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Is this made only from battle packs? If so, then the limited parts and mixed color scheme is understandable. It doesn't look too stealthy with those two towers, but making it only out of battle packs is a nice idea. The different signs (rebels/republic) also make it seem a little jumbled. Also, what does AT-SF stand for?

"West - the final frontier!" Set Title: Sheriff's Lock-Up Set #: 6755 Theme: Wild West Pieces: 170 Minifigures: 4 Year of Release: 1996 Price at Release: USD $25 Buy it? Inventory? Peeron Bricklink BOX The first part of any set is, of course, the box. This picture is courtesy of Bricklink; my box is long gone. The box has a nice Wild West art design, with the cactuses and the sand and the mountains and sky. It also has a few... problems, if you think about it. First, why was the deputy on the roof and why is he now running off it? Second, how did the bandit in the brown cowboy hat get up on the jail roof and why is he running off it? Third, why is the dynamite flying through the air along with a gold coin if it had been used to blow the jail apart. Fourth, and finally, why does the bandit in the jail have a gun and why isn't he trying to escape from the jail that's just been blown up? I have no answers, except that the box is just designed to show maximum playability and fun. INSTRUCTIONS The front of the instructions shares the same head-scratchers with the box front, so I won't go into detail about that again. The first two pages show that the instructions are printed in portrait mode, have a nice "out west" fealing background color, and a nice old west font for the numbers. Also note that the horse comes with two option, saddle or no saddle. The back shows the 22nd, and final, step of the instructions, which is to add the minifigures and guns. It also shows how to blow off the jail side, which will be covered in depth later. MINIFIGURES and HORSE Let's get the animal out of the way first. It is a nice white LEGO horse with a brown saddle, not anything special going on. As always, the horse is a nice and necessary detail in a western set. Now onto the characters. This set comes with a perfect mix of two bandits and two law-enforcers so that you can make fair battles. Each of them has a nice, old west torso, with lovely shirt and jacket detailing. The card-game themed green vest of the bandit in the stovepipe hat is a bit odd, but still cool looking. I especially love the hairy chest of the red-shirted bandit. One more excellent thing about these minifigures is the variety among them: four different leg colors, all with different hats and torsos, and even a different style fo hat wearing (as per the instructions) for the red bandit! The minifigures' backs have no printing, which is a shame, but back printing was ultra-rare if not never seen back in 1996, so I can't complain. If these sets were redone (like the new Pirates), I'm sure everyone would have an awesome back printing too, but really, it's not a problem not to have it. And now, the guns! Yes, this set comes with a total of four pistols and three rifles. That's seven guns for four minifigures! This is one of the greatest parts of the western sets, LEGO wasn't stingy on the old west violence! I think the whole western line was the first to have real LEGO guns, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Our friends, packin' all the heat! PIECES After you've had enough fun playing with the beautiful minifigures and their seven guns (!), it's time to get ready to build. First, pour all the pieces into a pile. As you may be able to see, some pieces already have stickers applied to them. That is because I had this set built for many years, and just took it apart to clean it for this review. Special pieces. Apart from the spring, which you will see later, the other special/stickered/printed pieces are the safe, the windows, the tiles of dynamite, wanted sign, and cards, and the jail, which I just find special, although it came in several sets. So that you can see it up close, here again is the cool wanted sign, a printed piece. What I believe it says (with thanks to The Cobra) is "WANTED. Flatfoot Thomsen, for bank robbery, dead or alive, Reward $500." I can't make out those other lines. It is also nice that the picture looks like the red bandit that comes with the set. BUILD Now that the pieces have been dumped out, it is time to start building. Around step 4, the floor of the office and a little bit of the jail are apparent. Four steps more, and a table and some hinges are added in the office and some more is added to the jail. Looking good so far. Around step 12 some walls have been added to the office and the back of the jail. In four more steps the office gets a door and windows, as does the jail. It already looks great, but it'll get better! A break is taken from the main model between steps 17 and 18 to build the explode-able jail door. It starts with this base... ...and ends up looking like this. Very sleek! (It looks like I missed that black brick on top when I dusted.) At step 19 the sheriff and his deputy add their lovely wanted sign. At step 20 they add the roof. It is nice to get so many black hinge plates (four), and it allows for two separate sections of the roof to be lifted up alone from the other. Step 21 adds the "sheriff" sign, and we're done! It looks great, such a quaint little office and jail. The barrel and shrub also add nice detail. I imagine this being off in the desert by