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I'll gladly take partial credit for that. Because it's awesome.
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Ignore me i am dumb.
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^^Too late!Fragmented posted:Hey Gravy Jones is there an option i'm maybe missing to convert the price to dollars and i'm dumb? Or could you maybe add that? Like a button that does the conversion? I'm a very lazy man. See the 'uk' at the end of the URL in the address bar? Just delete that and hit enter. http://legoogel.com/raw/ Ahh, the regional links look new to me. Very helpful! I haven't had a chance to make good use of it yet but I thank you kindly for the work Gravy Jones. InfinEight fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Feb 29, 2012 |
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Feb 29, 2012 23:07
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Thanks! Outside of the UK there seems to be a lot less movement and big price drops than I realised so it's probably of less use. Although I know there some people outside of Europe keep an eye on some of the big sets in places like Italy because there can be some significant discounts that make up for international shipping (Unimog is a third off in Spain for example). Also because Amazon US doesn't ship internationally Europe is the only option for some sets in some places (Australia I think is one). You can get the same information elsewhere but it updates a lot more often than most other Lego specific price aggregators and people (particularly goon type people) seem to dig single no-nonsense info-dump page. There is also, as has been pointed out, better sites for people who want to track specific big sets. At the end of the day it was designed for people like me. I opportunistically buy sets that hit 40-50% off that I think will be fun to build with my kid and then stash them under my desk at work (current count: 3) and take one home every couple of weeks  A lot of these are price matching third party retailers and the price goes up again when they go out of stock. Some of them are only there for a couple of hours tops and more complete, but less regularly updated checkers miss them or get them to late.I'm working on phase two at the moment which is standard front end because there are some people who aren't going to like the circa Netscape 2.0 style look, it's also a lot more geared towards search engines. Currently the data/client side of things is hosted on the free-tier of Amazon Web Services and costs like 15c a day over what you get for free. However after a free year that'll jump to a few hundred bucks a year so I'll either pick up a lot more traffic, scale it way back or call it a day. Once that's done (a week or so) I need to sit down and do a bit of data cleansing. Then it pretty much runs itself and I can work on phase three. Which is looking at cool ways of displaying and manipulating information and basically just experimenting with a big stable set of data. That was actually the original purpose of the project. I kind of got sidetracked! Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Feb 29, 2012 |
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Feb 29, 2012 23:34
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Capoeira Capybara posted:This is really great. This sums up all that is good in the world when you are a kid: Lego, Dinosaurs, and nonfatal faction violence. I was having a wretched day, and your Dino Riders cheered me up. I especially love the ant guy's head. Oh ho ho, glad to help. Here's one more:  I'm pretty sure this one was at least three separate Dino-Riders toys.  Back view. I'm working with a really limited parts supply, so most of these came off the other two...
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Gravy Jones posted:Thanks! I've got like two sets just from seeing the price drop on legoogel alone so great job. It's definitely handy.
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Red posted:I'm still amazed that Bionicle did as well as it did (or does?). I just can't see the appeal of the Bionicle line. I'm not sure you realize how expensive it is for Lego to create a single new part, much less letting people design whatever kind of brick they want.
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runwiled posted:I want you to know that I blame all of you for this:
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Is this set still available? It is Lego 5892 Sonic Boom. And it is insanely awesome. I have seen a few on shelves in the last few months, but they are mostly out of stock and getting scalp-priced now. It is really big, and really sturdy, and really nice. Very likely my favorite lego set of the last few years.
