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I didn't put the Maersk stickers on my Maersk train for that reason--they covered multiple bricks. Some of them didn't, but they were gigantic and on 'decoration' blocks, so you couldn't hide them in MOCs. I'll generally only apply stickers if they'd be useful in something else and they're on common pieces like a white 1x2 tile or something. One alternative for multi-brick stickers is to apply the sticker, but then score it along the brick's edges so you can still separate them without ruining it. Then you can at least use them where they'd be hidden in a MOC.
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I would not be able to play Heroica without subbing in full-size minifigures with weapons and everything. Do people really like those little Oscar-statue things the games come with?
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Travis343 posted:I would not be able to play Heroica without subbing in full-size minifigures with weapons and everything. Do people really like those little Oscar-statue things the games come with? I like them because they're in-scale with the rest of the board. That said, I would probably play the hell out of a Heroica set that let me use normal minifigs in the proper scale. However, I'm sort of annoyed by there being little to no difference between--for example--the Goblins and the Goblin Lord (or whatever they're called).
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CADPAT posted:Hey I was curious on what peoples thoughts were on stickers vs. printed blocks? Printed blocks on the other hand are awesome. No fiddly placement, don't stick multiple blocks together, and don't peel off. tactical_grace fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Dec 6, 2011 |
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You know with the stickers vs. printed thing I'm surprised Brickarms or someone never made a service to paint whatever the hell you want on bricks. Of course that makes them even more specialized than printed ones, but I'd rather have that than a sticker.
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Dec 6, 2011 01:17
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VaultAggie posted:I'm an experience lego veteran but I had trouble assembling the Slave 1 today for the advent calendar. I actually cut myself on it when it slipped out of my hand. My girlfriend sing-songed "you'll shoot your eye out."
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Fooley posted:You know with the stickers vs. printed thing I'm surprised Brickarms or someone never made a service to paint whatever the hell you want on bricks. Of course that makes them even more specialized than printed ones, but I'd rather have that than a sticker. The Lego type of printing is done with a machine called a pad printer. Printing in volume requires automated part handling equipment. These are expensive pieces of industrial machinery, and I'd guess Brickarm's niche is too narrow for this kind of investment. You can get hobby modeler decal sheets that can be run through an inkjet printer for custom stickers. But wouldn't you rather build a brick printer out of Technic?
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Dec 6, 2011 03:47
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For anyone who has the City Advent Calendar: if I assemble the 2nd wall the way they show me, it looks wrong. Anyone else come to the conclusion that it needs to be put on "backwards"?
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JohnnyCanuck posted:For anyone who has the City Advent Calendar: if I assemble the 2nd wall the way they show me, it looks wrong. Anyone else come to the conclusion that it needs to be put on "backwards"? I'm waiting for the next part, but yeah I thought the same.
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VaultAggie posted:I'm an experience lego veteran but I had trouble assembling the Slave 1 today for the advent calendar. I got it mostly right my first try, but kept coming back and tweaking it through-out the day as I passed the calendar. I kept getting the cheese-slopes wrong. On the other hand, finally, a Star Wars model that doesn't need to be looked up! My little sister has the city calendar. I really like how the building is spread out over several days, I wish the themed ones would use that to give you a bigger model instead of filling in days with stuff like that robo-chair.
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Fooley posted:You know with the stickers vs. printed thing I'm surprised Brickarms or someone never made a service to paint whatever the hell you want on bricks. Of course that makes them even more specialized than printed ones, but I'd rather have that than a sticker. I know that in Australia there's a company called BrickInk that does custom printing.
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Yeesh after all I'm hearing from you guys about the Star Wars advent calendar I can only assume that it is horribly cursed. You guys might not make it to Christmas at this rate, it sounds like it's getting worse by the day and we've already had an injury!
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I dunno what their problem is, I've had no issues and 'just' came back to Lego. They'll be okay though...today is 
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Torael_7 posted:I dunno what their problem is, I've had no issues and 'just' came back to Lego. edit: turns out I did the 7th instead of the 6th, whoops. Makes a little more sense now. 
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So, TRU just runs BOGO 50% sales on lego basically non-stop from black friday to christas, don't they? 
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I drew a 9-year-old boy's name for the family gift exchange this year, and found out Ninjago are a couple bucks less at Wal-Mart than at Target. Also tried the collectible minifigure package dots identification, and had no luck with that. I'd like to hear more about this TRU sale, because the Central Ohio LEGO Train Club visited my work last week and inspired me to do Rampage and Joust MOCs. Edit: Doesn't look like they have photos up yet: http://www.coltc.org/ BetterWeirdthanDead fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Dec 7, 2011 |
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Voodoo posted:At first I thought today's set was some kind of mix-up from the Castle theme last year. Took me a second to realize it was Chewie's tools (still pretty weak IMO). Slave 1 was a pretty cool micro-set though. I was wondering what the hell you were talking about. Haha. Slave I is the best so far. There are definitely some super weak sets here. I wish I had looked it up a bit more before buying it, but I didn't want to ruin it for myself.
