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Final Gloom posted:
Your guy second from the right is something I noticed in mine too. I think its even the same figure. One has a slightly longer "neck" than the other... I'd have to see them in person but I might get the 'Hog and Mongoose sets, but thats about it...I'm not crazy about the other vehicles.
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Yeah it's the same guy. I think he's supposed to be a Marine pilot and not a Spartan. I don't know why they made him taller. Sort of backwards. I really like the flame thrower Spartan. The active camo one is supposed to be super rare, but you can't cheat for it because the design is identical to the visible one. Pretty sneaky, Mega Bloks  For the vehicles I was surprised by the number of pieces and the good design, but they're really not worth buying except for the minifigs and weapons. Once you assemble the sets they're just for look and Mega Bloks doesn't have enough terrain and structure sets to make anything serious out of the line. Lego does a much better job with sets. Still, the minifigs are basically just small action figures, which is awesome. Also, I freakin love it when cool terrain and futuristic designs merge:  Check out the design on that armored vehicle and quarantine chamber.
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InfinEight posted:Holy poo poo, another (delayed) MOC from me so soon? Say it ain't so! Everytime I see this, I miss my Deep Freeze Defender. I'd love to see some sort of faction/series reboots for those great old sets, even if we can't have magnets these days because kids swallow them or whatever.
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Evek posted:I've started making a small mech but I overestimated the arm size so its going to be bigger then I had hoped. Crappy cell phone pics: I like it so far, the way you have the forearm setup looks like it has multiple modules built in for motor functions, etc. I wanted to find a way to make it smaller for you but I started to get carried away:  Anyway, keep fiddling and you'll get a good result. Chronojam posted:Everytime I see this, I miss my Deep Freeze Defender. I'd love to see some sort of faction/series reboots for those great old sets, even if we can't have magnets these days because kids swallow them or whatever. Lego has teased us a whole bunch with the Space Police 3 line, putting Blacktron references all over the place. I think we're more likely to see a Blacktron redux than anything, but I would love to have a new Ice Planet theme. Just in case it doesn't happen, I might have another Ice Planet MOC in mind.
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InfinEight posted:Holy poo poo, another (delayed) MOC from me so soon? Say it ain't so! My (still 100% intact  ) Deep Freeze Defender was one of the highlights of my youth, update owns. I do wish you'd kept the awesome garage door though.
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3 posted:I do wish you'd kept the awesome garage door though. It'll always be around, waiting for the perfect MOC 
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Mar 1, 2011 05:27
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So the MMV ended up taking me about four and a half hours. My fingers are sore as hell. Now that I have a couple of cows I might work on the slaughterhouse MOC I have been planning since I was 10.
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Saw this on flickr: More where that came from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andy_0306uk/ Come to think of it, I'm surprised I don't see more optical illusions in Lego. It seems to work pretty well.
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Shuppiluliumas posted:Saw this on flickr: I've compared that image to the window of my browser about 10 times, and it still doesn't look like any of those lines are straight.
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Mar 1, 2011 09:14
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A store near me had the Hogwarts Express and Toy Story 3 trains on sale for $60 each. They no longer have them on sale 
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Got the Sumo and Rapper minifigs. The rapper is amazing, the sumo is sort of dull. He's just a naked guy with a trophy, whereas the rapper has all sorts of neat stuff and is really detailed. Neither of them were what I expected they were though. Was pretty sure they were going to be an elf and a snowboarder. The dots are super hard to read, and what I thought was the elf dude's shield was probably a torso or one of the bases. I found myself being that guy, standing there for ages feeling up packets. Luckily the sales guy understood, he'd been trying to get a samurai for ages himself  I really want that alien and the cyborg though, so I'm not giving up!  Also got some sort of Atlantis crab monster thing for a fiver, which is pretty cool. Gonna make it fight with the scarab I got the other week.
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Mar 1, 2011 16:06
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Is there a way I can find an old Lego catalog from the 90s online? I had one of those sets where there was 5 or 6 different things you could build on the box and one of them was a green and white truck/humvee. The set didn't come with any minifigs but the truck was the perfect size for them to fit inside. Looking on Bricklink isn't coming up with too much since I can't remember what it'd be under. Thanks.
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Mar 1, 2011 16:23
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InfinEight posted:I've compared that image to the window of my browser about 10 times, and it still doesn't look like any of those lines are straight. Try an image editing program. There's a slight fish-eye effect, but it's basically just raping your brain.
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So now im to the point where I wish I had never read this post. I Have bought about 2 LEGO sets each week for the past 3 weeks or so. Luckily it was my sons birthday 2 days ago and he has recently been introduced to LEGO since I have read this thread. He got the Star Wars Snowspeeder and Ice Cave which is a really cool set, and both the Star Wars snow minifig sets. And the White ninja Zane to finish off his Ninja minifig set. And now I have recently discovered the joys of the clearance isle. Got two fo the Space Police mini sets that have the squidhead guy and a little space bike for $1.50 each. I was happy. Thank you goons for ruining my wallet.
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Ries posted:Is there a way I can find an old Lego catalog from the 90s online? I had one of those sets where there was 5 or 6 different things you could build on the box and one of them was a green and white truck/humvee. The set didn't come with any minifigs but the truck was the perfect size for them to fit inside. Looking on Bricklink isn't coming up with too much since I can't remember what it'd be under. Thanks. Do you mean like sales catalogs, or the actual instructions for that set? Either way, peeron probably has what you're looking for. There are instruction and catalog scans there, sorted by year.
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Mar 1, 2011 18:42
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Brickfactory also has catalog scans sorted by year, and they're a bit quicker than peeron and don't require registration.
