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Jipay

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  1. Just found a link to this amazing video : take a "standard girl", use lights make up and photoshop : all the steps are shown. Here
  2. An answer could : someone entered TLC HQ and said "hey did you see the money some companies get out of fantasy based themes ! Look at the games workshop warhammer dudes !". And they wanted to do the same. Sadly they couldn't. I think cost avoidance is obvious, the massive use of burps is bad on small models (while they do look great for massive dioramas)., but it fills 3X8 studs easely. Bad design is a generic statement for all the sets deisgned those years. It do looks like if they hired someone from ikea who forced them to do squared stuff.
  3. Our member BDD managed to put his hands on one of next year's aquaraiders sets. He made a nice review for us. Find it here.
  4. an introduction post wouldn't kill, neither some more space in your post ! Welcome anyway
  5. Who you are, where you do live, what you do collect. that'd be a nice start !
  6. Yes, most of the wifi problems are coming from the wifi connection, not the DS. So Holly, what did you do ?
  7. nice first. Now I'd make the edges of the battle station glowing a little bit (in white) so it shows the light reflecting on it. Plus I'd blur it a bit more. Nice work in general, its looks really clean
  8. Are you going to revive all the old topics btw ?
  9. Having a collection split on two locations is awfull cause you never have *that* pieces you need at the place you are. Good luck man, one day you'll have them all at one location !
  10. Duke to Duchess
  11. that's actually in the pipe !
  12. You can now thank hobbes for poiting this thread to me :-D
  13. That's the set I own. I agree with everything stated by Athos :-)
  14. I could hardly agree more. And there are some (real, effective) marketing tools that allow you to measure the level of coolness of your product. People don't know what they want. Some don't even know what they need in every day life. Plus you always want what you can't have and what you wouldn't have imagined.
  15. Making a separation between men and women is somehow normal : we can't even use the same toilets...
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    Truck

    You're pointless reply is surely cheaper than the truck :-D Intresting construction. Though it doesn't have seat, this is something I would have expected. the price isn't bad at all, but without a minifig it might seem a little bit too high. I like the motor thing, a great idea IMO, with a lot of potential for citizen life...
  17. Yes, as for standard members. And it's not sexist at all, it's being polite and making our ladies feel at home.
  18. We set up a new group for the ladies we have at EB : the ladies group. Of course they'll get better set up :-P
  19. *standing up to defend this line* I own one of those set, and it is not such a bad line at all. First, the figures are excellent, you even got a witch (first castle female minifig in a looong time). Then, accessories are the key. You get a whole load of them with those sets. I think that what makes them suck are the baseplates, really. The use of the pieces can be also a dissapointment, but I think that most of the users here could make a really cool castle out of them. Last but not least : black dragons ! yummmyy :-) It's much less historically accurate comparred to the previous lines though and I think this is what makes everyone hate them |-/
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    Whos got EaW?

    I had it and came to one conclusion : it's the worst rts I ever played. Well maybe not the worst, but definitly not in the top 10. I've been playing this kind of games for about 15 years now and this one was a huggggeee letdown. There are much better references outta here IMHO. Now my advice is purely based on an online perspective of the game, and I must admit that the story could likely hook some people. But still, ouch :-(
  21. Indeed, it sort of ensures them to "force" shops to have all the sets from smaller ones to bigger one. Which is why their logistics sucks. We are now in the 21st century, the era of IT's and customer service level. And hearing a company forcing shops to order a certain quantity of certain sets is not ok at all. Forcing them to order for a certain amount is normal, but adding a constraint about what type of set is wayyy too much IMHO.
  22. Well actually their marketing survey should help to create accurate forecast. But wait, weren't those also the ones that brought all the bad sets we had to deal with during the dakr age of lego ? :-D Seriously, a little bit of methodology should definitly give a good insight on the forecasted demand. We now have many references that has been analyzed and we know what could bring success or not for a product. Back on the supply chain, also think that now with the production delocalized partially in Asia, you need at least 1 or 2 months to bring back the sets produced there to Europe.
  23. I am a logistical ingeener (my real job), and this is what I've been told about the toy business (don't know if it applies to lego though). Toys companies are the only one who don't use stock the same way others do. In fact they are mass producing series of toys in order to meet Xmas demand. So they have a huge stock about one year in advance and must stick to this stock for almost the whole year. Some productions might be launched later (middle of the year) in order to re stock, but those are short runs. This policy is coming from a simple calculation between your producing capacity and the under use of this capacity during the year, and over use during Xmas period. It's all about balancing. Hence the problem and the shortages when demands has not been well calculated. Next episode : how to calculate an accurate demand forecasting, and why TLC suck in the supply chain management from A to Z
  24. Not only you can link up many DS consoles to play together, but if you have a wifi connection at home, you will be able to enjoy the online gaming with titles such as mario kart DS. Get it twice : one for you and one for your son *sweet*
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