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The LEGO Thread
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parrotbeak
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Omg at the Orc Forge. Omg at all of it. Fuck, my wallet.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
parrotbeak
Member
Weird, it worked a little while ago. I only looked at these 2:Link no work.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/grogall/LegoSW2012/9516/b_9516_box_side.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/grogall/LegoSW2012/9516/c_9516_detail_1.jpg
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Urak Hai Army set is nice for the price. Lots of mini figs in a $30 set. And Battle of Helms Deep...dat Theoden figure. That set will be mine.
I picked up 3 of the new mystery minifigures today. I was hoping to get the bunny suit dude, but maybe next time.
Also, I don't post much in this thread but I do read it everyday. I work at a Lego store and you guys definitely keep me more informed than most of the other 'brick specialists'. Hell, I can't even give you guys any insider information because you know it before I do. Keep on Legoin' on.
Also, I don't post much in this thread but I do read it everyday. I work at a Lego store and you guys definitely keep me more informed than most of the other 'brick specialists'. Hell, I can't even give you guys any insider information because you know it before I do. Keep on Legoin' on.
I picked up 3 of the new mystery minifigures today. I was hoping to get the bunny suit dude, but maybe next time.
Also, I don't post much in this thread but I do read it everyday. I work at a Lego store and you guys definitely keep me more informed than most of the other 'brick specialists'. Hell, I can't even give you guys any insider information because you know it before I do. Keep on Legoin' on.
We've gotta know one thing:
Employee discount?
Weird, the Orc Forge is the ONLY LotR set I don't care for at all.
We get 30% off of anything in the store, but we also have 1 day every quarter where we get 50% off with some restrictions. Although, we're only allowed the the discount with the purchases in our store and our store only. It's still pretty awesome.
parrotbeak
Member
I just loved that scene where the camera flies through the underground workings of Isengard. That would probably be the first set I'd pick up.
No Slave Leia in the Jabba's Palace set? That's weird.
Leia is disguised as a Bounty Hunter. This is before she gets captured and becomes Jabba's sex slave.
http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Leia_Organa
Leia is disguised as a Bounty Hunter. This is before she gets captured and becomes Jabba's sex slave.
http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Leia_Organa
Ah. It seemed weird to me they'd skip Leia, so I guess that makes sense.
It still would've been nice to have a Slave Leia, though. Hell, give us a slave Leia and the guard and then we get the best of both worlds.
The LEGO Firefly CUUSOO project is gaining a lot of new voters lately. It seems both Nathan Fillion and Morena Baccarin has tweeted about it. About 1500 new voters just the last day or so.
Can you take a picture of the Mini Sopwith Camel?
anonymous_abc
Member
i clearly need to befriend someone who works there...
you looking for a new friend?
The LEGO Firefly CUUSOO project is gaining a lot of new voters lately. It seems both Nathan Fillion and Morena Baccarin has tweeted about it. About 1500 new voters just the last day or so.
Support this if you haven't already. Even if you don't like Firefly it's a cool ship
I have one of these
I'd love a Lego midi or mini scale version, but that large one on Cuusco needs a ton of work =(
Get it to 10k votes and the Lego guys will work on it.
So after building Pet Shop and Fire Brigade, I think I'm going to embark on rebuild of Cafe Corner.
I've been building a big reserve of spare pieces bought at charity shops here in the UK and lots from eBay. (I bought one haul, mentioned in this thread previously, for £40 and it was full of random bricks and half-complete first wave LEGO Batman and Indiana Jones bits and pieces - no figures, but lots of the darker bricks.)
Looking at the instructions for the Cafe corner, half of the bricks will never be seen, so I can substitute in a lot of my random stuff for the back or the larger plates. Really, all I have to do is just buy the defining parts that make the facade so distinct.
(I'm also going to mod the part of Cafe Corner that asks for awkward windows built from 1x2x3 brackets with no glass - and just use actual windows in that shape, with glass.)
Wish me luck!
I've been building a big reserve of spare pieces bought at charity shops here in the UK and lots from eBay. (I bought one haul, mentioned in this thread previously, for £40 and it was full of random bricks and half-complete first wave LEGO Batman and Indiana Jones bits and pieces - no figures, but lots of the darker bricks.)