itself, moderately far from any town, with just two officers passing the time between catching bandits. SET The set's been built, so it's time to show it off! We start with the front. The deput is chasing the red bandit on horseback, while the sheriff is coming out of his office and the green bandit is locked up. It looks very much like our images of the wild west, which make it such a great set! I just love all the details, as I will get to, especially how the office is raised off the ground just like it would be! From the left side of the scene, we see the wall and porch of the office, which look nice and old style from this angle. Another angled view of the porch, I just couldn't resist! The windows are especially nice, and the placement of the railings one stud from the edge instead of right at the edge is also perfect. A view of just the office. My it is purty! From the right side of the scene, we see the jail wall and the office in the distance. The whole thing from the back. Some more of the great details, like the cup outside the jail window, and the sheriff's specially planted safe are evident here. The inside of the office is bare, but there isn't much space anyway so it is nice. A bird's eye view doesn't show much, apart from the nice size of the buildings. There isn't anything atop the office, but what would go up there? DETAIL In this section I will point out all the great detail in close ups. Let's start with the fire and cup outside the jail window. This is so great because LEGO actually designed a way for the officers to realistically feed the cellmate without opening the door. Kudos! The jail inside is bare, but good and hard for a mean bandit! The barrel is also a nice addition, allowing the bandit to hide (if not completely). You could also store some of those many guns in here. The wooden railing of sorts provides a lookout for the officers. (Where is that red bandit, I wonder?) Then there are the special parts of the sheriff's office. Here's a picture of it again to start me off. First, we see the chair is on hinges, which makes it quite high up compared to the table. There is no apparent reason for the hinges, so I made up a little story. This story will demonstrate a reason for the hinges and the sheriff's super-smart money-protecting idea. "The green guy unexpectedly pops out of the desert plain and walks up to the office. He goes right for the safe, but it is empty. 'The sheriff must be up to something,' he thinks. This isn't a guy to fool around, so he points his gun right at the sheriff and asks where the money is. The sheriff isn't talking, so the guy shoots the sheriff, and the chair is blown back to show the strength of the shot. After snooping around, the bandit finds that the sheriff planted the empty safe because he was stashing the money in his table! The green guy runs away, and retires with the cash." PLAY ACTION This review wouldn't be complete without showcasing the special exploding door. There is a hole in the back of the jail to insert the dynamite brick into. From the top (with the roof off), you can make out that there is a spring in there, and that the dynamite is going in under it. When the dynamite is pushed in far enough, it causes the spring to pop up and blow off the door. (No, that badge piece isn't supposed to be there, but I couldn't find the right blank tile.) And now, a video of it in action to get a real sense of how it works. The mechanism isn't great, and sometimes the door is just pushed forward a little instead of blown off. In this trial it works as well as it can, though. Still, this feature is a great addition to the set, and it certainly boosts the playability. CONCLUSION Usually I take even the littlest oddity to be a problem with a set, but there is only one oddity in this set and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. That one oddity, as mentioned above, is the sheriff's hinged chair that can hardly be tipped back with him in it, rendering it useless. But who doesn't love the old style of hinges (I really love 'em), so why wouldn't I want two of them? The build is brilliant: the combination of black and gray on the jail makes it really look like it's made out of stone or mud, and everything about the office looks perfect for the time period and feel being portrayed. The minifig selection is also beautiful, and the number of guns gets a big A+ from me! Without the exploding jail, I'd still completely love this set, so I think of that as just a bonus! CONCLUSION by NUMBERS Minifigures: 10/10 - An unequivocal yes! to them all. Build: 10/10 - Plenty of different parts to build which make it never repetitive. Just about nothing comes up twice, and since you're building to buildings at once it's quite varied. Pieces: 10/10 - A great selection, wonderful printed parts, nicely designed and easy-to-get-right stickers (I don't mind stickers), and lots of guns! Playability: 10/10 - So many guns already make for great playability, but the additions of the mystery table and the exploding jail boost it higher. Price: 9.5/10 - This was a hard descision because really, for 170 pieces the price should not have been above $20. However, I understand that LEGO can't just charge $20 if they give you two nicely-sized buildings, four beautiful minifigs, and seven guns! Let this go as a reminder to those complainers in the SW forum that LEGO has always over-priced things a little, and it isn't a new development. Overall: 9.9/10 - If you can find it for under USD $35 nowadays, don't hesitate!

