Sorry for the lack of updates – my personal life has gotten in the way again. I hope to catch up this weekend and queue up episodes for while I’m away at Convergence next week.
Now is also a good time for folks to help support this site with the purchase of a Buy-Me-Mizer figure – now until July 10th every figure ordered will get a free random BrickArms weapon from my personal stash.
Hmm, pimping the Buy-Me-Mizer — making a large over-seas purchase, Chris? ;-P
Um. Maybe. Stupid UK only Collectible Minfigures…
I feel a bit guilty about pimping the ‘Mizer, but June sales were astoundingly crappy. Not too shocking as I do most of my advertising in person at conventions…and I haven’t been able to do any this year. So…yeah…the LEGO budget is pretty bare right now, and LEGO keeps making things I simply have to own.
I agree with you on the minifigures. I know that London is hosting the 2012 Olympic Games, and that’s the obvious reason why they are a U.K. exclusive; because LEGO knows people will spend any amount of money on something they can’t get elsewhere and that’s part of their sinister marketing scheme. It seems rather unfair, but I hope that LEGO bombs on this promotion.
I don’t think LEGO is necessarily evil in motive for doing a UK exclusive – it’s not like they’re making a dime from the secondary sales market. But I wish you could order them from shop.lego.com or something in any outside region. They’d certainly make money that way while still maintaining the “specialness” of the local event.
How many different Brickarms gun are there?
There are dozens of them – from m-16s to bazookas – there’s a link to their site on the buy me mizer page at the moment – I suggest you check them out.
I used to have a deal with Brickarms where I could stock the ‘mizer with their weapons, but when they went big I no longer had access to that. A shame, really, as they were some of the most popular accessories.
Ok I’ll look later
i looked at the pics of your room where you keep all your Legos. Has it gotten any more lego bricks since you took those pics of it?