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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!

Double like. That finale gave me chills, especially the montage after the fight with that haunting music. It had more of an emotional impact on me than Force Awakens. Originality can do that for you.

This set is really nice! I will put it with my fairground mixer set and get some more series 14 wrestler guys for the mullet! I saw someone had posted that awhile back

Agree...They want her to be Kenobi and Dutchess Satine's granddaughter I guess, that might fit the timing better. Others want Snoke to be Ezra or something but I think mainstream audiences won't care about Rebels (the finale was awesome though).

Sprocket's implying the sourcing of said items is questionable.

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?

Like this, I guess,

10196 is my holy grail. Just wish it was ready for that BBC photo. Luckily, I was able to buy 2 used (1 with box) to help offset the cost after selling 1 for $500 profit in just 4 months. Then I scored a 95% completed one for. $250 (missing the scarce green base and 3 sails though) ....

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 imagine some people may see smooshing in the same way counting cards is considered as cheating when in either case it is simply someone who understands the limitations and can work around them without breaking the game and its rules. Perhaps going back to the old way of buying mystery packs randomly without a care in the world leaving everything to the hands of fate would be easier and seem morally better yet when you consider there are typically sixteen unique characters in a single series, what are the chances of obtaining all in one run should I have only bought a sporadic pile of sixteen packets? I could have a very unlucky run where barely four of those bags were minifigures I had wanted meaning I now yield twelve I did not (between possible repeats and/or unwanted characters). Although I usually find a usage for such extras down the road; any one of those could have gone home with someone else who actually wanted them had I just figured out who was in there while at the store. Realistically there is no way of knowing how many of these do fall into the hands of those who wanted them (he wanted the ninja but found a snowman, she desired an elf yet ended up with the animal trainer, etcetera) and at the current price of $4 a pop, a person especially a child with a limited allowance is not willing to shell out bare minimum $64 for a stack of characters and leave the whole thing to chance for a complete set or at best the few characters they desired the most. There will always be characters more desirable than others just as certain sets being sought after more so than others. Funny thing is some of the times where I had difficulty spotting specific minifigures was probably more due to a few excited kids grabbing a handful of packs before I got there than some nameless reseller with a nice sorting basket.

Here you go... http://www.amazon.com/Collectible-LEGO-Minifigure-Ultimate-Minifigures/dp/1440246998/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461100858&sr=1-1&keywords=collectible+lego+minifigure Fame and fortune for many of you photographers...

I don't know how awkward you feel. I guess only you know. You can live in whatever world you want to live in, but it isn't the world we live in. I live in a world where I actually care about the other people and their kids.