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I dont see any reason to get it back on topic... lol, maybe i should just change the title to something random..haha ... a dreamless sleep would totally suck. so i bought some lego two days ago.... it turned out to be a box full of random stuff with a few pirate men and imperial soldiers & weapons, then random town n space minifigs. there was a cannon mount but no cannon :P... and worst of all..... all the lego smells absolutly terrible, i think i need to go and buy some fabreeze or lysol or something, i already washed it too and it still smells....

I think we will see more of an inelastic relationship than a perfectly inverse one ;) ->small quantity with a large demand ->precious metal ->'collectability' driven mostly by afols unless i am mistaken. are these c3po s going to be solid gold? I havnt heard much about them

instead of getting a professional to design the mould you could go down to a local university and persude an engineering student to take it on as one of their semester projects and then work out some kind of deal. everyone i know is off for the summer, but perhaps some of you guys down in australia could find someone.

I doubt thats the reason why as lego has a large market share and termendious brand power. I suspect they are either done with it for good or are holding off on creating more in order to build anticipation..... but I have a feeling that they are just done with it for good.

Just briefly, if lego has trademarked/copywrited/patented/any other means of lego protection on their individual pieces then simply creating one similar enough to theres is grounds for a suit. However, if lego does not have this in place which could be the case as some protections are time limited or prohibitivly costly to impliment in the first place and protect effectivly then you only run into a legal issue when you attempt to pass off the piece as original lego. I would check into any kinds of legal protection lego has on their pieces first, or any other possible pieces and then go on from there. It is quite easy to alter a piece just enough to make it legally dissimilar and not cause any kind of property right violatons. If I had to make a guess though, lego has not protected each individual piece but rather protects the right to sell these peices with the lego branding on them.... which would explain why every single piece of lego has lego on it. This is similar to cloathing lines or other easily reproduced items where the entire value is held in the branding trademark rather than the item itself. In a situation where lego does for some reason take legal action against anyone producing such items then its simple to settle the suit without going to court.... most times a company would demand immediate discontinuation of production and seek damages of some specified amount that would later be revised.

ahhhh just agreed to buy some lego tonight, off tomarrow to pick it up.... ive got no clue whats in the set but the laid said there was about 1,050 pieces and 4 pirate men, a bird and a monkey..... but no really large pieces..... so im guessing maybe a small outpost or something but who knows - ill post tomarrow when i figure out what i just bought..hahaha. it was only $25 but that seems to be the lowest price on bricklink for the pirate stuff so it cant be all that bad..hahaha

I finally found someone selling the BSB and EF locally ... except the person is wanting to sell those two as well as his whole other lego collection.... :P ... .sooooo inconvienent

Im going to throw my lot in with red being the russians and the blue guys being from quebec canada ... which explains the flur de lis, and their hired on as mercenaries down in the caribbean. ... i have absolutly no historical evidence to back up my nonsence.

those blue guys just know how to keep order..haha, the red coat guys always look too uptight

hahaha, i love how this thread is totally off the non-existant topic i originally posted. I was going to take pictures of my new sets today but im still looking for my camera. ... this lego could get very capital intensive..... between my rekindled interest in pirate lego, karting, and paying for tuition i might turn myself into a popper. .... on another note... im envious of all you guys and your plethora of cannons

ahh, well i know what im doing after i finish getting the pirate sets i want!

i voted 5 on this... but i mixed up on what ship i was voting on, i htought i twas the renigade runner .... i want a redo..haha... i give this a 1 or 0

perhaps this is legos attempt to introduce depth to their base plates that went wrong during production?

haha, sorry mr tiber and mister phes! .... how are you combining the saber island and lagoon lockup? anything novel ? and no mr phes i do not know about the ninja vs pirate meme ... whats a meme? (i also have not heard of any ninja and pirate lego combining before either) I've been trying to buy some new pieces off of craigslist.com but it seems anyone who posts an ad there sees their lego sold within 24hours of posting! ... its pretty hectic if i do say so myself and im not interested in purchasing bulk amounts of lego like some of you guys..haha.... on a side note, how do you know what sets you have in your bulk purchase if the seller does not know what sets are all included (which seems to be a common theme)

for a biased poll were not too biased, i mean... thats getting pretty close to being a statistically insignificant margin of difference if my math is partially correct.... which, normally isnt ... speaking of math my 1st year electrical physics teacher said math wasnt too terribly important and gave us all maple to do our calculus on.... i subsequently failed intergral calculus twice and passed my physics course with a pretty good mark ... lol

