Svelte

So what did you do with the saucepan? I want a copper saucepan too!

It was a well-deserved frontpage! I love the design and the colours. The ground floor especially shows how beautiful medium blue with the right complements - red-brown and a glint of gold. The Wurlitzer is amazing and I'll definitely build my own version - a simple build but just perfect and could easily appear in an 'official' modular set. Indeed, the whole building is inspirational and with just the right proportions and level of detail. Great work! Definitely one of my favourite modular creations!

Probably an Exclusive set.

I'd still to get a glimpse of the eclipse, please. I mean, apart from all the mystery and bone statues and traps and puzzles and mysteries and ghosts and shadows and scorpions and blood and crowns and guns and knives and upskirts, I did pay a lot of good money to come here to witness this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So can we just take 15 minutes to chillax and stare up in wonder at the sky? Thanks!

I saw a crown on the planks when I climbed the scaffolding. But by the time I got there, it was gone. Out of the corner of my eye I saw someone leave the temple and dash outside - so it seems very possible to me that one of us filched it and is hiding it on their person.

New member Iain shares with us his time-lapse video build of the new 10211 Grand Emporium! Click on the image to visit the thread where you can view this amazing video, and share your thoughts!

I thought you only had one

Yay for ImperialScouts! Happy birthday! I don't have a cake for you, but I will eat a lemon polenta mini on your behalf!

Didn't Hector take the knife? I must say, I hadn't considered that some amongst us could be cultists, but it makes sense. Let's decide about the knives before leaving this area. If we divvy them up, I don't want one. I have a broken arm anyway, so I'd be like a lame chicken trying to peck with half a beak. Wait! That metaphor didn't make sense. Oh, who cares. Maybe this splint *is* a little tight. I agree with Fred, we need to return to the temple and investigate further.

Yes, the UK should quit complaining since they've been paying under the price of almost every other country in the world (bar the US) since the modular series was launched. Australia has been paying an insane GBP140-166 for the modular series for the last two years, so you won't be getting much sympathy from most countries I suspect. I agree it is a mental shock to jump by 40 percent however I do look forward to this review. Yays for brick town talk to review it first

Really? Tell us more. Do you have any occult inside information that might help us in our current plight? Is there anything we should be doing (or not doing) to improve our chances of survival, like make a charm from garlic bulbs or cut off Sheldon's testicles and wear them as a necklace? Are there any secret code words or phrases of power that we can use in moments of emergency to defend ourselves? I am truly interested I guess the driver or someone with mechanical experience should try and start the bus up. Not me! I can tell you how to hand-stitch some fur cushions from demon pelts as decorative throw-cushions, however.

I don't think shamelessly stealing is the problem - it's what you do with it Ie, being interesting over originality. I think Avatar would have suffered if Sigourney Weaver hadn't been in the cast. She was the only character that seemed more rounded and human - three-dimensional, if you will - than anyone else on screen. (It may be unAustralian not to praise Sam Worthington but he looked constipated and most of his acting fell into the stare/ squint/ smile school.) Yes, Avatar was genuinely visually impressive, but it's not the kind of movie where I'd be racing back into cinemas to sit through again for its amazing plot, engrossing twists-and-turns, or brilliant acting. I'd much rather sit through another effects-heavy 'political' sci-fi movie such as District 9, which also had all of the things I listed above (plus a sense of humour ).

I don't know about EB specifically. I tend to assume fan communities overestimate their importance, especially as Siegfried says, the task of running a profitable multibillion dollar global business is different from, say, giving Star Wars AFOLs 12 different unique figs in every set for under $US20 Apart from the 'market research' type questionnaires (Do you like Brickjournal? Do you like the Architecture sets?), I do think that discussion threads and reviews do have some influence, either explicitly (Front sometimes says he reports feedback about Bionicle parts) or indirectly on other issues which tend to recur. For example, I wonder if LEGO stopped using stickers across multiple parts (like in the 2006 6210 Sailbarge) because their focus groups of 8 year old play testers hated applying them or because their was a fairly consisent body of grumbling from AFOL communities? (On the other hand maybe it was a natural evolution and designers themselves realised it was a hideous idea?) I suspect we'll never get a really clear answer. In the end, the only feedback that really matters to LEGO are the sales figures.

Thanks for fixin' me up, Siegourney! Let's play spot the American tourists Oh, I know. It's easy! You crazy people are all fixated on knives Seriously, if you think waving around a little blade is going to stop a demon from chewing you in half and spitting you out, you're all delusional. I'd like to know if there is any chance of getting off this island via the bus/ ferry, but I don't hold high hopes for our chances. Failing that, we really should locate Jack's 'other half' and see if he found anything useful before he was bifurcated.

Amazing video! Thanks for sharing! It's so great to see these sets in action and in a much more finalised shape

New member sonicstarlight kicks off their EB career with a bang by posting this beautiful CC-standard rendition of 10193 Medieval Market Village: Click on the picture above to view this beautiful work, including a great jukebox and tabletop football/ soccer game!

OMG para-gliding! I'd be too terrified. Just call me Svertiginouselte. But have fun!

I think this review is way too harsh! This was one of my faves of the City Jan/ Feb releases - classically styled plane, useful pieces (large doors and even 2 2x2 black windows!) and a clever but brilliantly simple attachment system for the pontoons! It kicks the mail plane and most other small planes of the last few years right out of the water! The quality of yellow seemed better than last year, too.

I can't say I'm loving the colour mix of red-brown, dark bley and light bley, especially with the bright red and green I could have lived with losing the red-brown. One of the advantages of the older style 2-thick, 5-wide castle wall pieces was that to connect them, you had to add structural reinforcement to get them to connect (like slopes at the bottom or top, or plates). The new standalone panel pieces don't have that additional connection to reinforce the structure.

Happy birthday! Have an amazing day! Woo for Aquarians!

What is this, Count Dooku's Solar Sailer after he's fallen on hard times?

I remember suggesting this very scene to you when I did my 7685 review last year Good to see it finally happened 12 months later - clearly the gestation cycle of bulldozers is different to humans. *backs away from the Walrus Keeper*

Excellent! Once we know how many scorpions are in the bus, we can safely climb in when we know we have eliminated them. Scorpions are just big bugs, really, so squishing them seems to be the best option. We need a rolled up newspaper, a shovel, or someone wearing sensible boots - *stares at Samantha* - to squash them as they come out of the bus. It's like whack-a-mole, but with venom! I wonder how we lure the scorpions out of the bus? Maybe we can get some of Jack's entrails out here as bait? And when they jump, we'll be here to squish 'em? Does anyone here have any special skills in the whacking department?

I love all those crazy diagrammatic black-and-white tiles! I don't think I'd ever seen those before Some of them remind me of baseplate layouts for minifigs, if minifigs made layouts out of baseplates! Here's another favourite of mine - just an amazing piece with a multitude of uses, from the architectural to the botanical (as crazy tree roots). I am amazed people don't use more of these in conjunction with their regular arch counterparts to do circular motifs - so I was pleased to see this type of design appear in the Neptune Carrier!: