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Hobnob posted:Get out of here, Nebulon-B! No one likes your style. Thanks for the tip, I had to search forever, but finally found one. They had at least 300 of the starwars bags, and a couple dozen of random other ones, I found it hidden on the very back of a peg.
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The_Doctor posted:EDIT: In other news: I picked up 2 bags at random and got the exact same 2 as you.
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I just picked up another 5 bags at random and got: 2 x Minotaurs 1 x lady astronaut 1 x The Shadow 1 x leprachaun
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beato posted:I picked up 2 bags at random and got the exact same 2 as you. Lucky, I picked up one and got the greasy mechanic 
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The_Doctor posted:I just picked up another 5 bags at random and got: Goddamn I can't wait for Lego Minotaurs. I wish we were getting a Greek Hero based theme. Between the minotaur, Spartan, and gladiator figures, and the cool Greek architecture in the Atlantis lines, they're basically halfway there!
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My brother and I had an impressive collection of Lego that was eventually gifted to a younger friend when I was about 13, since I felt I was too old for them and hadn't touched them for over a year. However, now we've got to amass a new collection for my nephew. We used to have these four street plates that we used for our creations - do they still have something like that? I remember I always wanted some kind of work-table when I was younger, and I've seen the tiny things they have for kids today, but I imagining something grander. I remember my dad used to have a height and angle adjustable drafting table, which meant it could also flip, and all I can picture is a height adjustable (for as he grows up) 60 inch flippable workspace. Maybe covered in street plates, or perhaps customizable so you can remove the street plates and replace it with green "grass" plates or something else appropriate for the stage. I never had sea/pirate sets, so I don't know how a kid would want to play with these. I imagine one wouldn't want to stick a boat to the table, but prefer it to float in the "water" so it can be pushed around. I don't remember Lego floating very well, so maybe having a concealable basin for water isn't a good idea. I think you get the idea. Does something similar to this already exist? If not, no big deal, I have plenty of time to design this thing, since he won't be playing with them for a while. Whats the earliest age a child should transition to the smaller pieces? I'll have a few years at least to start buying sets. I can't believe some of these things still cost $100-$200. Drighton fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Dec 23, 2011 |
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The_Doctor posted:I just picked up another 5 bags at random and got: Where are you guys getting the Series 6 minifigs?
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illcendiary posted:Where are you guys getting the Series 6 minifigs? The UK, specifically WHSmiths shops.
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The_Doctor posted:The UK, specifically WHSmiths shops. We had an excellent touch-up of a floor-stack in Tescos yesterday - got 13 differnet ones then got annoyed with Xmas shoppers.
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Fooley posted:This makes me think of something. What's the oldest set anyone has they never took apart? And I mean built once and left. I've had one of those Technic Pit Droids on my shelf for the longest time. Probably because the rubber bands broke, and I don't have much Technic besides it to use for MOCs. I have pretty much the entire first-gen and some of the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter collections set up in my closet at my parents' house to make a badass Hogwarts. Since first assembling all of that, I've graduated high school, gone to and graduated from college in a different city, and entirely moved out on my own in a different state, but I am keeping my LEGOs at my parents' place for storage. When I was moving everything out after staying for the summer earlier this year my mom specifically asked if I was going to keep Hogwarts together 
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Drighton posted:My brother and I had an impressive collection of Lego that was eventually gifted to a younger friend when I was about 13, since I felt I was too old for them and hadn't touched them for over a year. However, now we've got to amass a new collection for my nephew. Base plates are insane now too. I remember my dad buying me a set of curved, straight, t-junction and crossstreet plates for like $20. Still have em 
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Yeah I wanted to get a blue baseplate. $33 for a single one at my local BigW. I'm pretty sure it was a mis-price or something because the green ones were around $15 (which is still outrageous)
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Drighton posted:My brother and I had an impressive collection of Lego that was eventually gifted to a younger friend when I was about 13, since I felt I was too old for them and hadn't touched them for over a year. However, now we've got to amass a new collection for my nephew. My Lego store sells road plates. We have two different types, one straight plate and one curved plate, and the other is a straight plate and an intersection plate. I'm on my phone and don't know how to quote two different people, but to the guy above me, Lego stores sell blue and green baseplates for 4.99, bigger grey ones for 14.99, and the road packs for 14.99 as well. And at least what I was told is that we sell sets at the Lego set prices, so the prices should be even across the board, give and take different countries and the exchange rate.
