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Mr. Glass posted:IIRC the original wild west theme in the 90s was the first appearance of guns that could be considered "realistic". Before that all they had was those blunderbuss-style muskets. That was a great theme. I wish they'd give it another go because there were so many potentially awesome sets that never got made. The series 6 Outlaw is pretty cool and had me digging up my old cowboys, Indians, and marshalls. Maybe I'll try to make an old train.
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A gangster/mafia theme would be awesome, although I could see how it wouldn't be considered very kid-friendly. I also totally want an update of the wild west theme, but the whole cowboys/Indians thing is probably a no-go as well.
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Feb 29, 2012 06:02
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The Western sets weren't really confrontational, though. You had sets with cowboys vs. bandits vs. soldiers and then you had sets with Indians vs. uhh... snakes and rolling logs. There weren't any banditos or saloons or train robberies to speak of. The whole line was so clean. They really should try it again.
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Feb 29, 2012 06:10
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I'd love a Roman/Classical theme. It wouldn't have to be all alabaster white and things either - the Romans painted their statues, so things could be pretty colorful and still Roman.
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Feb 29, 2012 06:17
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I want more Space. I don't really care what goes on in space, so long as it means big swooshy space ships and huge stompy robots. A film noir-style gangster theme would be rad, too. Run-down buildings with weird, diagonal uses for flat studless boards, rats, gumshoes with trenchcoats, I'm all in.
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Feb 29, 2012 06:27
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John Carstairs posted:MOTHERFUCKING DINO RIDERS This is really great. This sums up all that is good in the world when you are a kid: Lego, Dinosaurs, and nonfatal faction violence. I was having a wretched day, and your Dino Riders cheered me up. I especially love the ant guy's head. Great job!
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Feb 29, 2012 06:30
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What about a museum line with sets featuring historical minifigs in small dioramas as if they were mannequins (no allusions to this in the fig design) and some velvet ropes and plaques and display cases to go around it? It'd open doors for pretty much any kind of historical stuff without the designers having to commit to whole lines or large sets of the stuff and they'd make interesting decoration.
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Feb 29, 2012 06:32
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Funkmaster General posted:What about a museum line with sets featuring historical minifigs in small dioramas as if they were mannequins (no allusions to this in the fig design) and some velvet ropes and plaques and display cases to go around it? This is a brilliant idea, but now you're making me sad that it doesn't exist.
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Feb 29, 2012 06:53
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youareoffthehook posted:So I got to build the Town Hall for the display for our store, and I took a bunch of pictures of it with the modified Grand Emporium and my outdoor cafe/park. Do you know when it's going to be available in your store? I was just up there a week ago, but...
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Feb 29, 2012 07:25
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So today on a trip to Target I noticed that the big Friends set (the house) has pug bricks on the side. Does the Friends house fit in with the modular buildings???
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Feb 29, 2012 07:34
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Pyroclastic posted:Do you know when it's going to be available in your store? I was just up there a week ago, but... March 1st! I'm so excited 
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Feb 29, 2012 07:34
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Soooo.... after getting back into Lego about a month ago, I..... I may have a problem. (click for bigs)     Also the Green Grocer modular which I forgot to snap.
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Feb 29, 2012 09:41
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Feb 29, 2012 09:42
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As long as it is not food money you're using to buy these, I see no problem here!
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Feb 29, 2012 09:58
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Captain Invictus posted:As long as it is not food money you're using to buy these, I see no problem here! Don't be ridiculous. It's just rent money. I want some of those space chicks from series 5 they're so cool but I'm so broke right now. 
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Feb 29, 2012 10:08
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A couple of good new deals at Amazon UK including 29% off Battle over Gotham which is the biggest discount I've seen on one of the superhero sets. I'm tempted. I don't really like the line that much but wanted to get one Batman set and that seems like a good choice. Batcave is £10 off as well but will probably be cheaper at some point. The two-face set is 20% off as well.
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youareoffthehook posted:March 1st! I'm so excited Would you say it's def worth the $200 price tag?
