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PAB wall had 1x1 trans green cylinders today, hell yeah I get to start swapping out all the busted rear end ones I have barely clinging to my classic space sets. The "best for" label stuck on that bin was for the Friends line. Pfft screw you lego, those cylinders are classic space and everyone knows it.
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Man, I could use some of those! (And red, don't forget red!)
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Mar 17, 2015 19:51
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Chris Knight posted:Man, I could use some of those! (And red, don't forget red!) I've got a bunch of those in red blue and purple from PAB, but never have seen neon green here in germany. :/
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Mar 17, 2015 20:00
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I've seen neon green 2x2 cylinders, but never 1x1. And yeah trans red 1x1's showed up last fall, I have a billion of those things now.
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Mar 17, 2015 20:02
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Electromax posted:I was just about to post about Throwbots and how much I loved them, bizarre to see them come up in the thread this morning anyway. Small world. This weekend I continued to go through unsorted Lego boxes and was able to separate pieces into a wide variety of 80s and 90s sets using tattered old instruction manuals. This is the head piece for Throwbots. Not sure what you're referencing from Invictus—the image he posted shouldn't contain any of these (they're not in many Bionicle sets). If you're not familiar with Bricklink, you can click the "24 Sets (View Them)" link to see every set the part comes in and click the (Inv) link next to a set's name to view its entire inventory if you want to see what other parts it contains.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:This is the head piece for Throwbots. Not sure what you're referencing from Invictus—the image he posted shouldn't contain any of these (they're not in many Bionicle sets). If you're not familiar with Bricklink, you can click the "24 Sets (View Them)" link to see every set the part comes in and click the (Inv) link next to a set's name to view its entire inventory if you want to see what other parts it contains. Cool, thanks. I guess the pic up there is different, never had Bionicle but I knew the Throwbots could be put together power rangers-style to make one big bot and the head pieces formed limbs. At a glance thought it was the same:  Don't know how I lost all those and only those pieces. I'm thinking some super-bot got lost in the trash 15 years ago with some other extraneous Technic blocks. I was able to collect pieces from my box (with help from the crazy Lego inventory sites) to resurrect: King's Mountain Fortress, 1990 Hospital, 1987 Android Base, 1996 Forbidden Island, 1989 Sphinx Secret Surprise, 1998 King's Carriage, 1995 Prisoner Convoy, 1985 The sorting continues. Electromax fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Mar 17, 2015 20:45
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xzzy posted:The "best for" label stuck on that bin was for the Friends line. Pfft screw you lego, those cylinders are classic space and everyone knows it. Yeah, sometimes I'm not sure what the marketing team is thinking when they have us do that. Meanwhile, I've discovered that the Six-Shooter Housing piece would be very useful for spaceship engines, but the part's not been added to the LDD yet  
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Mar 17, 2015 21:09
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Electromax posted:I was able to collect pieces from my box (with help from the crazy Lego inventory sites) to resurrect: Man, I kinda miss the custom-made baseplate things like in the Mountain Fortress or Sphinx sets. It was a good way to make a small set seem way bigger than it actually was.
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Mar 17, 2015 21:37
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Hey I have that Sphinx set on top of my wardrobe right now, along with the Spyrius Lunar Launch Site (6959).
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Those molded baseplates are bullshit because you can't stack them with ANYTHING and they take an enormous amount of space for no good reason. They never should have grown bigger than the classic space crater plates (and even the crater plates are pushing it) I inherited a couple of the special baseplates from my wife's brother, not sure what sets they came from but they're from the 90's and had to have come from the pirate or desert adventures sets. Those fuckers have their very own box back in the corner because they make me grumpy whenever they get in my way.
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Mar 17, 2015 21:48
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I have a mountain baseplate I modded a lord of the rings set into a pretty sweet fortress on it. I've since taken it apart and my son uses it as a slide for his minifigures.
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Mar 17, 2015 23:36
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Good lord that's hideous.
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Going back through my poo poo it was Throwbots where my dark times started.
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eltoozero posted:Going back through my poo poo it was Throwbots where my dark times started. I distinctly remember the same. To be honest it was also the beginning of a dark time for LEGO as a company. I hope they never go back to all that terrible cyber kitsch. Fake edit:   Except those sets are actually cool Electrophotonic fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Mar 18, 2015 11:07
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Yeah, Throwbots and Roboriders were a mess for the company, while we did get a few great pieces out of those lines, specifically these four: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=32310 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=32307 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=32165 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=32177 which are great for MOC-making, the rest was dogshit. It wasn't until they created an actual world and storyline for Bionicle that it really stuck with people, Roboriders and Throwbots didn't have any sort of story besides "vaguely robotic things fight each other!!"
