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Hopper posted:Love the phone box, it will fit nicely into my Lego London collection. oh for sure it'll be a money maker that sits in UK lego stores forever. iirc the london bridge is one of the longest lasting sets probably in no part because they needed to make sure they had it stocked at the UK locations. but its a set they could've just done internally. there's no shortage of london/UK stuff they've released. same thing with new york stuff. ideas sets should be a little more creative than this, they already have enough stuff to appeal to the mass market locations and can whip some of them up if need be. they could make a USC British Sink that has individual taps for cold and hot water. or an architecture set for a sign claiming that it is out of order. failing all of that, i think some cobblestone street set in the vein of the 60304 road plates would actually be pretty cool
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Speaking of knock-offs. Do knock-off 9V train rails exist? I want to pick up some more rails for my old train, but hoo boy are they expensive.
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shut up blegum posted:Speaking of knock-offs. Do knock-off 9V train rails exist? I want to pick up some more rails for my old train, but hoo boy are they expensive. There's a company called Fx Bricks that makes that style of track, think they make parts that LEGO never did too. No idea if they're actually any good though. https://shop.fxbricks.com/pages/fx-track
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Borsche69 posted:oh for sure it'll be a money maker that sits in UK lego stores forever. iirc the london bridge is one of the longest lasting sets probably in no part because they needed to make sure they had it stocked at the UK locations. Spot on. The set looks great and will certainly sell. Toss it in one of those newfangled Lego vending machines in Heathrow and print some stacks of money. Talk about an enormous waste of an Ideas slot. Shame, really.
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London Gatwick airport has a Lego shop airside in the terminal. That’s going to be a great seller there.
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The roof of that phone box definitely needs some work doing, it looks really wrong.
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Veotax posted:There's a company called Fx Bricks that makes that style of track, think they make parts that LEGO never did too. Wow, they're even more expensive than the ones on bricklink. Also sold out apparently. Thanks anyway!
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Veotax posted:There's a company called Fx Bricks that makes that style of track, think they make parts that LEGO never did too. Perfect for a lego railroad. Track, lights, microcontrollers, and uh... an anesthesia machine?
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HootTheOwl posted:Perfect for a lego railroad. Track, lights, microcontrollers, and uh... an anesthesia machine? The perfect gift for your favorite gas-passer
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shut up blegum posted:Speaking of knock-offs. Do knock-off 9V train rails exist? I want to pick up some more rails for my old train, but hoo boy are they expensive. The off-brand solutions like FX Bricks are even more expensive than buying used Lego track. The true knockoff solution people do is just putting copper tape over the rails on regular Lego track. What I do though is just have 9V trains constantly turning everywhere because it's the straight track that's so expensive. If you wiggle to one side then come back then after 4 pieces it's kind of like going straight?
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Clarence posted:The roof of that phone box definitely needs some work doing, it looks really wrong. Hopefully they’ll fix it in the production redesign
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BaconCopter posted:Spot on. The set looks great and will certainly sell. Toss it in one of those newfangled Lego vending machines in Heathrow and print some stacks of money. Talk about an enormous waste of an Ideas slot. Shame, really. I found the small architecture Big Ben a year after it retired for retail price in Heathrow giftshop by pure chance. Never thought I'd be able to find it and had accepted it would forever be missing from my collection. Agreed though, they should have just released more London stuff on their own. There are many things they could do: a classic taxi in various sizes, mid size tower bridge, maybe Marble arch, or wallart in the form of a city map... or just release a 4 pack of minfigs "Changing of the guard" with some fence section. Those would sell like hot cakes. They even had a guard in a collectible pack once iirc.
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I'm still annoyed that the tube-station didn't make it through the review process
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm still annoyed that the tube-station didn't make it through the review process Same - I thought that was a great looking build.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm still annoyed that the tube-station didn't make it through the review process definitely one of hte cooler sets. i think you could even scale it down and do something similar to the Skyline sets where you have underground rail from cities around the world - London/Tokyo/New York/Paris/Moscow/Sao Paolo etc. somethign in the style of this cute MOC i saw of the dutch countryside, but underground i guess? or include all metros. pr keep it at the current scale and just expand it to include more cities. idk 
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davebo posted:The true knockoff solution people do is just putting copper tape over the rails on regular Lego track.  Huh, that's a good idea actually. Gonna test it out.
