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Pirate Ken posted:I've definitely lost a desire for "crazy" sets Shame on you. quote:That said, new bug fighter looks absurd and amazing. Oh, OK.  Yeah, despite all the promise that Galaxy Squad had, I think the bug tank is the only set to make good on it. As much as I like the design of the human vehicles, a) one of them needed to be huge [>1000 pcs] and b) they all need more color. All that white is so nondescript; it makes them look like concept art/sketches that never got colored in. quote:Great to see some amazing creativity from LEGO. Squashy Nipples posted:I hear ya, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it? TLG is very good at not reinventing the wheel. This is absolutely true. The underperformance of the last wholly original theme (Atlantis) couldn't have helped matters. Although Ninjago is pretty drat original.
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Optimist Prime posted:Yeah, despite all the promise that Galaxy Squad had, I think the bug tank is the only set to make good on it. As much as I like the design of the human vehicles, a) one of them needed to be huge [>1000 pcs] Yeah one of the biggest disappointments is the lack of a huge bug blasting cruiser. Space Police III had a great huge ship that really hearkened back to the Blacktron, Ice Planet 2002, etc. space sets.
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I'm pretty stoked for those Castle sets myself. It's been, what, five or six years since non-franchise castle and a bit longer for normal, not-Troll Wheel Lego. Give the seven-to-nine-year-olds a chance for some standard castle fair. Also, I really want a classic Pirates theme to come back, since I got back into Lego just in time to watch the Imperial Flagship sail off into the sunset. But standard Castle has me pretty excited and it's just another kingdom to fight all the other ones we already have. I think a goon posted photos of their collection of every 21st century castle set once and it was amazing. The wars I would've had as a kid... 
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FadingChord posted:I'm pretty stoked for those Castle sets myself. It's been, what, five or six years since non-franchise castle and a bit longer for normal, not-Troll Wheel Lego. Give the seven-to-nine-year-olds a chance for some standard castle fair. Kingdoms Joust was released January 2012, the Kingdoms line was still on store shelves at Targets and TRUs probably until spring or later of last year. Did you block that line from your memory because it really hasn't been that long at all, and these sets are practically the same things (big square castle, carriage, smaller castle facade) but with a dragon, which admittedly is pretty cool.
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Minecraft is back in stock at Lego.com. It's up from limit 1 per customer to limit 5, so they're probably trying their best to make this avaliable and try to screw over Lego speculators that have been hording the gently caress out of this. That being said, I am going to buy like as many of the Back to the Future ones as I can early, because drat have a lot of people made money off of the limited stock of the Minecraft set.
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jeeves posted:Minecraft is back in stock at Lego.com. It's up from limit 1 per customer to limit 5, so they're probably trying their best to make this avaliable and try to screw over Lego speculators that have been hording the gently caress out of this. Managed to finally grab one at a non third party price! Thanks! But I really gotta stop spending so much money on Lego. 
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Optimist Prime posted:This is absolutely true. The underperformance of the last wholly original theme (Atlantis) couldn't have helped matters. Although Ninjago is pretty drat original. Atlantis would have been sweet as balls if it were tweaked to be a space set.
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Browsing through Meijer today I saw that they had a bin full of series 5 Minifigs. I grabbed a hand full at random without feeling them out and here's what I got: Half of the are Queen's Guard guys! Oh well. Anyone need this guy? Will trade two of them for any other minifig.
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I'm about to pull the trigger on two Horizon Express trains. Can anyone tell me which additional parts I need two of? For example, do I need two motors, two IR receivers, two battery packs etc?
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Ika posted:The huge technic crane is looking even better, 4 of the 5 axles are steered, outriggers extend and raise the crane, and the boom extends to 70cm. I read somewhere that its supposed to be 2600 pieces, which would be 500 or so more than the unimog. That MX bike is the best-looking motorcycle Lego has ever made. I don't usually buy new Lego but I think I'll make an exception for that one, the knobbies are just fantastic.
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Ika posted:The huge technic crane is looking even better, 4 of the 5 axles are steered, outriggers extend and raise the crane, and the boom extends to 70cm. I read somewhere that its supposed to be 2600 pieces, which would be 500 or so more than the unimog. I've skipped the late 2012 models from Technic, though I may end up with the Crawler just for those motors. I definitely want that crane and tow truck bad. I'm especially looking forward to seeing how they got the top truck stabilizers to extend via motor and retract when the tow arm lowers, that's a pretty neat function.
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Awww, so cute:
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smackfu posted:Awww, so cute: I think it might look better with microfigs from games instead of the trophies, though they wouldn't exactly fit the scale. Also just got Fire Emergency for $18, thanks BrickBadger!
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The Puyallup Toys R Us has Alien Conquest for 40%-50% off! There are (now) 3 Earth Defense HQs and 4 Alien Motherships left! There's a catch, though.  The sale isn't quite as big a deal after TRUs' 20-25% price hike. MSRP for the EDHQ is $90, and the Alien Mothership at $60. TRU's at $110 and $80. I still bought one of each, though, since you probably won't find them much cheaper anywhere else.
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Pyroclastic posted:The Puyallup Toys R Us has Alien Conquest for 40%-50% off! There are (now) 3 Earth Defense HQs and 4 Alien Motherships left! I was gonna ask if you could grab me one until I saw you were located in Washington. Shipping'd probably eat up any sort of discount it would get.
