SpiderSpaceman

I was watching from afar when this was set up, but since I joined I'd been looking for this for a while no excuse for me getting lost on such a well organized forum. Before I ask to join: Do I need to be instantly ready to hit the grind, or can I wait a week or so once I'm in? Because I'm itching to get into the program but this week I've got pressing academic duties. also, my hobby room (ok, I've admitted I'm still a student: hobby room = bedroom ) is sorely in need of a straightening before I can: retrieve my sets, photograph, etc. I guess I'm just asking if there's a rush to start as soon as I join. If so, I'll be here again shortly. If not, would you please be so bodacious as to grant me access? Thanks a ton, boss.

they were $25 on clearance for a long time. that's how I got mine. people who bought it then (and it was plentiful on clearance) still make a darn good profit selling them for the original price. Also I guess it didn't inflate much because the batman figs are the reason for insane batman price inflation.

sounds like a great service to the community - I'd like to check that out

I absolutely love this set man, thanks for the review! The Space Mafia is complete now with a proper crime boss. the back of his head has some short tentacles, right? I saw a lower quality image but I'd like to get that look at it edit: sorry, just saw your new post I thought the set's shape might be too rectangular, but it definitely has enough character Man, the switch from toothed to smooth happened many years ago. I'm surprised you haven't come across it yet. As for the yellow, that's just technic color coding all the little pieces: Blue, red, yellow, grey, black, tan... All the little pieces have fixed colors now so you don't confuse them or something. People get upset about that messing up their color schemes.

Ok man, I live in new orleans, but I have never heard of lego jambalaya and for this i am ashamed. Is it good with lego tabasco? no but seriously, explain this wonderful thing. if it got you so many killer croc heads it is obviously something i wanna know about. the bank architecture rocks. plates make better bricks than bricks, and that blows my mind. the windows are great, the clock is great. I love the way the pillars are flush with the wall. A+ model.

I think I'm gonna head back today on the off chance I can find my luchador. this time I've memorized the barcode backwards. skinny skinny space skinny fat medium... Edit: SUCCESS!

Got mine! I really wasn't confident the Metairie Toys-R-Us would stock them, but this morning they had 2 full boxes. now the pickings are slim. It'll be ok for Crash Dummy fans though. Apologies to other New Orleans AFOL's. Please don't hunt me down I just got myself a single set, some dad bought a box, my brother got what he could find of the ones he wanted, I got 3 random bags for the little sisters to share. I still need my Mexican Wrestler though... accidentally grabbed duplicate divers. feeling through the bags is ridiculously thrilling. 'ooh OOH ANTENNA! robot! I have a robot!' 'syringe! haHA!' 'BEARD! oohoohoo yeeeeeeeeessss' definitely the fun way. and it worked really well. just not for the accessory-free wrestler. the only problem was i lost track of which were identified and which weren't. so then i tried to make sure I had 16 different barcodes. and one slipped through. and as for where they were stocked, just on the lego aisle, next to city sets

nothing to add Commando droids and mandalorians all the way. especially if the mandalorian molds are New Fett recolors and they include the deathwatch leader fella with hair and a black saber.

you kidding? new sidious' face looks like a duck on drugs! of the figures I have: CW Dooku (with castle lightning bolt added. I can't believe they aren't shipping those in star wars sets yet) Snowtrooper hoth rebel 4 (bricklink id) of those I don't Akbar Bib Fortuna bearded endor rebel commando Hondo Ohnaka new Boba Fett

you have to use the decoration tool on the correct side of the head. try the different sides until you get a large selection.

I hope it's not spamming if my comment is the single word: WIN!

Nooooo, never The real bricks are too darn displayable, and the feel of construction is too thrilling. you're right that LEGO is thinking about it, and the only thing I can think where I would hurt sales through virtual building is: I may test out new parts virtually whereas before I might see a set with say, a 2x2 jumper plate and say "I bet I could make cool stuff with that" then the set is an instant must buy. Now I might see it say, "I wonder...", play with techniques virtually and only get the set if I decided I needed the part for a model I wanted to build and display. so right, I used to need sets to experiment, now I may do the experimenting virtually and just get the sets for serious projects or display purposes. and in that sense it's like using CAD software. I may design on a computer but the end goal is still having a physical product in the real world. Just like engineering. Will it turn out that way? Maybe, but it could never be a replacement. also of note: I don't think I'd have the slightest clue where to start in LDD if I hadn't had a lot of real world lego experience. what bricks do I use to make the base of a model? building techniques and all. with all the parts in the library, I think I would be lost. even now I'm tempted to just yank out a bunch of decorative parts, where in the real world you have that limit of: decorative parts are the icing. I have a lot of regular bricks, slopes, plates, etc. so in real life I know that's what to use mainly. in LDD one can grab an infinite number of say, minifig baseball caps, say 'i wanna build something with a lot of these' and be stumped. well this is getting abstract but basically there's a temptation to make poor building decisions and cripple your build because of total freedom if one isn't trained. Pixar artists learn traditional animation before using the computer modeling and animation. Engineers in training take a course in pencil and paper drafting before going to AutoCAD (line based) and then probably to SolidWorks or Inventor (modeling). The virtual tools are a privilege to people who already know what they're doing. There's no getting around hands on practice and learning the techniques if one wants to be successful.

