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I don't have the Camaro but I did the Porsche this summer, it's very good. Not the best creator expert car ever but it's well made and looks great built (better than in pictures).
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I like the Porsche, but the pickup was a better build, IMO.
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Did they raise the price on mos eisley 50 bucks? I could have sworn I paid $350 for it when it came out and now it’s 400 on the LEGO site
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Sep 3, 2022 23:12
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Porche is nice, but I'm kind of disappointed that swapping it between the models isn't more elegant.
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Check your local Costco, today, mine had what appeared to be some decent deals. The Vespa Scooter and The Batman Batmobile for $79.99. Looks like that’s 20% off regular price. They had a bunch of other sets as well, but those were the two that caught my eye. If I hadn’t just ordered the Porsche, I might have gotten the Vespa. Looked kinda interesting. I thought about the batmobile for a second, but figured there was no way it could compare to the 1989 Batmobile.
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Started building Starry Night, and just figuring out what color a piece is supposed to be is almost half the work.
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veni veni veni posted:Did they raise the price on mos eisley 50 bucks? I could have sworn I paid $350 for it when it came out and now it’s 400 on the LEGO site I definitely paid $350 for it about 5 months ago so it must have gone up in price.
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Lord Hydronium posted:Started building Starry Night, and just figuring out what color a piece is supposed to be is almost half the work. I said more than once "see, that's why I don't enjoy painting" during that build, holding the instructions very close to my face with squinted eyes.
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Orvin posted:Just checking, but I vaguely remember skimming the thread and reading that the Porsche 911 is a good follow up to the creator Mustang. And that the Camaro was not so great.
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Lord Hydronium posted:Started building Starry Night, and just figuring out what color a piece is supposed to be is almost half the work. When you get to the bag that's 95% 4x1 plates slowly layering up for the background, you're supposed to have some random pieces left over at the end. There's a note of that at the end of the instructions for that part, which I didn't notice until after ~15 minutes of rechecking my work assuming I had missed a layer.
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Star Sprite  (black piece there just to hold it up cause it’s so back heavy) The original  Mostly rebuilt it cause I was having a bitch of a time finding pieces in my big ole tub of parts.
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Carbohydrates posted:If you read harsh Camaro opinions, they were likely mine. It's not, like, outright bad or anything - it even does some pretty cool new stuff - but the 911 you picked up is a way more interesting build, for sure. Good to know that I wasn’t mixing sets up in my head.
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a sexual elk posted:Star Sprite May as well stop trying to find those parts because yours is cooler anyways.
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Sep 4, 2022 16:18
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I think I like the gun placement/design on the original more, but I really like the twin fuselage tail-wing thing that sexual elk did.
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Sep 4, 2022 16:22
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Yeah the original was based on the P-38 so took my inspiration from there.
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https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/get-moving-with-mattel-s-mega-pokemon-motion-pikachu-building-set/ This whips.
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HootTheOwl posted:https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/get-moving-with-mattel-s-mega-pokemon-motion-pikachu-building-set/ There is also a Gyarados https://unboxed.megaconstrux.com/en-us/build/playsets/motion-gyarados_1
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Sounds like Starry Night is more suited to a paint-by-numbers style of corresponding a particular part colour to that number, rather than having to interpret the printed instructions (which I personally have trouble reading at the best of times)
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MarxCarl posted:There is also a Gyarados https://unboxed.megaconstrux.com/en-us/build/playsets/motion-gyarados_1 Exploring that brought me to this which is not Pokemon but still very cool. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B099ZFHKQK/ref=sspa_mw_detail_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9kZXRhaWw
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Futanari Damacy posted:Sounds like Starry Night is more suited to a paint-by-numbers style of corresponding a particular part colour to that number, rather than having to interpret the printed instructions (which I personally have trouble reading at the best of times) I feel that for something like starry night they should change their bag setup. Number the bags, but for the 1x1 colored pieces, just say bag 1 is red, 2 is blue and so on. Then have a bag = color key in the instructions. Of course that's too complex for lego instructions that still don't have a key that tells what page a bag starts on.
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Waltzing Along posted:I feel that for something like starry night they should change their bag setup. Number the bags, but for the 1x1 colored pieces, just say bag 1 is red, 2 is blue and so on. Then have a bag = color key in the instructions. That's how the mosaic sets work, they also have you build a color key alongside numbers that match up with numbers printed in the instructions to aid in color recognition. It is a good system and it does sound like they should have done something similar for starry night.
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Any of you car people interested in this incomplete set? Got it in one of my bulk buys and don’t really need it and haven’t been able to sell it. Happy to send it off to a good home for free.  
