We’ll be taking a break to get some sleep and will resume our coverage when we land in our respective homes tomorrow. Or the next night. We still have Chima, City, Creator, Hero Factory, and Duplo to cover.
Thank you for your patience and your continued support.
A few days ago, our hosting company changed their policy on how outgoing emails from the server are handled, which resulted in me scrambling to debug the issue and implement a fix. For those of you not receiving the activation emails to complete registration, please use the contact us form and let us know and we will resend the activations. Or if you’ve tried to send us an email through said contact us page and you don’t think it went through, please try again.
Back in the day when I first started collecting Star Wars action figures, Brian’s Toys was one of the few well known stores for Star Wars collectibles. My impression at the time was that they were one of the few specializing in vintage items, which wasn’t really my cup of tea. My memory may be a bit fuzzy on that one. Anyways, fast forward a few years later and I’m actually glad to see that they are still around and going strong considering how many other stores I’ve seen shutter their doors due to the economy. With that being said, FBTB would like to officially welcome Brian’s Toys as a site sponsor! It’s a bit of a full circle moment for me. So if you take a look over at the right hand side bar, you’ll see an animated gif linking you directly to their site. Brian’s Toys sells new toys as well as vintage collectibles from your childhood. So hop on over and check them out!
That right there is our new logo, and if I did things correctly, you should be seeing it along with a brand new header up top. The threat of a redesign is now a reality and this is just the beginning. I revealed the new look late last week in this thread and went into the reasoning behind the changes in detail.
Ideally, you’d be using the latest version of Firefox/Safari/Chrome for your web surfing needs. The header takes advantage of the latest bleeding edge technologies of HTML5 and CSS3, but if you’re still using an older browser, like Firefox 10, or something less capable, like any flavor of IE, you should still be able to see almost everything.
The search function in the header is disabled for now, but the one over there –> on the right should still be usable. I’ll be cleaning up quite a bit in the next few days so bear with us while we make the transition.
Nick and I (and when I say Nick and I, I mean mostly, Nick) have been debugging and troubleshooting a WordPress plugin, hence the reason you’re seeing so many test posts. We’ve nearly got it back to working order. I appreciate everyone’s patience during all this.
Comments? Questions? Like it? Hate it? I’d love to hear your feedback. You can drop us a line at our contact page or leave a comment on the forum thread.
still testing. thank you for your patience.
This is our last Bothies category to be voted on: Builder of the Year. We’ve compiled all of our contest winners from 2011 into one poll for the community to vote for who they think is the builder of the year. For your consideration, I’ve included thumbnails below of the 2011 contest winners. There’s only a week to cast your ballot so chop chop! Get voting!
The Annual From Bricks To Bothans Awards polls are coming to a close. As we begin to make preparations to present the winners to you in a series of articles next month you still have an opportunity for your choices to be heard! Time is running out, so vote for the years worst and stay tuned for the final phase of the 2011 Bothies:
The Annual From Bricks To Bothans Awards continue to roll onward and as the gears grind behind the scenes, you still have opportunities for you choices to be heard! You voted for the best of the year and now, for fun, lets vote for the worst:
These polls will be open until Tuesday November 29th and soon after we’ll be announcing all of the winners in a featured set of articles starting in December, so stay tuned.
Just a reminder that today is the last day to vote in the Bothies for your favorite IP sets and minifigures. I’ll be pulling the polls off of the forum later tonight around midnight to keep the results a secret. We have a few more categories to vote in which should make their debut tomorrow. You can watch this space starting in December for our feature articles revealing who won the coveted golden droid statuette.
This is the final week to cast your votes for the Bothies, or more formally known as our Annual FBTB Awards feature. This will be a good chance to see how some of your favorite sets and minifigs from 2011 stack up with everyone else’s opinion. Head on over to our publicly accessible forum to vote for your favorites! Here’s a complete list of categories you can vote on:
Set of the Year:
Minifig of the Year:
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