um... have you seen the one in the general discussion forum? mainly about series 1, about 80 pages long

can't agree, I like my sets meaty. shaping looks good to me, nothing offends me about it. not a bad selection of parts, a smattering of dark blue.. I was actually very pleasantly surprised. the sets i'd call awful are things like: dooku's solar sailer (special edition ), the sith interceptors. horrifying shaping, big gaps because they try to use the giant curved slopes for everything. I do love the minifigs, cad's growing on me fast despite my issues with the tube mold. trudat on the swamp speeder. I wanted to get it to stock up on some of those telescope parts, get another hood and cape, but ouch, that price!

wow, harry potter and prince of persia make good naboo?! I'd never considered it... terrific architecture, I think i like the patio best, the doors, plus the little gear n' torsos decoration. the bongo is the 'as is' set, right?

yes it is. I've been calling her that since I first saw the preliminary pictures from whichever toy fair they were shown at. The hair and the mic will get use from me, the rest... let's just say the little girls in my life may get some new bald female minifigs the police officer and lion tamer (like the clown and magician) have no appeal to me at all, the mime kinda fits into that whole circus performer picture, but I actually oddly see his charm. the beret will find a use for sure. and the rest are great! but the sombrero'd chap gets to be my favorite fig ever. and the 'fro is a dream come true. the sports and fitness figs are solid, from the accessories (surfboard! barbell! trophy!) to the apparel. the gold clad historical figures, the hoplite especially, are very well done, very cool. But nothing gets close to topping the maracas player. not by a mile.

Rats, it is the same face. cad bane isn't cad bane without a toothy sneer! and like many said on the review for the tank, the 'neck brace' looking mold keeps the figure from being great. just kinda disappointing for my favorite addition to star wars since the original trilogy. that said, if I find a summer job (make spending money ), I am definitely getting this set for the figs and the model. just altogether well done. do we know where it's supposed to be available? the whole 'special edition' thing is tipping me off to it being an exclusive somewhere - do we know? sorry if I just missed it somewhere Ah ok target. just saw that. is it exclusive to there though?

ok this is gonna make me look really dumb: In bojan's mod i believe the atlantis helmet was unlocked. yesterday I was assembling aquazone figures and i couldn't find it anywhere was it removed? can we get it back? really odd omission if they took it out... they've got all the sea monster heads in there, all the old aquazone helmets

that is what it's supposed to be thanks

Guys, I think I derailed this topic with the connectivity bug reports. Maybe we need a new topic for that so this one can get back on track?

part x1669. Mentioned it a page back. there was already a little back and forth discussion about the differences between it and the older style. look over posts 21 22 28 & 29

yeah I'll work on that. might not have anything for a week or so, have some final exams that take precedence, after that I've probably got the free time

Mantax works for me the others you're absolutely right about 64647 would be fun to have if nobody mentioned it already

now are you sure we're not talking x201? because I can find that. x1669 is a more versatile version: has the technic hole all the way through. x201 is the same shape at a glance but they both have different uses the other doesn't. just checking, I don't know how much you use the part, they can be mistaken for each other.

Oh that's great to know, the short legs thing. I think the connections on the minifigs, in general, are a bit faulty. Can't fit other parts into the torso (like the slope used for gowns) or onto the legs (into the underside of a brick - is that a legal connection? Oh actually I suppose it is, they have a little 'tv robot' in the alpha team sets: a 1x2 brick and some levers atop minifig legs. oh and the mermaid figurehead! yeah, so we should be able to do that); the neck is short, the head sits too high with some bodywear. more on the part models: I actually wish they would treat the suitcase, laptop computer, and clam as hinged pieces in LDD. And the first piece I ever tried to use since the hidden pieces were accessed: the forestman hat - doesn't fit with the plumes! that's been irking me. The giant ball joint (the eyes of the giant squid in the Aquaraiders II base set) can't be assembled as far as I can tell. there are other parts that are meant to specifically mate that won't in the program and are thusly without use. can't think of other examples right now, except for some that i have gotten to connect but not without a lot of difficulty: the dinosaur tail, etc.