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Scipiotik posted:Latest ideas up for review were revealed. Pop-Up Book: A nice-looking set, small, easily customizable to Lego's marketing interest, has some play value, and license-free. I think it actually has a pretty good chance. Boat House Diner: Neat looking, but I can't see them giving it to the Fishing Store guy again. The Lighthouse: Same as before. Jaguar E-type Roadster: Licensing, and it's not really a unique looking car which is probably what got the Caterham its win. The Dive Shop: Third verse, same as the first. RuPaul's Brick Race: Not a chance. Lego Christmas Story House: Kinda bland-looking on the outside, but the interior isn't bad. However, it looks like a lot of pieces. I'm not sure how much draw the movie has outside of America. I can totally see the Pop-Up Book passing review. Maybe even include a couple of similarly-constructed vignettes you can snap into place. It's like a $20-30 set, and they need more smaller sets like it to counter the giants like Fishing Store and Saturn V.
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I'm betting on the pop up book and it will be like a creator 3-in-1 where there's enough pieces to make 3 different scenes.
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Not to be a downer, but the pop up book creator too has already gotten an ideas set through. So if you think already having a project go through stops you from getting another, that applies to this as well, sadly. 
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Groetgaffel posted:Not to be a downer, but the pop up book creator too has already gotten an ideas set through. Oh, drat, didn't realize that was the Maze designer. Though Ellen Kooijman did Research Institute and Big Bang Theory, so it's actually not unprecedented. But those were two completely different themes; the Coastal ones are all big, and all the same theme. I don't think Lego wants to repeat itself that often.
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Selling a couple sets to make room. Any Ausgoons looking for an AT-AT 75054-1 (w/ figures & instructions), a Snowspeeder 75049-1 (w/ figures) or a Pet Store modular?
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Anyone else building Downtown Diner? This is a great set so far, but I'm only on bag 2 and it already has a bunch of "loose" pieces. 2 glasses on the diner counter that don't attach to anything, some kind of tan pancake stacked loosely ontop of another pancake. Does anyone else feel like this is kind of bullshit for a lego set? Besides the fact that every time I go to move it, or even touch it, pieces are going to fall over. Just seems... lame?
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You're forgetting the kragle. fake edit: They did this with the Winter Village Bakery (the cake things under the counter) and it annoys me every Christmas.
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MaliciousOnion posted:You're forgetting the kragle. Bag 2 and already there are: 2 glasses on the counter, one loose pancake, and now, a camera left on a seat. I mean, I'm not some purist nerd. More just like... it's going to ALWAYS be falling.
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Tiny tiny dot of Museum Putty? Should hold whatever down.
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Do they by any chance fit in a minifig hand?
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Black Griffon posted:Do they by any chance fit in a minifig hand? I mean, yes, I could have the diner counter worker/cook holding 2 glasses. I could also have the waitress who is holding one tray with a milkshake hold the camera... I mean, it's not a big deal. Hell I can even ignore them... just seems odd to not only do it, but do it a bunch. I mean, sure, you get loose bananas and whatnot in drawers, or crabs in an oven, but they are usually closed off. Just seems kinda ridiculous here. 
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You wouldn't like the pet shop with its loose bones and balls. Edit: Ship in a bottle has a release date and price: Feb 1st, $70 
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duz posted:You wouldn't like the pet shop with its loose bones and balls. I like it, though I mostly just want all the clear glass and globes.
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Jan 10, 2018 18:26
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70 dollars seems lame. Must be from all those tiny 1x1s.
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Jan 10, 2018 20:29
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962 pieces, of which 280 are the water. So $70 seems reasonable. Must be a lot of pieces in the stand.
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Jan 10, 2018 20:38
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£70 is terrible value. Prices: US $69.99 – CA $89.99 – DE 69.99€ – UK £69.99 The_Doctor fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jan 10, 2018 |
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Jan 10, 2018 20:45
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The base is made out of a poo poo ton of plates.
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The_Doctor posted:£70 is terrible value. Welcome to Brexit Britain. (still gonna buy it)
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Looks like this ship isn't going to be too hard to find. People are mad about the price and real mad because the ship isn't as detailed as the ideas set. I'm more excited that the bottle looks good because I'm going to put in some orders for parts to put the spaceship I designed into the bottle. Also, people are mad that you don't build the ship by putting tweezers through the bottle neck. It has 280 blue pieces, but even if you cut those out, the 682 parts is still about 10 cents per pieces.