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The_Doctor posted:So I've been musing about the current thread title and I've come to the conclusion that if they reinvented Time Cruisers as a space/ground line with an awesome light up interchangeable time travel flux capacitor unit that could attach to all the different vehicles instead of the swirly white disc, that would just be great. Like some sort of Exo-squad-esque line with Time Police vs Paradox agents trying to save/change history. A page or two ago someone had an idea for a "museum" line to incorporate a bunch of historic mini-figs, but I don't think that has a lot of appeal for kids. Do I buy the snake-jet or the museum display of a roman soldier in a tent? But if you combined a time-traveling theme with historical sets, it could be fantastic. The time-travelers could go to any time period, and with the collectible mini-figs, you've already got most of the pieces for stuff like: Cleopatra and Marc Anthony meet
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Zonko_T.M. posted:A page or two ago someone had an idea for a "museum" line to incorporate a bunch of historic mini-figs, but I don't think that has a lot of appeal for kids. Do I buy the snake-jet or the museum display of a roman soldier in a tent? But if you combined a time-traveling theme with historical sets, it could be fantastic. The time-travelers could go to any time period, and with the collectible mini-figs, you've already got most of the pieces for stuff like: Cleopatra and Marc Anthony meet I seriously suggest you send them that suggestion in a letter. I'll sign it.
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Man, I wish the Western theme would come back. I kinda want to buy some of them off Bricklink. Westerns are cool and it makes me sad that nobody cares for that genre anymore.  I really want to make a western train robbery MOC now.
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Haven't seen this posted yet so here is a neat interview/article http://www.wlwt.com/r/30568783/detail.html CNN did with the creator of this.    Not only do I love Lego, I love Mario Brother just as much and this level was hell but looks amazing in Lego.
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Rythe posted:Haven't seen this posted yet so here is a neat interview/article http://www.wlwt.com/r/30568783/detail.html CNN did with the creator of this. I immediately heard the music in my head.
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Colonial Air Force posted:I immediately heard the music in my head. Glad I'm not the only one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TO0N4KxzPE
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Gammatron 64 posted:Man, I wish the Western theme would come back. I kinda want to buy some of them off Bricklink. Westerns are cool and it makes me sad that nobody cares for that genre anymore. I'm pushing hard for that Western town on Cuuso. Now you're making me actually want LEGO train sets.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Man, I wish the Western theme would come back. I kinda want to buy some of them off Bricklink. Westerns are cool and it makes me sad that nobody cares for that genre anymore. I especially love it because I wrote them a letter as a kid suggesting it. The engine was the only part of the Toy Story train I kept together to use in a Western town I keep meaning to make. It's a little cartoony but whatever, toot-toot. Also keep eying lots of western figs on eBay.
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:I'm pushing hard for that Western town on Cuuso. Playmobil was always greatly inferior to Lego, but playmobil had a western train set and god it was loving awesome. Lego trains are awesome. Because trains are awesome. (My grandpa was big into model trains and trains in general, so I kind of have a little love of trains in my blood I guess, especially steam locomotives.)
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:I'm pushing hard for that Western town on Cuuso. Yeah I really want the western stuff, and a western train would rule.
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They should just do a train set for every theme. Space Train. Pirate Train. Castle Train. Don't ask me to explain how or why.
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Light Gun Man posted:Space Train Oh man if they made another space monorail I'd snap it up in a heartbeat. Too bad they'll never make another (compatible) monorail though
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Now I really badly want these sets: http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=7597-1 http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=7594-1
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Rythe posted:Haven't seen this posted yet so here is a neat interview/article Holy crap. I think I might have found a new project. I used to design and draw those on long pieces of spool-fed dot matrix printer paper when I was a kid. Time to revisit the concept, maybe.
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Rocket Ace posted:What ever happened to generic, gender neutral creativity? I find that a lot of these new sets are PLAYSETS, rather than construction sets. I'm not even sure LEGO believes their products are gender neutral anymore, even disregarding their latest attempt at drawing in girls. In that recent TV show where they toured the LEGO factory and talked about how LEGO is made, even the designers said their greatest joy was "... making a great product that boys will love."
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Rythe posted:Haven't seen this posted yet so here is a neat interview/article http://www.wlwt.com/r/30568783/detail.html CNN did with the creator of this. This brings back awesome yet terrible memories from childhood. click to visit my metal detecting blog - updated 6/17/2012
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I'm not even sure LEGO believes their products are gender neutral anymore, even disregarding their latest attempt at drawing in girls. In that recent TV show where they toured the LEGO factory and talked about how LEGO is made, even the designers said their greatest joy was "... making a great product that boys will love." This is the one thing about that show that bothered me so much.
