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My mother-in-law over breakfast on the last day of our holiday: Oh, my sister said she was getting rid of her son's Lego. She was really sad about it because there was so much of it and while he was growing up it was all he ever wanted and all they ever brought him for birthday's and christmas and now he'd told them to get rid of it all. She asked if I knew anyone who wanted it and I remembered you liked Lego so I said I'd have it. We would have got it last week, but there wasn't room in the car so we'll take the trailer next time we go. Me:  I have no idea how I'm going to get it from Belgium to the UK but still 
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VaultAggie posted:The 6211 Star Destroyer has the flimsiest loving base ever and its almost essential to reinforce it with larger plates. As much as I love that thing, I'm terrified of holding it up and moving it to the kitchen table. The frame is fine but the play set part that holds vader and the shuttle is horrible and later versions had a few more plates put in to stabilize it. The flaps for the shell though are much more stable then the UCS star destroyer and it is a decent way to mount plates at a angle. Gravy Jones, that is awesome. I have no idea what I would do with a trailer full of lego. Clean it then swim it in maybe like scrooge mcduck and his moneybin?
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Jun 5, 2012 22:38
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Merchant of Death posted:The frame is fine but the play set part that holds vader and the shuttle is horrible and later versions had a few more plates put in to stabilize it. The flaps for the shell though are much more stable then the UCS star destroyer and it is a decent way to mount plates at a angle. The top surface of the SSD is held on by a sturdy set of pin plates and clips. The clips are attached to the A-frame, which is in turn attached to the body by hinge plates. I'll probably just duplicate that, since I know it can already achieve the correct angle and everything. Why reinvent the wheel?
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Jun 5, 2012 22:47
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Gravy Jones posted:My mother-in-law over breakfast on the last day of our holiday: Oh, my sister said she was getting rid of her son's Lego. She was really sad about it because there was so much of it and while he was growing up it was all he ever wanted and all they ever brought him for birthday's and christmas and now he'd told them to get rid of it all. She asked if I knew anyone who wanted it and I remembered you liked Lego so I said I'd have it. We would have got it last week, but there wasn't room in the car so we'll take the trailer next time we go. Holy crap. Lego, such a great inheritance.
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Jun 5, 2012 23:05
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Gravy Jones posted:My mother-in-law over breakfast on the last day of our holiday: Oh, my sister said she was getting rid of her son's Lego. She was really sad about it because there was so much of it and while he was growing up it was all he ever wanted and all they ever brought him for birthday's and christmas and now he'd told them to get rid of it all. She asked if I knew anyone who wanted it and I remembered you liked Lego so I said I'd have it. We would have got it last week, but there wasn't room in the car so we'll take the trailer next time we go. You how bigs the trailer? You might have to rent a Semi:) or build one out of the Legos...
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Jun 6, 2012 00:36
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Gravy Jones posted:I have no idea how I'm going to get it from Belgium to the UK Quickly before they change their mind about getting rid of it.
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Jun 6, 2012 03:13
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Finished the Lego VW Van after a few days of having to go to work and other things between. Does anyone else get anxious near the end of a build? The less pieces there are, the faster I feel I need to find them. Great build and model in the end.
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Jun 6, 2012 04:23
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DrChud posted:You how bigs the trailer? You might have to rent a Semi:) or build one out of the Legos... That much Lego for free, he probably already has a semi 
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It's my nephew's 11th (??? ±1 year. I am a bad uncle.) birthday, and he wants LEGO. My mum and I are going to go halves on a set, and I'm using the wonderful Brick Badger to find it. We've got a budget of around £35. I've narrowed it down to the following sets. I am wondering if any of you folks can give me reviews of these, or a recommendation if you know a few of them well. City 3221: Big Truck - this is probably what I'd get if I was buying for myself, but I think that he'd probably prefer one of the more fantasy/sci-fi sets. Pharaoh's Quest 7326: Rise of the Sphinx - looks kind of fun although the build design on the Sphinx looks a little lame. Technic 8068: Rescue Helicopter - I don't know if he likes Technic that much. Again I'd say he's likely to be more into the fantasy stuff. It looks like a cool kit and if it's got something really special going for it then it might be a good choice. Alien Conquest 7065: Alien Mothership - Probably the most impressive set in the shortlist, and I know he has a couple of the smaller Alien Conquest things. Star Wars 7930: Bounty Hunter Assault - I hate the prequel stuff so tempted to veto this on principle, but I know he's not as fussy and if this is a good set then I'll swallow my pride... City 3368: Space Center - this looks awesome and probably as impressive-looking as the Alien Mothership. Probably my personal second choice but maybe not for him EDIT: Haha I just noticed the guy standing next to the launch pad flipping the countdown manually. I wonder if they have an alternative minifig in the box where he's burnt to a cinder by the rocket  Alternatively I could give him some of my stuff that I really don't need and really should never have bought, and while that means I could give him something exceptional like my Lunar Limo, it would be second hand and probably less impressive for that. Squibsy fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Jun 6, 2012 |
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Jun 6, 2012 13:59
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ineptmule posted:Alien Conquest 7065: Alien Mothership - Probably the most impressive set in the shortlist, and I know he has a couple of the smaller Alien Conquest things. This would be my choice. It's one of the few sets I don't see myself taking apart, and if he's already sort of into Alien Conquest, it seems like a no-brainer to me. Plus it comes with the Commander minifig, which is all sorts of awesome.
