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CADPAT posted:The only Lego store in Canada is in stupid Calgary which is 3500kms away. WTF Lego? Soon to be two Lego stores! http://www.sherwaygardens.ca/en/custom/Pages/TheLEGOStoreatSherway.aspx
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S4 just turned up in the local toystore, I picked up 5 and got the Hazmat guy, Scientist, both monsters and the skater. Being bored at work I already whipped up a super-villian out of the Hazmat and scientist. 
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All that fuss about the minifigs made me order 16 of S4 from lego today. I also went through my old, (yet) unsorted lego and found these: Can you recommend a good site for researching their value?
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Apr 7, 2011 19:11
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RabbitWizard posted:Can you recommend a good site for researching their value? http://www.bricklink.com/catalogTree.asp?itemType=M Specifically, find the minifig you want to know about, then look to the lower left of the catalog entry, and under "Lots for Sale", click "View Them".
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Apr 7, 2011 19:20
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Ah man, you have some sweet old space figs in there.
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Apr 7, 2011 19:47
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Did really well yesterday with the dot guides. Didn't find the Hazmat Guy, I think his dot pattern changed from 402B1 to 502B1 but I got the Mad Scientist. Also got the Samurai and Mummy from S3 using the dot codes. The final one that guy links to on his photobucket worked for every number I found.
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Apr 7, 2011 20:18
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I got a 7942 set in one of those value packs, and it inspired me to recreate a childhood memory. I redid it in LDD, because I was missing some pieces, and i wasn't too happy about the wheels:  I kinda like it, if anyone wants the .lxf, I can put it on some file hosting service.
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Apr 7, 2011 20:21
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I went to build a weapon shop for my medieval market village yesterday. I don't quite know what happened.    The large part of the floor is a hatch so he can get up to his room.
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Apr 7, 2011 20:48
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Started making some little "date" vignettes with the "me and my girlfriend" minifigs. She began insisting I give her different clothes to reflect her wardrobe and scoured through all the legs I have to find pants that matched hers. Hope they make that beret in brown or plaid so it matches my cabbie hat.
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Apr 7, 2011 21:23
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ZarathustraFollower posted:I went to build a weapon shop for my medieval market village yesterday. I need to do something like this while I still have my MMV assembled.
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Apr 7, 2011 21:24
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I am so mad. All the stores I go to that carry the Lego mini figures series STILL does not have the new series 4. .... I am really excited with this series.
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Apr 7, 2011 23:13
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Intoxication posted:
Sure, no idea when I would be able to build it, but that's pretty as heck. 
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Apr 7, 2011 23:42
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TRU will have Minifig S3 buy one get one half off Friday and Saturday http://trus.imageg.net/graphics/med...minder2DayDeals I'm kind of seeing a glut of S3 everywhere, I only hope the future series are as easy to find. And a few sets are 30% off, including some large SW kits.
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Apr 8, 2011 02:29
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ZarathustraFollower posted:I went to build a weapon shop for my medieval market village yesterday. Needs windows!!
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Apr 8, 2011 03:24
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Im ordering the Medieval Market Village today!!!!!
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Saint Sputnik posted:Started making some little "date" vignettes with the "me and my girlfriend" minifigs. She began insisting I give her different clothes to reflect her wardrobe and scoured through all the legs I have to find pants that matched hers. I did one of those for Valentines. The collectible minifigs are great for this, lots of girls with printed outfits. She didn't think it was appropriate for me to be going out for dinner with a surfer dude's six-pack though. I was rifling through a couple of boxes of Series 4 the other day, and someone had crossed out all the figures they had cleared out. They missed a garden gnome though!
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ZarathustraFollower posted:I went to build a weapon shop for my medieval market village yesterday. Is that a hatori hanzo sword in the attic?
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Sapper2CRNA posted:Im ordering the Medieval Market Village today!!!!! You won't regret it - I got mine last week, and it's fantastic.
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Get it while you can; it's been discontinued. I got mine like a month ago. It's so awesome 
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Saint Sputnik posted:TRU will have Minifig S3 buy one get one half off Friday and Saturday I really struck out today using this deal - thought I had an Indian and the old timey pilot, but ended up with the hula girl and rapper.
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so, inspired by this thread I've picked up a couple of sets and I'm hooked. I picked up a couple Atlantis sets, and since my local Meijer has all the "World Racer" stuff on clearance, I picked up a couple of those cheap. I'd not touched these things since I was a kid, and I have to say the sets seem a lot more detailed and complex than the ones I remember as a kid. The downside is that having built these things, I like them too much to tear them apart and just start playing around making things.
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Roydrowsy posted:so, inspired by this thread I've picked up a couple of sets and I'm hooked. Welcome to the ever growing list of people who have been pulled out of their dark-ages by this thread!
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King Faraday posted:Sure, no idea when I would be able to build it, but that's pretty as heck. Thank you. http://rapidshare.com/files/456568589/landrover-feuerwehr.lxf Hope this works.
