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gently caress you guys for making me spend $90 on lego. I took this lego out to sort and sell and leave just enough to play with. God drat it. And gently caress you bricklink for making finding cheap bulk bricks so easy.
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Haha! You stuck now!
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Mar 15, 2017 04:16
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The Easter Egg Hunt vignette was a cute build. I try to squeeze extra fun out of them by only looking at the box and outside of the manual when assembling. Also picked up the 4 colors of Creativity Boxes because I don't have lots of those colors except red, and they look fun.
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Mar 15, 2017 07:02
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Baronjutter posted:I'd need a LOT of those special brick to create a bunch of baseplate sized playing areas though. I just need a few jumbo sized base plate with some sort of 2x2 grid across it. Think a ruler and a pencil will have to do. There's this stuff if you want to risk a crowdsourced unofficial thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnvNVD5bvpU I like the idea and surprised Lego themselves haven't done it.
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Mar 15, 2017 11:38
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Baronjutter posted:Just before I pull the trigger on this, I just want to confirm that they fit together like this? Not unlike those old little ladders/grills? 
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Mar 15, 2017 11:48
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 Japan doesn't give a poo poo if you need that rubber ducky batman.
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Mar 15, 2017 14:29
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But... isn't that... the whole point?
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Mar 15, 2017 15:32
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I don't know if it was the "point." The design document probably said "cheap packaging where customers can't tell what's inside." Then customers instantly figured out how to get around that limitation and lego more or less embraced the concept. Or whatever company first introduced blind bags. If lego really wanted it to be a mystery they'd put them in opaque eggshells or something.
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Mar 15, 2017 15:36
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ChesterJT posted:
So the land fond of fondling females on the underground isn't fond of fondling foil in the supermarket. I am confounded.
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Mar 15, 2017 15:39
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Hopper posted:So the land fond of fondling females on the underground isn't fond of fondling foil in the supermarket. I am confounded. They have women only cars in the subway now so problem solved!
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Mar 15, 2017 16:31
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xzzy posted:If lego really wanted it to be a mystery they'd put them in opaque eggshells or something. And somebody out there would release a guide detailing how to listen for the distinctive rattle of each figure.
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Mar 15, 2017 16:54
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Hopper posted:So the land fond of fondling females on the underground isn't fond of fondling foil in the supermarket. I am confounded.
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Mar 15, 2017 17:58
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TheMadMilkman posted:And somebody out there would release a guide detailing how to listen for the distinctive rattle of each figure. How about weight?
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Mar 15, 2017 18:23
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Lego will lace the containers with random amounts of heavy elements to throw off your scale.
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Mar 15, 2017 18:30
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To play devil's advocate here, finally finding a box of CMFs, only to discover the remaining bags are completely hosed up, fondled, and picked through is a serious bummer. Just act like an adult and accept your multiples.
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Mar 15, 2017 19:25
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Complain to lego about it, they're the ones that created a thing that people want and built up a gambling scheme to acquire it. They know full well what they're doing too because each case in unbalanced so that there are more of minifigures people don't care about and only one or two of the "high value" options. It's totally reasonable for people to try and game the system to improve their odds.
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Mar 15, 2017 19:38
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Hamburlgar posted:But... isn't that... the whole point? Youre probably new to blind boxes but the entire point was to buy a bunch and hope for the best. Gachapon is huge there. 
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Mar 15, 2017 19:46
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Vintersorg posted:Youre probably new to blind boxes but the entire point was to buy a bunch and hope for the best. Gachapon is huge there. Also non-gachapon are literally in boxes. Can't really fondle those. Well I mean you can... but it's not really going to help you work out what's in the box.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:08
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With a trained ear you can rattle the box and hear slight differences. When i was a little kid I'd always ask for lego for any occasion and I became a pro at figuring out exactly which set I got from how it sounded when I shook it, because I'd shake them in the toy store and learn the difference even if they were similar box shapes/sizes. Eventually I'm sure you could learn to click or yell at the packages and use some form of simple echolocation to see inside.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:15
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Baronjutter posted:So I'm working on a little lego game and I'm mostly using 2x2 blocks as pieces, so I want to keep to that sort of a grid. Is there an easy way I could draw subtle lines on a baseplate to create a 2x2 grid in a way that would be visible but not smudge off too easily, but also wash off once I'm done without harming the sanctity of pure unmarked lego? Whatabout just covering the base plate in different grey colored 2x2 plates, like a checker board?
