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Well Manicured Man posted:How did you do the cockpit there? How do those parts stay on? Friction! 
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Gabriel Pope posted:I bet the hedgehog poops all over the ball turret, though. They're going to have to wash him out with a hose. Well they tended to need to wash ball turrets out with hoses anyway.
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Frocious posted:What are everyone's thoughts on the Black Pearl set? I found it at Walmart on sale and picked it up, just finished piecing it together. It's the first set I've picked up with actual minifigs since starting to build again, and I can see why everyone likes them so much now. There's a ton of detail and cool pieces for these little guys -- I particularly like the shark-head man from the set. Also these new spring-loaded cannons are awesome, how long have those things been around? Goddammit why can't my Walmart put that thing on sale? I want one so bad, but I don't really want to shell out $100 for it. (Also my wife seems to think my obsession with LEGO Davy Jones is "cute". Lucky me!)
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Colonial Air Force posted:Well they tended to need to wash ball turrets out with hoses anyway. Well, wouldn't they wash it out with a hose when it is dirty even if someone didn't get exploded in it? That doesn't seem like a bucket and toothbrush job to me.
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Thanks for the comments. Glad to be doing my part to bolster Lego Friends sales!Well Manicured Man posted:How did you do the cockpit there? How do those parts stay on? The lever bases at the top and bottom do most of the work of holding the windscreens in. I think you can see in the picture that they're turned at an angle to more effectively pinch the windscreen between them. The 1x1 plates with clip help keep the windscreens in the right position as well.
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rickiep00h posted:Goddammit why can't my Walmart put that thing on sale? I want one so bad, but I don't really want to shell out $100 for it. (Also my wife seems to think my obsession with LEGO Davy Jones is "cute". Lucky me!) Costco was selling be Black Pearl for $75 not long before Christmas. May still be doing so, I haven't been to one for a while.
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MaliciousOnion posted:I agree with Manchild King. Get a set you want or, if no themes grab your fancy, go for creator. See if you can find the Sonic Boom, you should be able to get it for under $100, according to amazon. Grah, goddamn you, I just looked up this set and this is the most tempted I've ever been to blow some moolah on LEGO in over a decade. I'm trying to hold off on buying anything as I'm a) really quite poor and b) have a son but he's only 15 months old, so it's not like I can pretend I'm buying it on his behalf, even though I'm counting down the days til he's old enough to play with my collection of tubs in the loft. Please someone talk me out of this, or talk me into buying an awesome set that isn't stupid expensive. I'm not digging out the collection just yet, but goddamn do I want to play with some LEGO RIGHT NOW.
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Man the WHSmiths in my town has the S6 minifigs behind the counter so you just get whatever you're given. I got two aliens and a minotaur. Gonna have to find somewhere else that sells them or I'll end up with multiple Flamenco dancers guaranteed.runwiled posted:Please someone talk me out of this, or talk me into buying an awesome set that isn't stupid expensive. I'm not digging out the collection just yet, but goddamn do I want to play with some LEGO RIGHT NOW. The alien tripod thing and the Luthor Power Armour set have both gotten pretty good reviews in the thread and they're somewhere around $20. thebardyspoon fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Jan 10, 2012 |
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runwiled posted:Grah, goddamn you, I just looked up this set and this is the most tempted I've ever been to blow some moolah on LEGO in over a decade. I'm trying to hold off on buying anything as I'm a) really quite poor and b) have a son but he's only 15 months old, so it's not like I can pretend I'm buying it on his behalf, even though I'm counting down the days til he's old enough to play with my collection of tubs in the loft.
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VaultAggie posted:You can pick up the alien tripod for about 25-30$. It's a really cool build and I know a few people in this thread enjoyed it. The tripod is pretty cool. I bought it too because of this thread.
