Cerlin

A local toy shop in my area has three big, discontinued sets on sale and I don't have the budget to buy all three of them.They are: 7066: Earth Defense HQ for €50 7985: City of Atlantis for €50 4194: Whitecap Bay also for €50 I like all three themes, as I like most fantasy/science fiction themes and I already own some sets of those themes. I am aware that the price-per-piece ratio is best with 7066 and worst with 7985, but still, every one of those sets has a certain appeal. Which set should I buy? oh, and: I would buy the LOTR set. The Superman set has a car, and I don't have any use for more car pieces, the Lone Ranger one is quite nice for the minifigs and the horse, but there is very little to build. If it's important to you that the finished set looks good, go for LOTR.

I'm from the western part of Austria (we're talking about Austria, not Australia, right?) and there are no toy shops that I know of, that have modulars. Toys r Us has Star Wars UCS models and usually many hard-to-get sets, like 8404, they even had town plan for a time. If I want to buy other exclusives, I drive to the Lego Store in Munich, it's not that far from the most parts of Austria. I'd like to know about toy stores in Vienna too, though. Are there any stores that sell vintage Lego sets in Austria?

Fantastic MOC, I really like your LEGO version of the Nebulon B! It looks totally feasible as an official UCS set. I'd love to see LEGO make this set for real, it would be a lot of fun to build, with no repetitions and lots of possible techniques. However, there are two problems, which might have to do with why LEGO hasn't released a UCS Nebulon B yet: It is quite unswooshable, and due to the design of the Nebulon B, I imagine the model would be fragile as well. Pick it up without supporting the right parts with your hands, and it would fall apart. Is your MOC stable enough to be picked up? Does it have to be held a certain way? I still hope they get around to making one. Edit: I just realized, it's an LDD MOC, stupid me So we wouldn't know how fragile it is, right?

Thank you for your nice comments! And yes, my sister liked it and her lecturer and fellow students, too. Bringing a Lego MOC to a presentation added some bonus points for creativity .

B-V-19F Hello there! My sister is a student of social pedagogy, and she asked me if I could make something out of LEGO about civil courage for a presentation of hers. So I came up with this two-sided vignette. One half shows the pedestrians walking by, pretending they don't see, as a young man is being bullied. The other half shows people trying to intervene and calling for help. The side with the people looking the other way: The side where civil courage is shown: Same scene, from another angle: side view: the other side view: c&c welcome Happy bricking everyone! Greets, Cerlin Edit: Of course, more photos on flickr.

thanks lightningtiger. right, i could have added some with cotton or photoshop thanks, next time i'll try that. the picture link flickr provides didn't do the trick, but i didn't use "copy image location" thank you, the two sweaty faces from the collectible minifigs series 2 and 3 just cried out to me: "make something where you can use us!"

A little MOC I made a while ago. I thought I'd take a picture of it, before all my Lego gets disassembled and stored in the attic over the summer. Link to flickr c&c welcome! edit: The forum doesn't seem to allow image links from flickr, what am I doing wrong? edit 2: now the embed should have worked

Again many minifigs in series 5 i like and few that i don't care much for. I'm going to buy all of them anyway and try to get multiples of some. The Only thing I'm disappointed about is that there's no japanese minifig in series 5 and not a single sci-fi minifig in either series 4 or 5. Hazmat suit guy from series 4 is useful for space, but he's not necessarily sci-fi. Series two also didn't have sci-fi figs, but the rest of the figures made up for it for me.

It's still the same prelim pictures with "stand-ins" for the final minifigures. Cannibal Island for example looks like it's made in LDD, the minifigs there look very CG. Nothing about these pictures final yet.

Nice review and fantastic pictures! They're so crystal clear, I can see your fingerprint on one of the Lego pieces I played this once with my nephews, but yeah, even they (aged 9) found it rather dull after one or two games. From the back of the box it seems they are in italian, (canadian) french and (american) english. On european boxes the four languages you mentioned are on the back of the box too, so that may just be the same in the U.S.

