Lego thread: Shiiiiiiiit, I don't got the money for this.

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Futanari Damacy: Oct 30, 2021; by sebmojo

I like the old crater baseplates. They should bring those back!

# ? Aug 5, 2022 23:46

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# ? May 29, 2024 21:00

Blue Moonlight: Apr 28, 2005; Bitter and Sarcastic

Waltzing Along posted:

I haven't finished the new GE yet. Just a bag to go. However, I can say that the OG GE is better.

The new GE should be smaller and it needs something like the originals base plates. Part of the reason the original is so great is it has a landing pad and a small communications building along with terrain to play on.

Sure the new one has some really cool build techniques and looks nice. But in making something so big they missed out on part of the appeal of the original.

There were a bunch of Classic Space sets that had terrain plates or landing plates. But the Galaxy Explorer had both along with a cool ship.

It's weird how building this new one makes me want to pull the other one out and build that instead.

What�s weird is disassembling the OG GE.

Just kidding. Agreed on the baseplate - I would have liked to have seen them here too, but I�m pretty sure at this point, LEGO wishes they could figure out how to ship even modulars without them.

# ? Aug 5, 2022 23:50

Waltzing Along: Jun 14, 2008; There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here

Use a grey baseplate. Make the GE about 3/4 or 2/3 the size. And brick build/snot a landing pad and some hilly terrain in the corner.

Done. A better homage to the OG set.

# ? Aug 6, 2022 01:54

HootTheOwl: May 13, 2012; Hootin and shootin

3 succulents in. My garden is growing!

# ? Aug 6, 2022 02:03

Waltzing Along: Jun 14, 2008; There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here

Thats succs.

# ? Aug 6, 2022 02:52

HootTheOwl: May 13, 2012; Hootin and shootin

Waltzing Along posted:

Thats succs.

It's a real succzone

# ? Aug 6, 2022 03:04

Habibi: Dec 8, 2004; We have the capability to make San Jose's first Cup Champion.

The Sharks could be that Champion.

Thicc succs

# ? Aug 6, 2022 05:46

Tarquinn: Jul 3, 2007; I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you
my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.; Hell Gem

Futanari Damacy posted:

I like the old crater baseplates. They should bring those back!

Have you seen what they have done to road plates??

# ? Aug 6, 2022 08:55

Futanari Damacy: Oct 30, 2021; by sebmojo

Tarquinn posted:

Have you seen what they have done to road plates??

Yeah they stopped selling them years ago. Got these brickbuilt roads now though...

# ? Aug 6, 2022 10:46

Deus Ex Macklemore: Jul 2, 2004; Zelensky's Zealots

Carbohydrates posted:

1968 Dodge Dart Hemi Superstock

Now that the Speed Champions DB5 is out and we finally have light gray mudguard pieces, I can build the legendary 68 Hemi Dart. I'm actually gonna talk about the car a little bit this time because this thing is rad.

The Hemi Dart was Dodge sticking their largest engine, the 426 Hemi, into their smallest car, the Dart. They built it as a semi complete frame and sent it to Hurst Performance for finishing. Hurst built these cars a custom suspension and exhaust and moved the battery to the trunk to fit all that engine. To save weight, they fitted them with polymer windows and fiberglass hoods and fenders. They acid dipped body panels to shave weight. They omitted anything that didn't add to performance: heaters, radios, armrests, insulation, carpet, consoles, all of it stripped out.

This was a street legal car that you could buy from a dealership, albeit without a warranty. That said, they were mostly intended to end up on the track. They shipped with no paint, just primer gray with black gelcoat on the front to protect the bodywork, on the assumption that racing teams would just repaint them anyway, so why bother finishing them? They weighed barely 3,000 lbs and made 425 BHP. With a tiny bit of tuning, they could make a quarter mile in the 9 second range. They were dominant in class B superstock racing racing for years. Only 80 were made, and they're worth a ton now, especially if they have the original primer & gelcoat.

This is fantastic. Thank you for all of this.

# ? Aug 6, 2022 15:12

The Voice of Labor: Apr 8, 2020

Futanari Damacy posted:

Yeah they stopped selling them years ago. Got these brickbuilt roads now though...

don't knock the new roads. if you want a 6 stud wide scaled road, it's right there. if you want an 8 stud scaled road with a curb or a sidewalk or a shoulder or a median you can mash two of them together. it's a p' good foundation, especially if you're doing 8 wide cars and want your roads to have some real road ambiance, but it does require an obscene amount of 2x4 grey tiles

# ? Aug 7, 2022 00:15

Carbohydrates: Nov 22, 2006; Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog.
Law don't go around here.
Savvy?