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Mar 1, 2011 19:08
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http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=715-1 Found it, not sure where I got green from but that set was badass, perfect size for minifigs, take off the roof of course.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Brickfactory also has catalog scans sorted by year, and they're a bit quicker than peeron and don't require registration. So now I'm given a choice between massively annoying slow sleed and a cringe-inducing interface. Awesome. I'm just going to download all of them one of these days and have my own private database.
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InfinEight posted:I love to look at them but I don't have much luck making them either. They tend to be so delicate and flimsy that I keep adding on pieces to make them stronger, and they turn into monsters rather than cute little suits. Yeah, they're almost always incredibly delicate. At that size it's nearly impossible to make things sturdy.
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Mar 1, 2011 20:52
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InfinEight posted:I've compared that image to the window of my browser about 10 times, and it still doesn't look like any of those lines are straight. There's definitely some fisheye going on there.
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Mar 1, 2011 20:58
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Sair posted:There's definitely some fisheye going on there. I don't think you quite understand the concept of "optical illusion"
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Mar 1, 2011 21:14
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Logically I know those lines are straight, but my eyes keep telling me it's curved.Captain Invictus posted:Yeah, they're almost always incredibly delicate. At that size it's nearly impossible to make things sturdy. It makes me jealous in a way, since I'm just not that patient. On the other hand I like to make stuff sturdy, cuz then its easier to play with.
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Mar 1, 2011 21:37
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Hope this settles things: 
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Mar 1, 2011 22:06
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Starting bid of $290 on the giant castle chess set. Oh god I'm tempted.
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So the first set to get me "back" into Lego was the Camper which I had to have because of the lime green and the happy hippie couple. Well, because I watch too many crime shows, I like to make my little happy hippie couple into drug smugglers. Because of the roomy back of their van, and their tinted windows, and because they're clearly drug mules coming back from a vacation in Mexico. This weekend I was really sick, and in to cheer me up my friend bought me the set I've been wanting to play with my drug smugglers: the Police Dog Unit, aka the drug dog. Now I can play border patrol for real.
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The new Space Shuttle arrived at the Lego Store this week. This thing is full of new parts, so I thought I'd show them to you. Overall, at 230 pieces and $30, It's not a great value, but it is a fun, simple build. It's also practically indestructable and thus highly swooshable. Anyway, some new parts. Apologies for the horrible cell phone pictures. My camera has no batteries. The new wing. It has some studs, it lacks others. It's a new size.  I like the sharp angles of this new tail.  They've re-redesigned the old SW canopy everybody loves. I like this better than the Raid VPR version with the flat blob on the front, but this still lacks the nice aerodynamic look of the original. Also, the front end is completely flat if you can't tell from the picture. It has no stud connections underneath.  Realy crappy picture of a hinge. I think this thing is new.  Here's the finished product in front of my new project. I'm not applying any stickers. The nose is printed. We get one astrnaut but two sweet, white helmets. Also, his space suit is really nice. Past Launch-Command-y space suits had a big space shuttle on them, so you couldn't really use them for other space settings. This one would look good in more places.
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"The Burrow" from the harry potter line is an awesome set. It's probably the most fun to assemble set I've put together since I got back into this stuff. It's all the little details that just put it over the top, the full kitchen is awesome, the little bedrooms and side shrub area are great too. Best of all it's almost entirely small, regular bricks so it's great for MoC's. I almost feel like buying another just to build some more houses out of it.
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Joudas posted:"The Burrow" from the harry potter line is an awesome set.
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Just found out that although my staff discount dosent apply to quite a few things, it does apply to minifigs. Shame lego is overpriced as hell there generally though (WHSmith), if only I worked at tesco.
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How's the creator series Log Cabin? Anyone here bought it? The Burrow got me wanting to build a little retarded town.
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Mar 5, 2011 01:37
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Havent bought it, but it looks like an awful lot of brown pieces.
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Mar 5, 2011 02:06
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I've heard the word 'swooshable' thrown around for space ships and such. Can that word be used for a giant cobra? Because the Pharaoh's Quest cobra set is awesome. I would have been happy if it just came with the cobra and the mummy, honestly. I have too many of these happy go lucky good guys now, especially with my five or so sets of the scarabs. I love the scarabs. 
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SynthOrange posted:Havent bought it, but it looks like an awful lot of brown pieces. I like that brown, I'd be going for kind of a semi western feel too so it seems fitting. I checked out "woody's round up" but it some how doesn't seem worth it.
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Joudas posted:How's the creator series Log Cabin? Anyone here bought it? The Burrow got me wanting to build a little retarded town. I bought it, it has a lot of nice scarlet red and brown pieces. I got it with intent to build all 3 sets, but after I built the one on the cover I liked it too much to destroy it.. yet, anyway.
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Joudas posted:How's the creator series Log Cabin? Anyone here bought it? The Burrow got me wanting to build a little retarded town. I think it's a good value for the money, and it has some nice parts, especially the windows and the new 8x16 and 16x16 plates.
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Hey, I built this thing: It's a weapon/armor store, the type a band of RPG heroes might wander into to purchase a slightly better sword than the weapon store in the last town sold. There's more pictures on my Lego castle tumblr which is pretty new but I guess I might as well link it. The shield wall is my favorite part, i think.
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Travis343 posted:castle stuff Really well done, I'm kinda jealous!
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Travis343 posted:Hey, I built this thing: You sure have! And it is pretty kick rear end.
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Travis343 posted:Hey, I built this thing: That is really neat! Where did you get the long pike thats hanging on the wall?
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