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mynnna posted:I'm finding that the non-existence of wedge-tiles is the bane of this build I'm working on, considering all the angles and thus wedges that go into it, and I'm awfully hard pressed to come up with a way to cover up the studs that doesn't look awful.  Came up with a solution I think I like; top panel has partial implementation. Isn't perfect and the resulting gaps are still odd, but it's better than originally planned. Still wish wedge tiles were a thing.
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Anyone have suggestions or seen good techniques for doing this? I thought about flipping slopes on their side, but unfortunately the angle I need is a little over 10 degrees (a bit steeper than the 12x3 wedges) and the only slope close to that isn't suitable for what I'm trying to do at all...
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mynnna posted:
You could always try to make that angle go the other way. Use the opposite wedge plates and match them against the upper angled segment, then tuck the side panel and its untile-able bits inside the lip of the lower, straight segment.
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Mar 17, 2014 08:27
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Yeah I considered that and even built up the internal framing to make that work (I use most of what's already there and just add these guys), but the downside is it winds up giving me a shelf instead of what is supposed to be a sharp corner (ref: http://i.imgur.com/ihI2SDC.jpg). I'm probably going to remove a tile or two of thickness from my internal supports to pull the structure inward and then SNOT my way to a smooth side, and I could cap it with those 18 degree wedges. Still'd have a gap but it'd be pretty minimal at that point. Suddenly wondering why I didn't do that for the top panel now. 
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Mar 17, 2014 13:40
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Captain Invictus posted:Anyone who is inspired by the Mega Core Magnetizer has good taste. 
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Mar 17, 2014 18:56
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Ice planet or M-Tron colors > all That's pretty awesome though.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:26
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Look how wrong you are, because the neon green Blacktron 2 is the best in that bunch. 
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Mar 17, 2014 19:33
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xzzy posted:Look how wrong you are, because the neon green Blacktron 2 is the best in that bunch. I actually just noticed the classic space set in the corner, as my eye was drawn to the ridiculous Ice planet one first. This picture is awesome.
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xzzy posted:Look how wrong you are, because the neon green Blacktron 2 is the best in that bunch. Actually, I agree with this. I don't like the Ice Planet colors that much.
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In other news I'm still trying to come up with clever ways of using the new 45 degree angle part and this disaster is what I ended up with: This might fall apart if you look at it wrong. But I was determined to build around part 15706 and this is where it ended up. by mrxzzy, on Flickr I think there's some neat ideas in there but the build is so rickety that I only took a picture for future reference.. I really like the lines that the slopes make over the wedges. For the engine intakes I also stole the stud inversion idea that showed up on Benny's spaceship.
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Mar 17, 2014 20:57
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So I came across a cool way to display the collectable minifigs over on the Eurobricks forum and decided to give it a go building one myself. $10 container from the container store and a crap load of bricks. The colors even correspond to the series.  There 4 series total there and I made a separate one for the Movie line. I was storing each series in these containers but they just took up to much room.  Anyone interested in any of those Lego official containers?
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mattfl posted:So I came across a cool way to display the collectable minifigs over on the Eurobricks forum and decided to give it a go building one myself. How much?
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Mar 17, 2014 23:25
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That looks cool, can you link which container you got from the Container Store? I might have to do that with my movie minifigures.
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Ninja Bob posted:That looks cool, can you link which container you got from the Container Store? I might have to do that with my movie minifigures. http://www.containerstore.com/shop/collections/display/cubesCases?productId=10022884&N=233
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Mar 17, 2014 23:31
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obi_ant posted:How much? How many do you want? Looks like they sell new on amazon for $30. I'd do $20/piece + some shipping.
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Mar 17, 2014 23:31
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Hah, first time noticing after seeing that picture years ago is that most of the vehicles are missing their middle wheels. Guess he ran out of money or supply. 
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Looks like LEGO liked my cover letter, because I got a call from them this morning asking me to come by the local store for an interview. While I'm there I want to buy my sister a Uni-kitty, do they carry those at the store in some sort of individual packaging, a keychain maybe? E: just saw the online store has the keychain light, hopefully there will be one in stock there; it's odd to me that those keychains aren't quite minifigs, but rather they're blown up to fit the LED, etc? Jeff Goldblum fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Mar 18, 2014 |
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Pyroclastic posted:Hah, first time noticing after seeing that picture years ago is that most of the vehicles are missing their middle wheels. Guess he ran out of money or supply. There are only so many MCMs/Crater Cruisers in the world. Come to think of it, the absence of both Unitron and Spyrius versions is troubling.
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Mar 18, 2014 02:17
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Tanith posted:There are only so many MCMs/Crater Cruisers in the world. Those wheels appeared on the Spy Trak too. Bricklink says they showed up in a total of six sets in black. Unfortunately I lost mine a long time ago.
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Jeff Goldblum posted:Looks like LEGO liked my cover letter, because I got a call from them this morning asking me to come by the local store for an interview. While I'm there I want to buy my sister a Uni-kitty, do they carry those at the store in some sort of individual packaging, a keychain maybe? I'm not sure if your store's stock will be any different from mine, but we have yet to receive any Unikitty keychain lights. All we've received so far is standard Emmet, Bad Cop, and Wyldstyle keychains. You should probably order it from the website. Also, good luck with your interview 
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xzzy posted:Look how wrong you are, because the neon green Blacktron 2 is the best in that bunch. Blacktron: Future Generation is the best generation.
