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Wax Dynasty posted:I watched the Lego episode of Toys That Made Us last night. It's on Netflix and was very interesting. I had no idea that Lego had so many failed product lines in the 90s and that Bionicle basically saved the company from bankruptcy.   while I was searching for those images, there were some MOCs in the google image search results that show just how versatile and compatible bionicle stuff is with regular bricks, too.   that reimagining of Cahdok is crazy good.
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That tank is loving amazing.
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I’m a hardcore brick fan but I tell you if I had a time machine I’d snatch up so much bionicle. It’s so loving versatile for cool builds.
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The key is having a shitload of those half-pins with the pin on one side and the stud on the other. It allows for plenty of easy combination of brick and bionicle pretty seamlessly.
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Wax Dynasty posted:I watched the Lego episode of Toys That Made Us last night. It's on Netflix and was very interesting. I had no idea that Lego had so many failed product lines in the 90s and that Bionicle basically saved the company from bankruptcy. This was a perfectly cromulent show but at the same time it didn't tell you anything you didn't already know if you are semi-familiar with lego history. I was more interested in that documentary about they guy who applied to work at Lego. Because holy poo poo, all their cutesy corporate culture poo poo makes it sound like an absolutely miserable place to work unless you have a certain personality type.
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ElwoodCuse posted:This was a perfectly cromulent show but at the same time it didn't tell you anything you didn't already know if you are semi-familiar with lego history. Hmmm... no it doesn't? Can you give an example?
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Beachcomber posted:My kingdom for more Blacktron 2. This!
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The only space I ever got into was M-Tron or whatever it was called. You know, the one with the magnets.
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Hot take: all space Lego themes are good.
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I always get a bit sad about people making GBS threads on UFO, because that was my absolute fave as a kid.
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The coolest Space theme is always going to be the one you yourself grew up with. In other words,Rhyno posted:Hot take: all space Lego themes are good.
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Yeah for real, the pedestal some people put classic space on makes me roll my eyes a bit sometimes.
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Koramei posted:Yeah for real, the pedestal some people put classic space on makes me roll my eyes a bit sometimes.  when you can have THIS  (but really the best lego robot set wasn't even in the space line)  and really, Rhyno posted:Hot take: all space Lego themes are good.
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TBH I always preferred castle and pirate and all the other quasi historical themes.
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Chairchucker posted:TBH I always preferred castle and pirate and all the other quasi historical themes. edit: lol that reminded me, this theme existed  boy howdy. I think there was also a line with conquistadors too. just a whole lot of native invadin' going on in the pirate line. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Dec 23, 2019 |
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Chairchucker posted:TBH I always preferred castle and pirate and all the other quasi historical themes. Hotter take: all Lego themes are great and special in their own ways. Except Nexo Knights. gently caress that poo poo.
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Nexo knights had rad minifigs and gave us a huge variety of trans orange pieces, so it was a cool series too.
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Okay, now you're just fishing for red text avs
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Rhyno posted:Except Nexo Knights. gently caress that poo poo. Yours is the Rock Raiders of opinions. Clumsy, ill-conceived, and a testament of how badly things can go wrong. 
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I enjoyed m-tron a lot, but whatever the space theme was called that had the train? I'm pretty sure I spent over a hundred hours with that one. I think I somehow managed to force my parents to buy me the train set a second time, and I spent entire days building new space train stations, only to rip them apart the moment everything was working, to build even larger ones. I actually reversed that theme by no longer building cool space train stations, but actually moving space cities, which taxed the motors so much they could no longer move them up a sloped track. It was like space mortal engines on tracks. e: it was 6990 : Future Monorail
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Rhyno posted:Hot take: all space Lego themes are good. UFO's gigantic half lobe disks that were impossible to do anything with started my dark age Look at this bullshit 
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xzzy posted:Nexo knights had rad minifigs and gave us a huge variety of trans orange pieces, so it was a cool series too. This as gently caress.
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Neat.
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goons: nexo knight sucks  this guy: gonna anarchy in the uk you to death
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Nth Doctor posted:UFO's gigantic half lobe disks that were impossible to do anything with started my dark age Yeah I got the small UFO with these pieces and it’s probably my least favourite set I ever received. If they weren’t printed you could almost do something with them but like all the printed UFO pieces they’re too specialized to integrate nicely into an moc
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Titan XP is so extremely a Gundam rip off and I do 100% want one now.