Note, KimT did say "with the introduction of midi-scale sets," which means no minifigures. While I'm not a big fan of sets without minifigures, I agree with KimT (if this is what he meant) that this ship would make a nice display/swoosh model only, and it would be near impossible to make this ship in the right proportions to not be $400 and nicely fit minifgures. What I think would be nice to see is the control room where Nute and the others are with the hallway and table area where Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon fight the droids. Similar to the upcoming Home One set, this set could just feature the cool scenes within the droid command ship.

I decided to just stick to the three main models for the review (and I like the lion too much right now to take it apart). Perhaps if I build the gator or some other models in the future I will add pics of them.

I agree that Rock Band could be a nice addition to City. If LEGO does make Rock Band sets, there probably won't be more than one wave, just my thought.

No, it's a 3 in who knows-how-many? chance at winning a Falcon. It says all orders place May 3 or 4 will be automatically entered into the drawing, and there are also 15000 copies of the poster, which I guess are first-come first-serve. I bet LEGO will sell out of something cheap pretty quick, from all those people wanting to enter to win the Falcon.

The Disney you forget is Toy Story, which I am eagerly awaiting. Harry Potter, however, does not have a new movie in 2010. The new movie is this summer, and if there were going to be any new set(s) tied into it there is no way that we wouldn't have heard about it by now. The first part of movie 7 is in 2011, but if there are no new sets for movie 6 this year than Harry Potter can just about 99% be crossed off any list. I doubt there will be any Rock Band sets either. I mean, does anyone really want a set with some minifigs, a stage, and some newly molded instruments? I guess it could be kind of cool, but I think this will be a game only. Finally, the idea of Hobbit sets (which also would be 2011, not 2010) is highly implausible. Lord of the Rings is too dark for LEGO's target audience, and the last time they had the option to make LotR sets they didn't, and some other LEGO-like brand did instead. Where exactly did we hear confirmed that there would be two new themes? If this rumor is true, I think they will most likely be non-licensed, as LEGO already has new licenses coming up next year.

They look ok. Do the cards have backs, with a description or something like that?

My LEGO is my unintentional pain-inducer. They sure do hurt when you step on them without anything on your feet! That's the only thing I could think of, except I did use a few bricks in a molecular demonstration once.

I have a Mac, and to make my pictures lovely I use a program that comes with all Macs nowadays called Preview. For those of you who work on Macs, this may comes as a surprise because Preview can't do barely anything. But what it can do is a nice Auto Levels, which corrects the pictures colors, and pictures can be easily and quickly resized. You can also tamper with the colors yourself if you don't like what the Auto Levels does for you. What kind of program you need really depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If all you need to do is a little fixing (say, for a review like me), Preview really covers everything you need to do. But if you also want to get rid of things, I've found that Keynote, Mac's PowerPoint equivalent, has a superb Instant Alpha that works really well. I've used it to cut out a scene (if you want to see the result, head over to the Train and Towns Forum and take a look at the first picture of my EBCTC entry). Keynote comes in the Mac iWork packages, which aren't that expensive, and you get a word processor and a spreadsheet program as well. I hope my advice was helpful.

