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pbpancho posted:The top shelf is Tatooine, but I don't know quite what to put on the other one. Imperial forces?
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Anyone have any experience with those mini figures from China. I really want to get one of the DC comics sets they have on eBay. But I don't know how good the quality is.
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anotherblownsave posted:Anyone have any experience with those mini figures from China. I really want to get one of the DC comics sets they have on eBay. But I don't know how good the quality is. They're reasonable if you know what you're getting; not great, but if you don't look too closely they're passable. I imagine the quality varies though.
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anotherblownsave posted:Anyone have any experience with those mini figures from China. I really want to get one of the DC comics sets they have on eBay. But I don't know how good the quality is. Hey howdy hey! I'm guilty of buying a few sets of the bootleg Chinese mini figures, mainly out of morbid curiosity. I've probably bought five different 'packs' of them. A few words about each of them. One thing to note is that the plastic on all of these mini figures is of inferior quality to Lego ABS. I wasn't expecting a close match, but if you were to close your eyes and pick one up at random from a pile, you could definitely separate the knock-offs from the real items by touch alone. I don't know if that's specific to the ones I got, or to all of them (I suspect it's all of them), but they're definitely not the same plastic. From buying a handful of these, I think there's like four different knock-off companies, each one with it's own positives and negatives. Either that, or one big company with quite possibly the worst quality control on the planet. Actually, it's probably that one. 'Superheroes': Odin, Winter Soldier, Dr. Doom, Cyclops, Nightwing, Flash, Green Arrow, and Batman Forever Batman 50/50 gamble. The Odin looks great, and other than the weird feeling plastic, looks like it could have came out of an official set. Same with Nightwing, and Batman Forever Batman. Winter Soldier has semi-lovely printing around the head, Cyclops looks like he has Downs syndrome, Flash looks like my dog chewed on him, and Green Arrow is a perfect body/hips with an incredibly terrible minifig head. 'Star Wars': Han Solo, Clone Trooper, Camo Clone Trooper, Anakin, Yoda, Clone Wars Obi-Wan These ones just look like total poo poo. From most of the eBay listings, you can tell they look pretty bad, but these are egregiously bad. I assume that whoever made these only got to look at the real figures for maybe 30 seconds, and then had to recreate everything from memory. Han Solo's face is sliding off his head, Anakin looks like the Mustafar version even though it's not, and the Clones all look like Times Square street performer versions of Clone Troopers. 'WWE Wrestlers': Triple H, Booker T, The Undertaker, John Cena, Rey Mysterio Jr., Kane, The Rock, The Big Show These are actually 100% awesome. The printing's great, they look hilariously like the real things, and I thiiiiink the plastic is a little better quality than the others. The only downside is that they didn't send me a Big Show, but instead sent me two giant-size Incredible Hulks. I'm fine with it, gently caress the Big Show. 'Star Wars Translucent': Clone Trooper x4, Ezra, Rebel Pilot Luke These are also awesome. The print quality is iffy (the Clones look bad, Ezra is OK, Luke looks normal) but they're so unusual that they're kinda cool to just set on the desk by themselves. I liked these ones. 'Age of Ultron': Ultron x4, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Baron Von Strucker, The Vision These haven't ever arrived, but then again, it's China, so they'll probably show up some time between now and 2017. All in all, it's honestly a crapshoot depending on what you're willing to put up with. Of all the figures, I would say that probably 25% look spot-on (even though the plastic is weird), 40% are close enough to be passable without close inspection, and the rest are all garbage. Buyer beware and all that, but if you're willing to put up with paying $1.50 for a roll of the dice on a figure, they're not too bad. e: Yeah, what he said ^^^
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Are there any neat bootleg TMNT lego minifigs? All I've really seen are those ones with the lame mouth-cover things and skateboards.
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On the subject of fake lego, Ashens reviews loads of knockoff Lego, usually the shittiest and most terrifying ones. They're a great watch 
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The_Doctor posted:Imperial forces? I just picked up my Republic Gunship from where it was in storage at my parents house (have the old 6211 Star Destroyer and a Wookie Catamaran there still), and to my delight I'd filled every interior space with stormtroopers and clones! I was going to do a Clone Wars scene with the gunship, clones, Jedi, and battle droids but sadly the ship doesn't fit in the case  It'll have to just sit on top for now.
