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RatHat posted:The horse is an odd choice Why the horse and not Gollum, say?
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Come Photoshop, show us the meaning of fake
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Oct 24, 2022 14:05
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It's a pony. Bill the Pony is with the Fellowship from Rivendell to Moria while Gollum doesn't appear until after the Fellowship has broken.
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Oct 24, 2022 14:07
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RatHat posted:The horse is an odd choice I will not stand for this slander against Bill the pony. 
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Oct 24, 2022 14:19
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's a pony. Um actually, Gollum was trailing the Fellowship for some time during this period and is considered by many to be the 10th Beatle.
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Oct 24, 2022 14:26
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Carbohydrates posted:It's fake. Originally posted as MOCs on... I think Eurobricks? Creator wasn't trying to fool anyone, either, but someone reposted them as a "leak" I guess. Ah, sorry for sharing it then!
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Oct 24, 2022 19:05
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It’s fine other than now I’m mad I can’t buy an official Bill the pony. Countdown to unnecessarily large Bag End set….
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Oct 24, 2022 19:12
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UCS Bill the Pony, but they gently caress up the proportions so bad it looks like a llama.
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Oct 24, 2022 19:13
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BaconCopter posted:UCS Bill the Pony, but they gently caress up the proportions so bad it looks like a llama. $700 but it sells well because he has a butthole
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Oct 24, 2022 19:15
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:$700 but it sells well because he has a butthole The butthole is made of pink frogs.
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Oct 24, 2022 19:16
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 Kingdom Hearts has neat architecture and it's one of Bun's favorite game series, so it's a fun one to build. This is the castle from the Land of Departure from KH BBS & 3. It has a surprising number of visual differences between those two appearances, so this one's kind of a hybrid between those two appearances - especially since most of the reference material I could find showing the sides was only available from 3.   It was also designed to look nice next to the Twilight Town clock tower I built with consistent stylization: both sit on a black base of the same thickness (the Land of Departure's base is shaped like a Mickey head), and both have even-more-microscale caricatured representations of their surroundings built into the base. I'm very pleased with how these look together! 
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Oct 24, 2022 19:17
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Butterfly Valley posted:Ah, sorry for sharing it then! https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/in...roduct-concept/
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Oct 24, 2022 19:18
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RatHat posted:The horse is an odd choice HootTheOwl posted:Odder then not one but two rocks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PreffqwJQlc&t=31s Carbohydrates posted:It's fake. Originally posted as MOCs on... I think Eurobricks? Creator wasn't trying to fool anyone, either, but someone reposted them as a "leak" I guess.
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Oct 24, 2022 19:35
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I can't see anything in that clip except Aragon's sour face. Dude must be so dang done with Boromir ripping rear end in front of him.
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Oct 24, 2022 19:44
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's a pony. drat, you're probably right. Fatty Lumpkin had a better intro though
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Oct 24, 2022 20:04
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Zedd posted:This year made me really want to be back into Lego, and I bought 3 sets; and started rebuilding all my childhood Lego. I've been getting back into childhood sets for a bit now, and now I'm starting to come up with some esoteric bits that are missing and some weird bits that somehow found their way into my collection without a full set. For instance, I have one of these in grey and the two sets that include it are awesome, but I've never seen either. On the flipside, I'm pretty sure I had this set and have the nose cone to prove it, but am sadly missing this damned keystone piece. Trying to pace myself with figuring how deep I want to reach to make the collection whole vs just give it up. Fake edit: in the course of making this post, I've realized I mistook the first posted piece and it appears to be a very similar piece from this fucker. This I have a vague memory of. Time to hunt for pieces.
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Oct 24, 2022 20:24
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Ratatozsk posted:I've been getting back into childhood sets for a bit now, and now I'm starting to come up with some esoteric bits that are missing and some weird bits that somehow found their way into my collection without a full set. For instance, I have one of these in grey and the two sets that include it are awesome, but I've never seen either. Google lens is your friend, it really helped me a lot with figuring out those old childhood sets. I have a twin so a ton of the sets I simply didn't remember even though they were the same year as mine.
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Oct 24, 2022 20:28
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I keep looking at reviews of this giant Hulkbuster because I am so enthralled by how this disaster of a product got made. I've learned a couple things. Due to its release year and the lead time of LEGO sets, we know this was made when LEGO designers were working from home during Covid. It seems that designers were deliberately assigned particularly huge sets so that their solo work would not be "wasted" on smaller / lower piece count sets. I've been looking for citations or further explanations as to how EXACTLY this makes any sense, but it seems that it was at least a deliberate choice. I was first clued into this by a poster on the PAB/B&P discord who claimed to hear it in an interview, but was unable to find the source. Secondly, it appears that these large, high price point, pandemic-era sets were more or less solo ventures. If you check out Ashnflash's super unhappy review, he points out a few specific fragile and unsupported connections and mentions how he's personally never seen stuff like that make it into a LEGO set before. Standard LEGO sets not designed during the pandemic have engineers and quality assurance staff that examine and test sets to make sure they hold up to certain design standards. Depending on the set and its target audience, this can include heating up the set to see if parts fail under different temperature conditions, just as an example of how much this stuff (sometimes) gets stress tested. If this set was, again, more of a solo venture, it could be that there WAS no extra oversight (or, maybe, just less of it) on these sorts of things, and the designer was therefore more free to use whatever techniques yielded the finished look they were shooting for. Some supporting evidence on this theory comes from Mark Stafford, designer of the Black Panther bust, who had this to say about working on it: quote:Designed during COVID lockdown. I was allowed to work in my LEGO basement at home as it is not visible from outside the building. I think it may have benefited from input from other designers, maybe cleaner builds or reaching solutions faster than working alone. However I'm happy with the final look and I'm proud to have worked on this LEGO set. This quote heavily implies (but does not outright claim, so please consider this to be just speculation) that Stafford pretty much did the design work alone. I am NOT claiming that there were no engineers looking at these sets and no testing done on them, but I AM saying it seems as if far fewer eyes were on them during the design process, which led to a lack of different or alternative solutions considered for elements of these builds.
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Oct 24, 2022 20:55
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The new big ticket sets essentially being LEGO Designer MOCs rather than tested products makes a whole lot of sense, and hopefully means that they're blips on the radar rather than indications of something gone awry on the big sets.
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Oct 24, 2022 21:14
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Even with pre pandemic sets LEGO seems to have much lower standards for durability with adult targeted sets. Most of them are covered in fragile bits that can easily get knocked off and you’d rarely see that in sets that are meant to be played with. It’s hard to move the Falcon across the room without finding some mystery bits on the floor. I use the empty compartment on mine to store pieces that fell off and I couldn’t figure out where they went lol.
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Oct 24, 2022 22:05
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Swooshing too hard
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Carbohydrates posted:I keep looking at reviews of this giant Hulkbuster because I am so enthralled by how this disaster of a product got made. I also find stuff like this endlessly fascinating so thanks for putting that together. I don't think any of it excuses the issues, and in fact, the visible inaccuracies seem LESS likely to happen under those circumstances, but it is understandable background. Lego as a brand right now though is loosing me. I'd love to know if there's any awareness in the company that the mood seems to shifting or if it's just a chronic online POV and things are fine really.
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Oct 24, 2022 23:59
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PriorMarcus posted:I also find stuff like this endlessly fascinating so thanks for putting that together. I don't think any of it excuses the issues, and in fact, the visible inaccuracies seem LESS likely to happen under those circumstances, but it is understandable background. They basically lost me as well. Upping prices 25% in a pandemic when they had set profit records really showed me who the company was now. Sets are cool, but really I have enough. I basically only get cool speed champions or stuff for my kids. Their profits are high so I doubt they care. Will be interesting to see if they get burned hard by COVID being "over" and people returning to life outside the home.
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Scipiotik posted:They basically lost me as well. Upping prices 25% in a pandemic when they had set profit records really showed me who the company was now. Sets are cool, but really I have enough. I basically only get cool speed champions or stuff for my kids. I think what really has killed my interest is the total lack of forward momentum that their financial success has led too. They still can't print light colours on darker pieces well, they still can't colour match well or print the manuals well. Stickers are everywhere in massive sets despite some stickers I have from 6 year old sets turning to dust. Light bricks still only come in one, unsuitable colour. Etc. It honestly seems like they don't care and think consumers will gleefully eat up whatever they serve. I've bought the modular, the Delorean, the Sanctum and eventually the Lighthouse this year. In past years I was buying a big set a month.
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Oct 25, 2022 00:50
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This might be a shot in the dark but does anybody have the Doctor Who Lego Dimensions pack with the tiny TARDIS for sell? I just became aware this exists and I would love one for my collection and probably a second for my best friend that would nerd out over this.