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Mar 15, 2017 23:26
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Vintersorg posted:Youre probably new to blind boxes but the entire point was to buy a bunch and hope for the best. Gachapon is huge there. I have a bag of those in my hotel room right now haha. When I first saw lego here I was excited but then disappointed because the boxes are identical to home so the only thing japanese is the little yen sticker in the tiny price sticker. I did grab a few catalog things that are in Japanese so there's that.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:To play devil's advocate here, finally finding a box of CMFs, only to discover the remaining bags are completely hosed up, fondled, and picked through is a serious bummer. Just act like an adult and accept your multiples. If they didn't cost $4 apiece and have 16-20 per set, I might.
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Mar 16, 2017 00:43
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Yeah seriously. I loving hate blind bags but I've already ranted about it itt. Just let me buy the thing I want without making it a hassle and making me waste money on doubles.
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Baronjutter posted:Eventually I'm sure you could learn to click or yell at the packages and use some form of simple echolocation to see inside. I'm imagining a bunch of neckbeards in jorts grunt-screaming at small boxes over and over like some sad, creepy version of old ladies tapping on fruit in the grocery store.
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I have had a horrible track record of getting doubles or figures I don't want lately so when I was a the Lego store I asked an employee to a feel a few bags up for me and she told me that she wasn't allowed to for licensed CMF. Only the regular ones (it was Batman obvs) but she said she could stand there by me and I could describe them and she could tell me her opinion, which was really weird and went no where. So I asked if I could throw them on the floor and she would have to pick them up since she works there. then she could pick them up and lament aloud on which one she thought it was, and she did it. It was a pretty weird moment of human interaction, but she was way better at guessing than I am and the whole thing was sort of funny. Really loving stupid policy on Lego's part though.
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Mar 16, 2017 06:04
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Captain Invictus posted:gently caress yeah, generalizing a nation based on its creeps and weirdoes! It's called a reputation
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Mar 16, 2017 06:18
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Captain Invictus posted:gently caress yeah, generalizing a nation based on its creeps and weirdoes! Yes, I totally earnestly did that which is also supported by the sombre and serious choice of words I used in my sentence. Of course it is not true, everybody knows it is hard to fondle women when your hands are busy holding either tentacle rape porn comics that you love to read in public or used schoolgirl panties to gain olfactory pleasure from.
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Mar 16, 2017 09:35
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Half the time I don't even care about the minifigure. I want their little animal friend.
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I'd guess Lego want to avoid skilled fondlers picking out the rare figures and chucking them straight on ebay or bricklink.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Just act like an adult and buy your toys.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'd guess Lego want to avoid skilled fondlers picking out the rare figures and chucking them straight on ebay or bricklink. If they would sell full sets, 90% of the ebay market would collapse, and you wouldn't need to fondle them...
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Mar 16, 2017 11:11
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I would be okay with buying full sets so long as they're guaranteed, I hate the blind bag poo poo.
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There's always the option of buying a full box and selling at cost, like I did with the footballers, but unless you know you have takers, that's not really worth the effort... plus you'll always have a few doubles. Plus you'll have to front 200€ to buy a box.
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Plus a bunch of each set aren't actually worth much, sometimes less than retail cost(usually stuff like skiers or indians/pirates/cowboys etc), and it's only the few big ticket ones that recup the cost when you do that.
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Mar 16, 2017 12:34
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Hopper posted:Yes, I totally earnestly did that which is also supported by the sombre and serious choice of words I used in my sentence. Ah cool, OK to be racist as long as we're just joking then?
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Mar 16, 2017 14:32
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Welp, the racist card, you did it now.  No matter whether you are right or wrong, anything I say from now on is useless, so I'll just let it rest.
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LOL yeah how silly of me to bring race into a conversation about negative stereotypes of an entire nation of people who share a common ethnicity
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Mar 16, 2017 15:19
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Mar 16, 2017 15:49
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1 haha 2 haha 3 haha 3 defending the honour of nippon meltdowns!
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Chairchucker posted:LOL yeah how silly of me to bring race into a conversation about negative stereotypes of an entire nation of people who share a common ethnicity you sound like some kinda weeaboo
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