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I'm a bigger LEGO fan than I am a Star Wars fan so most of my build have been in the Creator line. However the Star Wars UCS line does have some of the largest and most interesting builds so I knew eventually I would get there. Since I came out of my dark ages a year and a half ago, I've always thought the UCS Imperial Shuttle 10212 was one of the most accurate and interesting looking Star Wars models and wanted to get one. To that end, for the past 3 months I've been slowly bricklinking 10212, 10182, and 10189. All original parts and color in new condition except where it didn't make sense (e.g. stud hole vs no stud hole). All new condition except, again, where it didn't make sense due to price or availability. I can give more specifics if anyone is interested but in short I sourced all three for about $1,400 plus ~$40,000 in unpaid time . This week in the evenings I built 10212... In the end I was just as impressed as I thought I would be. Really enjoyed the build and the final result!

Built this last week with the 6 year old. Pretty happy with how it turned out...enjoyable build, several play features and a ton of mini figs...I really like the end result.

Picked up a Tumbler and Grand Emporium with beat up boxes for $350 and he threw in an Avengers Tower and Quinjet City Chase for another $50.

10252 Wolkswagen Beetle (Chibi) by Gerald Cacas

Finished an incompleted Sopwith I found in CL. Bought it for $30 but it was missing a few unique pieces so after everything said and done, it's closer to $45. Really like the design. It's bigger than I thought and looks good even without a smooth plane wing. However, I understand the limited appeal and that's why it's dropping in value. Great for personal build.

Excellent point. It's like a mullet, Business up front, party in the rear.

We don't have a lot of context for the beach battle yet, but I would expect the Empire would use more troops to guard and/or retrieve the Death Star plans. Doesn't look like a large scale battle from what I've seen but I'm sure the AT-ATs will be in there from the earlier trailer we saw. I thought these were quite entertaining:

Rhosgobel (Radagasts house) by Legonardo Davidy

6.5 hours is not taking into account the additional time it will take when I have to go back 20 steps taking about what I built because I screwed something up.

The world we live in nowadays

Target.com lego dimensions back to the future fun pack #71230 for $5.09 (local pick up also available) http://www.target.com/p/lego-dimensions-back-to-the-future-fun-pack/-/A-50535504?lnk=abtest_searchpdp_1 lego dimensions dr. Who fun pack #71238 for $5.99 (with an option of local pick up) http://www.target.com/p/lego-dimensions-dr-who-fun-pack/-/A-50535532?lnk=abtest_searchpdp_2

Where were they 7 years ago to take care of the cast from jersey shore.

Season 3 Trailer. Be warned...there are spoilers.

Plus, the target audience for this set is clearly not just AFOLs who want it in a glass case in their dining room. Looks like they wanted a set that can be played with (so Parents will consider it as a set for their kids) which looks fairly accurate, without being tedious/difficult to assemble. I think they did a great job at that ... it looks like the real thing, it shows well, and it has tons of play opportunities inside. Sure there are things that could have been done differently, but you'd move the set out of the ideal intersection of playability, looks and ease-of-construction.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but my guess is you're in a hypercritical minority here. Are there details about this set that could use improvement? - sure - there are no perfect sets after all. But, in the end, I have to think that viewed in total, the positives, surely outweigh the negatives. Im not sure why you think it's a trade off though? Every time a new set gets released, we go though the same routine. People want to scrutinize every aspect of the design looking for inaccuracies compared to the source material. I'm fairly confident everyone will look at this model when built and know exactly what it represents. In my mind, the designers have accomplished their objective. We've got a highly displayable set, that also has some real cool interior play features. It's one of the most iconic structures on the planet. It's exclusive, but not unobtainable either. I can't really ask for much more.

