Legoist

There is no chance whatsoever that TLG would be so insane to discontinue normal tracks for flexitracks. The flexitrack is just an addition to give more freedom to layout designers, but alone it can't make a layout (no switching points, no crossroads) and it's more expensive than normal tracks.

That's a scary coincidence... I created a wiki one year ago with a comparison list of all current Lego sets prices in Tampere shops. After a couple of months I felt a bit stupid, thought no one else was ever going to use that wiki, and deleted the whole thing

100% human.

I have no clue... theoretically the shipping cost is added afterwards when you buy from S&H.

Pretty good But to be faithful to Japanese trains, you need more people cramped inside

This house screams FENG SHUI in stereo to me!! The general architecture and layout seems fine as is, so I'd just add the interiors and garden features. If I were you I'd consider the following: - a japanese-style garden - no garage, no cars, no tv or modern technology except for the kitchen and toilet - futon instead of beds - something that look like paperwalls in the interiors - minimalistic but stylish furniture - something resembling bonsai trees and oriental statues/icons

There should be some of those cleaning wipers inside! But otherwise I really like the style of this MOC, the architecture has a vague touch of 60s in it. And I absolutely love the chosen colour scheme!

I didn't notice you were! Well in that case, as lucky as we are, you (and me) should expect that to cost at least 300e, if it costs 250e in the rest of europe Have you noticed how nicely inflated are S&H prices for Finland alone? Emerald Night for 109e (it's 89e for almost everyone else), and the new big SW set (dropship + AT-whatever) for 320e instead of 250e. TLG either hates us, or think we're all rich

I wanted a new nickname, and I was looking for something very simple and generic related to Lego. Tried a few simple manipulations of the word "Lego" until I've found one that wasn't somebody else's nickname already. I then used Legoist on all Lego-related forums I joined so far: Eurobricks, Classic-Space, Classic-Castle and Tabletown. I think there are other Legoist in other forums online, but they're not me

Most of the titles look more like a punishment...

You shouldn't try to convert the cost from pounds to euros using the currency rates. It will indeed cost about 130-150 euros. I really really hope NOT, because a train set with track and full motorizing PF equipment will not cost less than 250euros. Those people who do NOT want to buy the PF equipment but still want the train will be SOL. I think it's best for everyone that from now on every train set comes without motors by default.

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Cutlass

I am starting to hate the concept of exclusives... remember that the word originally means that most of the people are "excluded" from having a chance to have them. It's not nice from me I know, but honestly I wish they get only bad ideas and that this exclusive will suck.

Thanks for the great review. Despite the fact that I do not like the original vehicles (too colourful for my own tastes), the LEGO versions are indeed a perfect rendition of them. And the minifigs are 10/10. I like these old-style SW minis (with yellow heads) way more than the current ones.

I really don't like this set... The tower seems a very rushed design to me, the ship is somewhat better but still quite ugly and the wings make no sense. I don't even find the parts interesting. The minifigs are ok. Not my favourite style but at least they are different, certainly uncommon. I envy those who manage to be happy even about this set!

My vote goes for the 7649 - Ultra Drill Walker. I would have actually voted for the Medieval Market Village / Castle Town Square, but officially it's 2009... Very difficult to nominate the worst sets... there are several themes which I absolutely hate, and everything in those theme could be the worst.

The Creator series is one of my favourite themes, but it's not the same since you do get instruction for each of the model. The different challenge of "stage 2" was coming from not having instruction. Nowadays we of course have infinite ideas of MOCs from the internet to copy... however there is a key difference: that with those alternative models you knew you could do them with the pieces contained in the box, so you were guaranteed you could do them if you wanted to. I see thousands of unbelievably nice MOCs on the web, but also I know that the better the MOC, the less likely I have the pieces to make it.

That's actually a very smart tactic! And if you get caught at the cash counter, you can always blame the granny...