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Jun 6, 2012 14:39
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Gravy Jones posted:My mother-in-law over breakfast on the last day of our holiday: Oh, my sister said she was getting rid of her son's Lego. She was really sad about it because there was so much of it and while he was growing up it was all he ever wanted and all they ever brought him for birthday's and christmas and now he'd told them to get rid of it all. She asked if I knew anyone who wanted it and I remembered you liked Lego so I said I'd have it. We would have got it last week, but there wasn't room in the car so we'll take the trailer next time we go. If you need a hand I'll be on the next plane over. You can pay me in bulk Lego!
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Jun 6, 2012 14:55
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ineptmule posted:Pharaoh's Quest 7326: Rise of the Sphinx I really like this set at the current price. I thought it was a fun build plus for a kid it's got a lot of play potential. It is a substantial set as well at over 500 pieces. The Cursed Cobra statue just dropped to half price again as well. It's a bit of a rip-off at full price but pretty good at £12. If you stretched the budget by a couple of pounds you could get both! For me the Pharoah's Quest stuff came into it's own (from a kid playing with toys perspective) when we got a few sets together. These two together give you 3 bad guys, 2 big statue/monsters, 3 good guys, two vehicles, loads of guns dynamite, treasure etc. Add in the smaller sets and you've got a movie going on. I've got everything except the big pyramid, which never seems to be discounted  But I don't know how interested an 11 year old will be in a knock-off Indiana Jones/The Mummy theme compared to aliens and spaceships. Disclaimer: I don't really like the Alien Conquest flying saucers (I love the earth defence force stuff but aliens don't do much for me).
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Jun 6, 2012 15:06
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With regards to the bulk Lego the quantity may be a little exagerated. There's Playmobil in there (which obviously holds zero adult value, but as a toy for kids some of it is pretty cool) which is a bit bulkier. I should be getting photographic evidence in a couple of weeks. Two things that fill me with hope: my MIL thinks this sister is kind of the retain-all-original-packaging type and she'd be suprised if a lot of the Lego wasn't boxed and complete; and the son is in his late 30s now which means a lot of it should be late 70s to mid 80s stuff. As someone who no longer has all their childhood Lego if there's any classic space in there I may weep.
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Gravy Jones posted:I really like this set at the current price. I thought it was a fun build plus for a kid it's got a lot of play potential. It is a substantial set as well at over 500 pieces. The Cursed Cobra statue just dropped to half price again as well. It's a bit of a rip-off at full price but pretty good at £12. If you stretched the budget by a couple of pounds you could get both! RodShaft posted:BEHOLD, Anub-hiss
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ineptmule posted:It's my nephew's 11th (??? ±1 year. I am a bad uncle.) birthday, and he wants LEGO. My mum and I are going to go halves on a set, and I'm using the wonderful Brick Badger to find it. We've got a budget of around £35. I've narrowed it down to the following sets. I am wondering if any of you folks can give me reviews of these, or a recommendation if you know a few of them well. I'd go for the mothership. The mothership looks really nice and if he has some others, he could easily fit it in with them. Not to mention there's a facehugger and the head alien to add to his other aliens.
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How chemically stable is Lego? I mean we've all heard about how plastics won't degrade for centuries in a landfill or the GPGP, but on the other hand ultraviolet exposure can do weird things to some plastics, and I can't believe that ABS is completely chemically neutral. Could we really expect modern lego, properly stored and played with, to last for generations? Also, is the trans stuff ABS or polystyrene or some other thing?
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Phy posted:How chemically stable is Lego? I mean we've all heard about how plastics won't degrade for centuries in a landfill or the GPGP, but on the other hand ultraviolet exposure can do weird things to some plastics, and I can't believe that ABS is completely chemically neutral. Could we really expect modern lego, properly stored and played with, to last for generations? Most of my stuff from the 90s is indistinguishable from new bricks (shiny newness aside). The trans pieces are poly, which is why you're not supposed to put trans pieces on ABS shafts or you end up with Captain Invictus posted:
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Lost track of this thread due to the move. Had 2000 posts to catch up on! Now, can anyone point me to the right direction for getting a small rc car up and running for cheap?
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Ingram posted:Now, can anyone point me to the right direction for getting a small rc car up and running for cheap? Depends on cheap, you will need 1 IR sensor, 1 Remote, and at a minimum 2 M power function motors and battery box so about $50 just for those parts. If you have no lego sets just pick up the technic tow truck or extreme cruiser as they are both easy to hook up to the power function parts for RC control.