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VaultAggie posted:You can pick up the alien tripod for about 25-30$. It's a really cool build and I know a few people in this thread enjoyed it. I'm still seriously considering the Sonic Boom, because I am a giant dork. The Alien Conquest line never really did it for me but maybe it's worth it for the parts? The little head clinger is hilarious. What are the Creator lines like anyway? They seem to have at least one neat design per set and a good range of pieces, but I assume they don't use anything too specialised. I'm kind of bearing in mind that I already have a lot of mundane pieces, largely from the 90s and things like green and tan coloured bricks are still a novelty to me. I've always been a person who builds the sets, keeps them around for a bit but is a die-hard MOCer, and I've only just learnt from this thread what that even means. I used to build free-standing bipedal robots before Bionicle and those crazy ball-joint pieces were ever conceived. Heck, I think I've still got a Wipeout inspired ship still assembled somewhere. Maybe I should dig it out
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The Sonic Boom set is an amazingly fun build and it's huge when built. I managed to pick it up for $50 (AUD) in a sale at Target last year so I'm sure you'll be able to find it cheap somewhere.  Failing that I'd go with the Lex Luthor set, although I've not got it, it's definitely one of my next purchases based on how cool it looks for $20. beato fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jan 10, 2012 |
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The_Doctor posted: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. Wrong. We have one of these at the kids group I volunteer for on Saturdays, and they are OBVIOUSLY for launching minifigs. 
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Hobnob posted:Costco was selling be Black Pearl for $75 not long before Christmas. May still be doing so, I haven't been to one for a while. Costco sells Lego???
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neckbeard posted:Costco sells Lego??? So I've heard. Too bad we don't have any here. 
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Finally got to build an MOC out of real-life bricks after God knows how long.     Just before Christmas, I decided to splurge a bit and put in a couple of Bricklink orders to get the pieces I needed to make this thing happen in real life (DesignByMe has gotten prohibitively expensive since the last time I used it). The last of the shipments came in a couple of days ago, so I sat down to build my first IRL MOC in quite some time. Feels good, man. (God drat I am bad at photography)
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Costco has Lego pretty rarely in my experience. The few times I've seen it in their warehouse, there wasn't much of a discount but this was on some $30-$40 sets.
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Good news everyone, didn't get hobo-stabbed during my craigslist transaction. Got super lucky for someone wanting to get back into Lego since a kid. $100 for this: 
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SockFight posted:$100 for this: Goddamn that's an awesome score!
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Found Venice Canal Chase for $40 at Wal-Mart, unfortunately don't have the money laying around to pick it up. Seemed like a good deal, though, since I haven't seen that set in forever.
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Shuppiluliumas posted:That's an excellent parts set, too, as long as you're looking for tan. It has 556 tan cheese slopes alone. I can't get over the hedgehog in the turret. It's too much for my old, shriveled heart to take. IT'S TOO drat CUTE.
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I made another micro-scale space thing. I think I'm going to have to try the concept on a larger scale for the tale end, it's supposed to just slope up to that but there are no inverted sloping pieces (or sloping pieces in general) small enough to work there at this scale.
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So I picked this up for $20 at the Wal-Mart. Anyone know if it's worth it or should I return it and but the Friends dog show set?
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Glass Joe posted:So I picked this up for $20 at the Wal-Mart. Anyone know if it's worth it or should I return it and but the Friends dog show set? I would get the Friends set unless I had a town setup to add that to. It looks like it is lacking in cool MOC parts, wheras the Friends set has Pink, Lightpink, Lavender, Skyblue, Acidgreen and puupyfigs.
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djfooboo posted:I would get the Friends set unless I had a town setup to add that to. It looks like it is lacking in cool MOC parts, wheras the Friends set has Pink, Lightpink, Lavender, Skyblue, Acidgreen and puupyfigs. Counterpoint: That garbage truck is bright green, rather than regular green.
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Glass Joe posted:So I picked this up for $20 at the Wal-Mart. Anyone know if it's worth it or should I return it and but the Friends dog show set? Live the dream and buy both!
