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Sent in my order for VIP bonus today. Picked up the new Winter set and a few Christmas-themed items. Also, is the minifig trading thread dead? It seems like there isn't much activity. I've got a whole box of Series 5, looking to trade for figs from 1, 3, and 4.
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So I can't seem to figure out where this guy came from: There is clearly a LEGO logo on it, but I can't seem to get the right mix of numbers to figure out what set he's from. Help?
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Nov 20, 2011 01:18
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rickiep00h posted:So I can't seem to figure out where this guy came from: Is he DUPLO sized? Even if he's lego sized, he seems weirdly familiar.
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Nov 20, 2011 03:29
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boner meter posted:Is he DUPLO sized? Even if he's lego sized, he seems weirdly familiar. No, he's regular LEGO size. His feet are 2x1 each and his legs when sitting are too. I can't for the life of me remember where I got him, though, I must have been like 8 or 9 when I did.
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Nov 20, 2011 03:32
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rickiep00h posted:So I can't seem to figure out where this guy came from: http://peeron.com/inv/parts/x1734cx2 Was only in 391-2, a Fabuland police car.
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Nov 20, 2011 03:40
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Wow, I never even thought to look through the Fabuland sets. While I was looking I found what might be the single classiest set ever: http://peeron.com/scans/391-1/1
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Nov 20, 2011 03:46
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Time Cowboy posted:Wow, I never even thought to look through the Fabuland sets. This set makes me wonder...do you think AFOLs back in the BBS days were complaining about actual windshield pieces?
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Nov 20, 2011 03:48
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He's freaking me out now, in much the same way as the old style technic dudes did when I was a kid. Also the wheels on that Citroën own, holy poo poo.
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Pyroclastic posted:http://peeron.com/inv/parts/x1734cx2 Whoa...a non-animal Fabuland minifig? That's kind of creepy, somehow.
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Nov 20, 2011 03:50
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Pyroclastic posted:http://peeron.com/inv/parts/x1734cx2 THANK YOU. I was wondering if the POLICE bricks and stuff I had were somehow related to that guy. I don't think I have the windshield anymore, though. I have a red one, but I don't know about the blue one. Given that it's 1986, I would have been five, and that was probably my first my first set. Be right back, bawling my eyes out now over my childhood.
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Nov 20, 2011 05:02
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I went back a few pages and didn't see anything about this: http://heroica.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx I have always HATED the Lego that's not really for building, like BIONICLE and crap, but this looks like fun and structured rules while maintaining a lot of creativity.
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Nov 20, 2011 09:17
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AlternateAccount posted:I have always HATED the Lego that's not really for building, like BIONICLE and crap Not for building , you say ?
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Nov 20, 2011 10:01
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OK, I stand very, very corrected.
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AlternateAccount posted:I went back a few pages and didn't see anything about this: Yeah, I picked up one of the Heroica games after watching the "how to play" video because it did genuinely look fun. Haven't played it yet though, going to over Thanksgiving with a friend of mine from back home. I was just really surprised that it looked that fun. I guess the cool thing about it being Lego is that if I get bored of it I can rebuild the map to my heart's content.
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AlternateAccount posted:OK, I stand very, very corrected. Yeah what are you talking about? When I made my big "lets get back into lego" purchase I bought a big bulk lot of the stuff for, well, that very reason.
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Nov 20, 2011 17:40
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Fred Meyer has a 25% off Toys bonus coupon, and a $10/$20/$30 off $50/$100/$150 coupon. So you could go get some big sets for a lot cheaper than usual.
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Some newer images of the DC stuff. Haven't seen them posted in this thread yet: http://www.brickheroes.com/2011/11/lego-dc-2012-les-images-officielles/ This is pretty cool, but if I got anything it would probably be the Batwing one.  I decided I couldn't justify buying myself the medieval market village for christmas despite the fact that it is my dream set  We're saving to move house at the moment and that amount of money on indulgent nostalgia is pushing it when we're trying to be a bit more frugal all round. Amazon had a midsized Pirnce of Persia set for half price so I got that instead. It's not a line I have any particular interest in, but it will be the first "big" set I've got since I getting the bug and it looks like it will be fun to play with with the kid. I also have the motor home tucked away some where.
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I just found out that a Lego store is going to open in my area in the near future, and I'm really keen on getting a part-time job there. I submitted my info to their online job-search-thing, and I was wondering if any of you have an "inside track" on how the hiring process goes for new retail locations. I have a full-time job already so this would be a nights/weekends deal - do you think I have a shot? I'm all giddy at the notion of working at a Lego store 
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Gravy Jones posted:Some newer images of the DC stuff. Haven't seen them posted in this thread yet: http://www.brickheroes.com/2011/11/lego-dc-2012-les-images-officielles/ Wow that Two Face set has possibly the most esoteric pieces in existence. Right up there with the giant plane wing and the blimp. I will be proven wrong when someone makes a crazy orange/purple MOC but still those plates are ugly.
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Nov 21, 2011 16:50
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Hey, you know that sale I mentioned? I got this and this for $110 after the coupons and my wife's employee discount. Awesome.
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Sockser posted:Wow that Two Face set has possibly the most esoteric pieces in existence. Right up there with the giant plane wing and the blimp. Pretty sure that two-color hood piece is solid purple, with a two-color sticker on top. While channel surfing with my son last night, I caught the last half hour or so of one of the direct to video Lego movies, The Adventures of Clutch Powers. It was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting. In fact it was more entertaining than it had any right to be. Perhaps because I'm a gigantic man-child who loves Lego-related humor.
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Nov 21, 2011 18:45
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Taeke posted:I found this quite interesting. It's a guide to build this: I want to live there.