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Tanith posted:There are only so many MCMs/Crater Cruisers in the world. I think that's mostly for want of colors. Even though Spyrius was basically M-Tron with trans blue instead of trans green....
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7thBatallion posted:Blacktron: Future Generation is the best generation. Woah easy there buddy, let's not say things we'll all regret later. OG Blacktron is best tron. But out of those 7 builds the neon green just happens to be the tidiest of the bunch.
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Mar 18, 2014 14:53
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If Lego did a new Blacktron line, they would literally swoosh off the shelves
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Is there anything similar to the thing where you could make a set with Lego Digital Designer and they'd mail you the pieces with a box and instructions and everything? I always thought that was REALLY COOL but I never had the money. And well. I still don't. But I'm kinda bummed to find out that that was discontinued. Is there anything at all similar to that going on? I'm out of the loop but the Lego Movie has me thinking about Legos again. One of my bucket list items is to buy one of those huge $150+ Lego sets. It's something I always wanted to do as a kid.
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7thBatallion posted:Blacktron: Future Generation is the best generation. This man speaks the truth. Maybe I just wasn't born in time, but 1990-96 was the best era for Lego space. Robo-Force, Insectoids, Mars Mission, and this loving piece, were the primairy forces driving me into my darkages.
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Just want to share my creation and see if it's sell-able, about a year ago I decided to build my own Robie House. I simply could not justify spending $200 on 1x2 plates and other "common" pieces. I thought, surely I have a couple hundred red 1x2 plates floating around my collection, I searched for days and found about 50. That wasn't going to deter me, I foolishly convinced myself that I could find all the necessary pieces on Bricklink for close to or less than $200.  Lets just say about halfway through multiple orders, I decided "cost be damned, I will slowly add to this over the next few months so that the cost will be negligible." Well, I'm pretty sure it took less than two weeks later that I had all my Bricklink orders on the way, and thank god this thing was spread out over multiple orders. . . It's been long enough those orders are no longer on my bricklink account and as such I have no way to actually calculate how much I paid for this thing (hint: more than $200).Here is my red version of Robie House, with brown instead of black garage doors and no planters because I forgot to order them. As it it, every time I look at this model my brain screams "what the hell where you thinking?" I want to enjoy this set, I just don't think that will ever be possible.  
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If you wanted a bulk amount of a certain part directly from LEGO, how many would you have to buy before getting some sort of discount?
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General Specific posted:If you wanted a bulk amount of a certain part directly from LEGO, how many would you have to buy before getting some sort of discount? Simply put, you can not get a discount on bulk bricks. You can use pick a brick to order up to 999 of a single brick, but the price per piece is often 15 to 20 cents each or higher. But if you are a member of a LUG and meet certain criteria you can use LUGbulk. You have to have at least 10 members, a LUG website, create 2 public displays each year, and meet many other criteria. You also have to agree not to sell any bricks you purchase this way.
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nerdbot posted:Is there anything similar to the thing where you could make a set with Lego Digital Designer and they'd mail you the pieces with a box and instructions and everything? I always thought that was REALLY COOL but I never had the money. And well. I still don't. But I'm kinda bummed to find out that that was discontinued. Is there anything at all similar to that going on? I'm out of the loop but the Lego Movie has me thinking about Legos again. You could add all the parts you need into rebrickable, and then sort by the sets which will have the most of those parts
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General Specific posted:If you wanted a bulk amount of a certain part directly from LEGO, how many would you have to buy before getting some sort of discount? Get friendly with some Lego store employees. They may be able to sell you a box of PAB bricks for like $75, but they don't have control over what they get sent for PAB. If it's a common smallish PAB brick, it'll be the cheapest you'll ever be able to get them.
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DrChud posted:If Lego did a new Blacktron line, they would literally swoosh off the shelves I dunno, the new Space Police just looked stupid to me, like regular cops but with LASERS and ALIENS SO ZANY. Maybe I'm old.
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I liked some of the alien stuff. Obviously the limo was awesome: And I also really liked the truck with the hidden laser: 
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There was a while there where the Lunar Limo was the unofficial Offical Legoon set. I know I'm never taking mine apart. 
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Brick Daddy can hold any minifig accessory and still look like a boss.
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rickiep00h posted:There was a while there where the Lunar Limo was the unofficial Offical Legoon set. I know I'm never taking mine apart. I'm pretty sure that Lunar Limo and Medieval Market Village were the official Legoon sets. The Lex Luthor robot and Alien Conquest walker came close for a while as well. I'm not really sure that we have a current replacement, since Metalbeard's ship is super expensive.
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FadingChord posted:I'm pretty sure that Lunar Limo and Medieval Market Village were the official Legoon sets. The Lex Luthor robot and Alien Conquest walker came close for a while as well. I'm not really sure that we have a current replacement, since Metalbeard's ship is super expensive. Benny's SPACESHIP! might be it when it comes out.
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The_Doctor posted:Benny's SPACESHIP! might be it when it comes out. If we could still get title changes, it would quickly change to LEGO Megathread: Spaceship Spaceship SPACESHIP!!! if it hadn't already.
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Legoon???
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Red_Chief posted:Legoon??? A portmanteau of Lego and Goon.
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This has been stated before but Legoon is just a terrible word. It's bad enough you're trying to combine the words "LEGO" and "goon" improperly, but even worse: it comes out looking like "le goon." Something AFOL, please. Fake edit: also applying to LEGO stores kicks rear end, I got to play with LEGO for the first time in years as a way to "break the ice" before a group meeting. Of course, we all know its really a test of my IQ  ...or AQ 
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