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Squashy Nipples posted:If I want to buy a bunch of the new pink and purple bricks, which Friends sets should I buy? Maybe this? http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Bricks-More-Pink-Brick/dp/B005VPRDAY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372473544&sr=8-1&keywords=pink+bricks+and+more I think because girls at that age are more likely to roleplay instead of build things the Friends sets seem to come with a lot of accessories. I'm already picking up a few of them to hold on to just in case my daughter ends up with an interest in Lego's later on. I am getting these ones simply because they remind me of the old Littlest Pet Shop toys I played with as a kid, and they are already retired: http://www.ebay.com/itm/190862341833?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
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Rathina posted:Maybe this? http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Bricks-More-Pink-Brick/dp/B005VPRDAY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372473544&sr=8-1&keywords=pink+bricks+and+more I love the reviews. "Finally legos for girls" Nothing like re-enforcing gender toy stereotypes of pink and purple poo poo = for girls and that all previous lego could not be enjoyed by girls at all.
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yourafagpleasedie posted:I love the reviews. With your posts in this thread I'm starting to wonder if you just got revived from cryosleep or something. By the way I've got some super bad news about the World Trade Center.
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Ignimbrite posted:I picked up 5 minifigure packs today for a whopping $1 off per package. Felt out a sad clown / mime / pagliacci which I've been after, but I've yet to find the two I'm really after from this series, the cute librarian and the bumblebee girl. I would have thought the bumblebee girl would be easy to feel for but I have not felt a single set of wings or her helmet yet. I'm in Australia and can send you a bee girl, got any doubles?
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For all the UK goons, The Daily mail (I know..) is giving away free Lego today and tomorrow. Gandalf today and a little black car tomorrow!
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Granite Octopus posted:I'm sure most aussies would already know, but BigW and Target are having 20% off toys atm, including Lego. Could have saved $7 at BigW on that and threw in some minifigs. That Chima Gorilla looks amazing, I havent seen it locally though.
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Jun 29, 2013 13:48
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Anyone planning on picking up a spare Gandalf?
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Travis343 posted:With your posts in this thread I'm starting to wonder if you just got revived from cryosleep or something. By the way I've got some super bad news about the World Trade Center. Why exactly couldn't girls enjoy all previous lego? Must it be purple and pink barbie poo poo to get them to play with it? It's a parents agenda. thanks for not having any balls anymore sa forums. you really think thats trolling. bunch of no balls having pussy faggots. where is the SA I knew 10 years ago not even a prob hahahahahaa get hosed (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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yourafagpleasedie posted:Why exactly couldn't girls enjoy all previous lego? Must it be purple and pink barbie poo poo to get them to play with it? It's a parents agenda. So don't buy your daughter Friends? Buy her City or Galaxy Squad or something. Or, y'know, buy both and mash them together. You'd be surprised at how adept Olivia is at dispatching velociraptors and General Grievous from her tree house.
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yourafagpleasedie posted:Why exactly couldn't girls enjoy all previous lego? Must it be purple and pink barbie poo poo to get them to play with it? It's a parents agenda. What I mean is that everybody in the world has been having these exact conversations about Friends ever since it was announced and you're in here acting like you've got some kind of revelation nobody ever considered before. Plus you want people to listen to a dude called "your a fag please die" on matters of sexism and gender equality.
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Travis343 posted:What I mean is that everybody in the world has been having these exact conversations about Friends ever since it was announced and you're in here acting like you've got some kind of revelation nobody ever considered before. Judging by his other posts around I won't be too surprised if he takes a little break in the near future. I'm not going to worry about it too much. I just wanted to talk about raptors, m'self.
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neonnoodle posted:Warning: Please do not further derail this thread with LEGO gender politics. Can I just say I find his username incredibly offensive too? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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neonnoodle posted:Warning: Please do not further derail this thread with LEGO gender politics. Sorry man, all I wanted was some advice on buying pink bricks. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Ika posted:Anyone planning on picking up a spare Gandalf? I've got 3 spare Gandalfs and a good handful of the older Sun Lego promotions. Sorry if I didn't get back to your emails a few months back, really hectic few months unfortunately 
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I want to build the poo poo out of the Chima Gorilla, I've been excited about that thing for months. It's up there with the Tower of Orthanc on the list of sets I want to pick up. I can get the disinterest in the Chima Speedzors, which are a little weird to me, but the main sets are pretty cool. I'm having a hard time seeing the bionacle comparison - I don't have any problem with the parts lists, but then, I don't really need a million more 2x4 bricks.
