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Not panicking , not panicking, not panicking...

If I knew, I wouldn't tell you :) I am afraid It is the sort of set that is only going to raise in price. Plus only really good fans of LEGO would get it in the first place so it is unlikely to find a guy selling it for cheap out of ignorance like it may happen with other sets.

Mine just get assimilated by the sorted parts bins. I love extras I guess that's also the reason I love buying used pieces in random bulk rather than in complete sets, because it is guilt-less MoCing. To me it is VERY, and I mean VERY hard to destroy a set unless I hated it but it is also very hard for me to hate a set, so any opportunity to get pieces that do not have to be in a set is something I enjoy.

You are confusing things. Humans in such future are slaves that have been lobotomized to get their free will removed. The easy-working human drones are used to fight crime from aliens that decided to use their free will and break crime.

I have many of those, I don't remember specifically from which set, but they are from before my dark age and all of my sets at the time were post-classic space. I do think that that piece used to be fairy common in the 85-95 period so we would at least need to know the color. edit: found its peeron link: http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/2434

That's probably from spybotics: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=3807-1

Yeah right, like putting Lava's on fire and making Onyx's go through laser blasters.

This is just a small action figure with no ankle articulation and stud sockets in the feet. It does not really qualify as a minifigure seeing how you can't really disarm it and use their stuff to customize other megabloks minifigs. I cannot believe mega would release these as standalone as there really isn't anything impressive about it. Perhaps 20 years ago when action figures would get away with just being pose-able. Oh yeah, just noticed it is free which is basically the only fair price for it.

From the gallery terms of use: I think that since you don't have any rights to the stuff you submitted to the gallery, then he is not really 'stealing' your design. But at least the other rule exists against submitting modification without proper credit and I think you can get the copy deleted or at least edited to give you proper credit by telling the gallery moderators about it.

What happened is that LEGO sets failed to become more popular with girls so such advertising was found to fail. Whatever the reason (it may as well be that prejudiced parents don't think construction bricks is a girl's toy) LEGO products just don't sell as well with girls as they sell with boys. I actually think that the minifig series so far have had a lot more female characters than the average LEGO line. More so I think that it would be more biased if they used a certain quota to meet (ie: "always make sure 50% of the minifigs are female!"). It may make not sense to FOLs, but the ones that would kill for a minifig are really the minority among all the people that buy LEGO products. Collectible minifigs were a risk to take.Nevertheless, I disagree that TLG underestimated the demand. There are many countries in which the figs were not as hard to get as they were in the US. This is most likely an issue with US retailers underestimating the demand. Some big retailers did not even order them. This can also be explained by the crisis making retailers less likely to take such risks with new products. More so, collectibles should be scarce, that's about the whole point of them.

Well, it is unlikely Atlantis will last for a fourth wave, and space port already has plenty of sets in the first 2011 wave so I don't think it will have sets in the second one. I now have some hope for a space theme in the second half of 2011. Space port cannot replace space for me because of the lack of futuristic stuff. Current space exploration is so boring. I mean, it has been 40 years already and we are still far away from taking an actual human team to Mars. Even worse, we are going backwards with NASA not receiving much fundings and not having anything to replace the Shuttle.

It is not a LEGO set, it is a collectible. If you want to know what you are buying, just buy them from bricklink. If you don't want to pay bricklink prices then just buy impulse sets. It is not a marketing scam, in no place do the packaging suggests that you can know what you are purchasing, the question marks all over the poly-bag should also be a hint.

Well, a better experiment would be to have the no mod day but without telling anyone about it. My bet is that the final body count in that case would be a couple threads in the wrong forum.

Unfortunately, chances are looking grim for a space theme next year. We'll have atlantis, starwars and the city space port themes going on in 2011, that leaves just too little space for a space theme :(

Hey thanks. Do you know the name of the set/theme?

