5150 Lego

Thanks simon williams! Your right about using the techinc pin to use with the hands of technic figures. Thats actully what they use in that techinc figure set you linked. That should work out well. Thanks! *sweet* Asfar as the row boat goes, your going to laugh, but i just realised that i attually have the bellvile cruise ship,and it came with that yellow row boat! Did some digging, andi found it! perfect! Now i just need to find a simular sized axe, make some aproriate storge bins for the tools and the expedtion can begin!

So i'm building an expedtion/off road truck. Its coming along preety nice, but there are a few tools i'd like to like to add to it before the team goes off for there first expedtion. I'm looking for any tools that work in scale with techinc figures. Spesificly, i'm looking for an axe and shovel. After some searching, i think i've a couple shovels that should work well. Fabuland has a shovel that looks like it would work and duplo also has one that by the looks of it, will fit the hands of the technic figures hands. But i'm still looking for a simular shovel. I could have sworn i've seen one before, but a peeron and brinklink search haven't shown any results. I know we have some fabuland fans that could possible shed some light. Also, i'm not sure if any other tools were made in techinc figure scale. I thought that they had some wrenches and stuff, but again can't seem to find any. And last, i'm also looking for row boat type hull big enough for at least one techinc firgure, or a canoe..Or both. I have no clue if lego ever produced these, as the only boat hulls i know of are the cargo ship hulls from city sets. If anyone can sugjest some that might work for my prodject that would be great!

Looks good! I love how your able to put 2 fire fighters in the cab.

...I have. Iv'e been to LMS races in the past, and have seen them operate the Jacks in person. Its an air operted system. When the driver pulls up for pit work, one of the crew sticks an air hose in a fitting thats on the car, and then the jacks automaticly lift the car off the ground. They use this cause its faster than running under the car with a floor jack, and some cars are to low for a floor jack to even fit under them.

Pm sent. :-)

I believe your right. I build emergency vehicles, and we have never came across motor bikes used by the fire department, nor do i see the purpose. Personally, other than being able to get around traffic easier, i don't see the purpose of a medic having a motor bike. If i'm hurt, i don't want to have one show up, then have to wait for him to dispatch an ambulance to come on the scene if he fells its nessasary or not. But either way, great moc! The trans bluelightsin theback are nice touches, and i lovethe brief case!

Thanks for the pics Lord of Pies! After seeing thoses pics, the FX Enzo is a must have, and the mini ferrari will also be making my xmass list!

I'll aagree that having Jazz say Bi$#h was over the top,and shouldn't have been done. And yes there were morethan a few sexual referance jokes. Again, my 11 year old nephew saw it,and beilve me, that was the last thing he remembers. As far as the swearing goes, sorry, i still don't feel there was as much as your making out. Having swearing and dirty jokes in no way "betrays" the "classic goodness" of the cartoon. If anything, the few comlaints that the G1 fans had was that they felt the movie was to soft for there liking. Also, the movie was never intended to play omange to the original series. The script writers did put a few scences and lines to make G1 fan happy "I live to serve you lord megatron!" and of course "You fail me yet again starscream!" are good examples, but the they made it clear in interviews that this was not G1. And not all of the TF series was full of goodness. The comic book to my understanding was quite dark, and was aimed at an older crowd. Well, bottom line is your going to have your opinion, and i'll have mine. I respect your opinion on the matter and apreciate the fact that you have respected mine. :-) I'm already looking forward to the debate when TF2 comes out! X-D

Ya, i know. I bit embarasing for a lego fan, but at least now i know. Are they numbered? Or are there just random packages? Are all advent calenders the same?

Ok,please forgive me if this has been answered before, but what exactly is the advent calender? Are you supposed to open only a pakage a day? Are the contents inside unknown when you buy it?

Sweet. Can't wait for Coast guard. All the sets sound preety promising. If there anything like the new helocopter, then then the'll be fantastic!

These two coments i beilve pretty much hit it on the nail. While AFOL may not care for larger pieces, kids do. Makes play time more fun cause the set can be built faster, and many times is much stronger. (a brick built passenger plane on the same scale as the last years passenger plane, probbly wouldn't stand the abuse as well that a 10 yr old would put it through). And then there's cost. Hate to say it, but the bigger peices are probbly saving the TLC some money as well. But thats not a bad thing. In the end, that savings can be passed down to us. I'd have to disagree with you on that one. One thing that i have noticed that with the sets getting larger, the detail has also gotten better. The set you gave as an example Klaus-Dieter is nice, but it doesn't compare in detail to the new cargo truck. Butin all hoestly, this is just personal opinion. The 4 wide trucks and planes of the yester years just don't do it for realisim. Yes, i understand that many beilve that lego's shouldn't be to scale, but there are a fair amount of use that do. I welcome the larger 8 wide trucks. I don't want a passenger car the same size as my big rigs.

