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Strife posted:I figured if they were technologically advanced enough to have interstellar travel, they could conceivably get an airtank and a jetpack into the same backpack. Plus there was holes in the bottom. Even though they were just a result of saving material in the molding process, they could totally be jet nozzles! Even though I was solidly in the "they're air tanks!!" camp as a kid.
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Crotch Fruit posted:#BlacktronLivesMatter Yeah that's what I wrote and then deleted. There's things we shouldn't be making light of right now. I know it's a joke, but it's also hitting slightly too close to home this time.
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Jul 8, 2016 20:21
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Pfft insensitive jokes are why something awful exists.
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Jul 8, 2016 20:36
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SA has kind of moved away from dumb easy edgelord jokes like that outside of fyadlites and the gibbis
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Jul 8, 2016 20:42
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xzzy posted:If you turn everything sideways, you have unlimited smooth bits! I had the rough idea in my head for a classic space scene when I have time and between the M-Tron and this, I need to make it with a smooth base
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Jul 8, 2016 21:55
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It's a lot of fun to figure out, but if it's your first time (like it was for me) you're going to be doing a lot of disassemble and reassemble. Which is also fun, but if you keep in mind the ratio of two stud width = 5 plates high you can get stuff to fit together seamlessly and life gets easier. Examples: http://www.moc-pages.com/moc.php/185487 Also can't have too many of part #87087.
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Jul 8, 2016 22:11
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The_Doctor posted:She-Hulk! Red Hulk! I heard the price for this is going to be $60 for ~350 pieces. If it was ~$30 or $40, I would be all over it! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/comic-con-hulk-she-hulk-909252
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Jul 8, 2016 22:14
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xzzy posted:It's a lot of fun to figure out, but if it's your first time (like it was for me) you're going to be doing a lot of disassemble and reassemble. Which is also fun, but if you keep in mind the ratio of two stud width = 5 plates high you can get stuff to fit together seamlessly and life gets easier. Figuring stuff like that out is fun and I've got about 20k loose pieces, so plenty to experiment with. I'll have to put it together multicolored then switch over to old grey and blue when one section looks good
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Jul 8, 2016 22:19
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Captain Invictus posted:When was the first rifle or revolver? The wild west theme in the early to mid 90's, right? I so regret never getting any of that theme. Or of The Lone Ranger when that was out more recently.
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Jul 8, 2016 22:33
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xzzy posted:Plus there was holes in the bottom. Even though they were just a result of saving material in the molding process, they could totally be jet nozzles! When I'd argue the point with my friend Jim he'd point to the dents in the helmets and say those were some sort of air inlet. You know. In space.
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Jul 8, 2016 23:13
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xzzy posted:It's a lot of fun to figure out, but if it's your first time (like it was for me) you're going to be doing a lot of disassemble and reassemble. Which is also fun, but if you keep in mind the ratio of two stud width = 5 plates high you can get stuff to fit together seamlessly and life gets easier. This is good and helping me grasp these uh "stud turning" or what ever concepts. I have a hard time getting past "all bricks are placed with studs facing up!" mentality. To be fair 90% of lego kits are built this way. "Real bricks have studs!"
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Jul 8, 2016 23:16
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Chairchucker posted:I so regret never getting any of that theme. Or of The Lone Ranger when that was out more recently. I regret passing on the Lone Ranger gold mine when I saw it at 50% off, that would have been a great display piece for the train.
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Jul 8, 2016 23:49
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Captain Invictus posted:When was the first rifle or revolver? The wild west theme in the early to mid 90's, right? deoju fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Jul 8, 2016 |
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Jul 8, 2016 23:49
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Sorry guys I know I have posted my stupid thing like twice already, but I keep sperging out on it and tweaking it, and need opinions. Red dome?  Or gray dome?  Can't decide, I like both.
