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xzzy posted:Is that set even possible? How are they fitting a wheel in there that can handle 10 digits, or 12 months? You could do the tree on fire?
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I love it and would buy it immediately for my desk. As fora different summer maybe do a beach umbrella and reclining chair sans minifig
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I'm not entirely sure what they are using for the dials, but it looks like maybe the cylinder pieces stacked bottom to bottom or something to create that gap. If that's true, then they'd only be able to have four months per cylinder, so you'd have to take the thing apart to replace it with the next set of months.
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sigher posted:This is beautiful and I love the builds, though I'd remove the dude selling ice cream in Summer, I get it but he just looks out of place. Though with the limited space he's working with I'm not sure how to better depict Summer. Beach setting for summer.
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xzzy posted:Is that set even possible? How are they fitting a wheel in there that can handle 10 digits, or 12 months? I’m envisioning like a loop/conveyor belt type setup rather than circular wheels to save space
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Waltzing Along posted:Beach setting for summer. I think the idea is that it's one scene with that metal fence and tree in each season.
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I am sold so hard on that calendar, especially after seeing the halloween scene. Build your own setting for each month or relevant event? That’s the best idea I’ve seen since the playable lego NES console.Carbohydrates posted:That's cool, honestly. I still think the official LEGO one took it in a better direction, but it's very different. Honestly the plan for me is to buy both, and then I can keep the official set as a ship! Lego has pretty well stopped doing custom baseplates altogether, right? Outside of single color packs iirc. Makes sense with the the raised plates especially, I can only imagine getting consistent cooling without warping is a challenge.
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Yeah, I can totally see the calendar getting built. It's a great idea and is actually useful as a display item. I think it's a slam dunk approval, assuming they can get the mechanism to function properly.
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OSU_Matthew posted:Lego has pretty well stopped doing custom baseplates altogether, right? Outside of single color packs iirc. Makes sense with the the raised plates especially, I can only imagine getting consistent cooling without warping is a challenge. As in the thin ones and not regular plates? Yep, it's been a while since they've been in anything other than modulars or the single/road packs. Even longer for raised ones. I would imagine that the cost of the raised ones is a big reason why they're not made anymore. Let's not forget that Lego almost went bankrupt not that long ago and part of the reason was because they were making way too many one-off parts and raised baseplates would be included in that. I've got a bit of a collection of them and most of them only came in a few expensive sets.
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 Not sure of the original source but my buddy sent this picture to me and I loved it and thought I would share it with you all.
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It's weird to me that Lego has distanced themselves from specialized parts due to the price while every knockoff Lego brand seems to have no problem making them all day every day. I like it though. Specialized parts defeat the purpose of the system. It's all about finding solutions with parts that can serve multiple purposes. Although, sometimes I think they are too stingy about it and will make a set over and over that looks wrong before finally sucking it up and making a part that makes it look right. See: 17 years of X-Wings with a wonky looking canopy. or the snowspeeders that still look all wrong to this day.
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veni veni veni posted:It's weird to me that Lego has distanced themselves from specialized parts due to the price while every knockoff Lego brand seems to have no problem making them all day every day. The 2019 Mustang was the first LEGO car to have doors that close flush with the body.
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Yet when they do make that part, it becomes super useful for other things.
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Every night I make a prayer that those 2x2 wing pieces get a tile version.
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veni veni veni posted:It's weird to me that Lego has distanced themselves from specialized parts due to the price while every knockoff Lego brand seems to have no problem making them all day every day. Meanwhile I have dipshits posting stuff like this when I write about LEGO: “an idiot” posted:I see many custom pieces that simply do not make a good fit with anything. I highly doubt you could build a tower use even half those pieces... https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/this-200-lego-nes-set-features-a-scrolling-8-bit-mario/?comments=1&post=39063863#comment-39063863
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drgitlin posted:Meanwhile I have dipshits posting stuff like this when I write about LEGO: Yeah this is a complaint I see from people all of the time, especially 30 somethings, and I think it's people who are out of touch and just do not understand Lego or how the sets are built now. Like, they see how good the sets look at assume it's just a bunch of parts made specifically for that set when that couldn't be further from the truth. Custom parts are super rare and usually only made out of total necessity for a (usually pricey) set to look good. They don't understand that all of these tiles and wedges and hinges are common parts in Lego's system. Cojawfee posted:Yet when they do make that part, it becomes super useful for other things. Yeah exactly. One of the only modern Lego parts I can think of that has only one use is the cockpit they use for passenger planes/space shuttles. When they make a custom canopy for a UCS set or whatever it usually immediately starts showing up in other sets, repurposed as something else.
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Well the reddit threads were all angry that it doesn't actually play video games, so the idiot that only wants to build lego towers is actually a high water mark.
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Rythe posted:
I follow obvious plant on instagram, everything they create is great. Most of them are a single unit that they randomly drop in a dollar store.
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The way mario is on the round transparent dish and he moves up and down based on that edge riding on the conveyor belts is smart. I could def see Zelda 1 / 2 being one. top down maps for 1 and some level for 2. Excite bike makes sense. Not sure how metroid but work but it could be interesting.
