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Really, why does Lego not make those bags with holes anymore. They are much better than the ones we have today.
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Pseudo-God posted:Really, why does Lego not make those bags with holes anymore. They are much better than the ones we have today. I bought the City Police Dog Unit set (7285) the other day and it had those holey bags?
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QPZIL posted:I bought the City Police Dog Unit set (7285) the other day and it had those holey bags? Yeah, they still do them. I had a few of them in the Fire Brigade modular set.
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Travis343 posted:So how is Heroica with two players? I'm interested in it but I really don't have anybody to play it with other than my girlfriend. It's pretty good for a game or two. But the added fun really comes in when you add a 3rd of 4th person into the game. Makes screwing each other over a lot more satisfying. It also makes it more of a challenge (depending on your ruleset) rather than just playing against one other person.
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MaliciousOnion posted:This is a terrible crime. See if the store will sell the damaged boxes cheap. Why'd anyone want an emtpy box? :P
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Dug out my 8654: Scuderia Ferrari Truck today and all the stickers had started peeling and become brittle, which resulted in them cracking into tiny red flakes that stuck to everything in my Lego tub. Has anyone got any tips to remove the bits and remaining stickers efficiently, or will I just have to continue tediously picking off all the flakes and getting them stuck to my fingers and clothes?
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beato posted:Dug out my 8654: Scuderia Ferrari Truck today and all the stickers had started peeling and become brittle, which resulted in them cracking into tiny red flakes that stuck to everything in my Lego tub. You could try soaking in warm soapy water. If that doesn't help, try progressively more unpleasant solvents. Test on a scrap brick first to make sure they don't dissolve, from experience things like Alcohols and white spirit are generally OK with plastics, acetone dissolves almost anything and will likely destroy bricks as well as stickers.
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rickiep00h posted:I saw a single S6 package (package, not box) at TRU last weekend. I have no idea how we're getting screwed so hard. All the Walmarts have like four-plus cases of S5 and they just refuse to put them on sale/clearance. No problem discounting big sets to 50% or more, but they just gotta gouge the poo poo out of those minifigs. Tell me about it! I was at my local walmart last week trying to find what I wanted when the toy section manager told me I might want to wait a week or two. According to him the smaller stuff like the mini figs can only be dropped in price when individual stores/departments get clearance funds. They get X dollar amount that they are allowed to split how they see fit on lowering costs of slow moving items. He said to check make sometime after the first week of February because that was the earliest he was expecting the money to come in. Went a couple of days ago and still not any lower... Then again, they were already $2 a minifig there. Hoping he wasn't pulling my leg when he said he was going to lower it more. Has anyone got the new Tie Fighter? I want it, but I want to convert it to a Tie Interceptor. I just need to find some more black panels before I start building it... Unless someone here things it has enough already to do it.
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Hamburlgar posted:It's pretty good for a game or two. But the added fun really comes in when you add a 3rd of 4th person into the game. Makes screwing each other over a lot more satisfying. Could you possibly recommend a couple of modified rulesets? I just got Fortaan to take with me to play with my nephews and had a quick go to see how it worked, and it's got promise for sure. However, I'd like to emphasise the RPG elements and make it a bit harder. I wanted to get one or two of the other boxes but I wandered around town for an hour and this was all I could find. I have the Nathuz set ordered but don't know if it will arrive in time.
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Feb 7, 2012 17:41
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This just came in the mail today. Big thanks to Pseudo-God for being awesome and sending it all the way from the UK to me for free!
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Crazy Pigeon posted:This just came in the mail today. I just got mine as well! Thanks Pseudo-God! Very awesome of you to send these out.
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I still have no real idea who Pudsey Bear is but I feel bad for the little guy. Did they create any kind of backstory for him and his ailment or do we simply accept him as he is? In other news, LEGO Cuuso is seeing a rise in popularity and uniting of the popular blogs for this set to be made: http://toysnbricks.com/lego-cuusoo-western-town-modular-buildings/  Echoing my comment left on the toysnbricks forum, I love the set and hope it makes it through, but... I don't think it's going to make it through. Yeah, it might get the 10,000 votes to go to review, but LEGO will take one look at this and decide it's not worth it. With the amount of pieces used that is easily a $200 set, which I just don't think will sell well.
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Turgid Phalanx posted:Has anyone got the new Tie Fighter? I want it, but I want to convert it to a Tie Interceptor. I just need to find some more black panels before I start building it... Unless someone here things it has enough already to do it. You might want to take a look at last year's Tie Defender (which should probably still be easy enough to get) for doing that, it's much closer to an Interceptor to begin with. In fact, mixing that one with parts from a V-Wing to build an Interceptor was what got me hooked on Lego again.
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ireladd posted:I still have no real idea who Pudsey Bear is but I feel bad for the little guy. Did they create any kind of backstory for him and his ailment or do we simply accept him as he is? I'd probably pay $200 if it was the entire set. I'd love to get the LDD file from that and build it myself right now though. 
