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Dr. Benway posted:I believe that had more to do with unobserved adults, children, and pets than anything else. Yeah, swallowing 2 magnets can really gently caress up your intestines.
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Sockser posted:
Hot drat, 6889 is the first LEGO kit I can remember having. I always wanted the big Spyrius robot.
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Dec 31, 2011 14:33
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Hamburlgar posted:Yeah, swallowing 2 magnets can really gently caress up your intestines. neodymium maybe, the poo poo they use on lego? Not a chance
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Dec 31, 2011 14:36
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It is really hard to find magnets and the holders anymore  the last set to use them if I believe was the UCS Star Destroyer
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Dec 31, 2011 16:08
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Speaking of remembering things differently: This was one of my favorites, and took days of post-Christmas pajama building to make. Things that I remembered differently: - It was more of a castle, not a jail - Why is there a palm tree and an evergreen? - I don't remember the draw bridge (probably broke the string) Captain Invictus posted:Had this - it ruled. It also stayed constructed longer than any other set that I had.
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Dec 31, 2011 16:24
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 What I thought then: This thing is awesome! There's a dragon cage, and a trap door into the dragon cage, and that dragon head that shits rocks, and a secret passage into the dragon cage, and that one wolf knight dude for some reason... What I think now: poo poo. That set actually kinda sucks. And that black dragon head above the door is kind of... really loving stupid looking. I just ruined my own childhood.
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Dec 31, 2011 16:44
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I think most of the sets that use that kind of base (look up a few posts to the Spyrius base) are pretty terrible.
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Dec 31, 2011 16:47
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edit: ^^snap bro This was my post-christmas pyjama build. Again I also remember it being much more epic than it is in reality:  The big dragon head is a little bit  Today I grab another Series 6 bag, had a quick squeeze on the way to the checkout and felt the telltale skirt piece, I assumed I'd snagged the Statue of Liberty... nope, Flamenco Dancer. 
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Dec 31, 2011 16:47
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The pirate themed bluecoats base used it pretty well.
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Apologies if this is old news but I've not seen any images of Minifigures s7 posted here yet. http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/8831_Minifigures_Series_7 There's a merman! And a guy in a bunny suit! And a space ranger dude! Hoorah!
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SpecialF posted:Apologies if this is old news but I've not seen any images of Minifigures s7 posted here yet. How do you mention those and not the AZTEC WARRIOR  and the Black Knight and a Valkyrie and what appears to be Lego Jem. That is truly outrageous. ...oh and a stoned hippie. They seriously gave him a stoned face.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:How do you mention those and not the AZTEC WARRIOR I purposely chose 2/3 of the gayest ones just for this reaction  I think the geek guy is adorable tbqh
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Merchant of Death posted:The pirate themed bluecoats base used it pretty well. Yeah, I liked that set as a kid: 
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Dec 31, 2011 17:12
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That one makes much much better use of the baseplate, definitely.
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Sockser posted:That one makes much much better use of the baseplate, definitely. Although basically every Lego set involving string ends up a disaster if it's not kept in its original form. Do they still use string, or is it all done with those really neat chain pieces that started to appear when I stopped buying Lego? (Well, except for the odd neat minifig)
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SpecialF posted:Apologies if this is old news but I've not seen any images of Minifigures s7 posted here yet. How come the Series 6 female space ranger didn't get any power armor?  Goddammit LEGO.
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Gabriel Pope posted:How come the Series 6 female space ranger didn't get any power armor? Also, pink.
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I was holding off showing you guys this, as I wanted to post better pics, but I haven't been able to find the usb cable for my proper camera. Here's what my sister got me for Christmas:  She also made a box for it 
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beato posted:I was holding off showing you guys this, as I wanted to post better pics, but I haven't been able to find the usb cable for my proper camera. That's awesome, very very awesome! On a personal note, the only minifigure left that i wanted from series 5 was the dwarf. I just bought 2 packs... and got two of them! Success... Now to start looking for a roman centurion and a minotaur.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:How do you mention those and not the AZTEC WARRIOR gently caress that man. LEGO. BAGPIPES. Also, gonna try my local target even though I'm sure its cleaned out. On a related note, does anyone have extra S5 minifigs I could buy? I'm like 4 away from completing the set and the one hit I had in the trade thread disappeared. link
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ChuckDHead posted:Although basically every Lego set involving string ends up a disaster if it's not kept in its original form. Do they still use string, or is it all done with those really neat chain pieces that started to appear when I stopped buying Lego? Prison Tower Rescue from the latest kingdoms line uses it for the gate. 
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ChuckDHead posted:Although basically every Lego set involving string ends up a disaster if it's not kept in its original form. Do they still use string, or is it all done with those really neat chain pieces that started to appear when I stopped buying Lego? String has almost entirely disappeared from the Pirate sets. The string in the old Pirate sets was probably the worst for getting tangled. Now they use this piece if they need to use some string.
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the string with climbing grips is the best lego part to make fort rope ladders with. or for rescue helicopters, pirate ships, and generally anything else that needs a rope ladder.
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Xenophon posted:Prison Tower Rescue from the latest kingdoms line uses it for the gate. My nephews got this set for xmas and that line works really well compared to some of the older stuff. I guess it's due to the gate being a single piece rather than something made from bricks getting stuck in places.
