It used to suck real bad but now they got quite a few decent parts up:
http://us.factory.lego.com/pab/
....I bought all the lamp posts though. It's weird, when they run out
of something they don't just put it up as "out of stock", they simply
remove it completely like it was never there in the first place...kind
of annoying.
Now that I've got my own house with multiple rooms I've setup one room
as a "Lego room". Basically about half the room is gonna be table,
the closet for storage of parts and then I'm also going to setup a
small desk with a computer for viewing Lego instructions and for
building finished models in LDraw (so you can make instructions for
your stuff) like nyah:
http://www.backwater-productions.net/_images/_Scraps/Render_Edabedabind.jpg
The table is going to be a giant 'L' shape and I want to construct it
out of smaller, inter-locking tables...but I haven't yet figured out a
really good means of locking them together yet (gotta make some trips
to Home Depot and get creative). In the mean time I've been sorting
all the thousands upon thousands of Lego bricks I own. I used to just
sort everything by general color types, but there's just too many for
that to be practical anymore. So now I've got each color setup into
three bins, one for brick types, basically any plain, 1x1 or larger
brick. And then another for plates, again any 1x1 or larger plain
plate piece. And the last bin is for everything else. About 80% of
the current bins are plain plates and bricks so taking them out and
putting them in their own bins makes it a LOT easier to find parts.
I'm also creating specialty categories. Like for "decorated
elements", basically any Lego with a printed design on it or a Lego
that has a sticker on it. Part of the reason I want those separated
is because the designs get worn off real bad if you put them in with
the other Legos where they're being constantly tossed around in the
mix.
Anywho, it'll be a lot of fun to build a great big huge Lego city
again, especially since it's something we can do with teh munchkins. I
prefer Legos to regular model building, since you get to be a LOT moar
creative and can easily tear down, rebuild and redevelop any ****tion
you like. With regular model building, like with model trains, yer
pretty much just stuck with what ya got. Plus you can't really let
teh chillins play with regular models since they're pretty much just
for looking at.
--
Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog
Hatter Quotes
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"Don't ever **** with someone who has more creativity than you do."
"You're only one of the best if you're striving to become one of the
best."
"I didn't make reality, Sun****ne, I just verbally ***** slapped you
with it."
"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."
"Your Usenet blinders are my best friend."
"Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the **** up!"
"Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my
bad."
"There are clingy things in the grass...burrs 'n such...mmmm..."
"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."
"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"
"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."
"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."
"Reality is directly pro****tionate to how creative you are."
"People are pretty ****ing high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."
"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."
"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."
"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."
"Those who record history are those who control history."
"I am the living embodiment of hell itself in all its tormentive rage,
endless suffering, unfathomable pain and unending horror...but you
don't get sent to me...I come for you."
"Ideally in a fight I'd want a BGM-109A with a W80 250 kiloton
tactical thermonuclear fusion based war head."
"Tell me, would you describe yourself more as a process or a
function?"
"Apparently this group has got the market cornered on stupid.
Intelligence is down 137 points across the board and the forecast
indicates an increase in Webtv users."
"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )
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