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EL BROMANCE posted:A fatal flaw from the brilliant minds at the imperial design department? Could never have seen that coming. Yeah, kinda like not putting an auxiliary bridge on a ship that's 19km long. 
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Sunk Dunk posted:lego pls gently caress. And here I was looking forward to that set
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Honestly the worst parts of that set are the gearbox and if you ever accidentally get the chain off the gears. The stickers are pretty easy if numerous.
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Borsche69 posted:
I hope you've opened those up and pulled the instructions and stickers out. Granted, instructions getting all curled/scrunched up is not such a big deal if you just use digital.
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Feb 25, 2024 19:00
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Sunk Dunk posted:lego pls A lot of the models look better when you just ignore some or all of the stickers. The end result looks more "Lego" ... but that's what it is. And definitely always skip the branding stickers.
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Feb 25, 2024 19:14
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Dogen posted:Honestly the worst parts of that set are the gearbox and if you ever accidentally get the chain off the gears. The stickers are pretty easy if numerous. I thought this was the upcoming Speed Champion set and was very confused about your post
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Flyinglemur posted:I thought this was the upcoming Speed Champion set and was very confused about your post Oh, it is, I guess. Just a glance it looked like the technic motorcycle stickers. Hey bmw stop it with the tricolor M branding already
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When your cooking skills are terrible, but it's a wasteland all around and you have no choice but to cook for yourself... Finally got the photography itch and properly got back into building smaller mocs for photography purposes. Pretty happy with this one actually. Whole thing is on an 8x16 baseplate and is basically a bunch of plates and bricks, a guy and his motorcycle. 
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:A lot of the models look better when you just ignore some or all of the stickers. The end result looks more "Lego" ... but that's what it is. That’s how I feel too; I like to pick and choose which stickers. Like I’ll add the racing stripe but mostly try to skip the Shell Oil and the like. I built another aliexpress speed champions car on the weekend. Really nice build despite some rough parts I had to clean up with model tools. Big sheet of stickers + two figures, four orange cones, and a traffic light. The Fastest Facl  
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Dogen posted:Hey bmw stop it with the tricolor M branding already 
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Oxyclean posted:I hope you've opened those up and pulled the instructions and stickers out. good point about the stickers but i usually toss the instructions and use the online ones. the only instructions i've saved were for the castle (which is also the only box i've saved). i'll never sell it, but in 20 years when a loaf of bread requires a down payment and the castle is somehow worth an actual house...
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Yeah, it's basically my ritual when I get a set to get it opened up and any instructions and stickers laid flat so they're nice when I want to build them. Granted that could lead to misplaced stuff if your backlog is long or you gotta move stuff around. At the risk of starting the instructions derail again - I've kept most of my old instructions in drawers, but part of me wants to do a purge and just toss a ton of them into recycling, but it still feels weird and wasteful to me. Similarly, I sort off want to sell off some old sets, but don't really think I want to go through the trouble of actually dealing with selling them.
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i didnt know this until now cause i never really considered it, but lego does send out replacement sticker sheets (at least for sets that are still in circulation i assume) so if something comes out the box looking warped/bent, get in contact with support and get a new one
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Oxyclean posted:Yeah, it's basically my ritual when I get a set to get it opened up and any instructions and stickers laid flat so they're nice when I want to build them. Granted that could lead to misplaced stuff if your backlog is long or you gotta move stuff around. selling is kinda dependent on how much effort you want to put in. there's always eBay. tho honestly just listing stuff in SA-Mart and linking to it in relevant threads goes pretty quick too
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Yeah, unfortunately the "trouble with selling them" part is largely in packing them up and dealing with shipping them off. Also living in Canada I feel like shipping costs usually suck rear end. I got some big technic sets part of me wants to see if I can find someone in my city to just come pick up as-is via kijiji (craigslist like) but I'm not expecting there to be much of an audience there.
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Oxyclean posted:Yeah, unfortunately the "trouble with selling them" part is largely in packing them up and dealing with shipping them off. Also living in Canada I feel like shipping costs usually suck rear end. I got some big technic sets part of me wants to see if I can find someone in my city to just come pick up as-is via kijiji (craigslist like) but I'm not expecting there to be much of an audience there. oh that's totally fair and yeah crossing the border bumps up shipping quite a bit. the true gently caress it who cares is taking pics and selling it as-is lot
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Oxyclean posted:Yeah, unfortunately the "trouble with selling them" part is largely in packing them up and dealing with shipping them off. Also living in Canada I feel like shipping costs usually suck rear end. I got some big technic sets part of me wants to see if I can find someone in my city to just come pick up as-is via kijiji (craigslist like) but I'm not expecting there to be much of an audience there.  Best bet is probably Facebook from what other folks have been saying.
