dr_spock

Thanks for sharing. Not bad.

Clever one for McFly.

SBricks may be overkill for a 5 years-old to play train in one's living room. Unless he has his own smartphone or tablet with Bluetooth 4.0, it may get annoying having to share your or your wife's phones.

Here's your pic deeplinked to save folks some clicks. Deep sea Diver checking out the fishes by Terry Fay, on Flickr Looks good. The fishes might get nervous about the spear gun.

LEGO has a new factory being built in China. It should be online by around 2017. That could help alleviate some of their current production capacity problems. It may be too soon to set a limit on part count. Then again the Ideas group seems to me like a small business unit in a large company without a lot of internal clout. Their allocation of shared company resources could be much smaller if they aren't bringing in the huge amount of revenue like the bigger themes. I guess if Ninjago needs more production, guess who gets reduced. As the saying goes: nothing personal, just business, Lord Business.

And the hamster.

Welome aboard. You can find the average selling prices of the individual items on BrickLink -> http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=7740-1 The 12V motor is the item that's worth the most, assuming it works and is complete.

I use Windows Movie Maker too.

And then some alien steps on it with bare feet and starts cursing. Mostly like when our sun expands during its end of life, it'll melt all the LEGO in the world. ABS plastic decomposes at around 400 deg. C.

You're looking at it from a LEGO fan point of view. Not everyone who owns an IP see it that way. They may not want their brand associated with children toys or they don't think LEGO is the greatest thing ever. Going the other way can be true too, LEGO may want not want to be associated with them like that oil company. Licensing agreements are a two way street. Terms and conditions have to be negotiated and agreeable to both parties. Things like fee and creative control can be a sticking point. If the fees asked are too high, then it could make the set too expensive for LEGO to be economically viable.

Day 305 of 365: Thriller Night by dr_spock_888, on Flickr

I am not sure those will sell as well as the usual LEGO vehicle sets. I made road work equipments for my entry to the Triple contest a couple of years ago and didn't get many votes.

Welcome Mark.

Sweet! Looks great with the decals. Where did you get the red stripe? I have some Amtrak MOCs and could use the red stripe. The red stripe on the prototype looks like the same size as the red stripe above the windows. I think it is ok to keep the bottom stripe.

Wasn't 8294 B model was a tracked dumper? Being a toy manufacturer, LEGO can probably get away with repeating the type of vehicle in every few years cycles. The current kids into Technics would move out into the Dark Ages and there is always a new crop of kids growing into the age range of Technics. It's a vicious cycle of constant human births and potential new customers who haven't owned a Technic excavator or front loader before. Big hole boring machine

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Welcome to Eurobricks. Great job and clever solution to the counterweight.

I assume LEGO did their homework before deciding to produce this theme. There is always some risk in releasing a new movie based product to the market. I think the sets will sell well if the movie does well. If the movie doesn't do well, then we'll have a clearance SALE. Either way the AB sets will sell (at a profit or at a loss).

I got mine from Alien Conquest sets - Earth Defense HQ and Jet Copter Encounter. They have been in other LEGO sets back in the 1990's and early 2000's.

You can coat it with UV protectorant after it is built.

Welcome to Eurobricks.

Will you put who will get the bricks in your will?

Box Trolls. Where is my white hat?

Happy Halloween! Day 304 of 365: Halloween Party by dr_spock_888, on Flickr

Thanks for the explanation. I had no idea of the significance of the fig next to Santa. Thought he was a helper or elf.