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I interrupt this argument over a twenty+ year old sitcom to inform you that yesterday I introduced my son to the Voltron remake and he's in love. Kid's going to poo poo a brick in a few weeks when he finds out that he'll be helping me build the Lego model. I will share a photo of the brick.
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It's not good to let kids eat Lego bricks.
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Aug 10, 2019 00:04
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I can only do so much.
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Aug 10, 2019 00:29
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duz posted:It's not good to let kids eat Lego bricks. No but I just got the lego cookie cutters last time I was in the store
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Aug 10, 2019 02:22
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sigher posted:Saying "It's bad" when the set perfectly represents the characters and the most iconic set of the show screams "I don't like this, why isn't LEGO catering to ME!?" Being critical about the LEGO Idea process is one thing, but hating on this specific set just because it exists is dumb. Except my complaint is literally about the Ideas process as I stated very plainly before. I have absolutely no problem with Lego making the set, regardless of what I think about it. They make lots of sets that I don't like, or don't appeal to me personally and that's fine. It's how these sets get mae that I think is dumb. Stuff like Friends just sucks because there was really no creativity that went into it. It wasn't the creators idea. There wasn't anything special about the build. It's literally a submission of "hey you like friends?" vote for this and it could be a reality. And as a result other cool stuff like the food stands get dumped because Lego knows they can sell hella copies of a Friends set. I just don't understand why LEGO lets ideas be a platform to feel out what IPs people want made. They could put up a polling site or something and let people vote there? It's just a terrible use of Ideas which already has enough problems without the pandering. I'll admit I'm a bit of hypocrite because I think Wall-E is one fo the best sets Lego has ever made, and Ghostbusters and Voltron are also great. But at least in those cases they are really remarkable builds that aren't just riding on the source material and essentially promising the production of a line of minifigures. Anyways I'm not mad about it as you seem to be insiting. I just think it's a really poor choice on Lego's part. ideas is just not good. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Aug 10, 2019 |
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Aug 10, 2019 02:29
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Waltzing Along posted:I agree. I think ideas needs more regulation. No digital submissions. If you can't be arsed to build it yourself, why should anyone vote for it?
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Aug 10, 2019 04:10
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also digital lets you use parts in colors that don't exist which might get made into real parts in that color
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Aug 10, 2019 04:25
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Slugworth posted:I mean, is it easier to design and build something digitally? Depends on how you work I guess. I personally find it a lot harder to design something on a computer than physically with a pile of bricks in front of me, but I know some people who will do an entire design digitally before touching a single brick. There's definitely advantages to digital design though, and I've personally used it occasionally to see how a part I don't have fits into a design.
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Aug 10, 2019 05:44
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genuinely curious, what is the least-appreciated(in terms of monetary value increase) lego set post-retirement? There's always stories of sets skyrocketing like Green Grocer or the original UCS Falcon, what about the opposite? I'm sure there's Galidor-level stuff that's worth less than the plastic used to make it, but I'm going to throw Alien Mothership(7065) into the ring. A complete with box one can often be had for 20-30 bucks, half to a third of the retail price, years after release. A mint in sealed box one can be had for less than retail price shipped. All the other Alien Conquest sets went up in value or maintained their retail price, but not that one, though I can kinda see why. Clever to use train tracks to expand the surface area of it, but that doesn't really make for an amazing set really.
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Aug 10, 2019 07:52
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Wow, that set looks real bad. Looks like they would have inflated the price with a bunch of the parts used but didn't make anything interesting out of it.
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Aug 10, 2019 09:03
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I have six of them, sealed. years ago, k-mart had some absurd double discount deal with groupon or some poo poo that resulted in being able to get already-discounted legos for 80% off iirc, and I had 2 k-marts near me. 
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Aug 10, 2019 09:07
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What's with the inconsistency with the new teal brick separator? Even now sets are coming out with orange ones. I thought it was a proper push by Lego to release a new coloured one each year to increase their value proposition now that they are in every loving set? Is it different factories making different sets and thusly either you get a teal or orange one?
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Aug 10, 2019 10:17
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Well at least we probably still have Piano to look forward to.
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Aug 10, 2019 15:54
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Public build at the Tate Modern. Looks awesome, I would love to see this same thing at SFMOMA. https://twitter.com/thegallowboob/status/1159894938039046144?s=21
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Aug 10, 2019 18:32
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loving gallowboob! 
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Aug 10, 2019 18:44
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They did that at an exhibit here in Chicago a few years ago, wife and I spent like 20 minutes wandering through the lego builds they had brought in and over an hour improving and modifying builds that people had left behind. (the builds we saw were rather nice, it just wasn't a massive collection)
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Aug 10, 2019 20:36
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Anybody have some US bricklink stores they'd recommend that have a big selection and fair prices? I usually start by searching for a specific part and end up being disappointed by the overall storefront. It'd be nice to have a few stores to check first so I'm not scraping to order the minimum and buying parts I don't even really need.
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Aug 10, 2019 21:34
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veni veni veni posted:Anybody have some US bricklink stores they'd recommend that have a big selection and fair prices? I usually start by searching for a specific part and end up being disappointed by the overall storefront. It'd be nice to have a few stores to check first so I'm not scraping to order the minimum and buying parts I don't even really need. Idk if you're looking for specific things or not, but I like to load stuff I want/need into wish lists and then shop the list. You can sort and filter to get US stores with the amount of hits descending.
