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my thoughts on star wars: my older brother was born in 1977, i was born in 1980, and my little brother came in 1983, the same years the star wars movies came out. we watched the 3 originals countless times growing up and had the lunchboxes, toys, backpacks, halloween costumes, pajamas, etc. it was fun to pretend to be our heroes from the movies and go on adventures and wonder what kind of awesome adventures the “real” luke, han & chewie had after the movies ended. 30 years later, disney buys star wars and announces a new trilogy starring our old heroes. great! this will be so cool! i go see the force awakens, and find out han solo was a deadbeat dad and has gone back to being a lowlife smuggler even when a new evil power is out terrorizing the galaxy again. he dies, and leia ignores chewie. there’s another easily defeated death star. ok, i guess i can get past all that stuff i didn’t like. looks like this new star wars is still going to be overall pretty good. seeing the falcon zooming around again was extremely cool. i like the new characters so far, i like the look of kylo ren. the last jedi comes out. i see it opening night. luke skywalker tosses his lightsaber over his shoulder. what the hell. he’s a grumpy hermit. he trashed his xwing. he ditched his friends, his family, and even his droids. he’s a jerk to this nice girl wanting to learn about the force. he tried to kill his nephew because he thought maybe he might turn evil!? what the freakin crap is this!? i hate this! they have ruined his character! i would be able to get past all the other ridiculous garbage in this movie such as the moronic phone call between hux and poe, the amateur green screen mary poppins in space, chewie the now useless pet dog eating a cgi owl, pod racing horses on a planet with only human looking aliens, a fake salt covered hoth planet...agggh so much crap in one film! oh yeah they also find time to kill off admiral akbar for no reason, and not kill off leia even though carrie fischer was already dead, and got rid of kylo rens helmet, so he can look weaker. and phasma! ha i forgot how useless she was in both movies! oh man what a flaming pile of garbage. and luke just dissapears while sitting on a rock! boooooooooo!

Oops I did it again... For $175/local sale I bought a medium-large collection because I can't refuse Lego for under 10 cents on the dollar The lot will need washing, sorting, assembling... Fortunately a lot of the sets are 50-75% assembled to make pulling sets easier. I've identified 38 sets (not including smalls) at around $2400 retail and I still have to ID a bunch of Ninjago sets w/o instructions. There's a nice (ugh) Mega Bloks Halo collection that should bring $150+ (Pelican is $60 alone + 15-20 other assembled sets). Since I'm still working through a 115-pound buy from a year ago, I've probably bitten off more than I can chew. If anyone is looking for a project PM me 4996 Beach House 6206 TIE Interceptor 6209 Slave 1 6210 Jabba's Sail Barge 6211 Imperial Star Destroyer 7093 Skeleton Tower 7180 B-Wing 7237 Police Station 7259 ARC-170 Starfighter 7261 Clone Turbo Tank 7621 Indiana Jones and the Lost Tomb 7622 Indiana Jones - Race for the Stolen Treasure 7657 AT-ST 7658 Y-wing Fighter 7659 Imperial Landing Craft 7660 Naboo N-1 Starfighter and Vulture Droid 7661 Jedi Starfighter with Hyperdrive Booster Ring 7662 MTT 7663 Sith Infiltrator 7665 Republic Cruiser 7669 Aniken Starfighter 7671 AT-AP Walker 7673 MagnaGuard Starfighter 7674 V-19 Torrent 7675 AT-TE 7676 Republic Dropship 7678 Droid Gunship 7679 Republic Fighter Tank 7692 Mars Mission Recon Dropship 7697 Mars Mission MT-51 Claw Tank Ambush 7738 Coast Guard Helicopter 7748 Corporate Alliance Tank Droid 7781 The Batmobile: Two-Face's Escape 7893 Passenger Plane 8016 Hyena Droid Bomber 8018 AAT 8036 Seperatist Shutle 8117 Exo-Force Storm Lasher

Load a cart full of flat screens and roll it out the store without paying. The police will actually come to you. Much more efficient than smooshing bags.

My single biggest complaint is that whoever decided to completely butcher Poe Dameron's character in TLJ should be taken out back and kicked in the head. How can you take the 'hero' of TFA and make him a completely untrusted loose cannon in TLJ? That makes no sense.... not only did they not tell him about the escape plan because the purple haired woman decided she didn't trust him (except that she's Leia's buddy from years ago and Leia trusted Poe more than any of the other rebel pilots) but there are thousands of people evacuating and he doesn't notice or figure it out? GMAFB. It's inconsistencies like this that kill TLJ for me (Poe was my biggest peeve, but there are a pile more)... It was Star Wars, there was lots to enjoy, but tell a consistent story or GTFO and go direct some crappy made-for-TV movies.

Well, I guess you could say that it did set the tone for the movie.

