Odds & Ends

There is a new website called New Elementary that goes in-depth about what new elements Lego is releasing and which sets they can be found in. I found out about the site way of Brickset in this news post.

Tron has got to be one of my favorite movie franchises. I absolutely loved the aesthetic put forth in Tron: Legacy. The unfortunate part, is that it's not a strong franchise. The movie did well, but the toy line was an absolute bomb. A complete disaster aside from the toy identity discs. The Tron: Evolution game, meant to bridge the two movies, was also poorly received. Even the Tron: Uprising animated series, which I personally thought was amazing, with a great cast, ended its season with a cancellation. All of this failure, however, I think was the result of some poor choices made by Disney. The toy line was half-assed and boring. The game was poorly marketed…

A guy I work with has a 3D printer and was nice enough to print some swords and shields for me that I picked out on Thingiverse. Pretty neat stuff. I created some water slide decals with various artwork for the shield emblems and put a few coats of paint and protectant on them ... Here are my Dragon Dogs (heh) ... I made some with the sigils from Game of Thrones ... I don't think 3D printing is any threat to Lego. The strength and detail just don't match up to injection molds, but it is handy for prototyping or just playing around.

Hey to all admins, Is is not worth creating a area where adults can post %

Ah, good old Harry Potter sets. I could spot an HP set from a mile away with those classic gray and dirty green coloring. Anyway, when I recently unearthed my old sets in this theme, I couldn't help but chuckle when I saw 4722- Gryffindor House. Honestly, what were they thinking when they made this? It does appear, however, that it is a set directly marketed towards the female crowd. From the cardboard backdrop to those crazy colors (A light purple baseplate!? AWESOME!) this whole set seems to scream "REPLACE YOUR BARBIES WITH ME". Heck, the set even comes with a fuzzy, little, yellow bedspread. I'm pretty sure this set didn't sell well when it…

Here I thought the sponge in brick form just dried up but instead find out that the license was acquired by Mega Bloks. Well I guess you just can't keep a good sponge down. Rather weird actually seeing the Invisible Boatmobile considering it is supposed to be, well, 'invisible'.

I was very inspired by Team Trivia 3.0 yesterday. I thought it would be fun and informative to start a daily(?) trivia thread. I will post one Lego or BP related question each day. If you know the answer, please do not post it! You can PM for validation if you like. I will post the answer the following day. If anyone would like to add questions to the thread, feel free. Here goes the first question: What set(s) can you find this piece in?

hmm, now where is that 96mm medium gray tube. i could only imagine the wife's face if this was my son's room. ha anyway, happy friday and have a safe holiday weekend. disclaimer: since i'm not a fan of random kids in pics, i cropped him out.

Don't you hate people that spurt out "oh, LEGO is too expensive I'll just pick this cheap chinese knock off that's exactly the same! It's my way of getting back at Lego for taking my money!"? It gets so annoying having to tell them about the type of plastic lego uses, the exceptional customer service, the licensing fees, and the fact that Lego has to hire tons of creative designers and engineers to pump out the hundreds of lego sets they produce each and every year (and making sure things work smoothly in the back end to get to everybody's hands: investors and children alike). Yes they make record profits, but they make sure people d*mn well enjoy the experience of bui…

Wow, interesting read relating to a population/group of men and toys...to each their own I guess. A little different than buying Friends sets for investing I would say. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2013/06/26/bronys_men_who_dig_my_little_pony_feel_misunderstood.html

I would love to get some feedback from those of you who are parents and also invest in Lego products. My son, who is 5, is Lego-obsessed. He got his first set a little more than a year ago and he has a ton more now, mostly polybags, minifigs and smaller City, Creator, Lego Movie, and Star Wars sets under $50 RRP. He is now asking for larger, more expensive sets and I want to start stocking up for Christmas. My question is, do you apply the same criteria towards buying for your kids - clearance deals, TRUTH/TRU coupons, using VIP points, etc. - as you do for investing? Or do you just say, I'm going to get them what they want and not worry as much about getting the lowest p…

With 10229 Winter Village Cottage on the way out the door, what are your thoughts/hopes to see for next years holiday season?

The Brick Fan article. Austrailia's own Lego Certified Professional, Ryan McNaught, builder of the incredible helicopter MOC utilizing 10,000 parts and cost roughly $25,000 simply named "Elvis", was the subject of apparent vandalism as a group of juveniles had pushed the piece over as it was on display in Cairns Central. > >Elvis by TheBrickMan, on Flickr

Is anybody investing in these? I'm trying to find them at Walmart and they're out of stock everywhere...

Got this message from an eBay customer today after shipping a Friends Sunshine Ranch. "Thank you. I had send that second message before seeing your last one. You are saving my life BTW. Count on kids to ask Santa for a set that doesn't come out until January 1st. "But Santa can get it! He can get anything!" Thanks again." Anyone else have some holiday cheer to spread? Resellers aren't so bad.

This is on an unrelated note, but there was a bombing at the Boston Marathon. 2 dead, over 50 injured. My Cross Country and Track and Field coach was running it. Thank God he came out in one piece. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/us/explosions-reported-at-site-of-boston-marathon.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Didn't actually realize the bombing until I received an email from my coach that he was all right. Any Bostoners? All of these bombings and school killings within the United States makes me sad...Not trying to put it lightly, but it's hard to talk about the taking of human life. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/15/us-athletics-marathon-boston-bla…

I like his movies....

Here is my question: I was wondering if anyone knows how I can get the case number from lego.com. Walmart buys from Lego it receives a differnet number depending on the product. Sometimes its 3 per case or maybe 6? My goal is to buy the same number as walmart does from their online store and I would think they wiould ship it from the original box they received it from Lego. I then would like to store it - untouched until its time to sell. I was hoping if i had the upc number - somewhere online it told me the case number. I hope this made some kind of sense. Thanks for any input.

my little brother (over the age of 6 under the age of 10) is going to buy a $40 set in a couple days but cant decide which one, please recomend a combo of sets or a single $40 set for him.

Mind Blown.

I get enough of this crap from my wife, lego!

Just took my family for the first time to Legoland in Carlsbad and its is incredibley awesome! It was the first time for all of us. My son is only 8 months old, but never the less I think he enjoyed his time there. It was the least amount of stress I have experienced at any type of amusement park. The most stressful part came when we made our personal minifigures. I came away from the whole experience knowing that there is nothing you can't make out of lego.

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!

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