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Solkanar512 posted:There aren't an official set of other seasons, I just used the pick a brick and replacement part section to get yellow/brown tree branches in both sizes, some lighter green ones for a "spring flush", and a bunch of red/orange/yellow leaf/flower pieces to break up the color. Nice touch putting some of the leaves in the rocks. Looks really nice.
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veni veni veni posted:Nice touch putting some of the leaves in the rocks. Looks really nice. Hold on folks, this is just an example I found. I don't even have the parts yet! Sorry for not being clear here!
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As the seasons change So do these plastic pieces New colors each phase.
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deoju posted:As the seasons change 
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smooth my crusty jorts open up my mountain dew post about Legos
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And shake hands with beef!
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New Tumbler is a pretty fun build. Was fun mentally cross checking the official techniques with the ones I came up with myself. A lot of it was different but some were almost identical. The structure of the Lego one is much more complicated obviously. It's funny how huge it is by comparison. Also much more movie accurate than my own. I'm still kind of attached to my MOC one though. I just like how it's scaled much closer to what a car should be for a minifig. The official set is one of Legos signature giant cars.  Looks much better next to the other official Batmobiles though. They all dwarf my MOC.  Probably still a little on the big side.
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Yeah all 3 of those batmobiles are nice. Shame it didn't get a display pedestal like the others.
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Aw the MOC looks better and more accurate IMO but it’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie. Didn’t realize the small one ships already. I hope they do a relaunch of the small Burton, I missed that one.
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veni veni veni posted:I'm still kind of attached to my MOC one though. Scipiotik posted:Yeah all 3 of those batmobiles are nice. Shame it didn't get a display pedestal like the others. deoju fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Oct 6, 2021 06:39
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It's funny. I left off the 4 roof spoilers on my moc in favor of using the big spoiler part, for the exact reason I think they look bad on the official set. really my only major complaint with it. It's supposed to look way more compact than that and they just stick up so much it changes the whole shape of the car. i tried the exact parts Lego ended up using, as well as some others before scrapping it and deciding it would be better to just imply that part of the body. Tbh though it would probably be pretty easy to mod the gold C clamps down one stud and I think it would make the shape of it look better in general. not sure why Lego didn't do that. Looks way better on the UCS version since there is so much more space to work with. They just sick up so much on the little one it looks sort of silly.  Like, the whole thing is pretty compact on the movie prop.  Zwille posted:Aw the MOC looks better and more accurate IMO but it’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie. Didn’t realize the small one ships already. I hope they do a relaunch of the small Burton, I missed that one. Aw thanks 
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Oct 6, 2021 07:22
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veni veni veni posted:It's funny how huge it is by comparison. Also much more movie accurate than my own. I'm still kind of attached to my MOC one though. I just like how it's scaled much closer to what a car should be for a minifig. The official set is one of Legos signature giant cars. Here's a thing I've banged out for my LUG's monthly seed part build challenge. May scrape together the pieces to build it, because I kinda like it I think. The seed parts this month were kind of boring, but we were instructed to use at least: - 2x of 4592c02: Antenna Small Base with Black Lever, light bluish gray (I used 8 of the bases and 52 of the levers) - 2x of 30374: Bar 4L (Lightsaber Blade / Wand), black (I used 20) - 1x of 3001: Brick 2 x 4, blue (I used 2) Our theme this month is "architecture" so I made a micro scale building with some landscaping. I also, for some reason, felt like avoiding grayscale as much as possible as a personal challenge, so there is no white, light bluish gray, or dark bluish gray used anywhere, and black is used sparingly - mostly just the base and the seed parts.  edit: oh yeah, and I volunteered to supply the seed part for next month. I chose 2991: Technic, Brick 1 x 2 - 1 x 2 Angled with Bumper Holder, in black, and I bought enough so everyone will have at least 6 of them to play with. Carbohydrates fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Carbohydrates posted:edit: oh yeah, and I volunteered to supply the seed part for next month. I chose 2991: Technic, Brick 1 x 2 - 1 x 2 Angled with Bumper Holder, in black, and I bought enough so everyone will have at least 6 of them to play with. With or without rubber bumper??? 
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My best friends wife messaged me tonight about some help with a Lego set for her son who will be 9 yr old soon for Christmas. He has autism and is super good with math, like memorizes piece counts of his sets and what not. He told her all he wants for Christmas is the “the biggest Minecraft set”. She’s like it’s over 2k pieces. I look it up and yup it’s LEGO 21137 Minecraft The Mountain Cave. Retired set and sealed it seems like it’s going for between 1-1.5k on brick link and eBay. Poor duder. There is prolly no chance of say finding this in a Barnes and Noble or somewhere that doesn’t rotate stock that much right?
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How would he feel about a knock off? https://m.aliexpress.com/item/10050...6e118854&gclid=
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Literally A Ghost posted:With or without rubber bumper???
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Carbohydrates posted:I think I'd honestly be disappointed if they just stick a bumper on it. God drat it. Now I'm eyeing the lego tubs....
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Captain Duvel posted:River along the sand/desert. Still working on this Nice this one too Carbohydrates posted:Yeah this feels like a very fair comparison/analysis. LEGO's is oversized because their cars always are, and it features more detail even though it ventures into caricature because capturing particular aspects or details is more important to them than overall proportionate accuracy. I still think yours is cute as a button, and basing it around that Technic wing is glorious.