How is that a shitty thing to say? He simply stated they had time to fix (Id use the word address) the Leia situation. I didn't read anything else into it. I'm, not sure how you did. Another thing... Whether you enjoyed the film or not, Did anyone think the Mary Poppins scene was... awesome? Good? Totally plausible? Needed to be kept in? Didn't need to be adjusted?

Oh, the casino subplot was for character development. I thought it was 40 minutes of sjw garbage ?

I just learned the birthday boy (the head/face) is modeled after the Lego CMF Lead Designer's son. Cute little green glasses!

No that was a metphor for them throwing away the Star wars we loved and replacing it with some sad husk which I hope is cancelled for its own sake.

Yes! Can't wait for Slave Leia, 2.0, cougar style.

An overzealous cs rep can force open an A-Z claim but you should be able to easily win it . I would politely reply that the window for returning or tracking the order has passed and there isn’t much that you can do about it . Any subsequent messages should be marked as no reply needed .

Definitely. Opened the box yesterday and all the bags are there. This is the one which we will build.?

Policeman is the flattest of the bunch, and then his tile is obvious. If going for the flatter bags I think you will come across the cat the most. I usually buy about 40+ of them and do the bump codes with smooshing. I usually make 1 mistake, but this time I was 17 for 17. Bump codes are reliable within a box, but I swear I had at least one instance where I got packs from the same store, same seal code, different bump codes and got the same figure, and had I smooshed it would have been obvious.

I bow before them how they were able to throw extra 500 pieces without changing much of the overall appearance with making this set 10% smaller than it's predecessor.

Seriously? Just on top of my head: Scene 1: Rey is doing awesome lightsaber moves at Achtoo. Enter Luke with comment: "you did more in (insert time) than any of my other pupils". Scene 2: catch up with Poe, Leia etc. "Wtf, FO regrouped just (insert time) after we blew up DS3???? We better call Rey". Scene 3 (or somewhere in 1st half of movie): Flashback of what happened after Rey gave Luke his lightsaber

Oh, I think its well done too. I was just quoting the movie.

Stopped by my local Walmart on a whim this morning. Found this: Managed to find this:

This one just had more than its share of bad moments without enough good ones to balance them out. I think one reason why this will not live on in people's hearts is there was no great action or iconic moments that demand repeat viewings. We barely see any space dogfighting but get more time on slow moving bombers or escape pods. The fight with the red guards was kind of cool but seemed anti-climactic coming after Snoke bought it and the fan in me wondered why neither of them are using any force powers in that fight. The Crait showdown was lame with again hardly any dogfighting but just the Falcon leading Ties away and Rose sabotaging Finn's long drive to nowhere. As cool as the Luke-Kylo sequence is if you appreciate the idea of it, it's still over fast with very little fighting. More time was spent getting Luke from the cave to outside then in actual combat. The less sais about the casino horses the better. Far inferior to the pod race. There is nothing in here that ranks with the trench run, either of the Luke-Vader fights from Empire or Jedi, no big space battle or into the Death Star scenes like in Jedi, Phantom Menace or Revenge, and no ground battle worthy of Empire or Attack of the Clones. My then 6 year old son would watch the Geonosis battle every weekend for a year. There's nothing here I NEED to see again.

Found a box that looked full at Walmart. Tried the 3rd from the back on the left... and

Actually, that about sums up all the main characters... "very weak and disappointing". Seriously, what can we say that was positive? The fact the Rey, with no training, can use the force more effectively than Anakin on a good day? If they don't make her the offspring of two Jedi, how in the world do they explain any of that?! (BTW, I still highly doubt the child of trash. They still have a way out that Kylo Ren read her mind and that is what she thinks. But that does not guarantee that is the truth.) If they can redeem any of this, they might save the series. However, at this point, they've all but lost me. And I'm speaking as someone who got to see Star Wars (before it was called "A New Hope") in the movie theater for my birthday - a theater filled with 500+ people. I was pleasantly surprised by Rogue One, one of my favorites of all SW films, but I'm not even sure I'm going to go so Solo after the disappointment of TLJ.

When I first saw the movie, the scene when she gets blown out into space had a pretty good emotional impact. I remember thinking , "this is how she goes?!?!", because they did discuss after her death that nothing really needed to change and the story still worked. I thought that they really took a chance by killing her so suddenly. Then they completely undercut the impact of that scene with the Mary Poppins thing.

Would The Force also have enveloped her in warmth and oxygen to live in space? That scene... oh that scene...

It easily could have been, reach out for a cable with the force, draw yourself back in. Force grab Ackbar and bring him to safety. We didn't get anything near that cool.

JW Fallen Kingdom and new SW Solo (Kessel run Falcon, Tie Fighter) sets on-line at Costco now.

It was never meant to be a standalone movie...just the introduction to the next two. The Empire Strikes Back, which is considered by many STAR WARS fans to be the best of all time, ended with one HUGE cliffhanger.