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The worst line is Time Travelers or whatever, because it was a lovely mix of better lines.
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VaultAggie posted:The worst line is Time Travelers or whatever, because it was a lovely mix of better lines. Time Twisters 
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VaultAggie posted:The worst line is Time Travelers or whatever, because it was a lovely mix of better lines. I liked it for the unusual extras I would get. Also, just for an idea of what to do with my very mixed themes; time traveller HQ! Bring back goods from other times, sell them to other times, profit! But I'll always thank Aquanauts for filling my bin with dozens of bright yellow pieces.
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I said this before in this thread, but had Time Twisters come out when I was like 8 (instead of during my dark ages), I would have loved that poo poo. Absolute garbage sets looking at them as an adult, but as a kid who wanted my knights and town guys and space guys all hanging out together, I think I would have been all about time travel sets.
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Aquanauts/Aquasharks seems like the start of overly specialized sets that don’t really fit into a main “overworld” theme- the adventures you were meant to have were too linear as far as good guys vs bad guys and the pieces don’t integrate well with the main themes unless you’re building a really eclectic MOC.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Aquanauts/Aquasharks seems like the start of overly specialized sets that don’t really fit into a main “overworld” theme- the adventures you were meant to have were too linear as far as good guys vs bad guys and the pieces don’t integrate well with the main themes unless you’re building a really eclectic MOC. LEGO was doing that over and over again for a while. Pogo Stick HEROES set 1: megapogo ($200) (two walls and a pogoship) set 2: pogo base ($125) (a wall, two small pogoships) set 3: encounter at pogo ($74) (stupid setpiece, one minipogo and one darkskater miniskater) set 4: minipogo ($40) (tiny vehicle, one minifig) DarkSkaters set 1: Darkskater mobile fort ($100) (like, one moulded piece on some wheels) set 2: DarkSkate interceptor ($75) (a ship that's mostly canopy and a grabber) Set 3: Darkskater Gang ($30) (some minifigs, two miniskates) Help the Pogo Stick heroes explore and find the rare Pogonium! But don't let the DarkSkaters get the Pogonium first!
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Nth Doctor posted:UFO's gigantic half lobe disks that were impossible to do anything with started my dark age I built Star Trek ships with them that had been partially assimilated by the Borg.
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Blue Moonlight posted:I built Star Trek ships with them that had been partially assimilated by the Borg. ...I didn't post this. This isn't my username! How are you me?!?
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Time Cowboy posted:I said this before in this thread, but had Time Twisters come out when I was like 8 (instead of during my dark ages), I would have loved that poo poo. Absolute garbage sets looking at them as an adult, but as a kid who wanted my knights and town guys and space guys all hanging out together, I think I would have been all about time travel sets. This. I apparently had every set in this line, and while I remember little about them, they had a very 90’s Nickelodeon kid-mishmash feel to them that I enjoyed at the time. I think my favorite bit was the ship with flapping wings as you rolled it across the table. As a grown assed jort-wearing AFOL, they look terrible.
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Nth Doctor posted:I think my favorite bit was the ship with flapping wings as you rolled it across the table. That was great. I had that one. Weirdly my favorite part of it is that it came with a top hat and a proper villainy-looking face, monocle and all. Precious items in my bin! Edit: actually, now that I look, it came with this guy:  So where did my top hat and monocle guy come from...? Edit 2: Okay, monocle guy is from this:  Still looking for top hat source. Also ironic that I had dozens of pirate sets but never a hook hand until I got this minifig. Don't know why, really. Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Dec 23, 2019 |
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The Adventurers sets had a guy in a suit with a black top hat who looked decidedly sinister.
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Kawaii! https://brickset.com/article/47859/review-40436-lucky-cat
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:The Adventurers sets had a guy in a suit with a black top hat who looked decidedly sinister. Sam Sinister, I think that may be the guy above, but he's in aviation gear because he was on a biplane. I must have had a second version of him? Or on second thought, the Time Twisters sets came with a few extra props from historical eras, perhaps it was from that. Oh LEGO bins. It's like archeology lite.
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Nth Doctor posted:UFO's gigantic half lobe disks that were impossible to do anything with started my dark age Speaking of which, anyone want to buy part of a spaceship and some minifigs?  tomapot fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Dec 23, 2019 |
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