[Woorloog]

Oh my

Indeed... i want that Shuttle. I've always regretted not buying the original (i know the original wasn't a collector item but whatever) when i had a chance.

[SmokyDave]

When I have kids I'm going to buy them every LEGO set they want. It really is the ultimate toy.

I'm debating asking the missus if she fancies starting a family so I have a decent excuse to keep buying Lego.

If the kid touches my 8865, it's getting parcel-taped to the ceiling.

[RustyO]

Awesome thread!

All my old school lego was either given to younger cousins, or confiscated by my mother for her grandkids... if I meet a nice lass and pop some out, I can has my legoz back?

My current collection is all Star Wars sets... need to start buying bulk random pieces so I can build a whole town.

7181 : TIE Interceptor (In box)
7191 : X-wing Fighter (In box)
7778 : Midi-scale Millennium Falcon (Built)
8031 : V-19 Torrent (In packet)
10175 : Vader's TIE Advanced (In box)
10178 : Motorised Walking AT-AT (Guarding the TV)
10179 : Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon (In box. One day I'll build this!)
10198 : Tantive IV (In box)

Has there been any update on when the new Star Wars sets (most importantly the new Millennium Falcon) are being shipped? I thought it was in June but that doesn;t seem to be the case as we near the end of the month.

I'm hanging out for a new Millenium Falcon... still haven't got round to building my UCS one yet, still in the original packing box behind the couch :(

I'd like to do this to one of them:



Link: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/70870

This is fuck awesome:

Wow :O

[jkanownik]

I have ~60 different Star Wars lego sets. That's after I scaled back a little and got rid of the Clone Wars cartoon stuff. The prize of my collection is a full Episode III display I managed to score from a Toys R Us that was closing. It lights up and makes sounds.

Luckily I've reached the point where most new releases are just duplicates of stuff I already have. Tantive IV is the only set tempting me right now. Unfortunately the closet I have my sets stored in is completely full. I have no place to put it. That problem will be solved though when the UCS SSD comes out. Then I'll be forced to find a new storage location.

[jambo]

Well my wife bought this one for me today for my birthday, I just have to wait a month before I can get it. Got it pretty cheap too in the local (Australian) end of year toy sales.

I'm getting that from Kmart tonight, $129 AUD!

Might grab some other sets too, the sale prices are amazingly low for LEGO.

[wetwired]

I'm getting that from Kmart tonight, $129 AUD! Might grab some other sets too, the sale prices are amazingly low for LEGO.

Yeah that's where she got it from, still another 3 or so weeks before I can open it :(

[TaeOH]

Just built the commuter train, my daughter loves that it really works. My wife has the new creator light house to build and I have the Tantive IV still to build.



We are a Lego family.

Favorite Lego site...

http://www.thebricktestament.com/

But NOT safe for kids OR work.

[Charmicarmicat]

So this will probably be the best place to ask... I play the Arkham Horror boardgame, which requires a LOT of cards. I've seen people online use Lego to build storage for them, could anyone recommend a decent set to get me started on doing the same? Something preferably with a bunch of flat base parts and single-width blocks for seperators etc.

[FunkyPajamas]

No love for mindstorms?

[jambo]

I love the Rescue sets:

Man I had both of those and a few more from the Rescue sets, loved that helicopter!

[vicissitudes]

Question for lego collectors: how do you display your collections? I'm thinking maybe shelves but that might look ugly in the living room.

[cajunator]

Oh man I remember this stuff. I actually still have most of the sets built up in boxes in the attic. Couldnt bear tearing them down or selling them. The space shuttle set is still up in my closet at my parents house, along with the airport and a bunch of other space and town sets.
Fucking memories man.

[TaeOH]

So this will probably be the best place to ask... I play the Arkham Horror boardgame, which requires a LOT of cards. I've seen people online use Lego to build storage for them, could anyone recommend a decent set to get me started on doing the same? Something preferably with a bunch of flat base parts and single-width blocks for seperators etc.

Are there pics on the web of what they do? If we see a sample, maybe a recommendation can happen.

[TaeOH]

Question for lego collectors: how do you display your collections? I'm thinking maybe shelves but that might look ugly in the living room.

I display the Emerald Night Train on a bookshelf, the rest of our sets my daughter plays with. Currently on a small Thomas Train table. She has almost all of the Toy Story sets, plus other misc sets.