They needed the horses to escape, and freeing all of them is a distraction I guess. Now I’m picturing them riding the children to freedom.

I was mainly responding to that post of yours. Rian had complete control of movie 8. Anything good or bad needed to be attributed to Rian. Consequently, Rian gets the praises from peoplewho like the movie, on the other hand, Rian gets the blame from people who hate/dislike the movie . I think that is fair.

There are not a lot of movies or franchises that have/had the amount of impact on pop culture as Star Wars has. You make a terrible movie under the guise of Star Wars film, fans are going to let you know. Rian should have just made Spaceballs 2. That seems more up his alley.

Welcome to the internet.

just left a walmart with 6! police figs. they had just put out 2 of the hanging displays and also filled the shelf bin with 2 (dumped out) boxes. found the 2 in the bin and then there were 2 in each of the hanging displays. unfortunately not in the same location, but it was super easy to smoosh when you’re only looking for basically what is not the policeman. just a quick squeeze is pretty much all it takes to know if it’s not it. probably only took me about 15 min to go through them all.

As someone pointed out elsewhere ... Saturn V has 1969 Lego parts and costs (in The Netherlands) €130 UCS Y-Wing 75181 has 1967 Lego parts and costs (in The Netherlands) €230. So that's basically €100 DISNEY TAX on the new Y-Wing set!

Thinking about that one could accuse Felicty and friends (Arrow) of being simaler to TLJ main charcter of old has legacy destroyed.

You just described almost every TV show on these days. Season finale has some huge thing happen, has a bit of a cliffhanger and then bam! Next season starts months later. I’m thinking about every season of The Flash for example.

For me, it was looking for the 1x2 tile and the 1x2 plate. He's the only minifig in the bunch that has those. Once I smooshed those, I knew I had him. I always try to figure out the one or two things for each minifig that is unique. Even the Brick Boy and the Brick Girl have a unique item.

"Just for you" - a big F-U from the lazy warehouse workers.

Meh. I loved it. I've only met one person IRL who didn't like it. The Internet is a sad place sometimes.

sold 2 series 18 policemen for $33 each and 27 ultimate batmobile polybags for $200. got the polys last week at tru. a few weeks ago i found 9 of them at a different tru and the cashier was hassling me about buying them all. this was about 2 days before they officially announced they were closing all stores. i sold those in lots of 3 for $28 each pretty quickly. when i found these 27 the other day i planned on selling them the same way, in lots of 3, but i figured i’d try out a huge lot first to see if it would sell. buyer is in singapore.

There's plenty of us.

Popping in here to say that The Last Jedi is my second-favorite Star Wars film (behind Empire, narrowly ahead of ANH). I'm a long-time fan (have ready every adult Legends and Canon novel), and I absolutely adore TLJ. I know a lot of people didn't like it, and I'm definitely not going to try to convince anybody to like something as subjective as a movie. This thread just keeps popping up on my homepage with a lot of negativity, so thought I'd bring something positive to the discussion thread.

if i was a kid getting one of these “blind bags” i would be extremely disappointed if i got the lame policeman figure. we’re doing children a favor by removing it from the box for them! i’ve been able to disarm 2 boxes and make them safe for the kids already, and i hope to find more before they ruin a child’s day.

Biggest mistake I made. I bought 3 UCS sets in mid 2017 at RRP after hearing stories about all this money people make on them. Then after buying the sets and trying to figure out how long it would take me to get rich I came here and learned my awful mistake. I hope to one day be able to sell them and make my money back.

20 minutes before closing at Target I nicely asked an employee to see if any were in the back. She had no idea how to find anything in the stock room. Manager up front talked her through it via headset. She comes back with a handful. I’m thinking the rest are still back there and she doesn’t know what she’s doing..... And there’s no way a police officer is in the tiny group. Wrong and wrong. The first one I pick up is the officer Woo hoo! I fly through the rest and start laughing bc I realize it must have been an employee’s stash of one of each character including the officer. And the last was another officer.

Haven't posted in here for a while, don't' want people to think I've given up on selling or anything, just too busy to report about it most of the time. Had a nice finish to March and an excellent start to April. Over the past week or two: 4954 Model Town House 100% w/ Box - $250 Cash sale, Buy In $70 40158 Pirates Chess Set NISB - $80 EBay, Buy in $53 ..... omg someone actually bought one?! Sweetest victory! 21303 Wall-E NISB - $145 EBay, Buy in $55 8781 Castle of Morcia 100% No Manual - $115 EBay, Buy in $56.50 75134 Galactic Empire Battle Pack NISB - $28 EBay, Buy in $15 60074 Bulldozer NISB - $70 EBay, Buy in $45 7419 Dragon Fortress 100% - $190 EBay, Buy in $45

You euro people have way cooler store names