I went out shopping the other day just because I had the urge to shop. I went to a relatively new store somewhat near to my house. At the store I saw LEGO. What I saw was a $30.00 set, from 2005! So I bought it! It was $3.00. I got it at a thrift store. Title: Wild Hunters Number: 4884 Theme: Creator/Designer Pieces: 630 Minifigures: 0 Year: 2005 Price at Release: USD $30.00 Buy it? Inventory? Never got the instructions? Bricklink Peeron PACKAGING Normally, LEGO sets come in boxes. They also come with intructions. I got this one in a taped ziplock bag. Instead of some ad leaflets or instructions or any of those normal things, it came with a special rubber bonus! I don't know what it is or why it fell in, but that's ok. However, here is the box image, courtesy of Peeron. It is nice and plain, and does not need anything extra or any "zazz." INSTRUCTIONS It's hard, for me anyway, to build a set without instructions. Luckily, Peeron had what I needed for free. Within the instructions booklet, there are many different sections for the different animals you can build. These are the models that you can build at the same time, if you wish to build the main model of the set, as I did. BUILD In my past reviews, I never went through the build in a detailed manner showing steps like Starstreak does so nicely in his reviews. But this is a Designer set, and since the only thing in the set is detailed models, I thought I might as well have a detailed review of building at least the main model, the lion. All that being said, now let me start off. The first thing to build is the back half of the lion. After 8 steps, we can already see that, unlike real-life lions, this one has green blood. All this green is included in the set so that you can build an alligator and other green things when you're done playing with the lion. After 15 steps, we have a completed tan section of the lion with no green showing except in the middle. This thing is already heavy, but looking good so far. The 16th step of the back half of the lion includes several sub-sets to build the tail. When the tail is done, we get this: Now we start building the front half of the lion. After 8 steps, we see this part has green blood too. Building up to step 14 of the second half, we find out that this portion of the lion if partly hollow. There looks to be enough room that you could moc in a control center for a minifig if you took out a few plates. The hollowness keeps the overall weight of the model down a little. At step 20 of the front section, part of the mane has now grown out and we behold those lovely burnt orange bricks. It's really a very nice color, and the blending in with the brown slopes is also well done. Step 21 of the front half has us attaching the other sections. And now we're done with the bulk of the body, so it's on to the head! After 7 steps, we see more green blood. At the 21st step of the head, we have created a nice little shrine. There I am investigating the shrine, but I forgot to perm my hair so it looks a little frazzled instead of its usual neat bowl cut. Oh, silly! That's not a shrine, it's half of a lion's head! Now that we've overcome that "shrine" problem, we move on to the lower jaw. Nine steps into it: The tenth step is created the part that the jaw attaches to. You will note that there is a lime green hinge piece. This is supposed to be a tan hinge piece like the other, but since I got this set at a thrift store the piece was missing. I substituted such a brightly colored piece to better illustrate what was missing. Once the bottom jaw is attached, we get the completed head. Sadly, the jaw does not close. Then the head is attached... ...and we get the lion snake! Now we build some legs, one of which looks like this. There should be another large slope, but this was also missing. The lion with all four legs looks like this. Still no feet yet. Finally, we build four of these cuties! Boy! That's already way more pictures than one of my previous reviews, I guess I'm done, right? What? You want to see the rest of the set? Oh, alright... HYENA It would make logical sense to put the lion here, as I've just walked you through building it. But since the lion is really the main thing, I'm leaving the best for last! The hyena is not as detailed as the lion. If it was, this set would be even more massive! But at this angle, the hyena does look quite good for a mostly two-wide beast. You may note an old dark grey piece, that should be dark bley, but it was missing. The hyena looks better with its mouth open, as it has here. From the side, it still looks ok, but with the closed mouth there is just this odd red line. The hunched stature of the hyena is nice, but of course it is stuck like that forever, which must hurt! The incline of the tail is also well done. From above, the hyena still looks good. I can imagine a whole pack of these things running across an African plain. The hyena is a little weird looking from the front. The easiest way to avoid this problem: don't look at it from the front! That concludes the hyena. Overall, a nice little model, still partially posable because of hinged legs, and the tail and mouth can move a little. The mouth is the only real problem because it looks so odd when it's closed. Good color scheme too, I might add. VULTURE I don't know my birds too well, so if this isn't actually a vulture, please somebody let me know. For now, I shall call it a vulture. Mr. Vulture has quite an impressive wingspan. The white ring around his neck is also a nice touch, and his head's color scheme is good. You will note that there is a missing grey 1X3 piece from one of his feet. Here is Mr. Vulture's tail plumage. Simple, but acceptable. From the side. Now you can get a good look at his nice head. A great thing about Mr. Vulture is that his wings can fold up and be repositioned. Since he can't really stand up straight, his wings help support him. Here he is looking straight at you. That concludes the vulture. As I said before, it's a nice, simple model. Of course, it isn't that great really, and when you try to fly it around the wings flop a bit. It also can't stand up. But it's very nice that there is this third model in the set, and it enhances playability when you can build all three. LION And now, what we've all been waiting for... the lion! Yes, I had time to perm my hair and get it to sit in that nice bowl cut between the build section and the lion section. In the picture above, it looks like the lion is about to eat me. But actually, he is my friend. Look at us together. Quite a stunning shot. From this angle, the lion looks excellent. And from the back. The wholes in the lion's legs are a bit strange, but there's no real way to work around that if LEGO wants to use those hinge pieces, which otherwise work very well. An overhead view. The general shape of the lion is great, as is the way the body transitions into the mane. The only weird thing is the huge gap between the head and the body. On one hand, if this gap was not there, the head could not move at all. But on the other hand, it looks very odd, and probably even odder in person. From the side. This picture better illustrates the oddness of the gap. Again, the head looks great, and the body looks great, but the gap is so weird! The other side. You may note that one slope is missing from each leg, but this may be hard to tell. That concludes the general overview of the lion. As I stated several times above, the lion is very well build and pretty solid, and the transition from a smaller body in the back to the larger body and mane in the front is excellent. But that gap... LEFTOVERS I decided to put this here because I wanted to save the most fun stuff for last, and not end with a picture of some green pieces. These most likely go towards the alligator that you can build with the lion's green blood. PLAYABILITY Usually, playability is part of the final ratings. But not with this set! Practically half the fun of the lion is all the poses you can put it in, as I will demonstrate below. Please note that I have only picked a couple poses, but many, many more are possible. Playful. The lion and I are having a good time. The lion looks like it is in a dog-ish pose to me. Hide n' seek. I suggest we play hide n' seek, and then I call over some of my buddies. Can you find me? Lunch time. The lion wasn't too happy about my little hide n' seek gag, so he went off by himself and caught some lunch. Really tired! Eating that whole bird sure tired the lion out, so he lay down all spread eagle. More play. After the lion woke up, he called his buddies (one of which might be related to his lunch). Then they asked me to join in. That wasn't such a great idea. CONCLUSIONS This set, as a whole, is great! The lion has super playability, and it looks good, apart from that gap. It is a bummer that the lion's mouth can't close all the way, but there is still tons to do with it regardless of that. The hyena is also quite nice, and the vulture is acceptable. All three together make for a nice looking set, and a great play experience! RATINGS Minifigures: N/A - I had to include minifigs because it is part of usual ratings, but I can't downgrade the set for having none. It's a designer set, after all! Pieces: 10/10 - Excellent selection, and so many different colors! Tan, green, brown, bley, black, dark red, burnt orange, and plenty of different sizes and kinds! Design: 9/10 - This is a designer set, after all, so I had to include this. The lion is really good, but it would be better if the mouth could close. And did I mention a weird looking gap between the head and the body? The hyena is ok, but its mouth also looks weird. The vulture flops a bit when swooshed. Build: 10/10 - Although it does have you build a bunch of the same thing (like the feet on the lion), it's still nicely varied. Of course having three separate animals helps with the variety of the build, as well as the green in the lion just to keep you interested! Playability: 10/10 - At this point I don't think I need to put more emphasis on all the different things you can do with the lion and the others. Price: 10/10 - Well, of course paying $3 for a $30 set is an awesome price, but I am using my judgement to say that even $30 for this set is a great price. Overall: 9.8/10 If we were back in 2005, I'd immediately say get it! That concludes my seventh academy review. I hope you enjoyed it, and I encourage everyone to shop at thrift stores if you can, you never know what will turn up!

