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

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bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

I hate lighthouses I wish they didn�t exist.

# ? Aug 21, 2022 17:17

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# ? May 28, 2024 05:00

Futanari Damacy: Oct 30, 2021; by sebmojo

bird with big dick posted:

I hate lighthouses I wish they didn�t exist.

Reef spotted

# ? Aug 21, 2022 17:29

Gravitas Shortfall: Jul 17, 2007; Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.

Where's my Annihilation Lego?

# ? Aug 21, 2022 17:44

Dogen: May 5, 2002; Bury my body down by the highwayside, so that my old evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride

Just put some avatar and friends sets in the oven

# ? Aug 21, 2022 19:32

refleks: Nov 21, 2006

Brawnfire posted:

I like lighthouses but I would want mine to have a spiral staircase to the beacon--not a ladder.

If only there was a type of building blocks with 70,000 different parts and they just produced a lighthouse that can be modified easily...

# ? Aug 22, 2022 12:14

Brawnfire: Jul 13, 2004; 🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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Nvm not worth responding to you

Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Aug 22, 2022

# ? Aug 22, 2022 13:03

refleks: Nov 21, 2006

No idea what you wrote, but I was just joking.

Sorry if I offended you...

# ? Aug 22, 2022 13:22

Brawnfire: Jul 13, 2004; 🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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Yeah I was sensing a little mockery with my interpretation, so I deleted my response before I posted something ruder than it warranted.

Your post was "right", of course, but :mad:

# ? Aug 22, 2022 13:29

mastershakeman: Oct 28, 2008; by vyelkin

How would you even build a spiral staircase with bricks? I'm still learning about all these new techniques and my building technique is still child level "just make a box"

# ? Aug 22, 2022 13:55

engessa: Jan 19, 2007

Lego has a special piece for that: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=40243&idColor=85#T=S&O=%7B%22iconly%22:0%7D They use it for example in this set: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=70403-1#T=S&O=%7B%22iconly%22:0%7D

# ? Aug 22, 2022 13:59

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

The modular Book Shop also has a spiral staircase built using 1x5 rounded plates.

# ? Aug 22, 2022 14:07

mastershakeman: Oct 28, 2008; by vyelkin

Doctor Spaceman posted:

The modular Book Shop also has a spiral staircase built using 1x5 rounded plates.

I'll be damned. I love this poo poo and wish there was a better compilation of these types of techniques. I will absolutely recreate this, even if it's with basic 1x4s/1x6s

The special piece is neat but I've never seen it and it's in barely over 1 set a year over the last 20 years, wow

# ? Aug 22, 2022 14:11

refleks: Nov 21, 2006

Brawnfire posted:

Yeah I was sensing a little mockery with my interpretation, so I deleted my response before I posted something ruder than it warranted.

Your post was "right", of course, but

No worries, and sorry again.

# ? Aug 22, 2022 14:51

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

The london bus has a spiral staircase too, fundamentally the same but slightly different technique.

The hard part with a lighhouse stairset would be figuring out a hand rail somehow. Those stiff tubes would certainly be involved but assembling it would be miserable.

# ? Aug 22, 2022 15:10

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

The Treehouse has several spiral staircase sections but the stairs are all attached to a central pole rather than being attached to each other.

# ? Aug 22, 2022 15:27

w00tazn: Dec 25, 2004; I don't say w00t in real life

I thought the spiral stairs on the Downtown Diner were neat too.

# ? Aug 22, 2022 16:29

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

w00tazn posted:

I thought the spiral stairs on the Downtown Diner were neat too.

I liked those cause they were meant to be an old iron staircase.

# ? Aug 22, 2022 17:41

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

yeah that's a perfect design for a lighthouse.

# ? Aug 22, 2022 17:43

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

Yeah that's super good. Nice use of those weird fence pieces too.

# ? Aug 22, 2022 17:49

Brawnfire: Jul 13, 2004; 🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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duz posted:

I liked those cause they were meant to be an old iron staircase.

Oh my God. Oh my. Yeah, this.

# ? Aug 22, 2022 18:24

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

duz posted:

I liked those cause they were meant to be an old iron staircase.

That is super slick.

# ? Aug 22, 2022 18:38

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

Brawnfire posted:

Oh my God. Oh my. Yeah, this.

