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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 ....

People give out the whole time that the vehicles haven't changed enough, but do real military vehicles change that much over time, course they don't. Do you give out that aircraft carriers look just like much bigger versions of the ones they had back in WW2. Or have tank designs really changed that much over time either?

tempting...very tempting.

I also have 49B6

I think with new stock you'd have to be mad to load up on these on a qf gamble.

Bought this at TRU today out of curiosity (and my three year old). What are these postcard things supposed to be for? Nothing in instructions

I thought this would be a fun topic to start. Mods, if you feel differently then please feel free to delete it. We have all heard or been a part of the same story. You spent a bunch of money on some "toys", with the intention of reselling them in the future for more than what you paid for them. Meanwhile, your spouse was ready to have you committed to the looney bin, until you bought them this with some of your profits. I'll start... We have had a pool since we bought our home twelve years ago. Wisconsin winters can be a bit harsh, and this past winter Mother Nature decided that it was time for our old pool to go. She had her way with it, and reduced it to a pile of scrap. Our kids, who are nine and eight, were pretty upset about it, and my wife didn't feel like dipping into savings to buy a new one, so the Lego fund came to the rescue. We just had it installed three weeks ago, fully funded from Lego profit. Now my wife doesn't give me the old fish eye when she comes home and finds several packages on the doorstep. Does anyone else have any fun stories to share?

batpod is nowhere near the demand or limited supply of 30320 which was also fueled by perfect timing unlike pod which is coming out well after the movie. LL having inventory can be anywhere upwards up 50k, not to mention TRU inventory. Big difference than a brief stop at gamestop and TRU before truly being gone from everywhere. I like the poly and obviously wanted a lot before they hit stores but it was a timing game as usual. So few stay truly exclusive and away and even the ones that do are not very good polys to begin with like 30602. R2 has a shot but seeing no year on that one like last years can come back as a promo later on in the year at LL or another retailer.

Made a Fry's run for some cheap Lego. 2x town homes $20 each y wing - $29 2x Milano ships $20 each pizza truck - $8 1 ayesha's revenge - $15 Had to have my mummy fix so picked up the first two flicks for $6 plus they each have $8 off tickets to the new one

Homer santa

To say it 100% correct: The "desirabilty" and the "reasonableness" of multi-tasking are myths. But there might be situations where you still have to do it if you like it or not. For example if you are threatened to be killed by a bear and a giant seahawk at the same time - sequential execution of the two tasks won't help in this case ...

Nobody can. Or more precisely: You cannot do two (cognitively damanding) things (properly) at the same time. Multi-tasking is a myth. Splitting up your attention between two or more tasks will always lead to inferior results for every task involved. For the best results, sequential execution is inevitable. However, this case is about building LEGO and watching a movie - so it doesn't really matter.

Minifigure wall continues to blossom, hung today - Star Wars: Good Vs Evil.

Homemade display case for our minifigures