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I think other than Bennys Space squad and Apocalypseburg I don't like any of these sets. It's odd because I like almost every set from the first movie.
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xzzy posted:It's even better when you realize it's a glove and you can actually wear it (sort of) infinity gauntlet style. Well tastes differ, it looks like a waste of 1800+ bricks to me. Not real features outside, dull colour scheme... but YMMV
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Jan 22, 2019 19:12
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Part count on lego sets is super deceptive these days because 90% of them are 1x1 of various types.
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Jan 22, 2019 19:24
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I realize the irony in this, with me being a 36 year old Lego man and all, but lmao that the kid on the box is like 17.
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Jan 22, 2019 19:32
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Carbohydrates posted:You've done a really good job with clearing those shadows, though! Can you take a pic of how you've positioned your lights next time? Please give us instructions for this. Also are you using Lightroom or Photoshop to edit your photos? They have really easy and robust ways to brighten up dark areas with overexposing the rest of the image.
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Jan 22, 2019 19:48
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xzzy posted:It's even better when you realize it's a glove and you can actually wear it (sort of) infinity gauntlet style. I'm going to buy two of them and wear them to work.
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Jan 22, 2019 20:24
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Hopper posted:Well tastes differ, it looks like a waste of 1800+ bricks to me. Not real features outside, dull colour scheme... but YMMV The color scheme is what sold me on that and the one in the first wave. While I love those colors, they builds look boring.
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Jan 22, 2019 20:24
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   I have a feeling the designers changed between films.
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Jan 22, 2019 20:29
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The Systar and Rex sets leave me basically entirely cold. But I adore those previous movie sets, especially the stuff where ships and such are cobbled together from weird things and themes. With movie 2 only the Apocalypseburg sets have that same kind of whimsy and creativity to them, imo. I think they're playing too much to the feminine and masculine toy lines idea with the rest of the sets, and I assume the movie is going to be about that split as well. But the end result is just pretty generic girl and a boy sets, which I find hard to be interested in. 
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Jan 22, 2019 20:44
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There's no way the movie is going to end with a moral such as "brothers and sisters will never get along." There's going to be a late plot element that forces them to work together to battle some other unknown antagonist. We also haven't seen the movie yet so who knows what other creations are in there. I predict a big second wave at some point after release.
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Jan 22, 2019 20:47
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Carbohydrates posted:These photos are great! You stepping up your photography made me want to try something new with mine. $6 sheet of glass from Home Depot and $2 worth of poster board from Michaels: Yo that’s clever!!! Also; that new spaceship is like... I dunno. But I bet it’s a source of great parts of you need those colors.
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Jan 22, 2019 21:39
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veni veni veni posted:I realize the irony in this, with me being a 36 year old Lego man and all, but lmao that the kid on the box is like 17. With how big it looks I doubt younger kids would be able to lift that thing. It also owns.
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Jan 22, 2019 22:47
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I want to see the back of the box for Rex’s ship. I feel like there’s an inside compartment with a bridge or something.
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Jan 22, 2019 22:56
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Anyone have any good tips on polishing scuffed up old windscreen parts?
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Jan 22, 2019 23:32
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6 rapid blasts? veni veni veni posted:Anyone have any good tips on polishing scuffed up old windscreen parts? I don't know about the physical similarities of the materials but I've gotten scuffs out of plexiglass with ultrafine sandpaper (2-3000grit) and water.
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Jan 23, 2019 01:17
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^^^Cool. Might be worth a shot. Got my cheapo light box in the mail. Probably went a little too cheap on it lol. Took a few of my vic and it's not bad...Not as great as I was hoping, but I guess there's only so much I can do with an iPhone 6 and limited photography talent. Definitely need to learn how to play with the lighting to diffuse it better. Still, it's preferable to taking pictures on my coffee table or with ghetto rigged poster board I guess.    
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Jan 23, 2019 04:00
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^^^^^^^^^ Niiiiiiiice
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Jan 23, 2019 07:07
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xzzy posted:There's no way the movie is going to end with a moral such as "brothers and sisters will never get along." There's going to be a late plot element that forces them to work together to battle some other unknown antagonist. IMO it's gonna be about how there's nothing wrong with playing with 'girls' LEGO' as a boy, or vice versa.
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I've rebuilt my light box twice now, hurray for new addictions (and shutdown-induced free time I guess). Once it warms up I'm going to have to try using scrap plywood to make something more sturdy. Right now it's a lovely cardboard box with paper towels to diffuse a set of LED strips on the top and aluminum foil on the insides to bounce the light around a bit. I like that glass trick, I've been trying to do it in Photoshop with low-fill layers flipped vertical and it doesn't come out right. Had to take a good one of my favorite set.  The new movie is going to hit me right in the feels, again, since my now 11-yo doesn't want to do anything with his sets other than build the minifigs and have fights with them. I ended up giving him all my old non-UCS Star Wars stuff after the first one came out. They're currently in pieces in a box in a storage unit. Now my 7-yo daughter is all into all the Lego Friends stuff. Probably mentioned it before but she helped me build the Docks set last summer and helped with me W2A last week, and already wants to be General Sweet Mayhem for Halloween. At least it'll be an easyish costume. CommanderApaul fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Chairchucker posted:IMO it's gonna be about how there's nothing wrong with playing with 'girls' LEGO' as a boy, or vice versa. Yeah, that's almost certain. But I wish they'd find a better way to represent it in sets, other than making some pretty bog standard gender split ones.