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Feb 29, 2012 13:21
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Soooo.... after getting back into Lego about a month ago, I..... I may have a problem. Conspicuously absent: Lunar Limo. You're no goon, friend.
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Feb 29, 2012 13:53
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Catsworth posted:I want some of those space chicks from series 5 they're so cool but I'm so broke right now. "Intergalactic Girl." is in s6, so you still have a bit of time to look for her.
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Feb 29, 2012 14:24
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Speaking of getting back into Lego and having problems. The Hello Kitty ones are my g/f who decided she wanted to invade the fire station... Also, those large mini fig display things are hard to find. I've only seen them at toys r us and I stopped in yesterday and all they had were the smaller ones. Anyone know if they sell them at the Lego store? Might have to take a trip to orlando this weekend since the Town Hall comes out as well.
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Feb 29, 2012 14:40
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Soooo.... after getting back into Lego about a month ago, I..... I may have a problem. Same here. I think I started collecting a couple months ago. I have to keep rearranging.I can't even keep up with the uploads. But I'm trying: http://s1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/legolordryan/
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Lobsterdeth posted:I thought there was like a path Lego won't cross as far as weapons/warfare/violence goes? Or was that before? That's kind of hilarious, considering the current lines' focus on guns, missiles and battle. Have you seen the tv commercials? They're almost like mini Michael Bay movies. "FIRE THE MISSILES!" "SHOOT THE TORPEDOES". Kind of sad, to be honest, especially when you look at how these aggressive themes are marketed primarily to boys and then we get "Friends" which is marketed specifically to girls. What ever happened to generic, gender neutral creativity? I find that a lot of these new sets are PLAYSETS, rather than construction sets.
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Rocket Ace posted:Have you seen the tv commercials? They're almost like mini Michael Bay movies. "FIRE THE MISSILES!" "SHOOT THE TORPEDOES". I haven't seen any like that, maybe a couple of Ninjago ones. I see more for City than anything else, a few for Dino maybe. Not much in the way of missiles of torpedoes. Might be a regional thing though. Rocket Ace posted:What ever happened to generic, gender neutral creativity? I find that a lot of these new sets are PLAYSETS, rather than construction sets. Action figures happened. If Lego hadn't made the shift from construction to play/action they would have gone out of business a couple of decades ago. They very almost did. I've seen a lot of people cite Bionicle as one of the main things that saved them. That and the Star Wars license. They still have traditional construction sets with Bricks and More (for kids) and Creator (for teens) also stuff like the modulars for us manchildren. Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Feb 29, 2012 |
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Gravy Jones posted:Action figures happened. If Lego hadn't made the shift from construction to play/action they would have gone out of business a couple of decades ago. They very almost did. I've seen a lot of people cite Bionicle as one of the main things that saved them. That and the Star Wars license. I'm still amazed that Bionicle did as well as it did (or does?). I just can't see the appeal of the Bionicle line. I honestly can't see the Friends line lasting, but I kind of hope it does, because they need encouragement to keep trying new things. Honestly, I wish the Lego site let you design and buy individual blocks. At the very least, they'd cash in on people creating personalized minifigures. But really, it'd just streamline their pick-a-brick process.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Soooo.... after getting back into Lego about a month ago, I..... I may have a problem. Reminds me of me!  That was the bulk of my new collection after two months.
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What's that fence thing at the bottom? I don't remember that set.
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My parents have graciously bestowed upon me the entirety of my childhood lego collection! Five tupperware containers of various size, full to the brim with pieces. Sadly, probably not a lot of fancy newfangled pieces, but enough variety that I should be able to build some pretty rad MOCs once I take a brief inventory.
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Pyroclastic posted:Reminds me of me!
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Gravy Jones posted:Obviously taken moments before the table collapsed. Or the cat jumps on the table. "Hey guys, whats goin on up here, I -" ker-smash-crash-boom! "Oh god I'm so sorry!" A similar thing happened to my ex causing him to quit both Lego and kitties.
