I tried to avoid reading articles until I saw the movie. No real spoilers in this one.
I always like seeing early designs of characters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/m...trive-to-blend-familiar-and-strange.html?_r=0
EDIT:
3,863,484 unique Lego bricks were used in the movie.
15,080,330 Lego bricks to recreate the whole movie.
So if the movie was done with real bricks and not CGI, at the rough cost of $0.10 a brick, that's $1.51 million worth of bricks.
I was trying to find out how many bricks were used in the basement setup. Anyone know?
.I just stumbled upon the Custom Model Contest thread and even though I haven't used LEGO in years, I'd really love to buy a set or two again and see what I can build with it. Are there any recent affordable sets (max ~30) that you guys recommend? Something with lots of useful pieces that isn't a standard brick box, but something a little more technical with cool tiny pieces or whatever. I don't know, haha. I hope you guys can help me find what I'm looking for
edit: I'm probably looking for something in the LEGO Creator series. This eagle I'm looking at looks pretty cool. The OP has some great info, thanks for that! Although I'm not yet sure what set to get. I don't recall seeing most of those sets in my local toy stores.
I just stumbled upon the Custom Model Contest thread and even though I haven't used LEGO in years, I'd really love to buy a set or two again and see what I can build with it. Are there any recent affordable sets (max ~30) that you guys recommend? Something with lots of useful pieces that isn't a standard brick box, but something a little more technical with cool tiny pieces or whatever. I don't know, haha. I hope you guys can help me find what I'm looking for
edit: I'm probably looking for something in the LEGO Creator series. This eagle I'm looking at looks pretty cool. The OP has some great info, thanks for that! Although I'm not yet sure what set to get. I don't recall seeing most of those sets in my local toy stores.
I am not trying to re-open any debates, but this is pretty cool.
Same person.
I am not trying to re-open any debates, but this is pretty cool.
Same person.
Haunted House before it goes away. Want something newer? Ewok Village.
I got pajama emmet, piece of resistance, and the accessory pack with the two cars for 25 dollars from some seller. Lol it was cheap considering pajama emmet reaches into the 20s and the accessory pack around the same.
I agree, the last real set I bought was an arctic alpha team car like 6 year ago. Many year later I found out about the minifigure series during series 5. Collected all of series 5. Lost interest, the mr. Gold came out and made me interested again. Collected all of 10, 11, and LM series. Now I'm collecting the LM promofigs because of the movie. I now plan on buying more sets.
The Simpsons house would be great for a family. Lots of rooms and furniture pieces to make.
Another set would be Arkham Asylum. It comes with a ton of Batman's villains.
It's nice seeing tons more people in this thread. The movie has rekindled a bunch of people's love for LEGO.
Quite like the haunted house. I will certainly consider that. Never was a fan of Ewoks
Are there any original trilogy ships out at the moment worth owning?
I like the Simpson's house. It's definitely on the list. Not at all into superheroes, so I will probably skip that series entirely.
I'm also considering the French Restaurant modular one. It looks pretty cool.
There's the UCS X-wing and SSD.
I made sure I pointed out it was a rumor in my post (started by Ghostmind
I tend to concur with Ghostmind that ~$250 among quite a sea of $200+ sets out and coming out this year and the design lends to the idea that is targeted to a smaller than usual audience. My hope is speculators swarm in and raise demand so LEGO produces a more (if indeed they produced a small amount).
I thought it would be a good idea for the next lego show to some progression of the Ecto-1, starting with a recreation of the Ecto-1 I used to make when I was about 10, then my CUUSOO submission and then the final set next to that.
I knocked up my old ecto-1 tonight, pretty basic and classic 80s car style with some junk on top.
1989 by Brent Waller, on Flickr
The main difference (that I can remember) was that I had little ghostbuster logo badges I cut out from a Ghostbuster colouring book cover I had and I stuck it on the doors.
I just got this set last night! I am thinking odd bricks choice is to keep it simple build and modular for beginner builder (I haven't build it yet, may be later today). Too bad for the stickers.
I thought it would be a good idea for the next lego show to some progression of the Ecto-1, starting with a recreation of the Ecto-1 I used to make when I was about 10, then my CUUSOO submission and then the final set next to that.
I knocked up my old ecto-1 tonight, pretty basic and classic 80s car style with some junk on top.
1989 by Brent Waller, on Flickr
The main difference (that I can remember) was that I had little ghostbuster logo badges I cut out from a Ghostbuster colouring book cover I had and I stuck it on the doors.
I thought it would be a good idea for the next lego show to some progression of the Ecto-1, starting with a recreation of the Ecto-1 I used to make when I was about 10, then my CUUSOO submission and then the final set next to that.
I knocked up my old ecto-1 tonight, pretty basic and classic 80s car style with some junk on top.
1989 by Brent Waller, on Flickr
The main difference (that I can remember) was that I had little ghostbuster logo badges I cut out from a Ghostbuster colouring book cover I had and I stuck it on the doors.
