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Speaking about  $15,000 LEGO heist in Melbourne. 
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SynthOrange posted:Speaking about Is there an article to go with this?
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Jun 3, 2014 03:42
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-03/thieves-steal-15000-dollars-in-lego-from-victorian-toy-store/5495608 They also went with this image for the article: 
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Jun 3, 2014 03:47
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SynthOrange posted:Speaking about It was awkward reading that article this morning because I am cleaning out my Lego collection and listed, like, a dozen City and Collector sets on gumtree last night :-/
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Jun 3, 2014 04:22
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cyberia posted:It was awkward reading that article this morning because I am cleaning out my Lego collection and listed, like, a dozen City and Collector sets on gumtree last night :-/ Edit the listing to say 'Not Stolen'. That'll do it. Built Ecto-1 last night over 3 eps of Game of Thrones. It's such a nice build, and the finished product looks fantastic. Lots of really clever bits and pieces, you're putting them together and wondering what this is.. Oh! It's that bit of the roof rack! Something I noticed on this and the Delorean is the high number of small pieces, lots of 1x1s and whatnot all over, which do a lot of the heavy lifting in making it resemble the actual car. It means that in places it can feel a bit fragile in places (or possibly my bear paws just aren't as delicate sometimes) where something is basically held on by a single stud.
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Jun 3, 2014 08:14
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I loved the Ecto-1 build so much I went back and bought a second one at the Bellevue Lego store. Goddamn Lego out did themselves with this set.
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Jun 3, 2014 08:19
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I always laugh at these LEGO heists. Sure it's expensive, but drat, risk jail time for LEGO?
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Jun 3, 2014 13:44
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The latest Lego Ideas review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrWK3UIvXYs
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Jun 3, 2014 15:55
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I hope they stick with the all women theme. I already sent my sister (neuroscientist) the female science fig from a couple collectible series ago, but she could always use another, and a close relative is getting her PhD in paleontology right now. I wish it was coming with a little rat maze prop (most of what my sister does in the lab), but it seems unlikely.
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Jun 3, 2014 16:20
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djfooboo posted:I always laugh at these LEGO heists. Sure it's expensive, but drat, risk jail time for LEGO? Ignoring the additional effort to get rid of the lego, grabbing 10k$ is about the same take as robbing a bank.
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Jun 3, 2014 16:21
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Kind of sad the Japanese buildings set didn't make it. Probably would have helped if their examples weren't gigantic buildings with a million pieces though.
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Jun 3, 2014 16:29
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So out of the new sets under review, which do you all think will make it? I think the BBT and apple store sets are the least likely and the BTTF train might be too big but the others all seem relatively reasonable.
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Jun 3, 2014 17:21
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Gabriel Pope posted:Kind of sad the Japanese buildings set didn't make it. Probably would have helped if their examples weren't gigantic buildings with a million pieces though. http://blog.lego.cuusoo.com/2013/12/12/updates-guidelines-house-rules-terms-service/
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Jun 3, 2014 17:35
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I think the Bird one is a shoe-in to win this one, both for lack of copyright and broad range of potential sets.
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Jun 3, 2014 17:37
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Love the new Arctic theme so much, especially the icebreaker and the cargo plane. Something about that shade of orange. Shame about that drat one-piece cockpit on the plane and skycrane, but I think it's the least-poo poo one-piece cockpit they've had in a while.
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Jun 3, 2014 18:56
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I can't help but feel the female scientist set was a holdover for such an occurrence (as happened) where none of the period's subjects were deemed suitable. Out of the 4 this time and the holdover, the holdover won, almost like it was set up to do so.
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Jun 3, 2014 19:01
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Cloks posted:So out of the new sets under review, which do you all think will make it? I think the BBT and apple store sets are the least likely and the BTTF train might be too big but the others all seem relatively reasonable. It's going to be Doctor Who. The license basically made double the votes of anything else, it's easy to make a signature set from as the TARDIS is iconic and they only recently announced that whatever rights conflict existed before has been cleared up. Why publicly announce that they are now accepting Doctor Who ideas if there wasn't a desire to make one? If Doctor Who doesn't win I can see it being because there's already a set on the way independent of Ideas. My dream would be one set and a line of minifigs to cover every Doctor and some villains.
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Jun 3, 2014 19:29
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PriorMarcus posted:It's going to be Doctor Who. The license basically made double the votes of anything else, it's easy to make a signature set from as the TARDIS is iconic and they only recently announced that whatever rights conflict existed before has been cleared up. Why publicly announce that they are now accepting Doctor Who ideas if there wasn't a desire to make one? But why put all the doctors in one set when they can make you buy 12 (or 13, if you are pedantic) different sets?
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Jun 3, 2014 19:33
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He didn't say to put all the Doctors in one set he said a line of minifigures to cover every doctor and some villians, similar to The Simpsons minifigures I guess.
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Jun 3, 2014 19:47
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tactical_grace posted:Love the new Arctic theme so much, especially the icebreaker and the cargo plane. Something about that shade of orange. Shame about that drat one-piece cockpit on the plane and skycrane, but I think it's the least-poo poo one-piece cockpit they've had in a while. I love the new husky mold  PriorMarcus posted:It's going to be Doctor Who. If they do Doctor Who I will eat my hat. I don't want another draw for the jorts crowd.