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Time Cowboy posted:While channel surfing with my son last night, I caught the last half hour or so of one of the direct to video Lego movies, The Adventures of Clutch Powers. It was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting. In fact it was more entertaining than it had any right to be. Perhaps because I'm a gigantic man-child who loves Lego-related humor. There's a new(ish) "4D" Clutch Powers movie at our local Discovery Center that my kid loves so I've got him the DVD for Christmas. Unfortunately not the one with the minifig Also, Clutch Power is Captain Awesome from Chuck (and his female teammate is Sarah).
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Nov 22, 2011 01:31
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LOL, time to re-purchase all the Batman sets I sold for a bajillion dollars, at retail price.
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It does look like they just redid a lot of the old Batman sets with a few changes here and there. I already have that Batwing (well, it looks very close) and the Joker helicopter is a bit different. Couldn't they come up with something completely different? Also, are those all the DC sets coming out? Seems there was only one other than Batman. Keeku fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Nov 22, 2011 |
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Romav posted:It does look like they just redid a lot of the old Batman sets with a few changes here and there. I already have that Batwing (well, it looks very close) and the Joker helicopter is a bit different. That's exactly what I was thinking. And the Lex-bot just seems flat to me, I don't know.
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Nov 22, 2011 03:55
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Well that solves my problem of getting Batman minifigs I guess...
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Fooley posted:Well that solves my problem of getting Batman minifigs I guess... There are subtle differences, thank goodness. On top of all the Batman sets I resold, I also bought up a bunch of cheap Batman minifigs on Bricklink when they were $5 each, thinking I would customize or something.
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Considering how prohibitively expensive the original run of Batman sets is now, can you really blame them for basically putting them back out there with a few minor changes? There's obviously tons of people who wanted them who now can't get them because they're literally hundreds of dollars more than they should be. Also that Batcave is hardly anything like the original Batcave, this new one is way more Adam West.
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Travis343 posted:Considering how prohibitively expensive the original run of Batman sets is now, can you really blame them for basically putting them back out there with a few minor changes? There's obviously tons of people who wanted them who now can't get them because they're literally hundreds of dollars more than they should be. I don't blame them at all, and I hope they put all of them back out so that everyone can get one at an affordable price. I own two Arkham Asylums and if they put it in stores tomorrow I'd be like "sweet!" That being said, I look forward to selling off my original minifigs at a huge markup to sperglords once the differences are known. Two-face used to wear a black and white suit, for instance. Someone's going to pay bank for that.
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Had a nice find today, a local toy store seems to have been sitting on some older stuff. Some of this i didn't even know about (LEGO Sports? Island Extreme Stunts?). I got the boat motors for some future MOC, and the green bricks, because you can never have enough green. I liked the various chromed parts in the two stunt sets.  The numbers were the prices. The Ferrari seems to go for about 250 EUR on Bricklink, and they have six more at the store. I'm sorely tempted. I'll keep checking out local places whenever i pass one.
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Well, NNovvember is almost over, and there have been some pretty good Vic Viper designs this year. Here's mine:   If you haven't made one yet, there's still time!
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Intoxication posted:The numbers were the prices. The Ferrari seems to go for about 250 EUR on Bricklink, and they have six more at the store. I'm sorely tempted. I doubt you'd regret it. Licensed Ferrari stuff is always popular and highly collectable. I don't see why Lego would be any different.
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Intoxication posted:Had a nice find today, a local toy store seems to have been sitting on some older stuff. Some of this i didn't even know about (LEGO Sports? Island Extreme Stunts?). Lego Sports started in the early 2000s IIRC. I remember seeing ads for it in Lego magazine back when I still got that so probably 2001 or so. I'm not going to look it up, of course. Lego Speed Racer, however, I had no idea. e: actually I was at an independent Lego store in the Ohio Valley Mall last week and they have a big glass case of Minifigs and there was a Speed in there. I assumed they made him 
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LHC in Lego http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/11/lego-atlas/atlaslegomodel18/
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physeter posted:When I was 10 years old, my best friend Billy moved into a nearby apartment that had a huge fish tank built into the back patio. His mom stocked it with fish, and we used to play legos out there every afternoon. You see back in the 80s, we didn't have these legos for pussies you guys have now. You knew you were playing with space legos because some pieces were translucent, and the little yellow dudes had helmets. That's how you figured that out. This is incredible. Your link seems to be broken, which piece was it? I'm really having trouble imagining Lego holding enough air for poor grasshoppers to live in
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Sloppy posted:This is incredible. Your link seems to be broken, which piece was it? I'm really having trouble imagining Lego holding enough air for poor grasshoppers to live in
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To elaborate, the story used this piece simply to get the the air hose into a large-ish LEGO structure. The air was supplied by the pump that goes into pretty much any fish setup, and thus had enough pressure (presumably) to keep the water out of the structure while simultaneously allowing the grasshoppers to live. Think of it as living inside a LEGO balloon, or an old-school diving setup with a hose and bellows. Depending on how many grasshoppers are in there, I could see them living indefinitely, or until their food supply ran out or their little underwater bio-dome collapsed. And we all know what happened in this instance. (Also the reason it's so amazing is precisely because it's so .)
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I've been working on the Pet Shop for the last few evenings and I'm really disappointed with the number of off-color brown bricks there are. It's not just a little bit off, either - they're almost a pinky-brown. Why does this happen?
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My parents are bugging me to clear my old lego out of storage when I'm around for Thanksgiving. I'd like to try building something interesting-ish, but I know when I was a kid I heavily prioritized my purchases based on cool minifigs and accessories so I assume I'll have disappointingly few structural pieces to work with. What's the cheapest way to get bulk generic bricks? Ebay?
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