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The_Doctor posted:The water stage, yes. So many more to go! How much disassembly does it require to put one of those things in and hide the wiring?
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AFewBricksShy posted:I have the Saturn V, and I just saw this over in coupons/deals. xzzy posted:Yes, because you could buy the necessary parts cheaper on bricklink. I ended up picking up one copy of the set and then ordered additional parts from Bricklink.  I still have a little bit of fine tuning to do with it, but it worked out pretty well and looks better than just displaying the Saturn V with no tower. I'm considering doing something similar with the space shuttle as well.
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Cojawfee posted:You can buy mine, NIB. Unfortunately wanting is not having - there would be severe spousal abuse involved if I brought that home.
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OSU_Matthew posted:wish Lego would re-release the monorail or one of the third party brick makers would make a set. They're not sets exactly, but there's a company called 4D Brix that does 3D printed monorail, including a whole bunch of parts that Lego never made. I'm not sure they're much cheaper than just buying actual Lego monorail second-hand though. Speaking of actual Lego monorail, Lego has never made money off any monorail set as they were so expensive to make. It's been 25 years since the last one and I wouldn't hold my breath for more any time soon.
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I remember the electric train being almost $400cdn in 1993 (false memory?) and knowing even then to not even bother asking for one
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https://jalopnik.com/chevrolet-sold-one-new-car-in-the-united-kingdom-last-m-1822760506
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ElwoodCuse posted:https://jalopnik.com/chevrolet-sold-one-new-car-in-the-united-kingdom-last-m-1822760506 What happens when someone buys a corvette in England? Does the chevy factory fart out a right hand drive corvette or do they just change out the lights to make it legal in the UK and ship it over LHD?
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:They're not sets exactly, but there's a company called 4D Brix that does 3D printed monorail, including a whole bunch of parts that Lego never made. I'm not sure they're much cheaper than just buying actual Lego monorail second-hand though. Interesting! The tracks look great and very well thought out, but it’s too bad they’re 3d printed and not molded.... I may try seeing if I can find models to print them myself if that’s the case. Might even try elevating train track as well, that might be the way to go, or make a subway with some bricks and custom plywood tables. I just wanna cram as much into a small space as I can and train tracks just have such a stupid large curve radius. The_Doctor posted:The water stage, yes. So many more to go!
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I just got the new catalog. Apparently Spider-Man has a mech-suit, a helicopter, a jet, and two motorcycles. What the gently caress? He's Spider-Man, he doesn't need that poo poo. I'm very mad about children's toys. <  >
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He has a buggy in the comics!
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deoju posted:I'm very mad about children's toys. < The cat is sold out. I didn't realize it went on sale on the 1st. I thought it was w/ the Chinese New year stuff. Which is all on backorder already. 
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The_Doctor posted:He has a buggy in the comics! Is that thing swinging around above the streets, too?
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Of course you have to get the Chinese new year set in order to get a teal brick separator.
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OSU_Matthew posted:Interesting! The tracks look great and very well thought out, but it’s too bad they’re 3d printed and not molded.... I may try seeing if I can find models to print them myself if that’s the case. Might even try elevating train track as well, that might be the way to go, or make a subway with some bricks and custom plywood tables. I just wanna cram as much into a small space as I can and train tracks just have such a stupid large curve radius. To be fair, good molds for plastic cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (especially for parts as big as monorail track, hence why Lego doesn't make them anymore) so I can understand doing 3D printing for niche stuff. For what you want, it sounds like roller coaster track could be worth looking into. That's much smaller than train track and people have done monorails and that kind of thing with them, for example: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=BL19003-1#T=P
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Cojawfee posted:Of course you have to get the Chinese new year set in order to get a teal brick separator. I got one in the Stark jet.
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I found this guide on how that Saturn V display with the smoke and lighting was made: https://imgur.com/gallery/aQ9FJtm
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:To be fair, good molds for plastic cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (especially for parts as big as monorail track, hence why Lego doesn't make them anymore) so I can understand doing 3D printing for niche stuff.
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drat, I didn't know that. My LUG is gearing up for this year's Lugbulk at the moment so I'll have to get some if I can.
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Interestingly, I’ve got 2 slightly different shades of gold studs in Ninjago City.
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^^ I’ve never heard of LUGs before and google shows that there’s one stupid close to me... you guys rock, I’m going to check out their next meeting!1000 Brown M and Ms posted:To be fair, good molds for plastic cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (especially for parts as big as monorail track, hence why Lego doesn't make them anymore) so I can understand doing 3D printing for niche stuff.  Whelp, that’s a permanent addition to my bricklink cart till the next pay cycle
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MaliciousOnion posted:I found this guide on how that Saturn V display with the smoke and lighting was made: https://imgur.com/gallery/aQ9FJtm This rules. Thanks!
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Since you guys keep bringing up train track, if anyone is interested in a fuckton of 9v train track lmk because I'm going to sell a big lot of it. I think it was over 100 segments when I counted. Bunch of straight track and a controller as well as 2 junctions.
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veni veni veni posted:Since you guys keep bringing up train track, if anyone is interested in a fuckton of 9v train track lmk because I'm going to sell a big lot of it. I think it was over 100 segments when I counted. Bunch of straight track and a controller as well as 2 junctions. Keep talking... what we’re you thinking price wise? Potentially interested since I have one of the older train sets and am interested in eventually extending that.