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HootTheOwl posted:The skull should be in the front The skull should also be missing a couple of teeth
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tomapot posted:Any of you car people interested in this incomplete set? Got it in one of my bulk buys and don’t really need it and haven’t been able to sell it. Happy to send it off to a good home for free. Is it just missing the printed canopies? That’s weird.
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smackfu posted:Is it just missing the printed canopies? That’s weird. There were a couple pieces missing when I rebuilt but yeah the canopies were the big items. It came in a box from some family that was moving away so I assume it got chewed on by the kids or lost somewhere along the way.
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tomapot posted:Any of you car people interested in this incomplete set? Got it in one of my bulk buys and don’t really need it and haven’t been able to sell it. Happy to send it off to a good home for free. Also, I made a thing for my partner. We're thinking of selling off the last of our official sets to make more room for MOCs, and Bun wants something to remember Parisian Restaurant by, so here's a micro one to fit in our tiny city!   We started by looking for one that Bun would like on Rebrickable, assuming plenty of other people would have made a mini Parisian by now. We didn't find one that I was totally satisfied with, so I took a couple specific ideas that I really liked and built up my own version. Specific credit to Chricki for the front of the roof and fgee for the first and second floor front window arrangements.
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Finished up Starry Night. The build process itself was only okay, with a lot of similar colors and repetitive sections, but the end model looks really cool, so it's a win in my book. It uses a lot of great colors too, and this set seems like it would be a good part resource for some of the less common ones. The big wall of blue is probably my least favorite part, but they do separate the four shades of blue 1x4s by bag, so that made it easier, if not any less tedious. The fact that it can be hung is pretty neat, though not sure yet if I want to do that or put it on a surface (also you can't really have the van Gogh minifig on the hanging version, it sticks out a lot). I'd be interested in seeing what they can do with other art pieces in the future, though I wonder what ones would be good choices. You'd want something iconic, with simple enough design to be represented in Lego and lots of depth to do different layers. I was thinking that A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte could be interesting. If they wanted to stick with MOMA, maybe Christina's World (though that might get a little boring with all that brown in the field), or I wonder if you could pull off Persistence of Memory in Lego?
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I don’t know what the source material on that but it’s awesome as hell. Reminds me of wing commander.
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Dogen posted:I don’t know what the source material on that but it’s awesome as hell. Reminds me of wing commander. Pretty sure he said it was the p38 lightning. A US warplane from WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-38_Lightning
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I think they mean the original set they didn't build, which is a star wars set which I think that was based on the P38, so Elk took further inspiration from when rebuilding.
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Waltzing Along posted:Pretty sure he said it was the p38 lightning. A US warplane from WWII. No I meant, whatever a Star Sprite is, which was inspired by the P38 I guess? Assuming it’s not OP’s original creation Oxyclean posted:I think they mean the original set they didn't build, which is a star wars set which I think that was based on the P38, so Elk took further inspiration from when rebuilding? Ah ok, no familiarity with that set whatsoever.
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Yeah I didn't recognize it as a Star Wars set either, had to reverse image search. Guess it's some EU thing.
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Sorry for the confusion haha
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What a sick fighter! Easily a ton cooler than the official set. It gives me some great bounty hunter vibes, which is exactly where I'm at anyway. I've been building a MOC in the vein of a secret bounty hunter hideout/base and keep on running into the feeling that the grays (and sand blue) that I'm mainly using are giving it more of an Imperial setting. I guess Star Wars will be Star Wars... maybe I should turn up the grit/industrial levels? Or maybe I should just turn it into a secret Imperial facility. Hmmmm... Edit: The next batch of Ideas qualifiers was announced, with some seriously cool sets making it to the next phase. https://ideas.lego.com/s/bp:8ddbf90364e748219cac3eee6030fe63 BaconCopter fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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BaconCopter posted:Edit: The next batch of Ideas qualifiers was announced, with some seriously cool sets making it to the next phase. https://ideas.lego.com/s/bp:8ddbf90364e748219cac3eee6030fe63 Definitely rooting for the Japanese village, simply based on the fact that it would give me an excuse to expand the main display in my living room even further.
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BaconCopter posted:Edit: The next batch of Ideas qualifiers was announced, with some seriously cool sets making it to the next phase. https://ideas.lego.com/s/bp:8ddbf90364e748219cac3eee6030fe63 I'm still hoping that the Brick Lane tube station from the first 2022 intake is approved for production, I love the small footprint/multi-level look
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Dang, that's a lineup. I like the Airship but don't really care for a set that size being motorized with the light house's price.
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BaconCopter posted:Edit: The next batch of Ideas qualifiers was announced, with some seriously cool sets making it to the next phase. https://ideas.lego.com/s/bp:8ddbf90364e748219cac3eee6030fe63
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Didn’t know I needed a little mushroom house with acorn hats and a snail mounted fruit merchant until right now
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