That tech would require a 9 x 9 internal space in the lighthouse to work, as posted. What you've got is 6 x 6, and that's only if you were able to hollow that sucker out quite a bit, because it has a lot of internal walls to support the exterior - so the actual usable interior space, as-is, is 4 x 4. They really had no choice but to use ladders.

I came up with my own take on an iron staircase a while back using Technic 1/2 liftarms as the steps that's slightly more compact than the amazing one in Downtown Diner, but it would still need a 7 x 7 space.

# ? Aug 22, 2022 20:25

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

Kinda been thinking about that castle.

Also, any rumors on the winter village set? Should be in the next few weeks, right?

# ? Aug 23, 2022 07:31

refleks: Nov 21, 2006

duz posted:

I liked those cause they were meant to be an old iron staircase.

That is beautiful.

Is it considered an ILLEGAL building technique of the 1x1 circle to be jammed into the fencing?

# ? Aug 23, 2022 13:25

HootTheOwl: May 13, 2012; Hootin and shootin

refleks posted:

That is beautiful.

Is it considered an ILLEGAL building technique of the 1x1 circle to be jammed into the fencing?

The authorities have been notified.
Just in case.

# ? Aug 23, 2022 13:31

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

refleks posted:

That is beautiful.

Is it considered an ILLEGAL building technique of the 1x1 circle to be jammed into the fencing?

Nope. The fence was designed so its texture could function as antistuds. It's been used that way in sets since the 90s, and possibly earier.

# ? Aug 23, 2022 14:01

Tony Sorete: Jun 19, 2011; Manager de rock

Much earlier than that: https://brickset.com/sets/673-1/Rally-Car-and-Motorbike

# ? Aug 23, 2022 14:24

Lewd Mangabey: Jun 2, 2011; "What sort of ape?" asked Stephen.
"A damned ill-conditioned sort of an ape. It had a can of ale at every pot-house on the road, and is reeling drunk. It has been offering itself to Babbington."

Tony Sorete posted:

OH GOD MY LEGS

# ? Aug 23, 2022 14:47

Futanari Damacy: Oct 30, 2021; by sebmojo

Policeman with proto-spaceman helmet :hmmyes:

"I've got it- Space Police" :pcgaming:

# ? Aug 23, 2022 15:42

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

Futanari Damacy posted:

Policeman with proto-spaceman helmet

"I've got it- Space Police"

And they're apparently helping a rally car in the middle of a race? Class act but I do wonder wtf a cop is doing on what should be a closed route.

# ? Aug 23, 2022 15:49

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

xzzy posted:

And they're apparently helping a rally car in the middle of a race? Class act but I do wonder wtf a cop is doing on what should be a closed route.

The cop is doing what cops everywhere do in real life: whatever the gently caress they want. :cop:

# ? Aug 23, 2022 16:26

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Lewd Mangabey posted:

OH GOD MY LEGS

STOP RESISTING

# ? Aug 23, 2022 17:40

The Voice of Labor: Apr 8, 2020

Tony Sorete posted:

Much earlier than that: https://brickset.com/sets/673-1/Rally-Car-and-Motorbike

my god that's beautiful. looks like something I would make

# ? Aug 23, 2022 21:43

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

Well that's the weirdest VIP bonus I've ever got.. 60515. A bag of pirate themed random parts? Which is cool and all but I'm surprised it's not even a small tropical island type diorama build.

# ? Aug 23, 2022 21:51

mentholmoose: Nov 5, 2009; YKNOW THERES ONLY ONE DIRECTION I KNOW AND THATS DRIVIN STRAIGHT TO THE NET

xzzy posted:

Well that's the weirdest VIP bonus I've ever got.. 60515. A bag of pirate themed random parts? Which is cool and all but I'm surprised it's not even a small tropical island type diorama build.

Yeah, I got that too when I bought the Galaxy Explorer (which should be here Thursday :toot:

). I figure I�ll use it to spice up the Black Seas Barracuda I have mostly together on display. Could go great with Pirates of Barracuda Bay too.

# ? Aug 23, 2022 22:00

Jehde: Apr 21, 2010

Tony Sorete posted:

Much earlier than that: https://brickset.com/sets/673-1/Rally-Car-and-Motorbike

I kinda want this set to round out my rally car collection, but to keep my self sane I limited myself to sets where the minifig actually fit inside the car.

# ? Aug 23, 2022 23:34