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my thoughts on star wars: my older brother was born in 1977, i was born in 1980, and my little brother came in 1983, the same years the star wars movies came out. we watched the 3 originals countless times growing up and had the lunchboxes, toys, backpacks, halloween costumes, pajamas, etc. it was fun to pretend to be our heroes from the movies and go on adventures and wonder what kind of awesome adventures the “real” luke, han & chewie had after the movies ended. 30 years later, disney buys star wars and announces a new trilogy starring our old heroes. great! this will be so cool! i go see the force awakens, and find out han solo was a deadbeat dad and has gone back to being a lowlife smuggler even when a new evil power is out terrorizing the galaxy again. he dies, and leia ignores chewie. there’s another easily defeated death star. ok, i guess i can get past all that stuff i didn’t like. looks like this new star wars is still going to be overall pretty good. seeing the falcon zooming around again was extremely cool. i like the new characters so far, i like the look of kylo ren. the last jedi comes out. i see it opening night. luke skywalker tosses his lightsaber over his shoulder. what the hell. he’s a grumpy hermit. he trashed his xwing. he ditched his friends, his family, and even his droids. he’s a jerk to this nice girl wanting to learn about the force. he tried to kill his nephew because he thought maybe he might turn evil!? what the freakin crap is this!? i hate this! they have ruined his character! i would be able to get past all the other ridiculous garbage in this movie such as the moronic phone call between hux and poe, the amateur green screen mary poppins in space, chewie the now useless pet dog eating a cgi owl, pod racing horses on a planet with only human looking aliens, a fake salt covered hoth planet...agggh so much crap in one film! oh yeah they also find time to kill off admiral akbar for no reason, and not kill off leia even though carrie fischer was already dead, and got rid of kylo rens helmet, so he can look weaker. and phasma! ha i forgot how useless she was in both movies! oh man what a flaming pile of garbage. and luke just dissapears while sitting on a rock! boooooooooo!

Oops I did it again... For $175/local sale I bought a medium-large collection because I can't refuse Lego for under 10 cents on the dollar The lot will need washing, sorting, assembling... Fortunately a lot of the sets are 50-75% assembled to make pulling sets easier. I've identified 38 sets (not including smalls) at around $2400 retail and I still have to ID a bunch of Ninjago sets w/o instructions. There's a nice (ugh) Mega Bloks Halo collection that should bring $150+ (Pelican is $60 alone + 15-20 other assembled sets). Since I'm still working through a 115-pound buy from a year ago, I've probably bitten off more than I can chew. If anyone is looking for a project PM me 4996 Beach House 6206 TIE Interceptor 6209 Slave 1 6210 Jabba's Sail Barge 6211 Imperial Star Destroyer 7093 Skeleton Tower 7180 B-Wing 7237 Police Station 7259 ARC-170 Starfighter 7261 Clone Turbo Tank 7621 Indiana Jones and the Lost Tomb 7622 Indiana Jones - Race for the Stolen Treasure 7657 AT-ST 7658 Y-wing Fighter 7659 Imperial Landing Craft 7660 Naboo N-1 Starfighter and Vulture Droid 7661 Jedi Starfighter with Hyperdrive Booster Ring 7662 MTT 7663 Sith Infiltrator 7665 Republic Cruiser 7669 Aniken Starfighter 7671 AT-AP Walker 7673 MagnaGuard Starfighter 7674 V-19 Torrent 7675 AT-TE 7676 Republic Dropship 7678 Droid Gunship 7679 Republic Fighter Tank 7692 Mars Mission Recon Dropship 7697 Mars Mission MT-51 Claw Tank Ambush 7738 Coast Guard Helicopter 7748 Corporate Alliance Tank Droid 7781 The Batmobile: Two-Face's Escape 7893 Passenger Plane 8016 Hyena Droid Bomber 8018 AAT 8036 Seperatist Shutle 8117 Exo-Force Storm Lasher

Load a cart full of flat screens and roll it out the store without paying. The police will actually come to you. Much more efficient than smooshing bags.

My single biggest complaint is that whoever decided to completely butcher Poe Dameron's character in TLJ should be taken out back and kicked in the head. How can you take the 'hero' of TFA and make him a completely untrusted loose cannon in TLJ? That makes no sense.... not only did they not tell him about the escape plan because the purple haired woman decided she didn't trust him (except that she's Leia's buddy from years ago and Leia trusted Poe more than any of the other rebel pilots) but there are thousands of people evacuating and he doesn't notice or figure it out? GMAFB. It's inconsistencies like this that kill TLJ for me (Poe was my biggest peeve, but there are a pile more)... It was Star Wars, there was lots to enjoy, but tell a consistent story or GTFO and go direct some crappy made-for-TV movies.

Well, I guess you could say that it did set the tone for the movie.