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Hamburlgar posted:Yeah, swallowing 2 magnets can really gently caress up your intestines. loving magnets how do they work? (on loving up your intestines, I'm quite curious) Merchant of Death posted:The pirate themed bluecoats base used it pretty well. Redcoats  
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My brother and sister-in-law got me a huge minifig flashlight, and the ideas book! 
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neckbeard posted:loving magnets how do they work? (on loving up your intestines, I'm quite curious) They can come together and catch intestinal wall between them, causing the tissue to die, the intestine to perforate, and your abdominal cavity to fill with nasty things and cause a horrible death through sepsis.
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Pyroclastic posted:They can come together and catch intestinal wall between them, causing the tissue to die, the intestine to perforate, and your abdominal cavity to fill with nasty things and cause a horrible death through sepsis. That's a pretty dark solution to defeating Blacktron...
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I'm going to need like fifty of those space marines from S7.
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Pyroclastic posted:They can come together and catch intestinal wall between them, causing the tissue to die, the intestine to perforate, and your abdominal cavity to fill with nasty things and cause a horrible death through sepsis. And if you manage to swallow two of those giant loving M:Tron magnets(which are larger and thicker than almost any non-capsule pill people can take) within a short enough time span for that to happen, you are probably a Darwin Award winner in the making anyways.
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Fooley posted:gently caress that man. LEGO. BAGPIPES. which ones you need? I have a pile of extra s5's from christmas I need to sell/trade.
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Torael_7 posted:I'm going to need like fifty of those space marines from S7. Yeah pretty much.
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Sockser posted:
We need more of these posts. I'll start.  What I thought then: Holy jeez, this set is huge. It has all kinds of cool stuff, a satellite launching system and loading dock, a command center, cool little snow vehicles. Best Christmas gift my 11 year old self could receive. What I think now: At 343 pieces, it's relatively small now. The base is extremely simplistic with only the window panels making it appear larger. Still, far better than the spyrius base. The "command center" is very sparsely detailed and they could've done a lot more with the base plate. Also, don't these people get cold from having no enclosed areas to warm up in? Where do they go to the bathroom? The Shep fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jan 1, 2012 |
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I loved that laser fence on the ramp there. Blew my child mind at the time.
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6492 - Hypno Cruiser (1996) What I thought then: Woah! This is pretty cool! Not quite as cool as that new western theme but.. OMG is that.. yes it is! 6 random hats! Hey it even has a minifig of a cool cap wearing kid like me. Oh yeah, if time travel was real I would totally explore it just like the fearless Timmy. Yellow Jet engines! That red white swirly thing spins! I wonder if it could hypnotise people? Wow what a set! What I think now: Anger. Disgust. This is just disgraceful. Lets see, what do we have here? An extremely unaerodynamic and hideous car which also has helicopter blades and dragon wings. You get 8 head pieces to go on your 2 minifigs. If some junior builder came up and showed me this as an MOC, I would say it was a decent effort for a kid who obviously only had a very limited selection of parts. When professional adult builder employed by Lego with an infinite parts catalogue does this I would call it cheap, lazy and completely unacceptable. No wonder Lego were having financial difficulties in the late 90's. Who signed off on this poo poo? Has Lego ever come out and said "Oh yeah that Time Cruisers thing, that was just us clearing our surplus parts inventory. Sorry we priced and marketed them like normal sets " I challenge you to find a theme worse than Time Cruisers. It has also helped me realise how uncritical I was as a kid. I literally believed Lego could do no wrong.
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Manchild King posted:I challenge you to find a theme worse than Time Cruisers. It has also helped me realise how uncritical I was as a kid. I literally believed Lego could do no wrong. Sir, I accept your challenge.  1997's Town theme is pretty terrible all around. While it's not the mindfuck that Time Cruisers was, it's literally Lego at its laziest.      Just look at the lazy, half-finished, simplistic pieces of crap taking a brickshit all over the most traditional theme in history. Compare that lovely "gas station" to something iconic like the Gas N' Wash Express, or that lovely recycling truck to the many iterations of work trucks we've had.
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Manchild King posted:
I'm pretty sure that whole line existed to get rid of stock of rarely used specialty parts and not much else.
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Cmdr. Shepard posted:Sir, I accept your challenge. Thanks for that. I see some of the neat Town sets now and I really like them, but I can never bring myself to buy them. This is why. gently caress you, Town of the 90s.
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Manchild King posted:6492 - Hypno Cruiser (1996) Even as a kid, I didn't really like this theme. On the one hand, the idea of hopping between time periods and making stuff with items that didn't belong in any one era is an idea that still appeals to me on some level (like the Back to the Future 3 Delorean/Train thing!). On the other hand, it struck me even then that it appeared that Lego were just trying to shift a bunch of leftover stuff from other product lines by cramming it all together into some crappily-constructed mess and calling it a theme, so I never bought any, because if I wanted to mash together a bunch of stuff from different themes, I already could do (and did). Also this is one of my favourite minifigs ever:  What I thought then: Even if this is more of a figure set than an actual lego kit, Batlord is just completely awesome, and having another of those sweet proper swords is handy. What I think now: The exact same. Batlord rules.
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Arnold of Soissons posted:gently caress you, Town of the 90s. Arnold of Soissons posted:gently caress you, Town of the later 90s.
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