I'm 29, and it's exactly a year since I came out of my dark age. I first stashed the sets out of sight when my girlfriend came over, but after a couple of months all the Lego became impossible to hide, so I told her I was totally into Lego. Turns out she was fine with it, she even brought me a PoP set from her vacation. My family and friends now all know and no one (except my mother, who thinks I should "grow up") has a problem with it. I don't exactly get Lego for christmas or birthdays, but I did get a glass display cabinet from my sisters, which I will obiously use to display my favourite sets. My girlfriends best friends now play Creationary with us sometimes, I guess everyone is getting used to seeing Lego around when visiting us At stores I get asked all the time (not only before christmas) if it should be giftwrapped, and usually I just say "no", sometimes "no, it's for me", but I don't get strange looks for that. I seem to be the only AFoL in a 100km radius, as there's a lot of older and rare set in toy stores all around me, but that's ok for me. The community is mostly online anyway and I still can buy Batman and Exo-Force sets, which I missed due to my dark age

I don't know if this is a part of the upcoming POtC sets as there are eight sets in a row with similar set numbers, all of which are unnamed yet: http://www.bricklink.co.za/LEGOShop/category.php?id_category=1024 who knows? there are also sets listed with a relation to sea themes: Marina Lighthouse island Harbour maybe there's a new city harbour theme coming, too?

I think the shape is quite accurate, but the multitude of colors hurt my eyes You certainly put all your pieces to good use Maybe if you photograph it in (or photoshop it to) black&white it would look more impressive?

Propably because CaptainRex (the reviewer) removed them from his flickr account, from where they were deeplinked. Why he removed them, I cannot say. This happens sometimes with older reviews. I wish there was a way the pictures in the reviews could stay permanently, but with all the deeplinking, there's never a guarantee.

So that's why the gorilla looks funny... it's actually a guy in a gorilla suit, did'nt think of that. Get two of them and you can make a "Pink Panther" MOC!

1. Yes, the new PotC movie is called "On Stranger Tides" and will open summer 2011. It's like Lego did with Indiana Jones, a fourth movie came out and they made licensed sets. 2. I think the shortest-run licensed theme could have been Avatar (The Last Airbender) with just two sets in 2006.

I bought one battlepack of each faction yesterday, and both of them had issues with the clutch power of the minifig's hands. The weapons fell off quite easily, especially where the weapon handles were "fatter" (halberds and swords have slightly bigger handles than spears or shields), so I had the following assumption: If a minifigure holds a weapon for a long time, say, half a year, the clutch power of the hand weakens. Maybe the minifig hands can hold their weapons better after some time witout holding anything? I took the weapons off the battlepack minifigs almost immediately after I unpacked them. Now, one day later, they seem to hold the weapons better, the "click"-sound is much more satisfying than the day before. Now, if I put a 1x1 round brick on each hand of those minifigs for a few days (thus tightening the minifig hand grip) , I'm pretty sure they'll hold their weapons just as tight as any lego minifig. Let's call this the "minifig clutch power therapy" I'm not saying the quality of the battlepack figs is on par with the minifig in regular kingdoms sets, but I blame the weak grip on the weapons on the packaging with weapons already in their hands. I don't have any BPs fom previous years, so I don't know about them, but I think this is not an issue of production quality.

Has anyone read the Discworld novel "Pyramids" by Terry Pratchett? There are some resemblances to the book in this theme: In the story the space time is warped by 90 degrees to the rest of discworld so the old (egyptian) gods come alive and wreak havoc on the kingdom of djelibeybi. Even the sphinx comes alive(!). The hero then has to destroy the great pyramid to restore the reality of the kingdom, because the gods shouldn't really exist. So the big incarnations of old egyptian gods totally make sense to me Apart from that, I already love the theme because I missed out on adventurers (dark age) and all the other goodness previous posters already mentioned.

Sweet ship, I particularly like the engines. The dark red grille plate exists in these sets.

Same offer also in Austria.

Will do. I think I saw two more Batman sets in that particular toy shop. Although one of them is the UCS Batmobile, which didn't see the same price increase as the ones with minifigs. So that will go on my shelf.

look here Found two of 7786 in a local shop. I'm keeping one for myself and selling the other one. Only LEGO will be bought from the profit, I promise! I hope it's ok to link to my auction here. if not, sorry.

6241 Loot Island 8956 Stone Chopper and, in my favourite local toy store, where they still have batman sets, exo-force and even vikings, they had all the new kingdom sets, including the battle packs and the 30061 Attack Wagon! 7949 Prison Carriage Rescue 7950 Knight's Showdown 30061 Attack Wagon didn't buy the battle packs this time, but i sure am going to

1. No 2. Individual 3. The Temple of Ramessess II at Abu Simbel in Egypt. Or the Treasury at Petra in Jordan (Would fit perfectly to Indiana Jones). 4. A big ol' space station in Classic Space style

marxism has nothing to do with all this. but telling a profit-oriented company not to charge a fee for their services is a bit unrealistic in my opinion. With lego and with all things else - everyone complains about the price, why let a thread in an official forum open, when that is a topic not open for discussion with TLC?