Man these are UGGGGLLLLYYY! No thanks. Big time pass on me both as an investment and as a collector. Just like Pokemon Go, I just don't get the funko pop craze either. This bubble will "pop" in a few years and all these will be worthless. Then there will be all this useless funko pop figurines valued at 0 floating in the great pacific garbage patch. Regardless.... I also see this as another case where Lego is kind of losing their edge. While, we can champion the Disney Castle, and to some degree the Big Ben, Lego has been pretty stale on new and exciting ideas this year.

This is how I decided to stage the characters. Love the lightning.

Finally put together the GE I bought last year as a partial set in a bulk lot on eBay for cheap. I loved this build so much more than the Fire Brigade. It was pretty fun. Not sure if it's because it's a corner building, or feels more regal. But it just looks pretty cool.

Finally! After a week of building this from bulk- putting the finishing touches on this bad boy .

I really liked this set more than I would have imagined after I've built it. Only thing I really found tricky during was to get the clock right. So like you I found the best result I could achieve was putting it shortly before or after midnight.

Jeff is working on a complete overhaul of the site to increase usability and give it a more modern feel. There might be some bumps along the way.

HOLY **** !!!! Not only the W word, but the T word too ???? I am not worthy

That is what I love about this year instead of having to spend time deciding what to get Lego makes it for me by making bad sets.

Just bought one today. Looks fun. 95% chance it is taken over by Ewoks by the end of the weekend.

Can I know which issue the penthouse magazine is? lol

Who flips stuff just build it all

Starting 6/16 in Kokomo, IN

Those are both Price Matches with Amazon - they have been that price there for the last week or so.

The whole family were big Clone Wars fans, and we had a hard time enjoying Rebels early on. I am so glad that they moved away from the super kid friendly storylines - It feels much darker now, similar to the CW. It certainly helped when they started bringing back the characters from the CW. It seems as if the creators are happy to know that they can now revisit the CW, and finish up any unresolved stories.

Yep, and there is a new book coming out about him next year from Timothy Zahn that will be 100% canon. T is in!

Bloomfield Hills, MI still today and tomorrow

I now know what I'm doing with all the Hot Dog minifigs I have.

No honey, we are not buying that sports car!

Paris 1889 steampunk [WIP 3] The Engineers by Castor Troy

FUNKO pops are my guilty pleasure. I'm 40 years old, an Army officer, a medical provider, and I have subscriptions for Star Wars Smugglers Bounty, Marvel Collectors Corps, and DC Universe subscription boxes. I'm not sure what the heck is wrong with me.

Welcome.

Not nearly as ugly as the Funko Pops.

Made me laugh.

Which one of those is the Zika virus?

How about now and later?

LEGO Piranha Plant by BruceLowell.com

Any builder understands the strife in trying to make something feel natural and organic. Thankfully some have been quite successful in these endeavors which lead back to the subject for this topic. One part akin to "advanced building techniques" and the other being "MOC highlights", I thought it might be interesting to have a central hub for showing off these designs of nature well as ways to create them if possible. A couple of designs here to start things off with hopefully more added as time goes by. Note: This is not only about trees but any sort of scene with beautiful creativity in all things flora just in LEGO form. Cherry blossoms by 片岡 ひろし Technical Tree

Went and tried out that Blue Render app. Very cool stuff. I ran into a problem with my MOC; the 1x4x5 arches only come in light tan, and the 1x2 masrony bricks only in dark tan. I wanted the masonry brick effect, but I didn't like the blocky chunks of different colours. Went in and did some plate bricking, I think the effect is much nicer, but still not sure I'm satisfied with it. The renderer really makes it look pretty though! Projected cost via BrickOwl: $550 CAD for 1843 pieces. And back around the time I joined up, I was working on reverse engineering a MOC I'd seen online. Tried getting in touch with the creator to no luck, so went into LDD and built my own. Pics were posted before this thread existed, but I fired off a render of it today for fun; probably lots of new users who never saw this. As more work gets done to BluePrint for Mac, I'd be happy to generate instructions for this little guy when it's ready if anyone was interested. Happy to share my .lxf as well. Comes in at 298 pieces, and is quite a fun micro build with some neat techniques.