PERFECT REVIEW!! I don't own this set, I've been going through different moods about it... one month I am sure I'll get it, next month I am sure I won't... Quite obviously your review has marked another change of mood, and I'm back in the "want it" mood now In my opinion, all the Creator sets suffer a bit from the fact they are indeed meant for building fun + display, and not playability. This is why Creator houses have no interior (the beach house is actually a huge improvement, at least it has some features inside) and the architecture has some illogical things, such as lack of stairs or doors which would be impeding the passage when open, or windows that cannot be opened and so forth. Because these sets are not designed for gameplay. This is something we have to live with, although as I said, the Beach House is an improvement already. What bothers me a little more, is that the sets come with just enough bricks for the main model. It would be better IMHO if it had more extra pieces, something like 10% more pieces, because a Creator series is supposed to be used for creating, and instead it's actually quite difficult to even just MODIFY the main model. We have the white Creator house, and it was really difficult to "fix" a couple of things we didn't like about the main model, because the pieces available were preventing it (it was the first set getting out the dark ages, so we had no other Lego bricks around to help). For example, I wanted to remove the back wall to reach inside (as in old-school Legoland buildings) and I couldn't properly "shape" the opening because there were too few small bricks. From what I see in this review, the Beach House is actually very close to be just fine for minifigs. I actually like the 2nd building as well. Yes it's very "thin", but I do not mind the minimalism too much (I do want "touches of realism", but I still think Lego is perfect as minimalistic), and I am actually in favor of "no 4th wall" buildings, if you can't afford to make a hinged opening such as the roof in the 1st model. What I actually would rather change of this set is: - The colour scheme. It's not terrible, but yellow is really one of the most uncommon colour for real houses. - The tree. For a Creator set, it makes perfect sense you have to build the tree. However, I will always prefer the classic 1-piece Lego trees. - The flowers. As per the tree... I will never have too many classic Lego flowers (especially if coming in uncommon colours), but I do already have too many 1x1 round plates. There are too many of this tiny pieces everywhere nowadays. - The stepping tiles colours. Why all the houses have the same checkers pattern in MdStone+DkStone? Make a little variation...

I miss having pictures of alternative build models on the back of the box or of the instructions. Once it was quite a standard of every Lego set to include a few pictures of alternative models. Usually they weren't particularly good, since they had to use only pieces from the same box. But still it was a great opportunity to challenge yourself trying to replicate those alternative models without having instructions. You knew you had all the pieces for them, but you had to figure out how to build. I liked the idea very much because it was a good exercise in building techniques. I also liked to think of building Lego as a three-stage challenge: 1. Easy - Build the main model. You've got the instructions and the final picture: you know WHAT to build and HOW to build it. 2. Intermediate - Build the alternative models. You've got the final picture but not the instructions: you know WHAT to build, you need to find out HOW. 3. Hard - Build something original. You have no clue, you're on your own: you have to find out WHAT and HOW. I also really miss Idea Books!! They were basically a huge collection of alternative models (plus a large stickers page), only a few of which came with instructions, the rest only had pictures. Using Idea Books was more difficult because you also had to find all the pieces from your collection, and at least in my case I was typically always missing a bunch of part to complete anything. Alternate models and Idea Books were the basis of stage 2. building. Why was this de-emphasized so much? I wish they would bring them back!

That would however cease to be a problem if you could just open a website, browse the database, download any sticker ever made in Lego sets, and print it on a sticker paper with your home printer. It would be fan-base website where everyone with a scanner and the original sticker sheet would upload its image, so it would certainly be free. There shouldn't be problems with copyrights since Lego makes a profit for selling bricks and not stickers, but this could be sorted out by communicating with TLG. It's not nice at all that I am just hoping someone else will do it... I should do it myself, but unfortunately I barely have the spare time to build something nowadays, much less to open up a website+database. ----------------------------------------- Two more personal notes from me: 1) I absolutely prefer stickers printed on a transparent sheet, so that you could use them on bricks of different colours for a different effect. 2) I dislike stickers on minifigs (but would use them to create my own custom torsos). BTW, there is a video documentary on YouTube about Lego factories and producing bricks, in which it is said that brick decoration is a definitely more expensive process compared to brick molding. I don't know how much a decorated brick costs compared to a plain-coloured brick, but the difference much be significative enough if TLG prefers stickers. And at this point, I am glad they do...

This is really ingenious. Been looking at all your incredible MOCs for a while, but still don't know if I love you or hate you...

It looks more tan than flesh to me...