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Brawnfire posted:This gave me a weird idea: SPACE RACERS Why don’t we all do this?? Can we select a general stud dimension and all come up with our own submissions? Something Between Dakar Rally and a slightly chunkier Wipeout? Whether anyone else bothers, this may be my project today with my son. So, thanks! [Ed] what about the new Speed Champions dimensions? 8-stud side? Feenix fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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no broccoli please posted:Oh my god now I want to make a Wipeout racer. I’m basically making an early-gen wipeout racer right now. Go for it.
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Jun 2, 2020 17:58
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Feenix posted:Why don’t we all do this?? Can we select a general stud dimension and all come up with our own submissions? Well I'm loving in! Sounds like a fun challenge. So this would be 8x8 stud max with minifig scale?
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Brawnfire posted:Well I'm loving in! Sounds like a fun challenge. Ok so Im doing Minifig scale. 8x8 wish (lets face it, spaceship race ships can be a little narrower, or a little fatter, or a little long... Just keep it around there, is my motto. (like it could reasonably compete in the same race & reality as all the rest.
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Jun 2, 2020 20:30
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Looks like Lego is pulling from the shop all sets containing police minifigs/vehicles: Also pulled, Architecture White House set. They are still available at the mo, but it was just announced so presumably still working on updating the website.
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Jun 2, 2020 20:38
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I got my Haunted House set and... this is probably what hell looks like:  I don't think I'll ever buy a set this big used, this was misery.
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Jun 2, 2020 20:55
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that's a pretty good assembly table
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sigher posted:I got my Haunted House set and... this is probably what hell looks like: Did it come that way or is this a self-inflicted 1-pile?
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The Bloop posted:that's a pretty good assembly table I love it a lot, but it's a little too small for such a big build, there were too many pieces for this.  Oxyclean posted:Did it come that way or is this a self-inflicted 1-pile? It came in 4 giant ziplock bags that weren't sorted in any fashion. I tried looking for the pieces to start the beginning of the build in the bags and found some so I started with that bag first... then slowly started to come to realize I needed pieces from the other bags. I dumped the other three bags because I knew trying to pick everything out neatly from them was going to take longer than to just sort it all. It really makes me appreciate the presorted bags from new sets, this easily doubled my build time.
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Feenix posted:Ok so Im doing Minifig scale. 8x8 wish (lets face it, spaceship race ships can be a little narrower, or a little fatter, or a little long... Gotcha!
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ivantod posted:Looks like Lego is pulling from the shop all sets containing police minifigs/vehicles: As someone stressed the gently caress out and extremely anxious about what’s going down with police violence in the USA, this gave me a bit of frivolous joy. Maybe Lego Town will find something new to focus on instead of 10,000 iterations of police sets.
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i would love to see confirmation on that lego pulling cop sets story
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Jun 2, 2020 21:41
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ACAB, but why are firefighters getting pulled?
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Do they have any Police minipigs in them? That could be the reason.
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Time Cowboy posted:As someone stressed the gently caress out and extremely anxious about what’s going down with police violence in the USA, this gave me a bit of frivolous joy. Maybe Lego Town will find something new to focus on instead of 10,000 iterations of police sets. The Bloop posted:i would love to see confirmation on that lego pulling cop sets story I hope this is not fake, but apologies if I got taken by a hoax. Let's see what happens in the next couple of days. SkeletonHero posted:ACAB, but why are firefighters getting pulled?
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sigher posted:It came in 4 giant ziplock bags that weren't sorted in any fashion. I tried looking for the pieces to start the beginning of the build in the bags and found some so I started with that bag first... then slowly started to come to realize I needed pieces from the other bags. I dumped the other three bags because I knew trying to pick everything out neatly from them was going to take longer than to just sort it all. Oh! I didn't realize this was an old Haunted House, not the thing that just came out. Yeah, I imagine any second hand purchases are going to be one piles. Biggest thing I had to one pile was putting back together 6211 Star Destroyer. Still wondering how I managed it because I run out of space on my desk even with ordered bag sets.
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Man... those MOC building moments when you just start on something and it’s kind of kludgey and stupid buy you have an image in your mind and then you kinda just start seeing the matrix and you zen out and start upgrading/swapping this piece for that, etc... and before you know it you have some incredible poo poo and you’re all jazzed about it. I love Lego. (And I’m nearly done with my Space-Racer!) (at least v1.0...)
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Apollodorus posted:Police minipigs Lmao
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ivantod posted:Looks like Lego is pulling from the shop all sets containing police minifigs/vehicles: Apollodorus posted:minipigs Also, this is a good post: Black lives matter, even among privileged LEGO builders [Editorial] The LEGO Group's own Mark Stafford had some words in the comment section, which I will go ahead and stick right here: Mark Stafford posted:
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https://twitter.com/GentleHooves/status/1142034863471628288?s=20
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Feenix posted:Man... those MOC building moments when you just start on something and it’s kind of kludgey and stupid buy you have an image in your mind and then you kinda just start seeing the matrix and you zen out and start upgrading/swapping this piece for that, etc... and before you know it you have some incredible poo poo and you’re all jazzed about it. Definitely know that feeling! I'm gonna start on mine soon, but I had to finish up this one... So someone may have a glimmer of memory that I challenged myself to do something interesting with the UFO pieces I have. Well, several months and failed attempts later, I feel as though I have actually made something decently cool-looking: (I tried a white backdrop for the first time with mixed results) THE ALIEN GUNSHIP       (JUST NOTICED A PIECE MISSING. The rear landing gear/engine should have a trans green disc. Ah well.) Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Hey what's this space racer thing? Sounds fun. There a general style y'all referencing?