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Jul 9, 2016 00:00
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Guess what leaked... http://imgur.com/a/lGWvC 
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Jul 9, 2016 00:41
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Red. Gives it more flair.
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Huh. That's actually a bit disappointing, a whole bunch of it is just made up of huge pieces. Maybe there's more to it though, any more photos? It does capture the silhouette pretty nicely. e: oh I didn't read that properly. okay that has got a great interior Koramei fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Jul 9, 2016 |
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Jul 9, 2016 00:43
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That castle looks cool and I will probably get it. Also I just bought Poe Dameron's X-Wing. Now I think I've got all the Star Wars ships I really want; Star Destroyer, Falcon, Slave 1, now this. Also bought a Disney minifig while I was there which turned out to be Mickey, which I was relatively happy with. EDIT: Wait so is that a set they're going to sell, or not? Chairchucker fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jul 9, 2016 |
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Koramei posted:Huh. That's actually a bit disappointing, a whole bunch of it is just made up of huge pieces. Maybe there's more to it though, any more photos? It does capture the silhouette pretty nicely. The interior is awesome. Here's a link that shows each room and all the Disney movie references! http://imgur.com/a/jWini
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Jul 9, 2016 00:46
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Strife posted:I figured if they were technologically advanced enough to have interstellar travel, they could conceivably get an airtank and a jetpack into the same backpack. This was me. My space dude lost his backpack? Ooh poo poo, get him into the airlock! Then fly off in the starfighter that used them for aft pitch thrusters. 
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So I realised today that Lego's new London office is literally right next to where I work. I spotted this yesterday in a window: and today I spotted a monitor base that was all duplo bricks. So I googled and yup. Lego London office.
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xzzy posted:It's a lot of fun to figure out, but if it's your first time (like it was for me) you're going to be doing a lot of disassemble and reassemble. Which is also fun, but if you keep in mind the ratio of two stud width = 5 plates high you can get stuff to fit together seamlessly and life gets easier. I talk about this in terms of "arbitrary units," or AUs (much smaller than the real ones  ). A 1x1 brick is 5x5x6. Each stud worth of brick is 5, each plate worth of height is 2 (and so a two-stud-by-five-plate block of parts forms a 10x10 cube, bar the studs themselves—this is easily testable with tiles). Slender brackets (and baseplates) have a depth of 1, as does the inset of the headlight brick. The stud itself has a diameter of 3 and a height of 1 (but the text adds enough to break fine tolerances), which is why you can fit a plate edge-on between the studs of a brick. I don't build much myself, anymore, but I collaborate with Tkytko and simply having a language for the finer dimensions of Lego parts definitely helped us think and talk about them.Regarding (twentieth-century) ships, one thing that I rarely if ever see used is a sideways plate hull technique, with the studs facing out from the ship's centerline. Compared with conventional studs-on-top design, sideways plates are more capable of expressing the fine contours of a hull as a plate thickness (2 AU) is itself finer than a stud width (5 AU). I'm not sure if you could pull off a studless version of this and still maintain a satisfying rake to the stem, but, eh, studless isn't everything. If I had the motivation, I might try a half-hull demonstration model. 
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They're... Coming out with a Disney... Castle?!
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Dr. Light posted:I heard the price for this is going to be $60 for ~350 pieces. If it was ~$30 or $40, I would be all over it! I feel like Lego is learning the wrong lessons with licensed lines. They are developing the builds as an afterthought to the mini-figs and the price point. It's even carrying over to non-licensed sets like the sets with Jestro and Axl, or Dogshanks and Nadakahn. I feel like if anything causes the Lego bubble to burst it's going to be charging an arm and leg for lovely sets because they have high demand mini-figs.
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Koramei posted:Huh. That's actually a bit disappointing, a whole bunch of it is just made up of huge pieces. Maybe there's more to it though, any more photos? It does capture the silhouette pretty nicely. You could always try your hand at this one! 
