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Lizard Combatant posted:Whah?! Link? http://www.brickventures.org.au It's in Melbourne, hth
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So I may or may not be unreasonably excited to fuel my minifigure addiction tomorrow. This christmas my girlfriend surprised me by getting me all of series 1 and series 3 which completed my collection. Tomorrow we're heading to the lego store because her stepmom gave her a free pick a brick box that she had gotten before christmas. I'm not the only one eagerly awaiting tomorrows release of series 6 right? Right? 
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Jan 9, 2012 03:04
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Skulduggery posted:So I may or may not be unreasonably excited to fuel my minifigure addiction tomorrow. This christmas my girlfriend surprised me by getting me all of series 1 and series 3 which completed my collection. Tomorrow we're heading to the lego store because her stepmom gave her a free pick a brick box that she had gotten before christmas. You may want to call ahead to see if they actually have them. I don't remember any other series having a "release date" like they advertised for this one in Lego catalogs, so maybe it will be different, but my Lego store is always way late in actually getting the latest series in. They're usually at Toys R Us for weeks before I see them there. But yes, I'm extremely excited and checked 4 stores this weekend in case they came in early...
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Jan 9, 2012 03:45
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My kid's been playing with the Lego's I've passed on to him from my childhood, (meaning I'm playing with them too, of course.  )We've gotten him a few Star Wars sets which are always put together following the instructions, then after pieces start falling off from him playing with them, he ends up coming up with some pretty creative MOCs. Since his lego collection is somewhat small, we started taking pictures of all of them so he can keep on reusing the parts instead of keeping them all on the shelf (with the exception of the Plo Koon Starfighter that's managed to stay in one piece since xmas). Here's a Wall-E he came up with, which I thought was neat because it's the first one I've seen that included the cooler. Also, his attention to detail is pretty good: the gray block on the front left corner is because "Wall-E has rust".  Here's a creative use of SNOT - a super minimal Wall-E / EVE set he made. Wall-E is held up by a 1x1 on the back bottom corner, his "kick stand".  I've never seen mini fig hands used like this, again, very creative. Apparently, they were modeled after the Sack-bots from Little Big Planet.  Here's a neat little walker. It doesn't seem like anything super special, but if you look at the legs and feet you'll see that they are connected by a body from a Clone Wars droid body, and the leg is actually a droid arm. The feet are the same type of piece that he used on the robots heads in the above pic. (hard to see in the pic). Also, that old radar thing isn't backwards, it's actually "the robots eye".  Anyways, I'm probably more impressed than I should be simply because I'm his dad, but hell that's what parents do, amirite?
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Jan 9, 2012 03:55
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Anyways, I'm probably more impressed than I should be simply because I'm his dad, but hell that's what parents do, amirite? I'm always impressed whenever people use things like minifig parts because its something I NEVER would think of.
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Jan 9, 2012 04:04
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I'm having problems finding the male half of this part in LDD4 (with extended mode on): http://imgur.com/7AZxL Does anyone know what they call the other part or what category it's in?
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Jan 9, 2012 04:18
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MaliciousOnion posted:
Planning on going just as a public viewer with my partner. Assuming we can get tickets this week. E: Also postie just delivered The Kingdoms Castle set. gently caress Lion King looks loving awesome. Ingram fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jan 9, 2012 |
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Jan 9, 2012 04:39
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Ignimbrite posted:I'm having problems finding the male half of this part in LDD4 (with extended mode on): http://imgur.com/7AZxL It's under the Technic Pin category. "Joint link w. bush"
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Jan 9, 2012 04:50
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Pyroclastic posted:It's under the Technic Pin category. "Joint link w. bush" Thanks. I don't know how I missed that. Cool username, btw.
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Jan 9, 2012 05:07
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Honeydew posted:Those employees also have a Lego hobby and were keen to talk about it with you.  
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That creeper is wonderful, but I have a LEGOQUESTION: Why is it that when people make MOC's of space ships and what-not it's all smoooth plating and looks great, but when THE LEGO GROUP puts out a set it's all studs exposed all over the place. Why don't the official sets work towards the sleek exterior that MOC's do? I mean, I see lots of wonderful spaceships posted with their shiny smooth hulls and I love it but the official sets are always stubby and let me down 
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Jan 9, 2012 08:55
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MaliciousOnion posted:http://www.brickventures.org.au I'll be there. It should be noted that if you are interested in attending, tickets are only available on the website. It's hoped that this will help with crowd control, since this has become a bit of an issue over the past couple of years. There are also two public days this year (Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd Jan).
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Jan 9, 2012 09:12
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Daisyvondoom posted:Why is it that when people make MOC's of space ships and what-not it's all smoooth plating and looks great, but when THE LEGO GROUP puts out a set it's all studs exposed all over the place. Not true. Space Police 3 was pretty drat sleek, given the parts limitation and price points they have to work within. MOC designers don't have to build to a $9.99, $19.99, $29.99, $49.99, and $99.99 budget.