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Fooley posted:This makes me think of something. What's the oldest set anyone has they never took apart? And I mean built once and left. I've had one of those Technic Pit Droids on my shelf for the longest time. Probably because the rubber bands broke, and I don't have much Technic besides it to use for MOCs. I got this Darth Maul Infiltrator when Star Wars: A Phantom Menace came out my sophmore year of highschool. I was talking to my mother about the stuff I still have at their house after I moved out 3 years ago and she said she never wanted me to take it apart because it reminded her of my childhood. Thanks mom.
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Awww, that's sweet. But you're stuck with a model from a terrible movie! What a dilemma!
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I've been kind of lacking the imagination/inspiration to build anything of my own. But I was wondering if there are any websites where people have put up instructions to build cool things they have built out of specific sets? Like something built out of the Star Wars ARC-170 Starfighter pieces for example?
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I'm a bit stumped. Like I mentioned earlier, I'm trying to construct my mom a life-sized roller skate (with a Chuck Taylor boot). It turns out these wheel hubs are the perfect size to be the shoelace grommets. However, I can't think of a good way to get them to attach. I want to actually be able to pass a shoelace through them and I want them flush (well, roughly) with the red tiles that'll be covering the shoe. They're not sized to trap between spaced-out plates. They fit quite tightly with studs, and 1x1 bricks with hollow studs on the sides would allow a pass-through, but it cuts the usable diameter in half. Same goes for technic pins. It has to be a pretty narrow solution, since there are only about 3 studs of space between the centers of the grommets. Any ideas?
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Could you maybe take some pictures of what you've got so far? It's a little hard to imagine.
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The_Doctor posted:Could you maybe take some pictures of what you've got so far? It's a little hard to imagine. Well, I don't have anything of the lacing area because I was about to get started on that when I ran into this glitch. All I have of the shoe right now is the sole and the back part right up to where the laces would start. 
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I just built the Dino chopper vs t-rex set. The bird is really well built, and I've always liked the Sikorsky Skycrane look. The T-rex has studs on the top which opens up a ton of possibilities for howdah's and dino-riders-esque things. I also just put together the forest police chooper (the Chinook), and it's really neat too. Again, pretty solidly put together, and I'm really glad I got two choppers that aren't single rotor/standard design as they're apt to produce. I want to pick up the fire plane with the pontoons, and I would also probably stab someone for a UCS Little Bird model.
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Another 5 S6 minifigs, and somehow I got another 2 minotaurs. Are these guys high quantity per box? Also got a genie, a doctor and a spanish lady.. dancer thing.
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The_Doctor posted:Another 5 S6 minifigs, and somehow I got another 2 minotaurs. Are these guys high quantity per box? Also got a genie, a doctor and a spanish lady.. dancer thing. I hope so because I literally want a hundred minotaurs
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My mom just gave me 7913 Clone Trooper Battle Pack for Christmas
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Round at my folks now to pick up my old Lego (and also Christmas). Here's my haul - and I'm fairly sure there's another crate somewhere since I'm missing a few base plates and other bits and pieces: 1 crate and 1 massive carrier bag FULL of Lego.  A LOT of rail track. There's even more mixed in with the the rest of the lego.  Airport Shuttle monorail track... I want to put together and sell high value sets like the monorail, and then sell the remaining lego in bulk. What's the consensus on sorting out a massive collection like this? Just go through splitting the bricks into various piles?