I'm not sugjesting that kids be taught a certain way, not am i insisting that his way of upbringing is wrong. Re read my post. What i was suggjesting, is that it is ignorant to think that you can completly shelter a teenager till the age of 16 from hereing sexual coments, or swearwords. Now i'm not saying to just go and let your kids watch anything they want ant any age, but blaming the media becasue your 12 year old says a bad word rediculous. My parents for the most part, never really sheltered me from movies or TV. They would bring me to movies, even they knew would have swear words. They did this because i knew that at my age it was wrong to say those words at my age, so just cause i heard it in a movie doesn't make it ok for me to say. And yes, i am very opionated on this subject cause a good friend of mine was in the Columbine high school shooting many years ago. Those of you not familar the Comlumbine high school shooting was considered one of the worst high school shooting in history. My frined was very fortunute to survive, but many were not. After doing some investigating my the local police it was found that the kids who performed the shootings played games like "DOOM", and listened to heavy metal music. Instead of pursuing the parents, many tried to sue ID Software, (the creator of the game "DOOM") and various other game makers and record labels claiming they were the sole reason that these kids did the horrible things they did. The goverment dropped the law suit after research proved that the many other reasons contributed to the killers actions and not the fact that they played violent video games. Anyways, bottom line is if you don't want your 10 year old tohear swaering or perverted remarks in a movie/tv show, then don't take them to anything with higher than a PG rating. Thats why they have these movie rating in the first place. And if you still decide to take them, and they hear somthing that itsn't to your liking, don't female canine and complain about it, and blaim the media.

Your welcome....I suppose. :-/ Like i already stated, some of these have already been seen, but others may have not.

Well i did a quick search, and couldn't find this posted. I know some of these sets we've seen before. A few are already avaible, but i think there are some here that we haven't seen, and some we've seen with limited pics. We'll hopfully it isn't a repost. enjoy. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=280291

Great web site! Please keep up the good work! Very usefull!

Ya, what you want,and what really happens are to completly differnt things. It would be very ignorant to think that you couldshelteryour child till the ageof 16 from sexual coments, and swearing. Sorrry there bub. But at this day in age, it just isn't going to happen. This is where the parents need to get involved and explain to there kids thatit isn't right to repet everything they here on TV/movies. It is not mass media's fault for this. Again, this comes down to the parents/gardians of the child. It is THE PARENTS/GARDIANS responsibility to teach there children right from wrong. Just cause you took your kids to a PG-13 movie and heard a few swear words does not give you the right to blame the media. People are way to quick to blame the media when there child does somthing wrong, not wanting to take responsibility for themselfs. Ok, i'm done for now. Back to our regularly scheduled program. :-)

Looks great! I like how you mimiced the vector light bar that New York uses on there police fleet. Only problem is New York uses all blue lights!

Very nice! Only wish you had taken more pics of the inside. :-(

I think the main point that he was geting at was that though yes, every company has the right to advertise, but i think he feels that disney does it a bit more than dreamworks or any other company for that matter. But i do agree with you that there's nothing wrong with that. Even if they haven't realsed a movie of that character, thats how you keep them alive without having to spend millions on a movie. Disneys done that exact same thing many times before with there DVD realses as well. So i don't thik its fair oh you to knock shrek for it. I think this could be for any animated movie weather it be made by Disney, Dreamworks or whoever. Not just limited to Disney. Considering that ive seen the movie more than a few times, i fail to see where all this "tons"of swearing is in the movie. A couple times yes, but but clearly not as much as you sugjest. Dirty jokes? Yep. Can't deny that, but in all honesty, its nothing that my 9yr old nephew hasn't heard from his class mates. Other than that there really isn't anything eles other than violence (whitch you just can't make transformers with it) that would prevent me from taking my 8yr old (if i had one) to see. And lets say that i did agree with you, you don't need to see the movie to have intrest in the movie toys. A parent can buy the comic book, or video game for there kid and could get hooked on them from that.

Ha ha! Well at lest you gave it try. I still like him the best though. But i do fail to seehow the smaller one looks more realistic.

Your right, it is my opinion. I'm not saying that serious cartoons aren't good, just not what i'm looking for in a cartoon. But as faar as humor goes, i personally think that shrek hit that mark. I also still fail to see how the script was as bad as you say. Again, i'm only going on the first two movies as there the only ones i've seen. It does seem that people have enjoyed the 3rd less than the first 2. Maybe it was the story line, maybe shrek is just lost the impactit did as when it first came out. One thing is for certain though. Little kids really seem to enjoy it. And as long as the kids keep enjoying it, the producers will keep on doing what there doing. Time will tell how long it lasts.

Thank you. I think many people are looking into movies like these way to much. I fail to see how Batman the animated series had an more "superb" writing and script than shrek did. But to be fair, though there both amied at kids, there still both very differnt type of cartoons. Personally, when i watch a cartoon, (or any animated tv show/movie) is it must make me laugh. Shrek does a preety good job of that. I'll admit that yes certain characters can get old ofter a bit, but ones things for certain... I don't want a masterfull writed script, i don't want some important envirormental message, or anything that i have to keep up on, or makes me think. If i want that, i'll watch 24 or CSI. personally, i think Sponge bob is one of the best cartoons period. Its funny, and i always end up busting out laughing after every episode. Just what a cartoon should do. *y*

Set looks great! Will have to pick this one up after chrismass! Thanks for the review!