JCC [LEGO IS AWESOME] It's like Christmas come early!!

So I got two Lego sets for Christmas and only built one of them. I have to wait until Spring Break to build the other one.

 

Yep.

Funny thing is, that Mutation Chamber is coming with a figure of a character voiced by Lewis Black.

 

Unfortunately, I had a bad experience with a seller on ebay, so I now avoid buying things from there if I can, so I stick to Amazon, Lego.com, or Jadlam. With Star Wars being popular though, I'm sure they'll do sets which I like in the future. (I mean, they've been doing them for about ten years, or so....)

 

My little brother turned 8 recently and just had his party, so he came home with a bunch of lego, one of which was Star Wars: The Old Republic Lego, which I didn't even know existed. Lego must really be looking forward to Episode 7 because they've started making Star Wars lego sets out of everything. "Boba Fett pod racer with Jar Jar Binks and Clone War Yoda Death Star action set!"

 

Don't forget, there's also Rebels, which is going to have some new Lego sets later in 2014.

 

Looks like most of the '14 lot is rereleases. The Star Destroyer is likely to be similar to the 2006 set, so I'll pass. Same with the B Wing, Snowspeeder. I can understand why LEGO does the rereleases, but for longtime fans like myself, it's a little tiresome.

I Are The Internets, which LEGO sets? I'm curious.

 

The one I built on Christmas Day was a little Star Wars speeder thingie. The bigger one is a Technic race car of sorts.

 

Lego Cuusoo announcement: Ghostbusters set approved.

http://www.brothers-brick.com/2014/01/30/lego-to-make-official-ghostbusters-set/



Just hope final model is as nice as the submitted prototype (looking at you, ugly DeLorean).

 

Has anyone built a licensed SW LEGO set like, say, Republic Cruiser or Imperial Shuttle, with the instructions using scratch pieces and purchased pieces from Bricklink instead of buying the actual set?

I'm curious because there are some sets like RC, the Wedge/X Wing, and the Jek Porkins/ X Wing set that I would love to have, but the proliferation of Qui-Gon Jinn and Pilot Luke minifigures is so incredibly annoying. I don't need or want numerous minifigs of the same person. At some point in the future I will probably purchase the pieces for those sets on Bricklink and build them without having to deal with the figs.

I can understand Qui-Gon being in Republic Cruiser, but he was already in several sets before it. Pilot Luke is the one that really aggravates me. How hard would it have been to let the 2 X Wing sets mentioned above have just the established pilots and their astromechs without throwing Luke in there? He's been in 2 Snowspeeder sets, 3 AT-AT sets, 2 prior X Wing sets, one of the Hoth base sets, and will no doubt be in the new Snowspeeder and AT-AT sets this year. That's too much.

 

I honestly just build the sets for the fun of it. I really could care less which characters are involved with the models.

 

True, Todd, but I think Pilot Luke is the one that's cropped up the most.

 

So anyone seeing The Lego Movie this weekend? It's getting surprisingly excellent reviews.

 

It doesn't open inNZ until April, dammit. Here's a great review... http://www.brothers-brick.com/2014/...h-for-all-lego-fans-especially-adults-review/

 

I love lego but boy does that movie look dumb (Yes I know it's a kids movie).

 

No.

 

Well I'm seeing it mainly because it's getting better reviews than any of the 9 best picture nominees of 2013.

 

I'm sad that Armond White can no longer give the film a rotten rating, thereby permanently cementing its status as an instant classic.

 

Is it really

 

Sadly yes.

 

I just got moist.

 

Why is that sad?

The Lego Movie was an incredibly well made, entertaining, and funny movie that really goes in some pretty cool directions.

 

I'm hopefully seeing it tomorrow!

 

Going to give most of my LEGO sets to the local science center either this week or next week. I'm only keeping several.