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"I'll build the thing according to instructions first, it'll sit around for a bout a week, then I'll disassemble it and put it together with the other cannibalized parts to see what I can do."

Exactly.

5/27/2009 12:35:19 PM

i remember getting this for my 9th birthday (1995)

5/27/2009 12:37:18 PM

when my family was living in london, lego launched the pirates sets. harrods had a huge toy floor and in the middle of it was a large vat of lego. as part of the pirates launch, they had a contest for kids to build a vehicle to help the pirates get off their desert island. my bro and i built a big sailing ship that took a good couple of hours to do and entered it. we ended up winning the competition, got invited to meet the president of harrods and had lego sets delivered to our flat as a reward. had we been UK nationals, we would have had a shot at winning a trip to legoland in sweden or wherever it was back then

5/27/2009 12:40:23 PM

Of course, right after I say that I disassemble the things, I have to admit that the TIE Advanced is staying together. It's about the only original Star Wars craft they still sell, the rest of it is a bunch of Clone Wars faggotry.

5/27/2009 12:42:43 PM

Did go. Was disappointed also.

5/27/2009 7:46:00 PM

i went today, and was disappointed as well. i expected so much more from the brick wall, and i expected so many more kinds of sets, like old hard to find ones n stuff

and since when does lego=star wars.

[Edited on May 27, 2009 at 8:06 PM. Reason : .]

5/27/2009 8:00:17 PM

i have the 1/10 ferrari f1 car. badass. v10 version

5/27/2009 8:20:29 PM

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"100 internet dweebs inside the lego store with party hats on."

lolololololol.


I, too had



and

5/27/2009 8:45:55 PM

I still have all the instructions. If I ever go dig them out of my parent's attic, I will scan them so they are easier to keep.

5/27/2009 8:49:30 PM

[quote]It's about the only original Star Wars craft they still sell, the rest of it is a bunch of Clone Wars faggotry.

i was just there and saw the millennium falcon, an x-wing, and the death star

5/27/2009 9:36:00 PM

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"It's about the only affordable original Star Wars craft they still sell, the rest of it is a bunch of Clone Wars faggotry."

5/27/2009 10:12:20 PM

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"i was just there and saw the millennium falcon, an x-wing, and the death star"

The Millennium Falcon and Death Star are both newer LEGO models, and as Erfdawg said, they're well outside of my price range. But a number of the others -- TIE fighter and intercepter, B-wing, A-wing, Y-wing -- have all been discontinued in favor of this new anime shit.

I will admit that the X-wing is another original, but I was always partial to the Empire and am not made of money.

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"i expected so much more from the brick wall, and i expected so many more kinds of sets, like old hard to find ones n stuff "

I agree about the brick wall -- it was not very impressive, although I understand they're expanding it somehow. As to the old school sets, they don't have them because they simply aren't produced anymore. Most of the sets from the 90's are all gone. I can't really fault them for not having shit that hasn't been made in a decade (although I still kinda do).

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"and since when does lego=star wars."

I was amazed to find out this has been going on for ten years. I suppose it makes sense, when I think back to my first star wars lego set (one of the last sets I ever bought, really). Some of them are pretty cool -- if I could find the Star Destroyer model (also discontinued) I'd mug people on the streets to collect enough money for it. Others are meh.

5/28/2009 12:14:41 AM

i love a damned lego

5/28/2009 12:16:46 AM

Man, I was totally PUMPED when I got my Lego Mindstorms set way back when, and then I got a small expansion set with a camera to go with it for my birthday.

I'll have to check this store out at some point when I have money. Which means I'll probably check it out around the week of Christmas when I am visiting from Virginia, hahaha.

Maybe there's one of these up there though... Legos rock and are my favorite childhood toy.

5/28/2009 12:17:57 AM

the millenium falcon was like $500

i died a little on the inside.

5/28/2009 12:24:08 AM

oooooh someone make me the Wall-E!