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Pretty much, I wish I could find stuff like that at my parents house. We only had a white tub filled with 600 or so bricks until I was an adult and in canada that I could afford sets. Some older sets while you think they might have a high value actually don't even when complete newer sets like UCS/old batman/Modular housing are worth more than anything else
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i want the Super Star Destroyer. so so so bad
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:i want the Super Star Destroyer. so so so bad This is at the top of my splurge list as soon as my student loan is paid off late January.
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My mom got me the Lego Idea book and the lego ambulance for Christmas. The Lego Idea book is actually a really interesting read; I'd recommend it for everyone. It's a good starters guide to think outside the box.
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Daedleh posted:
If it's all in lose bricks, you my friend are hosed. I've been trying to sort out a collection around the same size as yours for the last 3 years on and off, and have hardly made a dent. The $$$ per hour sorting that you will make if you're planning on doing it only to sell them off will not be worth it at all.
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Jut posted:If it's all in lose bricks, you my friend are hosed. It took me a hour and a half to sort 1400 technic pieces. Thats about one big set. It was a half full shoebox. God forbid if I had a box and 3 bags. Still jealous of having that many bricks
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Got my two sons lego dino sets for christmas... I know my back is going to be sore from building lego all day... I hope I get a massage chair! They are super excited about them, my oldest spends a lot of time looking through the lego catalog, where he declares he wants everything except the new police station. He really wants ninjago and the dinos, hopefully he won't be disappointed not to get ninjago. He liked Ninjago before he saw the cartoon, now that he has seen it, they run around the house practicing ninjago and constantly want me to tell him that garmadon is about to attack
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Merchant of Death posted:Pretty much, I wish I could find stuff like that at my parents house. We only had a white tub filled with 600 or so bricks until I was an adult and in canada that I could afford sets. Surprisingly my legos were the one things to survive mostly intact. I had a lot of classic space, blacktron 2, space police, M-tron, and a few technics (including the technic control center). Some parts are missing but the only notable ones are a single monorail track one of the ramps unfortunately (#6690), some of the mtron magnets, and gears. Sorting is completely out of the question. 4 year olds are tornados waiting to explode on any order you try to impose on them. My other toys didn't fare so well. After requesting the legos for my son she took the opportunity to ship all my other old toys. I received a box full of random GI.Joe legs, parts from vehicles, etc. Seriously who saves a single GI Joe Leg?!. It was like someone literally tortured my childhood.
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All we had was the bucket of lego, and 3 my little pony toys. I still have minty and bluebelle. I can't remember what happened to cotton candy I think she was lost when I moved to canada. I know there is a fire brigade for me under the tree, only 12 more hours or so then its mine!
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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME: Shoutout to my mom aka world's coolest mom.
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Woot! I got the millennium falcon set tonight! The thing looks like it's going to be a beast. Unfortunately the sticker sheet is all wrinkled and smashed, and the stickers might be ruined.
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Frozen-Solid posted:Woot! I got the millennium falcon set tonight! The thing looks like it's going to be a beast. It's a sign from God.
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Merchant of Death posted:All we had was the bucket of lego, and 3 my little pony toys. I still have minty and bluebelle. I can't remember what happened to cotton candy Best part about being in SE Asia for Xmas. we're 12 hours ahead of EST. The rest of my family was just cracking the first bottle of tequila and we're already up eating breakfast. With the exception of a few pieces (that gave me trouble too) my 4 year old son got the Space Center #3368 built all by himself. so proud.
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I got the Lego idea book for Christmas as well. It does have some pretty good building techniques, and there are about 10 AFOL 'profiles' with some pretty good pics. Lots of details of SNOT building as well which surprised me. I still had the feeling that it wasn't quite 'official' but I guess it is now.
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Welp, got my first set in 20 years thanks to this thread bringing back memories. Thanks to Santa for my Creator Lighthouse! Looks awesome.
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