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No way. I think this is what MOCing is for. Not against some sort of line of specialised parts being made available from lego, but definitely not this.

Was out and about last night in the Melbourne heat. At the customer service desk at the 24 hr K-mart Burwood there was one Death Star marked clearance for $475. I can't afford it still, but perhaps someone else can.

Thanks for this! Have spent the evening (and a bit of money!) browsing and making up for lost time looking for light blue grey parts as well as other necessaries for my future castles :)

Hey folks, An Aussie here entering their late twenties and getting hooked back into Lego after a fair time out. Stopped buying/recieving in my mid-teens (thinking, sadly, that I was 'too old') with the occaisional small Star Wars lego gift from my family for sentimental purposes. Didn't look at the lego shelves in stores for quite a while, but got hooked back into buying around a year ago with some 'fun' Indiana Jones purchases. That led on to castle, which led on to more castle... and somehow in the past year I've convinced my new wife that the medieval market village, the dwarven mine, the Indiana Jones temple of Doom set (to extend my dwarven mine), drawbridge defense, kings chariot, the smaller castle sets from last year and a few random star wars bits and pieces were all necessary purchases. I was more a collector in my junior years, and mainly with smaller sets. Been blown away by the MOCs (is that the right term?) I've seen online since my interest in Lego got rekindled, and I'm trying to work out the best way (and the best pieces) to start building my brick collection up (particularly greys). Any hints on building up for Castle-themed MOCs? What about building tips for the architectually challenged? Most of the stuff that's been sitting in my box tends to be smaller sets--what I or my parents could afford when I was little--although I've got a fair few of them, and I do have some bigger sets in the original pirate and governor stuff (on those large old moulded baseplates). Other bits tend to be spaceships, a few small castle sets, a fair number of smaller city sets and a whole heap of random building blocks. Several medium green baseplates, a bunch of trees, and a large grey baseplates. For some reason I have an abundance of yellow 2x4s in there. Anyway, thought I'd say cheers and officially announce to the world my return to Lego :)