2011 new stuff general discussion

Post by **Rev. Sylvanus** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:17 pm

RunsWithLegos wrote:I just realized how awesome the a naval battle between the peach pirat ship and the yellow one would be.

I'm not even sure the peaches will be able to keep their ship afloat...

Peach PotC, how depressing.

Post by **morganm** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:16 pm

This is great stuff! Head crabs! PoTC! (yeah, I liked the movies... what?!) Kingdoms stuff looks sweet (goats!)

I'm no peach bigot unlike you racist knuckle-draggers

The aliens look pretty generic though; I liked how they were doing the aliens for Space Police.

Post by **Zahru II** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:41 pm

Well, those were multifaceted from various depths of the galaxy. These are from one species, and thus more organized, I guess.

Post by **Bragallot** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:52 pm

Kingdoms? I didn't see anything except for the last Kingdom line with the lion and dragon knight stuff, or did I look over the pics somehow?

Post by **Zahru II** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:55 pm

Yeah, we'll be getting 3 sets: A blacksmith's which is awesome, a royal carriage, which is okay, and a farmstead which is GLORIOUS.

Post by **Hoboman** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:16 pm

Bragallot wrote: Pirates just became peach... A part of me died. Next we'll have a peach castle line and I'll refuse to buy their crap any longer.

This just seems overly hyper-dramatic.
When I can get lots of Yellow heads quite cheep, I just do not care if they are peach to begin with. Maybe the key here is buy some yellow hands and heads and have them in your parts box for new "peach" sets. Rather then give up buying new sets. Just a thought.

Bragallot wrote:Kingdoms?

Look at this image: I understand these are not the best, but it is better then nothing.

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7885 ... 436367.jpg

Post by **Zahru II** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:24 pm

I don't know; personally I dislike peach because it reminds me of all the counterfeit building block stuff I had, and those figs were peach. I guess it's a fixation. But yes, stack up with head and hands and problem's solved, as Hoboman suggests.

Post by **OneEye589** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:39 pm

Sets from movies are always peaches. It's not a surprise Pirates of the Caribbean is peach.

Post by **aoffan23** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:34 pm

Oh my God new podracers YES!

Also, I'm absolutely buying one of those Creator lighthouses. Or maybe two.

Post by **Swordsalmon** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:05 am

I'm a bit dissapointed with how the Alien Conquest theme is looking, but I have to buy a Lighthouse set.

Post by **Bragallot** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 5:28 am

Yeah of course Hoboman, but the truth is so far I've gotten enough sets for bricks and I must push myself to use some more of them in MOCs first so that's why I've already stopped buying sets for a long time. Even for bricks I prefer Bricklink 'cos you can buy what you want more specifically. The last sets I got were 12 of the small fantasy era sets with the armour racks and the crown guard 'cos I needed the figs for my city watch and the extra armour for my knights and thought it was more profitable than buying everything separate. The bricks I got in those sets have also proven very useful

Besides I have such a huge list of requirements I can't let anything go to waste, I do have a lot of spare yellow hands but heads are mostly all used, if I'm not going to use the peach parts, I might as well buy everything separate or just whole yellows from other lines, right?

Of peaches I dislike the prints even more than the colours though, there's hardly any face prints than I like.

The néw new Kingdom sets are great for scenery and since Fantasy Era the figs are also top notch though. The 'dragon prison' one looks like a total revival of one of the sets of KK I. Those battle packs are interesting. I've taken interest in the new dragon knights, they actually look good enough to serve as a generic army and their army builder set is just about ideal. The Lions not so much not only because their face prints aren't that great but there's so many Lion factions already, they could work with my Bloodguard or I could use them to copy FISH!!!'s paladins but neither is really necessary.

Post by **Zahru II** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:18 am

Bragallot wrote:...but neither is really necessary.

This. I think people reach a point of expansion when they simply have enough and don't need more. I bought a squadful of both kingdoms guys simply to have them if needed, but I don't think I'll need to get more of them. Although the blacksmith set is a definite must, even multiple copies of it... and my holy grail would be the farmstead, but I'm afraid due to its price-range it'll fall into the same never-have zone as the Medieval Market Village did back in the day.

But I think I'm done with good-guy stuff for a while, I really want to my other forces a boost in troops.

Post by **Bragallot** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:36 am

Your 'good guys' got 5 new elite squads likely to make up for the fact there's now an orc-undead alliance so I guess you're right. Anyway what I meant was rather I'm happy with my Bloodguard and Sir Pablo covert faction's sizes so they don't really need expending (my Kerrat dudes are already badly outnumbered enough as they are) but there's always room for new factions to feed the story (read: the grinder)

The Falx are also not quite finished yet.

Post by RJ » Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:47 am

I've just noticed how each alien has a different moulded head. Great, I can see another set of Saturday Morning Lego TV shows coming out.

Post by **Hoboman** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 1:10 pm

Zahru II wrote:
This. I think people reach a point of expansion when they simply have enough and don't need more.

I can see this. I know this happened to me in other hobbies like WH40k for example. I just got to the point where I had no desire to buy more.

On the subject of Peach vs Yellow: I would also point out you could sell off or trade the peach and get more yellow. I am sure there are people out there who want more peach.