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Dogen posted:Just be a DINK household and die with no descendants. clutching all your Lego If you have a kid you can justify Lego as being for them.
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Waltzing Along posted:And then throwing it out and renting a storage unit to hold all your unopened sets. lol
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seeing a great discount and knowing that you still shouldn't but holy hell look at that discount
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Doctor Spaceman posted:If you have a kid you can justify Lego as being for them. I'm a 51 year old half of a dink couple and I don't have to justify poo poo to poo poo except to my wife
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Dogen posted:Just be a DINK household and die with no descendants. clutching all your Lego Build your own tomb
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HootTheOwl posted:do you like the orrey or the look of an orrey? I’m not sure I understand the question
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Xenomrph posted:I’m not sure I understand the question Do they make you orrey, baby
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Xenomrph posted:I’m not sure I understand the question It's a very accurate and functional orrery but very exposed and ugly. The knock off is the opposite
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Dogen posted:Do they make you orrey, baby lol
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To me Technic sets are about the exposed and functional aesthetic. You're building something that is designed to do a thing and seeing how the mechanism that does that thing is set up is sort of the point. Like the Technic cars aren't aiming to look like glossy 1:1 replicas in any way.
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Except for the super sexy back end of the Ferrari Daytona
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And pretty much every lambo set they released where you get all kinds of new panels in new and exciting colours.
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HootTheOwl posted:It's a very accurate and functional orrery but very exposed and ugly. That’s fair. Framed like that, I think I’m more interested in the function in this case, although if I had a thousand dollars I probably would buy a fancy ornate non-Lego orrery that looks nice.
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I did market village #2. And it's nice. It's been years since I built #1 but I remember being more impressed with it.
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I'm 52, divorced, and my daughter just made her last college tuition payment on her own, so I'm free and clear from now on! MOAR LEGO. I got several sets last year. And my about-to-die dad wants to blow his nest egg on fun things for his kids and grandkids so he bought me the Titanic for Christmas. It's a good time to be an AFOL.
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Some Senna F1 car thoughts… Fancy single piece tires! The slicks get dirty just as easily as the real thing. Lots of complaints that the real car had much wider tires in the back but it’s not that noticeable IMO. Weird mix of stickers vs printed pieces. No rhyme or reason in my mind. Don’t see why it couldn’t have been all prints. Except the pieces where they print red on white to match the original livery just look pink, and probably would have been better as stickers or brick built. Building experience was pretty simple. Only function is the steering. Brand new part for the upper and lower wishbones. Engine bay is cool looking and has a removable cover. Lots of hidden Brazilian colors beneath the red and white which is a neat Easter egg. Overall, nice display piece with the stand.
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https://twitter.com/LegoCastleFR/status/1772183079408341403
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M-Tron, Ice Planet, and Black Tron remain the only ones I want. Cool that the mutated Black Tron has the double arm piece.
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All of them please
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I think I said this the first time it leaked, but I'd prefer a neo-Blacktron I, the kind with the black visor.
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They're all awesome but the dude being piloted by tiny aliens with an antenna is brilliant.
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Someone on ebay is selling pre orders for 60 bucks. That's a good deal.
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Giving the Ice Planet a cyborg penguin just seems positively excessive Like if you're at a steakhouse and you order a ribeye and it comes with French onion soup, where at the bottom of the soup bowl there's keys to a Lexus that's waiting for you outside All great but cmon just the steak would have been fine
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I think they're kinda meh. Apart from the gray tourist and the aliens-in-a-suit guy they're pretty boring, half of them are just nostalgia baits and the other half don't really fit there. Just release a new m-tron and/or blacktron ideas set and be done with it. And then there are like the numbers 4, 9 and 11 which are just why. The dog isn't even in a space suit or anything, the kitchen robot is barely on theme and the last guy is clearly just a filler to get to 12 figs.
