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Pyroclastic posted:That's pretty much the only way these days. They have 'bump codes' on the bottom rear of the packaging, but they're different for every batch and can be difficult to see, let alone read ("Is that just a tool mark or a bump? Is it a low area in the crimper or a bump?" "Fold or bump?" "Strange reflection or bump?"). Must look odd fondling the packets for that on minifig you really want illcendiary posted:This was my dream set as a kid. Some of my earliest memories of life (I'm guessing I was around 3 or so) were walking around the KB Toys, looking at this set mostly, thinking the monkey was pretty cool. Jut fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Jan 5, 2012 |
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Good! Now get to work Johnson, I want a Homeworld fleet on my desk by five.
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God all these pictures of old sets I used to have makes me want to start building them again. I really need to grab the two huge tubs of LEGO bricks out of my parents' basement... and start organizing them. I don't even know where to START organizing them though without dropping a few hundred bucks on storage containers. I had that medium-sized space police jail ship, the gas station, the pirate jail... so many memories. My favorite old set was actually the police boat.  I used that boat to make so many cool things. I'd make flying boat spaceships. There was also a red passenger air plane that I remember having a mini ground crew with it, but I can't find a picture of it. Frozen Peach fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jan 5, 2012 |
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Jan 5, 2012 17:59
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the method I posed a link to a couple of pages ago has a nice sorting method that organises the blocks into 'stacks' reducing the amount of storage containers you need
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illcendiary posted:This was my dream set as a kid. Some of my earliest memories of life (I'm guessing I was around 3 or so) were walking around the KB Toys, looking at this set mostly, thinking the monkey was pretty cool. You could easily get the 1989 version used for 120$ + shipping. Considering the MSRP back in '89 was 110$ and the 2002 version sells for 180$ it's not that bad of a deal. You could also probably build it piecemeal for pretty cheap. You'd probably have to spend 40$ on specialized parts, but if you have the minfigs to man it you're good to go. It's not a complex build and you can get the instructions online.
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Jut posted:Must look odd fondling the packets for that on minifig you really want. It's funny when we have them in the store and there's a bunch of people standing around feeling up the packages.
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Just catching up with this thread and reading about the general girl discussion throughout the lines. I have a seven year old girl that loves Lego. It started with a police station and then the mini fig packs, on to Harry Potter and her new love is Ninjago. For Christmas Santa brought her the Fire Temple and Diagon Alley to go along with her Hogwarts Castle. We rushed to put the Fire Temple together and off she went to play. She asked me to play with her a few days later and she had all of her girl minifigs setup in the temple with swords and poo poo guarding it from the skeletons. It was heartwarming. A few days after Christmas the newest Lego catalog showed up that had the Friends stuff in it, and she thought they looked cool but was disappointed that the figures weren't the same that she was used to.
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Nadesico posted:Just catching up with this thread and reading about the general girl discussion throughout the lines. I have a seven year old girl that loves Lego. It started with a police station and then the mini fig packs, on to Harry Potter and her new love is Ninjago. For Christmas Santa brought her the Fire Temple and Diagon Alley to go along with her Hogwarts Castle. We rushed to put the Fire Temple together and off she went to play. She asked me to play with her a few days later and she had all of her girl minifigs setup in the temple with swords and poo poo guarding it from the skeletons. It was heartwarming. This owns.  I really have no problem with the Friends line, and after actually seeing how well designed the sets actually are I'm much more positive about the idea... but god those minidoll figs are awful. Badly proportioned, can't action-pose them as easily, and it just doesn't fit with the blocky look and feel of LEGO. I'm all for making minifigs more girly and including more customizations to them to fit a more "barbie" style audience, but would it really be that hard to just make "dress" leg and chest pieces and tons of different hair styles (and since the new hairs fit on the old head, that obviously isn't a problem). Why do they have to ruin such an iconic aspect of LEGO? I'm even okay with the idea of making the body/chest pieces actually have curves... just keep them all compatible with the regular minifigs.
