SpiderSpaceman

Did you get the "not to worry" email Kernow was talking about? I've got nothing yet so I think I'm out of luck. Two kid brothers of mine also signed up, I don't think either of them have been lucky either

My first computer was a iMac because I figured that would be better for 'brickfilming' than a PC, I had my stop motion software picked out from a magazine review and I knew it would integrate with iLife and so on. Then I'd gotten an iPod so I could carry around my brickfilms and show them off. I ended up needing a laptop for college classes and I got a MacBook because I'd started accumulating OSX software. I run windows in bootcamp for most of my serious schoolwork (windows specific CAD software, MATLAB, and so on), the two in one was a big selling point for one portable. I got an iPhone to test apps I want to develop and replace my broken iPod. I cancelled the service because my first month bill was erroneously US$3700 too high but it's a great gadget without it. Mac OSX rocks with little things like ease of access to special characters (option key!), easy screen captures, the exposé system, Grapher (go find it in utilities). iLife and Xcode are the core reasons I use a mac, well integrated, sturdy, and filling my special needs, for free with the system. there aren't really any affordable contenders in other OSes. Then there are the things that have windows versions or counterparts but I've invested in for mac (Adobe Creative Suite). There were features that a lot of windows computers (at that time) didn't match (instant search, built-in webcam and dvd writing in the all in one iMac), and I liked that all configurations were accounted for, so something that should run on a mac was definitely going to run on mine (My family had some poor PCs through my kidhood ). Buuuuuut... My next computer is going to be a PC. I need a PC anyway, and where I thought bootcamp was going to let me do everything, I started to find software that my hardware wouldn't even try to handle. neither my iMac or my MacBook had real graphics cards, and there was software (yeah, video games ) older than my computers, or with famously low requirements, that wouldn't run because of just that. New macs aren't going to fill any needs that the ones I have can't still fill, and I'll use them for what they're for, for years to come. but I'm starting to need to run more and more windows software, so before iThink about upgrading my Apples, I'll be getting a less pricy computer that will knock out everything I want to use in windows with computing power to spare. iPad could have won me over if it had 2 year old macbook specs with that multitouch... but as a clear software lover, I'll keep watching the apps. If it gets any sort of standard format cad software or 3D modeling with a good UI, it would be a truly able computer in my eyes, and I would cave in

the packaging of these sets kinda screams "box of chocolates" to me. might be a diagram on the back listing the fillings do they still sell the series on SAH? I know this one is still a bit prerelease. edit: United States SAH

I think I've missed a few of these, I still thought we were on number 2 I like to see the old pieces redone. You guys who want the ancient figs in a non-disgusting state, having to buy endangered sealed 30yr old sets, go ahead, it's your money. I just want to use the parts in my models, and I think I'm luckier with quality when I go brand new. Also about the quality, I got two star wars magnet packs (vader chewie obi, yoda dooku mace. I know, I know. I'm kicking myself about boba leia and the guard.). When everybody started hollering about issues, I checked for any signs of lesser quality, and I don't know if the figures come from mixed sources, maybe I just randomly got some sweet denmark makes. I couldn't see anything out of place, except absent neck friction paint on the single chewbacca figure. I'm perfectly pleased with the quality. If what I have ARE the dreaded Chinese makes, I'm not hesitating on any of vintage packs, battle packs, Minifigures line, or magnets. The only one I really want out of these is the forestmen girl (that's what we're calling her?), and only the torso really. that's just some Illustrator work in my avatar. I could use a respectable complete figure.

Really wish I'd downloaded when I first saw this topic. If anybody remembers back to the version directly before the factory competitions, there was an "any color mode" that boasted "trans-pink tyres". is your mod anything like that?

I'll add to that wager: Minifigures series 3 in 2011 will have a plagiarized official guitar ;)

I hope that's a comedically humungous grinch grin peeking out through the eyeholes

Boba is in no way overdetailed. he's perfectly fitting the lego style I'd say, and I think it's a great upgrade from the old one. I love the way the new version allows for a face and some turning now that the jet and helmet are separate. the only downside is the helmet mold itself gives up details to the paint job, which I thought made the clone wars clones lesser figs than the ep. 2's, but I'll consider it a fair tradeout for the new helmet accessory system. I think grievous is overpainted. the new arms kinda rock, not so much how they attach to each other because that absolutely kills the figure, which i actually otherwise like. but I wanna see em on all the battle droids. reminds me, i like the way the legs are separate.

that cracks me up. I think clown belongs in horror though. definitely if I get more than 1 clown in my fig-hunt, I will deem it a pestilence (and I will be tempted to recolor those 'fros more naturally. hey, I was gonna do it before I knew about the disco dancer anyway). magician is another one i think is pretty lackluster... But I really do think they all rock. I like the cute nurse hairdo even better seeing the angle here, skater needs to comb the back of his hair a bit. I can't tell what the cheerleader-haired wave 2 girl is holding unless it's a scale version of the lego rubber raft. I thought disco was female for a second because of how I was seeing the mouth but that seems like a male, unbuttoned collar torso, so I guess it's a dude. I loooooooove the new Mex fig. the only one whose pieces I probably won't extensively experiment with with is the spartan. great complete fig, but too specialized for too many other uses. does anybody else do the neckwear bracket, put one round 1x1 plate on it, and a hat on that? it's a great "hat with a string, resting on your back" look. cowboy, outback, sombrero probably, work great like that. I'm sure that's common knowledge but the sombrero reminded me, and when I'm discussing LEGO I might as well throw in the relevant know-hows

looking back at the pictures I'm realizing none of the weapons have any lego compatible dimensions at all. no extra axles, no pin-holes...

the white one's weapon is depressing. that should be, oh, 6 separate parts, but no such luck. there's no use for it. mmh, but I do like the feet. leg covers have a cool look. and the arms/legs are somewhat more usable than the 90

so sorry, ambassadors . My little picks were meant to be examples, oft neglected pieces from categories that need expanding. I'll run this thru one more time and see if it's the kind of input you need, most needed catagories in bold. fuller specialty (clip, bar, hinge, offset) 1xN plate and brick selection. blocky guns, minifig tools. "Tiny Turbo" elements (slope, windshield, fender, etc) more structural elements, brackets fuller arch selection. more single piece animals. fun selection of minifig head and neck gear army minifig parts

Better range of the small modified plates, at least all the classics. Meaning the 1x1's and 1x2's with the hinges, bars, clips. And these babies for sure: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=4590 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=60478 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=32125 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=32124 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=4596 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2432 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=50947 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=30350 (sorry for lack of proper links; I'll try to do a grid of thumbnails when I get home) these two http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3940 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=4476 if this is miraculously still in production: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=6044 more arches (including the halves) 2 classic snot brackets: the one with the vertical 1x4, and the originql this has interested me http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=61068 The minifig tool wheel, aquazone knives, and the wrench/driver piece (bl # 4006), the blocky space guns and the chainsaw body. Ooh, and new telescope. fedoras, batman guns, orange clam, Indy military uniforms, tan flat top hair, dwarf beards, leather jacket torso, pirate bandana. Anything Pete Reid has ever used. Not PAB, but LDD requests: bring back the imaginary colors mode from LDD 3 fix stud-Technic hole connection add crazy tubing sim. again, I feel terrible about this mess of a post, but mytime on this computer has run out, and I'll never reproduce this list from memory.