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Cojawfee posted:Looks like this ship isn't going to be too hard to find. People are mad about the price and real mad because the ship isn't as detailed as the ideas set. I'm more excited that the bottle looks good because I'm going to put in some orders for parts to put the spaceship I designed into the bottle. Also, people are mad that you don't build the ship by putting tweezers through the bottle neck. It has 280 blue pieces, but even if you cut those out, the 682 parts is still about 10 cents per pieces. The Ideas set looks substantially larger (at least six studs wider on each face) and it's situated so that the ship's height is corner-to-corner, rather than face-to-face like the final set. There's a lot more room to have a fancier-looking ship. The first update to the project said it was about 1800 pieces, so the difference is a good $80-100 worth of parts.
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The ship and the concept were the only good parts of the ideas set. This one looks so much better.
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I think they made the right call. Better looking bottle is much better than better looking ship. It doesn't matter how good the ship looks when you can't even see it behind all the lines between the pieces of the bottle. And I'm sure it will be possible to buy more parts to turn it into the ideas set, they seem to share a lot of pieces.
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I'm buying it and enough pieces to make it hold the yellow submarine.
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Cojawfee posted:I think they made the right call. Better looking bottle is much better than better looking ship. It doesn't matter how good the ship looks when you can't even see it behind all the lines between the pieces of the bottle. And I'm sure it will be possible to buy more parts to turn it into the ideas set, they seem to share a lot of pieces. I like the bottle but that ship looks like poo poo compared to the original. The best part of the original ship was the rigging and the creative use of parts for the cannon smoke. That went from an instant buy to no thanks real quick. At least I've still got Voltron to look forward to I guess. ChesterJT fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Jan 11, 2018 |
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Cloks posted:I'm buying it and enough pieces to make it hold the yellow submarine. I'm putting the SV in it. Then I'm going to put that ship in a bottle inside an even bigger modular of my basement.
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I'm putting the UCS Falcon in it  checkmate
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The easy buy thing for Bricklink is useless because it doesn't take into account minimum orders or minimum lot averages. And there's no way to make sure it only choose North America stores. No loving way is shipping on a few lego pieces going to be worth it from Australia. It would be fine if it didn't want me to buy from a guy with a $1.00 per lot minimum average.
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Jan 11, 2018 05:35
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Changed my mind. I'm going to move into mine.
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I actually bricklinked a bunch of parts from Australia, the Netherlands and Czech Republic the last couple months, they were rare parts and were actually cheaper than US sellers even after counting for shipping.
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There are deals to be had. I got a BNIB fairground mixer from russia for cheap enough that i could sell it for a profit here in the US.
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Cojawfee posted:The easy buy thing for Bricklink is useless because it doesn't take into account minimum orders or minimum lot averages. And there's no way to make sure it only choose North America stores. No loving way is shipping on a few lego pieces going to be worth it from Australia. It would be fine if it didn't want me to buy from a guy with a $1.00 per lot minimum average. There are no shortcuts to big bricklink orders. There are some standalone programs but they have the same shortcomings that BLs easy buy does, lacking a human brain to do actual smart decisions. Just gotta buckle up and dive into it manually!
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I’ve checked a few blogs and the Mobile Frame Zero FB group already, but are there any sets you’d recommend for cannibalizing parts to make microscale mecha? I feel like I missed out on Mixels.
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At this point I would just bricklink whatever joints you want, those tiny friction joints are definitely still used in sets but you're gonna be hunting around a lot to build up a stock. But on bricklink you can probably get them for 3 cents a piece. Lego PAB might work too, their past micro builds have used those joints quite often. I was at a store the other day and they had thousands of these pieces available:  We were in minneapolis, went to the store at the mall of america. the 30 foot mech was loving bonkers: https://www.lego.com/es-ar/aboutus/news-room/2011/april/world-s-biggest-lego-model-is-up-on-the-roof They also had all the new 2018 sets on display, the ninjago stuff looks fantastic but I just can't force myself to care about them. Only real critique I had on them is it looks like a technic chassis with slopes and tiles bolted on, which probably means they aren't a very fun build. But they are really high quality designs.
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Burger Bot owns.
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Are those real sprinkles in that shake?
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They had a surplus of those at PAB after they canned mixels  and I bought an entire large bucket of them. They are invaluable for building small robots. They might still be at PAB. They had every variety of this joint it was great.
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heh, now that you mention it, looks like
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The Technic Mack Truck was just unveiled: 2,595 pieces.
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