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Fall technic sets include a remote controlled 4x4, will not be cheap though. Lego also had released small remote controlled cars a number of years ago, maybe you can find one used. (http://www.brickset.com/browse/themes/?theme=Racers&subtheme=Outdoor RC ) Anyone here live in/near cologne or wiesbaden? Just noticed they have some PAB parts I could use, would like to get one or two large cups shipped.
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The cars lego released are really pricey online if you want them and some of the motors really suck for using in lego but hey they go faster than anything you can do with the current and former motors. The fall 4x4 truck is going to be really nice due to the introduction of the servo motor to the power functions line. The new motors are supposed to be in between the current M and XL motor. I recommend heading to the eurobricks technic forum as they tend to motorize ever set if possible to the point of sillyness, the small $25 technic crane someone had to motorize it and there was more motor/batterybox/ir then the rest of the model.
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Ika posted:Anyone here live in/near cologne or wiesbaden? Just noticed they have some PAB parts I could use, would like to get one or two large cups shipped. How are you able to tell this? Do stores post their PAB inventories online or something? e:  This nifty little SNOT brick combo is what's making the under-surface for my SSD work.  Single segment, just enough to check the angles. I want to use the same big mostly studless plates the top surface used, but I'll need to order a bunch first. I'm hoping that I'll be able to run a spine down the center with the same hinge & SNOT setup and have it magically line up so that the center is supported, but I've yet to test that. Haven't done anything like this (building something of my own) since I was a kid. Having fun. 
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On the topic of remote controlled Lego, one of these is sitting on a book shelf in our library: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=8675-1 Any time the battery is connected to the motor it spins backwards and doesn't respond to the remote control and we have no idea what to do to fix it, and contacting Lego shortly after we got it was met with essentially "Oh really? That's too bad. gently caress you go away." because we bought it at Ollie's after it was discontinued (with no returns) Anyone have any ideas?
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Torael_7 posted:How are you able to tell this? Do stores post their PAB inventories online or something? Kinda, third party site: http://www.brickbuildr.com/view/pab/
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Seeing as no one posts in the Lego mini figure trading thread, is anyone in here interested in a old of figures and The Sun Lego? Here are the figures and sets that I have: S7 Knight, stunt man, jungle boy x2, hippie, bunny S6 Leprechaun, bandit x2, genie x2, señorita S5 Detective, reptile, cave girl, royal guard, gladiator, dwarf, boxer, redneck, clown The sun Lego Tie fighter x5 Star destroyer City car x6 Ninjago go art x5 Ninjago knives x6 City fire cart x2 I'm willing to sell all the mini figures at £1.50 and the sets for £1 each if that sounds reasonable? If someone wants the whole lot I'm willing to cut a deal as I've had them sitting around for far too long.
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To prepare for Lego Batman 2 I snatched up Lego Star Wars 3 and Lego Pirates of the Caribbean yesterday for $15 each. I forgot how much fun these games were!
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Hamburlgar posted:Seeing as no one posts in the Lego mini figure trading thread, is anyone in here interested in a old of figures and The Sun Lego?
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Practically sold already  You Lego goons are the best!
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I'll take any/all of the Sun sets that Invictus doesn't grab. Not likely, I know
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Ika posted:Kinda, third party site: http://www.brickbuildr.com/view/pab/ Ah. The stores I live near aren't big enough or whatever for someone to update them, it seems. 
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sybir posted:I'll take any/all of the Sun sets that Invictus doesn't grab. Not likely, I know There was a great discount for buying it all, so I did.  Wish I could've gotten some Batman Sun sets, but those look to be ridiculously annoying to get now.
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I just watched some gameplay footage of Lego Undercover City, which does look like a pretty great game for the WiiU, but what got my attention was one of the buildings the player drove past. Forgive the low quality of the image:
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Got my li'l Hulk today  Part of my order was the Monster Fighter Creature from the Black Lagoon because I thought Wolverine would look cooler in that tattered bomber jacket, then I remembered he's a fleshie. Dang.
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Just noticed the Minecraft legos are up on shop.lego.com for US customers.
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Captain Invictus posted:Wish I could've gotten some Batman Sun sets, but those look to be ridiculously annoying to get now. Do you need both the batmobile and the jet ski thing? Whereabouts are you? Pm me maybe?
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Pretty cool album: http://imgur.com/a/ShWqX
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That is pretty cool. I'm tempted to turn The Shining one into an avatar
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mattfl posted:OH OH OH! ME ME ME ElwoodCuse posted:Went to Barnes and Noble and ended up a pile of space marines without even trying much. I'll trade two of them. I need: Email me at 1308cc on google mail, I am in Canada so I don't know if that'll screw things up. One box is halfway gone, debating whether to open the other one. Bulk Vanderhuge fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Jun 12, 2012 |
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http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/07/start/playful-prototyping Havn't seen this posted yet. Does this mean I can buy lego with an equipment grant now?
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Amoeba102 posted:http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/07/start/playful-prototyping You may run into problems if you get audited and they wonder where the lego you claimed to buy for lab use actually is.
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