tight (and still is, apart from my highly disposable income) so large lego sets were a once a year event (and by large i mean the over £10 sets) but once I had money I bought lego. At one point we (my sister and I) were moved into a much smaller room with no space for lego so it all went into the loft, which was also tight on space. I had to take random buckets of lego and new sets down to play with on my bed. Now the loft has been sorted and I can play anytime I want, plus I can buy lego whenver I wish

Another suggestion is bankrupt stock re-sellers, I have got old, discontinued and uncommon sets from shops like TKMaxx (TJMaxx in the US) and smaller resellers that are more commercial. Look in odd places, I don't know about your area's but my stamping grounds have numerouse indoor markets and newsagents that have smaller impulse sets from years ago sat around at a very good prices. Lastly keep an eye on big supermarkets and toy shops, really old sets sometimes turn up reduced.

Ok, so those guys are a mix between bootleggers and clone brands. The blatant packaging copy is an excersize in brand confusion but the sets seem to be non Lego (apart from the army/navy sets) so I suppose they'll get away with it until Lego notice.

Hey, its all good. A £222 moc now is only £167, so a fair deal, even If some of my smaller MOCs are still stupidly overpriced.

A better HQ for Inferno, or at least some parts that can extend it (if it wasn't so expensive I would buy a second mission eight). Some sort of HQ for the Agents. The new henchmen (and woman) for Inferno are good so they ensure we don't have too many of the same character but some more goons would be helpful. I would also like a mecha for the Agents because someone has to stand up one on one against Inferno's monster robot (currently I am looking into using the Turbo Car *which is far too big and chunky* to make a mecha)

It's very pink... It looks really good so far, but I do second a fountain and maybe some benches of the hotel's front? If you are making much much more (as in a grounds for it) then a pool would be a nice addittion.

Pirate ship, the Agents set is too perfect as it is (I thought I would get bored of it... several months later I still can't even bring myself to take a single stud from it... The rest of the stuff is earmarked for modification though). Plus I really like Pirate ships and want to see as many different variations of the set so I can get some inspiration for my mod

Make sure you drop the parts small/large/small/large so you fill all the gas well. Level off the "stud" that sticks up inside the cup with tiny pegged jewls, jumper bricks and intresting prined tiles. Then you can put in the larger stuff, like a handfull of bricks or something else larger, then throw in some small parts (but not so the lie on top of the large, this means all the gaps have been filled). Repeate until full. At the very top build something that fits snugly into the lid so not a single cubic centimeter is wasted. If you want to get the larger plated then place them in verticaly and ensure ti fill all the space. I'm sort of lucky as when I get to PAB its in bags, lucky due to no space issues, unlucky in that there isn't a fixed price you pay by weight.

I was making an airship/zeppelin and I was only half way through creating the balloon (lots of 1 stud wide friction hinges and smooth bley "road" plates) £222 and I am nowhere near finished. I really wanted to make it and buy it though

I'd have to agree, there are Adventurers themed rides that have been there for years and even after the theme ended they were never re-branded plus the show in the harbour is Johnny Thunder. Also the Pirate section has been there fir years. The only are to be re-branded was the castle, which went from Wolfpack and the like to KKII and then Fantasy Era. I wish they would make more Adventurer sets, they are based on the same pulp heroes and adventure serial characters as Indy is.

You can also get the really big ones used for display in toy shops back in the 90s and bubble bath bottles (usually the head unscrews) alas I have not got the space for a retail display figure and the bubble bath bottles are a bit pricey for what is essentialy an empty liquid soap bottle. Oh, and I think McDonalds did some larger lego figures of the sport variety that left a lot to be desired and were only in America. (Peppermint_M providing useless information since at least 1997!)

Bricks are not water tight.... Moulded plastic hull do a grand job but the ones that come in many parts can't float due to all the gaps between bricks. If it is a sealed fully molded hull and still sinks then the greebling and exciting bits probably weigh too much. Hope that helps, and I appreciate that some people get stuck with megablocks even if they want lego. (They are cheaper and some parents think it's all the same.)

It was very funny (and rather Dali surreal. ) on a side note: I have the fool myself but I was using his head on a different figure so I used the Alpha Team character with the incredibly huge mouth I'm not sure if you can see the radio headset in the picture or not....

Ok, this just continues to be "teh suckage" looks like its bricklink all the way from here (plus those sets I must buy and the ones with useful parts...)

That is really cool. I was just the wrong age for pirates even though I adored them as a kid. You and your dad must be having great fun.