quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: Jason:
The only unique pieces on this set are the two 1/2 canopy pieces that form the cockpit.
THe guns and the blue glowy engine part look pretty unique to me (though it's been years since I acrually had any Legos, so I could be in error).
Thanks Snay and Boh for the tips on the generix Legos. Toys R Us (Who, incidentally will no longer sell toys at all next year in favor of baby crap and video games) only had the giant lego sets.
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If, on the other hand, you're speaking of this gun, you'll notice it is made of regular Lego parts. He's used the "binoculars" to connect "generic tool."
The "blue glowy engine part" is a repainted hose. It's been around for a few years (at the minimum, from Lego's first Falcon release).
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Cute... realistic weapons for your Legos...
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quote:Originally posted by Captain Boh: Isn't Babys R Us a seperate store?
I read that they were folded back into the main company in a scaleback move.
No temp positions are being offered for the Christmas season here in south Florida it seems: a friend of mine has temped there for several years now during the season but not this year.
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You know untill i visited that link to the lego site and saw people selling lego bricks and buying pieces like they were gold bars, i actually had a little faith in the intelligence of the population. Oh my that is possibly the saddest thing i have ever seen
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quote:I recall when building things from Lego required some imagination: now it's just a really poor model kit at best with so many custom pieces unique to only that particular overpriced lego set.
My feelings exactly. Most of my Lego Sets date back to the late 70s to mid 80s. In those days, you could turn any model into anything else. Nowadays you buy, say, a helicopter and you get hardly any pieces you could use to build something different. As far as the Star Wars models are concerned, the best counter-example is the Star Destroyer #10030. Sure, it seems expensive, yet you get thousands of generic grey pieces which you can use to build anything from the BTTF DeLorean time machine to the Ent NX-01.
That's what I call a universally great model - no pun intended...
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