Odds & Ends

Alot of people have been asking me why I box my Lego sets up way a head of time. "Well the main reason is its a mental thing, 10 years ago when I had 100's of lego sets laying around, 20 cases or more coming from lego now and then, at first it did not bother me as I was selling be boxed uplots of other toys to, but as I got more and more lego sets and as time went by, I started to crack, so many lego sets I was selling some stuff to early, i wasn't loosing money but on some sets instead of making $300 and up on some Potter older castles, The SW Snow Speeder Then in about 2006 thats when i started boxing all the sets up as I was getting them, see for me seeing all th…

I saw this over on Brickset.com. Craaaaazy! http://brick-sort.com/

I am not posting this to get people to sign it, I find it hilarious that this person thinks that the world would be a better place if LEGO reissued this set. You missed the boat man, accept it and move on! http://www.change.org/petitions/lego-reissue-the-cafe-corner-lego-kit

CONGRATS TO KINGCABOOTLE FOR BEING MEMBER # 20,000!!!

I signed up for BP a year ago, and was thinking about what it was like back then. New topics could sit in the new topics bar for a few days instead of a few hours. I got onto the top 20 posters list with 190 posts. TheOrcKing only had about 500 posts and stephen_rockefeller had 700! Feel free to talk about the growth of BP over the last year here!

I was thinking of this earlier today - I was trying to decide what the best Star Wars Video game of all time is. I am having trouble choosing between SW: Shadows of the Empire and Battlefront 2. I think I have to go with Shadows of the empire because i must've played through it 100 times. What do you all think?

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.

title says it all. Starting tomm. nj will be the 10th state that amazon collects sales tax in.

could you guys fill me in on your abbreviations? I know LOTR is Lord of the Rings, but a lot of other stuff goes over my head

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/lego-responds-to-7-year-old-girl-s-awesome-letter-204212972.html

Hey guys, I'll be there are couple days this weekend. Excited to buy some Brickmania sets in person and possibly some other sets! Anyone else coming? I'd love to have a little Brickpicker get together with Rich B and some of us other locals! Respond on here if you are or are trying to come!

Batman/Bruce Wayne Arsenal: Batmobile The Batwing Batarangs Grappling Hook Utility Belt Kevlar Lined Batsuit Billions Of Dollars ROBIN ALFRED Base Of Operations: The Batcave Wayne Manor Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker Arsenal: Lightsaber The Force Darth Vader's Tie-Fighter Mechanized, Self-sustaining battle armor Billions Of StormTroopers THE EMPORER Base Of Operations: The DeathStar Super Star Destroyer

Ok so I admit it's kinda weird that I spend so much time here and haven't put a set together in well over 25 years. What's even funnier is I have had about 10k worth of LEGO sets go through my hand in the 6 month and have about 130(ish) sets right now... I figure if I am going to do a set for the first time in forever, why not make it a good one!!! I want to build a set and I am going to let the Brickpicker community decide. It is going to go as a display piece somewhere in my house or office. i would like for it to be something that near EOL. As much as I want to build a set, I am in it for the $$ so I would like to find something that you guys think wil…

I want to wish my BIG brother Ed a Very Happy Birthday today. Many, many decades ago, Ed was put on this earth to help build the world's greatest LEGO website Ed has always been an awesome big brother and didn't beat me up too much. Just the normal torturing of a little brother and he did used to make me and my sister sort his LEGO into boxes, but it was never too bad. Now you all get benefit of his wisdom from many years of experience. So please everyone, wish Ed a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Thought I would try the board with a problem I am having with the new Bioshock game. I finally got around to getting this game and installed it. The game require steam so I had to go through the process of installing that too. Long story short, I go to run the game, the intro boots up with the 2k logo and just freezes. It runs for about 3 seconds before the game just stops. I get no errors just a frozen screen. My specs for my pc (which I upgraded to play this game) are: amd hd 7800 i5-3750 16gb ram win7 64 bit Does anyone have any ideas on how to go about trouble shooting this? I am going to update my latest graphics card driver but that most lik…

...hello everyone... I need your help/opinion in deciding whether I should buy this latest publication in the UK, The Block Magazine. My dilemma is that I live in the US. My cost is BP 12.99 (includes shipping) which translates to US$22.08 - Quite steep for a magazine but considering it's Issue #1... I don't want to kick myself in the butt later on when the publisher decides to sell here in the US for a lower price but at the same token, would not like to miss out if they don't and Issue 1 sells out... Your input is greatly appreciated...

Do you guys get strange looks from other customers at the local stores when you buy a cart full of Legos? Or is it just me? :)

Here is an update for sports/hockey fans. (For NHL Hockey I'm a Minnesota Wild fan.) The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup Final tonight with a score of 3 to 2. I didn't get to watch too much of the Finals, but I heard it was a thrilling series. Was it a memorable Final or was it one you will easily forget? EDIT: I have now added a poll.

I am not sure if i just noticed or they are in fact new but I see Kre-o released some GI Joe sets... I know LEGO doesn't do guns but i was hoping they would figure out a way to make this happen. (Even though hasbro owns kre-o and gi-joe.) This is actually shaping up to be a really interesting fight between two toy titans. LEGO has been creeping on Hasbro's number two status for years and now Hasbro is fighting back with the new release of Kre-o and getting some REALLY cool themes like Star Trek...Transformers and now GIJoe... Look familiar? http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=18490356

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/ill-family-accused-selling-4-2m-worth-shoplifted-goods-n45811 $7 million, wow.

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

I haven't bought a LEGO set in while but I'll probably be buying two or three a month.

This new item which is a ten times upscale minifigure mug on Shop-at-Home popped up in the "You may also like" recommendations section for me earlier. There also is a Friends version for the missus.

I was in the Stratford Lego store today refilling my PAB tub and I overheard someone ask a staff member the stupidest question I have ever heard. This person walked up holding a small to medium sized Friends set, probably a

Hey guys, Its March! Who did you guys pick as upsets or who did you pick to win it all? I picked Duke to be the overall winner. So far I'm 5 of 5!