LEGO

[thesameguy]

KMART TOWER!

[drew]

Right? I've always, and will always know it as Sears.

[SportWagon]

While those are relatively vertical compared to times past, those lights are staggered more than the Lego model, and the housing comes forward at the bottom. Not to mention the fairing.

[Rare White Ape]

And it's not quite the exact same shade of blue…

[drew]

[M4FFU]

Damn, Drew..... :O

[SportWagon]

Aerodynamics are important. Even on a LEGO racing car.

Why does :angry: look more mad than :mad: ?

[drew]

Just ordered parts for a DIY TIE fighter.

Store(s) has/have it for $140-150. Fuck that.

I built it in LDRAW from the build instructions, made a BOM for it, and got all the bits from 4 stores for $68. ($6 of which was just the pilot minifig....)

I wonder if I can repeat this for one of the UCS ships (really eyeballing the shuttle, that thing is all sorts of bad ass, but $500-600 is ass-stretching).

[Mr Wonder]

For some of the UCS sets it works out cheaper, but it really depends on what you're building. I looked at bricklinking the UCS star destroyer. There are a lot of parts unique to that set, particularly the grey wheels for the three main engines which are currently going for around £45 each. The two shield generators on top of the bridge come in at £70 each. That's nearly £275 (the whole set retailed for £250) and you've only got to get another 2999 other parts. Forget the Falcon.
That said there are only a few rare parts in the shuttle, the rarest of which is around £3-8 and you need ten of them. It might actually be doable.

[Drachen596]

Had to buy some Legos for my niece for a really late christmas present. she was very specific and insistent that they be boy legos.

why boy legos? according to her it is because they have all the cool stuff like sharks and alligators in them. so i got her one of the 3 in 1 lego creator sets thats a dragon but can be a scorpion or a snake as well.