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tonelok posted:Flying Mummy Attack Holy crap. When did this Pharoah's Quest series suddenly come out? I want that Biplane sooooo bad. Kinda reminds me of that Johnny Thunder series they did back in the day. I still have all of those sets and love looking at them from time to time. The little details were just awesome. Easily cooler than the actual Indiana Jones sets, and they were pretty obviously a ripoff of the whole Great White Hunter/Treasure Hunting Hero genre.
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tonelok posted:Flying Mummy Attack I was going to suggest the exact same set to tonelok. A sweet biplane, really cool looking minifigs, you can't go wrong. I'm only slightly "eh" about the fact that they made the Pharaoh's Quest stuff a Jake Raines tie-in, as I personally feel that one of the great draws of LEGO is its generality of play. Yes there are themes like Atlantis and Kingdoms and Pirates, but they don't give you a lot of names and back stories for the mini-figs, so they still let the imagination run wild. Once you start tying a company provided story and mythos around the sets and figures it feels a bit narrow. Or I could just be over-thinking it, cause either way, that's a sweet plane and it will be mine. ireladd fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Dec 3, 2010 |
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Just a heads up, Toys R Us has a weekend sale going today and tomorrow on Star Wars Lego stuff. Buy one, get one 50% off.. I'll link the pdf for it, but if a mod sees it and doesn't like it because of leeching or something, I'm open to suggestions edit: put this together yourself... ht tp://trus.imageg.net/graphics/media/trus/120210_Ds_TRU_MegaDeals.pdf slightpirate fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Dec 3, 2010 |
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InfinEight posted:Nice, high-res Ninjago pics. Throwing stars, samurai helmets, new skeletons? There goes all my money for next year.  : the new face of Legosss
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Welp today they put all the advent calendars on sale for 10 bucks at my Lego store and since I got 30% employee discount on top of that I ended up with a Kingdoms calendar for 7€. I knew waiting would pay off. And I got to open three doors at once 
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Katana Gomai posted:Welp today they put all the advent calendars on sale for 10 bucks at my Lego store and since I got 30% employee discount on top of that I ended up with a Kingdoms calendar for 7€. I knew waiting would pay off. And I got to open three doors at once Holy crap. Do you know if that is spanning all stores, including us Americans?
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ireladd posted:Holy crap. Do you know if that is spanning all stores, including us Americans? Well it's at least all Lego stores here in Germany and since advent calendars "expire" everywhere around the world at the same time...give your store a call, and hurry up because we sold a ridiculous amount of them today.
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Fayez Butts posted:
Thats the standard wheel from the Power Miners line. The gearing is used in an autoturning drill bit. Also I just picked up some of the Series 3 minifigs. Got a couple doubles due to the harsh lighting in TRU but the dimples are easier to pick out when there is a good shadow along the edge. Managed to get 2 elves. Heads up though as the Samurai seems really cheap quality even compared to the other minifigs. Evek fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Dec 3, 2010 |
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Well having been shut out of series 1 minifigs, I happen to stumble upon what I consider is the motherload of series 2 minifigs today. Having never actually seen minifigs in store, I immediately bought them out. All 79 minifigs they had, and they were only selling them for a $1.79 a piece.
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Spy posted:Well having been shut out of series 1 minifigs, I happen to stumble upon what I consider is the motherload of series 2 minifigs today. Having never actually seen minifigs in store, I immediately bought them out. All 79 minifigs they had, and they were only selling them for a $1.79 a piece. Don't leave us hanging! What store? Yours may not have any more, but if it's a chain, maybe others are doing it.
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Spy posted:Well having been shut out of series 1 minifigs, I happen to stumble upon what I consider is the motherload of series 2 minifigs today. Having never actually seen minifigs in store, I immediately bought them out. All 79 minifigs they had, and they were only selling them for a $1.79 a piece. Really just out of curiosity, I keep hearing of people buy tons of the minifigs. Is the goal to simply get a complete set and then sell off all others, or return the leftovers? What's the typical motivation with the bulk buy? It seems like a lot of work once you've gotten the 16 and maybe a few additional of your favorites.
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Jesus christ, those nunchuk handles. Those are some truly awesome bits. edit: OH gently caress, are the legs on this guy just a clip with a straight rod sticking out that you push into the feet parts, or all one piece? Former would be UNBELIEVABLE, the latter would be horrible.  Click here for the full 1254x1404 image. hell, that whole figure is amazing. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Dec 4, 2010 |
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ireladd posted:Really just out of curiosity, I keep hearing of people buy tons of the minifigs. Is the goal to simply get a complete set and then sell off all others, or return the leftovers? What's the typical motivation with the bulk buy? It seems like a lot of work once you've gotten the 16 and maybe a few additional of your favorites. Because having an army of 30 forestmen and 30 spartans never gets old.
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I know if I had the funds, I'd totally have a spaceport full of Series 1 space guys and robots, plus the new Blacktrons from Series 3.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. How the hell did this slip past me? This thing kicks rear end.
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Picked http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=3181&LangId=2057&ShipTo=US up today for $30 at Target. Pretty happy with it overall, though the control tower seems kinda unnecessary.