5/28/2009 12:28:28 AM

Oh man, when I got this for christmas, I was like that kid in the N64 video

5/28/2009 12:38:19 AM

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"the millenium falcon was like $500"

:[

Fuck.

5/28/2009 1:04:30 AM

Of course, it's also something like three feet long and is supposedly the largest and most detailed lego set ever sold (possibly behind the taj mahal)

5/28/2009 1:14:22 AM

Earlier this month, the Lego Millenium Falcon was on sale for like $350 or so... here's the image from the email:





Sadly the link to it doesn't work anymore, so you're back up to $500.

I have to say that after buying it and spending about 50 hours assembling it, no other lego set will ever compare. I find myself tempted to get the $300 Taj Mahal, it being the only other set they've ever released to have more pieces (nearly 6000, while the millenium falcon had 5200). If you've always had that itch to buy the lego sets your parents would never get you as a kid, save up and buy this one. The itch will finally go away.

PS, General Grevous is on sale for $30. It's a 1000 piece set, and going for about 3 cents a piece. Usually sets scale at about 10 cents a piece (and 11 cents a piece for franchise branded things like Star Wars). This is a huge sale.

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 3:04 AM. Reason : PS]

5/28/2009 2:59:43 AM

We'll have to see how hardcore I feel like nerding out once I'm working and all by myself in Virginia.

Maybe I'll meet a group of folks at work social enough to go do things from time to time.

If not, I'll buy a $500 lego set and post pics of it on TWW.

5/28/2009 3:04:54 AM

^^ ha, i had the same urge and got it when it was on sale recently... parents never would get me the big set, so i figured that's why i worked

i'm about half way done.. the thing is gigantic.

5/28/2009 8:38:18 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKcEmiDwu9g


[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 9:12 AM. Reason : better video (if muted)]

5/28/2009 9:11:10 AM

Taj Mahal
http://shop.lego.com/ByAge/Product.aspx?p=10189&cn=100007&d=100001

5/28/2009 9:27:22 AM

I always loved the technics, I still use those to prototype stuff to this day. And to play with of course.

5/28/2009 9:48:13 AM

I love Legos, I might have to check this out.

5/28/2009 10:01:45 AM

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"when my family was living in london, lego launched the pirates sets. harrods had a huge toy floor and in the middle of it was a large vat of lego. as part of the pirates launch, they had a contest for kids to build a vehicle to help the pirates get off their desert island. my bro and i built a big sailing ship that took a good couple of hours to do and entered it. we ended up winning the competition, got invited to meet the president of harrods and had lego sets delivered to our flat as a reward. had we been UK nationals, we would have had a shot at winning a trip to legoland in sweden or wherever it was back then"

That's one of the coolest things I've ever heard of!

5/28/2009 10:02:38 AM

^ agreed

i remember setting up a little fake dry dock to 'repair' the pirate and government ships with my brother back in the day

5/28/2009 10:43:24 AM

Do they not make the Harry Potter Legos anymore? I can't find them anywhere and online they're ridiculously priced.

5/28/2009 10:44:31 AM

Once a set is no longer in production the price starts to shoot up. They can be a good investment if you have the space to store them. I could never keep myself from opening the box and building stuff though.

5/28/2009 12:12:47 PM

I run the internet sales for Creative Toys & Hobbies by Hungates...http://www.hungates.com.

Every year we order LEGOs & every year there is different shit made & they discontinued the vast majority of kits from the previous year. Like this damn airplane...

http://www.hungates.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=100708115&Category_Code=lego_city

If you can find one they are worth bank. They were made 1 1/2 years ago & now you can't find them. People go ape shit over kits that you can't get anymore & the mark up is ridiculous. We had an old Avitar Kit that we couldn't give away years ago, we found it at a store a few months back & sold it on eBay for 5 times what the retail price was. crazy shit.

5/28/2009 12:30:05 PM

http://gizmodo.com/5260864/crazy-guy-making-huge-minifig-scale-lego-corellian-corvette

5/28/2009 12:52:40 PM

so what i am gathering, most people buy legos as a puzzle. not so much as a building toy

5/28/2009 12:57:02 PM

^
That's what I'm seeing, but who cares? It's cool because it's both.
(Really more of a model than a puzzle...)

