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LEGO GAF |OT2|: Building Dreams. Demolishing Wallets
- Thread starter PhoncipleBone
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antiquegamer
Member
I think I had that one as well.
Classic space was such a great theme - I purchased a couple of those lunar plates last month and it triggered a massive wave of nostalgia for these old kits.
My first, and best, LEGO set:
As much as I love Star Wars theme, the original Space theme always have a special place for me. My brother and I spend countless hours playing with Space Lego. Wish we would have kept them but when we were kids after we built the set we would tear them down and had a Lego demolition derby contest where we built vehicles from Lego then roll them into one another as hard and fast as we can and see who win base on how many bricks were left on the chassis. Good times but we destroyed so many pieces.
Oh speaking of that on TeeFury is Firefly t-shirt with good old Lego Space logo.
http://www.teefury.com/
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
OG Space was pretty sweet. I only wish I was able to own and appreciate some of those sets.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Not lovin' the keychain...but eh, will make sure I get to the Lego store to take advantage of double VIP points!
(from HKLUG)
The book releases in North America May 1st.
http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Minifigures-Character-Encyclopedia-Publishing/dp/1465401725
BentBricks
Member
I'm so disappointed they didn't have the Large PaB cup for the price of a Small PaB cup like last April. No good exclusive minifig offers either. Still hope for a "Patriot" Iron Man or something.
(from HKLUG)
The book releases in North America May 1st.
http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Minifigures-Character-Encyclopedia-Publishing/dp/1465401725
$10 for the book and exclusive minifig? Sold! Just ordered it on Amazon for that price. Funny thing is the minifig will show up for more than $10 by itself on eBay.
I am new to Legos, but I did a search on Amazon for the character encyclopedias and saw how cheap they were and that they all come with figs, gonna have to buy em all.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
(from HKLUG)
The book releases in North America May 1st.
http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Minifigures-Character-Encyclopedia-Publishing/dp/1465401725
Preordered!
tiggerkiddo
Member
Next up, Little Nutcracker Lego?
PhoncipleBone
Banned
antiquegamer
Member
Why is Z95 listed as new, isn't that thing been in the stores for months now?
I am going to Lego Store tomorrow! There is also Lego Convention this weekend in Portland. It's going to be week full of Lego!
I am going to Lego Store tomorrow! There is also Lego Convention this weekend in Portland. It's going to be week full of Lego!
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I am trying REALLY hard to be good and buy nothing this month. Double VIP is making it hard. If I had the 10% coupon I would not be able to stop.
If anyone wants to be an evil person, send a coupon my way. Arkham is calling. If not, holding fast until May 4th.
If anyone wants to be an evil person, send a coupon my way. Arkham is calling. If not, holding fast until May 4th.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Hold fast, bro. Hold fast. That $200 X-wing is no easy thing to swallow.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Plan is B-Wing AND X-Wing on the same day. That is why I am trying to hold fast. Two month buying sabbatical, then one day or glorious financial pain.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
I think my wife would slap the shit out of me if I came home with nearly $400 worth of LEGO. I'm still strategizing a plan to to buy the X-wing.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
If I go through a drought, she won't notice. She knows it is the only thing that makes me happy when I come home depressed from my soul crushing job. Well, that and beer.
PalaceBrother
Member
I'm totally turned around on the X-Wing. I want it. My nephew showed me his Obi Wan Starfighter on the weekend and I was amazed at its size (that droid is huge!). That was the final nail in my X Wing lust.
..... also, I understand your pain. My wife insists on "ensuring a solid future for the children" through "investing", "saving" and "fiscal prudence".
Her approach is BS. It's all about truth-adjustments...I've been milking a $100 gift card I got for Christmas that has strangely netted me Grand Emporium, Town Hall & Pet Shop over the last two months
...ok...Lex Luthor/Superman set, autobot Creator MOC contest set, Minecraft, Winter Post Office & Winter Cottage are also included in that list but she doesn't know about them
Harry Potter
Banned
Got my 10% coupon. Think I'm going to get GE and Tower Bridge on the 25th.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Good man. Tower Bridge is glorious, and not long for this world. Less time on that one than GE I would guess based on the newest catalog.
Speaking of which, when will the rumored Mega Sydney Opera House be announced?
Harry Potter
Banned
I'd like to know this as well. Hoping to hear some news about it and Orthanc soon.
Harry Potter
Banned
PhoncipleBone
Banned
We are all in that camp. I think that might be my most anticipated set this year. I have been clamoring for it since they got the LOTR license.
