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Rythe posted:We also wanted to turn a entire wall surface into a huge Lego brick using pieces of circle wood or a material that we can paint and some how attaching it to the wall to turn said wall into a giant Lego base plate. Does anybody have any experience with a design like this or how it is even possibly to get a ton of circles all the same size and shape to mimic the Lego brick designs?
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Rythe posted:Thank you for that information, a LED should be more than bright enough with out putting a ton of heat. I am thinking of making two different designs, one a square or pyramid with all clear block and a LED/Fluorescent bulb in the middle. Kinda of a super sweet night light design. The lamp and shade is going to take some trial and error to figure out the correct way or a good design to make it stable and most importantly awesome to look at. Maybe I'll take some of my electrician skills and come up with something pretty cool over all, if anybody has suggestion toss them out there, I'm stumped on the classic look right now. If you GIS "Lego Lamp" there's a lot of examples to get ideas from. One that looks easiest is just to get a table lamp with a narrow base and build a vase-form around it with bricks. If you're worried about flammability and/or easy access to the bulb, you could stick with a regular lampshade and just put LEGO graphics on it.
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My Walmart had a display of series 5(?) minifigs that caught my eye. Apparently someone had gotten tired of feeling the packages because several of them had been cut open and carefully taped shut.  Not sure how they were just left on the shelf and not at least moved to the clearance aisle. I grabbed a couple and ended up with a gangster and an aerobic girl, nobody seemed to be missing any parts or anything. I had sort of hoped that I would end up with a Frankenstein mashup of random bits, but oh well.
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There was an episode of Food Network Cake Challenge a while back, where some guy made Lego busts of the hosts, and the chefs had to replicate them in cake. Throughout, the Lego guy kept emphasizing "You can't use any curves, because Lego doesn't curve. Everything has to have right angles!" Which is more-or-less true technically but his "sculptures" all looked like they came out of Minecraft. Long story short, that cake is much better than anything on that episode.
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I think someone in the Aliexpress thread recently bought a bootlego version?
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Earth posted:This is not intended as a flex, more of an example of the craziness that is Lego. My Lego collection can get a fairly nice used car. It's not that I've spent a ton on it, it's just the sets I have have increased in value so much over the time of me owning them. One example is I bought the Black Pearl for $150 and now it's selling for near $400 opened and built. Or another example would be I bought the the modular Town Hall for $200 and now it's selling for $1k because I haven't gotten around to building it and it's still sealed. Figs I've bought for $5 are going for $50 now... It was so much value I spoke with my insurance to ask them about collections and if I needed special insurance for it and they said no that it was covered under the basic insurance plan. As an insurance agent, I would suggest you read your policy carefully. Yes, your Lego is probably covered, and doesn't have the same standard limits as say a coin collection. But it probably only falls under your general Personal Property limit unless you have purchased a scheduled rider. If your house burns down, make sure that limit is high enough to replace *everything* you own, from clothes to furniture to kitchen utensils to the "toys" in your collection. Or, get a rider/floater/whatever it's called in your local lingo for the specific appraised value of the collection.
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May 23, 2021 22:33
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Looks like there are arrows on the bottom-right images, implying that at least one of the leg joints is movable?
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Nov 2, 2021 23:47
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Carbohydrates posted:The three boxes in the bottom right are interesting. One seems to show a tool stored behind the info plaque. The next two seem to show that tool being used to set the angle of the legs. So adjustable, but only with the tool? Perhaps it's something like a worm gear mechanism to hold the geared joints in place. Ooh, yeah that would make sense. More pose-able than play-able, but it would be a big bonus imo if it's not completely static. Especially if you can raise it enough for a stepping-on-snowspeeder vignette.
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MaliciousOnion posted:It looks like it was made for that spot. I have James Cameron poisoning, when you mentioned the Jack in the prow of the Titanic I looked for a minifig.
