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Captain Invictus posted:they made the cannons able to fire the 1x1 "barrel" pieces eventually, which I discovered by accident and it totally ruled Yes that was loving awesome when I learned that!
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The cannons in the US pirate sets were disabled for a long time because of safety reasons (ironic, I know) but the international versions of those sets have always had shooting cannons since 1989.
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Fun Toy Banned Because Of Three Stupid Dead Kids
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There were two kinds of shooting cannons, one with a spring that you pulled back and released and the other with a firing pin-like piece that you flicked with your finger and could shoot the 1x1 round bricks pretty far. But later sets just had solid molded cannons and they sucked.
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I only ever had the solid cannons and was mad jealous of the shooty ones
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I had a BSB and some other pirate sets of the time (the shipwreck outpost whose name escapes me and El Dorado(?) fortress) and they came with spring loaded cannons in the US. Still in my closet at my parents’ house somewhere.
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Dogen posted:I had a BSB and some other pirate sets of the time (the shipwreck outpost whose name escapes me and El Dorado(?) fortress) and they came with spring loaded cannons in the US. Still in my closet at my parents’ house somewhere. Judging by the pieces in my box, I had at least a couple pirate sets. One of them was definitely  but I don't know what the other one was.
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This one, Sabre Island, has a beautiful baseplate. When I bought a BSB it came with the spring cannons, which was the first time I ever saw them- I assumed the seller had sold me the re release rather than the original as it was a completely “new” part to me.
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Dogen posted:I had a BSB and some other pirate sets of the time (the shipwreck outpost whose name escapes me and El Dorado(?) fortress) and they came with spring loaded cannons in the US. Still in my closet at my parents’ house somewhere. It's definitely possible shooty cannons appeared in some US sets from the beginning even if they weren't supposed to. It wouldn't surprise me if that was a production mistake on Lego's part. I'm not American so all of my cannons are shooty except one, and that one came from one of the US-only pirate sets (6250) which I bought off Bricklink. I have most of the other classic PIrates sets, all the way from 1989 to 2001 and every single one came with the shooty kind.
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The rare Onion article where the text is funnier than the headline
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:When I bought a BSB it came with the spring cannons, which was the first time I ever saw them- I assumed the seller had sold me the re release rather than the original as it was a completely “new” part to me. I bought the BSB release at LEGO Land Germany back in the early 2000s, that one came with the non-shooty cannons with the symbol on the barrel, I thought that was a mistake because this box has the shooty versions printed on it.
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Nth Doctor posted:I really dig the overhead lights. Thanks! It was fun trying to make something work with a fairly limited but not useless set of parts.
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Found a bunch of these in an old Lego box connected together with bars, and every single one snapped as I pulled them off.
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The_Doctor posted:Found a bunch of these in an old Lego box connected together with bars, and every single one snapped as I pulled them off. Ughhh, my 1x1s with clips have all been breaking recently, I guess they're too old now  Also, why the gently caress do I curse myself with impossible goals? Why did I think my racer needed a special secret base? Edit: Double-why do I always think making a natural stone/mountain base out of grey blocks is going to be enjoyable in any way? "It'll be fun to try to emulate an organic stone outcropping in angular bricks!" I exclaim, blasting drool from my idiot mouth with each plosive Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Jun 10, 2020 |
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I just pulled out my Milano to dust it off and the clips for the element guns are toast. I think all c clips randomly have problems but man in that light brown they seem to die fast.
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The_Doctor posted:Found a bunch of these in an old Lego box connected together with bars, and every single one snapped as I pulled them off. By far the largest issue I've been facing in trying to rebuild sets out of my very large collection to sell has been broken c-clips. I think I have five unbroken battle droid arms out of about forty. And it's not just arms, I have broken 1x1s with c clips by the dozen.
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Dogen posted:I just pulled out my Milano to dust it off and the clips for the element guns are toast. I think all c clips randomly have problems but man in that light brown they seem to die fast. My Haunted Mansion came with 2 busted C clips for me when the guy I bought it from disassembled it, both where in that golden color.
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Both ends of the arms for these guys broke for me almost instantly back when I got the Republic Gunship, it mist have been that colour, I remember the clips being really stiff.
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That’s gotta be the worst mini figure LEGO has ever made. It looks like something that came out of a vending machine for 25c
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Dunno about the worst, but it's up there. A few of the early Star Wars figs were pretty janky like the first Sebulba: And Aldar Beedo:  But my vote for worst would go to the Mars Mission aliens: 
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ExParrot posted:Both ends of the arms for these guys broke for me almost instantly back when I got the Republic Gunship, it mist have been that colour, I remember the clips being really stiff. They feel like a different plastic to me, like they used the star wars sets to test run a new manufacturing process for one-off custom pieces. And since every single one I've ever owned broke to the point where I don't even have one complete Super Battle Droid, I'd say it failed. E: quote:But my vote for worst would go to the Mars Mission aliens: These I'll give a pass because they fit into little sleds that could shoot through pneumatic tubes. If they had moveable arms or connectors they'd be really easy to accidentally get jammed in the tubes. quote:And Aldar Beedo: But I've never seen this before and it is indeed inexcusable. Shit Fuckasaurus fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Jun 10, 2020 |
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The Aldar Beedo fig looks like something you’d find in a quarter capsule machine at the Dollar Tree.