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CADPAT posted:I was wondering what the hell you were talking about. Haha. I bought it for Santa Yoda and anything else is just a bonus.
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Is anyone else having trouble locating the new Dino sets? I've been to my local Fred Meyer and Kmart and have come up with zilch.
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oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...
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IronSaber posted:Is anyone else having trouble locating the new Dino sets? I've been to my local Fred Meyer and Kmart and have come up with zilch. it looks like the Dino sets launched may have launched early just for Toys R Us and LEGO Stores.
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Does anyone see any real purpose for those Lego Star Wars books that I've been seeing lately? They look really pointless.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Does anyone see any real purpose for those Lego Star Wars books that I've been seeing lately? They look really pointless. You mean sort of like 9/10ths of star wars merchandise?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Does anyone see any real purpose for those Lego Star Wars books that I've been seeing lately? They look really pointless. I work at a bookstore that sells those and they are incredibly pointless, unless you're a ten year old boy, in which case OH MY GOSH LEGO STAR WARS.
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Lego Star Wars is pretty wildly successful in a lot of different forms so them making books doesn't surprise me at all.
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So far the city advents have been fun. Two figurines, christmas tree, presents and a skateboard, snow ball launcher, and parts of the police station. My son's having a blast.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Does anyone see any real purpose for those Lego Star Wars books that I've been seeing lately? They look really pointless. Or are these different books?
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Iveliosiudicium posted:So far the city advents have been fun. Two figurines, christmas tree, presents and a skateboard, snow ball launcher, and parts of the police station. My son's having a blast. I wish the star wars one was half as interesting. Although Chewie and the Slave 1 are cool, the other stuff is crap. A chair. Really? 
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Manchild King posted:You mean the Lego Starwars Minifig Collectors Guide? I think I might be getting that for christmas actually. Very nice large colour photos of over 200 minifigs. There's quite a few. Google offers five current books:
The last one includes a smaller version of the visual dictionary, a Heroes book, a Villians book and a 61-piece x-wing model. I am sure there are more than this, too. MaliciousOnion fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Dec 7, 2011 |
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VaultAggie posted:I wish the star wars one was half as interesting. Although Chewie and the Slave 1 are cool, the other stuff is crap. A chair. Really? now, if the chair came with a trans-blue emperor Palpatine, 
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The 2010 Kingdoms advent calendar one was the best!
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Rent to Own Lifestyle posted:Not sure how much anyone cares but I went back to my local Wal-Mart today and they still had the 1600 piece for $30.00. When I went the first time they had 5 shelves full with. Now they've got one shelf of them left and the rest are filled with other toys. It seems that they're keeping them at $30 until they run out. Bought another 2 boxes. 11,200 pieces later, I'm pretty happy. Check them Wal-Marts! Lucky you. None of the Walmarts near us even had a single one the day after Black Friday.
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Queen Anne's Revenge was $130 on Overstock.com yesterday. Good deal? I bought it anyway, but was curious.
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GlenMR posted:Queen Anne's Revenge was $130 on Overstock.com yesterday. Good deal? You got a little bit ripped off there, since amazon has it for 100 dollars with free shipping (2 day if you have prime) and no tax. Plus MSRP is actually $120. In other news, Amazon finally came through and decided to send me an entire new set of Fire Brigade with one day shipping and I just have to return the old one within 30 days. Too bad I won't actually be able to build it for a while since I wont be home but at least I can come back to a full set.
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Today's city advent was kind of a bummer. a loving bench with a coffee mug
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Iveliosiudicium posted:Today's city advent was kind of a bummer. I dunno, it gave the hobo criminal guy a place to sleep at least. 
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They sure do love chairs this year, don't they?
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No kidding. You're telling me that with 6 full length sci-fi movies worth of source material and the best they can come up with is an obscure mechanical chair that got 3 seconds of screen time? At least a bench works well with a police/city theme. Its gotta be chair love.
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 Got my mini fire engine, mini plane, and blue roadster today!...I forgot how rough Lego bricks are on thumbnails. Really should unearth the tub and get the brick separator out. Trying to pry these things apart manually is fool's work. Diggin' the cases the minis come in, too. That'll lemme store the small parts for those sets inside of them so they don't get lost in the sea of parts in the tub. Only problem I've had so far is telling which drat color the little round pieces are. Thought the instructions listed the grey pieces for the front of the roadster. Then I ran into a different section that required those and I only had one spare. So I grab the box and look and sure enough, the front needed the clear pieces. They look almost exactly the same in the booklet, and I'm under solid lighting. Those little bastards grip like velcro, too. I've only done the main build for each, but I love what the Creator series is doing. The dragster's going to be where the blue roadster ends up, that thing just looks awesome and is the main reason I bought the set. The mini-plane is creamsicle colored. Were there more parts, I'd try building a Lego creamsicle. It would look delicious.
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