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Tommy "roguefx" Williamson | August 8th, 2011 | LEGO Super Heroes, Marvel Comics, Off Topic

With Great Licensing Comes Great Responsibility

With the Comic Con announcement of the licensing of Marvel and DC there was a collective nerdgasm with LEGO and comic fans alike. There is so much potential with this it boggles the mind. Not only is there a positively vast library of reference material in the form of comic books, comic book movies are hot these days. It’s really too bad this didn’t happen a bit earlier because with this summer’s offering of Thor, Green Lantern and Captain America a lot of people (including myself) feel it was a bit of a missed opportunity.
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Tags: Captain America, Marvel

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Ace "onions" Kim | July 10th, 2011 | Off Topic

Anime Expo 2011

Just a fair warning, this post is completely off-topic, but since I used this site as my press credential to attend Anime Expo, I figure I should at least post about my experience there this year. So feel free to stop reading here.

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Tags: Anime Expo

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Ace "onions" Kim | January 1st, 2011 | Off Topic

Happy New Year!

Dear readers of FBTB,

Thanks for a wonderful year! Here’s looking to 2011! Happy new year!

Cheers!

Tags: Happy New Year

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Ace "onions" Kim | December 25th, 2010 | Off Topic

Merry Christmas To You

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone got something they wanted under the tree this year, or in their stocking, or wherever you find your gifts.

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Ace "onions" Kim | November 25th, 2010 | Off Topic

And finally…. Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Other than eating turkey, I know what I’ll be doing this weekend.

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Ryan "chief" Wood | October 20th, 2010 | LEGO, LEGO Star Wars, Off Topic

Best Year for Lego Star Wars?

There’s a great topic going on in the forum right now. We’ve had Lego Star Wars building sets and other products for nearly 12 years now. What do you think the best has been so far?

Join the discussion on the forum!

Tags: discussion, Forum

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Ryan "chief" Wood | October 13th, 2010 | MOC Spotlight, Off Topic

Precious Moments

Consider this dad’s heartstrings tugged. Flickr user Pedro Venzini snapped this shot of a father and son settings their weapons down and spending quality time together.

While I head off to play with my boys this would be a great time for you, dear Bothans, to check out more Star Wars Lego photography by Pedro!

Tags: LEGO, luke, moc, star wars, star wars lego, vader

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Ace "onions" Kim | September 26th, 2010 | LEGO Star Wars, Off Topic

Omnomnomnom

Mmmmmm.

via The Cupcake Blog.

Tags: cupcakes, food

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Ace "onions" Kim | June 13th, 2010 | Off Topic

And Now For Something Different…

Was cruising around the intertubes and ran across this comic. Gave me chuckle so I thought I’d share:

Tags: FoxTrot

Ace "onions" Kim | May 20th, 2010 | News, Off Topic

End of an Era: Star Tours Closing July 27

It’s the end of an era: the Star Tours ride is going to be closing its doors for good on July 27th at Disneyland and September 8th for Disney World. I remember going on Star Tours a long time ago when I first moved here to L.A. It was AWESOME. And every time after that whenever I went to Disneyland, I made sure it was the first ride we went on. The ride is being replaced with a Podracing ride which is just not epic enough in my opinion. I’m going to try and go one last time. Too bad LEGO didn’t make a Starspeeder 3000 set. Wouldn’t that have been awesome?

Anyways, if you’ve never been on it, you can enjoy it through the magic of Youtube. There’s a bunch of videos of the ride on there, one is embedded below.