Forget that noise, i'm taking the Eagles.
My anticipation is high too. We did this same song and dance last year for the B-wing, and would have for the Haunted House as well if it weren't leaked in the R2 video.
LEGO tends to load their expensive sets into the latter part of the year, but they also have the Sydney Opera House and the Ewok Village to reveal still, so I'm thinking one of those three should be revealed soon.
I'm checking my sources constantly, so as soon as I know, I will let LEGO-GAF know.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
For those that liked the brick built brick, here is the simple way to make one.
The pieces. I use 6 of the 2x6 plates instead of 2 6x6 plates or other combinations just to make disassembly easier.
Line up the first three plates. I just happened to use the ones with holes in them.
Lay the next three plates on top of the first three, but in the opposite direction.
Lay down the tiles and the single studs.
Put down the four circular 2x2 plates.
Cover with the 2x2 circular tiles.
Essentially the studs should be in the center of a 3x3 area, so you can easily scale this to make any sized brick you want.
The pieces. I use 6 of the 2x6 plates instead of 2 6x6 plates or other combinations just to make disassembly easier.
Line up the first three plates. I just happened to use the ones with holes in them.
Lay the next three plates on top of the first three, but in the opposite direction.
Lay down the tiles and the single studs.
Put down the four circular 2x2 plates.
Cover with the 2x2 circular tiles.
Essentially the studs should be in the center of a 3x3 area, so you can easily scale this to make any sized brick you want.
For those that liked the brick built brick, here is the simple way to make one.
Cover with the 2x2 circular tiles.
Essentially the studs should be in the center of a 3x3 area, so you can easily scale this to make any sized brick you want.
very neat idea, This reboost my idea of a "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" Diorama
(from HKLUG)
The book releases in North America May 1st.
already preordered three months ago, i can't have an hole in my collection!
I'm going to dismantle my current x-wing and out the new one in its place. She'll never notice. That isn't being rude to my lovely wife, she'll just see a silly x shaped spaceship and move on
Wouldn't she notice that it's 3 times bigger? Would it even fit in the same place?
Jables Swan
Member
Oh please, oh please, full CREATOR houses of the Simpsons cast.
Sevket-Erhat
Member
As much as I love Star Wars theme, the original Space theme always have a special place for me. My brother and I spend countless hours playing with Space Lego. Wish we would have kept them but when we were kids after we built the set we would tear them down and had a Lego demolition derby contest where we built vehicles from Lego then roll them into one another as hard and fast as we can and see who win base on how many bricks were left on the chassis. Good times but we destroyed so many pieces.
Oh speaking of that on TeeFury is Firefly t-shirt with good old Lego Space logo.
http://www.teefury.com/
I had the same set, it brought tear to my eye
I'm married to Dougal from Father Ted. I'll just tell him the old one was further away.
I'm curious. If Lego released some space sets that harked back to the more simplistic designs (obviously taking advantage of new pieces) of the early sets would people buy them today.
1996's Exploriens theme was the last to have a Space Base set. With 1997's UFO (which I liked) theme being all ships and also the first non human series.
I'd say the "big downfall" for Space was in 2001 with Life on Mars. Mostly because this was the first set that lost it's nice uniformed colour scheme. Green, orange, blue, white, brown, grey, red. It's a mismatch. I think it was this bold use of basically just three colours that gave the early sets their identity. In some ways that is what is disappointing about the Galaxy Squad sets. As a whole they don't match since each set has its own colour scheme.
So for me I would buy a space set if they went back to the design philosophy of old.
1996's Exploriens theme was the last to have a Space Base set. With 1997's UFO (which I liked) theme being all ships and also the first non human series.
I'd say the "big downfall" for Space was in 2001 with Life on Mars. Mostly because this was the first set that lost it's nice uniformed colour scheme. Green, orange, blue, white, brown, grey, red. It's a mismatch. I think it was this bold use of basically just three colours that gave the early sets their identity. In some ways that is what is disappointing about the Galaxy Squad sets. As a whole they don't match since each set has its own colour scheme.
So for me I would buy a space set if they went back to the design philosophy of old.
Cosmonaut X
Member
Fantastic reference :-D
re: the encyclopedias. Is there any comprehensive minifigure one out there? The only one I've seen to date was available online as an ebook for a daft amount of money, but it looked incredibly thorough. Anything similar available, or are they all covering themes/sub-themes?
