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How did you quote that as me saying it? That was 'Spider-Man.'

As the article linked to that shows the Shazam and Venom pictures states, many companies make Comic-Con exclusives. LEGO is just joining in on the fun. Not everything is made to be available publicly and there's no reason it should be. You wanting it does not constitute a reason for a company to not make a promo and instead release an exclusive figure to the masses. It's a special thing for event attendees, and yes, it fetches a large aftermarket price. If you're a completest or you want it so so badly, you pay the price. Otherwise, you recognize that it's a promo and move on with your life, buying the cool products you want that LEGO actually intends for wide release. I'm sure wind turbine LEGO fans everywhere are still moaning about LEGO not selling the Vestas set publicly.

Guys, spamming an EB topic isn't going to magically make pictures appear. It will just make mods grumpy. The pictures will come soon in due course, I'm sure.

I don't think there's much to be done with the original sticker. This occurred to a terrible degree in my original Krusty Krab set, so I put down scotch tape over the sticker and piece to keep the stickers as intact as I could. Otherwise, you could buy replacements on Bricklink or see if someone has scanned or made a copy that you could download and print.

Shazam is DC, so move the Shazam over to DC and it's two and two.

Very cool looking! I'd love to see more angles, but it looks very spot-on! I must say that the gun looks a little puny, though. It might actually be correct, but I always imagine Hellboy with a cartoonishly large gun.

I'm not sure; from the video it looks like it would be around the same size or slightly larger than the T-Rex from Dino, which is imaginable. The pit would only need to have some high poles to support the palace, but otherwise wouldn't need to be monumentally large.

Yes there is, and it is now there. Sorry about the omission.

I got a mixture of both in 7913 Clone Trooper Battle Pack in January 2011. I really can't see how it matters. Even just knowing that some are different - so what? It really bothers you that there's a difference within the stud of the head? Just put head-covering pieces on them then. The Collectible Minifigures never have the filled head. Regular minifigure heads do not come from the Chinese factory where the extended-line collectible minifigures come from. Regular-line might come from different European factories, but they don't come from the Chinese factory.