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The_Doctor posted:Well, SP3, all the 'bad guys' are aliens, while the SP are all human. 🤔 They were really cool ships though.
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deoju posted:The pirate flintlock pistols and rifles came before revolvers. My dark age began in 96 or so and I never had the latter. ireladd posted:Guess what leaked...
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Captain Invictus posted:Yeah I know those were mentioned before, I meant like, the six shooters and straight rifles, not flintlocks and blunderbusses The irony is buying a corporate oppression symbol from another corporation!!!!!!11!!!!
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lego is cool and good, which Disney is not
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Captain Invictus posted:Now you, too can have a symbol of corporate oppression as your very own official lego set Oh come now, we've had Shell sets since the 60s.
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Octan's not based on a real company is it Don't shatter this illusion
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Shawn posted:I feel like Lego is learning the wrong lessons with licensed lines. They are developing the builds as an afterthought to the mini-figs and the price point. It's even carrying over to non-licensed sets like the sets with Jestro and Axl, or Dogshanks and Nadakahn. I dunno, the DC and Marvel sets have always been focused on minifigs first and builds second. The only real exception is the '66 Batcave. Saw the new SW Eclipse set today and carried it around the store for a while before deciding $30 was too much when all I really want is the Dengar minifig. Decent looking set though.
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Captain Invictus posted:Octan's not based on a real company is it Whatever helps you sleep at night
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I dunno, the DC and Marvel sets have always been focused on minifigs first and builds second. The only real exception is the '66 Batcave. SW has been terrible about this since I started buying them a couple of years ago. At least the comics ones will give you a couple of key characters in a $10-15 set so it feels all right spending that much on a few minifigures and some extra parts, but Star Wars basically puts all the good minifigures in bigger sets that are otherwise poo poo or just really overpriced and for the >$15 range the best you'll get is unnamed troops. It bugs me I don't have a Darth Vader despite having probably close to 100 SW figures. The only sets he has been in since i started buying them have either sucked (final duel) or been stupid over priced (tie vs A wing) I should probably just Ebay one.
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Captain Invictus posted:When was the first rifle or revolver? The wild west theme in the early to mid 90's, right? Something like that, the closest they've ever gotten to WW1/2 or modern era guns has been Indiana Jones or Marvel. Maybe Batman, I vaguely remember one badguy fig having a tommy gun. EDIT: ireladd posted:Guess what leaked... Oh god, my sister's going to buy one and make me build it. OTOH, oh boy, my sister's going to buy one and make me build it! 
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NESguerilla posted:SW has been terrible about this since I started buying them a couple of years ago. At least the comics ones will give you a couple of key characters in a $10-15 set so it feels all right spending that much on a few minifigures and some extra parts, but Star Wars basically puts all the good minifigures in bigger sets that are otherwise poo poo or just really overpriced and for the >$15 range the best you'll get is unnamed troops. Yeah, in all my years of buying SW sets I have yet to acquire a Vader minifig. I'll probably just order one plus that Dengar off bricklink.
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I think I got a Vader in the Star Destroyer set.
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I have one from a really early set that was him on his throne in front of a window. That was a 9.99 set or something.
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I got the Vader Head and Helmet off of Bricks and Pieces and just put it on different bodies. I don't know how long the poo poo sets have been going on, but it's really apparent lately, especially with SW when you have poo poo like the Battle of Takodana which is insane, also the First Order Troop Transport. SW villains are all anyone wants, but they are not only stingy to get the most money for the sets, but also lazy by designing the shittiest sets. The comic licenses are worse for having whatever vehicle and then having a 50-200 piece wall to pad the piece count. I dunno, this Hulk set cheeses me off because those huge gently caress off wheels are going to sit in a bin. They could have done like a brickbuilt fin fang foom or something like the giant man and made sense or have Doom and a jet or something. or Alternate Thunderbolt Ross or Glen Talbot and a tank. loving Hulk motorcycles...
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