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Stevoh posted:I'm curious if that Eva 01 will need bracing though when finished. I'm very curious how he will do the torso/torso plates. Was your guys' skeleton about the same size? If he keeps up the same level of detail, and gets the overall frame to have the same proportions, then I doubt it'll be able to do much without bracing but stand up straight. It's gonna get heavy really fast. Of course being that big means there's more room for tougher joints, an the design is fairly slender, so I might be surprised  Oh poo poo new page, uh, uh, here! I always liked this one:  http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=53172 same guy did this:  http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=99310 InfinEight fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Mar 26, 2011 |
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^^ That's the best small-scale Eva I've seen. Stevoh posted:Ha ha, I have a Perfect Grade Eva 01 that has been under my bed for about a decade. One day I will build it. I'm curious if that Eva 01 will need bracing though when finished. I'm very curious how he will do the torso/torso plates. Was your guys' skeleton about the same size? That thing looks like it'll be a lot bigger than what we built. It'll be interesting to see if it can stand on its own. Also, if you ever build the Perfect Grade Eva, I'd ignore the whole "no glue" thing unless you're going to put it in a glass case. The smaller armor plates on the chest and back fall off really easily. I'm sure I've lost a bunch over the years. Someday I'll have to see what's left of all those old Eva models sitting in a box in my closet. I could never bring myself to toss them seeing as they cost me a drat fortune back when I was in high school. If that SHIP of yours is an original design, that's pretty impressive. I figured it must've been from somewhere. quote:EDIT: I should mention, this thread and the last one is what got me back into Lego and made me sign up for somethingawful. Thanks fellas! Glad to know we're (re)converting people!
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About to go up to the shops and will likely come back with some S4 figs (that's sort of the reason I'm going really, but I'll get some food to justify the trip) and I've just looked up the new dot decoder on a few places. minifigcollector.com being one, if anyone is looking for one. I assume they're accurate? I was terrible at reading the dots for the last series, so I think I'm just going to feel for the bulky geisha dress and surfboards before resorting to one.
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Stevoh posted:Ha ha, I have a Perfect Grade Eva 01 that has been under my bed for about a decade. One day I will build it. I'd keep it under the bed unless you're some kind of customizing wizard. It's a terrible kit in pretty much every way. RedTeam posted:About to go up to the shops and will likely come back with some S4 figs (that's sort of the reason I'm going really, but I'll get some food to justify the trip) and I've just looked up the new dot decoder on a few places. minifigcollector.com being one, if anyone is looking for one. I assume they're accurate? The minifigcollector.com one is accurate. It's what I used to finish my pair of sets for S4. Of course, probably a third to half the bags have no or nearly unreadable dots. I'd grab a big pile, and look for ones with obvious dot codes, setting aside the rest, and then start comparing codes. Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Mar 26, 2011 |
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I noticed a lot of them didn't have any dots on, yeah. Really annoying really. Went through the whole of what was left in the box and didn't find anything that seemed like a punk or mad scientist.
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Stevoh posted:These are both magnificent. Even as a kid I always hated the system cars because they only had enough room for one minfig. I have tried building larger cars many times but I just don't know cars well enough to do a decent MOC.
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Stevoh posted:You captured the lines REALLY well in this MOC. I love the grill/lights configuration.
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So I've had a sort of late birthday spree. First, I was out grocery shopping today and my usual Fred Meyer/Smith's had 4 boxes of series 4 figs  With no cheat sheet I set to work, and before long I had 4 Hazmat guys, which was what I really wanted: The helmet is REALLY easy to feel for, but I almost mistook one for a hockey guy. The geisha is also really easy to feel for with that sloped brick for a dress. That's not all of course. About two weeks ago, Toys R Us had the Slave 1 on sale for 30% off. With their markup that only brought it down to $67, but I decided to pick it up 'just in case.' Then I thought, surely I could find it cheaper without minifigs, cuz I didn't really care about those. Sure enough, I managed to get it for $36 shipped off Ebay:  So now I'm gonna take the other one back for a refund. ALSO, I went and bought about 1000 pieces off bricklink:  Because I am INSANE CRAZY PERSON 
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Just drove an hour to the only Toys R Us in the area and they were all out of S4. Had gone through several boxes in a few days they said. Had tons of S3 though and at 10% off so I grabbed five. Tried to feel for the elf, didn't care much about the rest. Ended up with the fisherman, Indian, samurai, and extras of the baseball guy and tennis girl. (Also got a Pharoh's Quest motorcycle coz I love the dynamite and stained wifebeater with suspenders). Looked into a nearby Target, nothing, completely forgot that there was a Meijer nearby. If I don't end up finding any S4, would anyone be willing to trade for the geisha and musketeer?
