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CADPAT posted:I like that the cops have also old school police uniforms from LEGO. Yeah, the hats in particular are just like the ones on the faceless cop mini-figs from the 70s that I have. From the pic, it does look like all real Lego pieces, but who knows what the ones in the box look like.
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Jusupov posted:I want a pirate boat, but which one is better of The black pearl or queen anne's revenge? They're roughly the same price 90€ for me. I don't own either, but in my opinion The Queen Anne gets the edge because the back of it is pretty awesome.
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In an article with a well-done video, a British reporter takes on the mighty Unimog set. Good grief the finished set is huge! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motoringvideo/8899030/Unimog-Building-the-ultimate-Lego-car.html
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Because I have my SW Advent calendar at work, I opened Day 3 at work and I don't know WTF. At first I thought it was a half droideka, but after some research, I think it was a holo-projector from Episode 1 (http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2929). Kind of a failure to make something fun right there
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CADPAT posted:Because I have my SW Advent calendar at work, I opened Day 3 at work and I don't know WTF. You are correct. It's called a Mechno-chair.
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fireWARKs posted:I wonder what the quality of the bricks is... Considering that there are official Lego plants in China now it's possible that these are being made with real Lego molds. Well according to http://www.leggodt.nl/items/buildingtoys/brand.php?sq=50&language=en, "the quality is poor and it doesn't stick very well" , there's also a picture of some pieces there. Looks to be the same as the Enlighten or Shifty clone bricks, it's probably all from the same factory anyway, so they probably really suck in the quality department I like the Oxford Riot police one too, the one guy looks so happy to put the beat down on someone 
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Just picked up Creationary at KMart for $25 (got the original used years ago), and Exploration HQ for $18.50 (down from $50). It was already discounted and they have all discounted toys an extra half off. They still have like six of them. And now I'm off to make some Sealab 2020 MOCs.
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Pretty disappointed with the advent calandar so far, the first three days are all random extraneous stuff from episode 1. When do I get to Chewbacca and that sweet x-wing?
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Jusupov posted:I want a pirate boat, but which one is better of The black pearl or queen anne's revenge? They're roughly the same price 90€ for me. We have Queen Anne's Revenge and it's gorgeous. I don't know about the Black Pearl, but you wouldn't be going wrong with QAR
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Network42 posted:Pretty disappointed with the advent calandar so far, the first three days are all random extraneous stuff from episode 1. When do I get to Chewbacca and that sweet x-wing? Chewie isn't until day 6 and the X-wing isn't until day 9.  Today's thing was loving boring as hell. I did like the Republic cruise ship though.
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Recently bought some bulk Lego off a friend, noticed a few odd pieces (transparent yellow, which I don't see a whole lot of around) and looked it up.. It looks like somewhere in this bag is the parts for at least one Classic Space set, since I've found a couple of those yellow sloped windshields.
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Network42 posted:Pretty disappointed with the advent calandar so far, the first three days are all random extraneous stuff from episode 1. When do I get to Chewbacca and that sweet x-wing? Seriously, day 3 is a loving chair that I had to go online and search for to find out what it was apart from "some lovely prequel thing". Should have got the City calendar.
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eclipse posted:Seriously, day 3 is a loving chair that I had to go online and search for to find out what it was apart from "some lovely prequel thing". I believe the picture on Amazon shows all the fully assembled things from it. Which is good because it's all minifigs and really tiny ships from what I could make out. Nothing even remotely Christmassy in the lot. Have some fun with it, Lego! Dress Han up like Santa! Chewbacca could be the Bumble! Two words: X-Wing Sleigh. The City one didn't seem to have too much more, though. Seems mainly like an excuse to offload excess Police and City figures. If they'd do a nice Santa's Workshop set or something, I'd totally grab one. They've always just felt really lackluster, though. Finally getting back into the swing of set buying after an extended hiatus. Last stuff I bought was the dwarf fortress and some of the smaller miner sets, and I think that was around a year ago. This time I figured I'd just get stuff with no figures and went with three Creator sets. Mini firetruck, mini plane, and the blue car, I believe. I like the thought behind those. Extend the build times by including more poo poo to build before you break them down into pieces for other stuff.
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ChibiSoma posted:I believe the picture on Amazon shows all the fully assembled things from it. Which is good because it's all minifigs and really tiny ships from what I could make out. Nothing even remotely Christmassy in the lot. Have some fun with it, Lego! Dress Han up like Santa! Chewbacca could be the Bumble! Two words: X-Wing Sleigh. There is a Christmas tree, and Santa Yoda.
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gently caress the ROW posted:Here you go: http://i.imgur.com/qEE16.jpg Hahahah, Ligao. I found a Ligao set actually being sold, in a store, in America, once. I had to buy it. The pieces look incredibly legit, almost like they were from the actual molds, but there's something about the plastic and its friction that makes it not a terribly tight fit. If they invested a bit more in the plastic used, I'd say that they'd actually be better than Mega Bloks.