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Jan 9, 2012 09:18
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Daisyvondoom posted:That creeper is wonderful, but I have a LEGOQUESTION: Smooth-surfaced SNOT techniques can be tricky to assemble, parts-intensive, and fragile, things TLG doesn't want in sets designed for 7-12 year olds. Play features factor more into their designs than SNOT. (^^^^ Also cost) They have, though, been incorporating a lot more advanced techniques into sets over the past few years. Check out the new Ninjago ninja vehicles...they've got play features significantly more advanced in design than anything else I can think of. The Modular buildings have had SNOT techniques like the year in the Fire Brigade or the Pet Store name--both so fiddly that you'll never see them in sets made for kids.
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Jan 9, 2012 09:21
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I really liked that M-tron forklift-mecha-transformer even though it looks incredibly impractical, so I decided to recreate it using parts I had on hand: I could only find a couple of the old joints so I substituted clip-joints and used the modern robot-arm pieces instead of those long bar pieces.  It's a neat build, if a bit flimsy. It might work better with the original parts, I think those had a little more traction than the clips. As is, it'll stay posed unless it gets bumped, and it's not very good at balancing in mecha-mode. But who cares? It's a forklift that transforms into a friggin' robot. Zonko_T.M. fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jan 9, 2012 |
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Jan 9, 2012 09:52
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So, I cracked and bought the Fire Brigade set. Jeeeeeesus. 5 and a bit hours and I've finished Book 1. My back hates me (I was sitting on my living room floor cross-legged doing it). Lots of boring repetitive bits (Oh, another 10 1x1 sand flats? imagine..), but it looks so good now I'm actually there. Annoyingly my instructions book had misprints where a bunch of the quantity numbers for each step are missing, so I had to keep checking a PDF of the same instructions that did have them in. So there'd be a picture of the brick but 'x4' next to it. Bad show, Lego. < >But soon, the top half!
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Jan 9, 2012 13:33
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Found some half-off Lego at walmart yesterday and bought the Rise of the Sphinx for $25. It's an awesome set, especially at that price, but good lord is it a monotonous build. There's four legs, they're fairly complex, and they're pretty much identical, except two of them are mirror of the other two. Made up about half of the build time just basically doing the same thing four times.
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Jan 9, 2012 14:56
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Daisyvondoom posted:That creeper is wonderful, but I have a LEGOQUESTION: I dunno, I kind of like the texture of exposed studs. Seems more LEGO-y to me. I mean, I appreciate well done finishing, but I don't really care as long as the lines are good and the colors are reasonable.
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rickiep00h posted:I dunno, I kind of like the texture of exposed studs. Seems more LEGO-y to me. I mean, I appreciate well done finishing, but I don't really care as long as the lines are good and the colors are reasonable.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:My kid's been playing with the Lego's I've passed on to him from my childhood, (meaning I'm playing with them too, of course. .I'm working on indoctrinating my niece and nephew into Lego right now and it's coming along nicely. I got her one of the kingdoms sets because she likes midieval sets and she's enjoying having the blacksmith be bros with the king.
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So much hand-holding, hugging and glancing on the LEGO Friends splash page: http://friends.lego.com/en-us/default.aspx?icmp=COHomeMainStageUSFriends I bought the mini-modular set this weekend. That was seriously one of the most fun builds I've done in quite a while. So much variation and smart building techniques, and they look that much more incredible sitting next to their big brothers. I brought them into my office this morning and every single person that has come back here has commented on them with awe and affection. I love micro-scale building. Buy these.
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I am looking to make a trade. At Wal-Mart right now, many sets are being significantly discounted, with 33% off being the norm but some being 50-75% off, such as the Tripod Walker being marked down from what, 25? to 9, lots of POTC stuff going down by 10-15 dollars(all the ships are about 20-25 off), Cars 2 getting big discounts, etc. One thing that has got my attention is in the electronics aisle. They have Nintendo DS game cases, a three-pack of red, green, and blue Lego DS game holders that happen to have a 4x4 plate both on the underside and on the top, but they also have Star Wars, POTC, Harry Potter, and I think maybe Indiana Jones too. And they're marked down from 15 dollars to 5-7$. I grabbed a few of the normal RGB ones and a POTC one, but if you check your wal-mart for them and are interested in making a trade(at least for the DS cases themselves, maybe the DS styluses too but the minifigs aren't really important to me). I have scads of Bionicle parts that I acquired during the days when they had huge bins of free-play Bionicle stuff at the Lego Store and then sold them off in big pretzel containers after(the original series through Metru Nui, none of the new poo poo) that I'd be willing to trade bagfuls of in exchange for cases, minifigs from basically any era and series up until the early 2000's, lots of train tracks and such, etc. I also have a big box of old NES, PS1, SNES, N64, etc games I can trade for them, Transformers, lots of poo poo. edit: a bunch of links to them, these are the ones I'm talking about. No Indiana Jones game cases, just DS cases, but I'd go for those too if you've got'em for trade(as long as they have the tiles too). DS cases and some DS case/game case rose snake combos: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=DScaseIJ1 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=DScaseIJ2 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=DScaseSW1 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=DScase http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=DSCaseClblue http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=DSCaseClred http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=DScaseHP1 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=DScasePotC http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=DScaseSW2 game cases: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=880015 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=880020 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=880031 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=880032 and a wiimote case if you find one cheap: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?G=258175 Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Jan 9, 2012 |
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Lord Ryan posted:I am really tempted by that set, despite the fact i really dislike the film. Its just a cool looking ship. Might ask for that for my birthday, it would be that or the falcon.
