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Revol posted:There's a lot of 1x2 white grill bricks, which are always nice to have. I also see a lot of 1x3 green bricks. But then I get this useless poo poo: These are neat pieces and I wish I had more 
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Chronojam posted:These are neat pieces and I wish I had more Really? What would you use them for? The only thing I can think of is if you wanted to build a minifig scale garage. And even then, I don't know if I need seven of these things. And I also got like ten extra doors for them too.
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Jul 12, 2011 23:37
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I'm prone to favorite a lot of Space style stuff, so those would go well in a garage as you said, somewhere on a mech, to hold all the extra air tanks and helmets and weapons onboard a ship while also functioning as a bulkhead. From what I recall those doors fit pretty snug, you could use them for refillable bomb bays for when you're swooshing your spaceships. Maybe I should point out I also really liked the old 2x2 slotted hatched containers that were everywhere when M-Tron was around.
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Jul 13, 2011 00:27
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That porsche wasn't lego. That was engineering. I mean, yes, it used lego pieces, but drat if I've ever seen anything like it.
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Jul 13, 2011 00:55
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VanSandman posted:That porsche wasn't lego. That was engineering. I mean, yes, it used lego pieces, but drat if I've ever seen anything like it. That man HAS to work for LEGO, right? And if not, LEGO hire him!
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Jul 13, 2011 02:37
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Revol posted:Really? What would you use them for? The only thing I can think of is if you wanted to build a minifig scale garage. And even then, I don't know if I need seven of these things. My daughter seems to love them for her houses. Maybe you should build more houses.
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Jul 13, 2011 02:44
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So in preparation of having a kid in the future I decided to toss together most of my old Lego sets I had laying about for decoration and I wanted my Lego sets out of the boxes they where stored in. Pirate Island vs the Navy  Old castle with a funky glow in the dark ghost in the keep.  A few old western sets combined to make a nice set up.  A few random sets I have gotten over the years.       
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Jul 13, 2011 15:46
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Of course you need to have the Lego Star Wars thrown in for my nerd cred.    I have a Naboo Fighter laying around here some where missing a few pieces and a AT-ST in a bucket some where too I need to put together and add to the collection. Going to add mini-figs and the random sets here and there as I get cash, might have to hunt E-Bay for the older sets I loved.
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Jul 13, 2011 15:49
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einTier posted:Wow. Someone actually bought that thing. Well, in theory someone must have because Lego's still around. 
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Jul 13, 2011 18:59
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einTier posted:Wow. Someone actually bought that thing. Lol I was like 10 when I bought that thing, it was pretty sweet to a kid and it came with a Lego shaped storage container too. I still love that little car thing, I would so buy the rest of the set plus all the hats are just great and I have that container laying around here some where.
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Jul 13, 2011 20:09
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2 Much Caffeine does it again, for those who don't read Brickd. http://www.flickr.com/photos/24681250@N07/5765444247/in/photostream/lightbox/ I mean, drat. I love micro-scale stuff.
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Jul 13, 2011 21:40
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einTier posted:Wow. Someone actually bought that thing. I'm actually considering buying up the line. It's like LEGO Torchwood. It is awful, but stupidly fun. Plus they do look a lot (well, a bit) better in person then in pictures.
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Jul 13, 2011 23:22
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So I get home today and check Brothers Brick and HOLY poo poo   The Nausicaa scene is my favorite. The ohmu is fantastic, but the base showing the Seven Days of Fire and the growth of the Sea of Corruption really make it special.
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Jul 14, 2011 00:31
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afflictionwisp posted:So I get home today and check Brothers Brick and HOLY poo poo I like it too, but that Mehve really needs re-working. It's way too large and bulky. Compare to http://www.flickr.com/photos/25163007@N07/4115722584/ Although that's probably too wide...Mehve's wingspan should be a little more than twice Nausicaa's height.