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Lizard Combatant posted:Hey what's this space racer thing? Sounds fun. There a general style y'all referencing? Actually yeah, feenix are we trying to emulate/paying homage to the classic space themes [Space Police, Blacktron, Exploriens, Ice Planet] or are we going off on our own directions?
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Brawnfire posted:THE ALIEN GUNSHIP Hell yeah dude. As someone for whom UFO was the last stuff I got before the dark ages, that looks awesome and extraterrestrial and swooshable.
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the UFO pieces are such unwieldy garbage but can absolutely be decently like that, love me an asymmetrical spaceship too speaking of unwieldy, I found a polaroid photograph of the biggest thing I made when I was 8. I had just watched the terrible movie Robot Wars and the giant robot scorpion that had a people transport on its back was the COOLEST thing to me ever, so I tried to build it using what I had available. I was not able to make it stand on legs so I gave it wheels instead.  and my attempt  apologies for the blurriness of the polaroid, and I think the missiles on it are from a megabloks military vehicle my aunt got me when I was very little
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Brawnfire posted:Actually yeah, feenix are we trying to emulate/paying homage to the classic space themes [Space Police, Blacktron, Exploriens, Ice Planet] or are we going off on our own directions? I think whatever. I know this wasn’t my original idea in this thread but I loved it and I basically went HAMM today on it. How about I post my v1.0 (still thinking of some tweaks) to give you a general idea of what I did. I should have it up later tonight... I wasn’t hewing to any specific style beyond: Colorways you can repeat as a brand (vehicle, pilot livery, pit crew) Vaguely reminiscent of Wipeout (but a couple hens earlier, so not as sleek and “magic flying”-ish Fits a single pilot. Meant for racing. (Not a space hauler).
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When have cops ever looked like the minifig on the left?
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I have one pre-minifig cop Lego   They hadn't invented limbs and faces yet I guess
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sigher posted:When have cops ever looked like the minifig on the left? About 125 years ago when they just walked around with a club and a whistle. It could be modern but you'd have to have a duty belt waist accessory thing because you know they probably wouldn't paint handcuffs and a gun on a torso. I assume it's a joke because the one on the right is clearly a motorcycle cop wearing a motorcycle leather jacket and helmet. But given how stupid people are maybe it's real. 
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 Best I could do while playing Lego with my 3 and 5 year olds. Might play around with it a bit more, but I dig it.
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ChesterJT posted:About 125 years ago when they just walked around with a club and a whistle. It could be modern but you'd have to have a duty belt waist accessory thing because you know they probably wouldn't paint handcuffs and a gun on a torso. I don't think that recall is real but boy howdy would I ever be happy to be wrong
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no broccoli please posted:
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Only my motorcycle cop figs looked like the right image. Motorcycle cops wearing full face helmets is unrealistic because it's too intelligent a policy for American PDs.
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FYI, there's four minifigs in that image, the other two were cropped out. You can click through to see two more recent ones, including a current one with tactical vest, riot helmet, and magazine pouches. I should have just rehosted the picture, but I'm lazy. edit: here's the original tweet, and not a tweet with a screenshot of the tweet... https://twitter.com/aliceavizandum/status/1141547556322852864?lang=en deoju fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Jun 3, 2020 |
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no broccoli please posted:
Slick! And as a father of a three-year-old, completing anything around them is challenge level omega. I tried throwing together a Blacktron-inspired racer. I wanted it to be a chunky thruster, with a short fat body and lots of engines. I'm within a stud or two of the 8 stud regulation, with some minor projections on either side.     
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deoju posted:FYI, there's four minifigs in that image, the other two were cropped out. You can click through to see two more recent ones, including a current one with tactical vest, riot helmet, and magazine pouches. I should have just rehosted the picture, but I'm lazy. Ahh ok, that makes more sense.
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deoju posted:FYI, there's four minifigs in that image, the other two were cropped out. You can click through to see two more recent ones, including a current one with tactical vest, riot helmet, and magazine pouches. I should have just rehosted the picture, but I'm lazy. this was one of the replies and the wording on it made me bust out laughing, it's true quote:If you put all the lego city sets together you end up with a police state with almost no housing https://twitter.com/darren_cullen/status/1141807768220917762 Brawnfire posted:I tried throwing together a Blacktron-inspired racer. I wanted it to be a chunky thruster, with a short fat body and lots of engines. I'm within a stud or two of the 8 stud regulation, with some minor projections on either side.
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Captain Invictus posted:this was one of the replies and the wording on it made me bust out laughing, it's true Thanks a lot! Yeah, when I started posting I had just pulled my LEGO out after years of them being in a closet, to see if my daughter would be interested in playing with them... but I was pretty rusty with technique and my daughter was pretty destructive. Now she likes to build her own little car or house while I can do whatever and she doesn't try to wreck it. (Sometimes she still accidentally does by trying to "help" or just by... moving through Chaos Toddler Space for a moment.) I've been inspired by a lot of what I see in this thread tho, between what people build (I though about Carbohydrate's cars a lot during this build) and the new sets that are out there. I want an influx of new fun gimmicky pieces so bad, I can't believe the range of connection options and colors available these days. God I sound so loving old.
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sigher posted:Ahh ok, that makes more sense. It does but it'd be a better comparison if they just had the first and last image. The middle two are a motorcycle cop and what appears to be a helicopter pilot. Plus it's not like that last guy is loaded with 4 glocks and some c4. He just has more pockets. The helmet is an odd choice but it's hard to say without knowing what set it's from.
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