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Jan 9, 2012 20:32
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Roblo posted:I am really tempted by that set, despite the fact i really dislike the film. Its just a cool looking ship. Might ask for that for my birthday, it would be that or the falcon. I almost got this but some of the reviews put me off.
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My "Dark Ages," started after the first wave of Star Wars stuff hit. I was entering High School and my sprawling Lego city of mismatched baseplates was suddenly no longer cool. The only really big sets I had was the Aquanauts' base and a train station[/url) (sans train). My Legos were packed away and put into the basement, and I suddenly had more room. I was Lego-free until an earlier iteration of this thread, marvelling at the inventive MOCs, but I still resisted getting back into the hobby. Then some bastard posted that Target had [url=http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/8143-1]this on sale for $20, and the thread went bananas over it. $20 later, and I was back in. My return to LEGO has been slow, following the threads and buying small kits along the way, but not anything too large. The final straw was going to the Lego store in Rockerfeller Plaza while on vacation this summer, and subsequently finding there's a location 45 minutes away from where I live. Two modular buildings, a VW Camper, and too many minifigs later and I think I'm back in for good. Thus, I go searching for my old bricks in the basement.  First, a bucket full of minifigs including that forest wench.  Then a blue LEGO suitcase that I can't find on Peeron. Inside, I found a tile belonging to my first set.The cardboard and tape is on there because the lid made a bitchin' shield when I was 5   Oh, hello Y-Wing...and that Spyrius ship everyone was talking about a few pages ago.  The big box with everything else in it. Lots of Throwbots and baseplates and...wait, what's that in the corner?  I don't remember buying this at all. It even has the paperwork in it. I must have bought it just before my dark ages. Man, I really want to bring all this stuff up and dig through my childhood, but I just don't have the room at the moment and I know it's going to turn into a full-blown plastic addicition
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Jan 9, 2012 21:27
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Jut posted:I almost got this but some of the reviews put me off. what have you read? Also which do you mean, the frigate or the falcon?
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Jan 9, 2012 23:16
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Roblo posted:I am really tempted by that set, despite the fact i really dislike the film. Its just a cool looking ship. Might ask for that for my birthday, it would be that or the falcon. Yeah, I spent some time choosing between those too. Ended up going for the Falcon on sale for 115. Never looked back. People love it, even who arn't into lego because it is just so much more recognizable
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I just want to double check since the mini modular set looks REALLY cool. I have to set up my account on LEGO.com, buy something and sign up for VIP at the same time. Then my NEXT order I'll be able to buy VIP exclusive stuff?
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Jan 9, 2012 23:45
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Uh-oh. Currently taking photos of this thing with a better camera than my lovely iphone.
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Jan 9, 2012 23:56
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Moai Ou posted:The cardboard and tape is on there because the lid made a bitchin' shield when I was 5 I knew exactly what the tape was for as soon as I saw it Hey how come we don't have any Lego emoticons yet? Is that the one thing beyond the line of shame?
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Finished the modular Fire Brigade set.  So glad that's done with. The top is a lot more fun than the bottom half. But so worth it, and I'm glad I spent the money. There's a definite Ghostbusters vibe to the whole building. The brickwork on the outside, the upper level looks like it's from the movie, the fridge (ZUUUUUUUUL).. It's such a fun set, next on the list is the Pet Shop for sure.
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So I had my Aunt send me a old box of Lego's that I had given to my cousins about ten years ago so I could try and build a working Lego Lamp for my nursery.  I found these pieces inside the box that I do not recognize at all, I know they are not from any of my old sets.  Here is a close up view of a single piece.  Anybody have a idea of what set these things came from or any fun use I can get out of them? They are all official Lego parts too with the Lego name on the studs.
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They're from the sports sets. Either soccer or basketball. A player on a stand would sit in the middle and you'd flick him to move the ball.
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It's from Lego's soccer sets. There was a little springy piece that went into that hole in the middle and you put a guy on top and he could kick the ball. It was more fun in theory.
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