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Yeah, you should probably split, that way you may even manage to fix your situation in the middle of the road thus you may be able to keep some of it. And it is very hard to find buyers for whole collections, specially with the current situation, but it is your choice.

I'd probably wash my hands if they were not clean or if I had just touched megabloks, but otherwise I don't specifically wash my hands before building, I always wash them when I arrive home and before food though. Regarding the building ritual, I just empty the bags on my bed, grab the instructions and begin building. I never got the chance to buy a set so large that it really needed to sort before building it. I do keep my MoCing pieces very sorted, and before attempting to MoC, I would have to move all my tuppers to my bed , and that takes time.

But the softer plastic still looks low quality. Scratches on it also look a lot worse, and colors tend to mismatch slight from ABS. No matter where it comes from or why they put or if it is more expensive. It is not optimal. Metru feet for example, horrendous pieces. And I am still not very happy about the different yellow tone in Meltdown's shin guards. You should have tried getting the legs, because it seems that customer service was definitely giving them in 2006, and new lots of the set did bring it. I also checked customer service's site and when it shows you the list of pieces to pick for the missing pieces form, the legs are there. So, I gave it a try, can't blame me for trying. It was definitely a marketing mistake, but a rather bad one, it is not cool to do it and thus I feel that it was fair to ask for a replacement for the legs seeing how the box seems to be designed to say "look kids, this has the golden robot!".

I cannot say whether it was intentional or not. What I can say is that the box has two pictures of complete meca-one including one that suggests that you can take him out of the mech. And I also found many claims online that consumer service was sending them, but that was in 2006. I think I will just try getting them from bl, I doubt they have any left. Just wanted to know if there is an usual threshold for these requests.

This is going to be completely OT, but how about asking for replacements a long time after the release date? I guess that for practical purposes there should be a limit. For example, I am among the sad fans that got no Meca one legs in his Striking venom, but I opened the sealed box yesterday.

Space eats SW for breakfast. The rest of the themes cannot compare :)

Wouldn't this be the first time the bags' shot appears outside the bags/box? Saturation of the market is an issue. 16 figs a series is 64 a year. You don't have to collect them all. But some people would really like to. Plus it will make it easier to find/mass the minifig you want as there would be more instances of a fig in a box.

Another clown was needed imho , because in the main clown routines there are usually two of them and the new one compliments the old one. I am hoping that there are only nine because that's the new number. Even though I would be very disappointed at no sci-fi goodies in this series, series 2 was supposed to be the exception :).

You don't HAVE to bend them, but you HAVE to see the joints that allow such movement and I don't think it would be possible to add them in a non-intrusive way. Even now with the fleshies and the detailing, you can recognize them as a LEGO fig, but with more articulation, they would look like cyborg versions of the classic minifig.

Printing can seriously screw a minifig, ask megabloks. They somehow manage to add so much printing to stuff that it looks ridiculous and you need a magnifying glass to even get what's going on there. I'll admit that for the most parts, LEGO figs are not close to being as bad as mega in this topic, but a line has to be drawn somewhere. It has been getting more and more detailed every year. Those orange lines for example were not usual a couple years ago and I think they should go. They don't really add much to the face and actually make the faces look overdone.I am getting bugged by teeth lately. Specially in the collectable minifigs. Teeth are getting overused. The mime for example should have never had such a grin and instead he could have been closer to the normal minifig smiley. The teeth also make the cheerleader look odd and the space man is a little less useful because ...people don't smile like that all day long...

CW is ok. Never a fan of the massive retcon (thy name is Asoka), but it is something I would not mind watching if nothing else was on TV. CW minifigs though, they are just horrible. Their creepy faces are something TLG should never do again. The uncanny valley is something that should be a Megabloks® exclusive.

Rocka XL is no exclusive, it wouldn't have been in the retailer catalog...

I hate you :).I completely missed the Galactic Enforcer train. There were three of them in total at the retailer stores in my city and they survived the whole Christmas 2009 season and then 2010 and until around September 2010, the time in which I actually had the money to buy one... It seems some random guy decided to get all three in the same day or something because they just vanished from all the stores at the same week, and not even in a holiday season.

I went to the retail stores and had a shooting spree using my upcoming birthday as an excuse: 7707 - Striking venom 8101 - Claw crusher 7303 - Jet scooter. The speeder and the claw crusher are nice little speeder/mech for the price.

I am more scared about the fact he was able to return it. And that nobody marked the review as unhelpful yet...

That's a nice set. The mechanic arm is pretty cool and both the white uniform and white atlantis armor would be really useful for sci-fi guys. Though the visor is probably the first time I actually wished the change from chrome didn't happen. It looks awful in comparison to the old chromed version imho.

LEGO has no plural. The way you call a LEGO set is ... LEGO set and the plural of which is "LEGO sets". Then we have LEGO bricks.

Never noticed such thing. It may as well be that big shots tend to be the ones that make the most amazing things. If you ask me though, I think that there is some "bias" towards historic and town MoCs. Star wars in third place, Action themes in fourth but I don't remember the last time a space MoC was featured...

Meh glue. I bought a small bulk of random used parts yesterday and some parts were glued, I really want to die a little when I think of the poor people that did such thing to those innocent bricks. I hope I manage to find a way to remove the glue in a way that the bricks come out as new. I worry more about parents that for some reason buy LEGO sets for their kids and build the sets themselves... Rebuilding the sets should be the owner's work, duh? LEGO sets can be destroyed and that's WAY funnier than normal toys. You can use the Dragon to destroy that castle just fine, because you'll be able to rebuild the Castle and rebuilding the castle is actually fun. Parents that don't get that make my head ache.

I meant 2007. I just don't trust any of the "smooth" sockets , no matter if they are double or individual . My Skirmix got one double socket broke just after three months of posing. And I have gotten very careful when removing them because I know they might break if I don't (dis)connect them with care. But the "throwbot" sockets and the double sockets that look like them seem to be more resistant. Except that the throwbot ones tend to break not in the socket itself but in the cross part.

I'd say all the socket pieces that do not have those vents/divisions and are instead smooth tend to break a lot more than those that do. But in 2008, there was a bad batch of lime green sockets that were even more likely to break even after the first use. But for the other smooth socket pieces, they will eventually broke if you frequently remove and put them back. They are less resistant than the non-smooth ones. The new molds used in Ben 10 / HF 1.0 seem to be a lot more robust and resistant to breaking (Haven't broken anyone yet) . And it seems pretty much accepted that the new HF 2.0 are also resistant.

Depends on your definition of geek. If we go by "any person who pursues a passionate interest in anything regardless of genre, is creative, and individualistic", then ... But of course if we go with the old , obsolette definition of "a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, esp[ecially] one who is perceived to be overly intellectual" then not at all, except for maybe Leonardo. But language is meant to change and the new definition will last for more time...

I find it hard to think of a famous painter who wasn't a geek.

Most grown up men I know of seem to be into some sort of toy. Computers, Cars, motorcycles, model planes. Everyone also has tons of things decorating their houses. My toys just happen to be plastic, less expensive (unit-wise) and require creativity. I am a geek, but I don't think that's because of LEGO but probably because I'd rather spend a night programming than doing anything else, unless that else revolves around LEGO. I guess that by the description of the first post I am not a nerd though, I don't dress that way.

I am not sure if we would call this a space theme. The setting is earth and there are flying saucers but they are the invaders. Sure, It is definitely sci-fi but Atlantis for example is sci-fi as well and we don't call it a space theme.