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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:I'm right with you, 90s Lego was dope. A lot of the themes get a lot of flak, and to be fair some of it is justified. Especially towards the end of the decade Lego was getting quite juniorised with big specialised pieces. Still, I think even the worst themes usually had a pretty good concept behind them even if the execution wasn't quite there. This is rad as gently caress and I would absolutely love to have this as a set! Explorians are one of my favorite space themes, honestly the quintessential one I had growing up. I think it was a later space theme, but those heat sensitive bricks on the base MOC posted earlier also gave me instant nostalgia vibes, that was the absolute coolest piece. Currently building The Fairground Mixer (10244), and I really have to say, this is the best set I've built since Ninjago City. The way everything unfolds and then spins or works is pretty slick!
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Darth TNT posted:I'll be honest, you're not exactly wowing me with your buildings. But I'll be damned if I'm not enjoying this as well. A mixed comment, but I can work with it! I admit my buildings would probably be a bit more dynamic if I planned ahead, I definitely built as I went along. What I'd really love are some fresh pieces, too. I've been working with the same set since I was twelve, I feel like I've exhausted the style potential. Do they still sell mixed parts buckets or bulk assorted packs or anything? And is it ridiculously expensive, if so?
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veni veni veni posted:As much as I love them it will never not annoy the hell out of me that the UCS starfighter sets don't scale to each other at at all. Now we have all of them. They look great. and none of them look right displayed next to each other. First world problems folks. Just finished mine. The proportions are a little chonkily incorrect but I still love it because they did a spectacular job with the weird diagonal shapes and very few gaps and also the A Wing is just my fave ship. When you finish, let me know if your guns have a slight upward tilt? I wonder if I put something in wrong or it was a compromise in the dumb flipping around play feature.
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May 9, 2020 22:30
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Find a LEGO pick a brick wall and go to town. Or troll FB Marketplace or Craigslist for bulk lots.
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lol yeah just go to town on that pick a brick wall
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May 9, 2020 23:07
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Please do not stick your hands in unwashed piles of LEGO bricks that children and other AFOLs have also stuck their grubby hands into right now. Give it like a year, you filthy animals.
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May 10, 2020 00:13
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Or, you know, wash your hands immediately after like you should have been doing.
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May 10, 2020 00:24
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*looks up, shocked, with mouthful of bricks*
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There is online Pick a brick but it seems to have a very long lead time to fill the orders. There are still buckets of assorted pieces officially for sale with a lot of variety in both piece type and color. Getting one of those when getting back into Lego was hugely revelatory for me, seeing how many new colors and small detailing pieces they've come up with since I was younger and they were still a mostly limited set of primary colors. It'll give you a good idea of the kinds of pieces to order/incorporate into your MOCs and hopefully provide some inspiration. As well, when I have two small plates of the same size stuck together I find my teeth are sometimes the only thing that can separate them. Harold Stassen fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 10, 2020 |
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Brawnfire posted:*looks up, shocked, with mouthful of bricks* 
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Dogen posted:Just finished mine. The proportions are a little chonkily incorrect but I still love it because they did a spectacular job with the weird diagonal shapes and very few gaps and also the A Wing is just my fave ship. When you finish, let me know if your guns have a slight upward tilt? I wonder if I put something in wrong or it was a compromise in the dumb flipping around play feature. Mine sit straight. I went to look and noticed a tiny bit of upward tilt but I nudged it down and and they sat down flat. Did you notice the instructions were missing a step? on the right side of the nose there's a few parts that magically appear and it isn't clear what they are. I had to disassemble the left side for reference. Also, the book says that they are now including two copies of all UCS canopy stickers in case you screw them up, starting with the A Wing. And then they only included 1 set of stickers lol. Overall the set is pretty great. At least as a display piece. it's a really nice looking A Wing. Really bare bones though. Not one of the funner sets to build. Idg why they couldn't at least make the canopy open or think of some neat function to include, or make some landing gear for it. The last few UCS sets make me really appreciate just how goddamn good the Snowspeeder is. That set really went the extra mile. The A Wing also feels weirdly light for how big it is. My other UCS sets just feel beefier when I pick them up. I'd still give it an 8/10 with and extra point thrown in just for being an A Wing. Darth TNT posted:That'd be great. I'm not a very good builder, I mostly enjoy looking. I need some kind of starting point for the center. No prob. I'll do a little breakdown of it for you after dinner. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 00:57 on May 10, 2020 |
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Getting one of those when getting back into Lego was hugely revelatory for me, seeing how many new colors and small detailing pieces they've come up with since I was younger and they were still a mostly limited set of primary colors. This is where I'm at, I've stopped into the LEGO store with my daughter a coupla times and just seeing the minifig bits, the specialty pieces, the beautiful colors (LEGO dots looks like it has some real pretty stuff) is mind-blowing. I get so many ideas I'm almost frozen. And some of the Ninjago poo poo you guys have been posting is probably the most beautiful and complex sets I've ever, ever laid eyes on. I would love a huge bucket with just like, two to four of everything they got, but I know that's unreasonable.
