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12/23/08
However, I love the lighting, and the custom R2-D2, but mostly I just want to steal the Tauntaun. I know someone produced a custom version, but I don't think it was ever sold publicly, like the Brickforge cows and pigs.
12/23/08
12/24/08
Was the R2-D2 lighting your own design, or did you get stuff from Rob Hendrix? He's not the only person who's done custom lighting by a long shot, but so far he's the only one I know of who has tackled minifigs (aside from that abortive attept that The LEGO Company did with their own light-up-lightsaber minifigs...where you couldn't change the damn battery when it ran out).
And it's not that I don't like it. It's just that I find my eyes are distracted by the terraced look of the snow drifts, and I have a hard time seeing the actual curved shapes that they're representing. It's a personal choice, though, and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it (again, the LEGOLAND parks are full of that style of construction). The AT-ATs look great, though.
Anyways, Africa, you say? I could have sworn someone in either the US or Europe made a custom design, but I can't remember where I ran across it to find out if it was an actual different design, someone posting pics of one that they bought, or simply a bunch of us assuming the geographic location.
12/22/08
12/23/08
www.bricklink.com
The LEGO S@H pick-a-brick has a few advantages over Bricklink, but the prices are usually higher for basic stuff, and the selection is a lot more limited.
12/21/08
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12/23/08
That depends on whether you want LEGO quality or Megabloks good-enough-ity. LEGO bricks are manufactured primarily in Western Europe using molds milled by Germans and Swiss, while Megabloks are churned out in China using molds that are probably made there as well.
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12/23/08
I have actually seen better, but not by very many people. Specific to Star Wars, the only two that come to mind immediately are Matt Delanoy (the only thing I've seen posted here was the Planet Express building, but he's also done a friggen massive SW display that dwarfs this) and ACPin (assuming it's not from the period when he was making hybrid models using LEGO bricks to make scenery for Hasbro action figures).
12/21/08
12/23/08
Yes...well, there are several. Sorta. In the US, you can get a free subscription to the LEGO Club magazine, and they'll send you four per year. Alternately, you can pay $40 for a year-long Brickmaster subscription, and you'll get four magazines each year, but they'll have a higher page count, and they'll each ship with an exclusive set (two of the last three were an Indiana Jones jeep w/ minifig, and a microscale Clone Turbo Tank, and the next upcoming set is supposed to be a nanoscale Venator).
12/23/08
Whoops, forgot to mention that outside of the US (and maybe Canadia, dunno for sure), the Brickmaster subscription is _not_ available, and the magazine (if it is available at all) will have different content than the US versions. Specifically, all the MOC photos will be from the local region, so you'll only see US kids with their creations in the US magazine.
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To be fair, that appears to be the second minifig-scale Falcon from 2000, which is far from being actual minifig scale. From the top view, it's roughly 1/3 the size of the UCS Falcon. Also, if he started this three years ago, they probably hadn't quite started desinging the UCS version.
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12/23/08
You know what noone tells you about cooking with the Dark Side? The food is really good!
12/21/08