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Definitely love the tree! Has an almost 8-bit quality to it which is fun, and the trunk, roots, and stonework are lovely as well.

I love it. And that stagehand at the back is a great touch, too!

That is impressive! I can hardly tell it's Lego! Great articulation, too.

Cool. It fits seamlessly (literally) with the rest of the Chinook, and looks like a lot of fun, too!

That is great. You need some googly eyes on the front somewhere to really complete the look, though.

That is awesome! I love all the little details, and the overall look is great. Better be careful with those rear guns, though, or the power plant will be taken out by friendly-fire! Does the main gun have any independent movement (elevation, etc.), or just aimed with the body of the vehicle?

Hi widewheels - welcome to EB! I think the question that needs to be answered before folks can give any meaningful advice is this: If everything you've purchased has remained sealed, what was the original intent? Why did you start collecting Lego originally? Were you purchasing as an investment to cash out at some point, or is there some personal enjoyment in it for you somewhere? No judgement or implication meant here, but if everything is just purchased and then put away in boxes, is it just a bit of an OCD thing where you feel compelled to collect them even though you aren't doing anything with the collection besides possessing it? If you're only collecting for the sake of collecting, will it bother you if you sell it off (whether or not you continuing buying more sets)? If there's some aspect you enjoy (like displaying some of the boxes, etc.) then I think it would be a matter of picking favorites or a representative selection of sets to keep and selling the rest. Of, of course, there's always the option to actually build some of the sets and enjoy that aspect of them as well, and then sell them as complete, near-mint, open-box if you don't want to hold on to them.

Welcome to EB, Konri! Looks like you've got a great minifig collection there! Those 4 are very cool - looks like custom prints; where are they from?

That looks pretty good for a smaller Wall-E in general, but a really great job as an alternate build. Nicely done!

While we're at it, these are 3 specific sets that are very easy to identify based on individual parts in your photos: https://brickset.com/sets/6991-1/Monorail-Transport-Base https://brickset.com/sets/6959-1/Lunar-Launch-Site https://brickset.com/sets/6086-1/Black-Knight-s-Castle

Yes, absolutely on this being a Technic figure. That arm broken off at the shoulder ball joint is also quite common for those, unfortunately.

Nicely done. Those SNOT piles of slopes work pretty well as the rock walls!

Agreed on the awesome eyes... and the whole thing is pretty sweet. This Galidor contest has turned out so much legitimately better than I had expected!

Exactly! But sorting by color is much easier on the first pass and require far fewer individual sorting containers. Honestly, though, I think we all go through the phases at different times. Check out that old Lugnet post I noted above if you haven't seen The 27 Stages of Lego Sorting before.

Welcome to EB, and back to Lego! Happy building!

It's a Fabuland part (of which CopMike has an abundance!): https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=4610c01#T=C&C=5

Glad to hear it sounds like your sets are complete. If you want to go the extra mile, it might not hurt to send an email with that info to Lego so their quality control folks can take a look. They'll probably want the location of the Walmart you bought from along with a production code from the boxes. Happy building!

Good luck! There are so many stages and philosophies when it comes to sorting. I skipped color myself and went straight to part type (which is even more tedious but has served me well so far), but getting "finished" with any stage feels great! Enjoy it... for as long as it lasts! Let me refer you to this post on good ol' Lugnet from 2001: https://news.lugnet.com/storage/?n=707 Happy building (and continued sorting)!

I seem to recall having that happen once with a set in the past... but that's over a few decades and hundreds of sets, so definitely not common. Were these sets you're talking about from the same source or shipped/handled the same way? If you haven't already dug deeper into them, I'd get all the loose pieces and whatever are left in those open bags out and run through each step for those bags in the instructions (just setting aside the pieces for each step, not building) to make sure everything is there. If not, you might have something fishy going on... I'd look first to make sure you still have the minifigs. I'm somewhat familiar with 10255 offhand and that last bag has the AFOL and baby, as well as a printed tile with a version of Cafe Corner which might be the unique elements someone would snatch, if any.

Nice. There's a lot of NPU throughout, but I must say that the way you used and incorporated the dynamite is fantastic!

Just to clarify what Tenderlok is saying (if needed): Your idea is fine, but the gears don't meet/engage each other down at the wheels. You have to fix that alignment with a half-stud offset somewhere, either with the 3176 part as Tenderlok mentioned, or by offsetting the whole wheel assembly - whatever you want to do to make the gears mesh.

Wow! I'm not totally sold on the wings for the Fokker, but the fuselage shaping is really nice. And that Sopwith... that's just spectacular! You've captured it so incredibly well generally speaking, and doing it at that scale is fantastic. Just lovely.

Great little piece of that scene! The smoldering fire is nicely done, and the trees are great.

Same question here- is there any absolute limit on size, or are a few studs here and there OK? I really like the idea of the contest for a small and rugged vehicle so I get the need to rein it in so people don't get carried away.

Interesting. What country did this set come from? Might just be a different packaging run using common dividers they had available, but from the (very few) photos of set 077 that supposedly replaced 070 for a short time in Germany, it appears that it might have had the cardboard inserts... so maybe something going on with that depending on where and when your example was produced. Perhaps @LEGO Historian has some thoughts on this?