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FadingChord posted:Now all we need is a good Rick Moranis minifigure. Any nominations? If you wanted to do the scene where he's being interviewed at the station after he's possessed, this might come in handy. http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=43280&colorID=22
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FadingChord posted:Now all we need is a good Rick Moranis minifigure. Any nominations? Egon's face on a Hobbit body of some sort. Anything that puts him below the GB's in height. edit: Goddamnit, now I NEED a modular firehouse, anyone have a spare they wanna sell or trade for a UCS B-Wing?
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Finally saw The Lego Movie today, on my wife's birthday none the less. She is not a Lego fan but she knows I am, and everything else playing looked like crap or only rental worthy. The wife liked the movie, of course I absolutely lived it. Spoiler time: I was surprised to see so much non-Lego usage, but in the end it makes sense given the plot. I love names for everything, like "the sword of exact zero". My favorite part of the movie was the Millennium Falcon simply because I am a Star Wars nerd and I remember how much the Millennium Falcon broke down in Empire Strikes Back.
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The_Doctor posted:http://news.toyark.com/2014/02/16/toy-fair-2014-lego-ninjago-mixels-city-minifigs-hero-factory-115044 Nevermind that, look at the classic X-Men! http://news.toyark.com/2014/02/16/toy-fair-2014-lego-marvel-comics-114928  Though as far as Sentinels go, the one in that set is seriously pathetic.
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Has there been a price released for the Ghostbusters set or at least any guesstimates?
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Rythe posted:Has there been a price released for the Ghostbusters set or at least any guesstimates? At a guesstimate, probably only a little bit more than the BTTF Delorean. Car looks about roughly the same size, give or take, maybe a few more bricks on top. 4 minifigs compared to 2. So maybe $40-45?
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The_Doctor posted:That Bike Shop/cafe. Oh man. poo poo, thought you were talking about a new modular 
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djfooboo posted:poo poo, thought you were talking about a new modular It could be made into one! I'm planning to!
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Pretty sure I saw that Ghostbusters set being listed as $50 by multiple sites. Yep, $50 USD/$60 CAD. Available in July.
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Went to the movie again today, snuck a photo of the tiny space ships they had in the credits and of course ran home to build them. Microscale ships from Lego movie credits. (Ran out of trans yellow) by mrxzzy, on Flickr The big one is really boring and has terrible build quality.. some of the wing bits are only held on by a single stud. The small one is pretty cool though, I just ran out of pieces in the right colors. I always find myself short on trans yellow. The one in the back is one I posted a few weeks ago for comparison purposes.
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Saint Sputnik posted:Nevermind that, look at the classic X-Men! The Sentinel is definitely piss poor, but 80's X-Men costumes? Yes please!
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LEGO MODOK! LEGO TASKMASTER! LEGO MODOK! 
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Those are some pretty half assed builds. I guess they're just minifig sets with some random bonus bricks they had laying around the factory?
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Sadly when it comes to the superhero sets TLG is aware enough of the fact that people really only want the figs anyway so they're basically throwing whatever they want together so they can claim it's a Lego construction set and not just a box of minifigs so they don't get sued by whoever has the rights to sell action figures.
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The one thing I am super excited for aside from MODOK MINIFIG and Ecto-1 is the upcoming Hobbit sets. But only if Smaug is a brick-built monstrosity and not some molded piece of garbage. He has to be a giant glorious heavy beast, not made of like 15 large parts.
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I'm slightly sad I missed the Wolverine/Deadpool/Magneto/Chopper set.
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Chairchucker posted:I'm slightly sad I missed the Wolverine/Deadpool/Magneto/Chopper set. From everything I've read, that's one of the recent sets that is an 'investor win' for resellers since they know everyone wants the minifigures. I keep hearing about guys who are sitting on stockpiles of like 60+ of them to slowly resell for huge profit. Seriously, I need to stop reading about Lego investors-- it just makes me kind of annoyed. There is the whole angle of 'Wow, I wish I had spare money and time to make money off of flipping sets and use the profits to buy sets for myself' but mostly it just makes me angry to know that some nerd or some jobless dude who failed at day trading is laughing to himself for snapping up all of the 50% off sales at Target and reselling them online for relatively huge profits compared to what he spent. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth for folks like me who just want to enjoy the sets but don't have a ton of money to spend on full prices from S@H or such. Oh well. That's the internet I guess. Anything that can easily be flipped for the slightest of profit will be milked dry in one microsecond. Bonus fact: most of these guys on this forum openly talk about how they are not actual Lego fans, they just love making money off easy flipping and price gouging. Pictures from Brickpicker to fill you with jealous rage as to why things increase in price on ebay 200% as soon as they go out of retail sale:         poo poo like this makes me wish Lego would go back and randomly re-release old sets just to gently caress with these dudes. jeeves fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Feb 17, 2014 |
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Reminds me of the prick in this thread who bought 25 of those UCS B-Wings when they were half off.
