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FBS posted:You're linking to Lego's Australian site there. Ha, good catch! That would make a ton of sense. The dollar sign really threw me off, didn't even occur to me to check the URL. Dunno why the googler dropped me there  I don't know what it says that I just figured the 90$ discrepancy was recent price hikes Prophet of Nixon posted:Has anyone messed with Minifigure Factory yet? The Lego store in Orlando had one of these set up where you could design a fig with some patterns and they'd pop a blank torso into a jig on basically a large inkjet printer. Came out pretty neat! Probably why they're going after the custom minifig sites, cut out the competition. Catatron Prime fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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Tarquinn posted:How some people can call the Atari 2600 ugly is beyond me. It's the best looking classical console by far. Yes boxen posted:I had zero interest in the Ferrari Technic set, but now I kind of want one just because it seems to be the Dark Souls of Lego.  And at this point, I think BFAN should just send the kit to me so I can fix it for him.
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The Captain - with Port Boot and Starboard Boot since otherwise he would get them backwards (like I do):
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Portwine and seagreen is how I remember portside and starboard colors, but I can't remember which is left and right
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port, left, same number of letters
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Jul 20, 2022 03:51
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And for the light colours, green and right, same number of letters.
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"Red, right, returning." If you are standing at a port, and the red lantern is on your right, the vessel is returning. Edit: Lego follows this convention when building the insides of some sets to mark the two sides differently to avoid confusion. I know for certain the large Ecto 1, but there are others. deoju fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Huh. I must have messed up somewhere because in mine the green bit in this picture isn’t allowed to make a full circle, it can only either be in the shown position or in the other lower corner. I can‘t remember if it was the Porsche or the Chiron (I think it was the Porsche, the Chiron was the first IIRC with the new rotating clutch mover thing), but the setup looks similar. The green piece on the middle should not do a full rotation I assume, but „engage“ either the left or the right yellow piece so it turns a quarter circle (thus moving the orange clutch thingies on position forward and finally back after half a rotation). With the Porsche and/or Chiron, it had a lot of resistance, and I was pretty sure I messed up the transmission, but it basically just needed needed a bit more force to actually move the transmission into next/prev gear. After couple of shifts, the force needed was lower, maybe some bushings were too tight and the operation added some play to everything. Definitely didn‘t break anything, because I had to rebuild the transmission after hearing about the error in the manual (transmission built after the manual shifts two gears in wrong order…no idea if they fixed it in the manual by now. Lego‘s answer back then was „it‘s supposed to be that way because reasons“). Was an easy fix though (once you got to the transmission from a finished kit, which meant building back 3 steps of four. Pretty sure it was the Porsche, as I think it was a four speed transmission.
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BTW, can anyone sell me on the Lambo Sian? I built the Porsche and Chiron (after getting both for a heavy discount) and I see the Lambo is getting into similar - or even better - discount range at the moment (best I saw was something like 42% off). Porsche was something new and cool (not in sense of technic per se, but 1:8 technic supercar). Even built a second one as the McLaren MoC, which has absolutely nuts features (working axle lift etc., can be powered). Chiron mostly sold me because new pieces for transmission and something similar to a W16. Daytone will get added once discounts happen, because I love the look of it. The only thing to me currently interesting about the Lambo is the color (would complement the orange, light blue/blue, dark red), and IIRC the first runs had some pretty bad color mismatch problems. Is it interesting enough of a built to get it for something like 40% off? Does it look better in person? (I think the real car is maybe the ugliest Lambo ever…). I watched two reviews off it, and it doesn‘t seem to have any real highlights?
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The doors and the headlights are pretty cool on the Lamborghini. The color, however, doesn't match nicely between parts.
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What's the feature of the headlights? I assume glow-in-the-dark material?
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Prophet of Nixon posted:Has anyone messed with Minifigure Factory yet? I tried in a LEGO Store. It doesn't seem like something that really transfers well to an online experience. It seems like more of an in-store thing and a bit touristy (like bending a penny at Mt. Rushmore). The package comes with a 1x4 brick that you print on one side, and then the other side has the name or place of the store. The accessories you could choose were limited. Its a fun little trinket and comes in a little box. In Denmark they had another option online where you could test another type of minifiure configurator without the printing. That was also about 12$, but for 3 figures...
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HootTheOwl posted:Portwine and seagreen is how I remember portside and starboard colors, but I can't remember which is left and right (Thanks, FFXIV)
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OSU_Matthew posted:
FWIW I found the bmw bike for €160 as opposed to €200 Lego‘s asking, and it sells for 140-150 at some retailers now even.
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Hmm I should see if anyone around here is discounting it.
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It‘s a really fun build, and might be one of the more complex technic builds from recent years, which imo adds to the fun. Lots of stickers of course, but it‘s pretty impressive how much Lego managed to pack into the narrow frame in regard to functions (engine, transmission, drivetrain etc.)
