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einTier posted:Yeah, it's available in more sets than you'd think. Bunches available for sale too. Thanks for the link, hopefully lego realise their mistake and give the fig small legs though. If not, it looks like it'll be easy to fix. Anyone remember this?  If Pirates of the Caribbean can jump ship (  )... sigh.
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My Unimog came on Saturday. It has 5 books. I got through the first 1.5books yesterday, it is pretty complex and large. Too big to take with me on my buisness trip this week to finish, guess I will have to wait till next weekend. Once I get it build I want to figure out how to remote control it with the PF stuff.
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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. I saw someone mention Basebrick.com on Eurobricks so I've started to try it out, as I just got my childhood sets (and bought one new one) after not touching Lego for over a decade. It seems a bit clunky but does the job. You can enter which sets and loose bricks you have. Then you can go to a set you don't own and click "Can I build this?" and it'll take you to a page detailing every piece and if you have them loose, in sets, the right or wrong colour, and so on. I don't think it can give you a list of models you can make though, you have to check each model yourself. Unless I missed that.
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Lizard Combatant posted:If Pirates of the Caribbean can jump ship ( Really? The series jumped the shark at Lego toys, and not because of a fourth movie where two of the three stars are no longer there?
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Revol posted:Really? The series jumped the shark at Lego toys, and not because of a fourth movie where two of the three stars are no longer there? "Jump ship" as in, Lego should buy the TNG license and make whopping huge Enterprises and tiny yellow Picards.
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Revol posted:Really? The series jumped the shark at Lego toys, and not because of a fourth movie where two of the three stars are no longer there? What exactly are you saying here?
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I think he's saying that Pirates jumped the shark with a fourth movie that only featured one of its original stars. I went on a spending binge and have about $900 of lego coming in various forms. Now I have to figure out how I want to sort & organize it, and then actually do it. 
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Never got why the skeletons build their vehicles from bone, too. It'd be like a man with a meat car.
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mhsneon posted:My Unimog came on Saturday. It has 5 books. I got through the first 1.5books yesterday, it is pretty complex and large. Too big to take with me on my buisness trip this week to finish, guess I will have to wait till next weekend. Once I get it build I want to figure out how to remote control it with the PF stuff. Wow, I had no idea this set was coming down the pipes. Hoooly poo poo, that looks fun. When you finish, can you post impressions of the claw? I remember the Airtech Claw Rig was a huge letdown because the claw had almost no grasping power or friction to hold anything..you could feed it beams, but not much else.
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Flavor Bear posted:Never got why the skeletons build their vehicles from bone, too. I don't think you fully understand the mysteries of spinjitzu
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Lizard Combatant posted:I used a bunch of these to put an opening roof on a manor house I made a few months ago. It worked "ok," but the majority of my Lego comes from an apple box-full that my mom found at a yard sale in 1992. Pretty much all of my stock is from the old castle sets, so my variety of hinges is limited.
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Torael_7 posted:I think he's saying that Pirates jumped the shark with a fourth movie that only featured one of its original stars.
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Our newfound LEGO addiction must be fed! Today I splerged on series 3, 4 and 5 minifigs, five of each: They were cheaper than I thought at 20 NOK each (USD $3.60). We got a couple of duplicates but that's OK. 
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Saint Sputnik posted:Yeah you get this free with a $30+ purchase Also found this while looking up the skelecopter: 
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Captain Invictus posted:
Also, how is Geoffrey Rush not a star?
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Dre2Dee2 posted:Yeah you get this free with a $30+ purchase  Is that an upcoming kit or an OC?
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What's all this jibber-jabber about shark jumping*?! I was talking about licensing. *I know what the term means Edit: Saint Sputnik posted:"Jump ship" as in, Lego should buy the TNG license and make whopping huge Enterprises and tiny yellow Picards. Thankyou! Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Aug 11, 2011 |
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Picked up the Alien Tripod and Blacksmith Attack today. Before I entered the store I said, "If they have that windmill set I am loving buying it," but they didn't, luckily for my wallet. I can see what all the rage is about on that tripod walker. Bitchin' design, bunches of useful parts and that groovy little brain leech. Blacksmith Attack not so fantastic, all the minifigs and weapons take up a good chunk of the piece count. Flavor Bear fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Aug 11, 2011 |
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Aug 11, 2011 06:53
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Well... overcame my OCD and ordered some Minifig World display stands today. I've been looking around and it really does seem to be the classiest way to display all the minifigures this stupid thread has made me buy (expecting Batman tomorrow!).
