Odds & Ends

I made a trade with a trader from another board. I sent my part of the trade on the 18th. It has been more than 10 days since the individual has contacted me via pm and I still haven't received the figures promised to me. So when should I start plastering his name all over the trade sites?

Hello All - I am a Senior at the Cleveland institute of Art and am doing a survey on auto repair trying to get ideas for my final project of a self serve auto center. i know this is not lego related, but it would really help if i could get some responses from you all here I really do appreciate the help! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/77XJLPP Thanks, Patrick Lewis

Now this is interesting news..... http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/09/12/harry-potter-spinoff-movie-series-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-announced Harry Potter Spinoff Movie Series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Announced The new series is set seventy years before Harry Potter. by Eric Goldman SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 Warner Bros. have announced a new film series that will be set in the same world as Harry Potter: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Potter fans will recognize the title, as it was used for a Potter spinoff book, presented as a Hogwarts textbook read by Harry, Ron and Hermione. The fil…

I'm a teacher do its obvious - we use Lego in the classroom for learning and play and I display my own Lego in my classroom. The kids love it, and my next class are all lego obsessed (need to brush up on my Chima and Ninjago)!

Has anyone seen these before. It is six stickers in a pack. The stickers are not your traditional stickers, they are about 1/4 inch thick. Seems to be three different sets, most in city characters. Are they new or just resurrected out of the dungeons of Targets backroom. ? what are they used for?

Fast forward to 2:57 and watch through to 3:54. It starts off with Kreo at 2:57, but the end results are awesome. Of course feel free to watch the whole thing. It's very interesting.

I wanted to pass on a web site I created that might be useful for people selling on eBay: http://www.ListingTrends.com The site shows you the hottest listings currently on eBay, as determined by number of bids, watchers, or current price. I had been using a simpler version at home to see what's trending in comic books (to figure out what I could buy and flip), and I figured I'd flesh it out so that anyone could use it for any category. For instance, if you look at the "Bulk Bricks & Lots" category, the listing with the highest number of bids is a set of 20 clone trooper minifigs with 35 bids, and the highest price is a 19" Lord Garmadon display at $490. If yo…

Today, I got some replacement parts that I needed from a set. Usually, it take about 1-2 weeks for the pieces to come in. This time it has been four months since I have placed the request for the pieces. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else here. i do not think that it is usual for it to take that long to send the replacement parts.

Just read this article on Bricket. Basically, the team behind Brickipedia have moved the project to a new platform using this new URL. http://en.brickimedia.org/ It is still very much under construction so expect long load times for a while until things get sorted. I can say the new look is appealing, simpler, and less cluttered than the original which will still be available for use since they can't delete the old website out right. If anything the new Brickimedia works & looks much like Wikipedia only more colorful and less monotone. Oh and no more ads.

Thought it may be interesting, so scanned and put it in PDF format. Here are several jpegs for a preview. Enjoy! Lego_Catalog_1985.pdf

The more people addicted, the better... http://www.toynews-online.biz/news/read/lego-sees-sales-in-asia-soar/040878

I'm a huge Lego collector but I have a few Duplo blocks as well, plus some huge Megablok Maxi size that my wife bought. I can connect Lego above or below Duplo, which is great -- especially for building huge structures. I can snap Megablok Maxi above my Lego or Duplo, but I'd like to snap them below. The height/width dimensions line up, but the huge rounded pegs above Megabloks won't be accepted by Duplo above. Does anyone know of Lego or Duplo pieces that will accept Megabloks below? I had success with the Duplo Thomas Trains lid/building-piece... it accepts Megabloks. Any similar pieces would be helpful.

There is one thread specific to The Hobbit in regards to a person not liking the sets. What are some things you don't like Lego? I don't like Time Cruisers. It reminded me of a hodgepodge of parts Lego had lying around and putting weird sets together with them. Comeon Lego.

What is your favorite College Football team - or who do you root for? I am from Kentucky and went to the university of Louisville so I am a big UofL fan. Coming in ranked in the top 10. If I wasn't spoiled enough, I live in Alabama and they have always been my close second place team as most of my cousins attended the school. They are ranked number 1 coming off 3 championships in 4 years! Let's hear it - who do you root for?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/nyregion/remote-controlled-copter-fatally-strikes-pilot-at-park.html?_r=0 I saw this article as a blurb on a Maker board I go to, but when I read the article and read "sliced his head off", it really started to sink in how dangerous some of these 'toys' can be. I had recently taken my 2 year old to see a model airplane display near our house. I made sure he stay far away from the pilots and the planes, but I never thought that he could have been killed by an errant model.

The Brick Fan has reported that the Lego company has announced they will not make an appearance at this year's New York Comic-Con because they already held an event earlier in the year with the humongeous X-wing Starfighter and exclusive "New York, I Love" Yoda minifigures to promote The Yoda Chronicles, and spent quite the budget on that. (Thanks goes to TheBrickBlogger for that last detail about why not.) At least this means Lego could very well keep making an appearance at the two Comic-Con events in the future despite backlash from the last San Diego one.

Just want to put a quick congrats out to TheOrcKing for obtaining more than 100,000 Brickpoints. He has put in a ton of hard work gather thousands of data bits for the Brickpicker price guide as well as submitting reviews, blog articles, etc. Will he cash in his points and get a Tower of Orthanc?

Not Lego related but just thought this was a great ad and funny video. Any action movie would look amazing on this. Maybe in a couple yrs most/many of us can afford it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynvKWYvyCqw

I doubt most of you read through the introductions on the forums, but in mine I talked about how my wife and I run a children's retail store and how it allows me easy intake of toys, etc. on a semi-routine basis... it's amazing the stuff that people completely disregard because they are considered just "toys". Well, today was one of those random days and this is what I managed to take out of the store today... Not all LEGO but still, a decent haul today. Now just have to figure out what I'm doing with all this stuff.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/03/minecraft-pc-sales-at-12-million-franchise-at-33-million Just a theory. With Minecraft hitting amazing sales records, is it possible that this game is bringing people out of the dark ages? I am actually thinking of writing my first article on this. Looking for thoughts on the topic.

I just caught this in the news feed and Brickshow is reporting there will be Mega Man based sets from off brand Nanoblocks which you may remember Brianl3 has written a blog on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi-6vfzKRkw All I can say is....really? A BIG name like Capcom and they go with a brand most have not even heard of or possibly care about. Plus the designs are basically renditions of 8-bit sprites from the NES which is kinda geeky cool but typically done for fun with your own bricks and hardly fits as an actual set. A line which could have been a minifigure goldmine with numorous playsets and enemies instead was allowed to be turned into a collection of thre…

I've seen this new set up at 2 Walmarts so far.

I am a Boy Scout in my local troop and every year my troop sells popcorn to support all the different activities that we do all year. So today I received all the information I needed to start selling popcorn. As I was looking through it, one thing caught my eye. This year, one of the prizes for selling popcorn is the Lego Star Wars 7964 Republic Frigate. I was very shocked. How can they give this out as a prize if the set is retired. That is something I am questioning. Anyway, to get this prize, you must sell at least $3,500 in popcorn. I have seen Lego sets being given out as prizes before, but they were some of the small sets worth $10. Now, they are giving a bigger pri…

Married? Single? With grown up children? With very young children? How do you find time to build? How do you find money to invest? I ask because I'm a 29 year old father of 2 girls aged 3 and 1 be my wife is 5 days overdue with our 3rd. I've just bought the VW Camper but now am thinking "when will I find time to build it?!"

What is difference between the Shuttle Expedition 10231, and Shuttle Adventure 10213? I have the Expedition should I also get the Adventure? They look the same to me.