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Is it bad that I have eight Lego keychains and only two keys on my key ring? I can't help but buy another one every time I walk into a Lego store.
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VaultAggie posted:Is it bad that I have eight Lego keychains and only two keys on my key ring? I can't help but buy another one every time I walk into a Lego store. Of course not. I just got one that's also a 512KB USB drive, even though I've had a 16GB thumb drive for years.
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Boru posted:You captured the lines REALLY well in this MOC. I love the grill/lights configuration. I was thinking the same. It totally captures the essence of the real thing.
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InfinEight posted:So I've had a sort of late birthday spree. First, I was out grocery shopping today and my usual Fred Meyer/Smith's had 4 boxes of series 4 figs Buying birthday presents for yourself is the best thing.  And the Slave I is incredibly nice.
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I might have a hookup for 100 lbs of LEGO. Can somebody tell me something about price-per-pound issues? It's a friend of a friend and I'm assuming he's just getting rid of junk from childhood, so I want to offer a price that's fair to both of us, or maybe favors me a little bit, so I get a good deal without being an rear end in a top hat. Price per pound rates should be in the OP, maybe. I know the 10 bricks to a dollar rule of thumb, but not bulk rates. I know it comes up from time to time, but this thread is really long and hard to search through on account of all the images.
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Eyeball posted:I might have a hookup for 100 lbs of LEGO. Can somebody tell me something about price-per-pound issues? It's a friend of a friend and I'm assuming he's just getting rid of junk from childhood, so I want to offer a price that's fair to both of us, or maybe favors me a little bit, so I get a good deal without being an rear end in a top hat. $5/lb would be a great deal, and up to $10/lb isn't unheard of. So you could 'fairly' give them $500, or you could offer $200 if you think they'd take it and save yourself a lot of money. InfinEight fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Mar 28, 2011 |
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Thank you.
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drat you guys. i stumbled on this thread randomly this weekend when bored, and while i haven't touched a lego block since I was like 13, I find myself anxious for my next paycheck so I can get started. My goal is to create a Spidey-Mobile by the end of summer. (and con somebody back home to bring me the massive bucket of bricks my siblings and i shared as kids) but seriously, drat you guys. I don't have money for new hobbies.
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Shuppiluliumas posted:I posted this thing a while back when it was on TBB. Well, now you can own it. http://cgi.ebay.com/Custom-LEGO-Phenix-Space-SHIP-/200591938668?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb436146c It's been donated to a charity auction to beneift Japan. There's lots more MOCs on there, too!
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Shuppiluliumas posted:I posted this thing a while back when it was on TBB. Well, now you can own it. Holy shnikes, it's gone from $50 to over a grand. Great job!
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So on a whim I searched Flickr for GIJoe themed MOCs, and found this guy's stuff. He's insane. 
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Saint Sputnik posted:So on a whim I searched Flickr for GIJoe themed MOCs, and found this guy's stuff. He's insane. Oh wow! That's amazing! 
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Roydrowsy posted:but seriously, drat you guys. I don't have money for new hobbies. Tell me about it. I just bought all the Pharaoh's Quest sets off Amazon in one fell swoop 
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Anyone in Canada see series 4 in stores yet? I keep trying various TRU but no luck yet...
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I clicked this thread thinking about a bratty, selfish red bird voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Anyone in Canada see series 4 in stores yet? I keep trying various TRU but no luck yet... Yup, I'm in SK and the Walmart near my place had several boxes. I didn't pick any up yet (I'm waiting to find a reliable dot-code cheat sheet to supplement my "feel-around" method), but I will! I really want that hockey player and werewolf and hazmat guy and musketeer and hazmat guy and viking and punkrocker and hazmat guy and mad scientist and frakenstein's monster and hazmat guy.
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Since they removed the barcode method, I've seen that someone at my local Tesco's found an inventive new method to tell which figure is in the packet: opening literally all of them and leaving the ones they don't want.
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This is pretty intense https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc-IOlX54_0
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Saint Sputnik posted:This is pretty intense Holy cow, it's like Sesame Street meets heavy metal. I love it.