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 My first non-official set.
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veni veni veni posted:Mine sit straight. I went to look and noticed a tiny bit of upward tilt but I nudged it down and and they sat down flat. Ugh, I'm gonna look and see if I did something wrong with that internal mechanism, I actually watched Jang's regular build and looked that that assembly on the inside and from what I recall mine SHOULD be right.... maybe I'm just being picky. I did not notice. Do you remember about what number it is? I do remember having to go back and add a piece but it didn't click to me that it was because a step was left out, and my leftover parts are just the usual greebly bits and a some 3L pieces. Yeah you know, the Red 5 actually did have 2 sets of stickers but they were of a considerably worse design.
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The red 5 canopy is the worst sticker LEGO has probably ever done
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I have 3 constructed modulars - the Town Hall, Palace Cinema and the Grand Emporium. I don’t have the boxes. I might have some of the instructions. They’re probably 97% complete (some minifigs/vehicles might be absent). What’s the best way to offload these relatively quickly? Ebay and hope someone will come pick ‘em up or a Facebook listing? Bricklink?
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Lego Masters and quarantine have inspired me to buy some Lego sets for the first time in.. 20 years? I've just built most of the permutations of three of the 3-in-1s (dragon, shark, and robot) which were a lot of fun and good value. There are so many new pieces and colors! Lego is cool. I wish there were some generic space/castle lines out there right now, but I don't see any.
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There are not, which I think is a bit of shame. There doesn't seem to be enough room in the market for both Space and Star Wars at the same time, and I think to a lesser extent Castle and Harry Potter. That said, it's not difficult to find second-hand Space and Castle sets, and the more recent themes of them (Galaxy Squad, Kingdoms etc) aren't too expensive.
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Hey so when will they get the Pirates of Barracuda Bay and the Treehouse sets back in stock? Because I feel like an idiot for not nabbing then immediately after release.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:As well, when I have two small plates of the same size stuck together I find my teeth are sometimes the only thing that can separate them. That’s what the narrow end of the brick separator is for, you monster 
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Or just place them on a bigger piece that you can hold and us the brick separator to separate them 1-by-1... SMH
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MichaelFlatley posted:I have 3 constructed modulars - the Town Hall, Palace Cinema and the Grand Emporium. I don’t have the boxes. I might have some of the instructions. They’re probably 97% complete (some minifigs/vehicles might be absent). If you don't care about the $$$ then just throw them on CL. If you do care abou the $$ then disassemble and do piece counts. Order any missing pieces from BL. Then sell them 100% complete on Ebay. All three will sell. Last I checked, the values are used, 100% w/ instructions around: 350, 200 and 250. Incomplete 1/2 to 2/3 those prices depending on the buyer. I wouldn't pay more than 1/2 for something that I knew I was going to have to spend time and money completing.
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sigher posted:
Can you link me to where you bought this?
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:There are not, which I think is a bit of shame. There doesn't seem to be enough room in the market for both Space and Star Wars at the same time, and I think to a lesser extent Castle and Harry Potter. That said, it's not difficult to find second-hand Space and Castle sets, and the more recent themes of them (Galaxy Squad, Kingdoms etc) aren't too expensive. I'd be surprised if we don't see a Barracuda Bay style set for Castle in the next few Ideas waves.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I'd be surprised if we don't see a Barracuda Bay style set for Castle in the next few Ideas waves. This is why I'm thinking that Castle in the Forest Ideas set has a fighting chance. Personally I really hope LEGO agrees and approves it because I think it would be a legitimately great set. I know people love Pirates but Castle and Space were always my personal jams. Really been thinking about how I want to do some castle MOCs lately, or buy a bunch of those rad Kingdom sets from before i got back into Lego but I don't want to go down another rabbit hole of $$$$$ Also sorry Darth TNT I'll post that for you tommorrow.
