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booyaka said:
Finished the Technics Helicopter at the weekend with my 6 year old. Bloody impressive thing, loads of stuff to play with (tilting rotor blades, winch, cargo door opening, wheels up and down, rotor/tail rotor spinning etc)

Will get a picture up when he stops playing with it!
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I have this same set which I built over Christmas. Do your wheels lock down so that the helicopter can sit on them properly? I have a feeling that I've done something wrong along the way as mine kind of lock out but not properly and it's as if they're trying to spring shut a little bit.

Unfortunately the instructions don't make it easy to "troubleshoot" something like this because you don't really know what you're looking at until it is built. (if that makes sense) :D
 
anticonscience said:
How do they come up with some this stuff in the first place.
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The Lego gods are confusing to us, yet wonderful in their creations. :D

What impresses me to this day is the number of parts that can be applied in hundreds of different situations! They seem to come up with more uses all the time.

Oh Lego gods, who came up with shapes that are so perfect as to apply to hundreds of different scenarios but yet also work in combination with all the other shapes??

We bow to thee.
 
Wild West Wildstyle is now mine thanks to a smart feel in tesco's today. Was quite easy to identify her thanks to the sloped dress. Still need to figure out a way to attach her and others to the magnets though
 
quickshot89 said:
Noo, I use the proper display magnets like you used to get in the triple minifig kits. Will post a picture up later of my current boards
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I believe you misunderstand my point. :D But that's ok. I took your point out of context to suggest that "her and the others" were people that you've kidnapped and that you were, in fact, a mass murdering psycho! ;)
 
Cosmic182 said:
Does anyone know where you can buy a nice display case for minifigures? cant find anything :( I like the clear individual cases but cant find them in bulk anywhere :(
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I bought mine from ebay, was about £45 and holds prob 60 minifigs, will update this with a link if ebay ever decides to start working properly :rolleyes:
 
My wife picked up this last remaining bag of series 6 minifgure.
Our Tesco's never sold them, so no idea how this bag came to be in the clearance isle.

It was advertised at a premium of 5p, but luckily when it was put through the till, it was just 1p.

Cheapest piece of LEGO we'll ever buy.

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That XMen set looks brilliant, and I can see it easily hitting 10,000 supporters. But I think its far to big to make it to a Cuusoo set. They removed the building from the Ghost Busters set as they seem to like keeping the Cuusoo sets affordable, which is understandable. As it stands that XMen mansion is easily a £150+ set.

But its a really well developed set. I'd love to see it made, even just to reward the maker for their efforts.
 
Greeting Lego experts!!! I got a real quick question

I just got the lego millenium falcon 7965 set for my Birthday - woohoo!!! It's not the absolutely ridiculous ultimate collectors one, but still by far the most impressive lego set I've ever owned (and the first, since I was a kid)

Anyway, what I'm wondering is in this kit the pieces are split into numbered bags - I guess because it would take a long time to locate the specific pieces you need for each step if you had to look through the entire set... I don't really believe in just building the kit and then letting it sit and gather dust, so I'd expect to dismantle it again and re-build it in the future (that's the fun part afterall!!)

So anybody got any tips on what to do to make things easier in the future? I was thinking I could try to carefully mark the pieces with the original bag number in an out-of-sight location, but would that be stupid? I'd prefer not to have to work backwards through the instructions to take it apart and back into the bags.... What do you guys do with a model like this?
 
Grandmaster Fap! said:
Only thing i could think of that doesnt involve marking the pieces is taking the set apart in reverse putting the pieces in their corresponding bags.
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Hmm, you know perhaps the most obvious solution in this case is the right one :D

Now that I think about it - even if I were to mark the pieces, would it really help that much? I'd still have to sort through all of them next time before putting the kit together again to put them into piles... Which would only be slightly less of a pain than if I didn't bother marking them or putting them back in the bags
 
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