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Spent 90 mins last night making my son the Star Wars Republic Attack Shuttle- really fun to build and pretty complicated in places (well to someone whos out of practice anyway). As a 37 year old I've not played with Lego since i was about 12 (my mum still has all my old Lego which my son whos nearly 5 plays with when he stays with her- lots of classic town, knights and space stuff mainly. My first Lego kit was a town my parents had to save up coupons from a breakfast cereal for back in 1978 iirc). Im loving his interest in Lego, especially all the Star Wars stuff (I would have freaked out as a kid if that had been around then- my two favourite childhool things). The new kits seem really fun and have some really interetsing parts that weren't around when I was a lad. EDIT- just thought the above is not strictly true- I did buy some of the models back in 1997 when the first wave of Star Wars lego came out, such as X Wing, Y wing, Snowspeeder etc. My son loves those. Also when did they stop using yellow faces for the Star Wars minfigs? Jinjin Bemar fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Apr 9, 2011 |
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Apr 9, 2011 08:16
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Jinjin Bemar posted:Also when did they stop using yellow faces for the Star Wars minfigs? I'm sure someone can give you a specific date, but I think people had a hard time processing yellow Billy Dee Williams and they decided it would be better to diversify the Hollywood corner of the LEGO universe than to take racially diverse casts and race-neutralize actual characters that had been portrayed by humans. (And I use the term "diverse" loosely here. Non-homogenous.)
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Apr 9, 2011 13:45
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gently caress their racial diversity, I hate the non-yellow minifigs.
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IIRC, they started with the non-yellow minifigs when they starteed releasing models based on The Clone Wars animated series, they also made the faces more detailed. I actually hadn't noticed it had 'spread' to all of Star Wars until now. I don't like it.
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:IIRC, they started with the non-yellow minifigs when they starteed releasing models based on The Clone Wars animated series, they also made the faces more detailed. They've used non-yellow minifigs for far longer than that; they started showing up for licensed sets in around '05-06 I think, for stuff like the Spider-man 2 sets, Star Wars stuff, etc.
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Apr 9, 2011 18:31
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The LEGO Soccer sets were the first, I believe.
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And the NBA ones as well.
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:IIRC, they started with the non-yellow minifigs when they starteed releasing models based on The Clone Wars animated series, they also made the faces more detailed. The TCW figs are extremely creepy looking.
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Super Waffle posted:The LEGO Soccer sets were the first, I believe. I was gonna say the Lego basketball sets. Lego black guys apparently didn't sell very well because I remember seeing a bunch of them in the dollar store. e: juuuuust beaten
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The TCW figs are extremely creepy looking. I agree, the females are generally okay since they're mostly aliens and look weird anyway, but all the angular stylization and sunken cheeks of the males don't really work on the classic minifig head. And I don't think any of the Lego Sports stuff sold very well, I always saw a lot of Basketball and Soccer sets unsold.
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TRU is also having a buy one get half off one sale on town sets today. Not gonna do it myself since town is my least favorite theme and the one set I'd want is the cops/robbers/dog minifig set.
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Lego and race is such a weird loaded topic. As I understand it, the Danes (let's be fair--not known for their racial diversity in Scandinavia) just went with a color to represent all races: primary yellow. It's not like every single Lego set released before the early 90s featured Asians and only Asians. I have a strong memory of making a bald black bartender for one of my Lego worlds as a kid. He went by "Mr. Clean", and he had a standard yellow Lego smiley head with no hair or hat. He also had a Donatello style staff behind the bar he'd use to break up fights. Hence, "Mr. Clean and his staff are happy to serve you." Mr. Clean, as I recall, was one of the better helicopter pilots that mercenary company had. My point is that old Lego's claim of yellow representing all races isn't bullshit. Especially with Lego, imagination fills in the gaps. Then you get the people of any race who justifiably want to keep a close eye on children's toys to make drat sure they don't subtly encourage racism. If every single Lego minifigure out there has bright yellow skin, does that mean Lego is calling for some kind of everyone-is-the-same-color racial purity? Of course the gently caress not. On the other hand, if I was Shaquille O'Neill, I know I wouldn't sign off on Lego portraying me with light colored skin. There's honestly no malice on any side of the argument. Lego was OK when every minifig was bright yellow, and Lego is OK when they go for a closer approximation of skin color, too. I'll agree that the hosed up wide set eyes from Clone Wars sets do look strange as hell, regardless of skin color.
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Everything outside of Star Wars and other licensed stuff is still yellow, they only use actual skin tones when they're trying to represent real people. Yeah the first few waves of Harry Potters and Luke Skywalkers were yellow, but they quickly realized that wouldn't fly for very long. One thing that always struck me as really weird, back when everybody was yellow, they went through a bunch of different styles for Snape. I guess he's supposed to be paler than the other characters but they made him zombie-gray and even glow-in-the-dark at one point.
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I finally found some series 4 Lego mini figures. The Japanese girl is really easy to find pick out. Actually out of the eight that I have bought I would say I guessed 3 -4 correctly and that was me trying. Pretty much this series it easy to feel and figure out which one is which with out using the bumps.
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Take your time and you can feel out any series 4 minifig. I've bought over 20 now, and not gotten a single one wrong, and felt every single minifig. Hard ones are those with hairpieces, but each has a distinguishing feature. Wolfman has the bone, soccer player has a trophy, sailor has a telescope, etc. I went to Toys'R'Us and found what I thought were 3 almost untouched boxes. Only managed to find 3 haz-mat and 2 gnomes, but now I finally have my 3 musketeers. Out of the 6 total haz-mat I managed to get, I'm only keeping 3; the rest are gifts.
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Oh they are very easy to pick out. I actually had a harder time with series three than with series 4. However, something I like to do it blind sided and just randomly pick a package.
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Any tips on making strong joints? I just built a mech, and although I'm relatively pleased, his joints are so loose that I'm having trouble posing him. What are your favorite ways to make joints that bend, can handle a little weight, and stay in place once posed?
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