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Faerunner posted:We have Queen Anne's Revenge and it's gorgeous. I don't know about the Black Pearl, but you wouldn't be going wrong with QAR Spaceman Future! posted:I don't own either, but in my opinion The Queen Anne gets the edge because the back of it is pretty awesome. Thanks, ended up getting the queen anne. Though the shop didn't even have the pearl in the end
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My birthday Lego haul went so dang great. At the flea market I found the Sherrif's Lock Up and Tribal Chief sets from the mid to late 90s with the boxes and instructions in excellent condition. They had two other kits from the same Western line that I'm going to go back and get next weekend if they aren't gone (couldn't afford them all in one go). I only glanced over their contents but it looks like all the pieces are there. They were really well taken care of. I ended up not getting a train when I went to TRU. I decided I'd get the Emerald Night online sometime later. Instead I got the new garbage truck (and as soon as I get a set with a bear there will be trash bears, dont' you worry) and the technic Super Car. I also grabbed some Prince of Persia kit on the cheap at a discount store. I don't really like the PoP sets, but since it was at a discount I figured some extra sand-colored pieces and a couple of ostriches and a scorpion were worth it. Birthdays rule.
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http://www.brothers-brick.com/2011/11/18/escape-from-docking-bay-327-death-star-dio-big-enough-for-ucs-falcon/ This is pretty well done. 
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I know Jusupov has made the purchase already, but I was going to make the arguement that the Black Pearl is better than Queen Annes Revenge. However when you look at the facts (piece count) thats a hard arguement to make. Black Pearl 779 Parts 6 Minifigs Queen Anne’s Revenge 1054 Parts 9 Minifigs Queen Anne's is only about $10 more expensive. So its a pretty obvious choice in my eyes. However the Black Pearl is the only way to get the kickin rad Davy Jones minifig, and that bad boy is $20+ right there. ALSO, we need to send a few Lego goons to reeducate some of the posters in this thread http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3452012 titled "lovely Toys for lovely kids". I was happy to see the sixth reply was "Mega Bloks". But then... "gently caress you, Mega Bloks is awesome." "I thought it was fairly obvious to everyone that Megablocks are the little kid version of Legos? You don't give a 2 year old a Lego set for christ's sake. Now if someone is buying a 10 year old Megablocks than yeah, but they are clearly made for a reason, not just a cheap Lego knock-off. Though I guess you could buy Duplos but the point stands." 
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I know I am getting my kid DUPLO for Christmas instead of Mega Bloks. Even if they are stupid expensive.
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My mom and I got my 3 year old cousin Duplo blocks for either Christmas or her birthday (forget which, it was last year). Her mom said that she now wants more of them because she needs to "build bigger things  ". I love this child.
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My 4 year old got into my city advent calender early this year and ripped half the advent "doors" off the package and into 50 billion pieces and mis-arranged all the bags in the trays. Looks like I'm going to have to hunt down what each advent is online for instructions. Missing day 3, but so far a neat setup.
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I got an email from my nephew yesterday asking what days 1 and 3 from the Star Wards advent calendar were. I didn't want to disappoint him without an answer so I had to look them up online . Next time I'll get the City one, they tend to be pretty fun and there's no guessing at which episode 1-3 or Clone Wars poo poo things are.
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Getting Lego for your birthday is still awesome (even when you are 27 ). My cousin and his wife gave me Herioca: Castle Fortaan. Even though the basic rules are easy mode for babbys, the real fun comes from chopping and changing the rules / layout to suit. Spent the afternoon dicking around with variations with my girlfriend and having a blast. It was awesome when immediately she suggested that we go out and buy additional sets.
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I'm selling a bunch of Lego so I can buy my wife power tools for Christmas! I will be making a sale thread in SA Mart eventually, but I wanted to give you fine fellows first crack. The prices include shipping, but are fairly firm. HOWEVER, if you buy a bunch, I'll throw in a discount proportional to the amount you're buying. As an example, if you're the kind of nutjob who wants to buy the whole lot, the price is only $700 (as opposed to the $867 they all add up to). Star Wars 7754 - Home One Mon Calamari Star Cruiser - $50 8017 - Vader's TIE - $50 8083 & 8084 - Hoth Empire and Rebel Battle Packs - $20 8014 & 8015 - Clone Walker and Assassin Droids Battle Packs - $30 7140 - X-wing - $35 8089 - Hoth Wampa Cave - $35 8038 - Battle of Endor - $75 8097 - Boba Fett's Slave 1 - $60 Atlantis 8057 - Atlantis Wreck Raider - $12 8061 - Gateway of the Squid - $30 Indiana Jones 7625 - Indy River Chase - $35 7622 - Indy Race for the Stolen Treasure - $75 7682 - Temple Shanghai Chase - $50 7199 - Temple of Doom - $100 Castle 7040 - Dwarves Mine Defender - $20 7038 - Castle Troll Assault Wagon - $20 7037 - Castle Tower Raid - $25 Space Police 5979 - Space Police Max Security Transport - $40 5971 - Space Police Gold Heist - $25 5984 - Brick Daddy - $30 5969 & 5970 - Space Police Freeze Ray & Squidman Escape - $20 Misc 7737 - Off-Road Vehicle and Jet Scooter - $12 7902 - Doctor's Car - $10 8957 - Power Miners Mine Mech - $8 Feel free to PM me, or email me at frictiony at yahoo dot com!