How is that a shitty thing to say? He simply stated they had time to fix (Id use the word address) the Leia situation. I didn't read anything else into it. I'm, not sure how you did. Another thing... Whether you enjoyed the film or not, Did anyone think the Mary Poppins scene was... awesome? Good? Totally plausible? Needed to be kept in? Didn't need to be adjusted?

Oh, the casino subplot was for character development. I thought it was 40 minutes of sjw garbage ?

I just learned the birthday boy (the head/face) is modeled after the Lego CMF Lead Designer's son. Cute little green glasses!

No that was a metphor for them throwing away the Star wars we loved and replacing it with some sad husk which I hope is cancelled for its own sake.

Yes! Can't wait for Slave Leia, 2.0, cougar style.

An overzealous cs rep can force open an A-Z claim but you should be able to easily win it . I would politely reply that the window for returning or tracking the order has passed and there isn’t much that you can do about it . Any subsequent messages should be marked as no reply needed .

Definitely. Opened the box yesterday and all the bags are there. This is the one which we will build.?

Policeman is the flattest of the bunch, and then his tile is obvious. If going for the flatter bags I think you will come across the cat the most. I usually buy about 40+ of them and do the bump codes with smooshing. I usually make 1 mistake, but this time I was 17 for 17. Bump codes are reliable within a box, but I swear I had at least one instance where I got packs from the same store, same seal code, different bump codes and got the same figure, and had I smooshed it would have been obvious.

I bow before them how they were able to throw extra 500 pieces without changing much of the overall appearance with making this set 10% smaller than it's predecessor.

Seriously? Just on top of my head: Scene 1: Rey is doing awesome lightsaber moves at Achtoo. Enter Luke with comment: "you did more in (insert time) than any of my other pupils". Scene 2: catch up with Poe, Leia etc. "Wtf, FO regrouped just (insert time) after we blew up DS3???? We better call Rey". Scene 3 (or somewhere in 1st half of movie): Flashback of what happened after Rey gave Luke his lightsaber

Oh, I think its well done too. I was just quoting the movie.

Stopped by my local Walmart on a whim this morning. Found this: Managed to find this:

This one just had more than its share of bad moments without enough good ones to balance them out. I think one reason why this will not live on in people's hearts is there was no great action or iconic moments that demand repeat viewings. We barely see any space dogfighting but get more time on slow moving bombers or escape pods. The fight with the red guards was kind of cool but seemed anti-climactic coming after Snoke bought it and the fan in me wondered why neither of them are using any force powers in that fight. The Crait showdown was lame with again hardly any dogfighting but just the Falcon leading Ties away and Rose sabotaging Finn's long drive to nowhere. As cool as the Luke-Kylo sequence is if you appreciate the idea of it, it's still over fast with very little fighting. More time was spent getting Luke from the cave to outside then in actual combat. The less sais about the casino horses the better. Far inferior to the pod race. There is nothing in here that ranks with the trench run, either of the Luke-Vader fights from Empire or Jedi, no big space battle or into the Death Star scenes like in Jedi, Phantom Menace or Revenge, and no ground battle worthy of Empire or Attack of the Clones. My then 6 year old son would watch the Geonosis battle every weekend for a year. There's nothing here I NEED to see again.

Not to be disrespectful to Carrie Fischer, but the Mary Poppins scene should have never happened and she should have just died when thrown into space. Let's face it, Harrison Ford/Han Solo was always the best of the bunch and when he died, my interest in watching the older characters diminished. I enjoyed Luke's last battle and really could care less about Leia. Time to move on to the new characters in my opinion.

They had time to fix the whole Princess Leia thing if they really wanted. You want to talk about putting the next guy in a bind, Rian did it by not taking care of her when he could have.

Yeah, that's just a clickbait story. No chance in hell they recast her.

That was just a fans' petition. I am curious how many of those who signed the petition like ep8

Once a whiner...always a whiner. He was cool for about 5 minutes at the beginning of The Return of the Jedi. That's it. LOL.

In the beginning, with CMF Series 1, the back of the blind packs were labeled with bar codes that were unique to each figure. These were used at the factory to sort the correct distribution of figures into each shipping box. However, this made it very easy for Brick Pickers to quickly I.D. particularly sought out figures---which left poor Timmy and his parents/grandparents very unhappy. Finding a S1 cheerleader in the wild was almost impossible. To solve this, the Great Manufacturer switched to a system of putting small holes or dimples in the plastic that gets crimped when the package is sealed. These can also be read by machine to correctly sort each shipping box, but they are much harder to read by eye. To make matters more complicated, the GM also made the patterns specific to each facility (or region? or run? I can recall exactly). If one looks at the bottom edge of a sealed CMF pack with correct lighting, these dimples appear as 'bumps'. Bump codes were BP-er's attempt to decode the patterns much like the bar codes of old. But bump code sheets tend to be unreliable, as different runs have different codes. So, we now default to smooshing, using feel guides to isolate different figs. Which takes a bit longer, but can be a bit more fun. I find bump codes can still be useful when sorting a complete box at home. Once a particular fig is identified, all similar figs in the box will have the same bump code. HTH