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Lion Knights' Castle or Eldorado Fortress? I haven't bought sets since 2022 but I caved in with some of the smaller Space sets and the bug has bitten again! 😩 drat, Ice Planet and M-Tron minifigs for me, as well as the space baby 😍 fappenmeister fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Saithir posted:
achtuallly the dog is a robot
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Sunk Dunk posted:achtuallly the dog is a robot Oh, is it? It's kinda hard to see from that terrible image. That's only minimally better though.
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fappenmeister posted:Lion Knights' Castle or Eldorado Fortress? I haven't bought sets since 2022 but I caved in with some of the smaller Space sets and the bug has bitten again! 😩 Lion Knights. EDF is fine but LKC is goat tier. Buuuuut...if you really want to spend the $$, get Pirates of Barracuda Bay. It's out of print but you can get for cheaper than LKC and it is arguably better. Just based on preference. It's much better than EDF.
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Waltzing Along posted:Lion Knights. EDF is fine but LKC is goat tier. Thank you! Barracuda Bay was actually one of the sets that got me back into this after 20 years or so, it was a great build.
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Saithir posted:Oh, is it? It's kinda hard to see from that terrible image. That's only minimally better though. that's a space peanut -joe dirt
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Saithir posted:I think they're kinda meh. hows life being this miserable
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ijyt posted:hows life being this miserable This thread absolutely loving hates any Lego space that isn’t just stock boring blue and grey spacemen from the late 70s
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Naw. There are people who like all the eras, depending one when the fan was a kid. I mean, there are people who like ice planet while any sane person looks at those sets and goes EEUUUUUUURGGGGHHHHH! But someone will probably chime in to say how great they are. And that's fine. I think SP3 sets are pretty awesome, though they don't get much love. LEGO has brought space back, though in a less fantastic way. It's more grounded in reality now. Please bring back western sets. Those work really well.
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I see this wave in terms of cool parts, of which there are quite a few. That iceplanet helmet is neat.
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My only real complaint with those CMF is there is no Classic Space themed one. Doesn't have to be a benny, but something that fits the early theme.
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Waltzing Along posted:Naw. There are people who like all the eras, depending one when the fan was a kid. wait what's wrong with ice planet sets? it's the neon orange isn't it?
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Ice Planet was cool. Transparent neon orange chainsaws and skis were, are, and will always be rad.  Waltzing Along posted:My only real complaint with those CMF is there is no Classic Space themed one. Doesn't have to be a benny, but something that fits the early theme. Lots of AFOLS would love another monochrome classic figure, but we aren't the primary market. They can take inspiration from old sets to invoke our nostalgia, but the have to appeal to kids first and foremost, and they just did a brown one recently.
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Having just recently got back into Lego for the first time since my early teens like, 2 years back, and having spent an appreciable amount of my total income on Lego since that point, I have a definite point of view on the space sets - and that is I'm all for the quirky figures as collectables, I love them at first sight and will be trying to get this full set - but for stuff to put on a shelf I like the more grounded things a bit more. I am currently planning a pretty big layout combining the two most recent space base sets with rocket gantries and control towers and a bunch of vehicles, and considering whether I can make the recent Technic space sets work in with it. So we aren't all looking for nostalgia only.
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yeah I really like the new space sets. I have half the line but mostly I'm just waiting for the next gwp I like to get the rest. they are much more near future tho I do miss the more extravagant trans-neon colors. in that vein I've been grabbing incomplete sets for those colors and just incorporating them where I can
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ijyt posted:hows life being this miserable Pretty good, thanks.  And it is exactly like Waltzing Along says - I just never got the classic space nostalgia virus when I was a kid*, so I look at the minifigs for what they are, and if you look at the m-tron guy for example, it's the most generic spaceman minifig ever produced (with a 1x2 brick in dark bluish gray, woooooooooooooooo, so unique), its only quality is being an m-tron. * I was too young for classic space sets and then I wasn't a rich kid (which in early 90's Poland was very much a requirement as the cheap sets were pretty bad) for the blacktrons. Saithir fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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