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This is likely a stupid question, but how accurate is the Bricklink 'this set is made out of' lists? I've got a chunk or few of a Modular Green Grocer (Grab Bag purchase at the local lego store quite a while ago) but not the entire set. I've been building the modulars and they're quite nifty, and was thinking of picking up bits and pieces to build one. If i order what Bricklink says I need that I don't have, it'll be complete, yes?
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I thought LDD had all the pieces? Seems it doesn't have 43713 which I've used for a MOC 
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cstine posted:This is likely a stupid question, but how accurate is the Bricklink 'this set is made out of' lists? I've got a chunk or few of a Modular Green Grocer (Grab Bag purchase at the local lego store quite a while ago) but not the entire set. I've been building the modulars and they're quite nifty, and was thinking of picking up bits and pieces to build one. Generally it is fairly accurate for older sets, the newer the set the chance there is still slight errors. you can click the change log at the top right corner to see what has been modified on it. the spare parts though can be innacurate but they are 'spare'
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Ok so I kinda have my first MOC. It's nothing special. I can't take credit really for the small ships because I saw the idea elsewhere. I recreated my MOC in LDD thinking I could have full control to get a nice colour scheme happening but LDD doesn't let you change colours much so it was pretty much a waste of time.  The front antenna bend forward to imitate some heavy guns or something.
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Ingram, use LDD Extended mode, it's what i use to get the colours on pieces that normally don't supoort em. it also has all the pieces, including the one you want! Me, earlier in thread posted:LDD&LDD Extended mode EDIT// It's how i did the colouring in this biplane thing, wich is motly finished for now  head on view rearview, showing the gear compartiment and a bit of the dashboard/cockpit.Also, functional landing gear! AzMiLion fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Jan 5, 2012 |
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I added the ThemeAccess=LDDExtended bit and that piece isn't there as well as restricted colour. Hmmm. E: Ah poo poo didn't realise I had to pick LDD Extended from the menu lol. Ingram fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Jan 5, 2012 |
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Ingram posted:I added the ThemeAccess=LDDExtended bit and that piece isn't there as well as restricted colour.  Peeron says its this bit. as does LDD. you need to be in the extended theme to view em, go to view->new themes->LDD Extended.
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Ok bit of colour but I'm not really happy with it. Just learning really.
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I'm a couple pages late for the "post your favorite childhood set" discussion, but I wanted to share this bad dude: That was the only set I never cannibalized for parts as a kid. The way the rockets out on the struts were mounted "backwards" (with the big hole pointing forward) impressed me so much that I started mounting all my rockets that way on all my little MOC space fighters. I gave all my Lego away when I was 12, but within a year of collecting again as an adult, I bought that set and still have it together. For whatever reason it's the perfect badass swooshable midsize space fighter. I can't think of how I would even improve it as an MOC. My first Lego were either hand-me-downs or some kind of bucket of bricks. I had those bricks with eyes and mouths printed on them, which by age 9 or so embarrassed me so much that I nerved myself up and threw them away. The first actual set I remember getting was one of these:   Memories.
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Sockser posted:AboveAndBeyond posted:The thing I remember about these boats was that they were so heavily advertised about being able to float. You better believe there were a few sink adventures vs some spacemen I am 99% sure this is the boat I had and it's one of the earliest sets I remember having as a kid. I absolutely played with this in the bathtub a LOT. Also today I bought the Creator 3-in-1 DINOSAUR set. Which lets me make one of three loving DINOSAURS. Forget the new dinosaur line, I wanted this big fucker dinosaur instead. It came with quite a few pieces I had never seen before, particularly the movable joints. I also really dig this dark red color, since I don't think I had any bricks this color. I've built the t-rex and will do the other two later on, but it was a fun build although kind of short. I really loved the way the t-rex's mouth was done, it was a really clever method of getting those teeth in there. GidgetNomates fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jan 5, 2012 |
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Every time I read this thread talk about minifigs it sounds like the people would prefer Lego handle them like Megablocks does.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Every time I read this thread talk about minifigs it sounds like the people would prefer Lego handle them like Megablocks does. Megablock figures are the only good thing about them. Even then, a good Megablock fig looks like a poorly painted 40k model.
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A good Lego shopping today. We were out looking for series 6 minifigs as there has been some sightings of them at super-Walmarts. No minifigs, but they were discounting a bunch of sets and we picked up a bunch of the little Creator and Lego Racer sets for $2.90 apiece. Then we headed to the Lego store to fill up my free PAB box now that the crowds have died down. I much prefer this box over the cups, a drat sight easier to cram completely full due to it's square shape. Not the best selection of parts but I got a load of 1x4 flat brown tiles and 1x4 log bricks. Tempted to head back to Walmart and grab more of these creator sets now. Digital War fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Jan 6, 2012 |
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CADPAT posted:You could easily get the 1989 version used for 120$ + shipping. Considering the MSRP back in '89 was 110$ and the 2002 version sells for 180$ it's not that bad of a deal. Hmm, this is tempting. I wonder why I expected all the sets to be $300+. $120 for a childhood dream is pennies IMO. Is there a reason the 2002 version is more expensive? Just that the bricks are less aged, I'm guessing... When you say building piecemeal, do you mean buying pieces off of Bricklink itself?
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Ingram posted:Ok bit of colour but I'm not really happy with it. Just learning really. Now that you've got Universe Mode going, try and rebuild the same craft, but sideways like this:  It'll be a good exercise that should open up some new thought processes/possibilities for you, and you might end up with something you like more.
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The new X-Wing comes with a Porkins minifig! Swooshing that mother straight into the Lego pile. http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/X-Wing-S..._StarWars_PR_UK
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^^^They gotta get their mileage out of those molds you know. I have to say I think that new piece for the droid's head is MUCH more interesting to me than anything else in that set. InfinEight fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jan 6, 2012 |
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I want that Y-Wing and the TIE Fighter so bad but they're just too loving expensive.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I want that Y-Wing and the TIE Fighter so bad but they're just too loving expensive. Where can I see prices on these sets? I don't own any Lego Star Wars, but maybe I'll spring for an X-Wing.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Star-Wars-ByTheme?_requestid=2099049 Whoops, silly me. I assumed they weren't up on the official Lego store page yet. $60 is a bit much but maybe I'll do it. Speaking of which, has anyone seen Series 6 minifigs in (US) stores yet?
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Finished my first MOC in four years. Pretty satisfied with the results. Gallery of it here.
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Welp I finally went ahead and created a BrickLink account for myself. My first purchase? My very first set: Goddamn that thing was awesome. Looking at other peoples' favourite / first sets I must be in the minority of having preferred town over space. Now that I'm older I realise how awesome some of the old Space Police, Ice Planet and Blacktron sets really were, and because my childhood collection is at my parents' house in another country, it gives me the perfect excuse to start collecting all the cool old space sets I missed out on as a child. My wallet's going to hate me.
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This is the first thing I've ever made with a plan in my head of what it looked like - I always just built things when I was younger. I like it.  e: tweaked the wings a little and I think it looks better 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Star-Wars-ByTheme?_requestid=2099049 $55 for that TIE fighter? It only looks like it has some small changes from the $20 one that came out a few years ago. Glad they finally came out with a grey set instead of the blue it used to be, though. And wasn't the old Y-Wing $30? Goddamn Lucas.
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Kazy posted:$55 for that TIE fighter? It only looks like it has some small changes from the $20 one that came out a few years ago. Glad they finally came out with a grey set instead of the blue it used to be, though. I've got the old TIE, and that new one is almost completely different from it. Different wings, different wing struts, more better figs, and a better cockpit too! It looks much better than mine
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Sockser posted:Without the pin to hold it in place that thing toes not sit at all. i promise you it doesn't. we use the same piece in the Harbor set to make the crane http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Harbor-4645
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