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My sister got me the V-Wing for Christmas. Its a decent little kit.
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I was going to make an impulse buy on the Black Pearl on Amazon but it's back up to $134.99 so I said "screw that!" Went and bought jacks boat off brick link. Sure it's coming from the Netherlands but I'm a patient person. Maybe if the Pearl goes back down in price I will pick it up. If anyone that has the Pearl could give me their opinion on it that would be appreciated too. The only other set I really have my eye on is the Millennium Falcon until the LOTR sets come out. It's good to have control over the Lego addition though I think it has taken ahold of my son.
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Which means it pretty much has control of you too, correct? Unless your son is somehow financing his own addiction 
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illcendiary posted:Which means it pretty much has control of you too, correct? Unless your son is somehow financing his own addiction Well I finance it for his birthday and Christmas. Like other gents in this thread working retail has the perks of getting the Lego sets when they go on clearance for cheap. 50 dollar sets marked down to 25 plus take another 50 percent off and my 10 percent discount works out to a lot of sets for the boy for the upcoming holidays. I think he is content that he has all my old sets plus the new ones I got him. The real thing he likes now is the ninjago spinners and the guys that go with it. He is waiting for that green ninja.
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Jan 20, 2012 02:47
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InfinEight posted:I did no such thing. I would have made you buy this. Why would you buy girl's toys?
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Jan 20, 2012 03:41
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tikan posted:Why would you buy girl's toys? I kinda have to agree, whether this post is sarcastic or not. I love Legos, and the whole "IT'S A KID'S TOY" thing can gently caress off but the idea of grown men buying sets clearly designed for little girls is just...weird to me.
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illcendiary posted:I kinda have to agree, whether this post is sarcastic or not. I love Legos, and the whole "IT'S A KID'S TOY" thing can gently caress off but the idea of grown men buying sets clearly designed for little girls is just...weird to me. I don't really care about any sets anymore, TBH. All I care about is what parts I get and what colors they come in. I like building sets, but mostly for nostalgia reasons. The whole point of buying any of it is to have more options to build with. Friends has the most new options, so that's what I'm buying.
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Jan 20, 2012 03:59
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Shuppiluliumas posted:I don't really care about any sets anymore, TBH. All I care about is what parts I get and what colors they come in. I like building sets, but mostly for nostalgia reasons. The whole point of buying any of it is to have more options to build with. Friends has the most new options, so that's what I'm buying. This is pretty much how I feel too. I love how any of the new sets look, but I don't have a strong desire to build and keep any of them as a set. I just wanna have as much variety in pieces as I possibly can, since you never know when they'll come in handy. Hell, I've bought a bunch of these:  without even knowing for sure what to use them in just because I think they're cool.
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Jan 20, 2012 04:15
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If Friends had regular minifigs, I'd be buying all of them, gently caress to your gender stereotypes. There are some nice new hairstyles and sweet new colors in those sets, not to mention those completely awesome roses. Hell I almost want to buy some anyway. I want to get those roses and make a little Tuxedo Mask figure.
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Jan 20, 2012 04:26
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InfinEight posted:Hell, I've bought a bunch of these: I got a bunch of those in a grab bag once. Really crazy. Travis343 posted:If Friends had regular minifigs, I'd be buying all of them, gently caress to your gender stereotypes. There are some nice new hairstyles and sweet new colors in those sets, not to mention those completely awesome roses. The little accessory bags are awesome. The best one is definitely the one that comes with the vet. You get a clipboard, baby bottle, stethoscope, otoscope, thermometer, syringe, ice pack, nurse hat, pen and spoon. I also learned recently that those accessory bags count as one part in the set parts counts.
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Jan 20, 2012 04:33
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Travis343 posted:If Friends had regular minifigs, I'd be buying all of them, gently caress to your gender stereotypes. There are some nice new hairstyles and sweet new colors in those sets, not to mention those completely awesome roses. Tuxedo Mask? Sounds about right.
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Jan 20, 2012 04:44
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One of my friends just did a thing: It's easy and you can do it at home! All you need is a piece of pneumatic tubing. 
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Jan 20, 2012 05:35
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Travis343 posted:If Friends had regular minifigs, I'd be buying all of them, gently caress to your gender stereotypes. There are some nice new hairstyles and sweet new colors in those sets, not to mention those completely awesome roses. I'm loving the little milk carton in that treehouse set
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Jan 20, 2012 05:51
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I haven't done anything Lego related in a long long time... I still have all my Legos though, I couldn't bear to part with them. I don't feel like dragging them out of the closet right now and building anything, but here's a couple ships I built when some friends of mine in high school and I thought it would be cool to come up with our own lego wargame based on warhammer 40k rules + our own ideas to make it 3 dimensional. It didn't work out great, but we made a couple interesting models. This was in 2000 though so I apologize for the poor photography. Mine: Based on the landing ships from Invasion America.  Based on a shark I guess?  My friend's: Somewhat inspired by the Sulaco.  Some ground vehicles.  A mix: Spider tank + weird little mech dudes attack a star wars inspired anti-grav tank. 
