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First set completed out of a lot that managed to pull me back into bulk.

Not sure where to put this. An awesome fan-made Death Star timelapse build.

I am an original Star Wars fan from 1977, had many toys, trading cards, books, records, etc as a 6-12 year old kid from 1977-1983. I have an extensive vintage Star Wars collection that I have built since 1991. I think about Star Wars every day, the same way some men think about cars, sports, gambling, drinking, carousing, etc. We are Disney Vacation Club (time share) members and actually purchased vacation points at the Disney Boardwalk resort so we can stay once a year and walk over to the new Star Wars Land that is due to open next year. I am that invested in Star Wars. I have children who are 7, 10, and 12. The 12 year old is a huge Star Wars fan. The others like it but are not super passionate. I hate what Disney has done to the franchise so much, that I regret buying the Boardwalk points. I don't care about Disney Star Wars any more. The movie was terrible. What they did to Luke Skywalker was unbelievable and unforgivable. Many of us have waited 34.5 years to see Luke Skywalker on the big screen again, and this character assassination is what they gave us. I think I could forgive everything else. I could get over the bad science, the inconsistencies, the ridiculous plot, and the rest of this ridiculous movie if they would have done justice to Luke's character. I am done. What little TLJ merchandise that made its way into our house before we saw the movie is gone. There will be no more. No Legos, no other toys, no DVDs, no Halloween costumes, etc etc. We only went to the theater once instead of multiple times like we had with the other movies. That's 5 tickets x 2 or x 3 that Disney did not sell for TLJ, and will not sell for Episode IX or Solo. I don't give a crap about what comes next. What's more, my 7 and 10 year old are now completely disengaged from Star Wars. The movie was so bad that it lost them. My 12 year old did not like it. I had a car full of 12 year olds recently, and they all thought TLJ sucked. There are many, many people out there who simply did not like this movie. Do not believe the media BS that it's right wing racists review bombing the movie. I am a long time fan who is disenchanted with what they did to Luke and otherwise thought the movie was just, well, bad. BTW, my family is multicultural and multiracial. This is not a white male thing. If you liked the movie, good for you. If you did not like it, then do not support Disney Star Wars. Do not buy the DVD, do not buy the toys, do not go see Solo or Episode IX. That is the only way a change at Lucasfilm will be forced.

Context of my POV: First SW film in Theater Experience: 6 years old, ROTJ in 83. (Therefore, I don't hate Ewoks "Young enough to date Barney Stinson Rule") Had nearly every Vintage toy from 81-on, and then went back in the 90's and completed everything. Collecting Gene kicked in hard. Kinda read some of the early Dark Horse stuff, and the Zahn trilogy, but none of the other 1000's of books & comics over the now 'legends' years. Expanded Universe was not my thing. Only played the NES/SNES games plus Xwing and Tie Fighter on PC. None of the KOTOR, etc stuff. So with that frame of mind, I really disliked the Prequels. Shocker Right?!?! My complaint about them wasn't so much the popular complaints, JarJar annoying / racist, Poor Jake Lloyd's not being the kid from 6th Sense, Anakin not liking sand, etc. It was that they were neither clever nor fun. Follow me on this. SW Ep4 was insanely Fun, Ep 5 was clever with the plot twist, Ep6 was fun again. Knowing that, I hoped the prequels would bring back that fun and cleverness and I felt it whiffed on both accounts. (But Darth Maul was baddass right?)(also I get that they WERE fun if you were the right age, but SW Ep 4 is fun no matter your age) They had a chance to deliver any number of amazing plot twists across 7 hours of prequel film, (hell Ep2 was a detective story) YET I feel like they gave you EXACTLY what you expected. That's missing an opportunity. That's playing prevent defense. Anakin DID turn into Vader, Luke & Leia ARE his twin children, Obi DID take luke to Tat, Yoda did get thrown into excile, etc. Before you say, BUT THEY CAN"T JUST CHANGE THE CANNON!!!! It was Lucas at the time so of course he could of. OR, There are any number of ways they could have done a "from a certain point of view" and made the Prequel Trilogy an amazing M Night Shamalan situation. Ex: Old Ben Kenobi from Ep4 lived on Tatooine watching over Luke because HE was Anakin that we meet from Tattoine in Ep1. The young Obi Wan Kenobi we meet in Ep1 started his turn to the dark side when he rage kills Darth Maul for killing his master Qui Gon. Ewan McGregor would have NAILED THE HELL out of that transition. They could have even had Anakin be Luke's Dad, and Obiwan be Leia's dad or something crazy. But they didn't. They did exactly what we expected. And my criticizing those directing / story choices is exactly what folks are doing with Rian Johnson, but from the exact opposite perspective. As we know, Rian TOTALLY went away from what people expected. I loved that. He surprised me. I like surprise. I don't like sitting in a theater nodding my head saying YEP that's how I would have done it. And he warned us. ALL. Every trailer. This ISN"T going to go the way you THINK. And he did it in a REAL way, with REAL emotions. If you had a chance to kill baby Hitler would you ? Should you ? What would you do if you did? What would you do if you faltered? That's an interesting question. It's worthy of a grand space opera. Sure Luke doing what he did in Dark Empire comics (staring down an AT-AT and lightsaber deflecting it's shots back at it), would have looked AMAZINGLY cool on the big screen, but it involved fighting a cloned Palpatine (same characters), and wasn't particularly dramatically interesting. It wasn't surprising, it wasn't clever. To me, JJ's Ep 7 was SO much fun. Rian's Ep 8 was very clever. And I thank them for that. All that said, I do understand people not liking 7 & 8, and I don't disparage anyone for their opin. Just sharing mine.

