Lego: C/D, S&D

there's a big fao schwartz on 59th. this is probably the NYC equivalent of hamleys though.

and apparently there's a big Toys R Us in times square.

NYC has Targets, don't they? Hit up a Target, and you won't have to pay TRU's inflated prices.

and you might want to avoid times square...

I left my hire car there; anyone seen it?

We popped in FAO Schwarz yesterday lunchtime; surprisingly little Lego compared to the amount of massive $1000 cuddly polar bears. Saw a Falling Water Lego set in Barnes & Noble but $90 was a bit much.

Pre-order for Lego Universe is active. $40 american and you get a free little orange astronaut minifig

http://gizmodo.com/5541702/lego-arcade-machine-overloads-my-nerd-senses

the new 2nd series of custom minifigs is coming:

http://toysnbricks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=722

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/grogall/Minifigur-Collection/8684_b3.jpg

Lego Harry Potter is out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MgmSjXgoII

Not as amusingly Cockney as one would like, but there you go.

Odd how Lego is a countable noun in American English and uncountable in British English.

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=44459

The 2nd line of Collectable minifigs is starting to show up in stores:

I want this guy, and will give him the two pistolas from the cowboy so he can be a proper bandito:

http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pFPywHYdRrgQmW1HDwg5Tu-gqcg349CNeUfPZFkYm22G13voRHxvMJN7R218pPVgNie5WvjtMOk20nGco1_yKvw/Mexico.JPG

last week i found three places still selling series 1 minifigs, weeks after i thought they'd all gone.

This is available in American stores this week:

http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=8089-1

http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/8089-1.jpg

forty bucks

Lego series 3 is coming this January!

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs718.snc4/63876_434585446595_681036595_5788610_7530548_n.jpg

Huh, I've still been buying series 1 from the local Tesco whenever I go in there and I might have had a few drinks (ahem). Haven't seen 2 in any shops.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-moose/5041398151

st pancras station. was there only yesterday.

local whsmith now has series 2. they aren't as good.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/TK-XivbL-LI/AAAAAAABXcU/60WvoRNEGuU/s800/tyjjyjy.jpg

http://mikedoylesnap.blogspot.com/2010/09/making-of.html

London Bridge
http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=10214&icmp=SHHomeT1_10214
£205. limit 5 per customer...

New lego minifig series is out, and somebody already cracked the code to figure out which one is which:

http://www.fbtb.net/2010/11/18/series-3-blind-pack-code-cracked/

I want the fisherman:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5189765329_fb4113d6a0_z.jpg

http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2010/10/lego-doing-it-wrong-ads.html

want!
http://cache.lego.com/images/shop/prod/3844-0000-xx-12-1.jpg

http://www.brothers-brick.com/2010/12/06/collectible-minifigs-series-4-have-been-announced-news/

LEGO FLYING V GUITARS

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5004/5237923283_1117ba817c_b.jpg

oh man

I saw a different picture of these, and thought the werewolf was meant to be James Brown

what, this one?

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5126/5238519236_af4c8ff542_b.jpg

home for christmas, lego down from the attic, putting it together using instruction booklet scans from peeron. mostly 1972 vintage sets where all the cars look like volvos:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5125/5292627863_1a5c0696ed.jpg

lol i have virtually the exact same car model built at the moment, slightly different colours

Ha. I picked up a couple of the minifigs for Xmas, and turns out my mom found most of a battledroid tank set at a garage sale for $5 for me this summer.

http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=10193

O_O

so cool

http://www.fbtb.net/2011/02/09/new-lego-star-wars-advent-calendar/

http://idlehands1.blogspot.com/2011/02/pre-toy-fair-2011-lego-pirates-of.html

previews of upcoming Pirates fun

o man! cool!

surprised to see series 4 in the supermarket this morning. and they are actually better than the last set

gnome, geisha, bucaneer, punk, frankenstein monster, ice hockey player, viking, footballer, artist, jane torvill!, mad scientist and, rather presciently, a worried looking bloke in a radiation suit.

Hup, I'd better get on and find the last few from #3 that we want then.

(We have way too many of these for a couple of grown adults. Suggestions on displaying them? They just stand around and get knocked down the back of the desk every time we reach for the phone at the moment. Should probably just get a big-assed piece of flat lego and stick them all on.)

(i've been buying them and giving the ones i don't like (and some i do) and duplicates to friends' kids)

what are you missing from series 3?

Well, we're probably missing most of them, but the other half would quite like an alien, and I'd quite like a fisherman.

There are still plenty we don't have and (last seen) plenty left in the Toys R Us I go past every day, it's just we have an unfortunate tendency to end up with repeats of the zombie. Should look into those dot patterns I'm told you can "cheat" with. Or just buy a bunch, since I'm at least vaguely interested in most of the ones we don't have.

the new ones, i noticed, have a number crimped into the bottom seal as well as the dots. 550B was the sailor...

i have both those btw, but only one of each. my bete noir was the crash test dummy.

yeah. skateboarder (looks like bob burnquist!) and the nuclear accident guy.

oh wow i only just noticed that snow house up thread, awesome

Tell me more about these dots and code numbers? We just got our third Ice Hockey player, I'm ready to start cheating.

(oh, free kits with The Sun/NOTW starts tomorrow)

Ah, found 'em.

http://cf.minifigcollector.com/images/bumpcodes-series4-mini.png

Usually feeling them out will help. There's always one distinctive bit, even in those that lack it.

i can't correlate those bump codes with the two packets i have here. are they american ones? i know the american barcodes were different but that may've been due to them using a different barcode standard.

> We just got our third Ice Hockey player,

glass half empty thinking there. you've nearly got a whole team!

811 virtual pieces later

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5075/5905774551_c82ec79fda.jpg
(Virtual) Lego Falling Water (21005)

Free lego in The Sun again every day this week (starting today, but I only just found out about it, bah).

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/free-lego-toys-offer-is-back-2011-10-06

lego shop on thursday had the new volkswagen camper van (10220), which looks nice. and the enormo super star destroyer (10221) in the window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFjREmhAAOQ