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I built the UCS B-Wing 10227 over the weekend as the kids and I continue to work our way through our Star Wars want list whenever we have enough profits from Legos sales to finance our next buy. I enjoyed the build as it had some different pieces that I have never used before...plus I am always a sucker for a large OT set. I haven't built the 75050 B-Wing for comparison, but have been busy selling them to pay for sets like these ?. (Sorry for the low quality pics...we had bad lighting and just snapped them quickly.) Next up for us will be the Tantive IV 10198, which we are excited to finally build.

The Scuttler - a very unique build. We'll see how it holds up to play when my son gets his hands on it.

Finally completed US Capitol this evening. Taken me a couple of weeks, half an hour here and there. The dome at the end was the best part of the build. Amazing how long this thing is (45cm) and twice the length of White House. Really like the contrasting white and sand green.

My MOC entitled, "Puttin' on the Ritz."

30427 - Ninjago: Ice Tank

City fire station and Minecraft Fortress both $25 a piece at Walmart

My son finished Silent Mary today. Looks pretty good, I like it a lot. Put it next to Seacow for a bit of comparison.

Spent most of the day working o/t for my day job, so tonight I'm building The Scuttler and listening to an Adam West podcast. https://ralphgarman.bandcamp.com/

Spring Park by Hartland Bricks Summer Park by Hartland Bricks Fall Park by Hartland Bricks Winter Park by Hartland Bricks

Obi Wan Kornobi

Had a great day at the driving range yesterday. Not that it matters. It all goes out the window when I'm on the course.

LEGO Mindstorms EV3 is on sale for $245 (30% off) with free shipping and no tax at Entertainment Earth. It's their daily deal for today. You can also use coupon code RSDEAL17 for another $15 off. http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=LG31313

I built Krennic's shuttle today and the striker on Friday. The striker has really grown on me. The elongated body isn't my favorite, but I love the length and shape of the wings. The mechanism to move the wings and lock them in place are nice. The shuttle was ok. The wings are huge, but I hate the body shape. Not thrilled about the ball joints for the wings. I'm less sure of the friction keeping them up than the ratchets in the tyderium. Interesting how every panel is designed to open. You can carry 5 characters and stash 4 guns in back. Honestly, I got this set for the figures.

As promised and 2 years to the day, lol May I introduce my new weapon!! MK1 GTI, this thing is 3 months younger than me Deposit paid this morning and picking her up on Saturday. Oh, and to keep on topic, I'm taking the sensible one to Germany for a few days before hitting the high seas again

Hello everyone Today we finished our Lego Star Wars Battle on Hoth Echo Base MOC after 7 years of building. We tried to put as much details as possible of the movie in the moc and we think the result turned out really well. But that is just our opinion. What do you guys think? We'd like to get some opinions of you and what you like and what we could improve next time. Greetings to all of you

I love this set. By far the most unorthodox building techniques of any set I have built to date. Kudos to TLG for Making it very sturdy. I am not sure yet how I am going to rearrange and fit this in yet though. I was hoping to display vertically.

I started working some concepts in Google SketchUp, and then moved to Lego Digital Designer. I estimate total design time was about 50 hours. I wanted to generally match the design and proportions of the lighthouse in the cartoon, and yet keep it minifigure scale. About 50 hours of design, just under 2000 pc, and just finished. I hope you like it.

Wal-Mart clearance helping his collection along. At a dollar to 2.50 a piece we cleared the shelves. One of each for him. He already snubs the mega bloks. He finds it much easier to use the short LEGO studs in comparison to the one bulky mega blok stud.

Look what I finally took out of the car lol. When I risked my life to drive around in a tropical storm to find 7 dollar scout troopers (and whatever else I found) Yes it was worth it.

only 1 US certificate number for them as of now so that should be one run overall for US. Tested 12/27/16 and entered 3/22/17 EU has 26 but believe they just have to do 1 for each country. There docs just say date signed which was 1/3/17 for all of them. Possible the full run was 1409 as well. Both signature / entry dates being after the production of 49/50B6. Interesting while checking last US Castle cert was December of 2016. On the bad side T1 was just issued another on 5/29/17. Good thing we were getting low...