SL20 Streamliner by Vince_Toulouse

Golden Garden

40306 - LEGOLAND Castle

Is this tabby being grassed up, or a competitor grassing him up???

For those with reading-comprehension issues: No only once you go outside the 50 items free allocation each month.

Chiming in here among the negativity to say that I loved TLJ. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I'm not going to try to convince anyone to like the movie....but I thought it was great.

As a collectible LEGO theme, it's over...

You are just begging for this thread to go meme don't you?

I'm always amazed at how proficient they are at spinning the bad news during the Seller "Updates".

Oh, I still enjoy Star Wars, but I am done with Disney Star Wars. I still enjoy my OT fixes, whether it be discussion boards, collecting, etc. And if my kids want to be an OT character for Halloween or want an OT Lego, they have my full support. Heck, my 12 year old loves the prequels, and I support him in that, too.

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus by Letranger Absurde

As soon as Ed is out, I'm doubling-down. Full-speed ahead!

It's hard to say. We're all too lazy to look up your set numbers and potential discount.

Sculpting by Marco Zanconi

Different species. The desert cows of Tatooine produced the powder version. Aunt Beru mixed the powder with the moisture they farmed to create the blue milk in ep4

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I came out of the film hating it. Didn't see it a second time, but I will when I get a chance (for free hopefully). I found myself trying to think about it with an open mind about why the film happened the way it did. A lot of the stuff I hated most I attribute to director missteps. Perhaps I can justify why the choice was made to do it...but perhaps directorial execution was flawed (really worse but trying to be nice). - Usage of Luke...more sad than hate. A character of that caliber deserved better. Fine, make him a tragic hero but don't drag his character through the shame pit. - Leia Poppins...ok, give her an ability with the Force that exceeds everyone's expectations. But, seriously, flying through space like bad puppet animation was terrible execution. Maybe better to have her hold her breath and force hold the ship so she doesn't fly out to begin with? - Finn/Rose subplot...ugh, what a waste and seemed like total time filler. The idea that it could represent a chance that the Rebellion could still be a presence in an otherwise hopeless galaxy is intriguing. And perhaps the overall underlying theme of profiteering at the expense of a decades long war could be the precursor to a bigger revelation. Still though, bad execution of the plot. - Creating plot holes by ignoring The Force Awakens story setup...I get it, Rian has a Napoleon complex and used his ego to go in a direction the basically flipped the bird to Abrams' film. On a whole, there is actually nothing wrong with that, as long as you can execute a path that makes logical sense and at least try to preserve the spirit that is the Star Wars universe. Completely ignoring the setup from TFA and just saying "F^@K YOU!...I'm going over here now!" just seems more of hateful vendetta than actual film making. Not sure why execs at Disney went along with this. So yeah, I hated the film coming out of the theater...but I think the underlying tone and direction was worth exploring. A whole life of love dedicated towards to story line completely demolished over one really bad movie? I wouldn't go that far. But yes, it was bad. I'll still go to Disney park and watch other Star Wars movies.

