Lego: C/D, S&D

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

series 7 in the shops today.

female swimmer, inca?, rabbit, bride, Poseidon, scotsman, skydiver, future soldier, tennis, tarzan, hippy, computer spod, valkyrie, black knight, rock chick, female hobbit?

(noticed today, might've been there for a while)

Never got the Roman soldier from the last run. Got everything else so quickly I got bored of looking.

Waiting for the Monster Fighter sets

i just seemed to get female astronauts and aliens in the last lot. and a minotaur with only one horn 8(

future soldier looks a lot like a reaction to the halo minifigs that you can also find places.

Yeah, he's full-on space marine. Combine some of him with lady astronauts and you'll have a full platoon of mixed-gender squaddies.

You get one of those Halo minifig baggies? They're some chintzy-ass construction

no. did pick up a couple of the playmobil packs for a friend's kids. they are same price despite containing about twice the plastic (and are split between male and female, ninjas in the one, princesses in the other) (ok, not that simple, the female ones contain vampires and lara croft etc)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/531442_10150656316256596_681036595_9913572_620379943_n.jpg

finally got some today, incl a Roman Soldier(thus completing my Series 6)

oh dude that soldier is cool

he's the rare(st?) one from that run

Wow, they wrote bios for every one:

http://minifigures.lego.com/en-us/Bios/Default.aspx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Lgcen-PGI

lego GAMEBOY transformer. including cute lego Duracell batteries!

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/03/impressive-lego-game-boy-transformer-plu.php

(and check out the abandoned victorian house further down, I had to look closer at the tree. wow)

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/05/british-birds-made-of-lego/

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151171726438403.449607.6665038402&type=1

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/480048_10151171729263403_485158458_n.jpg

Lego Hobbit sets are out, meaning that for the first time ever, you can have Sylvester McCoy in Lego form(eventually)

what the eff

http://theloneranger.lego.com/

http://brick.jamescook.nu/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/lego_disney_the_lone_ranger_2013.jpg

http://brick.jamescook.nu/?p=2038

LEGO The Lone Ranger 79106 – Cavalry Builder Set
LEGO The Lone Ranger 79107 – Comanche Camp
LEGO The Lone Ranger 79108 – Stagecoach Escape
LEGO The Lone Ranger 79109 – Colby City Showdown
LEGO The Lone Ranger 79110 – Silver Mine Shootout
LEGO The Lone Ranger 79111 – Constitution Train Chase

Yeah that's pretty surreal, can't honestly imagine anyone giving a shit.

This though: http://m.io9.com/5966902/serenity-lego-set-is-now-a-reality

I kind of think the opposite - it'd be a stick-on for a video game, and the actual lego falls back out of that.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/945122_10151409736334013_454273758_n.png

(tonearms are wrong, i guess the picture has been flipped)

series 10 of the minifigs are out btw.

is this the thread where we anticipate the lego movie y/n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnY2NjSjrg

Sure, why not.

I like the deliberate stop-motion look to the animation.

Free mini kits in the fucking Daily Mail every day this week starting today. If you can bring yourself to do that.

That actually doesn't look too bad. I'm surprised.

lego ent!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8543/8683938080_8c1e73ae0b_n.jpg

part of enormo tower of orthanc set

http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/The-Tower-of-Orthanc-10237

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/The-DeLorean-time-machine-21103

http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/lego-delorean-jul13-m.jpg

http://architecture.lego.com/en-us/architecture-studio/architectural-studio-product-info/

http://marvelsuperheroes.lego.com/en-us/videogame/default.aspx

Demo for the new Lego Marvel Superheroes game is out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vkt8l

Culture Show: Lego - The Building Block of Architecture

The Lego Movie (released 14 February) is the latest big-budget incarnation of one of the world's most popular toys. Yet Lego is more than a global brand. Tom Dyckhoff explores its fascinating relationship with architecture, and argues that it has changed the way we think about buildings.

(tonight at 22:00 bbc2)

They're coming out with an Arctic line. Now you too can re-enact John Carpenter's The Thing only with minifigs.

https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1798362_10151906095196596_308755562_n.jpg

Lego huskies and polar bear look cool, tho.

That prog was ok, apart from Alain de whatever talking about how most toys are about destruction. No they are not.

Anyone watching the awful looking movie?

most toys are about abstraction