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Grandparent got my kid a mind storm Lego 5 in 1 and we are all excited until I couldn't find how to connect it to the app. Then realized he bought set 40413 mini mind storm models that don't actually do anything, not 51515 real one. Woops. Didn't have the heart to tell him
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Sunk Dunk posted:lego pls What’s even more nuts is that some of them get applied to the already printed windshield.
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The new 3-in-1 Flatbed Truck with Helicopter is extremely cute. I built it last night and it’s almost entirely “simple” techniques with just a few SNOT sections. But great shaping, especially on the helicopter and the truck. And no stickers! Huge contrast to the Speed Champions I’ve been building lately. (Alternate models are pretty garbage though.) https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/flatbed-truck-with-helicopter-31146
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I dig how it's the same truck as in set 5571. Which is a model that still holds up well against modern build standards.
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smackfu posted:The new 3-in-1 Flatbed Truck with Helicopter is extremely cute. I built it last night and it’s almost entirely “simple” techniques with just a few SNOT sections. But great shaping, especially on the helicopter and the truck. And no stickers! Huge contrast to the Speed Champions I’ve been building lately. My kid absolutely loved this set. He just put it together yesterday and was really impressed with it. He also ended up getting the big rear end dreamz house and we spent a couple days (he literally just turned six and was the one putting it together) on it and GOD drat what an impressive set. Wonderful details, aesthetically pleasing as all get out, and despite thinking he wouldn't give a poo poo at all about the little story pictures in the booklet he actually loved them and they did inspire quite a bit of play while he was building. gently caress yeah dreamz set.
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For fans of Lego mechs, I can highly recommend Mei's Dragon Mech from this year's Monkie Kid lineup. It has great articulation (including functioning knees, which is sadly still not a guarantee for mechs of that size), and the whole maintenance bay thing is a feature that's long overdue. Also, the three little helper robots have a great sense of personality, and are a really nice callback to the small robots you'd get with classic Space sets.
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Sunk Dunk posted:lego pls I'm building this one myself at the moment also. I bought a set of decal tweezers to deal with all this. Anyone ever build anything from CADA? This being officially licensed by Mercedes Benz makes me curious, assuming that means it's decent quality. I've got a spare shelf and need another 1/8th size car to sit next to the orange Porsche GT3 RS. https://decadastore.com/products/cada-mercedes-amg-one-c61503w
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I built all their Initial D licensed cars and brickheadz and they’re pretty good… a little less solid than a “real” lego set but with a lot more features. Brick quality pretty good. Instructions reminded me of building sets in the 80s/90s a bit, they’re not as forgiving as modern Lego instructions. They’ve branched out and acquired more and more licenses for cars recently.
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Their 1:8 scale Humvee is pretty insane. The suspension assemblies even use carbon fiber axle pieces. Brickmeet has a build video for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCnbNgTxKN8 Bloody Pom fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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I like how when CaDA makes a car that Lego has not made, they are all "It's a Mazda RX-7" but when Lego has made the car it's "Italian Sports Car"
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CaDA's orrery is better than the Lego one https://twitter.com/Boco_T/status/1705985509980361154
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I have the Cada Steamed Bun Shop set but I haven't built it yet.
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I picked up a cada set a while back and was not impressed with the quality of the bricks.
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mutata posted:I have the Cada Steamed Bun Shop set but I haven't built it yet. Same. I built the tea house, getting the lighting in was annoying as hell but otherwise it's good.
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Thanks for the feedback, all. Sounds like "it'll probably be just fine" is the verdict, $300 on bootleg Lego is iffy but if the build is as entertaining and the product at the end is recognizable then it's what a decently sized Technics kit costs.
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Pre-emptive: 9pm PST, 12am EST for the US Legoons who want to know when the new stuff goes live tonight. Animal Crossing Snow White Speed Champions Medieval Town Square I think that is the main stuff. $200 gets you houses of the world series 2 release 1. And I think there is an AC polybag at some lowish amount. (allegedly)
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Waltzing Along posted:$200 gets you houses of the world series 2 release 1. Is there an image of it? I can’t seem to find it
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https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/flower-store-40680
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Marathon stuff: https://marathon.bungie.org/story/newjan24.html   
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Oh god. They’re going to release another 4 huh? Then release that Ninjago stuff too. My wallet can’t handle it!
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I'm just waiting for Ninjago. the HotW I found to be kinda lacking for that $ threshold.
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