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Neat!

I'll try to get a recording done today.

I'm intrigued. If I could switch careers tomorrow I'd love a shot to be a VA. How would you go about doing this with people spread around the globe? Maybe if I were to do this I could sort of audition and you could figure out which character I fit with?

seriously, me too.

If we didn't have politicians and big banks playing with money and causing world-wide inflation, we wouldn't need to rely on the Chinese so heavily for cheap goods. I think the concern here is, with the articles above as proof, is that these types of issues with the chemicals in the plastics COULD creep into LEGO products. Just because it hasn't happened yet is no guarantee it won't happen in the future.

The TV ads for this have really ramped up. It's almost hard to miss one now. Everything about it so far is.... well...... awesome.

I didn't like that episode except for the animation quality. The show overall was very anti-climatic and had the feel of a very rushed story. It should have been a two-parter.

I'm watching D-Gray Man now. Starting to get into it after 4 or 5 episodes.

That is a good use of the 'stick' type chassis for rock crawlers which was pioneered several years ago in the hobby grade R/C world. I have never seen that idea tried with LEGO. Very interesting.

The SPACESHIP!! is an instant 'classic'. I love it.

If I purchase any large set from this line it will have to be a SPACESHIP!!

I understand what you are saying. I hope to see male figures introduced as part of the Friends line. It looks like that is already planned for this year. To me, Friends was an experiment and it has been successful. I am interested to see where TLG goes with it now. I'd like to see male figures listed as the 'main' character on a few sets to see how they sell, and a more varied color scheme. Then we will start to figure out what the real driver for the customer is. Was it the minidolls and pink/purple parts, or the concept as a whole?

All three of my daughters love the Friends line and I think we have just about every set released before Christmas. My oldest (10) got the Dolphin Cruiser. I was pleased that it was a top toy and that moM and dad were smart enough to have purchased it in November. :) My daughters like building the sets but they don't take them apart. They are used as playsets for the dolls that they can build on their own. I think the minidoll size was brilliant because they are about the same size as many of the other dolls my daughters have and the playsets that accompany them. There is opportunity to have cross play with other non LEGO toys. My daughters did play with LEGO before Friends, but they were short periods of building something then putting them away. Now they desire new sets that get released and they are played with after they are built. One of the education subjects that comes up nowadays is how to get girls interested in engineering. I think the Friends line is one of those things that was needed to start bridging that gap. It is classic LEGO play style with figures that the girls recognize as a doll and not an action figure. While I'm all for gender equality I'm not sensitive to needing many gender neutral toys. Boys and girls just naturally like the things they like, so why not cater to that?

Don't worry so much. Gown men still collect action figures and that seems socially acceptable. My other hobby is radio control cars and I am very happy to talk to someone who asks about it. No shame at all. If your hobbies consisted of gambling, booze, and women (guys too) I'd think your priorities were out of line.

I'll check these out. Thanks Well the news about Tron is disappointing. I would think Disney would have put more effort into it since the movies are so popular.