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Revol posted:What is the angle of the slope of the cheese piece? Peeron calls it a 31 degree slope brick, but the 1 x 2 version a 33 degree slope. Not sure which is accurate. Or if it's both.
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Pyroclastic posted:Peeron calls it a 31 degree slope brick, but the 1 x 2 version a 33 degree slope. Not sure which is accurate. Or if it's both. Where did Peeron say that? I looked at that page... oh. It's in the title. Hrm... I don't think 31-33 degrees will work. The interior angle of a regular octagon is 135. If I subtract 90 degrees from that, I get 45. Yeah, the regular slopes are 45 degrees, but addition of the stud behind it ruins everything. I'd have to stack the slopes on each other, and then I'd be getting the small part of the slopes that aren't at an angle messing everything up. Am I making sense?
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Jul 24, 2011 02:57
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Revol posted:What is the angle of the slope of the cheese piece? I think it's 30 degrees, or very close. It's definitely not 33 degrees because that's what normal 3x1 slopes are. At any rate, they make good hexagonal shapes.    From here.
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Jul 24, 2011 03:23
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Yeah, Bricklink says it is 30 degrees.
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Jul 24, 2011 03:34
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Well I went digging in my attic earlier today to find some paperwork and I found a stash of legos hidden away in a corner. I'll dig through the rest later this weekend but I built this tonight, albeit missing several pieces. The thing is pretty cool and there's a lot to do with it but it's so drat fragile, especially the center support. However, I was able to add some supporting sets to the hospital. This  and this. 
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Jul 24, 2011 05:55
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I finally decided to get my box of lego down and just make some stuff. I've bought a few creator sets in the past few months, including the log cabin and shuttle, but hadn't tried any MOCs. It's been quite a few years since I really 'played' Firstly, I sorted through everything. Found a lot of rubbish and other junk. Turns out I have far less than I actually thought  The lighthouse has also been sitting on my shelf for a while, so I thought I'd make it a proper lighthouse and put it on a cliff:  I think it turned out ok, but I need to play with the waves some more; not quite happy. I also have a few other cliff pieces at work which I'm using as a laptop stand, so I'll get those and make it a bit bigger. In an attempt to challenge myself, I tried to find the most useless piece in my collection and use it to build something cool. In this case, it was "Vehicle Radiator Grill with Side Headlights" (http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/30147) I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, and the robot seems to be pretty happy too (well, happy about killing people, so I guess it isn't all that great)   (he has a jetpack!  )
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Jul 24, 2011 14:24
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On the topic of the Super Hero mini-figs, I'm of the opinion that this Thor I made is a thousand times better than their prototype one.
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Jul 24, 2011 19:44
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Thats a pretty good Thor. The face needs a better beard though, everything else is great.
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Jul 24, 2011 19:51
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That's the best one I have. Do you know of any that would fit better?
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Jul 24, 2011 19:58
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Officer Farva posted:That's the best one I have. Do you know of any that would fit better? This.
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Jul 25, 2011 00:01
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Colonial Air Force posted:This. Thor has never had his beard braided, it has never been that long, and it has always been blonde.
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Jul 25, 2011 00:10
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Girlfriend got me a set of Brickarms guns as an early birthday gift. She then demonstrated the "pew pew" or "bang bang" sound each one made.
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Revol posted:Thor has never had his beard braided, it has never been that long, and it has always been blonde. Yeah, I have quite a few of those beards. While all of his friends have them, he does not!
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Jul 25, 2011 03:02
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For those not subscribed to Brother Brick, another Flickr gem:
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Revol posted:Thor has never had his beard braided, it has never been that long, and it has always been blonde. On the other hand, Thor has been a frog. I'd see if I could bleach that poo poo, and go from there.
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Jul 25, 2011 09:07
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Revol posted:For those not subscribed to Brother Brick, another Flickr gem: I think that's part of the post-apocalyptic layout I'm involved with for BrickFair this year. 10x10 baseplates of a flooded city. Should be cool.
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Jul 25, 2011 16:11
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This here is a pretty sweet Serenity: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=479368 It'd be awesome to see a mini-fig scale one, but that would take a pretty huge investment of parts. Maybe someday!
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What would be the best way to make a clear cylinder about, say, 6-8 studs wide? I need to have stuff going on the middle of the cylinder, so it has to be hollow. There's this:  But the closest they do it in is transparent blue or smoke, not clear.
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Jul 25, 2011 18:41
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The_Doctor posted:What would be the best way to make a clear cylinder about, say, 6-8 studs wide? I need to have stuff going on the middle of the cylinder, so it has to be hollow. There's this: Does it need to be entirely clear and smooth? You could make it with 1x2 clear bricks and 1x1 round bricks. The 1x2 clears are pretty easy to get (they make regular appearances in store PABs), but the 1x1 round clears are uncommon (I apparently have exactly one). One store on bricklink has like 2400 of them, though.