EDIT:
Actually, hang on - it seems to be available from Lulu for ~£18 - http://www.lulu.com/shop/christoph-...l;jsessionid=58CC79B407CBF825AE56C82D70F916A6 - which is far more reasonable. The print edition is still expensive though.
Dragoshi1
Member
Bought the new Lego City set "Police High Speed Chase".
Mostly for the code it comes with for Lego City Undercover, but I actually enjoyed putting the set together. Apart from this set, I recently bought some Lego Chima things, like the Crocodile Speedorz and the small Crow vehicle.
I feel like going back to the store and picking up the Gas truck or garbage truck.
Mostly for the code it comes with for Lego City Undercover, but I actually enjoyed putting the set together. Apart from this set, I recently bought some Lego Chima things, like the Crocodile Speedorz and the small Crow vehicle.
I feel like going back to the store and picking up the Gas truck or garbage truck.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Man, I pulled the Death Star box out of the storage closet in preparation for Saturday. I forgot how massive (and heavy) this box is.
Calm Killer
In all media, only true fans who consume every book, film, game, or pog collection deserve to know what's going on.
After reviewing my wanted list on Brickset and climbing into the attic at my parents house in an attempt to see what sets are up there I have a pretty good idea of what I have and what I want from my future and past LEGO collection. I can confirm that I currently have 100 sets dating from 1985 (when I was 2) through 2013 (Now 29). I was actually shocked at some of the sets I had and did not realize. I have a ton of train sets that I got at some point that I cannot remember. A couple were made in 1985 and I know I didn't get these until later in my collecting days. I am not really sure how that worked out. Either way I do not have room to take all of these sets out of the attic and sort them at my house. I need to buy a house with more room before I start a sorting task like that.
Well with my owned sets now somewhat more cataloged (at least the best I can do at this time) I only have 38 sets in my wish list. That may seem like a lot of sets and a fair amount of those I will never have, 10179 I am looking at you. I feel like I have finally caught up with the going OOP sets. Considering I rediscovered LEGO in July of last year thanks to this thread I have cut my wanted list from around 75 sets down to 38, and some of those I will not see ever. I can count 8 10000 series sets I will never have, not at the prices they are now anyway. I can finally slow down on buying sets and my wife won't have to kill me. I just hope LEGO puts out more 10000 series sets that I am not interested in at all, so I can buy sets as they come out and not have to worry about it.
Basically I have a LEGO problem, I am getting it under control, because I am catching up. I hope I can stay caught up. : )
Well with my owned sets now somewhat more cataloged (at least the best I can do at this time) I only have 38 sets in my wish list. That may seem like a lot of sets and a fair amount of those I will never have, 10179 I am looking at you. I feel like I have finally caught up with the going OOP sets. Considering I rediscovered LEGO in July of last year thanks to this thread I have cut my wanted list from around 75 sets down to 38, and some of those I will not see ever. I can count 8 10000 series sets I will never have, not at the prices they are now anyway. I can finally slow down on buying sets and my wife won't have to kill me. I just hope LEGO puts out more 10000 series sets that I am not interested in at all, so I can buy sets as they come out and not have to worry about it.
Basically I have a LEGO problem, I am getting it under control, because I am catching up. I hope I can stay caught up. : )
RepairmanJack
Member
:O
If this comes true I will need every set, every minifig, everything!
I think it'd be smart for LEGO too, I would think Simpsons collectors are just about as fanatic as Star Wars collectors. They'd probably get a lot of people buying the sets that don't usually buy LEGO.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
And then there are four more, smaller boxes inside of that. Well, five if you count the instructions.
Calm Killer
In all media, only true fans who consume every book, film, game, or pog collection deserve to know what's going on.
So it's like the SSD?
BattleMonkey
Member
Lego store still has Death Stars in stock and I keep thinking about it.... must resist. The box on display is such bad shape, though bet they have nice new ones in the back
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Yup.
Lego store still has Death Stars in stock and I keep thinking about it.... must resist. The box on display is such bad shape, though bet they have nice new ones in the back
They probably do. When I bought it last summer I asked if they had a non mangled one, and they brought one out that was still sealed in the shipping box too. Even the regular box was untouched.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Oh god. I have a huge collection of Simpsons stuff that has kind of dried up from new purchases in recent years. I am struggling to not replace that hole in my collecting heart with a full blown lego collection. There's no way I could resist. Don't do this to me.
Do do it to me. I want it I want it I want it I want it
whatsinaname
Member
I want my Death Star!! (moop already shipped it out, waiting for delivery. Though I have friends visiting this weekend so might not get to start building till next week. )
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