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I finally got around to photographing and editing and posting all the pictures from the base I built so long ago. Enjoy! https://imgur.com/a/HxGq7AK
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veni veni veni posted:Yeah this is a complaint I see from people all of the time, especially 30 somethings, and I think it's people who are out of touch and just do not understand Lego or how the sets are built now. Like, they see how good the sets look at assume it's just a bunch of parts made specifically for that set when that couldn't be further from the truth. Custom parts are super rare and usually only made out of total necessity for a (usually pricey) set to look good. They don't understand that all of these tiles and wedges and hinges are common parts in Lego's system. I dunno, not for the reasons you guys bring up, but I think there is a lot of validity to the complaint that the proportion of specialized vs generically utilitarian pieces is a bit of an issue in the past 15 years or so. For AFOLs and for the actual look of the finished sets it's great sure, but being a kid these days where your collection is 40% flat plates, 30% technic bricks and 10% weird curved slopes it's gotta suck a bit if you just wanna make a castle or something.
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Koramei posted:I dunno, not for the reasons you guys bring up, but I think there is a lot of validity to the complaint that the proportion of specialized vs generically utilitarian pieces is a bit of an issue in the past 15 years or so. For AFOLs and for the actual look of the finished sets it's great sure, but being a kid these days where your collection is 40% flat plates, 30% technic bricks and 10% weird curved slopes it's gotta suck a bit if you just wanna make a castle or something. Stop buying Star Wars sets haha kid like just buy a pirate ship
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Pirate ships are a gateway drug. When I was younger I just had the Renegade Runner and Imperial Armada. Later I acquired the Brickbeard Bounty and more recently the Black Seas Barracuda, Skulls Eye Schooner and Pirates of Barracuda Bay. I’m fighting temptation not to get the Caribbean Clipper and Imperial Flagship.
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Yeah just get a 3-in-1 set or something.w00tazn posted:Not sure how metroid but work but it could be interesting. Probably more or less like Mario.
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I just finished building this old school (1978) technic tractor out of parts I had available: http://peeron.com/scans/952-1/1/ Let me tell you how jazzed I was to realize it had a functional lifting and lock 3-point hitch, and that one of the rear wheels drives a PTO for said attachments. Wild. Then let me tell you how annoyed I am that the large wheels I have are not quite as large as THOSE wheels, they look the same but are like 2cm less in diameter, so the stance is all borked and the 3 point mechanism just barely taps the ground when engaging.  Anyhow, I'm gonna split the tractor and work on the front end, there are a lot of parts available now to jazz that whole section up a lot. I really need to establish a system and sort all these parts.
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veni veni veni posted:Yeah exactly. One of the only modern Lego parts I can think of that has only one use is the cockpit they use for passenger planes/space shuttles. When they make a custom canopy for a UCS set or whatever it usually immediately starts showing up in other sets, repurposed as something else. I hate to keep returning to this, but…  I’m sure there are plenty of creative people out there that will see this as something other than 92748 Rotund Plumber Pants with Toolbelt Pattern, but I’m not seeing Lego using this piece absent a chunkyfig.
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Well at the very least it looks like you can swap the suspender buttons out for flesh colored ones to give him giant lego nipples, so there's that.
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Bad Munki posted:Well at the very least it looks like you can swap the suspender buttons out for flesh colored ones to give him giant lego nipples, so there's that. And we have confirmed Mario has nipples, so we're good to go on that front.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Pirate ships are a gateway drug. When I was younger I just had the Renegade Runner and Imperial Armada. Later I acquired the Brickbeard Bounty and more recently the Black Seas Barracuda, Skulls Eye Schooner and Pirates of Barracuda Bay. I’m fighting temptation not to get the Caribbean Clipper and Imperial Flagship. Just get them all. You won't be able to move on until you do. Do eeeet.
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What I find a little odd is that each color of Mario's overalls is apparently an entirely different mold, because each one has the pinout identifying what powerup it is as part of the mold. A mold for a piece that big and complex isn't going to be cheap. I don't see why they couldn't've molded each set of overalls the same, and had a glued-in insert that contained the pinout. Unless the molds themselves are modular and they can swap out the pinout section between print runs, I guess.
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Pyroclastic posted:What I find a little odd is that each color of Mario's overalls is apparently an entirely different mold, because each one has the pinout identifying what powerup it is as part of the mold. A mold for a piece that big and complex isn't going to be cheap. I don't see why they couldn't've molded each set of overalls the same, and had a glued-in insert that contained the pinout. Unless the molds themselves are modular and they can swap out the pinout section between print runs, I guess. Oh poo poo, is that how that part works? That’s insane. I figured whatever sensor in the thing that reads the bricks and Goombas and all just read something in the pants too.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Oh poo poo, is that how that part works? That’s insane. I figured whatever sensor in the thing that reads the bricks and Goombas and all just read something in the pants too. The light sensor tech is probably more expensive than the simple microswitches it uses for the overalls. The New Elementary pointed it out: https://www.newelementary.com/2020/06/what-new-parts-lego-super-mario.html#more
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drgitlin posted:Meanwhile I have dipshits posting stuff like this when I write about LEGO:  )Blue Moonlight posted:I hate to keep returning to this, but… edit, that one dipshit is back, this should be fun: quote:I challenge anyone to share a picture of a tower or bridge being built using half of the pieces from one these sets that contains many non brick pieces. japtor fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Jul 16, 2020 |
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I'm gonna guess those dipshits don't have or know any kids because my nephews are always building crazy cool little builds using a lot of the smaller pieces that I wouldn't have been able to do when I was younger.
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That thing is amazing.It took me a second to realize it was even actually Lego.
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