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The latest 2 episodes were interesting, a little it of tie-in to the Clone Wars Mortis stories. Not to spoil it for anyone but we have a nice cameo.

Great West Hardware by toorayay

LEGO Theme Park

Every single new Jang movie comes with Disclaimer to the Lego Legal "oppressing" team. So they can suck him

nothing doing at Cov TRUs. In fact the whole store just looks normal, but it's huge, with a ton of stock. You can see why they're struggling.

I’ve sold a set of modulars; 10197 FB, 10211 GE, 10218 PS, 10224 TH and 10232 PC. All 5 MIB for €1.350,- cash, local pickup. Buy in was €670,-, about 2 years ago. And with this sale I’ve met a couple of LEGO enthusiasts just like me which was also a lot of fun. During the conversation it appears they where searching for a couple of collectible minifigures which I had. So I’ve also sold them a Hotdog Man and Unicorn Girl (S13), Pigsuit Guy (S12), Banana Suit Guy (S16), Butterflies Girl (S17), and Chickensuit Guy (Easter version). All in closed package. I gave them the Hotdog Suit for free as a little thank you for the Modulars. I received an additional € 45,- for the other figs (buy-in total of €15,-). Grand total of € 1.395,-.

Finished 10260 Downtown Diner today. Really fun build. Always like to see some new and different building techniques and the modulars generally do not disappoint. The stairway in the back of the building is pretty amazing how they came up with that. I personally really like the look of this one, though I can see how others would not. Different lines are always welcome with me and this one has many. The modular builders are getting away from the basic square build which is nice, though the more traditional building has its place as well.

Koelbel Building CU Boulder, Colorado by Imagine Rigney

If that's true what Trevorrow is saying then it's pretty damning to Disney. When you watch the early press release stuff with Mark Hamill, it's clear he was un-happy with what they did with Luke in TLJ. He's done a 180 on things most likely because Disney is scrambling to write him back into the final film. To tie things together I think that's why he's being featured heavily in the home release marketing. He's the main reason people were excited about TLJ and it was a complete failure to treat his character with so little respect. Disney had one thing to do right with TLJ and that was to give fans a fitting send off for Luke Skywalker. Disney effed up so bad that not only did they not give fans the Luke Skywalker movie that they wanted but they totally neglected the new characters that we're supposed to care about. Except for Rose Tico. She was a failure on so many levels. TLJ bombed hard in China because Disney cynically thought just by including an "Asian" character in the movie that it would equal box office receipts. Heads should be rolling but since the film made just enough money worldwide it will take Solo bombing to see Kennedy fired. Looking forward to that.

Everything but the base / stand done. Pretty cool set

I think Phil is singlehandidly putting Kmart out of business. Get ready for a new round of store closures.

I believe you may be the first person in the world to stand a chance of making a profit on these.

The Foothills by Full Plate

My son and I built this. Love the suspension. 60180 - Monster Truck

CCCX Ras-al-Jabar by Fedin

I lucked into that set cheap on eBay a couple years ago. I need to build it sometime. Indy sets are one of my biggest regrets. I was still in my dark ages, but taking my daughter to LEGOLAND when those were out. I remember seeing them on the shelves. I even thought to myself “if I collected LEGO I’d buy those.”

Beautiful rendition of the Ford GT designed by the 1:8 scale super car king @loxlego My photos are crap, so if you want further info go here. This shelf is pretty much his shelf.

Yeah, you have no say in this.

Finally got around to finishing up my Tatooine diorama. The mini Sandcrawler is something I built a couple of years ago. Tried a bit of forced perspective with mixed results.

It took two sessions and about 2 hours total, because every fifth piece she'd decide she couldn't do it and I'd have to convince her she could. I did few of the tougher parts I did myself. I feel like it's great dexterity practice. Generally, I pull out the pieces for the step or ask her to get 2 of the piece with 4 dots on top, etc. Every few pages I get her looking at the instructions so she can get some exposure to them.

Big Trouble by Grantmasters

Has anyone found any instructions for this? So far, I've been able to find pictures of the parts list. But no pictures of the instructions.

Always wanted it and then was let down. Guess just spoiled by today's sets. 5 years makes a difference. Plus numbered bags and highlighted instructions is so much better.

Harry Potter Rejectz by Melan-E

Convolution by Kevin Moyer