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Here's a nice little announcement leading into May the Fourth. http://starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-7-cast-announced.html let's get ready for more Lego Star Wars sets and exciting minifigs in 2015 ...from starwars.com The Star Wars team is thrilled to announce the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film. Director J.J. Abrams says, "We are so excited to finally share the cast of St…

I am looking to get back into stop motion animation and wanted a nice software for it. I have already seen dragon frame, but it seemed on the expensive side and a bit to much for what I needed. I would just like a software that will convert a bunch of images into a movie so that I can add sound, export it, and make it go viral. Thanks in advance!

Can someone please explain this? I've read abot it in a lot of Lego books being the nerd that I am, but still don't understand it. I think it's supposed to be about learning to express your emotions and feelings through Lego, and learn to work as a team or something. All of the 'sets' just look like Bucket of Bricks on steroids. In the books I've read, it shows adults sitting around discussing what their creations mean and how their feelings or personality affected it. You may disagree, but it looks pretty dumb to me.

Received my first ever shipment from yoyo.com today. This is the box that arrived, pretty sizeable. What could be in it? Perhaps a couple Jabba's Sail Barges? Dolphin Cruisers? Lots of packing material, that's a good sign. Nope, just a few baseplates. I just thought it was kind of comical and wanted to share. I ordered a handful of these baseplates over the weekend and was surprised to see a 3 foot wide box sitting on my porch when I got home from work yesterday. Better to be overpackaged than the other way around. I think we can safely assume you won't be getting any pancakes from yoyo!

Lego, the company known by kids and parents alike for its colorful building bricks, is hugely successful. Over the last four years it has enjoyed double-digit growth...but, just ten years ago, the company was losing nearly a million dollars a day. Bloomberg traveled to the company

I have been wanting a Streaming device. Having Amazon Prime, the Amazon Fire seems like a pretty good choice. Anyone have it yet? Only thing I don't like is there isn't really the ability to stream from a PC to the player.

Hello great people! Who is all going to this weeks awesome event? Unfortunately, I can only make Sunday and plan on checking out all the booths and spending cash on all the goodies! I remember last year it was crazy and plenty of collectibles being sold by great vendors. Anyone going or selling this weekend?

An article about Legos in this week's New York Times Style Magazine: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/by-design-the-shape-of-things/ Enjoy! Some of my favorite quotes from the article (boldface mine): This summer, the author and artist Douglas Coupland will have an exhibition in Vancouver that will feature a suburb of 100 identical Lego houses, each one made from a 1969 kit that, he says,

Hi! I'm a mom of three small boys, soon to be four and all of my kids love Legos! I've really been struggling with how to sort the Legos into their sets so that they can pull out the boxes one at a time and build from the booklets without having to dig through a huge tub to find the small pieces. I finally solved my problem! I got this box at Michaels and it works perfectly for sorting the small sets. And the boys actually keep them separate too. We still have a box of regular bricks so they can build creatively, but I love this as my kids will sit and build one set from the instruction booklets. The case was originally $40, but this week it's on sale for $20. …

My birthday is tomorrow! I have waited forever! I will be turning 15. Here is a list of stuff I'm asking for. Mom & Step Dad 75042 Droid Gunship 75043 AT-AP 75045 Republic AV-7 Anti-Vehicle Cannon 75046 Coruscant Police Gunship $55 for 75049 Snowspeeder and 75048 The Phantom which will come out in Augest If I get all of those (100% sure I will) I will have completed my 2014 winter set collection. Dad 9516 Jabbas Palace 7965 Millenium Falcon 75020 Jabbas Sailbarge My dad said all of them are already ordered (kind of pushed him...) Will post pics tomorrow. Tomorrow I will have 62 sets in my collection.

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Just received delivery of a DS 10188, my first set. While inspecting the box, I noticed two things on the inner box that came with my set (the one that has LEGO's brand and the words TOY repeated all over the top). First it says "Death Star v140". As a programmer, I'd say that means this is the 140th version of the Death Star? Secondly, the label also stated the manufacturing date, which from 1403 means March, 2014. This is just extra info, but I'm not sure if it gives any hints. Mods, I'd appreciate if you would kindly merge this to the appropriate thread if it has already been discussed before. Thanks!

Can you spot it? Photo from a local store openning Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

If Google made their own Lego, what would they call it? What would they make? Perhaps this, that I came across at a tech conference...

For anyone in the tri-state area this weekend (4/5-4/6), there's a Lego Friends celebration event at Legoland Discovery Center Westchester in Yonkers, NY this weekend. Annual Pass members can get in one day early (4/4) for a "sneak peek". (And yes, you must bring a kid with you!) http://www.legolanddiscoverycenter.com/westchester/news-events/event/1146/lego-friends-weekend.aspx Some details: LEGO

Minifigs'R Us Lego Military Minifigure Accessories saw this on kickstarter, posting here, will read what it is after I get back for picking up my oldest from school.

Article on BroadWayworld.com today title: LegoLand'California Restort is Moving Mountains in Order to Open New Lego' Legends of Chima Water Park on Memorial Day Weekend! Kind of sounds like fun, can Chima be fun.

So I came across this heart felt story. Colorado Springs teen barters rare Lego for set of wheels started with a Lego, ended with a truck for himself and ambulance for charity I hope my girls do something cool like this some day. Also what is this rare purple brick that I must have.

This was just posted about an hour and a half ago. DIY LEGO DRONE This is so cool, DIY Drone's are very popular out here in the north west. Going to hit my friends up for some extra parts an will be building it asap. All ready have a few idea's for improvements. Search of DIYDRONES.COM for other Lego builds

reading the student newspaper at Immaculata University and came across this story today. A Professor had students create physical representations of what each believed to be their own personal legend. ya I copied most of that sentence Sounds like a cool class.

For all you Game of Thrones fans, citizen brick has just released a new set of custom minifigs based on the series. Check them out here: http://citizenbrick.com/collections/minifigs/products/dragon-sword-fighter-force-complete-series-plus-bonus-minifig Pretty awesomely detailed (as usual from these guys). My favs would be the White Walker, Tyrion, and Khal Drogo. I'm very tempted to get them, but $220 is a bit much for me to outlay at present on personal purchases. Sweet GRRM bonus fig as well.

Article -- for story facts, Not that it matters here, Lego bit 3/4 way down. I want a 100 comments when I wake up and read them to decide if I believe this to be true or false. Debate

So reading the telegraph today and came across this article. So living in a faith based house, and it being 75% Polish, this dominated the morning discussion. Good Times, and yes I made half of the breakfast for the people that are wondering.

Copied from Variety.com Jason Bateman has signed on to narrate

is to "write" your CV in Lego: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jzebarrow/cvs-like-this-are-the-reason-the-rest-of-us-are-un-mvjw