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Jul 14, 2011 00:41
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Pyroclastic posted:I like it too, but that Mehve really needs re-working. It's way too large and bulky. Compare to http://www.flickr.com/photos/25163007@N07/4115722584/ oh, bitch, bitch, bitch  There's just no pleasing some people
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Jul 14, 2011 00:58
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afflictionwisp posted:So I get home today and check Brothers Brick and HOLY poo poo Oh man, that's loving awesome. I would put that on my desk.
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Jul 14, 2011 01:00
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Yeah those are basically The Best Lego Clouds. I only recently saw Laputa, after it showed on Cartoon Network and I saw a small bit of it and spurred my interest. I was basically  and  the whole time watching it, loved it. Lego has the Disney contract, maybe they could worm a Ghibli contract out of it too.  edit: Demon Boar God Lego set, scar your kids for life! Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Jul 14, 2011 |
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Jul 14, 2011 01:07
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I haven't built a lego model in about 4 years or so and I'm actually really tempted to buy that super star destroyer set. I used to be really into Star Wars, and that ship was always my favorite. It's basically Manhattan on a giant space dagger. With guns all over.  afflictionwisp posted:I hadn't heard of Brothers Brick before, but this alone made me bookmark their site.
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Jul 14, 2011 01:35
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Those clouds are awe-inspiring.Lumpy the Cook posted:I hadn't heard of Brothers Brick before, but this alone made me bookmark their site. They're a blog that posts other people's works, usually from Flickr. (Although, they do post a few original works of theirs which are good too.)
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Jul 14, 2011 02:54
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I too bought that Time Twisters abomination when I was a kid. What can I say, I love the minifigs and the stupid unique pieces it comes with.
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Jul 14, 2011 05:21
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Lego.com has listed some of the new Star Wars sets. This caught my attention: 7957 Sith Nightspeeder 214 pieces, 3 figs, $24.99 7959 Geonosian Starfighter 155 pieces, 3 figs, $29.99 So, pay 5 bucks more, get 60 fewer pieces. I don't really know what to make of that. I guess it looks a little bigger...
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Jul 16, 2011 03:27
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Rythe posted:Of course you need to have the Lego Star Wars thrown in for my nerd cred. Time Twisters was and is an abomination, useful parts notwithstanding, but this set. Oh man. I preordered it and the couple months I had to wait were agony for 10 or 12 year old me. I built it the instant it arrived and it's the one set that was never cannibalized, even temporarily. And that includes the huge awesome M-Tron ship that I lovingly put back together several times. This might not be the the best X-Wing but first love and all that. It's still on a shelf at my parents' house I think.
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Jul 16, 2011 05:31
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Shuppiluliumas posted:Lego.com has listed some of the new Star Wars sets. This caught my attention: The stupid Ewok tree is like a hundred sixty pieces for twenty five bucks, too. Lego is really pushing what people are willing to spend with this assortment.
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Jul 16, 2011 18:13
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Karma Tornado posted:The stupid Ewok tree is like a hundred sixty pieces for twenty five bucks, too. Lego is really pushing what people are willing to spend with this assortment. Ewok tree is $35 in canada land. We always had higher lego prices but now its gone from crazy to absurd. Even worse is toys r us is marking sets above the S@H prices and then put them on sale for the MRSP.
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Jul 16, 2011 20:45
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Eh, licensed sets are a ripoff. Star Wars is the worst of the lot. I'm alright with it because there's enough people in the world that care enough about Star Wars to buy 'em to keep Lego unbelievably rich forever.
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Jul 16, 2011 21:26
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Joining the Architecture line this September is the Robie House. There's also a super-high res photo. It'll be the largest of the series, at 2,276 pieces. Edit: While I'm on Flickr, this is loving genius. 
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Jul 16, 2011 22:38
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Karma Tornado and Karma Tornado posted:Star Wars LEGO is expensive Maybe part of the re-licensing of the SW license George Lucas asked for more royalties? Also the Geonosian Starfighter uses more rare colors than the other one. Just wait for it to go on sale like any other LEGO.