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About TRU pricing, so far when I have looked at my local TRU things really don't look very marked up, maybe Wichita is just lucky. The one set that I knew was marked up was the Malevolence, it was $140 vs $119 at Wal-mart or Target. But if TRU does price matching, what do I have to do to convince them to sell me the set for the RRP? I could simply go to Wal-mart instead for the Malevolence, but what about Technic sets where I can only find the RRP from lego.com? Would I just have to print off a copy of the Wal-mart or Lego web page that has the RRP? Also, I assume if I want to convince them to price match, I can probably forget about getting % off to? Like the malevolence was $140, and they had a "Spend more than $100 get $25 off", so if I really wanted the Malevolence (I don't after reading reviews) I could have purchased it for $140-25 = $115 slightly cheaper than Wal-mart, or maybe I could have convinced them to price match ($140 to $120) and take off $25 too making it $95? I doubt TRU would go for such a deal but if it was a good set maybe I would have tried. Another thing about TRU, my local TRU seems to only do the the $25 off $100 or more sale. . . I have seen BOGO 50% off one time, and I tried to take advantage of it because it said "all Lego System proudcts" but according to the cash register, Star Wars did not count as a Lego System product. Not Wolverine fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Feb 2, 2013 |
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Finally had some time to work on the build-off, i made a little spaceship wich looks a bit like a toad, therefore i shall call it the spacetoad! Build-off #3 - Space Toad by AzMiLion, on Flickr .LXF
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AzMiLion posted:Finally had some time to work on the build-off, i made a little spaceship wich looks a bit like a toad, therefore i shall call it the spacetoad! I really like this, so clean and nice proportions.
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Flying that thing must be horrible, such bad visibility for the pilot. Looks good though!
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They just have really good VR/HUDs in the future.
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Ika posted:They just have really good VR/HUDs in the future. Not many ships on Star Trek had legit windows in them, lots of fly-by-wire. I think you could justify pretty much anything with "But it's the future!" And that's exactly how it should be. 
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No matter how far in the future, pilots are inherently distrustful of technology and frankly, anything but their own skill. They'll use the VR HUD, but they won't like it. 
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Alternatively, due to relativistic effects when approaching C, nothing is visible at the sides but blackness anyhow.
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MaliciousOnion posted:
I get an error saying that there's no db.lif file, and that the model is currently open in LDD. LDD isn't open; reinstalled and restarted a few times, changed the paths, same error. The odd thing is that I can't for the life of me find the db.lif file -- is it supposed to be created by LDD, or POVRay, or the converter?
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HOW TO SET UP AND USE POV-RAY WITH LDD
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The next generation of fighter helmets are meant to have this sort of uplink to a bunch of cameras on the outside of the plane, so the pilot can "see through" the floor and so on.
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Krazyface posted:The next generation of fighter helmets are meant to have this sort of uplink to a bunch of cameras on the outside of the plane, so the pilot can "see through" the floor and so on. They won't have pilots for much longer. Seems like a waste of technology.
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RodShaft posted:They won't have pilots for much longer. Seems like a waste of technology. Ender's Game all up in this.
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AzMiLion posted:It ends up in this folder usually %AppData%\LEGO Company\LEGO Digital Designer\ The only .lif file in there is assets.lif The converter creates the POV file if I check off the "Don't generate includes" box, but then the actual render doesn't work because it can't open the default.colours.inc file I wonder if I need to reinstall LDD for this.
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Guzwar posted:The only .lif file in there is assets.lif That sounds to me like you are looking in the wrong folder, since that file is in the LDD install folder. the assets file is in appdata, have you tried copying and pasting the location i posted? Should have you ending up in the right folder. hell i think you can even just paste that into LDD2POVray location folder and it should work.
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AzMiLion posted:That sounds to me like you are looking in the wrong folder, since that file is in the LDD install folder. the assets file is in appdata, have you tried copying and pasting the location i posted? Should have you ending up in the right folder. hell i think you can even just paste that into LDD2POVray location folder and it should work. Ah, there it goes, thank you. Turns out the AppData folder wasn't showing when I went to Browse for it.
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DrChud posted:Is there a timeframe for when the Back to the Future model might be up for sale on cuusoo, like how long was it from when they decided on the minecraft set to production? The best I've been able to find is mid-2013.
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Does anyone have any suggestions on selling a Lego collection? I have all the manuals, but not the boxes, and i have some of the sets such as Green Grocer/Cafe, and an absolute ton of Castle Fantasy (the one with orcs/dwarves). Is there a website where i can sell it that is not Ebay? Suggestions?
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UberJumper posted:Does anyone have any suggestions on selling a Lego collection? I have all the manuals, but not the boxes, and i have some of the sets such as Green Grocer/Cafe, and an absolute ton of Castle Fantasy (the one with orcs/dwarves). Is there a website where i can sell it that is not Ebay? BrickLink or here would be my only suggestions besides eBay.
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The Rage posted:BrickLink or here would be my only suggestions besides eBay. We can sell stuff on SA?  *EDIT* Somehow i have never noticed SA mart. 
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Well I'm definately going to have to start building with Lego again. This thread prompted me to go find my old Technic Space Shuttle box which is the last of my Lego and Technic after I sold them years ago to a friend. Open the box and see that I was apparently trying to free-build a T101 forearm complete with rotation and kung-fu grip! I haven't opened this since 1996 or so from memory. The engineer in me wants to spend all night ripping it down and starting again  
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UberJumper posted:Does anyone have any suggestions on selling a Lego collection? I have all the manuals, but not the boxes, and i have some of the sets such as Green Grocer/Cafe, and an absolute ton of Castle Fantasy (the one with orcs/dwarves). Is there a website where i can sell it that is not Ebay? I'd be interested in the green grocer/cafe!!
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UberJumper posted:Does anyone have any suggestions on selling a Lego collection? I have all the manuals, but not the boxes, and i have some of the sets such as Green Grocer/Cafe, and an absolute ton of Castle Fantasy (the one with orcs/dwarves). Is there a website where i can sell it that is not Ebay? Post the sets you have, prices and contact information and I am sure they will sell fast. I am always interested in used sets to add to my collection, especially some great castle sets.
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