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Haha, no. I actually bought all but two of them myself. I got 30-50% off most of them as well, so it was pretty cool.

4403 Air Blazers 4404 Land Busters 4993 Cool Convertible 6743 Street Speeder 7631 Dump Truck 7658 Y-wing Starfighter 7659 Imperial Landing Craft 7660 Naboo N-1 Starfighter™ and Vulture Droid™ 7663 Sith Infiltrator 7667 Imperial Dropship 7668 Rebel Scout Speeder 7669 Anakin's Jedi Starfighter 7670 Hailfire Droid and Spider Droid 7671 AT-AP Walker 7672 Rogue Shadow 7673 Magnaguard Starfighter 7674 V-19 Torrent 7675 AT-TE Walker 7676 Republic Gunship 7678 Droid Gunship 7679 Republic Fighter Tank 7997 Train Station 8272 Snowmobile 8294 Excavator 8295 Telescopic Handler 8297 Off-Roader 8416 Forklift 8420 Street Bike 10184 Town Plan 10186 General Grievous™ 10187 Volkswagen Beetle 10188 Death Star™ It was a good Christmas.

Who else would like to see Lego reissue more of their older sets? There are many older sets that I would love to see available again. It's been quite awhile since they released an old legend set and I'm not sure why. I would think they would sell very well still.

I agree. I still would have preferred a redesign/upgrade of the none motorized version.

I just paid as well. This should be a lot of fun guys.

I did read the topic, I must have just spaced out...lol Anyway, count me in for one ticket.

What's the payment method for the tickets? Will you take PayPal?

The idea behind the set is great, but from what I've seen from those pics, the models seem a little too basic. Am I the only one who thinks so? I'll wait until we get some larger pics to make a final judgement, but they don't look nearly as detailed as the Super Chief or BNSF.

If I'm not mistaken, "Town Jr." is a term the Lego community made up. It started with the 1997 system town sets. You can look on Lugnet and those sets will be listed under "Town Jr.". Then the term juniorization came along to describe the town sets and the other product lines that started showing the same dumbing down as the town line did. That's how I've heard it anyway.

Looks very nice. I wish they would go back to chrome light saber hilts, though. I have a ton of them, but those grey hilts are just ugly.

I agree with most of what you said, but, sets like this in '97 is when juniorization started IMO. They started painting the car lights onto bricks instead of using clear stud pieces, no doors on the cars, building made of only a few pieces and lacking detail etc. Town is definitely getting much better now, but it's still not quite where it was IMO. There are some really cool things they're doing with town that are more advanced than what they did in the 80's and 90's, but there's still a little something missing that I can't quite put a finger on.

I definitely agree that the older sets were far superior to just about any of the newer sets outside of a few really amazing sets that been made for older/more serious collectors. But, it seems the sets we've seen coming out this year are taking a big step in the right direction, the new town sets are the best I've seen since the juniorization started in '97 or so. Hopefully Lego is going back to it's roots a bit. I will say, since juniorization, Lego has produced some of the finest, most detailed sets they ever have. Sets like the Santa Fe train engine, the UCS Star Wars sets and several others are more detailed than anything they had ever designed before mid 90's and juniorization. Hopefully they continue producing some of these amazingly detailed sets, along with the better and more basic sets for town, castle etc. I think from the looks of sets like the new Designer House this year, they may be doing that.

People are going to start ripping open boxes in the store to look for these gold figures. I wouldn't be surprised to find a lot of opened boxes in stores. That's my only problem with this.

You think it will go for five thousand or more in ten years? Man, I hope you're right.

Sorry, but you really can't see anything from those pics.

I guess the only remaining question is if it's going to have an interior of any kind.

I just preordered two. One to build and one to put away for a long time.

Yeah, the Sith Infiltrator is very disappointing if that's the final model. It looks somewhat juniourized and it's even somewhat hard to tell what ship it is IMO. Btw, anybody else think the front end of the Infiltrator is the set we couldn't identify in the first pic of the Tie Crawler?

OMG, best Lego set EVER!! 8-

If we see anything close to those prototypes become actual sets, not only will they be going back to their roots and classic design, but they'll also blow most classic sets out of the water. Very exciting!

I wouldn't go as far as saying this is the best year for city/town sets ever. Since the mid 90's juniorization started, definitely.

Ehhh, worst of this year's new sets IMO.

I don't like the one piece boxes on the dump truck, the other new city vehicles look better to me. Still, it is an improvement over the last few lines of city vehicles. The new train station looks pretty nice, I still prefer the older classic stations, but it's a good step in the right direction. That new track is great, too bad they can't make it in 9V.

Awesome stuff! Can't wait.

I do like the prototype city crane better. Especially the cabin for the crane operator. It looks much more like classic town design than the final model.