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Jul 16, 2011 22:59
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djfooboo posted:Maybe part of the re-licensing of the SW license George Lucas asked for more royalties? Also the Geonosian Starfighter uses more rare colors than the other one. Just wait for it to go on sale like any other LEGO. That rare color bs only affects the 2nd hand market. It shouldn't dictate new set prices.
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djfooboo posted:Maybe part of the re-licensing of the SW license George Lucas asked for more royalties? Also the Geonosian Starfighter uses more rare colors than the other one. Just wait for it to go on sale like any other LEGO. I don't buy it, I sell it. My concern is that from a retail end Lego's pricing themselves out of what most people are willing to part with for some kid's birthday.
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renraku posted:That rare color bs only affects the 2nd hand market. It shouldn't dictate new set prices. It's the minifigure collecting market that dictates the prices. Lego got wise to the fact people were paying a ton of money for some of those SW figs and decided they should cash in on it. Almost every set has exclusive figs now to convince the collectors to buy them. I'm especially annoyed at that Geonosian fighter because it's the first set to have brown 4x1 curve slopes, and it just so happens I need them for what I'm working on now. Their Bricklink price is going to be twice what it should be because of that horrible MSRP. On the other hand, I should probably be happy Lego continues to bring out useful new parts, and parts in new colors. Building any curved shape in brown was almost impossible until this year, because none of the basic parts existed.
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Travis343 posted:Eh, licensed sets are a ripoff. Star Wars is the worst of the lot. I'm alright with it because there's enough people in the world that care enough about Star Wars to buy 'em to keep Lego unbelievably rich forever. Pretty much. For the same price as the Slave 1 with 569 pieces and 3 minifigures you could get the totally awesome Earth Defense HQ from the Alien Conquest line with 879 pieces and 6 minifigures.
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Jul 17, 2011 06:55
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If the Star Wars line as it exists now had been around when I was a kid it would have bugged the poo poo out of me anyway because I was too spergy to have mixed realistic fleshtone minifgs with the classic yellow. I know there's gotta be kids out there today who are bugged by that.
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Jul 17, 2011 07:20
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I wish the Star Wars line had been out when I was a kid! I remember the introduction of the Space range and how excited I was by that. Mind you now Im making up for it by buying loads of it (on ebay where you can get some bargains if you are careful- picked up the Droid Trifighter for £8 posted with all the minifigs last week, and Republic Attack Shuttle and minifigs for £35 a couple of months ago.) for my 5 year old son. Its really for me though...
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 Higher res Black Pearl pics from https://exoneit.de/default.asp?ex=shop:produktedetail.asp&Artikel_id=103054&kat_id=7251 via BrickSet. quote:The ship does not float vvv That I know. I always wanted one of the boats as a kid. But none of the pirates boats that I have have had that piece of news, so it just seems weird. Virar fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Jul 17, 2011 |
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Jul 17, 2011 11:22
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Virar posted:Glad they point that out. Turns out the Queens Anne Revenge box also says that. Well, they have made boats that do float. When I was a kid I had a floating police boat.  It was one of my favorite Lego sets.
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Jul 17, 2011 15:54
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Torael_7 posted:Not if season 5 gets marked up that much. They're what, 3 bucks each in the store? want to talk about horrible pricing? There's a small toy store on the bottom floor of the Toronto Eaton Centre that had S3 Lego minifigures "marked down" from CAN$9.99 each to $6.99 or so. The S4s were "on sale" for $4.99.
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Jul 17, 2011 16:07
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drat, the current minifigs are E 1.99, and the older seasons are all E 1.49 here.
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Chris Knight posted:want to talk about horrible pricing? There's a small toy store on the bottom floor of the Toronto Eaton Centre that had S3 Lego minifigures "marked down" from CAN$9.99 each to $6.99 or so. The S4s were "on sale" for $4.99. Yeah, Toys Toys Toys has a really bad habit of jacking their prices up regardless of which location you go to.
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I just wanted to say I love you beautiful creative bastards and this thread. Thanks for sharing all of your amazingly creative arts!
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