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Hey, Was wondering if any of you who build have any expertise on a good quality Lego table for the kiddos. I've been browsing EBay and Amazon and have taken a liking to a table made by a company in North Dakota called Flextoys, they make what looks like a good quality, sturdy table with solid oak legs. They offer a model with or without a mesh storage bag in the middle for about 160 plus 20 bucks to ship. There's also some less impressive looking all-plastic tables and an official Lego table with a pretty cool singular design but it's well over 200 bucks. Anyone have any good advice on this stuff?

http://thebrickblogger.com/2013/03/remembering-lego-fan-mitchell-jones/ Here's a story about a young boy and his fondness for LEGOs (or LEGO bricks for you brits). Saw it on Bricklink and thought I'd share it here. I'm a brand new father of three weeks, and I will definitely have fun introducing my son to these wonderful toys. Regards, Cody

Does Lego not do this anymore? I found a link to the Lego.com page where you can subscribe but all I got was one of those ''oops page not found". Does anyone know when they discontinued this?

Haven't seen anyone bring up this topic, Im curious about everyone's previous hobbies they had or collections they accumulated. I myself was an avid model train enthusiast, building and collecting HO scale models. I transitioned away from model trains into Lego recently and it's definitely just as enjoyable, even more addicting!

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…

Hello, This was a set I completed from the 'Building Together - Road Trip' promo a while back: Also, my son and I had recently attended the official grand opening of Legoland Discovery Centre at Vaughan Mills mall, located in Vaughan about 20 minutes north of Toronto: Enjoy!

It really makes me cringe when I see stuff on Reddit etc that says 'I stepped on a Legos' Arrrrgggghhhhh Its a Lego brick!!!!!!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57572674-1/lego-spill-tangles-up-west-virginia-highway/ Poor kid.. "Those legos belonged to my 11 yr old son they where in totes strapped to the top of the durango they fell off strap came loose he cried it seemed like forever but I tried to recover as many as I could cause I don't have the money to buy him anymore." :-(

I just got the latest Lego Club Magazine today and noticed that they changed Max again. Is anyone else sick of the madness!?! Give the kids someone who doesn't change!

http://imgur.com/a/yH38S Cost a lot more than I anticipated!

we just posted the 3rd update video to our lego city construction project. Road construction was the focus for this video. hope you like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chW4B2mAT7U

I saw this on Brickset.com and a guy is offering to illustrate your face onto a minifigure's. You can even order a physical copy of the minifig if you want. Here's the link: http://www.brickset.com/news/article/?ID=5908 Do you guys think this is cool or kinda creepy?

Having a tough time trying to find 8 of these. Maybe some of you more experienced folks might be able to point me in the right direction? Thanks

I don't know how many of you played this, but I liked it. I was too stindgy to pay for it, but I scrounged my way up to level 26 on free to play. I thought it was really good for a computer game, and liked that you could build and pimp out your minifigure with all the sweet gear. I was just thinking that it would be great if Lego released it as a Wii/xbox game. It probably wouldn't have to MMO feature, but they could mod it as a regular game. What I would want most of all though, is a LU theme with sets from the game. They had so many different and unique locations and I think it would sell well with little kids. They could include a bunch of body pieces and weapon…

i am having trouble accessing the legoshop missing pieces order form. anyone else having this problem? i emailed lego about this issue. is the legoshop the best place to order missing pieces or is there another site?

Hi all, After I got done playing my trumpet the other day I thought of an idea. Lego should make instrument sets. These wouldn't be minifigure size, but life size. You could display them in a case and Lego could offer different instruments. I added some pictures I've found of instruments people have made. Pretty cool looking if you ask me. I then thought of two cons relating to this idea. 1. Limited Market People will probably only buy it if they are a Lego fan and play the instrument making the potential customer pool smaller. 2. Unique parts If for example they made a trumpet, it would probably require new parts. This equals a higher cost initially to make the set.…

So I was out making my "rounds" today, and I had a store associate ask me with a straight face if I was a "Hoarder" (as in the TV show). I couldn't help but laugh. Anyone else been asked this? Is it a bad thing that I answered "YES!" ?

Every so often I like to play around on Google Trends. If you have not heard of Google Trends before, it is "a public web facility of Google Inc., based on Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume" (source: Wikipedia). Basically, it shows you how often people Google stuff over time. I got to thinking the other day about the popularity of Brickpicker since the USA Today article came out about Brickpicker and decided to look up "Brickpicker" on Google Trends. Talk about a Google search explosion for Brickpicker in December and even more so into January! I'll definitely be watching the popularity of Brick…

Just came across this article http://gizmodo.com/5981496/awesome-lego-gundam-must-become-an-official-set-now

http://www.etsy.com/listing/117333049/star-wars-lego-mini-figures-new-hope? Is it weird that I totally want this picture? This seller has a bunch of other cool ones too.

First of let me apoligize for the rhyme. Ok, so I was looking at the 2010 set 10213 and 2011 set 10231 on Brickset, and can only find about four or five tiny differences between them. Does anyone know why Lego re-released it in 2011 with those almost imperceptable changes?

I picked up a SW advent calendar on sale today and I am torn between Opening it to add the figs to my collection or to keep it for winter resale. Same deal with my Tc-14 polybag. Help me sort it out in the polls!

Mine is my 10188 because that set is what got me into this awesome world of investing/collecting! What is yours and why?

So I was interested in buying a wookie, and I saw this http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-Star-Wars-CHEWBACCA-Wookie-NEW-2012-Minifigure-from-set-9516-Jabbas-Palace-/110920088363?pt=Building_Toys_US&hash=item19d35a3b2b My question is, is there a black blank head underneath the wookie's head? Or is the wookie head thingy one piece? Thanks Edit: Found out, thanks!

Great story about LEGO Customer Service...