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I was just asking because I didn't know. I wasn't calling you out or anything. Cuusoo was already rebranded into Ideas when I started collecting again so I'm not that familiar with it.
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Ah, good to know. I thought maybe you were annoyed at my use of past tense since Cuusoo is still active (and still Japanese), which I could've easily checked before posting. For content: found 100 pieces for the Curiosity rover in my old stash. Any tips to clean them up or is water+soap good enough? I'm afraid these old white pieces won't match the new ones I still have to buy.
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Jun 26, 2017 06:58
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Waltzing Along posted:60132 is $65. On the lego website, it lists the service station as being $120.
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Jun 26, 2017 07:10
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Cojawfee posted:On the lego website, it lists the service station as being $120. This one? For $90? It's £65 in the UK https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Service-Station-60132
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Jun 26, 2017 09:06
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duz posted:They're not the original molds since they don't have the Lego stamp on the pieces. However the quality on them is so high, it very well could be the same factory and they just made two sets of molds, one Lego for during the day and one Lepin for during the night. Seeing as how this is exactly like they do on other products (VW engines during day, chine car engines during night. Gitzo tripods during day, Benro tripods during night) i am sure this is how Lepin is made as well.
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Jun 26, 2017 11:14
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The I-Brix Kickstarter is back!  Consisting of a board you put underneath the set, and 1x1 bricks that light up, up to 8 inches (20cm) away from the board. So it won't work on the top of your modulars. Early early bird set is $40 with only 10 lights, and $69 with 20 lights, so it's not cheap, especially with $10 shipping (US only, sorry rest of the world). Maybe this time he'll do it!
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Jun 26, 2017 13:32
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That actually looks interesting. I have no idea what type of mechanism is used to power the bricks wirelessly. Could there be some radiation concerns?
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Jun 26, 2017 13:46
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Not unless motorized tooth brushes or smartphones that charge wirelessly concern you, because it's the same basic tech.
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Jun 26, 2017 13:49
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But those are usually on a pedestal rather than about 8 inches away.
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Jun 26, 2017 13:54
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The_Doctor posted:This one? For $90? It's £65 in the UK https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Service-Station-60132 They must have changed it today. It was 120 dollars last night.
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Jun 26, 2017 15:17
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Ineptitude posted:Seeing as how this is exactly like they do on other products (VW engines during day, chine car engines during night. Gitzo tripods during day, Benro tripods during night) i am sure this is how Lepin is made as well. Lepin uses different plastic. I doubt it is the same factory.
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Jun 26, 2017 15:51
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The key seems to be the base which at 10x10x.25 means an awkward fit for large baseplate builds (I think my Sydney operas house is 15x15) or multiple 10x10 plates, like modular connect builds. Id rather have more transmitters than lights, and the 150 package is where that starts to happen, unless you pay with multiple accounts.
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Jun 26, 2017 15:53
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veni veni veni posted:I've dropped my UCS B wing twice and that thing is held together by hopes and prayers. Getting it back together was an hour long ordeal. The worst one for me is the First Order tie fighter. If you drop it, it will land on the wing edge, which is all a decorative bit of trim that goes flying. And if you drop it hard enough, the whole wing comes disconnected... by ripping out the connection point. Which is impressive design wise but much more annoying to fix.
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Jun 26, 2017 16:28
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My cats routinely knock down the Tie Advanced Prototype. A bitch to put together again. Lost a shooter and one circle plate.
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Jun 26, 2017 17:17
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Waltzing Along posted:Lepin uses different plastic. I doubt it is the same factory. They could just swap out the molds and use different plastic at night.
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Jun 26, 2017 17:19
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Ineptitude posted:That actually looks interesting. It's an electromagnetic field and they have to stay within FCC guidelines for that so it's probably fine. The field is only effective within a short range, maybe just don't leave your hand on it for hours at a time?
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Jun 26, 2017 17:20
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If you don't get sick from your cell phone or all the radio waves being pumped through you right now, you should be fine with a lego plate that wirelessly powers some LEDs.
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Jun 26, 2017 17:22
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So no sending radio signals to my fillings? Aww.
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Jun 26, 2017 17:42
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If one of those LEDs fits in a cheese wedge, it fits in a tooth. Be the change.
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Jun 26, 2017 17:46
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More akin to a minuscule version of living next to some high voltage lines.
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Jun 26, 2017 18:02
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Vintersorg posted:My cats routinely knock down the Tie Advanced Prototype. I wouldn't be that upset if all my cat did was knock them over. Mine likes to chew on any piece small enough to fit into her mouth. She hasn't swallowed any yet, but a few of the thinner pieces now have kitty bite marks on them.
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Jun 26, 2017 18:18
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Cojawfee posted:They could just swap out the molds and use different plastic at night. Back in the old days the way it worked was that factory managers would run the line for 10 hours on the clock, producing official Brandname products, and then another two hours "off the books" and send that material to the "black market." Once those items hit the market they were more or less impossible to tell apart. These items would carry all the official markings, so it wasnt like they changed out the machines to make the shoes say 'Niky' or 'calwin klein'. China has cracked down on this quite a bit (there was a big push before they got the olympics not to mention their general push to be a more legitimate market place to attract more investors). The fact that Lepin don't bear the lego mark and pretty much every review always find some disparity in the prices makes me think it's a separate factory entirely.