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Jan 20, 2012 06:11
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So after having gotten "back into" lego upon seeing the punk rocker series four minifigure and ending up buying several of the blind packs looking for one (and subsequently organizing a few trades, thank you to the goon that made/linked to that trading thread), tonight I decided to dig out my old lego boxes and look at what I have. It was a huge disappointment. A massive amount of them must have been lost, stolen by "friends", and/or thrown out over the years since I last seriously played with them. Also I apparently was a horrible blasphemer because a large amount of what I found in those boxes were actually megablocks (and even more annoyingly, all from the same theme to the point where something like 90% of the stuff I still have is of that one particular megablocks theme which, while interesting, won't really mix and match well with anything else). I did find some interesting things and was hoping I could get some identification on some of it from you fine sirs. Super apologies for the absolutely loving terrible quality of these images - I took them with my iPod and didn't realize just how bad the camera was until I had already typed up the whole post, so it felt like a waste to just forget it until I could get better pictures. Let me know if you need a higher quality image for any of it and I'll try to get a more detailed shot of that particular piece. First, here's a handful of minifigures and accessories. What always upset me back when I would play with friends' collections was that they always had lots of minifigures (or as I referred to them at the time, "lego dudes") while I almost never had any. I don't know why - maybe I lost them all or gave them all away or had them all taken or never actually bought sets or something. It didn't surprise me that I didn't find many.  Next, some bionicle masks.  These pieces are clearly from some Star Wars Episode One set, possibly with some pod racers?  And, most interestingly to me, this most-of-a-dinosaur, impressively posable and totally deconstructable:  
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illcendiary posted:I kinda have to agree, whether this post is sarcastic or not. I love Legos, and the whole "IT'S A KID'S TOY" thing can gently caress off but the idea of grown men buying sets clearly designed for little girls is just...weird to me. No. Like others have said, it is not any weirder than buying any other Lego set. Especially when so many of these Friends sets are really well designed and great. Who doesn't love treehouses? Take your view about some sets being 'only for girls' out of this thread, we have clearly established that we do not accept that view point.
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Pirate Ken posted:No. Like others have said, it is not any weirder than buying any other Lego set. Especially when so many of these Friends sets are really well designed and great. Who doesn't love treehouses? Take your view about some sets being 'only for girls' out of this thread, we have clearly established that we do not accept that view point. Brony spotted. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 20, 2012 08:43
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A parts draft of Friends sets would be awesome. It would be like an Easter basket exploded.
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tikan posted:Brony spotted. No seriously get the gently caress out. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Let me know when someone makes a giant pink and purple death star or x-wing or something out of the Friends sets. The MOCs I've seen so far are very cool (like the dude's hedgehog fighter plane a few pages back).
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Jan 20, 2012 09:12
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Faerunner posted:No seriously get the gently caress out. This kind of rudeness isn't helping the conversation, can we get back to talking about girl's toys now?
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Jan 20, 2012 09:29
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What set did that green MOC fighter come from? I looked all over at the Friends sets and didn't see one with that shade of green.
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The Rage posted:What set did that green MOC fighter come from? I looked all over at the Friends sets and didn't see one with that shade of green. Think it was this: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Heartlake-Vet-3188
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When buying the more "boy" oriented sets I can play it off as nostalgia. If your a guy and buying friends sets the best you can do is (lie) and say they are for a daughter or niece. One is weirder than the other but if you really need those pastel pieces who am I to stop you? There are a handful of specific friends parts I would like, but there a few enough I can get 'em easily through Bricklink.
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Do you feel the same way about a grown woman purchasing Ninjango?
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Manchild King posted:When buying the more "boy" oriented sets I can play it off as nostalgia. If your a guy and buying friends sets the best you can do is (lie) and say they are for a daughter or niece. One is weirder than the other but if you really need those pastel pieces who am I to stop you? Or grown adults don't feel the need to conform to the arbitrary gender roles enforced by society?