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Feb 7, 2012 19:57
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I think the guy who made it said that he would like to see it as a product line, so rather than a one off, it'd be a Western town that you could buy in pieces - e.g. Bank in one set, Jail in another etc. I'd love to own it, but I guess the price point would be high for each building regardless.
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I don't think it has a chance of going through, but I am gladly voting for it and leaving a glowing comment about it, because I would certainly buy it. Even if they didn't want to sell it building by building, they could do each side of the street as a set to make it more affordable. My problem with the modular buildings is that they're gorgeous and look like really fun builds, but I just can't justify that kind of cash for what amounts to just a boring building. The Lego kid in me wants a fun theme to get the same detail as the modulars (kind of how they did with the Imperial Flagship or the Medieval Market) so an Old West town would be amazing.
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Oh man, it'll never happen, but I would so buy that gigantic Jawa Sandcrawler on Cuusoo. That thing is fricken amazing, and I would spend a grand on that easy. Which kind of brings me to my second point. When is Lego ever going to produce anything that approaches the high-quality MOC stuff? Sure, their really big, expensive sets are almost there, as well as their famous architecture line, but the vast majority of their stuff is so staid and plain. They release a cabin or an inn, it's basically four walls and roof. Look at some of the MOC stuff, with architectually interesting buildings with unique layouts and features. There's lots of crazy MOC stuff out there too that wouldn't break the bank in terms of brick counts either. Hell, they wouldn't even need to spend the time designing the stuff. Contact some of the builders featured on The Brothers Brick, buy out their design, and your done.
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fezball posted:You might want to take a look at last year's Tie Defender (which should probably still be easy enough to get) for doing that, it's much closer to an Interceptor to begin with. In fact, mixing that one with parts from a V-Wing to build an Interceptor was what got me hooked on Lego again. Thanks! I've been wanting a Defender. I don't know why I didn't think about just using that set instead. Now to wait for it to get here from an Amazon seller.
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I'm glad to see the western town's firearm store is bigger than the sheriff's office.
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ireladd posted:I still have no real idea who Pudsey Bear is but I feel bad for the little guy. Did they create any kind of backstory for him and his ailment or do we simply accept him as he is? That looks great! I want one as long as the price is good.
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Maybe that set won't get made, but if there's enough interest in it, it could mean some kind of official Lego western theme coming back.
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They've also used the stickers from the Toy Story set for the Sheriffs sign. I got that set and the big Buzz Lightyear cause they were bundled with the Army Men. I don't want to open it because I don't really like it, but IT'S RIGHT THERE IN MY LIVING ROOM AND URGE TO BUILD RISING. I like the idea of doing modular stuff in other themes, but City and Western are really the only ones with both a defined "look" and a predilection towards square structures. Space would be cool, but there are too many conflicting aesthetics for it to be a unified set.
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Well I am glad you guys enjoyed your gifts, I only ask you to spread the love of Lego to someone you think deserves it.
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Rustie posted:My problem with the modular buildings is that they're gorgeous and look like really fun builds, but I just can't justify that kind of cash for what amounts to just a boring building. The Lego kid in me wants a fun theme to get the same detail as the modulars (kind of how they did with the Imperial Flagship or the Medieval Market) so an Old West town would be amazing. I'm happy with the modular buildings, and I'm glad we get them. The Deco stylings and detailing on them appeals to me so much. The Pet Shop is my next major buy mainly for the brownstone half of it. On the other hand, I would absolutely love to see them expand the modular range into other themes. Medieval, space (especially space). I could see some nice Modular Space set, something along the lines of that prototype red/grey fueling depot set that I can't find a picture of right now.
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If anyone has one of the new X-wings, would you mind posting a few pics of it, I'd really like to see what kinda size it is when built, maybe something for scale by it 
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Someone posted a thread full of pictures over at Eurobricks, although all they've got for scale is the minifigs that come with the set.
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Got around to uploading the images from my camera! I turned things around with the Alien Tripod set, making a human-piloted grabber claw ship abducting a poor helpless Martian civilian. Also, it transforms into a helicopter for no real reason except transforming things are neato.     Bought three grab bags at the Lego Store a few weeks back, sorted them out and this is what I got:    A whole lot of dark red flat plates from the Robie House I believe, and a ton of other random stuff. I like it. Digging through my big box of unsorted bits, I found a bunch of Dinosaur parts. Polly was not meant to be!  Cleaning out the closet, I found a box I ordered from a dude in California like ten years ago that I completely forgot about. He went to Legoland California and picked me up about four grab bags full of Trans-Neon Green Mirus, a promotional Bionicle mask. Soda can for scale, with an example Miru next to it. There's gotta be over a thousand of them in here.   Sorting my old Bionicle/Throwbot stuff that's been sitting in the closet for a decade yields many pieces that have broken over time, specifically ball sockets. Hopefully the newer designs for the sockets are more resilient to age, because these are less than 15 years old and already broken from nothing other than age!  And I put together a bunch of the original Toa and Toa Nuva(I forgot to put Lewa, the green Toa/Toa Nuva in the picture, but there's about half a dozen normals and two Nuvas of him) in preparation for sale. If interested in these or some of the TNGM(the green masks above), let me know. Click for full size.  ireladd posted:In other news, LEGO Cuuso is seeing a rise in popularity and uniting of the popular blogs for this set to be made: Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Feb 7, 2012 |
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I picked up the Alien Tripod at Wal-Mart on clearance for $13. It's a great set and I can't stop fiddling with the legs. But because of this thread, all I can think about is how it needs the Lex Luthor Robot to fight with.Captain Invictus posted:Got around to uploading the images from my camera! This is great. I'll probably take a crack at building it in the next few days.