I was finally able to remember the name of the brand I saw in a hidden toy store the other day, woma. They had many sets on display, specially mechs that looked like this: And also military sets that reminded me of oxford reviews but didn't seem like exact copies. The plastic seemed ok at first glance, probably slightly behind in quality than mega bloks, though I can't say much without feeling it directly and trying to interlock with LEGO. The people at the toy store were obviously pretty proud of them as the models filled a whole display and the display is the first thing you see when looking into the store. The design of the mechs specially seemed cool to me but I will probably save till September as I have really spent a lot on LEGO this month (yet the first half has not even finished). Anyway, it is a Chinese company (http://woma.cc/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/index.html) and I've been wondering if it is actually a bootleg. That because even though the designs are not from LEGO they could have been stolen from Mega bloks or oxford as I am not really familiar with those sets. The minifigs look a lot like oxford's. That site has plenty of pics from many sets, the mechs are somewhere in the "Juvenile series \ Robot Series" section I would provide a link but the site does not work like that.

I said my netbook's screen is amazing for reading books and looking at instructions, it works great at that and that's why I bought it for. It also has enough processing power for me to multi task on it so I can have 12 firefox tabs open while reading the instructions PDF or a book for that matter. That's my own experience with my little netbook. So, I just think that if he just needs a portable way to read PDFs, he should at least investigate about netbooks as they are much less expensive. As for my netbook looking better than an iFad, I don't really know/care. What I can say is that it costs a third of the iFad's cost, has twice or even thrice the computing power, and I bought it last year, so much better netbooks than mine should be available out there for the same price I paid a year ago. And again, it has a screen that is different to the old LCDs ones and is very suitable for reading and looking at instructions. Maybe you should do your research beyond marketing hype. The difference is that LEGO's extra cost is due to an actual quality difference in plastic and design whereas what apple sells is marketing hype. My netbook can run LDD, not only because it shares the same open platform used by just about all computers that are not iPads, but also because the netbook actually has the power to run LDD. An iFad will never be able to, besides of requiring TLG to manually port the program to their platform and then pray for apple to allow the app, it just has no processing power for that. I guess that if your priority was to be able to do some finger movement to zoom and you cannot live with just the good old zoom bar used by every computer then that's a valid argument over paying at least 250 USD or more to get the iPad instead of a netbook. (Oh boy, aren't those 250 USD the equivalent to 1/2 Grand Emporiums, or 1 NXT 2.0 ? ) . In my case, I can live without it. Anyway, the PDF reader I use in my netbook has a feature in which you scroll with the pad to form a triangle and it will zoom into that part of the instructions. But I don't find it too useful.

A better netbook shall be enough. Mine uses a LED screen and it is a lot less terrible than the normal LCD ones. Size and resolution in current netbooks are generally as good or likely better than the ipad's or an android phone. I use my netbook to read instructions and it works fine. I'd rather use paper instructions though cause even with my small netbook it uses space that could be used by the model I am building...

Do you mean all sets are basically impulse-sized ?Then I wouldn't think it is an action theme but something else? Would open a theme slot, I wouldn't think world racers would last two waves, would it?

I guess a better question is when did SNOT become so common in sets. Because I have seen some basic forms of SNOT in space stuff from 1993, which were nothing really impressive but still qualify as SNOT.

Wasn't 2010 supposed to be the 'final' year assuming they didn't renew the license? It seems they did.

I'd say that's the "BP with a lot of grey and blue in it".

They give MINIFIGS at birthday parties now?! Hehe, putting myself in infant mind: - If I was ever given a minifig at a party, I would have made sure to stay in good terms with the birthday boy for as long as possible. - If it was my birthday, I would rather get a £45 set instead ...

meh Space will be blow. Since it's in the City theme, it won't be crazy and futuristic

In my case, my worst issue is actually with the bike. That... piece that is actually two parts could be much better (and could for example, be brick-built instead of a lame <insert that tiresome argument> assembly). I do like the overall build of the bike once I try to ignore that piece. Specially the controls. Comparing the speeder with the old endor ones, the endor ones are larger but these ones are more detailed and have a more interesting build imho. The AT&T driver is just so nice. Sure that as an army builder it does not work that well, although I think that if you ever felt like you have too many of those you can turn it into storm trooper with just a little brasso. Boy are those storm troopers scarce nowadays... The officer is the real minifig I wish could have been a snow trooper instead. It would have made the set peach-free and really, we don't need so many officers. I like the base with missile launcher, because that's quite a bunch of interesting bricks, including controls that you can use in something else as there is no real reason to keep it built. I would buy me another of these BPs if it wasn't for the fact I do not want to get carried away with LEGO spendings before xmas.