I have not decided about the Tantive IV, whether I will display it or let her play with it. Probably will be a toy,

[DonMigs85]

Some of my favorite sets I had as a wee lad:

[grap3fruitman]

Man, I prefer a lot of those older Lego sets where they were more original. I don't like how most of them these days seem to be licensed after something. Lego blocks are awesome on their own, they don't need no stinkin' licenses!

A Goodwill nearby has these but I won't be picking them up for obvious reasons:

[NathanMcMahon]

Man, I prefer a lot of those older Lego sets where they were more original. I don't like how most of them these days seem to be licensed after something. Lego blocks are awesome on their own, they don't need no stinkin' licenses! A Goodwill nearby has these but I won't be picking them up for obvious reasons:

Goodwill are such cock-knobblers sometimes. Yeah, I said it.

[Nappuccino]

[wetwired]

That is awesome, needs a giant bender smashing up shit :P

Series 5 of the minifigs are popping up on bricklink, there's also a review of them up on Eurobricks

[VGChampion]

I painstakingly went through my Lego collection and found all my old Harry Potter sets. Didn't have many but it was a weekend job to sort the big box and multiple bags and then find all the pieces. Thank the heavens for Lego's idea to put all the old instructions up on their website.

Recreated my Gringotts bank (4714), Troll on the Loose (4712), and the Sorting Hat (4701). I'll post some pics later but it was cool building them back up from literally nothing. It's one thing to build from the box but I had never done this before. Back around 2001 / 2002 I broke down all my sets and combined them all into one big storage box. Now I realize that was a huge mistake. Not having most of my instructions I don't even remember what sets I actually have in there. I can't figure out if I actually have one more Lego Harry Potter set or not because I have some pieces that I scream Harry Potter to me.

[Dutch Mafia]

Does anyone else feel that the creativity is lost with all the pre-formed parts. It has been a while since I bought any. But it looks like the challenge has been taken out.

[jsnepo]

Does anyone else feel that the creativity is lost with all the pre-formed parts. It has been a while since I bought any. But it looks like the challenge has been taken out.

No but I think it did when they started using stickers as bumpers and headlights. I'm not sure if they still do that in the new models.

[wetwired]

DC comics Lego is on the way!

More batman but now with superman, green lantern, wonder woman and more

[gerg]

DC comics Lego is on the way! More batman but now with superman, green lantern, wonder woman and more

Marvel Comics LEGO too!

OMG OMG OMG LEGO X-MEN!

[Acid08]

I made this at work the other day, it's not amazing but I was proud of it :P

[commanderdeek]

Fuck this thread is bringing back all the childhood memories!

Lego catalogues were the best. Those big booklets were filled with the amazing. Brings a tear to my eye.

[wetwired]

Marvel Comics LEGO too! OMG OMG OMG LEGO X-MEN!

I dunno I'm not convinced of the marvel ones, they look like shoddy custom jobs

[gerg]

I dunno I'm not convinced of the marvel ones, they look like shoddy custom jobs

There's a press release, but I'll just link you to the Kotaku article instead: http://kotaku.com/5823234/marvel-and...uper-hero-line

[sionyboy]

I was given this as a present off my Grandfather whilst he was visiting the UK, and there were parts missing inside.... I never got to finish the build. Devastated, the biggest set of Lego I ever bought and I never got to finish it.




I was given this set by my Dad, and proceded to build it whilst sat in the back of his car on the way to Bristol Zoo. Unknown to me at the time, reading/building lego sets in a car would make me very ill. As we pulled up at Bristol Zoo, so I threw up over the back of my Dad's seat and the Lego. Lame.


Two reasons that I want to one day have kids
1 - I can build a trainset in the attic
2 - I can get them into Lego

:D

[meadowrag]

Any of you guys have any adventures with Johnny Thunder?

[Spanish Wrath]

I bought this yesterday for my birthday



I finished with the 3rd set of pieces, 3 more and it will be done.

[speedpop]

Damn this thread.

[wetwired]

There's a press release, but I'll just link you to the Kotaku article instead: http://kotaku.com/5823234/marvel-and...uper-hero-line

I stand corrected, they must have been early prototypes, they've also revealed some Marvel and DC characters in the Hero Factory (Bionicle) line





MORE PICS!

[AbsoluteZero]

Saw this at Target last night.

http://www.knex.com/mariokartwii/

I think I'll pick up a Mario Kart and a Luigi Bike kit.

[Oozer3993]

I never owned as much Lego as I would have liked, but I imagine that goes for most people too. The biggest pack I had was the Shuttle and Plane combo. The number of times that crashed into my floor...

