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Hey guys/gals, I love love love the Star Wars planet sets. I love them so much I want to build some custom high quality acrylic displays. What I have in mind would allow you to display the LEGO set, the planet hanging properly, the box, and the coolest part is the instruction manual. These would be both stackable and/or hangable. These would also be built perfectly to display almost all battle packs or small sets in a similar manor. I have submitted my design to a couple of manufacturers and am curious if anyone else might be interested in something like this? So my question to the community is would you be interested in a "LEGO specific display" and if so how m…

I saw this near me and was wonder if anyone has ever been? Is it worth it? Do they hand out any free gifts? http://www.legokidsfest.com/phoenix/activities.html

I just read a post that in about three weeks from the start of this thread that The Brick Fan website will be one year old! End of 2012 updates at The Brick Fan Allow me to be the first to say congratulations on reaching your first milestone, and I look forward to reading all of your news posts in the future like I have before. Well earned respect to our very own, "Tormentalous"!

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.

guys if you live in ontario there is a new legoland opening 2013. WHERE:Vaughn Mills

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Easily the most influential part of my childhood was this book. It was a fun adventure of a couple told through the universal language of still frames sometimes having a few semi "how to" builds strewn about and two sticker sheets added for good measure. There was a little theme mixing but nothing really. I mean nowhere near The LEGO Movie levels. Haha. Well anyway turns out Jangbricks had a recent nostalgia trip for a video so anyone wanting to relieve some memories or just curious to see page by page what it was then watch this.

A lot of guys I know on here are dads & know what a special & fortunate thing it is to be a dad. So to all of the fellow dads here on BP, Happy Fathers day!

Did any of you catch the premier of The Yoda Chronicles on Cartoon Network? I haven't watched a show on that network (besides Adventure Time) in years. It was pretty good. There was a lot of blatant gag humor, which was basically for children. But there was some adult humor as well. For example, there was a running General Grievous coughing joke, which eventually involved an injury to his... well you know. It's definitely going to make kids want the Lego Star Wars sets!

My wife just sent this to me and I thought I would share. I would love to do this but apparently there is already a waiting list for this years tours. http://aboutus.lego.com/en-us/lego-group/programs-and-visits/inside-tour/

Thought this was a fun article, also liked how it mentions the Hayabusa (which is also a Cuusoo set) http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/actually-getting-to-mars?cid=8406174&pid=6966 Let me know what you guys think about it! I'd love to see the SpaceX Lego projects hah. Or another wave of NASA sets!

Sorry if this has brought up before. I am wondering what is the best box for lego. Looking for one that has dividers for smaller pieces. Not just one big compartment. Any advice would be wonderful.

Is this common, or has this happened to others? About a year ago I purchased the Darth Vader Meditation Chamber lego set on clearance at Walmart. It was sealed - definitely. I finally got around to opening it last night for a build and lo-and-behold I don’t know what the heck was inside. First of all, no instructions. Then, a lot of the bags were not Star Wars related, and the pieces in the bags looked old, dented, scratched, etc. It looks like someone just threw some random bags in there. I confirmed it was sealed - unless some hacks have figured out a way to reseal a box and make it look like it was never opened to swap out bags and pieces?

When I walk around the house I enjoy taking in the Lego sets that I have on display. It's a pretty minimal amount if a person was to ask me compared to all the crafty stuff my wife gets to put up all over the house, but I take what I can get. I get one space in the dining room on top of a china cabinet that I get to myself. I've chosen the 4504 Millenium Falcon, 7166 Imperial Shuttle, and the Z 95 Headhunter. I just took down the Grand Emporium in favor of representing Star Wars. I also have a built in bookshelf in the den that has a variety of Lego odds and ends. Mostly CMF's and Lego original material boxes for my son to beat up and toss around. On the top of tha…

This is just a little tid bit of info for how I will be trying to keep my inventory organized. A lot of you have a closet or tucked away place where you store your sets out of carboard boxes. While this is great to see it's not so great for little prying eyes. Of which I have two sets to contend with. The storage closet where I keep my sets is locked most of the time, but it also has bikes and other outdoor toys in it for my boys. Just about all of the sets in this closet are in carboard boxes of varies sizes. Enough of the back story. I have created a pdf Label template to put on the outside of my cardboard boxes to help me keep track of whats inside ea…

Anyone actually take the time to do the online survey that is on the Target, Toysrus, and other retailers' receipt? Has anyone win the price it said on the survey? I tried a few times and just gave up on them.

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.

I'm sure many of you have kids and have bought a half metric buttload of duplo for them. I just started my 18mo with his first of many sets. When he gets old enough, I plan on trying to maximize resale value of these if possible and then reinvest into sets he wants when he's old enough. So for those of you that have reselling experience with duplo, is it worth it to keep the box/manual or no? I've noticed that the manuals don't generally have the part listing, and they're located on the box but I'm sure you can verify the parts online. I don't see there being a big AFOL following for non-themed duplo.

do you think we will ever see xmen again?

The LEGO Creativity Tour is stopping in Columbus, OH (US) on Nov. 20-22, 2015 http://www.creativitytour.legokidsfest.com/ohio.html We're going and thought I'd share.

Hey guys I got at Wookie Catamaran on ebay a while ago and just got to building it now and there is a lot of dust. I'm not trying to file or anything I just want to know how to remove all of it easy, and I've gotten a few with dust before but this one is really bad some of them I can barely tell what color they are. If you guys could help me out that'd be great.

Hey, BPers! In addition to being a fellow investor and Lego-Dad, I'm a filmmaker, and I just completed a mash-up of The Lego Movie and Guardians of the Galaxy. The two films are virtually identical story-wise, so I edited footage from both into a single video, cutting back and forth seamlessly. I'm very proud of the way it turned out, and I think you guys in particular will enjoy it. Thanks for watching! John EDIT: Apparently I have no idea how to embed. Thanks to TheGallows for posting a link.

Hello Whovians. The new Doctor is Peter Calpaldi. What do you guys think of him? I think he is a good choice.

Just received LEGO 9396 helicopter as my birthday gift from my friends!! They even force me to cut the seal so I will enjoy building it instead of selling it

Police arrest Colorado man in $14K Star Wars Lego fraud case Source: Denver Post