Lego thread: Shiiiiiiiit, I don't got the money for this.

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Captain Duvel: Dec 14, 2009

I want a UCS jabbas barge

# ? Apr 19, 2020 02:49

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# ? May 14, 2024 08:17

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Big Mean Jerk posted:

These own, but man I forgot how much the ARC-170 owned and I�d kill for a UCS version of that instead of the Gunship.

I�ve had a few of those over the years from those from Craigslist lots I�ve bought. Fun builds and bonus that they come with the Kit Fisto minifig.

# ? Apr 19, 2020 04:05

veni veni veni: Jun 5, 2005

Butterfly Valley posted:

My family took pity on me in lockdown and bought me the Tantive IV as a late birthday present and I just finished it while watching Rogue One and I have thoughts

1. Rogue One is much better than it was given credit for at the time, although admittedly that's probably partly because everything that came after it was varying degrees of pointless to poo poo

2. It's an enjoyable build by big Star Wars ship standards with lots of interesting techniques and little repetition and the final model has an enjoyable heft to it

Rogue One is pretty underrated and one of the only non original trilogy Star Wars things I like.It's 10 times better than any of the movies in the new trilogy imo.

# ? Apr 19, 2020 08:51

Groetgaffel: Oct 30, 2011; Groetgaffel smacked the living shit out of himself doing 297 points of damage.

veni veni veni posted:

Rogue One is pretty underrated and one of the only non original trilogy Star Wars things I like.It's 10 times better than any of the movies in the new trilogy imo.

It is. Better than RotJ for me even.
Empire Strikes Back>A New Hope>Rogue One>Return of the Jedi

The Venator is crying out for a UCS set. It's both more interesting in shape, and more colourful than the og star destroyer.

# ? Apr 19, 2020 10:18

Catatron Prime: Aug 23, 2010; IT ME; Toilet Rascal

Groetgaffel posted:

It is. Better than RotJ for me even.
Empire Strikes Back>A New Hope>Rogue One>Return of the Jedi

The Venator is crying out for a UCS set. It's both more interesting in shape, and more colourful than the og star destroyer.

https://www.yourwobb.com/products/king-81067-the-ucs-st04-republic-cruiser?_pos=43&_sid=7261157ae&_ss=r

I�d love to see is a UCS Sandcrawler... did I hear rumors of that not too long ago, or was it speculation because of the mandalorian�s popularity?

# ? Apr 19, 2020 21:37

Big Mean Jerk: Jan 27, 2009; Well, of course I know him.
He's me.

They did a really huge Sandcrawler set several years ago (can�t remember if it was literal UCS) and they did a smaller one last year (this year?).

# ? Apr 19, 2020 21:54

Dogen: May 5, 2002; Bury my body down by the highwayside, so that my old evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride

Big Mean Jerk posted:

They did a really huge Sandcrawler set several years ago (can�t remember if it was literal UCS) and they did a smaller one last year (this year?).

It was on that weird period where they weren't labeling things UCS, but yeah. The huge one is great.

# ? Apr 19, 2020 22:15

1000 Brown M and Ms: Oct 22, 2008; F:\DL>quickfli 4-clowns.fli

Actually it was labelled UCS, right there on the box. Great set

# ? Apr 19, 2020 22:53

Harold Stassen: Jan 24, 2016

Long before Creator 3 in 1, set instructions would show 2-3 alternate builds at the very end- does anyone know if there is a resource to find actual instructions for these builds?

# ? Apr 19, 2020 23:30

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Long before Creator 3 in 1, set instructions would show 2-3 alternate builds at the very end- does anyone know if there is a resource to find actual instructions for these builds?

Did you try searching through lego's instructions site?

# ? Apr 19, 2020 23:44

veni veni veni: Jun 5, 2005

I don't think instructions were ever made for those. They were just supposed to be ideas to reference for making your own thing out of the set afaik.

# ? Apr 19, 2020 23:45

Kazzah: Jul 15, 2011; Formerly known as
Krazyface; Hair Elf

As far as I remember, they never published instructions to those things, just a single image for people to try and recreate.

# ? Apr 19, 2020 23:47

Carbohydrates: Nov 22, 2006; Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog.
Law don't go around here.
Savvy?

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Long before Creator 3 in 1, set instructions would show 2-3 alternate builds at the very end- does anyone know if there is a resource to find actual instructions for these builds?

Incidentally, people asking for instructions is why they stopped doing them, since those designs tended to be flimsy or follow design ideologies not up to LEGO's standard. They were only ever meant to serve as inspiration to get kids building stuff.

