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Buy one of those cloth photo cubes and a decent light.
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I've got one. My photos look passable but they are still nowhere as good as I'd like
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Jan 9, 2020 02:33
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Yeah, product photography is not a difficult art. Not to say you're going to instantly get people knocking down your door wanting your services but with $50 and a few hours of digging around on the internet it's totally reasonable to get something a step above. A couple clamp lights from home depot and a large sheet of white paper is a start, even if all you have is a camera phone.
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Jan 9, 2020 02:35
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Waltzing Along posted:That's part of the reason I don't think Ideas should take CAD submissions. If the builder can't be assed to build it, why should Lego accept the submission? Also, when something is actually built, you get a better sense of how it actually works.
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Jan 9, 2020 03:02
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Synthbuttrange posted:put all the pieces in one pile. Good call 
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Jan 9, 2020 05:29
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The 31105 Toy Store has half a dozen advent calendar style builds and it's adorable. Nice looking building too.
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Jan 9, 2020 05:41
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Anyone familiar with LDD? I'm using version 4.3 and keep having trouble simply putting a 1x1 brick on top of a plate- it wants to put it underneath the plate. Is there any way I can force it to connect to the top?
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Jan 9, 2020 08:01
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LDD is super outdated. Studio 2.0 from Bricklink is the way to go these days. And it might as well be official, what with Lego buying Bricklink.
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Jan 9, 2020 09:13
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That is way nicer! Thanks much my friend.
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Jan 9, 2020 10:32
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w00tazn posted:Ah sounds like it was purely a CAD designed Lego model where physics didn't apply and it was obvious that the creator never built it physically. Yes, I assume it was. The fixes aren't that hard, if you have the pieces. The lower structure/foundation simply needs a solid structure where different plates rest on, on each corner, and not only on three, or on in case on only two. The tower needs a bit more work, but I assume a couple of lift arms could make it rock solid. If it ever tumbles over (and I'm kinda sure it will some day), maybe I'll rebuild it with the proper fixes. My advice is: if you want to build it, bring couple of pieces and fix the foundation and the lower part of the tower. I think if those two are pretty solid, everything that comes above it gets much easier (apart from the crane, but as I said, the fix is easy...the problem is it's a pretty long crane, with it's center of weight somewhere close to the middle, which you are supposed to place with two 2x4 plates on the far end on two other 2x4 plates (sitting on a small turntable or howether that part is called) on a tower which is a meter high, is whobbly and sits on a whobbly base, where you can be certain that if you press down on them hard, everything will simply explode, and even if it doesn't, the offset center of gravity of the crane will pull it out of those couple studs within minutes, having a pretty heave crane tumbling down a whobbly tower into a whobbly base, taking the attached Saturn V with it. It's still a pretty cool MoC when it just sits there, though 
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Jan 9, 2020 16:59
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https://www.promobricks.de/lego-ideas-21321-iss-signing-event-in-nuernberg/92004/ Final of the ISS, releasing in February looks like at 70 euros. I'm a big space fan, but that thing looks like a nightmare to display.
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Jan 9, 2020 22:22
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Also, it really dates it with a tiny space shuttle.
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Jan 9, 2020 22:34
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There will be rioting in the tiny plastic streets if those solar panels aren't printed. Here's a rehost in case of takedown: 
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Jan 10, 2020 01:35
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Ideas sets have been 100% printed thus far right?
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Jan 10, 2020 01:36
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I feel like fishing store had some stickers. But it has been a while. The latest space sets had some printed solar panels.
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Jan 10, 2020 01:41
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Scipiotik posted:I feel like fishing store had some stickers. But it has been a while. Yes it did. I thought the Caterham had some too but a cursory check seems to indicate it was all printed.
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Jan 10, 2020 01:45
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Soccer stadium leaked. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7HkslfpOJ_/?igshid=1hb09z8hsgaqu
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Jan 10, 2020 02:50
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Oh man the ISS is wonderful, but that poo poo needs to get hung from the ceiling.
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Jan 10, 2020 03:30
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That soccer stadium looks rad as hell too bad I don't have an apartment that makes sense for displaying it.
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Jan 10, 2020 05:25
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I kinda didn't get a sense of scale till I looked at the part count. Dang.
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Jan 10, 2020 05:59
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FBS posted:Ideas sets have been 100% printed thus far right? Dinosaur bones had stickers. Was still cool and fun.
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Jan 10, 2020 06:16
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I guess lego stores did a free build-and-take yesterday for adults. It was a news stand. I'm bummed I missed it, that's exactly the kind of set I'd pay for. Link with pics and images of the instructions... https://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-newsstand-review-building-instructions/ Edit: If anybody finds a part list for it, let me know. I'm not super enthused about bricklinking piece by piece off the image.