Rian had complete freedom to change things in TLJ, he was not bound strictly by TFA. Blaming JJ for forcing anything on Rian/TLJ is just silly. So, whatever good or bad things in TLJ is Rian's responsibility

I liked the Force Awakens, it had seriously stupid plot holes, but in general I liked the new characters and Han was great as always. I hated TLJ and it wasn't because of plotholes or doing exactly what fans didn't want or any of those things, it was just a really bad movie and I don't mean a bad Star Wars movie, it was just a bad movie full stop. Poor story, poor characters and worse than poor characters, Johnson managed to make us care less about characters who we either loved for generations or had been pleasantly surprised to like after TFA. The biggest crime though in these sequels lies at the feet of Disney and Lucasfilm, TFA and TLJ might as well not be in the same universe. They should have had the storyline for the 3 movies set in stone before filming ever began on the first one and if they had been smart they'd have done a LOTRs and filmed all three back to back.

Huh, I have met literally 1 person IRL who didn't like the movie. What I have seen is a lot of people online devoting their time/energy to a movie they didn't like.

I have yet to meet a single person IRL that has anything good to say about TLJ. And no one is fuming. They're just sad.

Isn't putting unanswered questions the idea of cliffhanger? Afterall, it was movie 1 of 3. Not sure how the ending of 7 forced the next director to answer quickly. Rian could have dragged the answers to the end of TLJ. Heck he could have punted those questions to movie 9 and had the characters went on a different tangent in 8. Obviously he picked and chose what to ignore and continue from TFA and he seemed eager to go against some fans' expectations. The decision was Rian's to make.

Sorry, the bucks stop at the director's chair. Rian could have easily put the tag "3 months/ 1 year ago" when we caught up with Rey & Luke, right after scene with Poe & the bombers. Rian could have easily put a time jump but he chose not to.

He was easier than the girl for me. Once you feel the balloon, feel for a 1x1 tile. She had hair with ponies and the pointy birthday hat.

What's with the life preserver?

sold 2 series 18 policemen for $33 each and 27 ultimate batmobile polybags for $200. got the polys last week at tru. a few weeks ago i found 9 of them at a different tru and the cashier was hassling me about buying them all. this was about 2 days before they officially announced they were closing all stores. i sold those in lots of 3 for $28 each pretty quickly. when i found these 27 the other day i planned on selling them the same way, in lots of 3, but i figured i’d try out a huge lot first to see if it would sell. buyer is in singapore.

Ive bought a few of the $40 and lower sets for great discounts, typically 40-60% off. I rarely have problems moving these size sets for retail price or higher shortly after retirement. Lots of people will pay $20 more for a $20 set without concern, and it seems like the general public is unaware that this line is done already. I can see quite a few parents buying these for birthdays, Christmas, etc., especially the Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman and Batgirl sets, which are the main ones I scooped up. They will always be popular. Lashina and Bumblebee not so much.

if i was a kid getting one of these “blind bags” i would be extremely disappointed if i got the lame policeman figure. we’re doing children a favor by removing it from the box for them! i’ve been able to disarm 2 boxes and make them safe for the kids already, and i hope to find more before they ruin a child’s day.

The agenda was to make Luke look like a weird old hermit. They succeeded by alienating millions of fans. And why again is Disney handing over the reigns to this idiot?

I watched the “Director and the Jedi” documentary last night from the TLJ bonus disc. They probably spent millions on just the sea cow scene. What a waste...

Haven't posted in here for a while, don't' want people to think I've given up on selling or anything, just too busy to report about it most of the time. Had a nice finish to March and an excellent start to April. Over the past week or two: 4954 Model Town House 100% w/ Box - $250 Cash sale, Buy In $70 40158 Pirates Chess Set NISB - $80 EBay, Buy in $53 ..... omg someone actually bought one?! Sweetest victory! 21303 Wall-E NISB - $145 EBay, Buy in $55 8781 Castle of Morcia 100% No Manual - $115 EBay, Buy in $56.50 75134 Galactic Empire Battle Pack NISB - $28 EBay, Buy in $15 60074 Bulldozer NISB - $70 EBay, Buy in $45 7419 Dragon Fortress 100% - $190 EBay, Buy in $45

Then I am looking forward to the next UCS ISD

I missed the Assembly Square Frenzy last week, but I guess Luck compensated with this Lot I got today....

I went to the world champion golf playoffs! Very cool! Allot of snacks, and I got a ticket for box seats.

I know I have at least two. Now I have more than Terry. [emoji15]

I watched the documentary, "Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee" and I'll never think of hammocks the same way ever again, totally ruined.

4:36pm PST June 21, 2013.