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Saint Sputnik posted:this guy's stuff. Jesus christ, he is ridiculous.
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God drat you Lego thread. I am so poor, but seeing all this cool Lego stuff really wants to get me back into it. My local store has an X-Wing and an ISD there. I'd also love the medieval village, but I just can't afford it  .I've sorted through all my old Lego but I have a lot less than I thought. I have it all organized by colour. I've been searching for garage sales and online classifieds but all that is kicking around is Mega Blocks and who wants that? As consolation I got myself a mini X-Wing. Now I have to dig out some parts to build him a TIE Fighter to battle.
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Lego CYOA thread my roommate and I are doing. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3401041
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CADPAT posted:God drat you Lego thread. I have an entire squadron of mini x-wings. What I like to do is put them all together with subtle variations in coloring and then mount them in a larger diorama in attack formation.
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AstroZamboni posted:I have an entire squadron of mini x-wings. What I like to do is put them all together with subtle variations in coloring and then mount them in a larger diorama in attack formation. I was thinking exactly this!!!! That's why if I can scrape some cash together, I'd drop it on the large ISD first - an X-Wing/Y-Wing squadron could attack it.
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Saint Sputnik posted:So on a whim I searched Flickr for GIJoe themed MOCs, and found this guy's stuff. He's insane. I've never seen any of the MASK shows, but those are some pretty drat clever creations. So I should have waited to buy my hazmat guys, since Smith's/Fred Meyer has the minifigs on sale, plus a 10% off coupon this week. Oh well, I bought two more, a mad scientist and a geisha:  I also picked up two more of 7977 at TRU since they're 33% off... for  !Also, if you're having trouble finding a mad scientist, just feel for the squishy hair and flask, they're pretty distinctive. InfinEight fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Mar 31, 2011 |
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Friday I'm getting to the Lego store just as they open, The Maersk train goes on sale. My poor wallet. I might take some time and dig through the s4 figs if they have any too.
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Veeb0rg posted:Friday I'm getting to the Lego store just as they open, The Maersk train goes on sale. My poor wallet. I might take some time and dig through the s4 figs if they have any too. My Lego store has tons, so you should be in S4 luck. I'm also planning a Friday morning Maersk Train run. I'm pretty stoked about this set.
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Shuppiluliumas posted:My Lego store has tons, so you should be in S4 luck. I'm also planning a Friday morning Maersk Train run. I'm pretty stoked about this set. I lucked out, the TRU in Warwick Rhode Island has been completely ignored by LEGO Fans. They have three or four boxes of S3 Minifigs, and S3's are one sale for Buy One, Get One Half Off. They also have S4! I used a cheat sheet and got a haz-mat guy, viking, mad scientist, musketeer, and geisha girl. The Geisha is kind of disappointing, but the other guys are awesome.
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Right now, I'm sitting near the entrance to Legoland California waiting for my tour bus to come back to take me to Anaheim. I decided that I didn't want to deal with renting a car to drive myself, and All Anaheim Tours has a day trip to Legoland for $90 that included admission, so I went for it. I walked around the park for a couple hours looking at stuff and taking pics I'll post if they turn out (camera phone and I couldn't see the screen at all thanks to sunlight). The new Star Wars section of miniland opened today, and the set pieces looked great. A lot of the set pieces elsewhere need cleaning and a fresh cost of clearcoat, which is peeling off everywhere. The PAB section is grossly overpriced at $8 per quarter pound, or $95 for just 3 pounds. I still picked up a couple handfuls of headlight bricks, though. They had a buy one get one deal on the build a minifig bench, which had some s1 bits and other specialist bits. I made an Ariel mermaid for my niece and some misc minifig bits for me. That was gonna be pretty much it got me, when I made the mistake of checking to see if my paycheck had been deposited. Which lead me to buying the new space shuttle, the new lego star wars game, the medieval market village, winter bakery,and winter toy shop. And 4 polybagged sets--2 each of the new atlantis sets and a knight set that has horse head decoration that could be cool. Not a whole lot for a lone guy in his 30s to do--I wish we had more time down here and I could have convinced my sister to come with my 5-year-old niece and 1-year-old nephew. They would have loved the rides, particularly all the water-themed ones.
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Pagan posted:The Geisha is kind of disappointing, but the other guys are awesome. Are you sure you don't mean the ice skating girl? That figure is 8 kinds of retarded. I'd just as soon throw that fig in the trash than try to figure out how the skirt works.
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