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EvilJoven posted:Sadly when it comes to the superhero sets TLG is aware enough of the fact that people really only want the figs anyway so they're basically throwing whatever they want together so they can claim it's a Lego construction set and not just a box of minifigs so they don't get sued by whoever has the rights to sell action figures. This seems to me to be the case much more for Marvel than DC (though both have really sparse sets). I think it's because they've had the Batman license for forever, so they have to experiment a little more with him.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Reminds me of the prick in this thread who bought 25 of those UCS B-Wings when they were half off. Exact same folks. The recent Walmart 50% Lego sale thread on Brickpicker was "Buy them all, regardless if you like the sets-- so including Galaxy Squad. Quick flips on Ebay for people who don't know to get to the store right at opening time to buy out the whole stock! Can't lose!" It just makes me annoyed to know that there was even any Lego sets of stuff that I possibility actually want at 50% off (GS stuff is neat and hell I'd get it at 50%, but maybe not full price like better sets), but knowing folks like this exist just from reading that other forum make me not even want to check the stores since I figure they'll all be long gone. It's like I'd rather be blissfully ignorant of my hypothetical savings loss or something 
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Still can't decide if I should get Sea Cow or not.Captain Invictus posted:But only if Smaug is a brick-built monstrosity and not some molded piece of garbage. He has to be a giant glorious heavy beast, not made of like 15 large parts. Smaug will almost certainly be molded. A shame, but the dragon in the new Castles line (who makes an appearance in the film) is pretty good for what it is. 
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I've been tempted to do that speculation thing with sets and/or minifigures. But ultimately it's too much work for too little profit and I can't be bothered. Lego is on such a roll now they bring out so many new sets a year and have so many new licenses that people are spoiled for choice and I just don't think we're going to see the inflated prices for discontinued stuff we once did with a few exceptions. I can hop on Brickbadger and see sets I know I could flip for a profit (or even just the minifigures) most days, in the UK anyway, but eh... life's too short. I wouldn't go to a store and buy up stuff though. Captain Magic posted:This seems to me to be the case much more for Marvel than DC (though both have really sparse sets). I think it's because they've had the Batman license for forever, so they have to experiment a little more with him. Another factor is that DC tends to have more colourful villains and be slightly less based in the real world (or as real world as super-heroes get). So the Joker can have Joker's Whacky Helicopter with a big smiley face and crazy colours to pad out a Batman vs Joker set. Marvel characters tend to have more realistic settings and less iconic vehicles. Which makes for some pretty dull playsets. These playsets (which are becoming more common in licensed, ie expensive, sets) also give kids a bit more bang for their buck by turning a 3d structure into a series of 2d walls to give the feel of an complete environment with a hell of a lot less bricks. I guess they're kind of 2.5d That said, these ones are still pretty boring. When done well these kind of sets can be really good. Compare last years Dragon Mountain (http://brickset.com/sets/70403-1/Dragon-Mountain) which I think was an amazing playset to that Marvel one and it's a world of difference. Also... that bike shop is awesome. It's like My First Modular. So getting it for my kid. Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Feb 17, 2014 |
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Lego speculation is silly and I hope it bites people in the rear end something fierce. I hbought 2 out of production sets and thankfully didn't pay much over RRP but I knew going into it I was going to have too. (8285 and 8258) I have to like a set enough to pay regular retail price for me to generally buy it as a complete set. If it just has a lot of parts I want I will wait for it to go on sale but even then I will generally turn to bricklink and buy a gutted version that has no minifigs for 1/4 of the cost.
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Captain Invictus posted:The one thing I am super excited for aside from MODOK MINIFIG and Ecto-1 is the upcoming Hobbit sets. Lego really needs to consider vignettes rather than playsets. The hillside of a mound of gold with just a highly detailed dragon's head peeping out from behind a column would make a fantastic looking piece, but we'll probably just get a dragon 1/20th the size it should be and four gold pirate coins.
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Because kids love vignettes! Some AFOL targetted display scenes for popular licenses would be cool though. Scale, aqnd the lack of consitancy, is a big issue in the LOTR line for me. I'm not going to buy a black gate set where the gate is about three minifigures tall, if that. Again kids don't really give a drat, but I always thought a consistant scale Lord of the Rings Archetecture line would be awesome.
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Inspired by the Lego movie's 'build whatever the gently caress you want out of whatever the gently caress you want' message, and particularly by it turning random things like saloons and garbage trucks into flying machines, I decided to put the spare parts from my Lone Ranger set to use. I don't really have any other Lego so it was easy to stay on theme, but tricky finding suitable substitutes for things like the propellers.      Bonus cat action shot
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Gravy Jones posted:Because kids love vignettes! Isn't the point of lego to just build that stuff yourself if you want? That's why nerdfests like brickworld does so well.
