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Big Cam

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  1. [pid][/pid]217D Our News Scout Horry found a MOC that completely reminds me lof the jungle in the TV series LOST. I love the amount of foliage. It really looks natural, be sure to add your comments! Gallery: [bloggedcp][/bloggedcp]
  2. Your welcome. Merged
  3. If you are using internet explorer, look for the compatibility button somewhere near the address bar and click that. It fixes a lot of the IE compatibility issues. Or you could do yourself a favor and download Google chrome.
  4. What is your price? Also do you have a picture? Is the bag numbered?
  5. Happy Birthday Taz! Yet another former pirate.
  6. Happy Birthday Phred you'll always be a pirate pickle. There he kind of looks like a pirate pickle.
  7. Haha, I forgot all about this and it's funny all over again. It's so funny because of the video but also because it was true.
  8. Being that this was your very first post and you haven't really come back since, I'm going to close this. Your story simply doesn't make sense.
  9. Since there is some good conversation and advise going back and forth I'll leave this open. I'd like to remind you and our community that we cannot help you with seller/buyer disputes on eBay since we are not eBay. I've also updated your title so it is more clear that this is an eBay issue and not a Eurobricks issue.
  10. To ensure we don't have 2 discussions going on, I'll close this one.
  11. Please do not bump a 3 year old topic to only say good review. Bumping is fine if you bring new conversation to the thread, but in this case you did not. Thanks
  12. Absolutely, sorry about that. Thanks for understanding.
  13. deathtakeslast, I have merged your 11 new threads into your existing thread. You do not need a new thread for each new figure, especially if you had them all ready to post at the same time. It clutters the forum when you create that many new threads.
  14. Is this your way of telling us to lock this thread? If you are going to remove the prime discussion point Inna topic, please tell us why.
  15. Sorting 65,000 LEGO pieces over 3 days.
  16. I was actually just going to suggest the RA to you after seeing your review. You're in.
  17. Happy Birthday!
  18. To be honest, if the AFOL who really wants to stop reads this book, probably not. There are many references to the book being a joke and whem you read the book in it's entirety it would probably cause you to go buy LEGO. If you take the ideas from the book and present them to an AFOL in need, I think it actually could help someone get out.
  19. "You know the scene. You walk into any toy-store, “for the kids” (*wink-wink*) to purchase just ONE toy. You come out with just about every LEGO set the store has – for yourself. Next, you’re wondering how you’re going to pay the bills, and whether you’ll be able to give your kids Christmas presents this year." Title: BRICKDICTION (A Seven Step Recovery Guide for People Addicted to LEGO) Author: Bill Deen Pages: 58 Price: $0.99 digital download, $4.89 paperback Hello Eurobricks, Big Cam here with a review that is out of my normal reviewing area. Today I am giving a short review of a book by an AFOL for AFOL's. It's called Brickdiction. Now before anyone gets the wrong idea by the title, this is not a serious book. It is meant to be a joke, although in the right context I think it actually could help someone. The book starts out with some common AFOL terminology, AFOL, MOC, swooshable, etc. Although completely unnecessary, I really like that this is here, and you'll understand why later. The book then goes into a short intro about the author and why he wrote this book, in short, he did it for fun. Now we get into the steps, now I won't cover them all since obviously the author would like you to buy the book yourself. I will however give you a preview of what you can expect. Step One: Admit you are powerless over the bricks. Step Four: Make a searching and fearless plastic inventory of yourself. Those are a few of the steps to recovery. One thing I like about this book is once you've read through and hopefully completed all the steps, there is still more to this book. Once done with the steps the author offers advice on how to control your thoughts and actions towards bricks with what could be argued as REAL advice. Even though the book was written as a joke, the advice is good. There is actual advice on how to get away from and avoid our beloved bricks. A lot of this book is what I call inspiration, the author reassuring you that you can break the habit, and explaining how. The book then goes on to what is my favorite part, the confession. The Confession This is actually my favorite part of the book and ties into the reason I like the AFOL terms at the beginning of the book. Besides being a fun read for any AFOL, I think the perfect place for this book is any AFOL's coffee table. In the confession section the author explains his reasoning for writing the book and explains why LEGO is so awesome. Teaching creativity, problem solving, improving self confidence, all things that some of us probably don't even think about. The reason I think this is the perfect coffee table book is because of the actual useful information in it, and the way it presents it. Although it's hard for me to look at it this way, if I imagine myself not being an AFOL, and reading this book, I'd definitely think it's a joke, BUT I'd learn something and take some info about LEGO away with me. Also this book is short. There are 58 numbered pages but there is a lot of blank space and a few pictures. Without rushing you could easily read this book in 15 minutes, again making it a great book to have lying around for your not Brick addicted friends to notice and read. So what did I think overall? It's fun. I think it would make a great gift for anyone who likes LEGO, and if you are an AFOL yourself I'd buy one and leave it lying around your house. It's a great conversation starter. I know this wasn't a very comprehensive review, but that's because I didn't want to give out the entire book for free, I recommend you pick up a copy and read it through for yourself. It's available on Amazon right now, and it's not expensive.
  20. That won't stop you from re-sizing a picture.
  21. I edited the topic title since "Hey all" wasn't really descriptive enough.
  22. Now your talking coding which lies within the hands of our trusty admin team. Well have to wait for one of them to chime in.
  23. It would require A LOT of moderating work. We would be changing every single thread title that was added without it. Also do we punish those who start a thread without it? I think not. That'd be way too harsh and unnecessary. I'm not saying the answer is no, but it would be a significant change and the only group that would know the rule right off the bat is the staff. We still get complaints that people can't start topics in that forum and they wonder why. Even though the answer is in the pinned topic of that forum.
  24. That's kind of what I thought. I'm not entirely sure why I saved the packets. I usually opened them all at work and before I bought seald boxes I'd have them all in a grocery bag, so when I'd open one on my desk, I moved the empty packet to the bag they were in. I actually have all packets from all series in one grocery bag.
  25. Just like the title says I've got around 60 empty packets from each serires up to 7 that are cut open at the top. I also have a box from series 4-7. Now I'm not trying to sell them here, but I'm wondering does anyone else save these? Has anyone ever sold them, does anyone even care about them? They are starting to take up space and I was thinking of tossing them, then I thought to myself, maybe I could sell them.
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