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Jan 10, 2020 07:48
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Ah poo poo that was for adults? I thought those are for kids only.
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Jan 10, 2020 07:55
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deoju posted:I guess lego stores did a free build-and-take yesterday for adults. It was a news stand. I'm bummed I missed it, that's exactly the kind of set I'd pay for. Oh that’s great, I love little sets like that. drat shame. :/
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Jan 10, 2020 08:43
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I get releasing a Football stadium but a specific one like that? Football fans are some of the most fanatic people in the sports fan world and Manchester United is very much a love it or hate it team. Anyone that would consider themselves a football fan and at the same time not being a ManU supporter would not touch that set with a 10 foot pole. And people that do NOT care about football are probably not in the market for a 4000 piece set? Its not like Lego is an American company and does not know these things so i have no idea whats going on with that stadium set.
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Jan 10, 2020 09:19
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A football stadium? Now that's a good decision for a new product, Lego! Now make another castle series with knights and horses and stuff. I demand it. e: oh, and an arcade as the next modular, thx.
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Jan 10, 2020 10:13
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Carbohydrates posted:There will be rioting in the tiny plastic streets if those solar panels aren't printed. Post on Reddit says they'll be printed and gave part names. No idea how credible it is.
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Jan 10, 2020 11:07
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Scipiotik posted:I feel like fishing store had some stickers. But it has been a while. The latest space sets had some printed solar panels. It's been a long time since I built it, but IIRC it's exactly one (the sign over the door, IIRC?), and all the rest were prints (money tiles, roof "wood" tiles etc.)?
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Jan 10, 2020 11:13
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I just realised Lego entered a partnership with Manchester United a few months ago, that explains them releasing that stadium.
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Jan 10, 2020 12:11
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Scipiotik posted:Soccer stadium leaked. Whole lot of bricks wasted on that piece of poo poo stadium
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tuo posted:It's been a long time since I built it, but IIRC it's exactly one (the sign over the door, IIRC?), and all the rest were prints (money tiles, roof "wood" tiles etc.)? As mentioned, the Caterham 7 had no stickers. It had 22 printed pieces, most of which were new and unique to that set. If a sub-$100 Ideas set can get away with that, there was no drat reason for an $800 Millenium Falcon to have stickers. That still bothers me.
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Carbohydrates posted:The strategy on the old fishing house was to add some stickers for flair and detail, but nothing essential, so you could leave them off and not really harm the aesthetic of the build. The sign over the door was a print, as were the fishing hook boxes and all the returning prints from older sets (newspaper tile, post-its, coins, wood planks, etc). The stickers were for the newspapers covering the window, the wood textures on the roof, the sticker on the side door, and maybe some others - I'm not looking at mine right now. I stand corrected. I thought about the 1x3 tiles (the planks you mentioned) which were printed, but there were other wood parts which actually were stickers. You are totally correct. 
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The ideas sets are a limited special run, UCS stuff is "merely" high part count stuff that sticks around for years. That's my guess anyways.
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xzzy posted:The ideas sets are a limited special run, UCS stuff is "merely" high part count stuff that sticks around for years. That's my guess anyways. Saturn V stuck around for years and has tons of printed parts. But then the lunar lander has tons of stickers.
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Cojawfee posted:Saturn V stuck around for years and has tons of printed parts. But then the lunar lander has tons of stickers. Lunar Lander wasn't an ideas set
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Mega Construx Castle Greyskull is on Walmart for 129.97, for those interested. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mega-Construx-Probuilder-Masters-of-the-Universe-Castle-Greyskull/521981514
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Jan 10, 2020 18:11
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Just looking around my office: Voltron, Central Perk, Fishing Store, Big Bang Theory all have stickers. Wall-E, Ghostbusters, Ship in a Bottle, Saturn V, Women of NASA and TRON: Legacy all do not. ISS will make a nice addition to the my space shelf, although the STS looks like a repeat of the one from the Women of NASA set.
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Jan 10, 2020 18:14
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Oh man, the water stage of Ninjago city. 
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Jan 10, 2020 18:43
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Speaking of stickers. It appears the Chinese new year sets for 2020 have no stickers and a ridiculous amount of one off prints. Definitely looking to get them once there is any sort of worthwhile promotional items from lego.
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I'm not condemning anyone's tastes, but I just cannot see anything nice about that ISS. Maybe its just the pics but it looks chintzy and uninteresting.
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