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I think the point of Lego varies a great deal from person to person. Which is one of the reasons its so popular. Scratch-building an accurate architecture scale Minas Tirith MOC isn't my thing. VVV Well maybe not Architecture scale (my bad there), more like Architecture style. Desktop models of famous fictional landmarks. Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Feb 17, 2014 |
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Well yeah, but in the case of sets that lego would literally never sell because it would be 10,000 grey bricks and 20,000 white ones, the only option is to scratch build it.
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Well the new ghostbusters car looks pretty cool, and appears to be using some clever tricks here and there that i haven't quite yet worked out. Shame it uses some parts from 2014 wich aren't in LDD yet though. Because i may have been reverse engineering it for a while. since last night or so, spent about 3 hours on it total so far. 
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MetalBeard's Sea Cow is up for sale to VIP members on Shop Lego now for $250. There's a DESIGN video for the set, too.
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Goddamn that boat is a build and a half. It's basically one big greeble. And it comes with the couch. 
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Personal favorite detail is the seasick Unikitty, but $250 is pretty steep. I mean, if I had the cash I'd totally buy it, but clearance purchases have eaten up pretty much my whole LEGO budget. I mean, if I had one, instead of impulse-buying everything. 
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I personally am holding out to blow my wad on Benny's spaceship, which someone in here suggested will be availablr next month.
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I have it in my shopping cart and can't decide whether to pull the trigger or not. I've promised myself one big expensive set this year and right now I want this, but I can't help feeling that a year from now I'll be regretting I didn't get the Parisian Restaraunt (which I think if gorgeous) or the big X-Wing (which is more iconic and timeless) instead. I just wonder if I'm caught up in the hype for the movie. It's actually a fairly good price in the UK. Not sure why. Some sort of interntational licensing thing I guess. Simpsons House is $200 US and £179 Sea Cow is $250 US and £169  And yeah, my kid really wants the couch. I was talking to him about whether or not I should get it. Me: It's pretty expensive, almost two hundred pounds. Him: I'll tell you what. I'll pay half (he's 6 by the way) Me: Yeah, that's a hundred pounds. Do you have a hundred pounds? Him: I'll tell you what. I'll give you ten pounds out of my birthday money for the couch. He wants me to get the Town Hall though because he likes the people getting married. As far as display models go I think it's pretty ugly compared to the other modulars so he's gonna be disappointed there. I have added the little wedding set to my basket for him though. Benny's Spaceship is a must buy for me as well, just for the classic space nostalgia. I've heard March too. Possibly two weeks from now when Sea Cow goes off VIP only which would be the 3rd. Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Feb 17, 2014 |
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Gravy Jones posted:Me: It's pretty expensive, almost two hundred pounds. That's great. Even if you don't buy the set, you should bricklink the parts for the couch for him.
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rickiep00h posted:Personal favorite detail is the seasick Unikitty, but $250 is pretty steep. I mean, if I had the cash I'd totally buy it, but clearance purchases have eaten up pretty much my whole LEGO budget. I'm not really into pirates stuff so not really interested in the Sea Cow but for the number of pieces $250 is not that bad. Any reasonable person knew it was going to be in that range once the number of pieces was revealed. I ended up skipping the clearance stuff since Benny's Spaceship is supposed to be released in March and that's going to be in the $100+/- range.
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The_Doctor posted:http://news.toyark.com/2014/02/16/toy-fair-2014-lego-ninjago-mixels-city-minifigs-hero-factory-115044 It's a shame that Artic Exploration mobile base has a truck with normal wheels, rather than treads. Still gonna get it probably, or maybe just that smaller set with treads. I also went to see the Lego Movie this weekend, great film. So many fun little things and references, needs another viewing. A bit ironic though, how the whole start of the film is a satire on fitting in through consumerism while the movies itself is one big product placement. This may not be the right place to ask, but has anyone tried the videogame based on the movie? I seems that game, unlike the other Lego games, only allow minifigs to articulate 'realistically'.
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:This may not be the right place to ask, but has anyone tried the videogame based on the movie? I seems that game, unlike the other Lego games, only allow minifigs to articulate 'realistically'. We're playing it at the moment. It's OK, and a lot of fun in conjuntion with the movie. It's almost like it's got about half the film in cut scenes. It will be interesting to see what they do at the end. It's a similar format to the other games. Characters with unique abilities. Levels that you'll have to replay to get everything and, in this case, hub worlds with more extras and hidden stuff. That said it's not on the same scale as Lord of the Rings, Marvel or Lego City Undercover in terms of the world and what you can do. Visually it is, but the story mode is a lot shorter, there isn't nearly as much extras and places to explore. I think we'll be done with it within a week or two... and we're still playing LoTR, Marvel and LCU. It's pretty funny in places. I've been laughing at a lot of the extra dialogue, which stays true to the spirit of the film. Oh, and Unikitty is amazing in it. I hadn't noticed the realistic articulation thing, but you may be right.
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