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A group of kids in Australia toppled a cool Lego helicopter build. A dick move, and I hope they can put it back together. But I loved this caption on the above photo: Serious stuff: Ryan McNaught is the only man authorised to build Lego in Australia. He is pictured here with the helicopter he built before it was destroyed. Australian Lego fans, please put down your bricks. You're not authorised.
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Karnegal posted:I want to build the poo poo out of the Chima Gorilla, I've been excited about that thing for months. It's up there with the Tower of Orthanc on the list of sets I want to pick up. I can get the disinterest in the Chima Speedzors, which are a little weird to me, but the main sets are pretty cool. I'm having a hard time seeing the bionacle comparison - I don't have any problem with the parts lists, but then, I don't really need a million more 2x4 bricks. Yeah. I'm not into the Chima series but the gorilla's look pretty cool.
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Hamburlgar posted:For all the UK goons, The Daily mail (I know..) is giving away free Lego today and tomorrow. Gandalf today and a little black car tomorrow! I forgot all about this until I popped into WHSmiths with the intention of picking up one of the Galaxy Squad Polybags. Two Gandalf's later  One does not simply walk into Mordor. One takes THE GANDSPEEDER (complete with GPS)  My favourite SNOT detail... the shaft of the spears slot into his feet and hold him in place.  I hadn't seen any Hobbit sets before. The Lonely Mountain map is amazingly detailed and even apes the original art style. Edit: While I was uploading these my kid made this (he calls it the Mini-GandWalker). I don't think I've ever been more proud of him. 
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Hamburlgar posted:I've got 3 spare Gandalfs and a good handful of the older Sun Lego promotions. Sorry if I didn't get back to your emails a few months back, really hectic few months unfortunately I think you had posted something in the thread back then mentioning that, its fine. I'm interested in a Gandalf, and depending on which older sets you have perhaps some of those as well. Drop me a line and we can discuss it via email instead of spamming up the thread.
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Is the Kingdoms Joust set really that good? I don't have it and i assume it's going out of production pretty soon so i should pick it up now if i want it. But compared to the Medieval Market Village and the Mill Village Raid it looks really meh and expensive for 110 bucks. Review for the set are all good but it looks like a wall with 2 towers and a bunch of generic minifigures to me, nothing special. And seeing as i can pre-order all of the new Castle sets for 175 euros which is more bricks, more minifigs and a sweet dragon it doesn't seem that attractive to me.
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Captain Invictus posted:They're pretty clever and the sets themselves don't look bad either, just look at that drat crocodile jungle boat thing. Or this Gorilla Mech, it kinda owns. Both the new Croc Base and the new Lion Base are pretty cool. Far better than a lot of the licensed bases (Turtles I'm looking at you) they've done recently. I like bases.   Also this one.  Like Ninjago the second wave is a lot better than the first (with the exception of the Croc boat). Unfortunately I don't like the theme of the minifigures. If these were generic space or adventure guys I'd be all over this.
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Gravy Jones posted:Both the new Croc Base and the new Lion Base are pretty cool. Far better than a lot of the licensed bases (Turtles I'm looking at you) they've done recently. Oh my god these are glorious  Bases are indeed The Best Thing. Love the waterfall in the lions' base. Now we just need some awesome bases for Galaxy Squad and I'll be 100% satisfied with the current product lines.
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Man the giant gorilla bot is outstanding. The Chima line is so absurd I wish I had the space to buy them and build them. Still have too many large sets still in box from moving LAST summer.
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One of the gorilla minifigures off to the left looks like he has silver hulk hands as weapons. That set is filled with all the right kinds of crazy.
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Merchant of Death posted:One of the gorilla minifigures off to the left looks like he has silver hulk hands as weapons. That set is filled with all the right kinds of crazy. There's another one that seems to have a hulk hand on a stick as well.