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Jun 3, 2014 19:50
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Am I a bad person if I think the Birds set is boring? It doesn't even look that great.
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Jun 3, 2014 20:05
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tactical_grace posted:Love the new Arctic theme so much, especially the icebreaker and the cargo plane. Something about that shade of orange. Shame about that drat one-piece cockpit on the plane and skycrane, but I think it's the least-poo poo one-piece cockpit they've had in a while. I hear you. I have a friend who is looking forward to these sets to hit Target so he can use all his gift cards. This is the same friend who will not forgive me for pointing out that the Arctic Supply Plane looks very similar to the Sea Duck from TaleSpin.  I must have one!
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Jun 3, 2014 20:40
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Dr Who is an obvious choice because there's a strong overlap between both adult and child fans of LEGO.
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Jun 3, 2014 21:53
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I built Spaceship^3 today. It's a great model with a lot of features, much like the police dropship (I've heard the construction mech has a deficit of them which is why I haven't bought it), but probably the best thing about it is the build. I spend a lot of time building fiddly models with greebling and whatnot, so to feel like I did a lot of cool stuff every step was a good feeling. Love the kitty astromech slot, the unexpected interior part with awesome power core thing, and the front cockpit is great. It's quite easy to fit the figs in there (compared to trying to stand up robo swat in the back of the dropship, ugh). Also bag 1, which is the two mini ships and the Octan fighter, could be it's own $13-20 set.
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Jun 3, 2014 21:55
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Am I a bad person if I think the Birds set is boring? It doesn't even look that great. It's a creator set without multiple builds.I wouldn't buy it.
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Jun 3, 2014 22:01
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Neurion posted:If they do Doctor Who I will eat my hat. I don't want another draw for the jorts crowd. But isn't that what the Ideas range has become? They've already done Minecraft, BTTF and Ghostbusters. Why wouldn't they keep cranking out once-off pop culture sets? They're guaranteed to sell a reasonable number of these sets and it keeps the neckbeards happy while children have all the normal Lego lines to collect.
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Jun 3, 2014 22:14
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Am I a bad person if I think the Birds set is boring? It doesn't even look that great. I don't think it has that "playability" that they're after.
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Jun 3, 2014 22:17
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beato posted:The latest Lego Ideas review: Ahhhh, that female scientist set is getting released? Yay!  That BTTF train is loving amazing too. I will be so disappointed if we get one of the Doctor Who or Sherlock sets instead of that.
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Jun 3, 2014 23:56
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tactical_grace posted:Love the new Arctic theme so much, especially the icebreaker and the cargo plane. Something about that shade of orange. Shame about that drat one-piece cockpit on the plane and skycrane, but I think it's the least-poo poo one-piece cockpit they've had in a while. Yeah, I love me some treads. I'm definitely gonna get 60033 but that cargo plane is slick too. And the ice breaker has new (?) curved window piece.
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Jun 4, 2014 00:06
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Ahhhh, that female scientist set is getting released? Yay! I just don't see the Back to the Future set even being seriously considered. It would by far the biggest project to come from Ideas and if Lego were really all that bothered about releasing more sets under that license they would do any way, like with Minecraft, that has become a line all of it's own - they are even make a mini-fig scale series of sets for release this Christmas.
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Jun 4, 2014 00:37
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PriorMarcus posted:I just don't see the Back to the Future set even being seriously considered. It would by far the biggest project to come from Ideas and if Lego were really all that bothered about releasing more sets under that license they would do any way, like with Minecraft, that has become a line all of it's own - they are even make a mini-fig scale series of sets for release this Christmas. Yeah, I'm 99% sure the train will never be. Partly due to size, partly because I don't see them making multiple kits out of one franchise (Minecraft excepted). It's a shame though.
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Jun 4, 2014 00:48
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Jun 4, 2014 01:00
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This would look great next to my VW camper van  also UK number plate representE: Holy poo poo it's real Waldorf Sixpence fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Jun 4, 2014 01:16
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I like that the "cheese wedges" are cheese wedges.
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Jun 4, 2014 02:21
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:This would look great next to my VW camper van Hopefully the scale is the same. It looks close, but you can never really tell until they're side by side.
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Jun 4, 2014 02:50
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Those ice skates are well used.xzzy posted:Hopefully the scale is the same. It looks close, but you can never really tell until they're side by side. I don't know, judging by the size of that bottle it's a larger scale.
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Jun 4, 2014 02:52
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MaliciousOnion posted:Those ice skates are well used. That bottle is fantastic.
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Jun 4, 2014 03:05
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tactical_grace posted:Love the new Arctic theme so much, especially the icebreaker and the cargo plane. Something about that shade of orange. Shame about that drat one-piece cockpit on the plane and skycrane, but I think it's the least-poo poo one-piece cockpit they've had in a while. I'm all over that skycrane, a cooler helicopter has never existed. Plus at least the cockpit is usable for cargo planes and helicopters in general.
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Jun 4, 2014 03:33
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The Mini's white roof is 12 studs from edge to edge, same width as the VW camper van. Definitely going to buy it as well
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Jun 4, 2014 08:07
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Oh that's fantastic. British Racing Green, too! 
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