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veni veni veni posted:I know people love Pirates but Castle and Space were always my personal jams. I loved Castle and I will almost certainly buy a barracuda bay equivalent set if it happens
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Brawnfire posted:A mixed comment, but I can work with it! Okay, let me clarify me remark a little further to give you a better feeling. A lot of what's posted here is stuff that looks impossible for me to build and makes me go Wow. I'm not a good builder, I work with mostly 90% my own childhood stuff and like 10% stuff that I bought extra to fill out my childhood stuff. The stuff you're posting looks like stuff I can either approach or mirror(so no wow), but it looks like you're building as you're going along just having fun. (And that's apparently exactly what you're doing) It looks like stuff that I want to build, stuff I can build and after it's built call my son over and play with him with the building. And I love it for it.  As for your question, I filled my stuff out by buying some wanted parts off of bricklink, I bought a bag of roof at a garage sale and visited pick a brick a few times. Probably about €90 extra spend in about 2 years and it's given me loads of extra possibilities. Though I'm currently eyeing ways to acquire more pieces that are just bricks. No specialty pieces, just a big pile of whatever color rectangular building materials...and maybe some plates. veni veni veni posted:This is why I'm thinking that Castle in the Forest Ideas set has a fighting chance. Personally I really hope LEGO agrees and approves it because I think it would be a legitimately great set. I know people love Pirates but Castle and Space were always my personal jams. No worries.
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veni veni veni posted:This is why I'm thinking that Castle in the Forest Ideas set has a fighting chance. Personally I really hope LEGO agrees and approves it because I think it would be a legitimately great set. I know people love Pirates but Castle and Space were always my personal jams. Just like the Pirate Bay was a day 1 purchase for me, so would any sort of large nostalgia driven castle themed set. I am also itching to do some Castle type mocs, I actually got some of the 2007 fantasy dwarf stuff from Ebay earlier this year. That coupled with playing Total Warhammer during lockdown has really fired up my imagination.
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mitochondritom posted:Just like the Pirate Bay was a day 1 purchase for me, so would any sort of large nostalgia driven castle themed set. I don’t know what I was thinking not getting the Pirates on Day 1...
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Darth TNT posted:O I said the same thing, and postponed designing my MOC for several years because i thought i couldnt do it but i eventually said gently caress it ill start and see how it goes. Now, looking at the finished design, im kinda surprised with some of the ingenious solutions i came up with. So my advice is to just jump into it, once you start building knowledge on various good piece synergies and techniques seeing the solutions to the various challenges you come across will go much faster.
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Darth TNT posted:Okay, let me clarify me remark a little further to give you a better feeling. Haha no worries you didn't have to clarify, I sort of got what you meant. And actually we have a similar motivation, my 3-yo daughter loves anything that spins, opens/closes, levers and claws and cranes and all that so I like to build around that. It makes for a kind of dollhouse-with-interactive-features look. I've tried and impossible build around her before and I need a very very high shelf for that...
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Looks legit. Instant buy. Wonder what the powered up functions are.
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Are there any sets aged 18+? I thought the highest was 16+. The Fairground Collection also seems odd branding, seeing as the most recent set (Roller Coaster) made no reference to being part of a group. Feels rather more like someone hoping than a legitimate leak, although I can imagine such a release being popular (given the interest in Haunted House last time over in the Monster Fighters theme).
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Testro posted:Are there any sets aged 18+? I thought the highest was 16+. The recent Star Wars helmet sets are also 18+. I wonder if they include also a pornographic video inside or something.
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https://www.promobricks.de/lego-10273-haunted-house-bilder/100451/ More info
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ivantod posted:The recent Star Wars helmet sets are also 18+. I wonder if they include also a pornographic video inside or something. This post made me double check that promobricks.de in the post above wasn't pornobricks.de e: I prefer the old smiling ghosts to the ones in the promo picture, they were almost more menacing in a way.
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