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The_Doctor posted:What would be the best way to make a clear cylinder about, say, 6-8 studs wide? I need to have stuff going on the middle of the cylinder, so it has to be hollow. There's this: That part in clear is pretty high on my wish list, too. Pyroclasic's suggestion is probably the best way to get a round shape. If it didn't have to be round, you could use 8 of these arranged vertically into an octagon, maybe.
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Pyroclastic posted:Does it need to be entirely clear and smooth? That would be ideal, yeah. I want to have things in the centre of it you can see.
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Granite Octopus posted:Had a good laugh at these, brilliant. He just looks so determined.
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The_Doctor posted:What would be the best way to make a clear cylinder about, say, 6-8 studs wide? I need to have stuff going on the middle of the cylinder, so it has to be hollow. There's this: I may be crazy but I am 99.9% sure that the Batman Arkham Asylum set came with two of those in clear.
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WaynesWorldGirl posted:I may be crazy but I am 99.9% sure that the Batman Arkham Asylum set came with two of those in clear. Peeron tells me they came in Smoke in that set. And TransLtBlue in two other sets. It won't be perfectly clear, but I think a brick+round wall will be your best option if you actually want clear pieces. There aren't a whole lot of rounded clear pieces. Might give your tube an interesting texture overlaid on what's underneath. http://www.ericbrok.com/legomind/projects/buildings/curvwall.htm
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Brickset reports sightings of Series 5 in the UK. If they are legit, it means only a couple weeks 'til they're out in North America.
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Flavor Bear posted:Brickset reports sightings of Series 5 in the UK. They're available for pre-order on Toys R Us' website for $2.99 with a buy one, get one 50% off deal: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11807192 Edit: Turns out you can buy as many as you like but you only get one half-off not to mention the cost of shipping.
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Pyroclastic posted:Peeron tells me they came in Smoke in that set. And TransLtBlue in two other sets. Bricklink says five kits in 'transparent black'. That said, looking at the pictures, that must be the faintest black I've ever seen. If you told me they were clear I'd believe you. I'd order a couple and see what you think. They're only $0.50 each. 
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illcendiary posted:They're available for pre-order on Toys R Us' website for $2.99 with a buy one, get one 50% off deal: I hadn't seen these before. That's a pretty cool set. I'd be happy with most of those. Even the aerobics instructor is goofy enough to be amusing. The exception being another snowboarder. No thanks.
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einTier posted:Holy crap that is the coolest drat police set I have ever seen. They keep recycling the same one for the last few years; why don't they re-release that drat mauler car?
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For those of you checking Fred Meyer stores for S5, make sure you check in the Back-to-School seasonal section. I remembered that they originally had some S1 figures in that area, and S5 could show up there. Especially since they have all the Megablok blind-bags, the Hello Kitty blind-bags, and the Zoobles blind-bags over there now, too. No S5 spotted here yet.
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Pyroclastic posted:Hello Kitty blind-bags What's that?
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Saint Sputnik posted:What's that? When I googled it, it looks like it's more Megablok crap, not something from Sanrio itself. http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Minifigure-Mystery-RANDOM-Figure/dp/B004MORFO4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1311723392&sr=8-5 Although they do have blind-boxed cell phone charms. vvvvvvvvvv Since they just released the Pet Shop, there won't be another modular building for at least another year. Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jul 27, 2011 |
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I hope they do a realistic police station one day, like the deluxe fire station. I would be all over that. Speaking of which, what's the news on any further sets like that?
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Flavor Bear posted:Holy crap that is the coolest drat police set I have ever seen. I have this set and you can definitely recognise it as a product of Lego's dark days. A lot of large, single purpose pieces and ugh.. The newer police stations are much better. The cylinder pieces are definitely smoky black.
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Baggy_Brad posted:The cylinder pieces are definitely smoky black. Well, I just ordered 4, so we'll see in a few days.
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Baggy_Brad posted:I have this set and you can definitely recognise it as a product of Lego's dark days. A lot of large, single purpose pieces and ugh.. The newer police stations are much better. Mainly it's the car that I dig. Even though it's boxy and clunky it's a better looking kind of boxy and clunky than the police vehicles that are around now.
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Baggy_Brad posted:The cylinder pieces are definitely smoky black. 
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Got some S5 Minifigs today in the UK, WHSmiths had them and they gave me a voucher where if you spend £15 you get £5 off that you can use next week so I'll probably get some more then. Not sure if that's every Smiths or just mine but thought it would be of interest. Got the tiny clown, boxer and gladiator and the first two are ok with the gladiator being awesome.
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The_Doctor posted:Well, I just ordered 4, so we'll see in a few days. Actually, I ordered 2. The guy's store inventory was all up the shoot.
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Fred Meyer has a 20% off bonus coupon, for my fellow PacNW goons: http://www.fredmeyer.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/Fred_Meyer/PDFs/65023_toy_coupon.pdf
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