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Should've held out on Batman, they're among the most overpriced legos on the planet right now and they're getting a new line next year.
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Travis343 posted:Should've held out on Batman, they're among the most overpriced legos on the planet right now and they're getting a new line next year.  Oh well, I did pretty well on all the others. Awww man... and it's gonna be the black suit from the Nolan films too. Maybe I'll gift my current one to a nutty Batman friend of mine when it's out. Was super pleased with the Cpt. Sparrow (w/tricorn) I got today. Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Aug 11, 2011 |
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My 10 year old daughter had a sleepover and LEGO party last week where she and all her friends watched Soul Surfer and then proceeded to re-enact the movie with LEGO shark, surfer girl, and a missing arm. And yet LEGO thinks girls want pink bricks and figures without interchangeable body parts. Girls want to accessorize!
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I always hated girlie Lego. I think when I was nine one of my relatives heard I liked Lego and bought me some girly set, I can't remember what. I returned it and used the refund to buy more Castle stuff. All the stuff that Lego has made to try and win over girls has always been laughably bad. If they really want to sell more to girls, all they need to do is include more female minifigs in the regular sets. I know I always went out of my way to get castle sets with princesses in them (even though they were lame), and when Pirates first came out I about flipped my lid at the girl pirate. My daughters are 8 and 5 now, just moving into prime Lego age. They just bought their first sets the other day, as I wanted something to keep them occupied while we were at the mechanic. The oldest is following the castle theme of all my hand me down Lego and picked out the Blacksmith Attack set. My youngest bucked the castle trend though, and wanted the Pharaoh's Quest Golden Staff Guardians. Her reasoning? "Cause it has a motorcycle and mummies and the man has dynamite". That's my girl.
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Marchegiana posted:My youngest bucked the castle trend though, and wanted the Pharaoh's Quest Golden Staff Guardians. Her reasoning? "Cause it has a motorcycle and mummies and the man has dynamite". That's my girl. Hi-five, that was my reason for getting that set too.
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That link to the Terra Cotta LEGO men got me wondering who out there is making custom pieces. I know Brickarms and Brickforge, but are there any others?Marchegiana posted:I always hated girlie Lego. I think when I was nine one of my relatives heard I liked Lego and bought me some girly set, I can't remember what. I returned it and used the refund to buy more Castle stuff. All the stuff that Lego has made to try and win over girls has always been laughably bad. If they really want to sell more to girls, all they need to do is include more female minifigs in the regular sets. I know I always went out of my way to get castle sets with princesses in them (even though they were lame), and when Pirates first came out I about flipped my lid at the girl pirate. Speaking of pirates, I got my girls two small Pirates of the Caribbean sets. You know the ones that are just excuses to get 4 mini-figs. And what was my oldest the most excited about? Elizabeth Swan's hair. It's all about the hair.
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To be fair that is a really nice hair-piece. I wish they'd make it in more colors.
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Krispy Kareem posted:That link to the Terra Cotta LEGO men got me wondering who out there is making custom pieces. I know Brickarms and Brickforge, but are there any others?
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In preparation for the custom Technic Super Car project I want to undertake, I went and built Sariel's Compact pendular steered suspension. It's pretty ingenious. On the one axle on the top, you turn the gear at the top to drive the wheels, and you turn the gear at the bottom to steer it. Pretty cool! But I mounted this onto a plate with my large motor, and something weird was happening; the right wheel was driving a lot faster than the left. It looks like it was due to the differential piece that is in the center of the unit. Why in the world did he design it with this? Sariel is like, the Technic AFOL guy in the entire loving world (he even posts on a blog on Lego's official Technic site), so he must know what he's doing. But I built it right; one axle doesn't spin as well out of the differential as the other. So, I just took out the differential and simply replaced it with a regular gear. The system seems to drive both wheels at the same speed now. So, whatevs. When I said I was preparing to build a super car.. I have no idea for the design yet.
