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Posted: 16 January 2022 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Succumbed to the call of Lego again, this time for the FRIENDS apartments kit.

Halfway in. Mostly a fun build, tho there are some disappointments. Big one is Joey’s porcelain dog falling victim to Lego’s policy of recycling parts. The stylized greyhound becomes a German shepherd! My quest begins.

Disappointed, too, with the hallway that separates the apartments. Barely a sketch of the actual set. I need to find a way to flesh it out.

Much amused that the figures include Janice.

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Posted: 17 January 2022 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

ARGH! A major missing part. A call to Lego provides salvation—but shipping time is about two weeks.
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Posted: 17 January 2022 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

See, I just get annoyed when I think a Lego doesn’t actually represent
something in the correct way.

JB decides he will redesign the set.
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Posted: 20 January 2022 at 11:50am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Continuing with the build, and for the last several afternoons slipping into the bottomless pit that is Monica’s apartment. SO much detail!!

(Fan Rant: the kit acknowledges the late-in-the-game episode that addressed the door at the back of the apartment. Having lived in New York apartments I’d assumed it was access to the service stairs, typical in older buildings, but the show runners decided to reveal it was a closet in which super-tidy Monica dumped her junk. A real FIBBER MAGEE affair that presented a threat of burial to anyone who opened the door without the proper caution. Didn’t care much for that reveal.)

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Posted: 27 January 2022 at 3:20am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

JB, have you seen these? New printings of the Trigon Empire
(apologies if I have asked this before, I forget things
like that now).

Volume 4 is to be released later this year

Trigon Empire on
Amazon
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Posted: 27 January 2022 at 7:22am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Funko Pop are making vinyl figures that look like gingerbread cookies!

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There were loads of these just before Christmas - seemed to be getting in
on the Christmas special train
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Well, they are cute as heck, tho Captain America looks like some European coloring I’ve seen where his costume sports a great deal of bare skin!
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Most of these are additions to my addiction 


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