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Yo following a tip and shamelessly cross-posting my SA Mart thread here, hopefully that is okay. I'm trying to move 29.6 lbs of LEGO at bulk prices. Some are bagged up with instructions (not original bags), others are in boxes, some are in grocery bags, but they're all LEGO. Here's what I wrote about them in the thread: quote:PLEASE SEE THE ALBUM FOR ALL THE RANDOM LEGO PICTURES (Including two tied up grocery store bags that just have random assortments of bricks, minifigs, etc): I'm also entertaining the idea of splitting them up to sell them in 5 lots of 6 lbs, but I wouldn't be taking requests there, and would probably try to charge a higher rate than what I was proposing for the whole thing. If you're interested, please pm me or post in that thread. Thanks!
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I'm thinking about going through my Lego and making some moc I have old rear end Castle, old space/futron, original pirates, blacktron and space police 1 and 2, M Tron, ice planet, and a few assorted newer things Are there any newer-than-that parts that are cheap to bulk and amazing/ must-have for mocs? Stuff that changes the stud direction, etc? Thanks, thread
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veni veni veni posted:I envy people who don’t bury their entire living space in LEGO Me: I'm running out of space to display my lego The responsible part of my brain: Maybe you shouldn't buy so much? Me: No! It's too fun to build! Brain: Then maybe you should put away some of the old sets? Me: No, then it's like I wasted that money if it just sits in a closet! That impulsive part of my brain: Hey, maybe we should get into modulars
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The Bloop posted:I'm thinking about going through my Lego and making some moc You have to be careful with classic space because they changed the shade of "light grey." Yes, there are many new parts out there. But use them with old light grey and the old bricks will look like a smoker owned them. But other than that, bulk light grey on bricklink is super cheap because of all the star wars sets. If you're just starting out with modernizing, I would make these a priority: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=bracket#T=A Most useful type of part lego has come out with this century!
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The Bloop posted:I'm thinking about going through my Lego and making some moc With a collection that old, you're certain to have a number of Travis bricks, which (along with the headlight brick) is basically the original SNOT brick. It has a few newer variants: 87087 Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Stud on 1 Side 47905 Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Studs on 2 Sides, Opposite 26604 Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Studs on 2 Sides, Adjacent You probably also have plenty of the original bracket piece, and there are now a lot of variations on that guy. I'll list some in approximately least to most useful order: 93274 Bracket 1 x 2 - 2 x 4 44728 Bracket 1 x 2 - 2 x 2 99207 Bracket 1 x 2 - 2 x 2 Inverted 99781 Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 2 99780 Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 2 Inverted 36841Bracket 1 x 1 - 1 x 1 36840 Bracket 1 x 1 - 1 x 1 Inverted There's also 41682 Bracket 2 x 2 - 1 x 2 Centered, a really helpful new part from last year that doesn't really fit the above. 20482 Tile, Round 1 x 1 with Bar and Pin Holder is also kind of an awesome piece for stud inversion, especially since you can attach a vertical clip plate to it and have a complete stud inversion with a footprint of only 1 x 2 x 2/3. What else? Uhh, for clip and bar connections, these guys are great: 32828 Bar 1L with 1 x 1 Round Plate with Hollow Stud 26047 Plate, Modified 1 x 1 Rounded with Handle 11090 Bar Holder with Clip 23443 Bar Holder with Handle I am positive I am missing a ton, too. Wait, are you familiar with this guy? I don't know how new your newer stuff is.
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Some other rad parts: 32952 Brick, Modified 1 x 1 x 1 2/3 with Studs on 1 Side 35480 Plate, Modified 1 x 2 Rounded with 2 Open Studs 85861 Plate, Round 1 x 1 with Open Stud 85861 Plate, Modified 1 x 3 with 2 Studs (Double Jumper) 99206 Plate, Modified 2 x 2 x 2/3 with 2 Studs on Side Also, new rounded tile shapes: 98138 Tile, Round 1 x 1 23269 Tile, Round 1 x 1 Quarter 24246 Tile, Modified 1 x 1 Half Circle Extended (Stadium) 27925 Tile, Round Corner 2 x 2 Macaroni 27507 Tile, Round Corner 4 x 4 Macaroni Wide
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The Bloop posted:I'm thinking about going through my Lego and making some moc That's the kind of stuff I love and most of the MOCs I make at the moment are old Space themed ones. As xzzy mentioned, they changed the shade of grey in 2004. There's the old ones (light grey/dark grey) and the new ones (light bluish grey/dark bluish grey). There's a lot of cool parts that only exist in one shade or the other, and because of that personally I don't care about mixing them up in a model. That said, they can look a bit weird if you put them side-by-side so I avoid that if I can. I think most of the cool new parts have been covered, but yeah, any kind of bracket or brick with studs on the side (and there's a lot of them!) are fantastic for MOCs. I'll also add any kind of curved slope and the cheese slopes (1x1 and 1x2) as they are fantastic detailing parts and usually really cheap 1000 Brown M and Ms fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jan 15, 2020 |
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Thanks for the infodump so far, goons. That's great stuff and yeah some of that is pretty mindblowing. My most impressive stuff was done with hinges and this thing: directional studs have come a long way
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Don't forget this fella, it's been around for a while: When I was a kid it was mostly used to create moving parts, like spaceship canopies and doors. Recently, I've noticed its variant with the 2x2 top is used a lot more often as a fixed angle piece, usually with a 2x1 wedge underneath to create the angle.
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I am in the process of sorting out what remains of my old Lego from the early 1980s, and can confirm there are lots of hinges, headlight bricks, and so on. Only found one goddamn tree though. And none of my original base plates are still here.
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