{"id":525,"date":"2004-07-22T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/22\/laugh-or-cry\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:12:12","slug":"laugh-or-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/22\/laugh-or-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Laugh or Cry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1523\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/22\/laugh-or-cry\/4776-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/07\/4776-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"690,490\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HP pst_p03b&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1368815338&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"4776-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/07\/4776-1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1523 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/07\/4776-1-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/07\/4776-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/07\/4776-1.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Don&#8217;t know if I should laugh or cry at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickset.com\/search.aspx?Set=4776-1\">this<\/a>? It looks so much like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playmobil.com\/\">Playmobil<\/a>. You wonder what they&#8217;re thinking over there at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lego.com\/\">The LEGO Group<\/a>, sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lego.com\/eng\/fourplus\/products\/default.asp?id=5&amp;status=new\">this<\/a> bothers me. Why the hell would you name a set, exactly the same as <a href=\"http:\/\/guide.lugnet.com\/set\/6279\">the classic<\/a>? Makes no sense at all.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: I&#8217;ve come to really love the Duplo Castle sets. In 2006, LEGO stores were clearing out Duplo dragons&#8230; I ended up buying 3-4 of them in different colors, and made sort of a wizards vehicle with one, for a floating rock MOC.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=brickbuildr\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t know if I should laugh or cry at this? It looks so much like Playmobil. 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