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Here's a question; Does anyone know what sort of process LEGO has when creating their build instructions? It seems virtually every set I've purchased follows a different standard and all have different conventions. Some sets have the instructions on backer boards, others don't. Some instructions list the pieces for each step in a callout box, others don't. Some sets break the instructions up into multiple manuals, and others of the same size don't. Some sets have weird mini-comics in the back of the manual, others from the same series don't. It all seems a bit schizophrenic on LEGO's part. I wouldn't mind better colour accuracy of the pieces in the drawing either, as telling apart black from dark grey, and brown from maroon can be a challenge at times.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Here's a question; Does anyone know what sort of process LEGO has when creating their build instructions? It seems virtually every set I've purchased follows a different standard and all have different conventions. Some sets have the instructions on backer boards, others don't. Some instructions list the pieces for each step in a callout box, others don't. Some sets break the instructions up into multiple manuals, and others of the same size don't. Some sets have weird mini-comics in the back of the manual, others from the same series don't. The backer boards are being included in any set over a certain size. I can't remember off-hand if it's by price or by box size. The piece callouts are usually based on step complexity, I believe. I don't know why the instructions are or aren't split across multiple booklets, though. If you've got any specific examples I can ask around. The black pieces are outlined in white now for most new sets. As for maroon and brown and some of the blues and greys in sets like the Pet Shop, yeah, those can be tough sometimes.
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Man, Rise of the Sphinx down to £18 (56%) off at Amazon.co.uk. And I thought I was getting a good deal when I bought it for £26 last week. That's crazy cheap, I'm tempted to get another.
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Zonko_T.M. posted:But if you combined a time-traveling theme with historical sets, it could be fantastic. The time-travelers could go to any time period, and with the collectible mini-figs, you've already got most of the pieces for stuff like: Cleopatra and Marc Anthony meet That's an absolutely fantastic concept. Mix and match the bits together as need be. I'm seeing a Roman temple with hidden Time Police HQ behind the facade, that sort of thing. Wild West stagecoach with Paradox agents tech over it. Oh my..
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Light Gun Man posted:They should just do a train set for every theme.    
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Gravy Jones posted:Man, Rise of the Sphinx down to £18 (56%) off at Amazon.co.uk. And I thought I was getting a good deal when I bought it for £26 last week. That's crazy cheap, I'm tempted to get another. is it a fun build? I was considering it and definitely super tempted now. But I'd probably end up using it for parts.
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Captain Invictus posted:I love these in particular, how would I go about getting started if I wanted to do this sort of thing myself, with no collection to speak of? Just get Bionicle kits and get a collection of parts together? Are the appropriate parts sold in the "Pick'n'mix" sections of Lego stores? (though I don't think there are any near me now)
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Joramun posted:Ghost Train. Just take all my money, right now, please. I love that the disc on the front switches to a ghost-face that looks like the Count from Sesame Street. Even the plane is neat, with the tubing and the giant barrel on top. 
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I haven't built it yet. Still in a (slightly damaged) box under my desk. I like the look of it and I like the theme in general. I relly like the look of it in terms of pieces though. 500+ for under £20 and. Lots of interesting slopes and nice colours (the ones on his headress thing look really nice, dark blue and dark red slopes and corners). Not too many big pieces compares to say Atlantis sets of a similar size. Here's a good pictorial Eurobricks review: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=50500 Also:  Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Mar 1, 2012 |
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Zonko_T.M. posted:Just take all my money, right now, please. I love that the disc on the front switches to a ghost-face that looks like the Count from Sesame Street. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih0hmi9s1cw
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Joramun posted:Ghost Train. I love the new Ghost minifigs with the wibbly top bit. Also, who is your av of?
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The_Doctor posted:Also, who is your av of?
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Paragon8 posted:is it a fun build? I was considering it and definitely super tempted now. But I'd probably end up using it for parts. Not so much. It's a good set but most of the build is in the four legs of the sphinx, which are repetitive as hell to put together. The car is really neat, and the completed sphinx is pretty impressive, though. For that price it's worth having.
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