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Benny's Space ship comes with stickers, instead of printed bricks? If this is the case, I am not buying the set at all. I was going to buy it, but I really hate stickers. I am sure I can buy space kitty on bricklink.

Lego is a non necessity, so really I don't care if others want to invest in it, even if it means I cannot easily obtain a set I might want. There is no Lego set I want so badly that I will buy it much above original retail. I think it is silly to buy any set that is still in production, for more than original retail. One should just exercise patience, and buy when it becomes available. I think learning patience is also a good lesson for kids. Personally, I would rather buy stock than Lego, if the purpose is pure investment. With both there are some buys that will go WAY up, and some that will not. I guess with Lego there is less chance of the investment completely loosing value, but it also takes up more space than a stock certificate. Lego is harder to move when I relocate. It is more likely to get damaged or stolen from me. It is also very hard for me to have a Lego set that I do not want to rip open for some piece or another. I am baffled that anyone would pay the prices now being paid for some sets. Some of these sets are not even that rare. If a very similar thing can be built out of pieces that are commonly available, for much cheaper, why spend a thousand dollars on a set that sold only a few years ago for under 200? I am even more baffled that anyone would pay $63 for the stickers that go with the Grand Carousel. But then I hate stickers. Stickers are also very easy to forge in high quality. I would much rather use the metalic gold bricks and tiles to get a shiny look. But maybe someone else would be baffled that I was willing to pay over 80 cents each for chrome silver 1x2 tiles.

I really have no idea how many individual pieces I have, but I know I have over a few hundred gallons of pieces based on how many containers it takes to store the pieces. Yet, no matter how many pieces I have, it seems that there is always some piece that I think I need more of, to build whatever I am now wanting to build.

This is pretty awesome. I really like that you were able to create something this cool, using mostly inexpensive pieces (i.e. pieces that have been recently in the Lego Store PAB bins).

I rarely buy sets, but I have bought more than usual this year. I want Benny's Space Ship, and Emmet's Constructo-o-mech. I want all the versions of Uni-Kitty. I like enough of the pieces in the sets to just buy the sets and not pay the high prices on BL just for the Uni-Kitty versions. I am going to buy the Santa's Workshop set for my Dad. He works as a Santa, and has enjoyed the other Santa themed sets I have given him. I might buy one for myself as well. I am considering London Bridge, just because it has such an excellent mix of useful pieces.

I used Iron on patch material, when I made my own sails. It worked well, and had the needed stiffness. It felt very similar to the Lego sails. But I did not apply heat to actually activate the iron on feature. I am guessing that too much heat could cause an issue. But that does prevent the fabric from unraveling. Have you looked at outdoor materials at the fabric store. Feel the material they use on outdoor furniture. It has that same feel (well the cheaper stuff does). I also notice this material does not unravel as easily as other denim. It has some sort of coating.

I actually prefer the Friends scale for the princesses. One thing I did not like about the Duplo princesses was their shape was fat, and the animated versions of these princesses are not supposed to be fat. Minifig scale would do the same thing. I would like to see the classic Disney characters (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, etc ...) done in minifig scale, but with the oversized heads. This might be why Fabuland scale worked well for Mickey, Fabuland has the oversized heads.

I hate stickers. I rarely use them. My dislike of stickers is not limited to Lego, I dislike them on anything I might have a need to wash at some point, meaning most toys.

1x2 plate Really I am not sure, but I suspect this would be the piece I most use. But maybe I use more technic pins. I use a lot of technnic bricks, headlight bricks, stud jumpers, 1x2 tiles, 1x2 plates.

I am pretty certain they did not have any themes when I was a child. They had red and white bricks, windows, doors and wheels.

No. I did at one time, but it was a waste of space and labor (each time I rearranged stuff or moved). I know that a few sets have boxes that became quite valuable, but there are other things that gain value that take up less space and less labor. So I rarely keep boxes. I do sometimes, if the box is especially cool. Lego Boxes are just so oversized, way too much box for the contents. This irritates me a lot.

I would want to mix greys. The difference in the greys will make it more realistic looking.

I liked them many years ago when I had a shortage of pieces, and getting individual pieces was not so easy, and more expensive (no PAB bins at Lego stores, and very limited service pack selections from Lego). But now I very much dislike them. I dislike pre-molded base plates even more than I do burps. I used to like pre-molded base plates for the same reason I liked burps. I could get a look with many fewer pieces.

Initially I had no interest in these sets, except where I saw other uses for the pieces they contained. But recently I decided that the Leaning Tower of Pisa was about the right size and look to work into a version of the Disneyland Small World I plan to build. Then I started looking to see if other sets in this series might also fit well into that. Really, I think the DL Small World really has only a face to most of the architecture elements worked into that design. Then inside the Small World, the structures are much smaller. But until I get back to DL to look at this closer, I am not really sure. (Trip to DL is booked for October).

I have spent some time packing these cups in the Lego Store. But usually I give up the quest of stuffing as much as I can into a cup, just to get out of the Lego Store, due to the noise and masses of people in the area of the PAB bins. I also don't like having to sort when I get the cups home. Sometimes spending a bit more money is worth the time I can save. So I have gotten away from stuffing for maximum value, and now I do the following: - No more than two different pieces in any single cup, and the two pieces have to be easily separated using some sort of filter (such as a home made piece strainer I use to separate dots from larger pieces). - Two smaller cups is better than one large cup, unless the large cup contains all the same piece (or two pieces easily separated). I actually prefer the small cups for use in sorting while building, as they are not as easy to knock over. - I can never have enough of any tiny piece that easily fills up that space between larger pieces. Someday I really might have a use for thousands of dots in colors I now do not have a need for. - It is ok to take the time to separate flowers from the middle thing, as long as the Lego store is not crowded and noisy. - Any piece that is easy to separate, can be connected for placement in the container. This means I can quickly and easily take the pieces apart with out the use of any tools except the official lego separator. - Use holiday boxes for larger pieces, break above rules for connecting and mixing when filling these boxes due to not being able to just get more of them when I want them. - Fly SW (2 bags fly free) when traveling to Disney World or DisneyLand. The PAB wall at the Lego Imagination Center always has a much better selection than the one near where I live.