I could always do up some pictures if you guys really really want them..hahaha ... infact i think i might do just that tomarrow if im not working again... lol I did infact mean pirate lego but anything goes alsong as theres an emphasis on the pirate lego I figure. I've started to merge my ninja sets and my pirate sets into one big world of piratedom so I think ill need to make a ninja pirate boat sometime in the future... ive also got a jedi as quartermaster on one of my ships, i think he got lost in a wormhole a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away which caused his x-wing fighter to be left with 1 partial wing, 1 engine, the front nose and the canopy glass... which is now taken over by my islanders.... lol That sucks to hear about your sails mister phis, how do you like your saber island set??? ... i think that was the frist lego set i ever got way back in the day when i was 5 or something, before kindergarten thats forsure... so whenever that was.. lol, back with teenage mutant ninja turtles were cool

I've gotta agree with norrington and pirhana on their take of the islanders... or well, just say I do similar things with mine. when i play with my lego they usually end up carring the really heavy gold filled chests or locked up in some jail somewhere for no good reason. indiginous people always got the shaft...lol.... ... or europeans just ruled the world

wow... all you guys have a lot of stuff, im envious here is my collection: ** --> I know I have it but i dont know where the pieces are ## --> missing pieces 1970 - Pirates Gun Cart ** 6268 - Renegade Runner 6270 - Forbidden Island 6273 - Rock Island Refuge ## 6296 - Shipwreck Island ** 6265 - Sabre Island ## 6259 - Broadside's Brig 6266 - Cannon Cove ## 6267 - Lagoon Lock-Up ## 6271 - Imperial Flagship 6246 - Crocodile Cage ** 6256 - Islander Catamaran ** 6280 - Armada Flagship looking at it in a list it seems a lot bigger than what it looks like on my floor... lol... ah well, i plan to add the 3 ships im missing (CC, BSB, SES) and the trading post & fortress. I wouldnt mind the imperial outpost or perolous pitfall and the other smaller sets would be nice but I can wait on those.. haha. I'm a little cautious on buying items over the internet form individuals or 'stores' listed on bricklink and that has been the main reason for me not to purchase the remaining sets.

oh, quite sorry about posting in the wrong spot. the condition is pretty good, by my standards compaired to all of my original sets..haha... forbidden island: the baseplate has some whiteout type marks showing where the foundation should go, apparently someone can not count! as well, the treasure chest's hinges are not in working order so the lid does not stay on the box when opened. lockup lagoon: the jail casing is grey instead of white and one of the wheels on the cannon is missing... which i do not mind too much as i think one of those 360* movement plates are better for the set and ive used that instead. Broadsides brig: everything is there, even the instructions! ...... of my original 8 sets i have 3 instruction booklets and none are in good condition, and unfortunatly im missing pieces left right and square for all of my sets pirates or otherwise

I just bought a few more sets last night... pretty excitied. I got the forbidden island, broadsides brig and lagoon lockup :) have any of you guys reciently purchased more sets?

I just looked though the thread quickly.. very quickly.... and some of you guys didnt stay to the end... spoiler a little boy is running to the edge of a cliff singing "yoho yoho a pirates life for me" and the bottom shows the note 'ten years later' and theres elizabeth stairing off into the sunset. theres a big flash of green light and up pops will in the flying dutchman

oh thanks! do you just send money to it then like an e-trade account?

oh no i never said i posted a bid on it... i was just meaning i wanted to post a bid at that price on it ($100)... anyhow, that lot is upto $150. I just figured some of you guys might have been interested, thats all. :)

I just came accross a BSB on ebay that I thoguht you guys might be interested in... http://cgi.ebay.com/LEGO-SET-6285-BLACK-SE...1QQcmdZViewItem it ends at noon may 28th... so lunchtime today. I'd bid on it myself but unfortunatly... no paypal or credit cards have I :(