Y'all, peep this dope poo poo that just hit 10k. I love it so much, and I haven't cared about Spongebob in many years.

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/05a5e0a0-b0d7-4c07-9ec1-e39b5c053dd9

Just... the density of detail inside this thing, the colors, all of it. I want to buy it.

Carbohydrates fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Apr 20, 2020

# ? Apr 20, 2020 00:26

Chairchucker: Nov 14, 2006; to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

Don't they never approve pre-existing IPs?

I like it too.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:02

Dogen: May 5, 2002; Bury my body down by the highwayside, so that my old evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride

1000 Brown M and Ms posted:

Actually it was labelled UCS, right there on the box. Great set

d'oh! It must have been the comeback of the label. I remember bizarrely they left it off like the X-Wing and B-Wing.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:04

veni veni veni: Jun 5, 2005

I have a friend who I talk to about Lego sometimes, or I did before he got bored of it. He's kind of the one that got me back into it actually. Anyways when I called the Red 5 the "UCS X-Wing" he'd say "actually it's not a UCS" and it always annoyed the gently caress out of me because it happened at least twice. It's a UCS dude.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 02:10

1000 Brown M and Ms: Oct 22, 2008; F:\DL>quickfli 4-clowns.fli

There's always someone like that. I remember once pissing someone off by describing Lego Factory as Lego Ideas before it was called Lego Ideas. Technically not true, but a good enough description IMO so whatever.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 02:34

Big Mean Jerk: Jan 27, 2009; Well, of course I know him.
He's me.

Somewhere out there exists an irate Lego Cuusoo fan who refuses to buy Ideas sets.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 02:42

1000 Brown M and Ms: Oct 22, 2008; F:\DL>quickfli 4-clowns.fli

Wouldn't surprise me to be honest. There's plenty of Classic Space fans out there for whom Lego ceased to exist around 1985. I've also read about people rage-quitting Lego in 2004 when grey became bluish grey.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 02:58

Carbohydrates: Nov 22, 2006; Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog.
Law don't go around here.
Savvy?

Chairchucker posted:

Don't they never approve pre-existing IPs?

I like it too.

Nah, they approved some Disney stuff whole holding the Disney license. Plus, Spongebob was not on the list of banned IPs according to the designer, and the Spongebob license is not current anymore. I think it has legs.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 02:58

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

1000 Brown M and Ms posted:

Wouldn't surprise me to be honest. There's plenty of Classic Space fans out there for whom Lego ceased to exist around 1985. I've also read about people rage-quitting Lego in 2004 when grey became bluish grey.

I don't know why, the bluish grey looks so much better than the yellowish grey.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 02:59

Kazzah: Jul 15, 2011; Formerly known as
Krazyface; Hair Elf

All you fake fans, sullying LEGO with your lower-case letters

# ? Apr 20, 2020 03:02

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Krazyface posted:

All you fake fans, sullying LEGO with your lower-case letters

LEGO is italicized, you fake fan. If you're such a big fan, name three pieces.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 03:03

Luceo: Apr 29, 2003; As predicted in the Bible.

legos 4 lyfe

# ? Apr 20, 2020 03:04

Chairchucker: Nov 14, 2006; to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

if you pluralise it you should probably be publicly executed tbh

# ? Apr 20, 2020 03:06

GlenMR: Dec 11, 2005; What is this emotion called "criminal negligence"?

veni veni veni posted:

I have a friend who I talk to about Lego sometimes, or I did before he got bored of it. He's kind of the one that got me back into it actually. Anyways when I called the Red 5 the "UCS X-Wing" he'd say "actually it's not a UCS" and it always annoyed the gently caress out of me because it happened at least twice. It's a UCS dude.

My first instinct is to roll my eyes at people like that, but it IS a little mystifying as to why the criteria for a UCS set seem to change so much.

It's also the first-est world problem anyone could have, though.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 03:17

1000 Brown M and Ms: Oct 22, 2008; F:\DL>quickfli 4-clowns.fli

Cojawfee posted:

I don't know why, the bluish grey looks so much better than the yellowish grey.

I agree for dark grey, but I find the new and old light grey to be really similar and often hard to tell apart. Of course, I'm also the guy that mixes them happily because there's lots of cool parts that exist in one grey but not the other. You can also get some cool weathering effects by mixing them.

As for why people rage-quit, I think it had something to do with only wanting one shade of grey and not wanting to rebuy their entire collection. Not to mention the retired parts that you can't get in bluish grey.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 03:21