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Can we leave this derail for any one of the dozens of other threads about gender politics going on at any given time and keep this a "safe zone" for people who'd like a break from it now and then? Thanks. In lego related news I bought my son a baseplate because we are going to build some traps for his ninjas on the weekend and I'm so disappointed with the quality of it. It's wafer thing and doesn't even feel like lego.... it's got this shiny plasticy look and feel which is nothing like regular lego. Feels like it's made out yoghurt pot type plastic. I remember I had some thin baseplates when I was a kid, but they were better quality than this. Do they still make them? Or even better is it possible to get proper thick plates like the one here (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Olivia-s-Tree-House-3065) but larger outside of sets?
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16 x 16 is the biggest regular thickness plate Lego make. Lego fairly recently made 12 x 24 bricks which were fantastically solid to build on but are no longer available in new sets. The baseplates can be lovely to build on when you first start putting bricks down, but as you build more on you will probably find it becomes a bit more rigid and less flimsy.
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Lord Ryan posted:Free with my order. Lucky me! Oh my god I didn't know Lego made kendo minifigs 
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Anyone know when we'll see some pics of the LOTR sets? I've got a fat stack set aside to buy...all of them.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Anyone know when we'll see some pics of the LOTR sets? I've got a fat stack set aside to buy...all of them. Looks like a lot of sites got the request to take them down, but this one remains. http://nerdapproved.com/approved-products/a-sneak-peek-at-upcoming-lego-lord-of-the-rings-sets/
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TBB just posted some CG renders of what the Legolas and Aragorn figures are going to look like: http://www.brothers-brick.com/2012/01/19/lego-lord-of-the-rings-aragorn-legolas-minifigs-revealed/ Legolas does seem to have a long-haired piece with elf ears, which is nice since I'd assumed they'd just re-use the series 3 elf hairpiece as is.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Oh my god I didn't know Lego made kendo minifigs From the packaging I thought it was some kind of ninjago hockey player.
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That Lex Luthor robot's pretty good. I really like the robot hands, there's another robot set that has similar hand design. That red one with the light brick. Nice and simple to put together, apart from trying to decide which head was which. And it only just occurred to me that Legolas is really fitting to be a minifigure.
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Adregan posted:I was going to make an impulse buy on the Black Pearl on Amazon but it's back up to $134.99 so I said "screw that!" Went and bought jacks boat off brick link. Sure it's coming from the Netherlands but I'm a patient person. Maybe if the Pearl goes back down in price I will pick it up. If anyone that has the Pearl could give me their opinion on it that would be appreciated too. The only other set I really have my eye on is the Millennium Falcon until the LOTR sets come out. It's good to have control over the Lego addition though I think it has taken ahold of my son. It's still $99.99 on the lego site. http://shop.lego.com/en-US/The-Black-Pearl-4184 I'm a big time Star War geek and the Pearl is still the favorite part of my collection. The shelf it's on would hold 2. It looks like I need to get my hands on Queen Anne's Revenge. I put in a large pick-a-brick order in this morning so it's going to have to wait.
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Part of the lego.com order? Cool minifigs. this super battle droid came with the cannon arm the SBD with the speeder set didn't 
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The Rage posted:What set did that green MOC fighter come from? I looked all over at the Friends sets and didn't see one with that shade of green. Lime green isn't one of the major Friends colors, but it is in several sets, including the vet linked above. Mia's plane came to me first, and her favorite color is green, so that's what she got. It is unfortunately light on Friends parts, but I think the bright colors and decals keep it in the right spirit. I'm working on a medium azure one now (the color of the awning in the vet). It'll definitely be more Friends part-intensive. Gravy Jones posted:In lego related news I bought my son a baseplate because we are going to build some traps for his ninjas on the weekend and I'm so disappointed with the quality of it. It's wafer thing and doesn't even feel like lego.... it's got this shiny plasticy look and feel which is nothing like regular lego. Feels like it's made out yoghurt pot type plastic. I don't know that baseplates have really changed much over the years. I do think they don't grip bricks quite as well as they once did. But then new bricks, especially 2xX bricks, are a little lighter on the 'clutch power' these days too. New sets still use baseplates, but the new 8x16 and 16x16 plates are becoming more popular. The 16x16 plate is ~$4 on Lego.com, so you'd be best off going to Bricklink for them, if you wanted more. Shuppiluliumas fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jan 20, 2012 |
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hxcorpse posted:From the packaging I thought it was some kind of ninjago hockey player. Regardless, I am already bidding on one on ebay, and trying to stop myself getting a white one as well (to give a female minifig head to)
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Regardless, I am already bidding on one on ebay, and trying to stop myself getting a white one as well (to give a female minifig head to) I wouldn't bid. Just sayin'.
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The_Doctor posted:I wouldn't bid. Just sayin'. Why, are you going to snipe me? 
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