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Finally I bricklinked 10182 cafe corner!!! So happy about it! Substitute a few bricks, but I'm pretty happy with the final product. Got into Lego collecting too late, missed a lot of good sets including this. Thanks for bricklink, saved me a lot of money.

The statute of limitations on anti-smooshing regulation expires six months after the series is released or two months after the street date of the subsequent series, whichever comes first.

Finally finished the 10178 Motorized At-at that I picked up used the other day for $40. It was our first At-At build and our first build of any Lego motorized set, so it was a hit with the kids. I think it is my favorite SW set that I have built thus far.

So my 7 year old built the millennium falcon over the weekend. He didn't think it had enough weapons or protection so he "upgraded" it so it has more firepower and a certain Jedi and some others protecting it.

In case you haven't noticed.......today is 4/20. Alpine is on break ALL Day today.

I'm curious too. Let's see how long it takes for him to show up. Oh, wait... (I swear you guys do this on purpose)

Any kid staring at this set won't think so. Every once and a while you have to take your adult goggles off. This is a great set for the Friends line of LEGO.

But I'll take it. Not a bad find for Craigslist.

If they do "No, YOU are my father" I'm walking out.

I'm just going to see how long it takes Alpine to move the last 6 posts.

I report stuff all the time I don't qualify for.

I like this camper van! Let's cook....

That was me in Dec, but I changed it - so it now counts as being original & new

I love the title and description. Hopefully the proceeds from this sale will go towards the purchase of a smartphone. http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-Star-Wars-Imperial-Star-Destroyer-2014-75055-this-is-the-wrong-75055-/182095629216?hash=item2a65becba0:m:mqqICZKIeGOYMxQIcTSnb5w

Architecture Venice $22.99 at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-6135677-Architecture-Venice-21026/dp/B017B19CX6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461116066&sr=8-1&keywords=lego+venice/&

To further tempt you @Salimr here's mine on display.

Puts things in perspective....LEGO is getting lazy with creativity. MOD EDIT: Generated after looking over this list posted here.

Honestly the prequels were pretty crappy but I still found some good things about them and enjoyed them because they were Star Wars and I'm a sheep when it comes to Star Wars lol. Yes ep7 had a lot of similarities to ep4 but it was still extremely enjoyable and entertaining and when it comes down to it that's what Star Wars films are meant to be. It started out as a B movie space film and they'll always be that at the core. Over the years with the huge growth in popularity people have taken it too seriously and wanna nitpick at the tiniest things lol.

Well at least I seem to be in good company getting the eBay bucks shaft today

I can't wait for 2028 when they release Solo vs. Lando, A Star Wars Story. Starring Ben Affleck and Kayne West.

Bingo. "It's money that I love..."

To be honest, 90% of viewing public does not have as much knowledge and/or love of Star Wars that you have. Most people in my real life treated ep VII like any other movies, not an event 25 years in the making. I bet most people barely remember the details of ep 3, much less ep 4, but they could still recognize the familiar beats. You are entitled to your opinion. However, I understood the business decision to cast as wide of net as possible to get the most fans (new and old) for the new era of Star Wars. In a lot of ways the success of ep 8 & 9 depends on a lot of people getting hooked on ep 7.

We needed a bridge for a section in our little city...so we built this bridge. It is basically a modified version of #4852 (Spiderman The Final Showdown), with road baseplates from #6600 (Highway Construction). It is the right length and height that we needed...Did not turn out too bad. Just not sure if I am completely satisfied with it though...

They show it get knocked off when Lando was piloting it in ROTJ

Google Image searched "6 minute abs" and the results are funny, almost a dialogue between them.

This debate is a remake of the Series 15 debate. And the Series 14 debate. And the Series 13 debate. (Not the Simpsons series though - nobody actually cared enough to smoosh those awful angular heads.) Here's the bottom line - if you're smooshing to buy the figures you don't have, good on you for knowing how to feel for them. If you're missing one figure and you just keep buying $4 packs each day until you finally get lucky enough to get the one you're missing because you think smooshing is somehow unethical, then you're being a stubborn fool. And likewise, if you've already got them all but you stand in the Lego aisle at 11:00am on a Wednesday feeling up foil packages so you can clear out all the costumed figs or rarest figs or the ones selling for the most on eBay, whilst leaving the riff raff for little kids who will never get the figs they need because you took them all to resell them, then you're a tool. So find your middle ground. Don't be a fool, don't be a tool. There, it rhymes so it's the new rule. EOD.

I'm really excited to announce that my collection of LEGO labels has been significantly enhanced to include almost every current LEGO Technic element. This latest "Version 2.3" of my label collection adds 82 LEGO Technic parts for a total of over 600 labels across System and Technic!I added labels for 82 important Technic elements to this update.LEARN MORE AND DOWNLOAD AT: http://brickarchitect.com/labels/Technic Lovers, please give the labels a try and let me know what you think! I'm happy to add additional labels to make the collection more useful to you.Sincerely,---tomP.S. While Technic is not my focus, I recently built 42043 Mercedes Benz Arocs, which was my first modern Technic set. It was challenging, but I had a lot of fun and learned a lot!