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No Pun Intended posted:Getting Lego for your birthday is still awesome (even when you are 27 My mom kept going "you're not getting anything but Legos?" the whole day. She also doesn't understand that after buying these I still want at least one more Lego set for Christmas. But she did think that the 90s western jail set was really cool the way it springs apart. I just built the Supercar today. And by today I mean it literally took me more or less the entire day to build it. Man, that was a huge job but it was really fun. As soon as I turned the motor on and let it drive around my dog threw a huge fit over it. I laughed at him. A good time was had by all.
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Not sure how much anyone cares but I went back to my local Wal-Mart today and they still had the 1600 piece for $30.00. When I went the first time they had 5 shelves full with. Now they've got one shelf of them left and the rest are filled with other toys. It seems that they're keeping them at $30 until they run out. Bought another 2 boxes. 11,200 pieces later, I'm pretty happy. Check them Wal-Marts!
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My wife (of 4 months now) has family near the German/Danish border and promised to take me to LEGOland Billund after I'm introduced to her grandmother. I've never been to Europe, and I'm now way more interested in expensive overseas flights.
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:My wife (of 4 months now) has family near the German/Danish border and promised to take me to LEGOland Billund after I'm introduced to her grandmother. Don't know how it is now, but between 10 and 15 years ago I went there a couple of times. It was most awesome back then, en definitely tons better than the UK one. You're going to have a blast, I'm sure. 
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Taeke posted:Don't know how it is now, but between 10 and 15 years ago I went there a couple of times. It was most awesome back then, en definitely tons better than the UK one. The best part is that I didn't even suggest it. I just happened to have a copy of "Cult of LEGO" from the library with me when it came up.
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Hey I was curious on what peoples thoughts were on stickers vs. printed blocks? I hate the concept of stickers because you have to place them neatly and they peel off and such, but on the plus side plus if you don't apply the stickers then you can use the blocks for other things. I just generally like printed blocks for some reason. I like having a collection of control panels and other such things.
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Hey, how many of the board games would I need to grab to get a full compliment of the hero micro-figures (druid, barbarian, etc)? I just keep seeing those and immediately thinking how neat a really well-done D&D campaign made out of Legos would be. There are some nice Lego monsters and things out there, what with the skeletons, trolls, orc-like things, giant spiders, and dragons.
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I'm an experience lego veteran but I had trouble assembling the Slave 1 today for the advent calendar. 
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CADPAT posted:Hey I was curious on what peoples thoughts were on stickers vs. printed blocks? Agreed. I don't mind stickers for most pieces, but hate them for tiles and sloped 'computer' pieces. Also don't like it when stickers are supposed to be applied over multiple pieces (though this is unusual in my experience).
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:Agreed. I don't mind stickers for most pieces, but hate them for tiles and sloped 'computer' pieces. Also don't like it when stickers are supposed to be applied over multiple pieces (though this is unusual in my experience). I usually hate stickers, but I lovingly and meticulously applied them to my Emerald Night that came in over the weekend because I am convinced that engine will never be disassembled. I came out the ay after my wife and I had put it together and she had displayed it prominently in the living room, she usually hides my toys.
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:Agreed. I don't mind stickers for most pieces, but hate them for tiles and sloped 'computer' pieces. Also don't like it when stickers are supposed to be applied over multiple pieces (though this is unusual in my experience). They used to do that a lot back in the late 80's/early 90's. I remember I had one pizzeria set (I think it was re-released here a few years ago) that had one sticker go all across the side of a pizza truck - like 7 or 8 bricks were covered - and then one sticker all across the top of the building - another 7 or 8 bricks. Those chunks of brick were stuck together forever in my big box of lego before I finally took the stickers off. Now I can't rebuild the set because I don't have the stickers anymore. Always hated it.
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ChibiSoma posted:Hey, how many of the board games would I need to grab to get a full compliment of the hero micro-figures (druid, barbarian, etc)? I just keep seeing those and immediately thinking how neat a really well-done D&D campaign made out of Legos would be. There are some nice Lego monsters and things out there, what with the skeletons, trolls, orc-like things, giant spiders, and dragons. As far as I'm aware it would be 3. Waldurk, Nathuz and Fortaan. That would get you 3x Barbarians 2x Druids, 2x Wizards and 1 of each of the Knight, Ranger and Thief (plus all the tiles of course). Sadly there is no way to avoid the multiples.
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