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Carbohydrates posted:Summer 2022 is, so far, the season of disappointing followups to cool series of sets I have enjoyed.
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I don't think there's any console cool looking enough that I want one that doesn't play games. Well, maybe the gamecube.
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tuo posted:What's the feature of the headlights? I assume glow-in-the-dark material? No, it's just how to build the system 3D structure to get the pyramid shape. I thought it was pretty neat how it came together. There are no actual lights in it.
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OperaMouse posted:No, it's just how to build the system 3D structure to get the pyramid shape. I thought it was pretty neat how it came together. It stuck out to me as one of the most complex/interesting sub assemblies I’ve ever done. The doors are good too. But the real reason I have the Lambo is because I have all the other ones so I can’t not have it.
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Chairchucker posted:I don't think there's any console cool looking enough that I want one that doesn't play games. lol I was gonna say probably the only other legoized console I think I might want is the gamecube. (but even then that's kind of just a cube with a handle) Maybe one of the Nintendo hand-helds.
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If lego started including raspberry pi (or equivalent) bricks that actually emulate some of the games that old consoles could play they'd have a cool gimmick going by stuffing it in a replica console.
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OperaMouse posted:No, it's just how to build the system 3D structure to get the pyramid shape. I thought it was pretty neat how it came together. Wait, they didn‘t even use the glow-in-the-dark ABS from the ghost and which was used in the….the…that one theme I just can‘t remember the name (IIRC had an app that did some AR stuff). I thought I red somewhere they did. No Lambo for me, it seems.
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xzzy posted:If lego started including raspberry pi (or equivalent) bricks that actually emulate some of the games that old consoles could play they'd have a cool gimmick going by stuffing it in a replica console. That would have actually been a cool and good thing with the Atari. While I have no idea what Mindstorms was technically based on, if they were able to pull that off (paired with a visual IDE for kids), they could have pulled it off for the Atari. But it would have needed a further use, and I can only assume the games might be in some copyright hell? No idea.
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I’ve got one of those Atari all-in-one retro consoles, wonder if I can pull the board and fit it inside the Lego set. Think it is something like this one https://a.co/d/1kuppmW
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:I appreciate on the Atari set that the little minifigure playing it in the 80s has a very stereotypical wood-paneled room. Peak 80s there. And say what you will about LEGO, they know their target audience very well: 
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I guess that settles if that prong piece they put on the front of a ship is a gun or not.
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^  New smaller Avatar sets just got revealed with much more reasonable price points. They seem pretty decent to me, with the brickheadz being impressively disturbing. I can't rehost the pictures at the moment so this will have to do. https://brickset.com/article/79587/four-avatar-sets-revealed-ahead-of-sdcc
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LEGO 2022: I have all the other ones so I can’t not have it
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My god, Lego has X boxes per year to spend on new elements and they keep wasting them on hideous one-use moulded heads
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I'm sorry sport, but we just can't afford to print key pieces on your hundreds of dollars exclusive set, we've just gotta make room for all these blue horses and extra long arms.
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I'm sure that I am misremembering something but right now Avatar is the least interesting theme they have done in a long time for me.
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Rad Valtar posted:I'm sure that I am misremembering something but right now Avatar is the least interesting theme they have done in a long time for me. Very true to the movie, then.
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Are all those Avatar sets from the first movie? It's been ages since I last saw it and the boxes are branded 'Avatar,' not 'Avatar 2,' or whatever the sequel will be called. Edit: I'm not interested in the sets either, maybe I will be if I see the movie and like it though. The dragons are kinda neat.
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Yes that's all first movie stuff, the second is about going to the beach
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:I'm sorry sport, but we just can't afford to print key pieces on your hundreds of dollars exclusive set, we've just gotta make room for all these blue horses and extra long arms. Lmao that they went to the trouble of bringing the long legs back but just made them completely plain without any decals whatsoever. These sets look extremely 2009, which is oddly fitting.
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Avatar is at very least better than the repulsive Minions theme. The plant parts are the only thing that really draws my attention, maybe in a year or so heavily damaged boxes will be up on ebay going for at least 30% off. Though after a closer look it doesn't seem like many, if any, of the pieces that I want are actually new so I guess I'll probably bricklink some individually instead. The sets seem pretty decent for kids and people who enjoy exceptionally mediocre cgi-fests.
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man, prophet of nixon really took it to the next level with that 11017 build
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I am 8 bags into the Saturn V: This is a very fun and good build and ho boy is there a lot of pices!
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tuo posted:Wait, they didn‘t even use the glow-in-the-dark ABS from the ghost and which was used in the….the…that one theme I just can‘t remember the name (IIRC had an app that did some AR stuff). I thought I red somewhere they did. Hidden Side
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