captaintau

>:-( >:-( >:-( :-X Everybody knows Belgium has the best chocolate in the world! >:-( >:-( >:-( :-P I'm not so sure, Sne. Tell you what, send me some and I'll tell you what I think. BTW It often takes several samples for me to make up my mind about something X-D

None of my junk e-mail titles are repeatable on a family thread. All I'll say is "enlargement"!

I'm just talking about it for a bit of fun. Nothing serious and I take your point that if it became serious it could very negatively affect EB. This said if a new member came on board wanting to know about certain themes or sets he might see [captain tau is highly ranked in theatre - useful to ask about SW (for example), but he's low ranked in castle, which is my favourite so I'll ask someone else about that]. You see?

Not intended to be childish, just another bit of fun. Another element to the EB experience. I like the pirate system and assuming it proves effective, don't see wh it couldn't be incorporated into other themes.

Well he'd probably have a newly printed helmet, like this: http://swg.stratics.com/content/lore/perso...ges/wedge_1.jpg Aha. I like your plan. I would add to this plan with the suggestion of a printed orange visor, like the Scout Trooper MFs: Scout Trooper Head Only orange instead of black.

I've just joined the Pirate ranking system. Kudos to Mister Phes for setting that up. I think its a great idea. I was thinking that other themes could follow that example. Personally, I'd love a "theatre" ranking system. It could work something like: - Sidekick - Apprentice - Superhero - Jedi Space has obvious potential. What do we all think. Our respective ranks would then show to which specific theme's we're inclined personally. For example, I post mostly in "theatre" because I love SW. But I also have small collections of pirates and castle. And I really like my Space LEGO. So in theory, I'd have a (relatively) really high rank for theatre and mediocre rank for space and a low rank for pirates / castle.

Can anyone suggest exactly HOW the X-Wing could be improved in a redesign? I personally think the Dagobah set is one of the best sets. The ONLY improvement I can think of is Luke in orange pilot's suit. But yes, other aspects such as scenery (e.g. Echo Base) would be cool. And yes, most definately a Wedge. But how would you make him look like Wedge as opposed to any other smiley-faced MF?

Actually I really like the wing-opening of the 2nd X-Wing and on the ARC. Adds a quality dimension the set. I wish they'd manged it on the B-Wing

Can I just ask about the source of this news? Yeah, I agree. New sets needed by the last X-Wing was excellent - plenty of others need rehashing. Or better yet proper new ones. UCS TIE Advanced would be good, but pointless given that we have a UCS TIE Interceptor. Now a UCS B-Wing would be well impressive.

Isn't EB memebership already free :-P ? I know that and you know that, but the new member could be well chuffed at their "luck" and our "generosity"! X-D

It would be for a house. Several houses, in fact. Just not a normal "human can live in" house. I was going to type "not a house made of bricks" then realised! Maybe not a house made using cement?

Oh dear. The whole process. Phes, this question was directed at you. Good luck!

This is captaintau, bowing out of the translation business. Sayonara!

Welcome to EB, adsljnll. To translate text, I use Babel: http://babelfish.altavista.com/ Your German text translates to "Large Ninja temple, hardly tapes Komplett in the original cardboard with building guidance! How again!" Which I reckon can probably be approximated to "Large Ninja temple, comes complete in the original box with instructions!" Whether its MISB, I wouldn't like to say, but you can ask the seller.

Woohooo! So I was right then. Funny how little memories creep in. Looks like a pretty good set too. Actually, in my youth, I had some pirate LEGO (still do, technically, in a bog bucket, broken up, with the rest of my childhood LEGO in the attick. I had the desert island one, which was well cool. Small bastille thing and the Governor's Broadside boat. What I used to do was use the spare plumes from my knights LEGO for the pirate MFs hats (as each knight got like 3 plumes, but could only use one at a time.

Well, none that I recall. But its does sound very SWish. Imperial and all. Which I know refers to any geographical area governed by an Emperor. All, in SW, there are "outposts" including outposts of the Imperial Remnant. You need to look into the EU though.

I may be typing rubbish here, but isn't there a Pirate set called "Imperial Trading Post"? Though yeah, I originally thought he was referring to SW and seeing as how that's what I was looking for, it seemed to fit. This is also what I wondered if they might be you, Phes - Imperial Trading Post selling LEGO on eBay and also you've started an ITP on here. There was logic behind my mental meanderings.

ITP arn't registered on eBay anymore. I think they reregistered a few weeks ago but have let registration lapse again. I bought lots of SW LEGO from them when I got back into LEGO. They had a good shop. Feel free to look at my eBay feedback (my eBay ID's "captaintau" (!)) I don't think they were overpriced, but I think they were fair priced. That is, little in the way of bargains, but nothing costing more than it should. Excellent service

No particular reason. Just putting 2 and 2 together and obviously making 5! I've bought quite a bit of stuff from them.

Phes, are you (or were you) "Imperial Trading Post" on eBay?

I always thought the terms "great" and "football" were oxymoronic. But then I suppose its all relative. So, a month of "great" football, eh? What's on? I thought all football stopped for the world cup.

That was fun, though yeah, cheesey. Explosion was good.

As I look at it, there's only 1 hour 9 mins left of the auction. NO BIDS!!! I suspect this is because a)

All very good and very valid suggestions / points. Cinema - good plan. Will work on that. Not seen X3 yet. Non-football party (to run concurrent to football party) - very good plan.

The General Grievous Technic set idea has been brought up many times before, and I think most if not all SW LEGO fans reckons its a brilliant idea.