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I went and bought a bunch of the series 2 minifigs yesterday. Standing there for 30 minutes feeling up an almost full display box totally did not make me feel weird at all. Well, I managed to get 13 of them, no duplicates. Now I only need Martin, CBG and Hibbert. The latter will be tricky to distinguish from Homer.
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 I need to build this landing gear. Turns out R2 is to scale after all. The engines could use some beefing up though.
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Wow thanks for that review PKMN, I was actually looking at just a green arrow figure that comes from that super hero pack you mentioned. I think I'll hold off for now.
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Electrophotonic posted:
The lack of landing gear is the only bad thing about this set. It's kind of baffling considering even the small ones have it. Actually the r2 thing always bugged me too but I guess you are right. He still looks a little small to me. I think the piece they used for the ucs Jedi star fighter would have looked better. It has kind of an odd scale because I think it's technically not mini figure scale but it really is probably closer in size to how it should be with an xwing. They just look off because they are stumpy but the Helmet looks about right in the cockpit veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 16:52 on May 19, 2015 |
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May 19, 2015 16:43
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I wish all UCS stuff was minifig scale tbh.
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May 19, 2015 16:46
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They are all pretty close except the huge stuff they could never do like star destroyers right? The b wing and x wing comfortably fit one.
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May 19, 2015 16:54
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Electrophotonic posted:
That is amazing and I will build it. I actually have a lot of the misc parts like the lightsaber handles. NESguerilla posted:They are all pretty close except the huge stuff they could never do like star destroyers right? Well, I mean... it's pretty obvious they're not right like in the xwing where there are pedals or foot rests and the minifig legs don't get all the way off the seat. It's more the scale of those technic guys they had when I was a kid.
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I think Lego astromechs are a bit big compared to minifigs though, not to mention that minifigs have huge heads.
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Electrophotonic posted:
He's closer to the camera than the landing gear is, so he only appears to be the right scale.
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Lego email says the Power Jet is available now! 69.99 though =( Spaceport is also out, why so expensive?! It's like almost 20cents a piece. w00tazn fucked around with this message at 22:07 on May 19, 2015 |
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Dogen posted:That is amazing and I will build it. I actually have a lot of the misc parts like the lightsaber handles. Yeah I'm just going off the size of a helmet and where the head sits. Seems like you couldn't really have it both ways when trying to make a scale cockpit since minifigures have such stumpy proportions. If you stick a rebel pilot in there there profile looks about right to how a helmet should look sticking up under the glass though. I still leave them empty due to the reasons you stated. Lego talk gets me nerding out about the stupidest poo poo  That guy is right about R2's scale though. Still way too small and it's just the camera angle making it look bigger.. That will always be the thing that bugs me the most about that set.
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Oh god worst case scenario. I just opened the tower bridge and one bag is not sealed. It is open slightly and parts fell out. What is the best plan of action? Build it and then write to them if a piece is missing? Or Notify them as a heads up and ask for a parts list for the bag? Do you have any experience with such a case?
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You could flush half the bag down the toilet and call up lego saying pieces were missing and they wouldn't ask twice before sending you replacements. They're super generous with that stuff.
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Assuming the box didn't have any holes in it and only one bag opened you should be able to just assume they are all from that bag. probably a non issue unless there is something I'm missing. I walked by a Lego store today, and like most UCS sets, that Tie is much cooler looking and bigger in person and now I want it.
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w00tazn posted:Spaceport is also out, why so expensive?! It's like almost 20cents a piece. Holy crap, you're right. 586 pieces...for $120? That's the sort of pricing you usually get for a boat with a big flotable hull or a train with power functions. I don't see any justification for the price being that high. There's one large uncommon piece on the crawler, the shuttle has the cockpit piece and giant tail, and the external tank has large, uncommon pieces, but it sure as hell doesn't cover $60. Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 02:31 on May 20, 2015 |
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Pyroclastic posted:Holy crap, you're right. 586 pieces...for $120? That's the sort of pricing you usually get for a boat with a big flotable hull or a train with power functions. I don't see any justification for the price being that high. There's one large uncommon piece on the crawler, the shuttle has the cockpit piece and giant tail, and the external tank has large, uncommon pieces, but it sure as hell doesn't cover $60. I could've sworn it wasn't $120 when we put our shipment out today. I have the next two days off so I can't check, but I'm gonna call in and ask one of my coworkers to double check for me. I swear that can't possibly be right.