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I pulled out the hidden side castle to build. I typically open boxes on the right side of the box. When I opened it, I found that it has an area sectioned off for the manual. Had to open it on the other side to get to it. This is the only time I've seen this. I have to say, I wish they did it more often. Bent up manuals are annoying. Has anyone else noticed this with other sets? Waltzing Along fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Oct 7, 2021 |
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Oct 7, 2021 03:57
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I assume you mean for newer sets, right? Back in the 80s/90s bigger sets often had cardboard trays and dividers in them to separate bags of parts from manuals and things like baseplates or ship hulls. Big sets also usually had flaps on the front and plastic trays to show off parts. They stopped doing that around the year 2000, I guess because it was cheaper.
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Yes. I thought I was clear about that. Yeah, this is from last years Hidden Side Castle set. The one that was only available for a very short time, sold out immediately and was never stocked again. The box is the same as most other medium sized sets with all the bags scattered around inside. But there is a small cardboard area glued to the inside that perfectly fits the manual so it lays flat. I'm guessing everyone here has opened a new box and found a bent manual in there. Maybe even bent stickers.
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Fair enough. A few years back Lego often packaged manuals in their own plastic bag with a cardboard backing to keep them flat, but that's the closest I've seen. To be fair I don't buy much new Lego.
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I don't really get lego manuals. maximizing the number of illustrated steps makes the builds really easy, but results in massive phonebook manuals. those can't be cheap to print and they can constitute a big percentage of the weight for the kit. I'm surprised they don't do old school instructions with more consolidated steps for the print manuals and put the full detail ones up as pdf. it's 2021, outside of little kids (whose sets don't require huge manuals), computer and internet access is ubiquitous for anyone wealthy enough to be buying legos for entertainment
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I think I would prefer high quality digital instructions because the paper ones are annoying and take up space in the build area
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Part of the reason I enjoy Lego is its a fun hobby that doesn't involve a screen. I'm not sure how much adding a screen would add. if you want to save space and don't care about more staring at screens, you can already get pretty much any manual pdf and just use that.
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I personally like having the manuals as PDF on a tablet. No messing around with folded manuals like you see in some of the smaller sets, and you can zoom in for more detail on certain kits with unconventional build techniques, like Speed Champions. One of the sillier instruction sets I recently encountered was for the BrickHeadz set of Scrooge McDuck and Huey, Dewey & Louie. It was two booklets, one for Scrooge and one for the nephews. However, the one for the nephews basically repeated itself three times, first in green, then in red, then in blue. All three nephews have the exact same parts and pose, and I ended up just building all three at the same time off of the first third of the manual. Feels like they could have found a way to cut that instruction set by two thirds.
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I'd prefer all of my manuals as .pdfs as well because when I'm working on LEGO it tends to be later on in the day and I have a light above my work area so the glossy surface of the physical manuals can be annoying to look at.
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Yep, the glossy manuals turned me 100% PDF as well, also due to the light setup I have at my favourite building desk. Also helps when selling used sets with basically brand new instructions (somehow a lot of people here care about that, similar to the boxes).
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The Voice of Labor posted:I don't really get lego manuals. maximizing the number of illustrated steps makes the builds really easy, but results in massive phonebook manuals. those can't be cheap to print and they can constitute a big percentage of the weight for the kit. I'm surprised they don't do old school instructions with more consolidated steps for the print manuals and put the full detail ones up as pdf. it's 2021, outside of little kids (whose sets don't require huge manuals), computer and internet access is ubiquitous for anyone wealthy enough to be buying legos for entertainment Old school building instructions, you mean something like this?  But seriously, sometimes I do find it funny where there's an entire step just to put a single friction pin or something like that. I guess the best would be some kind of a middle ground--the old style instructions which could only ever show a single angle of the set and absolutely no more were also not so great. Especially the instructions from 1960s and 1970s are really bad at this and because of some dodgy building techniques used at the time, sometimes you're really left to puzzle out where the hell does a particular piece go!
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Maybe lego could afford to do better color matching if they didn't print out so many drat steps in their instructions.  Especially the big adult oriented ones. We can handle putting in more than five pieces per step guys, honest.
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Oct 7, 2021 13:07
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The old instructions were only ever one angle because they were hand drawn with stencils.
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xzzy posted:Especially the big adult oriented ones. We can handle putting in more than five pieces per step guys, honest. LEGO salesman: "Have you looked at our awesome range of mosaic sets?"
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Going to NYC ComicCon this weekend, time to check out ridiculously overpriced sets at the resellers. Sometimes the minifigs are not bad for middle of the road figs, the rest are over the top compared to Bricklink.
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Resellers are weird. I have two storefronts nearish to me. One looks at online prices and sets his prices below those. He knows that people can just find stuff online so he needs to compete. The other is a bricks & minifigs store and everything is super expensive. Much more than ebay/BL. Stuff just sits there. You'd think resellers would understand that they can price below online prices and sell more easily. But nope, gotta try to bleed every penny they can, even if it means sitting on product. Dumb.
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Surpriiiiiiise, Titanic's here. TBB has their review up already.Cojawfee posted:The old instructions were only ever one angle because they were hand drawn with stencils.
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Paper instructions ftw. I don’t own a tablet and a laptop takes up even more space in the building area. Of course the absolute worst thing is printing out black and white copies from a pdf online 
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lol. You can split the finished model and the interiors are pretty cool at giving you a sense of scale. Man, if it wasn’t so expensive!
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Zwille posted:lol. Yeah. Looks like a fun, one and done, build. I wonder if I could build it and find someone on CL to buy it. Meh, not worth the gamble.
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