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Well after opening them all, I can tell you that I only got ONE complete set ladies and gents. Surprise of all the lots was I only got one of the pop singer. Here was the rundown: 3x Explorer 6x Vampire 7x Karate Guy 2x Pharaoh 4x Pamela Anderson 8x Weightlifter 1x Pop Singer 7x Witch 4x Mime 7x Traffic Cop 6x Maraca Man 3x Spartan 4x Disco Guy 4x Skier 4x Surfer 8x Ringmaster I would be open to trade with others for ones I am looking for and or sell to some goons.
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Dr. Platypus posted:Picked http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=3181&LangId=2057&ShipTo=US up today for $30 at Target. Pretty happy with it overall, though the control tower seems kinda unnecessary. I think it's actually a Precision Approach Radar.
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Don't know if you're trying to build another complete set or two, but if not, I'd definitely be interested in a Spartan and a Weightlifter. PM me if you're up for it! My fiancee found a half-ravaged box at the Burlingame FM in the Portland area. I know there's a mime, witch, vampire, lifeguard, mexican, traffic cop, and three others I can't remember. It looks like some retailers might have been keeping a box or two in reserve as stocking stuffers. Fake edit: $2.99. drat capitalism! Edit 2: Just to put it out there, I have an extra S1 Woodsman that I'd be happy to sell/trade. Blue Moonlight fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Dec 4, 2010 |
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My TRU has 2 full boxes of Series 3 minifigs on their front counter that have like 1 or 2 gone from each. Can't bring myself to spend 2.99 a piece when I can't figure out which are which. All I want is the Samurai.
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The Rage posted:All I want is the Samurai. I'm kinda disappointed Ninjago doesn't have more Samurai, but maybe the second wave will. Anyway, I took advantage of the TRU buy one get one 1/2 off:  Total cost: ~$37, so even with the TRU markup it's about 5.5 cents per piece. I mostly wanted the hammerhead dude, but it's really hard to hold back on payday 
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For those of you with the City Advent calendar... what is today's (December 4th) piece? We're debating it in our house.
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Captain Invictus posted:Jesus christ, those nunchuk handles. Those are some truly awesome bits. I can't imagine how the leg would be welded to the boot if they were considered just one part. Unless someone can come up with an example of two different coloured pieces being irrevocably joined together, I think they have to be separate.
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So this is a little bit off topic, but I really hope it doesn't derail the thread. My 4 year old is just now asking for "big boy blocks". Finally, he's graduated from the mega blocks and all that other stuff. He wants real legos. I have a box out in the garage from my childhood that I'm going to pass on to him, but it's really just not quite as thorough as I remember it being (everything seemed bigger when you were a kid). I've been browsing Ebay a little, and wanted some professional goon opinions. I'm wanting to get him started with just a large amount of random blocks, no specific sets (Star Wars, whatever). As a kid I was never one to follow the instructions and build the sets the "right way", and he's a very creative kid too. Anybody know of any good deals like that? I'm not wanting to spend more than 20 or 30 bucks at the moment, if possible.
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Ebenezer posted:For those of you with the City Advent calendar... what is today's (December 4th) piece? We're debating it in our house. We think It is a miniature version of this: 
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Oh poo poo! I haven't been doing my LEGO advent calendar. I've got a little catching up to do. THen again, I was too busy building my Imperial Flagship.
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Nestorix posted:We think It is a miniature version of this: Yep. It sucks that the boy already has two presents. I opened it up to ensure that everyone in the family got things they'd like, because nobody wants to get all the miniature versions of toys, but looking at the layout, it's pretty evenly balanced for a family of 4. Or I might just be saying that because I'm getting both Santas.
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Hit up Toys R' Us and got the last Angler attack and scarab set they had. Loving the little scarab. Used the 50% off to get that seabed scavenger (I think that's the name) as a Christmas gift for my gf's little sister who likes legos.
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Series 4 minifigs. The radiation worker, the mad scientist, and the hockey player are the standouts for me. Also maybe frankenstein's monster and the viking.
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Hobnob posted:Series 4 minifigs. The radiation worker, the mad scientist, and the hockey player are the standouts for me. Also maybe frankenstein's monster and the viking. I loving MUST own that hockey minifig. Wow, he even has protruding shoulder pads. Nice. All in all, this is a really nice series.  Is the other sports figure with the trophy a soccer player?
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I know it wasn't much of a deal, but I paid the TRU markup on the Sonic Boom and a Toy Story set for daughter in order to score a minifig USB drive. Whoohoo. I was looking for an excuse to pick up the Sonic Boom anyway. I also picked up a Best-Lock for shits and giggles (the minifig looks so drat sad). That crap isn't even worth ironically making fun of it.
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Revol posted:
I'm tempted to say it's Messi. That's a pretty spiffy set of minifigs.
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Looking through this thread I didn't see too much LEGO Mindstorms discussion but I don't really see any other relevant place to post this and I want to share! For my Artifical Intelligence class I built a robot that can solve a maze. The example I have here is pretty small (a 5x4 maze) but the Mindstorms memory could potentially handle something as big as 20x20. This robot has position detection, orientation direction, and whenever it hits a dead end or a place that it has visited all possible directions it backtracks until it gets to a new unexplored path. I had a huge amount of fun building this and programming it and if there is anybody in this thread on the fence about getting a Mindstorms set I can't recommend it enough! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMEnopw9Pto If anybody has any questions about the details of how it works feel free to ask!
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Is that a geisha? And a musketeer? And a gnome? This is the best series yet!
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