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I just looked that thing up and that front end of the shuttle might be the laziest part I've ever seen. Site says $120.
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NESguerilla posted:Assuming the box didn't have any holes in it and only one bag opened you should be able to just assume they are all from that bag. probably a non issue unless there is something I'm missing. Unfortunately it seems the bagbwas never fully closed, kind of like a piece is missing. So things may have dropped out before boxing up. I'll just have to start buildung and hope for the best. Bit stupid with 4k parts. I may be missing a part and not realize for hours while searching for it.
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Hopper posted:Bit stupid with 4k parts. I may be missing a part and not realize for hours while searching for it. Try calling up Lego and explain what happened. They may just ship you that whole bag if it is a manufacturing defect, which will make building it much easier knowing you have everything. Or you could sort every single piece out, match up the piece counts up, then mix everything in a big tub and take a month to build the set instead of using your nicely organized piles.
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Does the tower bridge set not have numbered bags? If it does it should end up being pretty quick to identify if something is missing. Just build the set and when you get stuck, you found a missing part!
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xzzy posted:Does the tower bridge set not have numbered bags? If it does it should end up being pretty quick to identify if something is missing. Just build the set and when you get stuck, you found a missing part! Oh god. It's a 2010 set. It doesn't have numbered bags  Whoever thought up the numbered bags was a genius. I can't imagine how long it would take to build a 4000+ piece model just searching through piles. Imagine how much space that would take up since you have to dump everything out at once?
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Have done stages 1 and 2 of the Detectives Office modular now. The bags not being numbered would drive me insane. I only have so much table space! The weird thing I don't get is when you have, say, 5 of one part in one bag and then 3 of the same part in another.
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Alabaster White posted:Oh god. It's a 2010 set. It doesn't have numbered bags Apparently it does not have numbered bags because it is "creator EXPERT level" and that is part of the challenge. I could do without this extra hassle but I wanted that model so meh. Edit: Apparently all pieces of the same kind are in one bag. So I just had to go through the one bag and compare all different part kinds to the list of parts in the back. If the numbers on one type are off it means one is missing. Bingo! One part is missing! poo poo. Hopper fucked around with this message at 16:51 on May 20, 2015 |
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It's Lego. Improvise. E: Unless that was sarcasm that just went right over my head because I haven't had enough coffee yet
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I got the first 'big' lego set of my adult life during a sale a couple months ago (the AT-AT walker) and I had never seen the numbered bags before. I just mixed them all together anyway because I wanted the building process to last and it seemed like the numbered groups would make it go too quickly. Thought it was a slick idea though. Interesting to see how the instructions evolve over the years (now it was telling me what parts I needed for each step, outside the illustration). The older sets I dug up from the 80s, mostly castles and such, also seemed to have a lot more 'updates' per step. More than once I had to go back since I missed bricks in the drawing from before. The more modern ones make the steps a bit smaller in some ways. I wish I had more money for this stuff... salivating at the Lego aisle in Target like a 10-year-old.
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The silly thing is when a 200 piece City set has two numbered bags. I guess because it's aimed at really young kids, but it doesn't seem to gain you much.
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Dr. Benway posted:It's Lego. Improvise. Well I might have that part as a spare anyway (white 1x1 with side connection). However, I will still order the part. This is essentially 20 € worth of plastic bricks they sell for 220€. The least I can expect is to get all parts. Isn't it? (Not mad, just saying)
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Pyroclastic posted:Holy crap, you're right. 586 pieces...for $120? deoju fucked around with this message at 22:21 on May 20, 2015 |
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My wife and I bought the ferris wheel for our anniversary gift to each other and just finished it tonight. drat this thing is big. Also, I think it's a pretty great build to do as a couple. So much of it is do this 2x or 4x that you really get to build it in tandem. I wasn't too interested in the fairground mixer before, but now I kind of want it just to compliment the ferris wheel.
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The ideas site should really just be a check box of ip's people want made into Lego sets because that's the only thing that seems to get votes. Really dumb setup they have there.
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Alabaster White posted:Oh god. It's a 2010 set. It doesn't have numbered bags i 1-piled the UCS Millennium Falcon. It took about 100 hours to build. I do not recommend this.
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