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~Good Stuff~ came up on my local CL. Looking at the Bricklink prices I think I'm going to snatch it up. I can definitely make my money back I think, although the models look pretty cool so who knows. Editing to add items and not link it so I don't get goonblocked. Fooley fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Feb 8, 2012 |
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Ingram posted:Why'd anyone want an emtpy box? :P Misread the post, didn't realise they'd been completely emptied. Usually the boxes I've seen that have been attacked just have the minifigs missing.
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ireladd posted:I still have no real idea who Pudsey Bear is but I feel bad for the little guy. Did they create any kind of backstory for him and his ailment or do we simply accept him as he is? It's modular. They'll split it in four and sell each for $75, and sell the carriage as a separate set. Think it would sell well if they did that, started a Modular Western Town theme
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Fooley posted:This Came up on my local CL. Looking at the Bricklink prices I think I'm going to snatch it up. I can definitely make my money back I think, although the models look pretty cool so who knows.  "
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Captain Invictus posted:You really should never link stuff you haven't already bought and collected on Craigslist or else run the risk of either someone else grabbing it, or someone notifying the person of the item's real value. I've seen many a goon do that with linking to Ebay auctions and then be like "aaaaaagh, who bought it, I was gonna buy it That was in the back of my head but yeah, that's a very good point. Lego Creator Roaring Roadsters 4896 Lego Creator Prehistoric Power set 4892 Lego Racers Enzo Ferrari 1:17 scale 8652 Lego Racers Ferrari 430 Spider 1:17 scale 8671 2 gallon bags of assorted lego parts and minifigures. I know the Ferarri stuff holds its value pretty well, and creator sets are always awesome. At $40 for the above, I should jump all over this, yes?
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Fooley posted:That was in the back of my head but yeah, that's a very good point. I know that Lego's somewhat of a limited medium, but god drat those Racers Ferraris look like poo poo.
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The FXX looked better: http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=8156-1
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The_Doctor posted:I could see some nice Modular Space set, something along the lines of that prototype red/grey fueling depot set that I can't find a picture of right now. Have you checked the Modular Moonbase fanstuff? I remember at one point it was THE big thing for AFOLs, with dozens of people bringing modules to cons, with insanely awesome results. On a standard baseplate, it featured a fixed specification for inter-module linking that was simple and universal. Like ISO LL 928 instead of ISO 9000. fakeedit: http://www.brickiwiki.com/page/LEGO+Moonbase http://www.cclapcenter.com/2008/01/obsession_of_the_moment_lego_m.html
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Which kind of brings me to my second point. When is Lego ever going to produce anything that approaches the high-quality MOC stuff? Sure, their really big, expensive sets are almost there, as well as their famous architecture line, but the vast majority of their stuff is so staid and plain. There's a few reasons for this. One, the current high level stuff they're doing like London Bridge and the Modular Buildings are popular, but they're nowhere near as popular as something like Hogwart's Castle. There's a lot of cost that goes into production that you can only amortize out over very many sets. For example, you have the cost of paying a designer to build the kit, then you have the cost of ramping up the production of the pieces in the colors and quantities needed, the logistics of sorting those pieces and getting them into a box, the design and printing of that box, and the design and printing of the instructions. None of those costs are trivial. Obviously, there's a market out there for $1000 kits, as the UCS Falcon shows us, but how do you know the market will pay such a cost and is that a risk you're willing to take? The reason a lot of the really expensive kits escalate in value over time is because so few bought them when they were new. beato posted:Dug out my 8654: Scuderia Ferrari Truck ... kit. I wish I had kept the one I gave as a gift. Though it was greatly loved, it never got built.
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ecureuilmatrix posted:
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ecureuilmatrix posted:On a standard baseplate, it featured a fixed specification for inter-module linking that was simple and universal. Like ISO LL 928 instead of ISO 9000. I just usually shatter-fry the primary buffer panel and re-calibrate the warp flux injectors to accept a 3.5% variance in the field frequency. (seriously I have no clue what you just said)
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Sockser posted:Holy poo poo the Ice Planet- and Castle-themed ones are so loving cool Seriously, these are too good.   I would buy any creator level sets like this in a heartbeat.
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