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 LEGO iPhone 6 Dock by David Galletly, on Flickr Brought a wee pile of my old Lego back from my parents' house when I visited at the weekend to make a little iPhone dock for my desk. It was a bit of a frustrating build because I hadn't quite grabbed enough bricks and had to compromise on lots of things. Pretty pleased with the wee system I made for holding the connector, though. This thing doesn't budge.   The flowers and parrot are a bit much but I was enjoying myself.
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Tenterhooks posted:The flowers and parrot are a bit much You must be new here...
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I did something similar with a guitar distortion pedal   I need to sort out some doors for the 9v battery compartment though, at the moment it's external 
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Swung by Ikea today and got some nice storage for sets and MOCs. Need to do some cable management still but you get the idea.
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Crap. I think I'm addicted. After putting together the Ghost, I went and bought the Phantom for it, a Star Destroyer, the AT-DP, SW Rebels Speeder Bikes, Hulkbuster, Batcopter, and I'm REAL tempted to go get a JLA Javelin and AT-AT. I need to stop.
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Mar 20, 2015 08:31
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Star Wars at the bottom, where it belongs. Also, Model Team. :seks: I have the Model Team yellow jeep that actually came with a fabuland shovel. Those sets own everything made since and a total loss TLG doesn't have any current non-technic non-star wars non-maresk "big boy" sets. The big-rig has been on my want list for maybe too long...
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Daaku Shinsei posted:Crap. I think I'm addicted. After putting together the Ghost, I went and bought the Phantom for it, a Star Destroyer, the AT-DP, SW Rebels Speeder Bikes, Hulkbuster, Batcopter, and I'm REAL tempted to go get a JLA Javelin and AT-AT. I need to stop. Grab the power armor ideas set before it goes out of production. If nothing else, you can sell it for a mint later if you don't like it.
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^^^^ I bought the same shelves literally the day before, and I too put the AT-AT at the bottom and the Exo Suit at the top. I don't know what that to read into that . It's a shame the shelves are slightly too small for classic space flagships, might get a Fabrikör for those. Hanging some ships/aircraft from fishing line in between the shelves might make for some cool mini dioramas, as well as mini disasters waiting to happen.
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I really do need to go get some Detolfs. Probably 3-4, 1-2 for Lego, 1-2 for everything else.
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Electrophotonic posted:^^^^ I bought the same shelves literally the day before, and I too put the AT-AT at the bottom and the Exo Suit at the top. I don't know what that to read into that . It's a shame the shelves are slightly too small for classic space flagships, might get a Fabrikör for those. I do wish they would hold Benny's Spaceship, and some other bigger sets but the Fabrikor was out of my price range. I will be hanging the Model Team chopper and some other stuff though! eltoozero posted:Those sets own everything made since and a total loss TLG doesn't have any current non-technic non-star wars non-maresk "big boy" sets. What? There's the modular buildings, some of the bigger creator stuff, the tumbler and helicarrier, and all the Lego ideas stuff like Ecto 1 and many more. And the London Bridge and Opera House. And that's without even checking the Lego website! I'd argue it's never been a better time for big-boy sets. pbpancho fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Mar 20, 2015 |
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Mar 20, 2015 14:31
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What might this be?
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Please let it be a new F1 technic set.
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Wouldn't that be the Kwik-E-Mart?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Wouldn't that be the Kwik-E-Mart? Yeah, that's what I thought.
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It is the Kwik-E-Mart, dude at the Bellevue store told me that when he put the calendar in my bag last week
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Wouldn't that be the Kwik-E-Mart? Oh good call, I was wracking my brain trying to think of the next big set, and I kept coming back to the Doctor Who set, but we've not seen anything of that yet
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Speaking of displaying sets what does every one do for large ships like Spaceship x3? Besides taking a lot of area sitting flat on a shelf they aren't as interesting to look at generally from that angle. I was able to make a decent stand for my Sith Fury Class Interceptor ( this'n: http://brickset.com/sets/9500-1/Sith-Fury-class-Interceptor ) but it took quite a bit of messing around to build an armature that fit it just right to make it stand in a semi-angled position with any stability. Any suggestions?
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Get a baseplate, a bunch of same-colored bricks, and build a stand for it to be zooming in at an angle. Use Bionicle ball-socket limbs if you have to to achieve proper swoosh angles.
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I really wish ships would all come with pieces for a stand, at least bigger ones above a certain price. They have to know that a ton of these licensed set are ending up on the shelves of nerds and not just the hands of children at this point. They wouldn't need to be as elaborate as the UCS stands or anything.
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Included stands are dumb, if you want a stand, make your own. It's the entire point of lego. 
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I managed to get Benny's Spaceship for $60... as well as the Simpsons House and Bad Cop Car Chase for 10-20% off too 
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Alabaster White posted:I managed to get Benny's Spaceship for $60... as well as the Simpsons House and Bad Cop Car Chase for 10-20% off too I caved and got spaceship x3 for 60 today as well.
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anotherblownsave posted:I caved and got spaceship x3 for 60 today as well. where was this? I'd pick up some extras at 60.
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