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Sexual Lorax posted:Good call. Those are surprisingly good Lego P90s  Any idea who makes those? I love the use of the ski in that robot.
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Chronojam posted:Those are surprisingly good Lego P90s BrickArms. Edit: vvvv You may have beaten me on detail, Doctor, but, in a cruel twist of fate, I have beaten you on time. Sexual Lorax fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Aug 3, 2011 |
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Chronojam posted:Those are surprisingly good Lego P90s Brickarms do: http://www.brickarms.com/Toys/weapons/Combat_PDW.aspx
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I want an aluminum minifig... http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/lego-minifigs-soon-headed-for-deep-space/ nws fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Aug 3, 2011 |
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That's rad as hell. Lego is awesome, space is awesome. But Juno is also Jupiter's wife as well as sister 
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Picked up some series 5 minifigs from Tesco. They'd only just got them and they weren't even on the system yet. Had to get an employee put them through as Series 4. Got the dwarf, eskimo, boxer, gangster and Jane Goodall. Not bad for a random grab.
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Digital War posted:Picked up some series 5 minifigs from Tesco. They'd only just got them and they weren't even on the system yet. Had to get an employee put them through as Series 4. And so the frantic hunt begins...
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Hoping I don't see Series 5 too soon as I have just spent my Lego budget for the month. Picked up Heroica Caverns of Nathuz at Argos for £14.99, which was an unexpectedly reasonable price. I was expecting Heroica to be one of the lines where the £ price was similar to the $ price so I was quite prepared to find it for between 17.99 and 19.99. Unfortunately, out of the four Heroica sets, three are available in store and Waldurk Forest is online only. Naturally, that's the other one I wanted. While flicking through the catalogue looking for Heroica, I also spotted the Character Options Doctor Who sets, so I added the Dalek Progenitor Chamber to my order. This seemed way overpriced at £9.99 - it's a very small box - but that turns out to be mostly efficent packaging. The set is built on a 16x16 base, and the part count and weight are on a par with Ramses Return, which also cost 9.99 and uses a 16x16 base, but comes in a much larger box. The majority of the parts are by Cobi, and are mostly common Cobi parts (including plenty of light grey 2x4 and 4x4 tiles) with a couple of custom pieces. The figure (a white Dalek) is not by Cobi - it has no embossing on the studs and comes in a bag proclaiming 'made in China' - but seems to be pretty good quality. The main body is six parts, one printed, which are held together by standard studs. The eyestalk and arms are separate pieces, but they don't use any standard LEGO pin type for the fitting, so no modelling Abslom Daak carrying a Dalek gun or adding an eyestalk to a LEGO helmet.
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I was this close to buying the $140 Millenium Falcon this weekend. But the price made me hesitate. Then I saw it was available on Amazon for nearly 40-50 bucks cheaper. Anyone bought Legos through Amazon before? Any issues with missing pieces?
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Kirtan posted:I was this close to buying the $140 Millenium Falcon this weekend. But the price made me hesitate. Then I saw it was available on Amazon for nearly 40-50 bucks cheaper. Anyone bought Legos through Amazon before? Any issues with missing pieces? Reeeaaal good chance you're looking at somebody selling the midi-scale one from a few years ago marked up like three hundred percent to try to dupe people into buying it by accident. Anybody selling the new one for fifty bucks under retail is losing money on the deal.
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Bought my parents the Taj Mahal on sale last year for $200 for their 40th wedding anniversary (my mum loves Lego and my dads from India, so I thought it appropriate) and against my better judgment, let them open and build it. And now... http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002EEP3NY/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&qid=1312474577&sr=8-1&condition=new 
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I opened up one of the Collector Death Stars I bought from that clearance sale a while back because two of them took up such a huge amount of space, and I was able to fix all of the parts in a small drawer. Now that fucker's worth a ton unopened, too. Least I hadn't opened the Batcaves I bought way back when.
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You let them open their anniversary present? How gracious of you.
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thebardyspoon posted:You let them open their anniversary present? How gracious of you. Ha, well as appreciated as it was at the time I think if any of us had known it would more than quadruple in value in less than a year, they'd have much rather just kept it safely on a shelf.
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After having the 8043 Excavator sitting on my shelf for about a year, finally got the time to build it. I wanted to build it right, so I spent a bit of time organizing the parts. Still took about 5 hours to build the thing. Following the suggestions of people from brickset.com, I took time to make sure every gear, linear actuator, and joint were setup right and smooth, and I have no problems at all with it lifting or moving that others have complained about (I did get the updated actuators from Lego).  Surprised at how few spare parts are left over. I've had tiny little $15 Technic sets with more spare parts.
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Technic usually as one extra of every unique small part. Also, got shipping confirmation on my unimog, motorcycle, and flatbed truck. Expensive order but gonna be sooooo worth it.
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Kirtan posted:I was this close to buying the $140 Millenium Falcon this weekend. But the price made me hesitate. Then I saw it was available on Amazon for nearly 40-50 bucks cheaper. Anyone bought Legos through Amazon before? Any issues with missing pieces? I got both the Grand Emporium and the Fire Brigade off Amazon a while back. Didn't have any missing pieces in either set. Bought the new Milennium Falcon for myself and while it's a great set the build isn't all the challenging. Have to wonder why they included a Vader minifig in stead of a C3PO and R2-D2 though.
