Gadge 4,294 Posted April 12, 2015 Very very cool... cant justify getting one though really.... or can i? http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/TIE-Fighter-75095?fromListing=listing 1 Kyrios Mirage reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hobojebus 11,341 Posted April 12, 2015 I just got a lego tie defender for £66 that's kinda my upper limit, looking for a stand to sit it on atm. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tipperary 2,370 Posted April 12, 2015 I kinda wish they'd come up with a better ball solution than stepping, nowhere near as good as the UCS Slave I tbh. Now THAT was worth waiting ten years. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kyrios Mirage 588 Posted April 13, 2015 I still want the ISD... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightshrike 1,810 Posted April 13, 2015 Never understood the point of legos. Plastic models look way better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conandoodle 1,817 Posted April 13, 2015 Never understood the point of legos. Plastic models look way better. I nearly fell out of my chair with shock .. and I'm sitting on the floor. We can never be friends if you keep using language like that! 7 Vigil, Hobojebus, Verlaine and 4 others reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightshrike 1,810 Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) Never understood the point of legos. Plastic models look way better. I nearly fell out of my chair with shock .. and I'm sitting on the floor. We can never be friends if you keep using language like that! What is the point though? I mean, if you buy one of these things, intended to be a TIE fighter, it takes the creativity out of it, you're just building a poor replica of a TIE fighter with thousands of little bricks. So, why bother? It's a serious question. I want to know why people enjoy it so much, because lots of people obviously do, and pay lots of money for legos. Edited April 13, 2015 by Nightshrike Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conandoodle 1,817 Posted April 13, 2015 Maybe it is different for everyone .. but why do people love to sit and paint miniatures for hours on end? Why do people play golf? Why the heck would anyone want to go an sit in a sauna/bath/onsen for hours at a time? Shopping? Massages? With the exception of the painting example, I am bored senseless engaging in these other activities. Activities which might otherwise relax another fella/fellette.Lego on the other hand, total relaxation. Laying on the rug, bricks spread everywhere and the sound of them being shuffled is comparable to sitting on a pristine beach at sunset to a soundtrack of waves softly breaking. Upon completion, you have a small sense of accomplishment too. In addition to this. I have quite a bit of SW Lego. I would build a kit, put it on display for a month or so, build another, change displays, so on and so forth. It is amazing how many people comment on them. It is, surprisingly, a great conversation point.But then again, maybe I'm just a Lego fanboy. All of my keys have Lego keyrings which I then attach to a Lego board inside my house. I've yet to lose a key. So in my world .. Lego is functional, aesthetically pleasing and provides an emotional element too. 5 SpikeSpiegel, rilesman, Robin Graves and 2 others reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gadge 4,294 Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) I totally agree with the above Lego (and its Lego not legos btw, the Lego group hate people calling it legos.. its like calling a group of sheep 'sheeps') is just really good fun. My wife and I have Lego as a shared hobby and its incredibly satisfying building kits up, we currently have an eight foot by four foot 'brickville' city on our dining table (hence xwing has been played on the floor since christmas!) It's fun being able to build a set as intended but also being able to make a custom/unique set then when you're done break it up, pack it up and put it away only to build something different a few weeks later. Lego as a company also have a brilliant culture, excellent customer service (as good as FFG) and most importantly ... if you retain the boxs and instuctions (you dont need to keep them unbuilt) nearly ALL lego appreciates in value. everything they do is in effect a limited edition, usually on sale for no longer than a year and highly collectable (millions of adult lego fans over the world). For example if you bought the 'town hall' set in 2013 for GBP £120 its now worth close to £300 GBP even if you already have built it and reboxed it! If its mint and you just collect them for the sake of it and dont build (i dont understand doing that) then its worth closer to £500. Thats incredible appreciation on a 'toy' over two years! Its one of the few hobbies where you can sell off your collection if you get bored and come out with more than you put in. Its also a hobby that clearly understands it's adult following. If you have not watch 'the lego movie' (its got a few star wars references in it and a lot of batman) as the humour in that clearly has an undertone meant for adults in a 'childrens' film (much like the way the simpsons works) Edit: I always thought a lego starship game could be fun where 'upgrades' are built onto the ship and any damage taken can be physically removed from it! Edited April 13, 2015 by Gadge 3 rilesman, Hobojebus and Nightshrike reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Robin Graves 6,054 Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) I'm calling the pieces "Legos" (contraction of lego and blocks) Bloody pural being the same as the singular...who tought that was a good idea? Wonder how many shepards got into trouble because of that...What were we talking about again? Oh yeah, Lego. As a kid I would sometime use lego to build other toys that i'd seen in the stores. Closest I've been to building SW lego is turning one of the planes form that 80's city airport into a lambda class shuttle. Lego is a lot of fun, but not sure if it's relaxing... for that I remember to many instances of trying to pry bricks apart that just-won't-come-off and hunting trough your bit box for that one round red transparant piece, so you can put some stoplights on the car that you are building, and all you come across are a bunch of red squares and green ones... Sadly I don't have the space and money to get into lego again, but i did pick me up some Monster Hunters, Chima and Ninjago (after they stopped being a beyblades ripoff.) Currently