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The Muffinlord posted:My parents have graciously bestowed upon me the entirety of my childhood lego collection! Five tupperware containers of various size, full to the brim with pieces. Sadly, probably not a lot of fancy newfangled pieces, but enough variety that I should be able to build some pretty rad MOCs once I take a brief inventory. I just finished washing my own collection, recovered from storage. I believe the sets span across the 1990s: -Lots of City vehicles, not many buildings -Ice Planet 2002, including the awesome Deep Freeze Defender (best ship ever!) -Some Space Police 2/Blacktron 2/M-Tron ships -A couple of the medium-sized Aquanauts subs, including the shark canopy piece -Two of the bigger (biggest?) underwater exploration sets -A couple of Technic vehicles and two helicopters -Some not-Indiana Jones sets -The UFO Interstellar Starfighter with fiber optics -Some early 90s Foresters/Dragon sets -A few Samurai/Ninja and small Pirate sets (no big pirate ships, unfortunately) -The blocky Town-scale Space Shuttle -Apparently a whole bunch of small to medium sized Old West sets, because I have a lot of dynamite tiles, white cowboy hats, and revolvers There are so many weird/rare/discontinued pieces in this collection. Sorting them is bringing back a lot of memories, even from odd little SNOT-enabling parts and random minifig accessories. One thing I've noticed is that some of the white, grey, and blue bricks are discolored to a yellowish hue, but most are still pure white. Was this due to screw-ups/experiments with brick chemistry? It's not just age; some of the oldest pieces are still perfectly white. It doesn't bother me much, but is there a way to restore the color, at least on the white bricks? I have a couple of balloon tire hubs that are white on the inside and almost tan on the surface (and some discolored plates with smaller plate-shaped white areas), so it's probably UV discoloration.
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Final Gloom posted:What's that fence thing at the bottom? I don't remember that set. From the Agents line a few years ago: http://www.brothers-brick.com/2008/06/02/lego-agents-8634-turbo-car-chase-review/
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mattfl posted:Would you say it's def worth the $200 price tag? Oh, totally. Its a ton of pieces, and took a fair amount of time. Probably about 8-10 hours over about three days. A lot of the pieces are pretty cool too! I really don't want to take it back tomorrow because it looks so awesome.
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Final Gloom posted:That was a great theme. I wish they'd give it another go because there were so many potentially awesome sets that never got made. The series 6 Outlaw is pretty cool and had me digging up my old cowboys, Indians, and marshalls. I think that Outlaw has the best Lego face I've ever seen. Dead ringer for Michael Biehn in Tombstone.   Or put it on the pinstripe-suited Mafioso from a previous series and guess who you have, cocksucker 
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Red posted:I'm still amazed that Bionicle did as well as it did (or does?). I just can't see the appeal of the Bionicle line. It's all     In how     You use     The pieces.    
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Saint Sputnik posted:I think that Outlaw has the best Lego face I've ever seen. Dead ringer for Michael Biehn in Tombstone. If he wasn't smiling, he'd be a perfect Lee Van Cleef.
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Feb 29, 2012 20:38
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It's Lego Law that requires all minifigs must have a stupid smug grin on their face at all times, a single raised eyebrow often accompanying it.
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Captain Invictus posted:It's Lego Law that requires all minifigs must have a stupid smug grin on their face at all times, a single raised eyebrow often accompanying it. And we wouldn't have it any other way.
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I noticed the figs in the Racers theme have extra goofy mugs on their faces.
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So I've been musing about the current thread title and I've come to the conclusion that if they reinvented Time Cruisers as a space/ground line with an awesome light up interchangeable time travel flux capacitor unit that could attach to all the different vehicles instead of the swirly white disc, that would just be great. Like some sort of Exo-squad-esque line with Time Police vs Paradox agents trying to save/change history. Also, definitely move away from the 'random bits thrown together' look.
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I want you to know that I blame all of you for this:  I made a promise to myself that once I got a better job and got my first paycheck, I'd scratch a LEGO itch that you lot got me thinking about after so many years. I've just dedicated an entire evening to sitting on my floor and assembling plastic bricks. I hope you're all happy...  I know I am
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