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I vaguely remember a Lego Castle game from when I was a kid that I can't find any information on, anybody else remember this? Basically there was a foldout paper board, with four factions (I think it was Crusaders, Wolf Pack, Forestmen, and Black Falcons). The playing space was a sort of cross shape with each faction at one tip of the cross. You could do things like build walls by putting down a 2x2 brick on one of the squares I didn't imagine this, right?
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Just picked up the Maersk train and 3 sets of tracks all unopened for $90. Do the Maersk sets typically increase in value?
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Here's a more updated pic of the Grey Alien. Got it from the eurobricks s6 discussion.
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Well, I guess he's got the perfect expression for being such a lovely minifig.
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Fantastic, Lego. You've managed to remind me of the nightmares I forgot I used to have after watching too much X-Files as a kid. 
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SynthOrange posted:Well, I guess he's got the perfect expression for being such a lovely minifig. Seriously, that's as  as they come.
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SynthOrange posted:Well, I guess he's got the perfect expression for being such a lovely minifig. Who cares? That head is perfect.
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So it's just wearing gloves and a thong?
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Arkannoyed posted:So it's just wearing gloves and a thong? Dear Penthouse, I never thought it would happen to me...
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My dad was cleaning his garage out and found my brother and I's LEGO, mostly from the 90s and some from the 70s/80s. Hardly any sets are left built, but I recognize base panels and various pieces from stuff like Neptunes Discovery Lab, Dr. Cybers lab, some of those UFOs sets including. So nice seeing all this poo poo again that I spent hours. I'm either going to clean them all and eBay random grab bags by the pound or something, or play the gently caress out of them. Probably the latter.
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Isn't there a website where you can catalog what pieces you have, and then you can pick out sets and see if you have all the pieces to that set? I think I want to catalog all my Technic stuff, and then start building other Technic sets. Is it Peeron?
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Is season 6 of the Minifigs still going to be the last they do? Or have the sales massively above expectations changed the plans?
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toochilled posted:Is season 6 of the Minifigs still going to be the last they do? Or have the sales massively above expectations changed the plans? Have they said this is the last? Because it seems to me that this has been a huge success for them. I thought when the first batch they did, there were no promises on more. Now we're on the sixth one in, what, just two years?
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There was a rumor that 5 was gonna be the last, but lo and behold, leaked pics of 6.
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I believe the last semi-official word was that they were thinking of stopping at series 8. But I'm guessing the profit margin and popularity are high enough that they'll keep going until they're either really running out of designs, or seeing a significant drop in interest.
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So I'm looking to relive some childhood nostalgia and get a lego set, but all the good looking models seem to be in the $100+ range. I'm not looking to make my own art or anything, just toss together what the manual specifies and put it on a shelf or something. Are there any nice-looking sets people can recommend that are more in the $50 price range?
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cheetah7071 posted:So I'm looking to relive some childhood nostalgia and get a lego set, but all the good looking models seem to be in the $100+ range. I'm not looking to make my own art or anything, just toss together what the manual specifies and put it on a shelf or something. Are there any nice-looking sets people can recommend that are more in the $50 price range? I don't know which series you liked but this one seems to be pretty popular and has a cool design. http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/7051_Tripod_Invader 
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VaultAggie posted:I don't know which series you liked but this one seems to be pretty popular and has a cool design. I've posted about this set in this thread before, but really, this is a great set for $20. Looks pretty neat on my desk 
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It'd be great if I could find that set. It's selling way too fast.
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Revol posted:Isn't there a website where you can catalog what pieces you have, and then you can pick out sets and see if you have all the pieces to that set? I think I want to catalog all my Technic stuff, and then start building other Technic sets. You can use Brickset to keep track of all the sets you have, and then Bricklink can part the sets out and tell you what pieces are in those sets. However I don't think there's any system that lets you catalog just what pieces you have, and then cross-reference those pieces to see what sets you can make. EDIT: Nevermind, it looks like Peeron does have that ability, actually. I've just never bothered to look into it! 
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cheetah7071 posted:So I'm looking to relive some childhood nostalgia and get a lego set, but all the good looking models seem to be in the $100+ range. I'm not looking to make my own art or anything, just toss together what the manual specifies and put it on a shelf or something. Are there any nice-looking sets people can recommend that are more in the $50 price range? I have really only rediscovered the joy of Lego in the past month. I started out with some discounted Kingdoms stuff from Target, then I bought this today for less than $45.  It was a lot of fun to assemble, and it seems like a pretty versatile set if you want something that can be used for other Lego projects.
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A designer friend of mine came up with a nice idea yesterday. Thought I would share: Wallpaper version
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InfinEight posted:You can use Brickset to keep track of all the sets you have, and then Bricklink can part the sets out and tell you what pieces are in those sets. However I don't think there's any system that lets you catalog just what pieces you have, and then cross-reference those pieces to see what sets you can make. It's nice because you can know exactly what pieces you have, but it's horrible because that means you have to enter them in. You can plug in a set and it'll add those pieces to your inventory, but bulk lots from ebay or goodwill? Even just PAB cups are maddening. I haven't entered any bulk/loose in over a year. And Peeron's on some godawful server, so it's slow as hell, and you have to click through to pieces to see what they're describing.
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