Dimensions: 18.9 inches H x 4.41 inches W x 14.88 inches L Product Weight: 5 pounds 11 ounces

Always about the seals

Jang is quite pleased with the this 3-in-1 set: But ... he does advice to wait for a sale before purchasing it.

For the first time I took my 10 year old daughter and 7 year old son to fish.... we catched (and released) plenty of tilapia at a private pond.... they both catched one at the same time ... IMG_7981.MOV

My latest car antenna topper

Nice touch with the slanted top hat for that extra bit of personality. I love it.

Haymarket by Andrew Tate

Copenhagen City Hall by spacecolonel

The Batpod is free with $30 Lego Batman purchase, or you can buy it outright for $5.99. Also, Target have 20% off Super Heroes, Friends, and Duplo.

LEGOLAND Water Park!

Jason Alleman (J K Brick works - creator of the Lego Maze 21305) has a sound/light/Bluetooth brick project on Kickstarter at the moment. He integrated the PFx Brick into the Saturn V: Superb! I'd also promote backing the project on Kickstarter as it only has 11 days to go and is just 10% short of its target.

....We're gonna need a bigger hangar.

Modular round park square by 1982redhead

May the Floss be with you ....

Copenhagen Skyline V 1.0 by spacecolonel Copenhagen Skyline V 2.0 by spacecolonel

The Assault Walker is just bad ass IMO.

Just google "First Order Heavy Assault Walker Lego" to see it.. It doesn't look too bad, and I think it is an interesting design, but one thing I don't like about these new movies is that there is a lack of creativity in the new vehicle department.

If you have a thousand hours to kill, start here:

Always happens even if the redesign isn't a direct refresh. I don't think the depreciation will last though as the TFA X-Wing didn't impact 9493. Bottom line is these 2 new TLJ vehicles are considered different in canon than their predecessors. If anything, I'm not sure if we'll see a true redesign of the OT AT-AT and ISD anytime soon. Might be close to that time to buy a original trilogy ISD and AT-AT if you wanted either.

Arendale is the weakest, Sparking Ice Castle is going ok, but they remade it. 41062 (ice castle) is approaching $35 on BL, retail $40 41068 (Arendale) is approaching $40, retail $60 41055 (cindys castle) $70, retail $70

I've always sold all of my minifigures opened packet, taking a photo of the un-assembled figure with accessories / stand / leaflat / bag in a sealed plastic bag. The price you will get compared to a sealed minifigure packet will be less, however for most newer series I haven't noticed a substantial difference in prices. For the early minifigure series there is a greater difference in price. Opening the packet also eliminates the time needed for smoothing (if like me and are rubbish at it) and also confirms to the buyer they are getting what you are advertising. There is a risk that if you don't open the packet and the buyer returns the item, he can just returns another undesirable minifigure from the series, you will not be able to win the case saying you smooshed the packet and received something else. One word of advice, some will say that once the plastic bag packet has been opened it is no longer considered "new" condition, and you need to list any opened bags as used on eBay, however I have never had anyone complain about this, but it should be kept in mind.

Golden Gate Bridge

Korn by Jeremy Rider

Took a break from Technic and built the UCS Tie. Fun build, sturdier than it looks.

My son finally finished off the Seacow. Our first ever ship and , I have to say , I'm very impressed. Love the colours and the ship design. So used to SW grey and black , it's great to see other colours in a set . Much bigger than I had imagined when the hull pieces were first put together.

Through bag three. Love the build so far. Much closer to a technic set than a modular building. The rotation is smooth and ties in with the animal movement nicely. It's an excellent design. Ticket presale is open, line is down the block

Why would you throw it in the garbage??? It's just bodily fluids. You have sex in your bed don't you.... do you throw the linens out after each session? Lots of "hippy" parents use reusable diapers for their babies too, and that's waaaaaaaay gnarlier than puke..... Just chuck it in the wash, or spray it off with the hose then chuck it in the wash. That's $200 you could be investing on Lego my man! Utterly wasteful to bin it!

I re-invest all of my profits. One day I shall die and my kids will curse me for leaving them with 100K in Lego sets