Flyinglemur posted:

This is fantastic. Thank you for all of this.

Hey, sure! I usually just talk about the build but I really like the real car behind this one.

# ? Aug 7, 2022 14:38

Futanari Damacy: Oct 30, 2021; by sebmojo

Carbohydrates posted:

Hey, sure! I usually just talk about the build but I really like the real car behind this one.

Yeah that was really interesting actually. I�m curious, has there ever been a build you wanted to do but just couldn�t get the design to where you liked it (excluding a limitation like a particular piece not being available in a given colour)?

I imagine a Tucker Torpedo would be hard to get right (itself one of the coolest cars of all time)

# ? Aug 7, 2022 15:24

Carbohydrates: Nov 22, 2006; Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog.
Law don't go around here.
Savvy?

Futanari Damacy posted:

Yeah that was really interesting actually. I�m curious, has there ever been a build you wanted to do but just couldn�t get the design to where you liked it (excluding a limitation like a particular piece not being available in a given colour)?

I imagine a Tucker Torpedo would be hard to get right (itself one of the coolest cars of all time)

Yeah, plenty. I tend to look at whatever I think will be the most iconic or most difficult part of a car and start there, and if I can't nail that part, then there's almost no point in going through with the whole build beyond that. There have been plenty I start, work on, and abandon, and some that I've come back to months or years later with new ideas to pick up and finish.

Some that I've given up on (for now) include the 1972 Toyota Crown, the 1966 Plymouth Barracuda, the 1973 Olds Delta 88 from Evil Dead, and the 1960 Fiat 500.

Some that I initially gave up on but then returned to and finished include the 2000 Plymouth Prowler, the 1999 Mercury Cougar, the 1977 Pontiac Trans Am, and the 1964 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt. The Prowler is a specific example of one that I only figured out when a new piece was released that I ended up using.

# ? Aug 7, 2022 15:41

Lizard Combatant: Sep 29, 2010; I have some notes.

Carbohydrates posted:

1972 Toyota Crown

Oh come on, you gotta finish that one

I mean, I have zero idea how you'd actually pull that off, but y'know...

# ? Aug 7, 2022 17:12

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

Heh. He's at it again

https://twitter.com/legodoumoko/status/1556272560995647488

# ? Aug 7, 2022 20:18

Scipiotik: Mar 2, 2004; "I would have won the race but for that."

Galaxy explorer is a must buy. Especially if you grew up with classic space.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 03:40

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

Scipiotik posted:

Galaxy explorer is a must buy. Especially if you grew up with classic space.

It's actually not sold out on the lego store either. Either lego printed a billion of them or no one gives a poo poo.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 03:57

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Maybe it's true that no one cares about classic space which means it will never come back.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 04:48

Futanari Damacy: Oct 30, 2021; by sebmojo

I voted for Blacktron, Ice Planet, and Paradisa :shrug:

# ? Aug 8, 2022 05:08

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

Cojawfee posted:

Maybe it's true that no one cares about classic space which means it will never come back.

But the ones that do care are insanely loud so it will never die.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 05:45

Waltzing Along: Jun 14, 2008; There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here

Cojawfee posted:

Maybe it's true that no one cares about bionicle which means it will never come back.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 07:55

Tarquinn: Jul 3, 2007; I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you
my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.; Hell Gem

Futanari Damacy posted:

I voted for Blacktron, Ice Planet, and Paradisa

You monster!

Blacktron's cool though.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 08:39

Attestant: Oct 23, 2012; Don't judge me.

Space stuff is always kinda grouped by generation. They'd have to do first UFO or Insectoids again to hit my personal nostalgia.

The Galaxy Explorer does nothing for me, because I wasn't even born when the line was introduced. :shrug:

# ? Aug 8, 2022 08:58

tuo: Jun 17, 2016

Bring back the Light and Sound Spaceship. Give me one last chance to visit my parents and drive them crazy with it while they are still alive!