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Jan 23, 2019 11:18
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Carbohydrates posted:These photos are great! You stepping up your photography made me want to try something new with mine. $6 sheet of glass from Home Depot and $2 worth of poster board from Michaels: This may have been asked already but what bookshelf is that there in the back round? It looks sorta like the Ikea Billy but not quite sure.
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Jan 23, 2019 15:28
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mattfl posted:This may have been asked already but what bookshelf is that there in the back round? It looks sorta like the Ikea Billy but not quite sure. Yeah, looks like the old style Billy with the deeper shelves.
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Jan 23, 2019 16:03
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The_Doctor posted:Yeah, looks like the old style Billy with the deeper shelves. drat, does the new style Billy not hold the modulars as well as the old?
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Jan 23, 2019 16:06
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I can’t personally attest, but apparently there was a recent change where the shelves are now not as deep? All I can find online is that they increased the depth from 10.5 inches to 11 in 2011. Can anyone else weigh in?
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The_Doctor posted:I can’t personally attest, but apparently there was a recent change where the shelves are now not as deep? All I can find online is that they increased the depth from 10.5 inches to 11 in 2011. Can anyone else weigh in? So according to this image  Looks like it's still 11" deep.
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Jan 23, 2019 16:42
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And to save people a google, 32 studs is 10 inches (size of a medium baseplate).
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Jan 23, 2019 16:44
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xzzy posted:And to save people a google, 32 studs is 10 inches (size of a medium baseplate). Are you suggesting we don't all know the dimension of a standard baseplate by heart?
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Jan 23, 2019 16:57
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I make no assumptions!
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Jan 23, 2019 17:02
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Welp, guess it's time to make an Ikea run, need to better organize my Lego stuff in my room and this would get everything in one spot.
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I have a new Billy with glass door and the Diner and Detective Office is sitting in there just fine.
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Attestant posted:Yeah, that's almost certain. But I wish they'd find a better way to represent it in sets, other than making some pretty bog standard gender split ones. Maybe Wave 2 (post-movie) will be like, mashup sets where they look cool, but have a mix of pastels and Seahawks colors (lol) and (hopefully) look cooler.
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Feenix posted:Maybe Wave 2 (post-movie) will be like, mashup sets where they look cool, but have a mix of pastels and Seahawks colors (lol) and (hopefully) look cooler. I hope they do a second w2a type set as that's perhaps my favorite set to build that I've ever done. So enjoyable, so much variety and interesting things going on.
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Finally got around to building the popup book, Once upon a Brick. It's gorgeous. It feels really solid and while I was afraid the beanstalk mechanism would be a bit rickety it's really smooth. The kids I work with are going to love it as well. All in all, would definitely recommend, if only for the uniqueness and the wow factor.
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Fayez Butts posted:Please give us instructions for this. Also are you using Lightroom or Photoshop to edit your photos? They have really easy and robust ways to brighten up dark areas with overexposing the rest of the image. I use Photoshop, and yeah I can tweak the black sections, but it'd be better to get it right the first time with proper lighting.
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Are people still having problems finding Benny's Space Squad? Because my local target had a huge pile of them just now. The drought might be over, as some predicted.
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Jan 23, 2019 22:03
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Because shelving/display seems to come up often and is always the same conversation, perhaps a few links in the OP?
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Plastik posted:Are people still having problems finding Benny's Space Squad? Because my local target had a huge pile of them just now. The drought might be over, as some predicted.
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The problem is the scalpers thought right at the start is when it would have value. Had they waited until it was discontinued, then the price would go up and stay up. That pink figure is gonna be $20+ I bet.
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Waltzing Along posted:The problem is the scalpers thought right at the start is when it would have value. Had they waited until it was discontinued, then the price would go up and stay up. That pink figure is gonna be $20+ I bet. It's also possible that Lego has gotten wise to this and has a specific "scalper bait set" distribution, where the first wave is disproportionately small and the second wave unusually slow, to get scalpers thinking that they're in for another Monsters Zombie situation and whip up a buying frenzy before stocking shelves to capacity. Also, the fist-spaceship was on the shelf and I got to see first-hand the glory of the dinosaur-driven miniships. It is glorious.
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Waltzing Along posted:Because shelving/display seems to come up often and is always the same conversation, perhaps a few links in the OP?
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