Didn't I say that when they announced Winter Toy Shop remake ?

Some of these D2C sets have been discussed in their own topics, but I found this list on Eurobricks that CM4Sci posted a few days ago that may be of interest: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=129744&#entry2533889 10251 Brick Bank X 75257 Ghostbusters Firehouse HQ X 76052 Classic TV Series Batcave X 75098 Assault on Hoth X 21128 The Village 10253 Big Ben 10252 Volkswagen Beetle 71040 Disneyworld Cinderella's Castle 10254 Winter Train ????? Carousel 75159 The Death Star 75144 Snowspeeder Sorry if this list has been mentioned before. This seems to further validate the ideas of a holiday train set and UCS type of snowspeeder. Curious about the Carousel D2C set as it may be a new entry into the fairground theme and/or be an update to the Grand Carousel.

That's the best animated "star wars" program I have ever seen and I'm a big enough loser to have seen the Clone Wars movie in the theater!

I'm not on the Kenobi parentage bandwagon either. Rey is waaaaaay to young to be his daughter, especially since she is obviously not 30+ and the timeline between EPVI and EPVII are supposed to span at least this period of time.

Sad to see the decline. I remember as a youngster going to Kmart with grandma and getting popcorn in the cafeteria at the back of the store. With those translucent yellow panels. Now it's just. depressing.

This baffles me as well... Lucas was always an ideas guy, so sure, there are some ideas there. But he needed a team of professionals willing to tell the emperor* he had no clothes. *George Lucas is the emperor in this case.

Lol this is a very sad time indeed. Most just want something safe and familiar nowadays. Just look at the Transformers movie franchise. It made tons of money by following basically the same scripts from movie to movie. Original ideas have higher chances for failing (by definition). So, based on the numbers, if I was a CFO of one of those Hollywood studios I would squash every inch of originality too

I just don't see why you had to remake a movie to do this. It's sad commentary if the only way to pack bums in seats is to give them something so similar to something they've already seen. But when this thing first opened, no one in the general public knew it was a remake. People went to see it because it had the words Star Wars in the title. There was no way they weren't going to make a fortune. By the time people see the movie and realize what it is they've already surrendered their money. This was probably the most risk free expenditure of money the world has ever seen. So they could easily have tried something new. I have some faith that an audience would have been just as warm to a new story than a copy. Then you wouldn't have a controversy heading into your next movie from annoying people who thought they were getting something different. Fingers crossed for the next one. I've said many times that if Luke utters the words "I am your father" in Episode 8 I'm getting up and walking out of the theatre. I'm not hard to please. I love Star Wars. It's not a blind love that Star Wars is infallible like the Pope and is supposedly above criticism. There is a wide space between blind worship and blind hate. I criticize from a warm loving place. The Force Awakens poked me in the ribs unexpectedly but I'll still be back, a little more wary but willing all the same.

JJ Abrams quote from an article I just read on FB - “The weird thing about that movie is that it had been so long since the last one. Obviously the prequels had existed in between and we wanted to, sort of, reclaim the story,” Abrams said. “So we very consciously—and I know it is derided for this—we very consciously tried to borrow familiar beats, so the rest of the movie could hang on something that we knew was Star Wars.....This movie was a bridge and a kind of reminder,” Abrams said. “The audience needed to be reminded what Star Wars is, but it needed to be established with something familiar, with a sense of where we are going to new lands, which is very much what 8 and 9 do I disagree that the audience "needed" a remake to know what Star Wars is given that those movies have likely been watched more than any others in history but there it is from the director's own mouth. In other words, we recycled a story because we didn't trust either our ability to do an original story or we didn't trust the audience to be able to handle an original story. I'm not sure what's worse. The only glimmer of hope is confirmation that the next ones will be original. So my very patient wait since 1983 for the next chapter may soon be answered. Was the Odyssey the one with the Death Star or Gilgamesh? So long since I've read those......;)

Aaaaaand the reason we see this in movies all the time is because it "feels good", unlike real life where the champs beat the stuffing out of the rag-tag misfits 10 times out of 10, humiliating them and making most of them never want to play again. You all do realize that Star Wars is not high literature, it's action-based ENTERTAINMENT, correct?

My least favorite of the new sets, but alas I need to have the minifigures. Especially classic Doc Ock and Vulture for my Sinister Six.

@trekgate502 wouldn't mind...

I think these are still available. Great buy, if they work! It's time to use them EBay Bucks $100 Babies R Us Gift Card for $85 - EBay Daily Deal $100 Barnes and Noble Gift Card for $88 - EBay Daily Deal

Just imagined it. $50k is a minuscule drop in Lego's bucket. If they wanted truly blind packs they could and would do it, it wouldn't affect their bottom line. I doubt the reason it's never switched is packaging costs. Something about the current semi-blind bags is working very well for them, so much so that they haven't changed the packaging in 15 iterations like Curtis mentions.

I'm going to stop reading this thread now as the Star Bores are completely taking all joy out of the new films.

The Fawlty Towers Reception by Nathan

Recently built these two with my daughter.