# ? Aug 8, 2022 09:12

Tarquinn: Jul 3, 2007; I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you
my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.; Hell Gem

Attestant posted:

Space stuff is always kinda grouped by generation. They'd have to do first UFO or Insectoids again to hit my personal nostalgia.

The Galaxy Explorer does nothing for me, because I wasn't even born when the line was introduced.

Yeah, true. This anniversary was for the 80's, the 100 year anniversary will feature stuff from the 90's and after that it will be Star Wars till the end. :v:

# ? Aug 8, 2022 09:20

Koramei: Nov 11, 2011; I have three regrets
The first is to be born in Joseon.

I dunno honestly, I was thinking the same thing at first but looking at the reviews, there's something about the way the ship is built that hits kind of old-lego vibes in a way that's absent from modern sets. Classic Space was well before my time but the way the interior of the set and its cockpit and so on come together definitely hit my nostalgia buttons a bit.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 12:34

HootTheOwl: May 13, 2012; Hootin and shootin

Drake no: classic space
Drake yes: Explorians

# ? Aug 8, 2022 12:43

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

As long as I get my UCS aquasharks in ten years, I'm fine.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 13:20

PowerBeard: Sep 4, 2011

Where are the Bionicles?

I can't believe that Lego would rig the outcome of the votes!

# ? Aug 8, 2022 14:12

BaconCopter: Feb 13, 2008

When is Neo-Galidor coming out??!?!!

# ? Aug 8, 2022 19:34

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

Yeah classic space was before my time though if there were similar remaster sets of Blacktron it would be hard to resist.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 23:03

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

I am obligated to like classic space because of my age, but Futuron and Blacktron are way better looks. Probably best left in the past though, come up with some new space stuff please.

Plus that's when we got visors which is little kid crack.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 23:30

Scipiotik: Mar 2, 2004; "I would have won the race but for that."

I'd take reimagined blacktron if it's of the same quality as the galaxy explorer.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 23:47

ChesterJT: Dec 28, 2003; Mounty Pumper's Flying Circus

If you live near a costco and have a membership already they have the new noodle shop for $35 and that big rear end ninjago centaur robot thing for $55. Regular $45 and $80 from what I'm seeing.

# ? Aug 9, 2022 00:25

BaconCopter: Feb 13, 2008

Someone got the yet to be announced 76405 Hogwarts Express Collector's Edition shipped to them instead of the Lion Knight's Castle that they ordered. The train looks fantastic, too bad about all of the Harry Potter stuff attached to it :v:

# ? Aug 9, 2022 00:56

Xenomrph: Dec 9, 2005; AvP Nerd/Fanboy/Shill

I went to the Lego store to get Lego Mario stuff and walked out with the Speed Champions DB5 and the Mercedes AMG two-pack, and it�s all your guys� fault.

THANKS A LOT, ASSHOLES.

# ? Aug 9, 2022 01:24

Kazzah: Jul 15, 2011; Formerly known as
Krazyface; Hair Elf

No-one wants to buy onicle

# ? Aug 9, 2022 01:44

Deus Ex Macklemore: Jul 2, 2004; Zelensky's Zealots

BaconCopter posted:

Someone got the yet to be announced 76405 Hogwarts Express Collector's Edition shipped to them instead of the Lion Knight's Castle that they ordered. The train looks fantastic, too bad about all of the Harry Potter stuff attached to it

true but a LOT of other, not terrible people also make money off of the franchise. I know that She Who Must Not Be Named is a garbage person but that franchise is vast.

I'm not defending her, nor am I going to buy any of the HP stuff, just making conversation. It's hard to separate the art from the artist sometimes.

# ? Aug 9, 2022 02:00

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# ? May 29, 2024 21:00

Meaty Ore: Dec 17, 2011; My God, it's full of cat pictures!

ChesterJT posted:

If you live near a costco and have a membership already they have the new noodle shop for $35 and that big rear end ninjago centaur robot thing for $55. Regular $45 and $80 from what I'm seeing.

I got this over the weekend and put it together alongside the other 3-in-1 modulars, the townhouse pet shop/cafe and the toy store. I think it's a bit unfortunate that neither of the smaller kits fit well against the cafe side of the larger one, at least not in their main configuration. Both work well abutting the pet shop, however.

I also managed to pick up the 1700-piece Space Mission assortment for $55. For some reason my local costco had them set out something like one or two weeks before they were available direct from Lego.

# ? Aug 9, 2022 04:33

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