No, I believe you've got it backwards. Read carefully, and it says they will announce a new set in August that will then be released in September. This news certainly connects to a blurb on the LEGO page that you can get to off of the Chrome DVs that says they have a few more things they can't tell us about too. Personally, I have no guesses as to what it might be. In my best dreams, I wish it would be a detailed set in the $50 range (which means $60 these days), with some nice exclusive figs. While another set on Death Star levels would be nice, it is really out of the price range of a whole lot of people (like me), and so a detailed but much smaller set would be really great to commemorate something because then everyone could get it (or many ore people anyway). Just the thoughts of someone with a very limited budget. For now, I'm really hoping it's not a star destroyer, it would be better if it was a playset, for me anyway.

I have around 400. It is hard to keep track of them all though, a few strays always end up somewhere weird that is not a display or minifig bin.

I have to go with Indiana Jones. Even in a discussion about only the minifigures, I felt that the Batman minifigs, while cool, were kind of limited to Batman. On the other hand, all of the figures with Indiana Jones are normal looking people with great outfits, that can easily be fit into other MOCs of just normal people. The same thing goes for the vehicles too: Batman only provided odd looking Batman-y vehicles, while the Indy stuff are all just awesome normal cars and planes. The bottom line: Indy rocks! (P.S. I wonder why no one has mentioned Galidor as their favorite licensed theme? Oh wait, I know why...)