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SockFight posted:Good news everyone, didn't get hobo-stabbed during my craigslist transaction. Got super lucky for someone wanting to get back into Lego since a kid. Encouraged by this, I checked out my local craigslist. Nothing really spectacular, but one lady has tons and tons of boxed up lego sets. The problem, though, is that there's no itemized list of what she has and the pictures are too small for me to really pick them out. I emailed her asking for a list, or at least some larger pictures, and she responded with a brief email that said something along the lines of "ninjago, pirates of the Caribbean, star wars, etc." When asked for the details on the Star Wars and Pirates sets and how she'd price them, she said I'd just have to come and look. I told her I'd rather not drive over there without knowing what was there and how much money I would need to bring, and all I heard back was "okay." I don't get it -- does she want to make a sale or not? Here's the link, if anyone is interested: http://reno.craigslist.org/tag/2769486358.html Edit: If a more practiced eye is able to pick out any of those sets and know if they're good or not, I might try and ask her for a specific price. Dr. Bonertron fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jan 11, 2012 |
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You could just arrange to show up with like 37 bucks in your wallet and try your luck, I suppose.
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Nobody has(or has access to) the DS case bricks? drat.
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Shuppiluliumas posted:You could just arrange to show up with like 37 bucks in your wallet and try your luck, I suppose. Yea, not sure how far of a drive it is for you, but show up and negotiate if there's stuff you want. Also, bundling things together tends to help negotiating. IE: they want $25 for one set, say you'll take 2 sets for $35 or whatever
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SockFight posted:Yea, not sure how far of a drive it is for you, but show up and negotiate if there's stuff you want. Also, bundling things together tends to help negotiating. IE: they want $25 for one set, say you'll take 2 sets for $35 or whatever Yeah, I really just don't know the value of them though, and that's the problem. I guess I could probably get some estimates together based on the piece counts.
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Frocious posted:Yeah, I really just don't know the value of them though, and that's the problem. I guess I could probably get some estimates together based on the piece counts. Ideal price per piece is 10 cents on a new set so I would start at like half to 2/3rds that if stuff looks like it's in good condition.
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Frocious posted:Yeah, I really just don't know the value of them though, and that's the problem. I guess I could probably get some estimates together based on the piece counts. Bring a smartphone with you to compare. Or take a look with the plan of going back if there's anything you like, write what interests you, and look it up online and decide then. Not sure what to tell, you but theirs a solution and deal to be had if you start things in motion.
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Frocious posted:
Similar to this, someone just put up a shitload of City sets on my CL: http://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/tag/2791880350.html
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Manchild King posted:Had a slow afternoon. This is awesome, thank you.
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Frocious posted:Encouraged by this, I checked out my local craigslist. Nothing really spectacular, but one lady has tons and tons of boxed up lego sets. The problem, though, is that there's no itemized list of what she has and the pictures are too small for me to really pick them out. I emailed her asking for a list, or at least some larger pictures, and she responded with a brief email that said something along the lines of "ninjago, pirates of the Caribbean, star wars, etc." Those all look like new, recent-release sets (Dino, snakeman Ninjago) she probably got on sale or clearance in the past month. I doubt she's going to go much below retail on the pricing. I wouldn't waste the gas. Captain Invictus posted:Nobody has(or has access to) the DS case bricks? drat. I got a package of the RGB lego DS case bricks in my stocking this year... Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Jan 11, 2012 |
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So my cousin bought his son (who is 16 months old) a present for when he is older. He got the massive Death Star. It arrived today, and all my cousin wanted to do was open it up and start building. That kid is going to have an amazing birthday when he gets older.
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Pyroclastic posted:Those all look like new, recent-release sets (Dino, snakeman Ninjago) she probably got on sale or clearance in the past month. I doubt she's going to go much below retail on the pricing. I wouldn't waste the gas. Turns out she and her children had been collecting them for years and had started to sell them off. She had a system all set using her phone to check prices and then deciding what she wanted to sell them for. It looked like it had been pretty well picked over, but I got the Mandalorian and Rebel Trooper battle packs, along with Isla De Muerta, the Atlantis set featuring the submarine with legs (???) and six series five minifigs for $40. Not sets I was really looking for or anything, but a pretty good deal.
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This has got to be the best micro ship I've seen. U.E.F. Ship Recovery Vessel (1) by Dunechaser, on Flickr
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