Dunjohn

Everybody forgets that Amy was a member of the A-Team too... ... with good reason. Nice minifigs! Hanibal's head is especially nice a fit.

...Yeah. Mmm, small parts.... om nom nom

Rex looks way the hell better than I thought he would. Though I suppose, seeing as how I already own Woody and Buzz, I shouldn't have had any doubts about the attention to detail on this line's minifigs. Both of these sets look to be out of my price range. Even if they were at a "fair" non-licenced price point, I just don't have the funds to spare this year. Pity. The compactor set looks spiffy. I like how big it looks, even though I know they cheated some bulk into it by using a lot of negative space and those tall strut pieces. That's fine by me, I love those strut parts, and the empty space makes it easier to mod. I'm already starting to reconsider just how far out of my price range this one is, hmm, if I cut out breakfast for the next few months....

Aw. When I saw the thread title, I though "actual Lego cyborgs." But that's still cool. Means I still get to be first... *explosion noise from laboratory* ... eventually.

Among other stuff! C'mon, it's obvious that you brood way too much on the downers. Everybody gets those! Me, I don't celebrate my birthdays. My family do their best, putting up the banners and stuff, but I've never seen the point and they like to tease me about that. I'm not much of a celebrator of anything.

Those power miners are absolute psychos. You've seen the overpowered gear they're using against the lava monsters! There's a good chance they'll go way too far, freeze the core and start an ice age. Bang. Ice monsters.

I'm Irish. I don't travel much, and I've never left Europe. Family holidays as a kid: Wales twice, Malorca and Portugal (coincided with the European Cup, which was a nice accidental bonus. I got my mug on telly, walking by in the background as some England fans were being dragged into a police station) Other than those, as an adult I've been to: Paris, France Barcelona, Spain Rome, Italy Warsaw, Poland Kraków, Poland. I plan to continue going to Poland and visit Germany eventually. Never been to England, though I've seen plenty of it from above :)

This avatar is a stopgap, it's the one I use on Magic: the Gathering sites and it just happens to have Lego in it. I might put my sigfig up some day... if I ever find him. He's downstairs somewhere. And he's a robot made of spare parts, so no, his looks don't come from my side of the family.

Yes, I did notice that the characters weren't speaking in paragraphs, though I just presumed they'd kept the longer dialogues out of the trailer.

Just before Christmas, I read an article in an Irish newspaper on how Lego had managed to buck the recession by actually continuing to grow. Their Irish manager (or whatever the official title is) singled out Power Miners and Star Wars as being particularly strong performers. On the other hand, Space Police isn't available at all here. I understand it's a Toys'R'Us exclusive line on the British Isles for some reason, so they probably have similar business reasons for keeping PM out of stores in other countries. Power Miners is my favourite of the current line, but I'm also pretty sure that it's a short-term theme. It's not like it has oodles of design space like the evergreen lines do, and Lego have been doing shorter and shorter theme runs lately.

Cead mile failte! ... Sorry, I can't do fadas at the moment except on ó's because I have my laptop set to Polish, and the usual commands no longer work. You want Łs? I got Łs! ... Sorry for prattling on, my fingers are freezing cold so I need to keep the blood moving. This despite the central heat being on, as well as the electric blanket of the bed I'm sitting on. ... Sorry.

Okay, I'll admit, I laughed out loud at that and I'm far too cynical to ever laugh at trailers. I'll mark this one down as "To See." Kevin Smith is a director I like, though he tends to write some of the most unnatural dialogue ever heard in movies. Even the dumbest characters have the improbably vast vocabularies, and it bugs me, but not to the point of not liking the movies. Dogma is one of my favourite movies ever.

I haven't been able to finish watching Transformers. My brother got it on dvd, he loves it, and I did quite well - I got as far as the motorway chase scene, which I think is near the end, because it felt like I'd suffered days of boredom and the shattering of childhood nostalgia before it. I had to turn it off and go downstairs for some air. I still haven't seen the end, and every time my brother demands that I do, I just scream "Optimus Prime said 'Oops my bad!!'" and end the discussion.

Oh, it's not so bad. Just try to imagine Batman utterly failing to convey "insecurity." I've rattled on elsewhere on these boards about the problems with that movie but I still enjoyed myself watching it. Not really one I'd buy on dvd. Chronicles of Riddick is another movie I absolutely hated. Pitch Black was a fantastic movie, Vin Diesel was fantastic in it. The sequel took his Riddick character and stripped absolutely everything else away, juxtaposing him into this utterly unconnected vehicle that contained none of the elements that made Pitch Black good. Mood was replaced with explosions. Character development was replaced with duel scenes. Drama and plot advancement were replaced with chase after chase. Even Riddick himself was altered, transformed from this unrepentant, cynical psychopath to the Chosen One Of Prophecy who's going to bring down the Sith. Or something. Actually, this was a problem I had with Terminator 4 too. Damn you, Neo. I'd actually recommend that people watch the two movies back to back, just to see how not to call something a sequel.