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Jun 26, 2017 19:08
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Lepin probably has a hookup with whoever produces the actual lego molds?
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Jun 26, 2017 19:10
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It's not exactly rocket science reverse engineering lego bricks. They all have precise measurements that anyone with any knowledge of manufacturing molds is going to be able to duplicate easily. And even then Lepin fucks it up sometimes, not all their bricks fit exactly like lego bricks. But they got close enough that most don't notice. By far the hardest part for Lepin is going to be getting the correct part list for brand new sets (which they also gently caress up sometimes).
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Jun 26, 2017 19:14
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Looking at a review of the Lepin Saturn V, I definitely won't be buying any of their sets. They seem to just put their injection points anywhere. The smooth rounded slopes of the exterior of the rocket were covered in pock marks from the injection.
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Jun 26, 2017 20:45
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I remember hearing a long time ago somewhere that Lego keeps a pretty tight handle on their molds and immediately melts them down when they reach their end of life in the pursuit of brick consistency. I'm sure it's not outside the realm of possibility that a few genuine molds have somehow made it over to China but it seems more likely that the Chinese manufacturers have built their own if they're doing full-scale production. Consistent precision injection molded parts can actually be quite complicated to produce with all the different variables involved but there is also a large amount of experienced and knowledgable talent in that field available in the Far Eastern countries.
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DethMarine21 posted:I remember hearing a long time ago somewhere that Lego keeps a pretty tight handle on their molds and immediately melts them down when they reach their end of life in the pursuit of brick consistency. I'm sure it's not outside the realm of possibility that a few genuine molds have somehow made it over to China but it seems more likely that the Chinese manufacturers have built their own if they're doing full-scale production. Consistent precision injection molded parts can actually be quite complicated to produce with all the different variables involved but there is also a large amount of experienced and knowledgable talent in that field available in the Far Eastern countries. The exo-suit had a problem where they re-used a mold from the 80's that should have been retired. Basically everyone had problems with the little robot arms staying attached.
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Jun 26, 2017 21:24
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Anyone ever get a set and it end up not being what you wanted/expected. I just got the Silver Champion. It's big. Like really really big. Way too big. I got it for a good price, too. CIB with manual. I wonder if I could trade this for a Medieval Market Village?
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I had a similar issue with the grand prix racer set. It was really huge and i ended up taking it apart and cannibalizing it for pieces. Now that I think about it, I've done that with all the technic sets I've bought. I took apart the Jeep type thing I had to make a different car, I took apart the grand prix racer, and I took apart the AROCs truck before I even finished it. With that one, I just wanted more bits and to see what the pneumatic parts were all about. Kind of interesting, but it didn't work well in the design of the truck. It was too jerky and din't work well. Thinking about the Lepin stuff where people buy out of print Lego sets. Maybe Lego should have a vote on classic sets to bring back. Each year they bring back a few sets that went out of print that people want to buy. Though it would probably just be UCS Millennium Falcons every year.
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Jun 26, 2017 22:05
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Haunted House. Boats. Modulars.
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Waltzing Along posted:Haunted House. I own the Haunted House and I still would love to see it reprinted. I'm not sure what would hold Lego back from reprinting "classics" like the retired modular lines and other expensive but retired sets.
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Jun 26, 2017 22:12
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Also, it would piss off scalpers.
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Buddy of mine got me a knock-off Evil Dead Ash that just came with a blade to put in his hand, so I built him a housing for his chainsaw blade.
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NickThorn posted:Buddy of mine got me a knock-off Evil Dead Ash that just came with a blade to put in his hand, so I built him a housing for his chainsaw blade. Groovy!
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I had a missing piece in my Saturn V. Thankfully it was exterior and didn't stop the build. Do I have to pay for replacements or how does that work?
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Jun 27, 2017 00:39
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The_Doctor posted:The I-Brix Kickstarter is back! He's never successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign, and first-timer hardware campaigns are notoriously bad at production. They're also notorious for getting ripped off by Chinese bootleggers who have a product available at half that price months before any backers get their hardware. And the fact that they don't have FCC certification yet is another problem.
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ShaneB posted:I had a missing piece in my Saturn V. Thankfully it was exterior and didn't stop the build. Do I have to pay for replacements or how does that work? Double-check all your bags and make sure it just didn't get missed in a corner, and check all around your work area. Chances are it's somewhere and you just missed it. Otherwise, you can just send an email to Lego's customer support and tell them what's missing, and they'll ship you a replacement for free.
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Pyroclastic posted:Double-check all your bags and make sure it just didn't get missed in a corner, and check all around your work area. Chances are it's somewhere and you just missed it. I checked everything. I had a few bags open in the box itself and some loose pieces in the box. It's a fairly big piece. Weirdly I had a decent amount of extra pieces, around 15+.
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Jun 27, 2017 01:25
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Lego has a form you can fill out for missing pieces. They'll mail it out to you for free in a few days.
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Is there any general advice for printing out instructions for older sets? Does it work well enough to differentiate colors to be worth it? I recently got my castle and pirate sets from storage at my mom's house and would prefer printed ones to do with the kids.
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