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The Bloop posted:Perhaps the frame could be continued/ extended horizontally under the bottom scene I saw a version online that I now can't find, where they extended the town even further horizontally with a couple little streets full of houses, and left off the frame, and honestly thought it looked good, with the X and Y axes more balanced and purposeful.
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May 30, 2022 22:07
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Ok I was impressed. Then I saw "age: 9" and I was really impressed.
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Can you make it a vignette, like Bender-on-the-couch, to sneak in some support that way?
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Captain Invictus posted:I have this lego set! it is an amazing set, complete with a hubble space telescope! do not ship things this way!!!
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Cojawfee posted:I'm worried that I'm too stupid to understand the Jazz Club. You have to be able to appreciate the bricks that aren't there.
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Infinitum posted:gently caress you Lego, there is no more room in my house Build a new house. E: out of LEGO.
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Mar 5, 2023 10:40
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Will it fit the baby spaceman?
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Next time mods wanna do an April Fools prank they should arrange a takeover of TCC and make all the posts about Lego.quote:I ordered cheap generic from a shady Chinese website! Trip report: some parts were kinda rough but overall an enjoyable few hours. quote:Been Staring at Starry Night for Hours, What Even Is the Color Blue
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Apr 9, 2023 09:29
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deoju posted:While I'd love more LOTR/Hobbit sets, I can't think of any location that would make a great set. Hogwarts makes sense to make, 80% of the movies take place there. LOTR/Hobbit bounces around Middle Earth so much. I mean I wouldn't say no to a Minas Tirith that was a reasonable size to display on a shelf in my office.
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May 31, 2023 22:34
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Waltzing Along posted:LEGO never put those sets in shrink wrap. I think baseplates and some of thoese older board games had it. But back in the 80s? None. That, afaik, has never changed. Someone else put the shrink wrap on it. Given the price stickers, I'd assume the retailer did it. Maybe as an anti-theft measure?
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Habibi posted:Can't wrap my mind around thinking the official version does any aspect of this better. 🤷🏻♂️ When I first looked at that photo, I thought the official version (the "before") was the one on the left. So I kinda agreed until I clicked through and watched the guy's video.
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Lizard Combatant posted:How does this not have 20% more pieces and look 200% better? Most of Reddit is shut down right now in protest of the upcoming API/app changes.
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Why is the Disney princess Death Star not an official set yet?
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Carbohydrates posted:oh hell yeah swap the 4x4 dish at the top for the 3x3 dish at the bottom tho Make it a camper van? Bedroll, portable grill, little camp toilet, that kind of thing?
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Jul 14, 2023 01:48
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The image cut off the continuation of the line where it says "...after midnight."
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Flyinglemur posted:One day a few years ago my mom casually dropped that she rode the Concorde across the Atlantic. This is very out of character for our family's social...everything. I told her she might be misremembering, but then she went and got a matchbook and the safety brochure from it. A summary of the story: She is 100% the only person from Avon, of all places, to have flown the Concorde.
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Waltzing Along posted:It's the Mrin Codex. poo poo, where'd I put that orb, it was just here.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:some kind of small pastry Smh it's like nobody in this thread recognizes a common brushtail possum when they see one.
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GlenMR posted:I definitely agree, but if I see the number 8880, I can't pretend I don't get a powerful longing. Same but 80085.
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The_Doctor posted:The kids today are weirdly puritanical online. They’ll go into adult spaces and demand people don’t discuss adult topics. Like??? No??? I will talk about property taxes and sciatica wherever I drat well please, you whippersnappers!
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Borsche69 posted:Insane price You are buying a goat with some bricks as a GWP.
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HootTheOwl posted:There's got to be a way to replace the sun and make it less ugly Not supposed to stare directly at the sun anyway.
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Those're some drat fine houses.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:where are dungeons located? under castles Honestly I would be pretty stoked for a ruined castle set with a multi-level dungeon underneath.
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Brawnfire posted:"Captain... How do we stop? We've landed but we're not stopping." "poo poo, is it pizza or french fries? I can never remember!"
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