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InfinEight posted:I dunno, I wouldn't mind having a few speedorz to experiment with: That's just crazy. I can't even begin to imagine how to fit all those greebles in there. So I'm building A Thing. It's a spaceship and now I'm looking for interesting ideas for a modern/sci-fi research area. Looking at interior shots of the ISS, modern space labs seem to be mostly walls full of computers and boxes. Walls covered in computers is always good but I want something more distinct that can rest on a small table. So far I've built a 4X6 table with an x-ray machine and a microscope. I'm thinking of adding a table with some circular machinery with lots of cables attached (sort of like this) but I can't really figure out how to make it compact yet detailed. Does anyone have a resource for this? I guess what I'm looking for is like those furniture pics you sometimes see, only space-themed.
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The Royal Scrub posted:So are all the really complicated MOCs still "legit"? Like am I supposed to trust that every LDraw creation isn't full of bricks clipping or floating? I don't know about LDraw but I know the LDD software won't let you make illegal connections. ...Most of the time anyways, still a few bugs here and there.
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:
Holy crap I love that smug look. "Yeah, check out my awesome MOC furniture."
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jeeves posted:Holy crap I love that smug look. "Yeah, check out my awesome MOC furniture." I'd be smug too if I had a sweet-rear end gunchair.
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The_Doctor posted:Or another thrift store that actually gives money to charity. Goodwill is charity. They help people find jobs and employ as many as they can. The money essentially goes to those two things. It helps out a lot of people.  LEGO!
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May 16, 2013 22:05
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InfinEight posted:What chima sets have you guys been getting exactly? I might be glad to take one no one wants for the cost of shipping 70113. I guess it's a $20 set? Wow.
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May 17, 2013 00:33
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Trent posted:Goodwill is charity. They help people find jobs and employ as many as they can. The money essentially goes to those two things. It gives sorting jobs to mentally challenged people, so they can never give them a raise and have them work there forever. They also do fun stuff like promising raises that never come and making sure you work just a couple hours under what would be considered full time so they don't have to give you benefits. To clarify, I worked a donation center, not the sorting jobs. At least that's how it was at the one I worked at. Maybe they're not all assholes / do enough charity to offset this, but I'm really not sure sure. Those ones I saw in NC sure had pretty fancy buildings, after all.
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Light Gun Man posted:It gives sorting jobs to mentally challenged people, so they can never give them a raise and have them work there forever. They also do fun stuff like promising raises that never come and making sure you work just a couple hours under what would be considered full time so they don't have to give you benefits. To clarify, I worked a donation center, not the sorting jobs. All companies in america do what you describe. Well, not all, but most.
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Yeah, but most companies don't do it while also telling everyone that they are a super rad charity that helps the community.
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May 17, 2013 08:10
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smackfu posted:70113. I guess it's a $20 set? Wow. Nice, a good score for you that got them.
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May 17, 2013 08:56
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:I have 32 chima sets. Did you actually buy 25 B Wings?
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May 17, 2013 18:39
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i81icu812 posted:Did you actually buy 25 B Wings? Yeah.
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:Yeah. I realize you have a right to do that, and it's your money, etc. But...really?
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May 18, 2013 06:47
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I bought two and even thought that might be excessive. Different strokes! Also my wife would have killed me if I'd have bought $2500 worth of Lego sets.
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The Rage posted:I bought two and even thought that might be excessive. Different strokes! Also my wife would have killed me if I'd have bought $2500 worth of Lego sets. It's an "investment".
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May 18, 2013 10:00
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obi_ant posted:It's an "investment". It's "scalping".
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May 18, 2013 11:12
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And here we didn't even get 10% off the price. If I'm honest I hope that everyone who stockpiled them ends up keeping them.
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The Rage posted:I bought two and even thought that might be excessive. Different strokes! Also my wife would have killed me if I'd have bought $2500 worth of Lego sets. I bought one because I knew I would eventually build it and I was tempted to buy it when it came out when it was $250 so it seemed silly to not buy it at 50% off. As for people buying a bunch to resell it, apparently lego does care that people do that and have been banning people from S&H for doing it. http://www.bricksetforum.com/discussion/10381/banned-from-buying-from-lego-sh You think with it being put for 50% off less than a year after it came out lego would want to sell them all quickly so it wouldn't care where they ended up. I bet they still made enough money at 50% off as well.
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How do you move a piece up and down in the Lego Digital Designer? It sounds like such a dumb question but the only thing I've found is that Page Up/Down should work and they don't. Moving blocks up and down on the Z-axis is pretty critical for something like this.
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Merchant of Death posted:As for people buying a bunch to resell it, apparently lego does care that people do that and have been banning people from S&H for doing it. http://www.bricksetforum.com/discussion/10381/banned-from-buying-from-lego-sh A few years ago when the Death Star 2 was on sale at 150 each(a third retail, I think) I bought three, one to keep, one to give to my dad as a birthday present since he loved Star Wars and model kits, and one to put away to resell to recoup the costs of the other two. Instead, I wound up selling dad's since he said he didn't have the room for it when we discovered the drat thing was like the size of a beach ball, and I looked it up on Ebay and discovered it sold for over eight hundred dollars. So I sold the one I had bought too, since I honestly couldn't fit it myself either when it's that big, and they paid for half a month's mortgage and taking dad out for a fancy dinner for his birthday instead. It's honestly a no-brainer to buy multiple cheap sets of a popular franchise for selling a year or two down the road. It's all so cute when people gnash their teeth about horrible people who buy cheap stuff as investments. I think cleaning out multiple locations is a bit excessive, though.