I'm trying not give in to the purple/pink/teal festival that is the Lego Elves line.... Edited April 13, 2015 by Robin Graves Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gadge 4,294 Posted April 13, 2015 The trick is to seperate by colour (like the first illustration in every instructon book shows) and these days they include a 'brick seperator' tool that is frankly brilliant in most larger sets. Lego is short for 'Play Well' in danish and the Lego company ask people to either refer to them as Lego (with a capital) or Lego Bricks as they just hate the term 'legos'. As a fan of what they do i respect their wish for people to get their name right. I mean you would be annoyed if you were Tom Jones and everyone called you Tim Jone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Robin Graves 6,054 Posted April 13, 2015 I just call him, "That curly haired guy from Las Vegas" Good thing GW doest moan about fans pronoucing warhammer fourtythousand as fortykay... GW rep: "It's Games Workshop, dammit! Not Gee-dubya! Say my name!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hobojebus 11,341 Posted April 13, 2015 I am tempted by the ISD but I don't know where I'd display it. Different people are entertained by different things, I can't stand watching sports I find it dull as watching grass grow but I don't put down people that enjoy it. Some of us are old farts that predate star wars lego, we couldn't have them when we were kids though I'm sure most of us built as close as we could, now we're old we have the cash so why not get a cool ship you can build with your kids or partner. 1 Gadge reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gadge 4,294 Posted April 13, 2015 I just call him, "That curly haired guy from Las Vegas" Good thing GW doest moan about fans pronoucing warhammer fourtythousand as fortykay... GW rep: "It's Games Workshop, dammit! Not Gee-dubya! Say my name!" Rick Priestley never liked forty kay, he always called it 'warty forty'. 1 Robin Graves reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightshrike 1,810 Posted April 13, 2015 I am tempted by the ISD but I don't know where I'd display it. Different people are entertained by different things, I can't stand watching sports I find it dull as watching grass grow but I don't put down people that enjoy it. Some of us are old farts that predate star wars lego, we couldn't have them when we were kids though I'm sure most of us built as close as we could, now we're old we have the cash so why not get a cool ship you can build with your kids or partner. I don't think saying that I don't get it puts anybody down. Plus, I was genuinely curious to see what entertainment value you got out of it, even if that can be hard to quantify with things you enjoy sometimes. I appreciate the effort. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
treybert 893 Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) In my mind, there are 2 grades of legos: toys and displays (Ultimate Collector Series). Toy sets are fairly simplistic and relatively easy to build. Display sets are designed with adults in mind (ages 16+ on the box) and have a significantly higher design quality. The tricks the display sets do with bricks is fantastic. I think a lot of my enjoyment comes from putting together a masterpiece. I know that even if I had an unlimited number of bricks, I could never design a model like that. Take the Red Five set vs the X-wing set for example. They are both very similar in construction, but the Red Five version just doesn't look like a toy. It's also 3 times the pieces for 3 times the price, but very worthy of being a display piece. What lego does do though is retire their sets. They currently sell a toy version of the ISD, but at one point in time they also made the higher end version in 2002. I only started collecting these sets recently and paid a hefty premium to pick up the Lambda. Sadly, I just can't justify the premium on the ISD. But I have hopes they'll release a similar in the upcoming years, episode 7 and all. Original price: $300 Ebay Price now: >$1000 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-Imperial-Star-Destroyer-10030-100-complete-with-box-and-instructions-/301588185881?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item46380e8319 Here is a full list of SW Ultimate Collector series http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Ultimate_Collector%27s_Series Edited April 13, 2015 by treybert 4 Nightshrike, Conandoodle, Punning Pundit and 1 other reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightshrike 1,810 Posted April 13, 2015 Ok, I'll admit that the Star Destroyer is impressive! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Piratefly 313 Posted April 13, 2015 Never understood the point of legos. Plastic models look way better. I think it's cool because most of us built our own Star Wars ships out of Legos as kids. We didn't have these cool kits. They were put together by random pieces of all colors, never really looked that good but our imaginations didn't let that bother us. I think Legos were the ultimate toy for anyone with a good imagination... anything was possible. 4 Nightshrike, Verlaine, Vigil and 1 other reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Piratefly 313 Posted April 13, 2015 Two years ago this was only $300. Executor 1 Nightshrike reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Robin Graves 6,054 Posted April 13, 2015 Hey it's in scale! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gadge 4,294 Posted April 13, 2015 Thats exactly what i mean. I honestly dont mind splashing out on Lego with the wife as i know that as long as i keep the bits, flatpack the boxs and keep the instructions its probably making me more money than my current accounts interest level! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Robin Graves 6,054 Posted April 13, 2015 Ok the ISD is impressive... But It's still no USS Flagg! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kyrios Mirage 588 Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) Or Missouri: 4'6" tall, 3' beam, and 24'3" long Edit: No, she's not mine. I wish... Edited April 13, 2015 by Kyrios Mirage 4 Verlaine, Robin Graves, Gadge and 1 other reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightshrike 1,810 Posted April 13, 2015 Holy cow! That's insane! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Piratefly 313 Posted April 14, 2015 I want to play with that in my swimming pool. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