You have good points to make, but have you heard of the Future Star Wars Sets thread? That is the place to discuss what new sets you would like. This is the place to discuss whether the line is going to end in 2011. Personally, I find it highly unlikely that LEGO or anyone one else would want to end such a successful toy line. LEGO of course brings in huge sums from Star Wars (at least in the U.S.), and Lucas has said that LEGO is his favorite tie in toy. To those people that say that the influx of great sets recently is a sign of the line ending soon, I say: why should we take LEGO's making great sets to be a bad thing? I think all it means is that LEGO has started making tons more awesome Star Wars sets.

What is so special about the scorpions? They were in countless Johnny Thunder sets in the past, and they look like this: To MaxGoof: In the past, some stores usually start stocking their shelves with the summer sets a bit before their prescribed "August." The August date means that all stores should have the sets in August, but some start offering them (perhaps accidentally) a bit before.

It is plans for the Death Star. On topic, the Star Wars article on the Pirate Tank mentions how there is an elevating gunner's seat. Looking at the pictures, I wonder how this will be incorporated. Will it perhaps be a similar design to the elevating seat on the Republic Fighter Tank? Since there is an elevating seat, that must mean that there is enough room inside to seat a minifig. I wonder how much of an interior there will be.

Is that little light that Indy is holding supposed to be a heart? If not, what is that, and why is it there? I just can't figure out what it is. If it is a torch, why is he just holding it?

Three words: That. Is. Awesome. However, I still have a few quibbles with this set. First, is the Death Star really a Tridax pod? It looks ok, but I feel like they could have afforded to make a special Death Star piece for this set. Second, I think the use of CW Anakin's hair for Mon Mothma is not so great. I mean, it works ok, but the very "plastic" style of the CW hair pieces does not fit in with the rest of the non-CW characters, if you know what I mean. I also noticed that Lando has a gun in the second picture. Why would he need a gun here? That doesn't actually bother me though, just a question. EDIT: Oh my gosh! I just saw again that it comes with a white cape! I have been waiting so long for that!

I actually like that LEGO has decided to give its female figs pants in situations that they need to sit down. I am very pleased with the design on the girl (can't remember the name) from the Shanghai Chase, where she has a skirt pattern printed on legs. I think it's brilliant! If they gave Elsa a LEGO skirt, it wouldn't make any sense at all because she would have to stand on the boat.

Do you mean in the movie? If so: She was wearing a gray suit, but that jacket came off while they were navigating the canals. Hope that helps!

I see the new picture - cool! It can only mean one thing: TLG is getting ready to release he new sets. However, I remember a few time in the past when LEGO put up a picture that hinted at upcoming sets that they still did not release for about two months. An example of this was a picture of a new Bionicle to represent the Matoran section of the Bionicle page. All it means is, we can expect to see the new agents in about two months time, at least I think so anyway.

I heartily agree with all three aspects, and I too get the warm fuzzy feeling that you describe when I look at Classic Town sets. Another part of the Class in Classic Town for me is that they are from before my time. As the saying goes, "the grass is always greener on the other side," or translated for this case "what I never had the opportunity to get seems much more desirable than that which I can easily get now."

When I was younger, I couldn't stand the city sets that were around (those being in the mid to late 90s). There were still a few sets of the more classic design around then, and I disliked them too. Even as I got a little older, and started seeing pictures of the Classic Town sets (which I never got any of because they were before my time), the only thing I really liked about them was how old they were, and that everybody was just a smiley. But recently, also in looking for inspiration for my contest entry, new thoughts struck me about Classic Town that made me start greatly loving it. Back then, the sets were all about imagination. They gave you these odd looking cars, that don't resemble cars in the real world, but all you really needed was something to represent the things you saw in everyday life, and then you were set for hours of fun. The same thing goes for buildings and boats and planes and helicopters, all of these things were not trying to build realistic models of everyday objects, rather they were just representing the real life things and invoking creative thought. In a nutshell, I really love Classic Town today because it comes from a time when LEGO was more about creativity then it was about building realistic models of things. All of the models were so cute, and they all transformed the objects we find in a real town into little images, more of which was in the mind than in the model. I hope my explanation is understandable, and not too "thoughty" for some people. Do any of you agree with me? P.S. I've been looking at some Classic Town sets on Bricklink, and hope to add some nice 80's sets to my collection soon.

I'm old and fun, and I only cost 1.60 pounds! What an... interesting set to be, especially considering I have never cared for LEGO Trains. This topic is awesome, by the way.