Looking at the instructions for the Cafe corner, half of the bricks will never be seen, so I can substitute in a lot of my random stuff for the back or the larger plates. Really, all I have to do is just buy the defining parts that make the facade so distinct.
(I'm also going to mod the part of Cafe Corner that asks for awkward windows built from 1x2x3 brackets with no glass - and just use actual windows in that shape, with glass.)
Wish me luck!
anonymous_abc
Member
Nah, it's an ugly ship. One of the ugliest semi-famous ships from any space ship bearing sci-fi media.
If this thing reaches 10,000, it'll be a traversty, when we have the awesome modular western town languishing on 5000-6000 votes.
anonymous_abc
Member
its at over 8000 now, but you've been horrible about Serenity so I'm not telling you
is Arwen on any of the sets?
No :| Nor is Saruman... more sets coming I hope.
The must-have sets are definitely Shelob Attacks (only set with Gollum) and Gandalf Arrives (only set with Gandalf!) they also happen to be the two cheapest sets. Be on the lookout for those.
looks like you might have to spend at least $350 to get all the mini-figs
I picked up 3 of the new mystery minifigures today. I was hoping to get the bunny suit dude, but maybe next time.
Also, I don't post much in this thread but I do read it everyday. I work at a Lego store and you guys definitely keep me more informed than most of the other 'brick specialists'. Hell, I can't even give you guys any insider information because you know it before I do. Keep on Legoin' on.
I much prefer this thread than communities like eurobricks, everyone there just gushes over every new lego set release regardless of it's quality.
The "reviews" too are a joke, they're always done by the same people who lego obviously gives them to early so they're never negative and the community comments think every set is amazing and a must buy.
Maybe they'll do an interior Isengard set where Gandalf and Saruman fight. A Rivendell set with Arwen and Aragorn would be nice too.
True, but like FliXFantatier says, I'm not sure I want 100% accuracy.
How much do I care about the blue wall? Happy to save myself some £££ if I can sub in, say, all these spare gold bricks from a Prince of Persia set to still create a decent building front with minimal outlay.
Key character touches, such as the roof and the white/yellow canopies, I will of course keep.
Also modifying a previous set is good practice for building my own modular!
sure - I'm thinking of doing the same with the Pet shop. Bear in mind the roof is one of the expensive pieces on bricklink - so consider either adjusting the colour, or see if lego online pick-a-brick has them in, they're much cheaper (thats what I did when I bricklinked cafe corner).
Also have a look at the online instructions, they're pretty bad quality so think if you want to shell out for printed instructions. I'm going to try and manage with the pdf
Nice! Did you get many dupes?
PhoncipleBone
Banned
It is kind of ugly, but it is a unique design. But it will reach 10,000 signatures easily because Whedonites fawn and gush over anything having to do with Firefly.
Nope. I felt for all of them, so no money wasted. In celebration, I also picked this up...
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Nice pickup with Town Hall. The roof is the best part of the whole build.
anonymous_abc
Member
I still don't get how things like this:
Can get so many responses when there are others criminally undersupported.
It's just a bucket of Storm Troopers ffs.
i agree though, just silly...
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I still don't get how things like this:
Can get so many responses when there are others criminally undersupported.
It's just a bucket of Storm Troopers ffs.
It is Star Wars. It is that simple.
Just like how the Firefly set will get tons of signatures. And how Minecraft got so many.
I still don't get how things like this:
Can get so many responses when there are others criminally undersupported.
It's just a bucket of Storm Troopers ffs.
Oh God, want!
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
LOL. Oh wow.I still don't get how things like this:
Can get so many responses when there are others criminally undersupported.
It's just a bucket of Storm Troopers ffs.
Snkfanatic
Banned
I still don't get how things like this:
Can get so many responses when there are others criminally undersupported.
It's just a bucket of Storm Troopers ffs.
I would buy this in a heartbeat....
It seems most of the submissions that have reached 10000 so far have been through piggy backing on an existing IP and their (usually rabid) fanbase. Shit I'm guilty of doing the same myself with my batmobile and the difference in support numbers between it and my original stuff is night and day.
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