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Well I was thrilled to be able to pick up the Fun With Vehicles set today! I think it's been retired since March, and I looked everywhere locally I could think of since people on ebay want $40-50+shipping for it. I did a lot of googling, and way far back turned up a page on Barnes & Nobles website, plugged in my zip code and it said they had one in stock! So I went down and checked it out and sure enough they had it for the original price of $30. They did have a few other sets that were older as well I think (Pharaohs, atlantis, ninja turtles), unfortunately I was with my 2 and 4 year old and couldn't get my internet to work on my phone to see if there was anything else I should pick up either for Ebay or for when my kids are older.
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pharaoh and atlantis are the only sets I have ever seen reduced in price here in Germany due to poor sales, everything else is just stacked in the corner until someone ends up buying it 3 years later for full price. I saw some ninjago fire temples and alien conquest sets earlier today for full price.
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Sockser posted:I've been doing series 10 entirely blind bag and I think I've gotten 8 baseball players out of 20 bags. Want to trade? That's basically the last one I really want. I keep getting goddamn skydivers.
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engessa posted:Is the Kingdoms Joust set really that good? I don't have it and i assume it's going out of production pretty soon so i should pick it up now if i want it. But compared to the Medieval Market Village and the Mill Village Raid it looks really meh and expensive for 110 bucks. Review for the set are all good but it looks like a wall with 2 towers and a bunch of generic minifigures to me, nothing special. And seeing as i can pre-order all of the new Castle sets for 175 euros which is more bricks, more minifigs and a sweet dragon it doesn't seem that attractive to me. Personally I really liked Kingdoms Joust, it's an 'adult' build which means that as far as techniques and density of bricks it's going to be a much more involved build than the sets that were sold in stores. It's not quite as cool as MMV but pretty much nothing is. I liked the unique Black Falcon style of the knight. It's got a lot of little rooms on the back side of the big wall thing with a lot of neat little details. Personally the new Castle sets look pretty awful to me. They're almost literally the same sets as the last Kingdoms line but with new heraldry for the knights. I guess its cool that Lego is doing something with Dragons again but the sets themselves are the least creative things I've seen in a while. If your only concern is brick count then go for it, but if you want interesting models to build I think Joust is going to be a lot more fun to put together. If you're comparing it to MMV and Mill Village Raid it seems like maybe you just want some peasants for your Lego kingdom though, and Joust is not the set for you in that case.
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Canopus250 posted:Man the giant gorilla bot is outstanding. The Chima line is so absurd I wish I had the space to buy them and build them. Still have too many large sets still in box from moving LAST summer. Chima strikes me as the kind of thing that AFOLs aren't going to grok at all, but kids are just going to eat that poo poo up. Today, I don't want to build or display a croc boat or lion base and I'm surely not going to play with it. But if I was 8 again? HOOOOOLY poo poo.
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einTier posted:Chima strikes me as the kind of thing that AFOLs aren't going to grok at all, but kids are just going to eat that poo poo up. This right here is why it's awesome to have a kid that's into LEGO. You can still get some of that little kid wonder of it, at least vicariously.
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rickiep00h posted:This right here is why it's awesome to have a kid that's into LEGO. You can still get some of that little kid wonder of it, at least vicariously. Likewise with working at a LEGO store and seeing the kids go crazy over the sets. It brings a smile to my face to see them get excited over things like Cragger's Command Ship and the other large and awesome sets. Can't wait for these Chima bases so I can see their reactions to those, too!
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benito posted:A group of kids in Australia toppled a cool Lego helicopter build. Follow up to this. Two 14 year olds were arrested today for destroying the piece. They will be dealt with under the youth justice act which means a caution, or slap on the wrist. So they caught them yay but there is essentially no punishment.
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Tentacle Party posted:Follow up to this. Two 14 year olds were arrested today for destroying the piece. They will be dealt with under the youth justice act which means a caution, or slap on the wrist. So they caught them yay but there is essentially no punishment. Yeah if only they had beat them for breaking that Lego model.
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The Rage posted:Yeah if only they had beat them for breaking that Lego model. Order them to rebuild it?
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