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I'm not that in love with any of those mini-builds, there's no stand out one like their usually is for me. EDIT: In fact ever since I started collecting the modular buildings I've only really been looking at sets/minifigs based on how well they would fit into my street scene - so a lot of the more exotic themes like Lone Ranger, Galaxy Squad, etc, have lost my interest. PriorMarcus fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Aug 16, 2013 |
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Aug 16, 2013 20:10
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So I'm grabbing some random bricks from Lego's pick-a-brick site to polish up my Delorean a bit, and I'm kind of wondering what color the main grey bricks are considered in Lego color-naming parlance? "Medium Stone Grey"?
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Aug 16, 2013 20:57
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The_Doctor posted:
Asylum seekers carry new strain of HIV that lowers house prices! Also I'm envious of you UK folks getting free LEGO in your mail.
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Aug 16, 2013 22:04
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UK peeps! Dreadful right wing rag, the Daily Mail, is giving away Lego sets this coming week! They will probably give you cancer and cause immigrants to live in your house!
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Xenomrph posted:So I'm grabbing some random bricks from Lego's pick-a-brick site to polish up my Delorean a bit, and I'm kind of wondering what color the main grey bricks are considered in Lego color-naming parlance? "Medium Stone Grey"? Yup. The majority of the car is medium stone grey (AKA: grey, bluish grey, 'bley'). For comparison, the binoculars on the top of the car's roof are dark stone grey. Light stone grey is relatively uncommon.
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Aug 16, 2013 23:08
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Delorean arrived today! The pitfalls of having Lego show up at work; the box distracts me the entire afternoon as I wait for quitting time to assemble. I'm a little bummed there aren't numbered bags. I'm really not a fan of the dump-and-spread-out-pieces method. It's just too easy to lose things.
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Aug 16, 2013 23:12
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Ville Valo posted:Delorean arrived today! The pitfalls of having Lego show up at work; the box distracts me the entire afternoon as I wait for quitting time to assemble. Dump and spread is half of the adventure.
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Aug 16, 2013 23:13
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So I just ran into this on Tumblr "Oh cool, N64 made out of lego, brings back memo..."  It even comes with a controller.   http://mocpages.com/moc.php/366965
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Aug 16, 2013 23:22
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holy poo poo that is fantastic!
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Aug 16, 2013 23:32
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That is the best. Jesus.
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Aug 16, 2013 23:43
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Oh my god, I want build instructions for that!
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Aug 16, 2013 23:56
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 Marine Detachment #3 - Model R1 (POV) by Captain^Foo, on Flickr
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Aug 17, 2013 01:10
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I was just hitting up the PAB at the Bellevue Lego store. There was a guy in the store wearing a bowler hat. With cogs hot glue gunned to the side....
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Aug 17, 2013 01:48
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Hey Foo, can you try less military and more construction and utility mechs? Something like the Labors from Patlabor, I guess. http://www.patlabor.info/labors.htm Maybe would be a bit more involved, but I'd like to see what else you could pull off. Maybe try some logging robots!
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Aug 17, 2013 01:50
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xzzy posted:What? You're crazy. If visitor counters were good enough in 1995 they should be good enough in 2015 dammit. They make a good chunk of change on the sales. However the guy who built it died a few years ago and the family consistently put in just enough to keep it going till they sold it this year. We'll see what the new owners do with it.
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Aug 17, 2013 02:20
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Captain Invictus posted:Hey Foo, can you try less military and more construction and utility mechs? Something like the Labors from Patlabor, I guess. I like military bots though!! I will look into more industrial things after I finish the current squad, though 
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Aug 17, 2013 02:28
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So the "radiator grille" pieces that came with the Delorean that look kinda chrome-ish, do they have a color name? I think I can refit part of the back and front end of the Delorean to make it more "screen accurate", but I need more of those grilles and I'm not sure what color they're considered on pick-a-brick.
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Aug 17, 2013 02:51
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I bought a galaxy squad set. Is it normal for lego to include stickers these days? Last thing I ever got before that was ice planet.
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Aug 17, 2013 03:16
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Update- I've figured out the grille thing, but now I'm trying to hash out a way to mount a vertical grille piece behind the rear tires - it'll require retooling the assembly that the hose attaches to, and I've worked that part out (changing the black 1x3 tile above the wheel well to a black 1x2, moving the hose attachment to above the wheel well) but I'm working out how to get another "post" behind the wheel well. Right now there's just the one post that has a chrome stud on it, above 2 1x1 grey tiles and the slanted grey piece. I'm thinking I can replace the 2 1x1 pieces with something, but I'm not sure what. I'm not sure a 4211476 "angular brick" will work. Thoughts? I'm also redesigning the front end a little bit to make it 8 studs wide instead of 7, so I can put a pair of chrome grilles on the front bumper. I've already worked that part out, though.
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Aug 17, 2013 03:18
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quote="Captain Foo" post="418509557"] I like military bots though!! I will look into more industrial things after I finish the current squad, though [/quote] Just watch "How it's Made" and start] making bots that makes products. I always wanted to know what makes the stuff that makes stuff.