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Revol posted:It looks like it was due to the differential piece that is in the center of the unit. Why in the world did he design it with this? Sariel is like, the Technic AFOL guy in the entire loving world (he even posts on a blog on Lego's official Technic site), so he must know what he's doing. But I built it right; one axle doesn't spin as well out of the differential as the other. If any wheel has less traction than the other, it will receive all or most of the power. In this case, where both tires have no traction, one wheel is easier to spin than the other, so it gets more power. Put it on the ground where both wheels get traction and you'll find it'll still move straight forward. You will have problems with this if you expect it to go around corners. You need a differential to account for the differential in speed between the inside and outside wheel in a turn.
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That steering mechanism looks great, except for one thing. It looks like the drive gear and the steering gear are on the same axle. How does that work?
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einTier, so if I actually have the two wheels placed on the ground and they have the weight of a build on it, they're going to drive at similar speeds?Fayez Butts posted:That steering mechanism looks great, except for one thing. It looks like the drive gear and the steering gear are on the same axle. How does that work? The steering gear only sits on the axle, but it doesn't turn with it. That's thanks to the specific gear used here. The hole in this gear is simply a round hole, it's not fitted to an axle. This allows the gear to turn independently of the axle. So, to drive the wheels, you can either drive the gear at the top, or you can simply drive the axle itself. (Driving the axle directly from a motor is not suggested, because as this stands now, it drives VERY slowly. I've had to gear it up myself to get it to turn at a decent rate.) To steer, your only option is to have to drive that special gear. Like I said, Sariel is the best Technic builder around. His blog is a must-read for any Lego fan. Here is an image collage of almost all his builds so far (he's made about 3-4 more after this):  He's done poo poo like a functioning human arm, and made builds so complex that they use up to 17 Lego motors. And yes, his last build on there is a Portal sentry turret that fires when it sees you. It also talks with sound bytes from the games.
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Revol posted:einTier, so if I actually have the two wheels placed on the ground and they have the weight of a build on it, they're going to drive at similar speeds? If you hold one wheel while under power, you'll find you don't need much force to hold it still while the other wheel will spin freely. It doesn't matter which wheel, either. But if you try to hold both wheels simultaneously, you'll feel the full force of the motor and you'll feel it through both wheels in relatively equal amounts.
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Revol posted:einTier, so if I actually have the two wheels placed on the ground and they have the weight of a build on it, they're going to drive at similar speeds? This guy is going to build an Autobot someday.
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Took some family who came into town down to Dallas to hit the museums and get some dinner this weekend. Haven't been to the Lego store down there yet, it was not nearly as big and impressive as the one I went to in Orlando Florida near Disney. Though on the bright side they did have S3 and 4 minifigs for $2.99 a pop but no S5 yet those are due out in Sept according to the manager there. I got myself the baseball player, the alien, mummy and the coolest one of all the cyborg, also picked a random S4 and nabbed the painter who is pretty cool. I happen to have a extra S3 fisherman if anybody wants to trade for something. Also went to the Nature Museum and they had a pretty nice sized Lego display with pictures to follow. Most of the buildings are designed after stuff in the downtown Dallas area/skyline. Neat little Light Saber looking model with impressive LED lights too.  The note card said this model weighted in at over 400lbs.  This looks like a old church or something.  and this is what is happening in the bell tower area  Train Station  Skyscraper   Downtown park view  and little stuff happening in the park   Rythe fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Aug 14, 2011 |
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Flavor Bear posted:Blacksmith Attack not so fantastic, all the minifigs and weapons take up a good chunk of the piece count. What I don't get is who would attack a blacksmith? Alternatively, why would a blacksmith attack someone?
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LEGO Shop exclusive set: 10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van. 1332 pieces for $100 dollars, coming out October. There are high-resolution Flickr photos. Looks pretty cool, the interior is really detailed. I see a few new pieces, beginning with the VW emblem on the front, which can't be a sticker because the logo is raised a bit.
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Revol posted:LEGO Shop exclusive set: 10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van. 1332 pieces for $100 dollars, coming out October. Well, I know what I'm asking for this Christmas.
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