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The Royal Scrub posted:How do you move a piece up and down in the Lego Digital Designer? Lego Digital Designer is bad at that. The easiest way I've found is just to build a "support" structure starting from the base level until the level you want, placing your piece, and then deleting the support.
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The Royal Scrub posted:How do you move a piece up and down in the Lego Digital Designer? LDD is a bit special about things like this, the best way to do it is probably the support structure, but if youre looking to attach it to the bottom of a brick that is already there you can just look at the bottom of the model and slap the brick on like that.
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Merchant of Death posted:I bought one because I knew I would eventually build it and I was tempted to buy it when it came out when it was $250 so it seemed silly to not buy it at 50% off. Yeah. Don't really care about reselling one way or another, just was wondering how serious LEGO is about enforcing shipping limits. This set was actually an amazing parts pack after you sell off the promo polybag and the two promo Chima sets.
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May 19, 2013 15:03
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I know series 10 is still in full swing, but has anyone come across any early pics if series 11?
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DrChud posted:I know series 10 is still in full swing, but has anyone come across any early pics if series 11? Nope, they've done a better job at keeping them under wraps until their official announcement the last couple series. All we have right now is the color (medium green) and what figures there are: Barbarian Bavarian Lady Constable Diner Waitress Evil Mech Gingerbread Man Grandma Holiday Elf Jazz Musician Lady Robot Mountain Climber Scarecrow Scientist Tiki Warrior Welder Yeti
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Jesus have they ramped up the schedule for MFG series or something? Last year I swear I had at least a few months to buy them but it seems 9 and 10 went REALLY fast.
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Just a heads up, I put a bigass bionicle set on ebay pretty cheap, I don't really know if it's that great for MOCs, as I've been out of the lego loop for a long time. I plan to start rebuilding stuff from my childhood like this thing that I still have the parts and instructions for, if people would be interested in seeing them go together. Anyway, here is the ebay link in case anyone is interested. No bids yet!
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ineptmule posted:Jesus have they ramped up the schedule for MFG series or something? Last year I swear I had at least a few months to buy them but it seems 9 and 10 went REALLY fast. No, it's stayed pretty steady at about 3 per year.
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Wait, 10's over already? Jesus.
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Captain Invictus posted:Wait, 10's over already? Jesus. Seems like they are starting to dry up. I need 3 more to complete my collection. Went to two Targets and a Walmart this weekend and found three empty displays. Going to hit another two Targets and Toys R Us tomorrow. Hopefully they have something I need. After that it's the Lego store or finishing my sets off of ebay.
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ltr posted:Seems like they are starting to dry up. I need 3 more to complete my collection. Went to two Targets and a Walmart this weekend and found three empty displays. Going to hit another two Targets and Toys R Us tomorrow. Hopefully they have something I need. After that it's the Lego store or finishing my sets off of ebay. My local Fred Meyer had two cases left, they looked rather full, I felt through one of them, and it was entirely Mimes/Mechanics/Skydivers. Someone had pulled every other figure and just filled it with those three. Was ridiculous.
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Pyroclastic posted:Nope, they've done a better job at keeping them under wraps until their official announcement the last couple series. All we have right now is the color (medium green) and what figures there are: So I am in a country where I can't purchase LEGO at all (hooray even Amazon for not shipping here...) but I would love to have a scientist figure. If anyone happens to come across a second one once series 11 comes out, I will happily buy it off of you!
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Pyroclastic posted:Nope, they've done a better job at keeping them under wraps until their official announcement the last couple series. All we have right now is the color (medium green) and what figures there are: I have seen teaser pictures of a toy soldier - that one's not happening?
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Red posted:I have seen teaser pictures of a toy soldier - that one's not happening? Huh, that one was supposed to be in Series 10, guess they swapped some out.
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Apparently, that one comes with the LEGO Minifigures: Character Encyclopedia: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Toy_Soldier
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I think those pictures were based on lists of new pieces Lego brings out every now and then. They were more speculative than anything. No soldier.
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I've seen the toy soldier that comes with the encyclopedia, it's a pretty nice minifig and, while I wouldn't buy the book, the content is pretty good.
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The Rage posted:My local Fred Meyer had two cases left, they looked rather full, I felt through one of them, and it was entirely Mimes/Mechanics/Skydivers. Someone had pulled every other figure and just filled it with those three. Was ridiculous. The two Targets I went to were out(empty displays), found what I needed at Toys R Us. They had what looked like a mostly full box of series 10. A mother and son were picking through it looking for Mr. Gold but otherwise looked like it was not disturbed much. Grabbed what I needed and was gone in about five minutes. So looks like Target, at least in my area, is pretty empty but Toy R Us may have some.
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May 21, 2013 02:06
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So much do I loath that skydiver, it's this series' Sour Quince Log.
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I loving hate what Mr. Gold did to CMF and to Lego in general.
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