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Aug 10, 2019 22:07
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I've made a few purchases from both of these... https://store.bricklink.com/amyfol?p=amyfol#/shop?o={%22showHomeItems%22:1} https://store.bricklink.com/BigBBricks?p=BigBBricks#/splash These two are on my ignore list, because I kept getting excited when I saw one store had everything I was looking for, and then reading their prices. https://store.bricklink.com/PlanetBrick#/terms https://store.bricklink.com/edeevo#/splash
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Aug 10, 2019 22:25
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Word.deoju posted:These two are on my ignore list, because I kept getting excited when I saw one store had everything I was looking for, and then reading their prices.  What the...how? How do they sell anything at those prices? 3000 orders who is buying this poo poo?
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Aug 10, 2019 23:08
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Both of those are on my blacklist too because they have a huge inventory and always hit near the top of searches. Gotta be some desperate shoppers out there to give them business because bricklink tries real hard to find you the best price.
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Aug 10, 2019 23:17
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Yikes. I looked up some of the pieces and.. well I go to my local bricks and minifigs and fill up a gallon bucket for $20 and score... according to them a bucket full of 10-14$ pieces... Like the yellow spring claw grabbing bucket they want for $14, I might as well pay the 30-40$ and get the used vintage set that piece came in. I mean... maybe they're hitting the occasional person who is using a program to assemble kits of parts for their moc and doesn't go through the line item list and while most of their parts are reasonable they get some oddball part from these guys that's marked up 10x and they don't notice. Big K of Justice fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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Aug 11, 2019 02:07
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Captain Invictus posted:genuinely curious, what is the least-appreciated(in terms of monetary value increase) lego set post-retirement? There's always stories of sets skyrocketing like Green Grocer or the original UCS Falcon, what about the opposite? I'm sure there's Galidor-level stuff that's worth less than the plastic used to make it, but I'm going to throw Alien Mothership(7065) into the ring. A complete with box one can often be had for 20-30 bucks, half to a third of the retail price, years after release. A mint in sealed box one can be had for less than retail price shipped. All the other Alien Conquest sets went up in value or maintained their retail price, but not that one, though I can kinda see why. Clever to use train tracks to expand the surface area of it, but that doesn't really make for an amazing set really. I like that set actually, it's got some good parts. And yes, I got it a few months ago for about half of its original retail. Slizers/Throwbots and RoboRiders are good candidates for that. They were the precursors to Bionicle, but at least had more standardised parts than Bionicle. You can get them for a couple of bucks each these days, even with boxes and instructions.
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Aug 11, 2019 03:38
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Habibi posted:I can only do so much. I just want to say I speed scrolled through a whole page of poo poo because nothing could live up to that.
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Aug 11, 2019 04:47
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here's a weird request, but I'm sure at least one of you has both of these things and could pull this off. Does someone who has a batman minifigure as well as the female ghostbusters set stick the Jillian minifigure's hairpiece on a batman head, using the side of batman's head with a sweat band? I need to see if this might work for an MOC I'm going to work on.
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Aug 11, 2019 05:46
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Can we just get a loving Jerry’s apartment set already?
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Aug 11, 2019 09:18
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The only sitcom set I want to see is Red Dwarf.
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Aug 11, 2019 10:01
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Chairchucker posted:The only sitcom set I want to see is Red Dwarf. 
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Aug 11, 2019 12:21
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No 'H', voted zero.
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Aug 11, 2019 12:28
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veni veni veni posted:here's a weird request, but I'm sure at least one of you has both of these things and could pull this off.
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Aug 11, 2019 14:44
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Chairchucker posted:No 'H', voted zero. 
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Aug 11, 2019 14:51
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Perfect. Thank you!
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veni veni veni posted:here's a weird request, but I'm sure at least one of you has both of these things and could pull this off. I think I have Batman at work, and if so I can do this tomorrow E: beaten.
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Maybe you guys can give me an opinion on it. I want to make Marco from Metal Slug cause I'm going to do a Metal Slug MOC  Batman seems like a no brainer for the face since he has the white headband. For the hair I'm torn between GB Jillian because the hair swoop in front is perfect, but the puffiness on the side probably looks a little a little too feminine. Option 2 I'm looking at is fred from scooby doo, which I think captures the overall shape a bit better, but doesn't have that swoop in the front. I still think it's a pretty decent fit though with the way it puffs in the front.  Or alternately can anyone think of a better hair piece I may have overlooked. Also still looking for a good torso if anyone can think of a good one to use. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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Aug 11, 2019 19:05
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Why is rimmer smiling? Also great MOC. Holly hop drive is a nice touch.
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Aug 11, 2019 19:26
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I can't wait to see a LEGO Metal Slug, gently caress that would own as an official set.
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deoju posted:I've made a few purchases from both of these... So, potentially a stupid newbie question, but are Bricklink stores cheaper than the Lego website for pieces? I just got a massive tub of legos from my youth from my parents and am now building late 1980s/early 1990s sets with my kids, but some pieces are missing. I was just going to make a list and then use the Lego site but if Bricklink is better I'd love to know
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Aug 11, 2019 22:42
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It depends, but in general bricklink will give the better price. I mean they're used bricks (even if they claim new, it's not because they aren't in original packaging), they kind of have to be cheaper. But rare or out of print prices can be way not expensive than the original price. New molds tend to have inflated prices too.
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xzzy posted:It depends, but in general bricklink will give the better price. I mean they're used bricks (even if they claim new, it's not because they aren't in original packaging), they kind of have to be cheaper. Some bricklink sellers buy new parts in bulk from lego itself, and those are never packaged to begin with.
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The bricks are new as in they haven't been chewed on by kids and aren't all scratched up. There's no guarantee when you buy used parts unless it's rare and the person only has one and gives a description.
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