Cheers. Yeah, 98c is what's on most of the stuff I get sent (occasionally $1.60 if it's overweight) so I'll go ahead and use two of these. Thanks!

I have some old US stamps that I used for sending self-addressed reply envelopes to the States a few years back. I need to send some now, and I'm wondering if the stamps are still valid. I know the price has gone up, but would two of these do the job? Cheers!

I honestly see no problem with this. What is the difference, to the viewer, if the Death Star is a resin model or a digital graphic when the detail on each is exactly the same? Each one is going to be an image on a screen for me anyway. This is an argument that's constantly leveled against the prequel trilogy and I always fail to see how it qualifies as an argument at all. Now, I know it can be taken too far. Lucas originally wasn't going to make a single real piece of clonertrooper armour until the graphics guys pleaded with him to, because they needed to see how light would fall on it. And Michael Bay is obviously legendary for relying on the power that digital effects can bring to movies. But would Bay's movies be any less spectacle-intensive if he was forced to use 1970s effects technology? Would the prequel trilogy be any better if Lucas had been restricted by material limits to 200 clones and a claustrophobic Geonosian soundstage?

Echh, nothing too unusual in not having seen the movies. I was a kid in the eighties and I liked Star Wars, like all my friends, but I never saw the movies. I only saw them when the new versions were made in the nineties, I figured it was about time I watched them. I've still never seen Han shoot first. Had a minor heart attack when the scrolly text started and it said "Episode IV: A New Hope." WTF?? I knew a fourth movie had apparently been started, but what was going on? Nobody else in the cinema seemed to notice anything wrong, so I just let it slide.... I definitely left the cinema as a fan. Loved it to bits. Saw the next two, not on opening night, but as soon as I could manage. I'd rank Empire Strikes Back as my favourite, with Phantom Menace as my least fave. It had some good stuff in it - the podrace has thankfully emerged as a truly classic cinema scene, while the kid who played Anakin did a fantastic job - but overall the movie felt like a tremendous trudge through an overcomplicated origin to what was bound to be an overcomplicated setup to what was already a nice, uncomplicated trilogy of classic movies. My order: V - ESB IV - ANH II - AOTC III - ROTS VI - ROTJ I - TPM I and VI are the only movies I don't love (bloody ewoks), the others I do rate highly. Attack of the Clones had a great sense of foreboding, and it built up nicely, while Sith had this fantastic, dark mood of things having somehow gone utterly, irretrievably wrong, with the various characters having to play out their fates with no hope of changing them. The main letdown there was that Hayden Christensen couldn't act his way out of a mannequin recycling plant.

Happy Feet. Good God, those smug mutants really made me grind my teeth. The plot is unbelievably hackneyed, the music choices were nonsensical, uninspired and lazy, and oooh, it's penguins, let's throw an environmental message in there and let's RUB IT IN THEIR FACES UNTIL THEY SCREAM.... is it not possible to make an animal movie that doesn't demonize humanity? I could go on about this movie, but I'll spare you all, as well as my blood pressure. If I had just witnessed Hell itself and God decided to let me forget it, I'd say, no, Happy Feet please.

Pretty much any of the main mechs from Exo-Force. When that line debuted it was kinda cute, ooh, Lego doing Manga, spiffy, but when I was a kid in the eighties these things would have absolutely blown my skull open, with their extreme aesthetics and all-out action focus. Sets I'd have spent hours looking at in the shops at the time? Any of the big ones. Especially the space-themed ones with their excitingly-coloured trans-parts. I had no big Lego sets as a kid. Too many siblings for Santa to spread the budget between....

I've been looking at these in the shops alright, for the past few weeks, semi-tempted to get one purely to get a review out there. You've saved me the effort, because I really don't think I have any MOC uses for the parts and have no interest in the licence. If I had gotten one, it'd be this one, because it seems to have the largest number of parts. So yeah, thanks for the review! It does look great for what it is. I can well imagine the target audience getting a kick out of these.

Hmm. I'm relatively new to the AFOL scene. Which naming scheme should I adopt...? Nah, this really is a fascinating (yet at the same time, incredibly nerdy) document. Any colours "really" missing? I'd like turquise, but I suppose sand green is close enough. What about flourescent solid colours? How well would that go down?

Grzegorz Turnau again. Ah, it's so nice.... A w Krakowie, na Brackiej pada deszcz....

100% Irish. Specifically Celtic Irish, because you could also be Irish of English, Norman, Viking or Scottish ancestry. We're so easy yet pointless to invade....

That's going back a bit. I can't remember. The earliest I remember is the yellow/red four-wide garbage truck, but I'm fairly certain I already had some Lego before receiving that. I loved it. It came with a bin that you could put on a lift at the back and tip into the truck. One of the first sets I got after my dark age ended was the modern orange equivilent, it made me rather nostalgic.