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So thanks to another goon who reminded me that there was a LEGO Wall-E, I bought a brand new set for way too much and just built it up. Finishing the set I noticed that it's neck is really loose and apparently LEGO issued a "fix" bag or something for it to change the build and fix the neck issues. Obviously 7 years later I'm sure I can't contact LEGO about getting the fix bag, but I'm not sure what parts exactly I need in addition to what's already in the neck in order to fix it. Looks like definitely need those two large ball and socket pieces that were used in the arms, though I don't know the piece numbers. I found a German video that shows the bag with pieces for the clearly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qixn5WIbVWU&t=117s Can anyone help me with the part numbers so I can buy these via Bricklink or somewhere else?
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sigher posted:Can anyone help me with the part numbers so I can buy these via Bricklink or somewhere else? Here you go.
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40 loving dollars for those pieces? What the gently caress.
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It's 40 dollars for the kit with the instructions, collectors/resellers are dumb. Individually those 10 parts are gonna be like 1 dollar, click the "10 parts" link up near the top and build a wishlist out of the parts on that page.
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Going by the part inventory it's probably a bit cheaper. That's just for the original sealed bag which you're just going to have to open anyway if you intend on using the pieces. e:b
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sigher posted:Can anyone help me with the part numbers so I can buy these via Bricklink or somewhere else? If you double your order I would be happy to pay you for a set  I never got around to fixing my poor-necked Wall-E
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xzzy posted:It's 40 dollars for the kit with the instructions, collectors/resellers are dumb. Literally this, the rarest of those parts (the liftarm) appeared in 33 sets and breaks the bank at $0.06 USD. You can probably get them all, shipped, for under ten bucks. You won't, you'll look at peoples' inventories and find more crap you want or have to meet a minimum for better shipping and then end up with $45 dollars of Classic Space windows or whatever like the rest of us nerds, but it's theoretically possible to acquire those for less than a forums membership.
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xzzy posted:It's 40 dollars for the kit with the instructions, collectors/resellers are dumb. Oh thank heavens, I've never used Bricklink before so I didn't know if there was a way to just bring up the individual parts. Is there anyway to add the parts to the cart and just have Bricklink consolidate the order to be from the least amount of sellers as possible? djfooboo posted:If you double your order I would be happy to pay you for a set Definitely doable if it's easy to do so with Bricklink.
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sigher posted:Oh thank heavens, I've never used Bricklink before so I didn't know if there was a way to just bring up the individual parts. Is there anyway to add the parts to the cart and just have Bricklink consolidate the order to be from the least amount of sellers as possible? Yeah, that's what the wishlist feature is for. It's not a super obvious process but if you make an account and browse to a part, click the 'add to wanted list' link. Then once you've populated that in the upper right corner of the page is the WANT icon, click that and there should be an 'easy buy' link on there somewhere, the default should be the 'Default Wanted List' one. It does its best to find the parts from as few sellers as possible for the best price. You can do it manually too by clicking the wanted list name and at the bottom hitting the 'buy all' button which will allow you to pick individual vendors.
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With Big Yella Bastard in dock, my racer pit stop is a bit over a foot tall... I may have gotten carried away.
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djfooboo posted:Someone made good use of BL When I first saw that I did the nerd thing and worked out how big a box you'd actually need. Assuming that each of the bills is $100 and you stack them neatly rather than loose in bags, you'd need a box about two cubic metres (or 60 cubic feet) big to hold $4 billion worth.
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sigher posted:So thanks to another goon who reminded me that there was a LEGO Wall-E, I bought a brand new set for way too much and just built it up. Finishing the set I noticed that it's neck is really loose and apparently LEGO issued a "fix" bag or something for it to change the build and fix the neck issues. Obviously 7 years later I'm sure I can't contact LEGO about getting the fix bag, but I'm not sure what parts exactly I need in addition to what's already in the neck in order to fix it. Looks like definitely need those two large ball and socket pieces that were used in the arms, though I don't know the piece numbers. I found a German video that shows the bag with pieces for the clearly: I bought that set after it was fixed and always wondered how the messed it up originally. What a weird oversight. One of the greatest Lego sets ever though.
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veni veni veni posted:I bought that set after it was fixed and always wondered how the messed it up originally. What a weird oversight. Mine was one of the retrofitted boxes.. packaged before the problem was discovered, but not before it was shipped to me. So the box had been opened by someone at Lego and they had inserted the instruction manual addendum and the extra pieces on top of everything. Must have cost an assload of money to fix that mistake.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:When I first saw that I did the nerd thing and worked out how big a box you'd actually need. So they could just reprint the box the UCS Falcon comes in
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:When I first saw that I did the nerd thing and worked out how big a box you'd actually need. Cute. https://youtu.be/ouI9RVheAtg
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