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Disappointing but not really surprising. At least they resisted the urge just to double it and make it $500 I will be very interested to see where the Tower Bridge falls in the pricing range. If they make that more than $400 then I know LEGO really has gone off the deep end.

Don't you people read? I just said at the top of the page to discuss wishlists in the other thread! *grrrr*

Why would you say those two options were designed and costed? We only ever saw line drawing sketches in the poll topic. And those contained bits of existing sets or sketches from the unreleased summer wave, so there was a fair amount of recycling going on. It doesn't really make logical sense if LEGO gave an option of A, B and C, and A was the clear winner, and then they subsequently released B and C as 'consolation' releases two years after that. What's the point of a poll if they are just going to release all the sets anyway? I think they'd go back to the drawing board and try to improve on their initial concepts.

Please keep this thread focussed on the actual 2010 sets. If you want to speculate/ suggest on future lines, you can do so here: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=39266

Went to Bondi Junction at lunch today, no luck.

Thanks for this very detailed review, WhiteFang. It's very interesting how everyone interprets these figs slightly differently, and picks up on different things. For example, it never occured to me until I read your review that the 2x2 tile ticket that the disco dude is holding is actually a 12" LP! For myself, I think the biggest issue remains the incomplete leg printing, although I believe that generally the sharpness and lack of colour blur for torsos, faces and special items is much better than standard figs. I am one of those who finds the Series 1 figs slightly boring, I much prefer their brighter and crazier Series 2 counterparts. They seem to have much more personality somehow than the blank-faced dummy, the bored looking nurse, the fairly standard looking diver and the shrouded ninja. I agree that these seem to represent mini-themes (and that the weightlifter is actually a strongman) - maybe you need some pics of all the sub-groups together

Very interesting question! I've been doing my own streamlining recently since I've really got no more space to add stuff without getting rid of something first - otherwise I'd just end up completely paralysed in a sea of storage boxes. In some ways losing and starting over would make some things simple for me. I never use old grays and hardly ever old browns and I have a few boxes of old Castle/ Harry Potter parts in those shades that I wouldn't mind seeing the back of (mainly from early Bricklink purchases and when I first started coming out of my dark ages I bought a lot of Potter sets for parts which I mixed up with everything - I don't really have the will or time to restore many of them). Since I was very inconsistent about keeping boxes/ parts separate, I'd take the opportunity to buy again the pre-colour change sets that have long been dispersed but which I now have a fondness for. So, getting rid of lots of boxes of mixed parts I'll never have time to go through? One point for the earthquake! Secondly, at various points I've bought a lot of multiples when sets are cheap and I've thought 'Wouldn't it be cool if I combined 2 of x and made a super-x!' or whatever. Now, unless they were particularly spectacular for parts, I don't think I'd bother. Again, this is espdcially true for Castle sets (late KK2 and Fantasy). I'd rather have 1 nice copy of each to build as display models rather than take up room for projects which I never attempted and lost interest in. That's another point in favour of the earthquake! In the last few years I've become much more interested in the history of LEGO - although this was always true to an extent - so instead of restocking lots of the more useless recent sets, I'd go through with my trusty Collector's Guide and pick up all the sets I think are deserving classics, like some of the old Town houses, some Classic Space sets, and so on. A third point for the earthquake! On the downside, I'd never be able to get certain MISB modular houses or other sets at the price I paid for them (like half price Arkham Asylums), so a fair amount of budget would be chewed up that way. Also it would be a pain and practically impossible to recreate pretty extensive Bricklink purchases from the last few years (especially when you buy parts cheap from a set and then they disappear and increase in scarcity and price on BL). So, two points against the earthquake. Looks like the earthquake just wins However I have been clearing out the recent dross I bought (like some of the City stuff and Mars Mission) and replacing it with classic sets in any case - so the earthquake might only speed up my own process and help out with the old pre-colour change mixed assortments. It's probably heretical to many, but I don't mind cherrypicking the bits of sets I like and selling the rest off, or selling off sets even at a bit of a loss. I figure I still have the 'use-value' of having built and played with the set a few times and would rather have the space than store something I have no fondness for. And of course, if you sell off items that have increased in value, it all balances out in the end. Great topic!

Sounds like the catalogue was right and they did do a restock of Series 1 Anyone who can get me some zombies or cheerleaders, PM me Too bad Myer Sydney didn't stock anything new apart from Hero Factory before the buy 2 get 1 free offer expired.

Lovely work, Matn! (I was always a huge fan of your Burrow set too, although I don't know if I ever commented.)

Woo! With any luck that means some stores will have them by mid-September

As Harry Potter excitement begins to mount, magenta magician Matn bring us a MOC of marvellous magnetism - Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop! Click here to view and discuss this creation in our LEGO Licensed forum.

No polls! Since nobody is supposed to know about it yet, I don't want any publicity outside this thread. Thanks!

I've edit the thread title to make this clearer. Please be more specific when posting threads. Thanks!

Wow, great work! The Tumbler is a difficult shape to capture with any accuracy, and as KielDaMan's pics showed, LEGO got the shape right but the detail was pretty gappy. A minifig scaled Tumbler is even more impressive in capturing the angular madness of the original with a limited parts palette! Thanks for sharing, Pellaeon!

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Aaah, I see Thanks for clearing that up

What on earth are you babbling about? And please do not type in large font.

Has Myer restocked with new stuff yet? I'm wondering if there's anything good before the Buy 2 Get One Free sale ends Sundee.

Look at the second pic

Thanks for the new pics! The dark red/ nougat colour scheme looks good - I was going to try a modular building using that scheme one day, now I won't have to You know what I'm most excited about? Plain nougat 1x1s! Having done a large-scale building in that colour with the bricks available, it's really hard to resolve certain issues with only the 1x1 clip brick in that shade. Yays for 1x1s! I wish the skate pond was trans medium-blue but from these pics it looks like trans light blue. Yuks!

What I am not so keen on is the bitsy mix of colours. For example, we know that the 1 x 2 x 6 arch exists in nougat - it appears in the Burrow set - why not use it around the door rather than bley and go for a full-coloured gingerbread ground floor? The horse cart also looks not so great in light bley. And the small stand looks like a less elegant version of the one from MMV.

Matn is wise I shared this tidbit with you all because I was excited and I have said as much as I can (and I know very little anyway). So don't eat my brains and make me regret it!