INTERVIEW: Brickdoctor Today we're interviewing Brickdoctor, the newest member of the Star Wars forum team. Best known for his accurate ship models, Brickdoctor has been on the site for quite some time, and has risen through the ranks quite rapidly. EBSWF: Thanks for doing this Doc, but why LEGO Star Wars? How did you start with the hobby? I've been a fan of LEGO in general for as long as I can remember. Originally, though, I was a Town and Castle fan. Town, because when I was younger, it seemed to be the theme that everyone agreed was appropriate to give as a gift to anyone; and Castle, because, well, what's not to like about armies of little cartoonish plastic knights marching across the floor? Star Wars was something that I'd experienced but wasn't that huge a fan of. I'd seen the original movies and Menace. LEGO Star Wars came along, and, one Droid Developer Kit later, I was hooked on that. Obsession with Star Wars as a whole followed slowly but surely after that, largely thanks to Heir to the Empire. EBSWF: What was it like to become staff, and how did you find the site? What's it like to become staff? Well, the standard response is that when one first becomes staff, one is excited until one realizes that one has been tricked into accepting the job, and then one has to navigate a forum full of scary admins, and...oh, what does this button do? Seriously, though, it's been an honor to be a staff member for the Star Wars forum. I'm never rearranging that MOC Index again if I don't have to, though. I believe that I first found EB when I followed a link from The Brother's Brick regarding some rumored upcoming Star Wars set. I lurked for a year or so before I joined, though I did so for reasons unrelated to Star Wars. I had seen Superkalle's topic about LU mode for LDD 3, and at that time the unlock instructions were on a text file that was an attachment, only downloadable by members of EB. EBSWF: How do you like working on the blog, and how much coding/graphical work do you do on the blog and here on EB? I've definitely enjoyed working on the blog. I'm told that employees of TLG read it to keep up-to-date on some of the happenings in the LEGO Star Wars fandom, and I'm proud to be a member of the blogging team. I remember I was very excited when KimT first asked me to be a Rebel Blogger, especially since it was alongside such members as Kiel, Oky, and Cloney O'. (speaking of which, I was on vacation on the day when we supposedly had those giant Rebel Blogger rank images, and I have never seen what they looked like, so if anyone has a screenshot, I'd really like it if you could PM it to me...) I've done some coding work on the blog, but it's just fixing the choppy HTML that WordPress' WYSIWYG editor outputs, since the blog uses the online WordPress editor and doesn't actually let us touch most of the source code. I've never coded anything for EB. As far as graphics, I've done the big banners for the blog's header and square banners for links to important pages on EB. On the boards, I've just done a couple of tags, though I just finished up a bigger graphic for the forum. Here's a peek at the header for the updated Forum Index I'm working on: EBSWF: How much time do you spend on LEGO related activities? I'm usually on EB throughout the entire day, but I'm just checking in every fifteen minutes to an hour or so, made possible by wireless technology. I get in about a half an hour of time, if any at all, of working with physical LEGO in a day. EBSWF: What do people around you think of your being a LEGO fan? My family is made up of what I'd consider to be casual LEGO fans. They like the occasional set in the $50 range for display, and CMFs are popular among them. That's about as much as they do with LEGO, but it's enough that they support the hobby. Some of my friends think it's a little strange, but having my AT-ST prominently displayed in my room never fails to turn the ' ' faces into ' ' faces. EBSWF: Aside from LEGO, what other hobbies do you have? Not much, to be honest. With the limited funds that I had as a kid, I decided to focus on growing my LEGO collection instead of all the other things that other kids my age would do. The result was that by the time I was a teenager, I had a collection quickly approaching twenty thousand pieces, and I didn't really have the addiction to action figures, video games, or the like that my peers preferred. (although Hasbro constantly reminds us that our minifigs are action figures ) The only non-LEGO video game that I've spent more than $10 on is Civilization V. Other than that, I enjoy reading sci-fi and classic novels, I've played a little bit of baseball, and I've done some live sound mixing for friends. EBSWF: How did the LEGO hobby change/impact your life? Do you have any practical uses for LEGO in your daily life? One big change was that my first work with image editing was using Paint.NET to resize my images. From there, I started adjusting brightness and contrast, reducing noise, using curves, and, finally, removing backgrounds and compositing. Now, I've used Photoshop to do some graphics work for some people I know. (no examples that I can show you, unfortunately) I've made some things out of LEGO: pencil holders, iPod stands, things like that - but I always end up parting them back out when I want one of the pieces I used. Sometimes I do use a couple bricks when I need to quickly hold something up, but it's always very temporary. EBSWF: Has anything funny happened to you when some of your "LEGO talk" has gotten into your daily life? Not really. It's more like a second dialect for me. I can switch over to "LEGO talk" if I want to, but I don't think I've ever used it in normal (non-LEGO-related) conversation. EBSWF: Why did you choose 'Brickdoctor' for a username, and why do you have a Scout Trooper as your avatar? Okay, that's a complicated story. Originally, I picked it out for a Bricklink account that I was going to share with my dad, who is a doctor (optometrist). He wanted to buy himself a Han Solo minifig, and I was a (now failed) minifig customizer who wanted to buy various minifigs to experiment with. Neither of us actually ever ended up buying anything from BL, but when i signed up for MOCpages, I decided to use the name because... well, I don't remember why anymore. Now I use the name everywhere, so I don't really want to change it. As for the scout, my old avatar was a Kashyyyk Trooper, because I was obsessed with the AT-RT during my time on MOCpages. I still think it looks like a very fun vehicle to drive. I switched to the scout because it's my favorite imperial trooper and because the Kashyyyk Trooper is a PT minifig which doesn't reflect my favorite era of the Star Wars saga. I've recently switched to a new version, with a classic smiley face under the helmet, to make my avatar more of a true sig-fig, and less of just an image of my favorite imperial trooper. EBSWF: We know you build accurate ships, how do you get started on building one? I start by finding a ship that I want to build and think I can build well. Usually, that means at least one greebled section and a lot of angles, with few curves. I find some reference material to work off of, and then I just start building. A lot of the time, I start from a section that I already know how I want to build, and I work outwards from there. For example, with the T-47, I already knew I wanted SNOT wings, so I started there. With the T-16, I knew I wanted a big brick-built top fin, so I started there. With the AT-ST, I had built the guns and the front of the 'head' already while playing around, so I worked from there. When I look for reference material, I start at this flickr collection, and if that site doesn't have any, I look at Forbidden Plastic and Modeler Magic. If neither of those has what I need, I turn to Google. (I search for something like "T-16 Skyhopper studio model") EBSWF: What do you have in store for the future? Will we see more of your fantastic MOCs? Any ships got your eye? (Though you've been doing a lot in LDD we want to see some physical stuff!) I definitely want to build a TIE/ln, TIE/in, and possible a TIE x1. I'd like to do an A-wing, but if I do, I'll probably just do a replica of Jerac's model with slight tweaks, because I'm not sure if it's even possible to build a better model. I've done portions of a Y-wing, so I'll probably finish that someday. And - I know you still read EB, Fallenangel - yes, I will one day build an X-wing. I've been doing a lot of digital MOCs lately because I'm in the process of sorting my collection, and I avoid building large physical MOCs because it's too easy to pull pieces out when I'm supposed to be sorting them, and never sort them back when I'm done. I've also been using a lot of the time I have to build to work on sets for Heroica. I'm going to take a break after my current Heroica quest finishes up, and I want to build some stuff for Historica, but I should be back to Star Wars after that.

It looks like you're right. I'm accidentally a nutter sometimes. Sorry. I'll stop spamming this topic now.

As I didn't reply to any particular comment, I was not addressing my sentiments towards anybody in particular. I was just commenting generally.

Definitely just an error. LEGO's 'shopping jobs are very good, but they're not supposed to be viewed at huge huge huge size! They're good enough that at a smaller size, they usually look great, but zoomed that far in there tend to be some small errors.

I was very on the fence about it myself. Since I like to build sets as they are intended both for myself and especially when reviewing, I decided to apply it. The sticker really takes the Hearse to the next level of whacko, but it's quite reasonable not to want that. You've got the best attitude about it, though - if you don't like it, don't use it!

Trust Star Wars fans to dish out the criticism. Not that I think criticism is bad, mind you; it's a great thing, but as it applied to this model I personally it should be phrased more like 'this is already a fantastic model, and here's a few areas you could make it even better.' I think this model is wonderful already, PoweredbyNorth, and I hope you don't take people's abundant criticism the wrong way. Your photography is also fantastic!

Hey, I just thought it looked weird. If you held the model at that angle and the cockpit was supposed to rotate freely, it wouldn't look like that. Like in the two system-scale versions, the ship is basically at this angle, but the cockpit isn't: Like I said before, it doesn't matter, but it stood out to me and I explained why.

As I said, the bottom of the box should be 'down' with respect to gravity, so the cockpit in the picture should theoretically be pulled that way, the bottom of the cockpit being parallel to the bottom of the box.

I don't forget that it rotates as the rest of the ship moves. The truth is, the whole idea of it moving as the ship moves is silly because it has no gravity in space for it to reference. Naturally, we just go with down for being how the cockpit should be oriented. In that case, the cockpit should be aligned with the bottom of the box, not with the middle wing. It's not a big deal. It doesn't really matter. I was just pointing it out.

Quite right. It's also strange that they didn't even rotate it correctly on the box-art. The cockpit is horizontal with the middle wing, whereas at the angle that the whole ship is in the picture, the cockpit should be rotated a bit. Still, since it's a display model it doesn't make too much difference, though when you get the urge to swoosh in the nude it might become bothersome.

I love these! R2 is really so much more fun in pretty colors, or at least different colors, than plain old blue and white. I can't wait to see the R5s and R4s in the bricks! Great job.

I find this very amusing. When the SSD was coming out, everyone went 'Oh no, this is horrible, they're forcing minifigures into a UCS set for no reason!' And now it's 'Oh no, there are no minifigures, no way am I buying.'

No, Prateek is correct. It is basically a 2x2 piece from the center section of the piece Prateek posted.

They are releasing it in October.

I'll happily admit that I'm largely reactionary to a lot of things, and especially when it comes to films, like to use strong words that are maybe a little too strong. I could've just said I greatly disliked the film, but that has a weaker ring to it. I could add extra qualifiers like 'it was horrible to me' which makes the 'horrible' part sound a little softer, but I was trying to be direct. Maybe just 'poor.' Perhaps I should say 'the plot was horrible,' which doesn't necessarily account for the overall viewing experience (which I didn't find enjoyable, besides for chuckling at many parts that I thought were done poorly). I completely agree that the chemistry between Stone and Garfield was magnetic. I loved seeing their scenes together. They are both terrific actors. It's the basis for the relationship that made what I'd call just about 0 sense. I know, I know, it's a comic book film and things don't exactly have to make sense, but there was so little basis for her liking him so strongly. We get why he likes her - she's hot and he's a fairly typical if slightly nerdy kid. But why does she like him so much? That wasn't evident in the movie at all. I haven't read the comics where she's introduced, so maybe this is true to the comics, but I also believe in adaptation of material for movies and not straight lifting. Movies usually need a little more motivation than comics, says I. I have read the original Spidey comics, but I'm in no way a devotee of comics, so understand that bit of my perspective. This film strove too hard to not do whatever the first one did, and in doing so the setup with him testing out his powers and creating the costume and whatnot felt totally unmotivated. The original with him wanting money for a car, needing a costume for the fight that he later made better, etc. just worked really well and flowed together. This one was just kind of 'oh, people see my face, let me make a mask, actually let me make a whole costume, I see a thing about webbing on TV so I'll spend two seconds of film time in a montage making webshooters, and on.' He didn't even seem like such a nerd in the school scenes; a somewhat scrawny attractive kid with Edward Cullen hair who we are told is into science, more like. The whole setup was poorly done. One more point that made a big difference to me - I couldn't understand if the Lizard serum made Connors evil or if he was already like that and the serum just enhanced it. The way he acts before he injects the serum, and the way he acts while he's in human mode afterward makes it seem like he's still in control of himself. This made an impact on how I reacted to the ending (which I won't spoil), and it's just another thing that I thought was very poorly set up or explained. There are many littler plot holes and logical fallacies that bugged me (hehe) about this film. I understand my tastes well enough to know that when I dislike the bigger plot points, all the little details that are out of place bother me more. Sure, there were some little problems in Avengers, but since the overall plot was solid and it was a very fun film I can overlook those. In Amazing Spider-Man, where the overall plot points and structure aren't working for me, it's harder to overlook everything else. Hence, it all adds up and I use the word 'horrible,' with a healthy little dose of hyperbole employed. Inevitably, I might sound like I'm ranting, but I'm not. I may employ stronger words than I mean sometimes, but I strive to form clear opinions about films and articulate them.

As I wrote in your other topic about sets and instructions, you can also look on Peeron here for scans of the instructions if you don't care about having the physical booklet and want to save some precious money.