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Apologies for the lovely photo quality but I finished my extension of the Lantern Festival / mod of Brickative's Noodle Shop MOC and wanted to share    I made a few changes since the earlier version (it's moved a stud back, the internal area has been raised and slightly rearranged, there are some banners over the alley, the back stairs now have some railings courtesy of Space Cadet, etc) and I'm probably replacing the red lattice windows with grey when they arrive. Happy with how it turned out. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Oct 25, 2022 06:57
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Currently rearranging (nice word for cleaning the mess up) my shelves and drat I need some more red wheeled stuff in there. Hope some discounts on the Ferrari Daytona drop soon :/ Seems to be a nice build, but I seem to remember there's an error in the instructions in regard to the diffusor? What was that exactly again?
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That image is breaking my brain with the side by side Lego and actual models lol I think the bug was fixed in the online manuals at least. I’m waiting on the Daytona too but have the Sian still unbuilt and holy poo poo those are as long as the 1989 batmobile? Thought they’d be somewhat between Creator Expert and that. Doctor Spaceman posted:Apologies for the lovely photo quality but I finished my extension of the Lantern Festival / mod of Brickative's Noodle Shop MOC and wanted to share That owns, made me put the noodle shop on my wishlist twice.
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Zwille posted:I think the bug was fixed in the online manuals at least. I’m waiting on the Daytona too but have the Sian still unbuilt and holy poo poo those are as long as the 1989 batmobile? Thought they’d be somewhat between Creator Expert and that. They are as close to 1:8 as it's possible in Technic, thus fitting quite well with actual metal kits. It's nuts though that they quickly approach or even outprice Pocher 1:8 stuff (e: I mean, the Pocher cars consist of a solid metal structure, and are painted with the actual color the real companies use for those cars, with separate clear coat etc....well, at least the metal parts, they hosed up the Duc in that regard, as the red plastic pieces do not match the red metal fuel tank, as the plastic seems to be not opaque enough and the paint layer on it too thin)...then again, Pocher is also going kinda crazy. As much as I want the new Lotus 72D, it's way out of range of what I'm willing to spend. tuo fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Rythe posted:This might be a shot in the dark but does anybody have the Doctor Who Lego Dimensions pack with the tiny TARDIS for sell? I just became aware this exists and I would love one for my collection and probably a second for my best friend that would nerd out over this. Where do you live? I'm in the UK and currently moving house, so I probably won't find it for a few weeks but I have a spare knocking around you can have for the cost of postage.
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PriorMarcus posted:Where do you live? I'm in the UK and currently moving house, so I probably won't find it for a few weeks but I have a spare knocking around you can have for the cost of postage. I'm in the US but have zero issues paying to have it shipped plus whatever you want for it.
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Oct 25, 2022 12:11
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I watched a few reviews of the Hulkbuster and it doesn’t seem that awful to me and it is certainly huge when you put it next to almost any other set. Seems like poseability plus no gaps is very hard in Lego.
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Oct 25, 2022 12:50
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smackfu posted:I watched a few reviews of the Hulkbuster and it doesn’t seem that awful to me and it is certainly huge when you put it next to almost any other set. Seems like poseability plus no gaps is very hard in Lego. Which begets the question of what‘s preferable in an expensive UCS set. It‘s a tough compromise to make for sure. No way to please everyone.
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The Hulkbuster is also weirdly off-model in a bunch of areas. Some of that is due to poseability, some of that is due to the (questionable) inclusion of the ability to place the buildable figure inside but neither of those apply to the shins/ankles/feet and they just look wrong.
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It's weird to see such a negative reaction to something Lego has put out there. Especially something associated with one of the licences, as I always expect nerd hype to conquer all. Im not au fait with the non Lego Marvel fandom, but I wonder how popular something like this is amongst that community? Like others here, ive not fallen out of Lego of late, but I feel like the company as a whole is losing a bit of focus, whilst simultaneously seeing just how far they can stretch things on price and how much the market will take (if that makes sense). There's a real weird mix of really good sets (the Castle, the Galaxy Explorer and pretty much the whole Friends line) and some really phoned in stuff (this year's Ninjago sets, all the recent Star Wars stuff). If you aren't a big ticket collector willing to spend £150 + on sets the hobby starts to seem a bit lacklustre of late. I can't deny I'm not a bit interested in this Dungeons and Dragons collaboration though.
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Lego ideas review results: https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/4be91cf1-bb84-4942-ba9d-773871e98790 Bugs, space dioramas, polaroid, orient express selected
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