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 12:58 PM. Reason : ]

5/28/2009 12:57:48 PM

I love seeing those minifig scale models. They are really badass. Too bad I don't have the time, creativity, or money to do something badass like that

5/28/2009 1:07:19 PM

so are there instructions to put together the falcon or are there just a bunch of pieces and you figure it out?

i am assuming there is a manual, but i think it would be cooler and more of a challenge/long term build if there wasnt

5/28/2009 1:09:04 PM

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"http://gizmodo.com/5260864/crazy-guy-making-huge-minifig-scale-lego-corellian-corvette"

I could see myself doing something like that when I retire.

Also, GrumpyGOP, there are some new Classic Star Wars sets coming out very soon. A few of them are anniversary editions like the Tie Fighter. http://www.brickwars-sets.com/sets_index_2009.html

5/28/2009 1:11:27 PM

wow, fucking sweet

5/28/2009 2:01:33 PM

I don't want the branded stuff, I just want a huge fucking bucket of bricks!

Oh, and the boats that actually float.

5/28/2009 2:11:44 PM

are puzz 3D's still around? has anyone ever done one of them?


i suppose the answer to the second question could provide the reasoning if the answer to the first question is no

5/28/2009 2:12:47 PM

The next big licensed sets will be based off the Prince of Persia movie and Toy Story. I'm kind of dumbfounded at the PoP license but thrilled about the Toy Story stuff. I only hope they do more Pixar films, especially Wall-E. The Toy Story sets will be out in Jan. 2010 and will be based off the first 2 movies. Sets based off Toy Story 3 will be out closer to the films release.

5/28/2009 2:20:59 PM

Seeing the upcoming Echo Base set makes me want to put my AT-AT and Snowspeeders back together.

5/28/2009 2:28:11 PM

oh word? snowspeeders. didnt know they had em

5/28/2009 2:30:59 PM

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"I don't want the branded stuff, I just want a huge fucking bucket of bricks!"

I hear you. I like the Star Wars stuff because lately I've been on a space/aircraft kick, and the SW sets have pieces that are good for that. Spaceships made out of rectangles don't exactly look sleek.

Next time I go to the store I'm getting some brick buckets for sure, though.

5/28/2009 2:42:54 PM

Bad Ass

5/28/2009 3:03:30 PM

man

after the pirate sets

my friends and i set up entire ECONOMIC systems based on lego pieces and plastic gold

you could sell and buy your friends pieces for a plastic treasure chest of gold...and it wasnt like we had the money to devalue the currency by goign out and buying more sets, so it was a pretty solid exchange rate, guaranteed by the bank of i will punch you in the face if you dont maintain a reasonable exchange rate...

5/28/2009 3:06:34 PM

I have a couple of unopened retired sets in my closet that I am finally getting around to building..


built this one yesterday:




I could probably sell some of them for profit, but it pisses me off to see how crazy the prices are for old sets on eBay. So I can't bring myself to do it. More lego for me.

5/28/2009 4:51:01 PM

Toy geek mode: on.

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"oh word? snowspeeders. didnt know they had em"

This is the most recent Snowspeeder, but you have to buy the whole Hoth Rebel Base set to get it. It was exclusive to Toys 'R Us. Some stores may still have it, but it's a gamble.



This one came out in 2003. You can still get these loose/complete on eBay for about $35.



Also in 2003. This one's UCS scale.



And here's the original from 1999 when Lego first got the Star Wars license.

5/28/2009 5:15:19 PM

Wow, I'm out the loop -- I was unaware of actual lego transformers....
Earlier, when I said I used to make lego transformers, I meant from scratch....

5/28/2009 5:20:01 PM

They're not licensed - they're just fanmade. Exceptionally well fanmade, but not ones that you could buy in a store.

5/28/2009 5:24:49 PM