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Aug 17, 2013 03:19
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7thBatallion posted:I was just hitting up the PAB at the Bellevue Lego store. There was a guy in the store wearing a bowler hat. ...were they at least Lego cogs? Ka0 posted:I bought a galaxy squad set. Is it normal for lego to include stickers these days? Last thing I ever got before that was ice planet. The majority of Lego sets have stickers now. Printed bricks tend to be the exception. Sometimes it's a good thing. If you want to use an uncommon piece in a MOC, but you can't because it's got googly eyes or some pattern incompatible with your MOC, you'd appreciate it if it were a sticker instead of a printed brick. I tend to only apply stickers on common pieces or ones I can use in other themes, and only if they don't overlap multiple pieces. My earliest set, my mom's old London Bus from the 70s, had stickers. Xenomrph posted:but I'm working out how to get another "post" behind the wheel well. Right now there's just the one post that has a chrome stud on it, above 2 1x1 grey tiles and the slanted grey piece. I'm thinking I can replace the 2 1x1 pieces with something, but I'm not sure what. I'm not sure a 4211476 "angular brick" will work. Thoughts? Hard to say without having the set myself, but would something like 4654582 or 6000606 work?
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Aug 17, 2013 08:27
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They remind me of Tente blocks from the late 80s. They also had stickers but the blocks were non-compatible with Lego. They had a wicked transforming robot line that required no dissassembly, though they were flimsy as hell. Boobhead here was my favorite.
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Aug 17, 2013 18:56
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 Marine Detachment #3 - Model S5 (POV) by Captain^Foo, on Flickr
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Aug 17, 2013 20:16
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Stop making me want to build things with pieces I don't have!quote:Tente 
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Aug 17, 2013 20:41
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Those little yellow bastards are still floating around in my Lego buckets.
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Aug 17, 2013 21:35
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ireladd posted:Thank you, this lead me in a good direction, and what I ended up doing was adding Camper Van set to my want list, deleted all the pieces except the red ones, and then individually had to change the remaining parts to blue, only to discover most of the way in that there is no blue option for one or two of the pieces. Wish there was a way to batch color swap to test quickly. Ah well. You could use Rebrickable to export a BrickLink compatible XML file, then using a text editor, do a find and replace for all the <color> tags replacing the red with your desired colour according to the color table here. You can then add this as a wish list using the "Wanted List Mass Upload" on Brick Link. You could probably do something in Rebrickable to remove all non-red pieces beforehand, but I haven't checked.
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Aug 17, 2013 21:51
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Ka0 posted:Tente  
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Aug 17, 2013 22:48
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Oh my. 
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Aug 18, 2013 01:56
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PriorMarcus posted:I'm not that in love with any of those mini-builds, there's no stand out one like their usually is for me. I mainly collect the Creator buildings and occasionally grab a minifig when I see them at Target and so far they've all managed to fit into my street of houses pretty well. I've got King Neptune sitting on the dock of my Lighthouse (5770), the bride minifig is getting married on the lawn of the Hillside House (5771) while the DJ stands on the balcony waving his hands in the air and the Knight and Dwarf are locked into deadly battle in the driveway of the Model Town House (4954).
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Aug 18, 2013 02:23
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So, uh, Series 11 is out in the UK.
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Aug 18, 2013 13:00
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 Marine Detachment #3 - Model R2 (POV) by Captain^Foo, on Flickr
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Aug 18, 2013 17:40
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What are the best Kingdoms sets. I like big castles. I would ask for reccomendations on space sets but other than galaxy squad all I see are star wars licensed stuff that I do not care about.
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Aug 18, 2013 18:04
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Are there any good Technic resources for general ideas and building tips? I find Rebrickable to be pretty obtuse and in general following somebody else's instructions leaves me at step 3 for not having all the right pieces. Thanks, that's exactly what I had in mind. vvvv Coldstone Cream-my-pants fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Aug 18, 2013 |
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Aug 18, 2013 21:00
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http://sariel.pl/ has a fair amount of stuff, the guy also wrote a book, but I havnt had a chance to look at my copy yet.
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Aug 18, 2013 21:07
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Ha, there's a mistake in the Mobile Crane Mk II instructions. Build book #5 page 11 shows the two stickers to apply but have the diagram sides are flip/flopped from reality. The next page shows it right. I was REALLY confused for a moment. Page 11:  vs Page 12 (correct):  It's pretty small and inconsequential but it's the first error I've spotted in my life so I had to tell someone  Side note, I'm disappointed that the instructions PDFs aren't vector images...
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Aug 18, 2013 21:31
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So is the blue 4x4 crawler set sold out forever now? My dad saw a picture of it and was pretty excited about it. He buys and builds technic and the creator sets only. I want to get him one for his upcoming birthday.
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Aug 18, 2013 22:15
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If you are lucky a local lego store might still have one or still get a shipment. Also I think toysRus are getting some (At least in the US), but only local pickup, not online. I don't think the lego online store will get anymore. The scalpers are getting ridicules, as long as it was only discontinued sets I could live with it, but buying up all the limited edition sets is something else.
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Aug 18, 2013 22:24
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I picked up three of the crawler. 
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Aug 18, 2013 22:34
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Ok, well gently caress paying $500 for something that was for sale for $200 only a week ago. Free country and all, ect, ect.
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Ika posted:If you are lucky a local lego store might still have one or still get a shipment. Also I think toysRus are getting some (At least in the US), but only local pickup, not online. I don't think the lego online store will get anymore. The scalpers are getting ridicules, as long as it was only discontinued sets I could live with it, but buying up all the limited edition sets is something else. How often does ToysRUs stock legos? I think they have a person come in and do it since I was there the other day and I saw a guy with a Lego ID tag stocking things on the shelf. A few days later and I realize now that I should have asked him if they had any of the crawlers, I guess I thought it was a Lego Store Exclusive so I didn't think of it at the time. If they did stock any I assume they are probably gone now 
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