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Borsche69 posted:definitely one of hte cooler sets. i think you could even scale it down and do something similar to the Skyline sets where you have underground rail from cities around the world - London/Tokyo/New York/Paris/Moscow/Sao Paolo etc. That yellow and blue Dutch Koploper there is absolutely adorable!  It's amazing how even at such small scale it's obvious what it's supposed to be if you've seen the real-life train: 
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I was kinda waffling on the A-frame but my wife noticed it and made a comment so that plus double vip I got that, the piñata, and some pick a brick
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Am I crazy for thinking that whoever did this SW episode 7 concept art was using Lego as their reference material in some capacity? There's just too many little things that look like barely altered lego parts going on here  
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Fingers McLongDong posted:I actually like that Nightmare Before Christmas idea, I'll be curious to see how they design it to make sure the tower has enough stability. engessa posted:https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/vintage-camera-5006911 Nah, there was also an actual Polaroid model that reached 10k on Ideas https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/84ba757b-c280-4fc5-bb79-e2c856b43f48
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veni veni veni posted:Am I crazy for thinking that whoever did this SW episode 7 concept art was using Lego as their reference material in some capacity? Definitely a lot of wedges and slopes. Edit: and those antennas for sure. deoju fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Feb 10, 2023 |
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refleks posted:Nah, there was also an actual Polaroid model that reached 10k on Ideas Yeah, that's the one I remember. I guess I thought it had already been approved as a real set, my wife collects old polaroids and would have loved that one.
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Gotta love LEGO having a 6+ GWP during Double VIP but the good GWP is next week.
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Where is the gwp schedule again?
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veni veni veni posted:Am I crazy for thinking that whoever did this SW episode 7 concept art was using Lego as their reference material in some capacity? There's just too many little things that look like barely altered lego parts going on here Owns
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Yeah, that's the one I remember. I guess I thought it had already been approved as a real set, my wife collects old polaroids and would have loved that one. https://bricknerd.com/home/instructions-to-build-a-polaroid-camera-1-11-23 The 6 x 6 tile slides out and you can use a sticker or a printed one if you want, and you can look through the viewfinder. I ordered and built it to go along with the Vintage Camera VIP reward and a Chris McVeigh camera I have in my li'l display. We don't typically publish who specifically among the staff designs these models since they're just credited to BrickNerd in general, but I can tell you this one was by a LEGO set designer!
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Waltzing Along posted:Gotta love LEGO having a 6+ GWP during Double VIP but the good GWP is next week. Like the freebie that was out when they released Optimus Prime, maybe some people would like it, but I don't think it's even fit to gift to my young relatives so it'll stay in its box (which I guess is fitting since it's some kind of child playing with box set).
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Carbohydrates posted:If you gently caress with BrickLink, this one's fun: You wouldn't happen to have a list already imported into bricklink or rebrickable?
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refleks posted:You wouldn't happen to have a list already imported into bricklink or rebrickable? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wFyBW2qtU8t6TR_miEfRpuP6OFMN_5EL/view?usp=sharing Just go to BrickLink, Want -> Upload, and use this
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Marmaduke! posted:Like the freebie that was out when they released Optimus Prime, maybe some people would like it, but I don't think it's even fit to gift to my young relatives so it'll stay in its box (which I guess is fitting since it's some kind of child playing with box set). Kids love any free lego.
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What are the enormous handguns in the Dutch countryside
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veni veni veni posted:Am I crazy for thinking that whoever did this SW episode 7 concept art was using Lego as their reference material in some capacity? There's just too many little things that look like barely altered lego parts going on here How toyetic
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bird with big dick posted:What are the enormous handguns in the Dutch countryside they are enormous handguns. its to keep the germans out if they try and start poo poo again
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bird with big dick posted:What are the enormous handguns in the Dutch countryside Maybe either levies or canal elevators? Or just cranes for loading things?
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Cranes is the most logical answer, I guess, but they're not actually something you'd see like that. Cool idea though, I might recreate something like that if I get around to it because that scenario was a daily occurrence for like half my life.
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Taeke posted:Cranes is the most logical answer, I guess, but they're not actually something you'd see like that. same, I also like micro MOCs a lot just because they're more easily attainable goals
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It's my niece's birthday in a week. She'll be 5 years old, and she hates instructions. So I got her this:   She'll "wuv" it. And because I'm a man-child and probably won't be able to stop myself from opening it up before her party, I also got this:  I'm gonna wrap her present, then build that. I'll keep you updated, yo.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:It's my niece's birthday in a week. Thats a great present. I tried getting my daughter who is now 7 into sets around that age and she just would get bored and want to build houses for her minifigs.
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The fett ship uses these pin shooters which ssuck so I ended up just putting the handles into the holes instead of making them shooty
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Also I have the micro razor crest too and it's fun to have them chase each other because the minifigs have pistols
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