I have that set. My sister, who's a teacher, just borrowed it to teach her kids about the shuttle. I was a space and plane nut as a kid, so that set was just awesome.

[ghostmind]

I assume some of you have been to one of the LEGOlands before. Here are a few from California's LEGOland and various other locations. The first two pics are using constructed "people" rather than minifigs, because the buildings are just so damn huge:

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[sharbhund]

Does anyone else feel that the creativity is lost with all the pre-formed parts. It has been a while since I bought any. But it looks like the challenge has been taken out.

I agree. When I was a kid, I would build off the instructions once, when I first opened the new set. Then when I got bored, I would take it apart and build whatever I wanted, and would never at the instructions again.

This was my least favorite set I had, because no matter what I tried to do with it, it was always a boat:


While with this set, the robot itself was pretty lame, but I was able to build all kinds of cool things out of the parts:

[wetwired]

A massive box of lego I ordered turned up today, 4 boxes of series 5 minifigs and a heap of random duplo for my daughter, and a POTC set for myself :)

I'm selling sets and spare of the series 5 minifigs if anyone is interested (In Australia)

[mrklaw]

god, I was so tempted yesterday.

I went to legoland before work to pick up my son's birthday present. And they've recently updated their store, so they have a 'hard to find' section and they're stocking the architecture range.

So I had pretty much all of my wishlist right in front of me, tempting me.

- Star Wars Imperial shuttle. Yes, the lovely big one.

- Tower bridge. So nice, so huge. But so many tiny brown pieces.

- Grand emporium and Fire brigade from the modular town series.

- Imperial flagship.

- Lego cargo train set. This is mostly because we had lego trains when I was a kid and enjoyed them. And now they're remote controlled!

Luckily its all too expensive at the moment, but if legoland do a 'spend £100 and get a free annual pass' like they sometimes do, I'm in there.

[ResidentDante]

But my first LEGO (that wasn't a DUPLO) was this:

Man, I had the exact same one. Took it to kindergarten one day and lost one of the dustbin lids and was so sad. Looked for it forever!

[mrklaw]

some Spanish dude made a Porsche 911 with PDK dual clutch gearbox in LEGO Technic lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnGj4wxsNZY

want so bad. He should upload that to the 'designed by me' section on lego.com so others can buy it. or a list of parts so I can work out what I'm missing.

[tomjr]

Does anyone else feel that the creativity is lost with all the pre-formed parts. It has been a while since I bought any. But it looks like the challenge has been taken out.

Definitely. The thing is that lego probably wouldn't sell any sets if it had the 'lo-res' look of the sets from twenty years ago. People can't deal with that level of abstraction anymore. At least they made the 'creator' series to mimic older sets with more basic blocks.

I'll admit, though, that I do like some of the new parts and if this is what needs to happen for lego to stay in business, it's all good.

[notsol337]

No one mentioned my favorite series!

Where's the love for UFO!?

[RustyO]

So... my girlfriend is over in the states seeing her family, and I can get her to get me some Lego whilst she is there... seeing as it is a LOT more cheaper to buy in the states then it is here.

So... what are the most awesome / biggest lego sets I can get right now?

[NathanMcMahon]

So... my girlfriend is over in the states seeing her family, and I can get her to get me some Lego whilst she is there... seeing as it is a LOT more cheaper to buy in the states then it is here. So... what are the most awesome / biggest lego sets I can get right now?

I just picked up the new Millenium Falcon which is pretty solid. Also if you are thinking big, get the Death Star while you can. I'm guessing it will be sold out right before Christmas.

[sixteen-bit]

Aquanauts were so cool at the time, oh man.

[WillyFive]

So... what are the most awesome / biggest lego sets I can get right now?

You sure? They are super expensive.

Super Star Destroyer ($399)



Tower Bridge ($239)



among others....

[woodypop]

I just picked up the new Millenium Falcon which is pretty solid. Also if you are thinking big, get the Death Star while you can. I'm guessing it will be sold out right before Christmas.

I'm actually strongly considering the Falcon, since Target's having a 10% off sale right now, and I have a gift card.

Anything in particular making you think the Death Star will be sold out before Christmas? Did it happen last Christmas, or something? I'm thinking about getting that one, too.

[NathanMcMahon]

It's been "Hard to Find" for awhile now on the Lego Store website. It should be approaching its end run.

[Insaniac]

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OMG nostalgia overload!!! hnnngghhh!!

anybody have this?