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The SF one does a neat perspective trick for the Golden Gate bridge.
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When I was a kid I loved lego. I only bought one actual kit and the rest was just accumulated basic pieces. A couple of weeks ago for no particular reason I was looking at kits on Amazon and bought a little street sweeper, and last night I played with lego for the first time since probably 1978. The quality seems just as good, but there were a lot of specialized parts I'd never seen. And now I have a tiny lego banana. EDIT: I downloaded a lego CAD program that has a built-in renderer. Shockingly easy to use. Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Aug 19, 2020 |
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Dick Trauma posted:When I was a kid I loved lego. I only bought one actual kit and the rest was just accumulated basic pieces. A couple of weeks ago for no particular reason I was looking at kits on Amazon and bought a little street sweeper, and last night I played with lego for the first time since probably 1978. Building the Saturn V after 20+ years of no LEGO was mind blowing
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Aug 19, 2020 04:37
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Can anyone vouch for the San Francisco or Tokyo Architecture sets? I want both of these but with Ninjago Gardens coming in the spring I am going to be saving $$$ until then. I'll hopefully grab them on sale or else just before they are discontinued because they look like the best of the bunch. I own and love the Tokyo set. YMMV but I mainly bought it because I've spent a decent amount of time in Japan so it was awesome to build a set of things I've been to.
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Aug 19, 2020 04:50
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Dick Trauma posted:When I was a kid I loved lego. I only bought one actual kit and the rest was just accumulated basic pieces. A couple of weeks ago for no particular reason I was looking at kits on Amazon and bought a little street sweeper, and last night I played with lego for the first time since probably 1978.
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Aug 19, 2020 04:59
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It's called Studio 2.0. I've worked with 3d software for over 20 years so I didn't even read the instructions, just jumped in and started messing around. I can see that just like regular modeling you need a plan if you want to accomplish something, but I'm looking forward to doing some virtual building, and generating some nice renders. Also holy poo poo the kits get expensive.
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Aug 19, 2020 05:06
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Can anyone vouch for the San Francisco or Tokyo Architecture sets? I want both of these but with Ninjago Gardens coming in the spring I am going to be saving $$$ until then. I'll hopefully grab them on sale or else just before they are discontinued because they look like the best of the bunch. I think for a lot of the cityscape Architecture sets, they end up being “famous buildings in a row”, which is fine, and can get you some interesting SNOT techniques, but its maybe not really representative of the city. For example, the buildings in the Las Vegas model aren’t even ordered like they are on the strip, and just lol if you think anyone thinks about the Encore casino when thinking of Las Vegas landmarks. That’s a long preamble to say that the San Francisco does a great job of avoiding this because it has depth. From the use of forced projection, both dramatic (the Golden Gate) and subtle (Alcatraz), to layering the Painted Ladies in front of the skyscrapers, to depicting how hilly the city is, it really stands out. One of the best in the line.
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Building the Saturn V after 20+ years of no LEGO was mind blowing Did you drop it afterwards?
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Blue Moonlight posted:...and just lol if you think anyone thinks about the Encore casino when thinking of Las Vegas landmarks. Isn't that the model they replaced into the build because of the shooting?
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PriorMarcus posted:Isn't that the model they replaced into the build because of the shooting? No, they replaced Mandalay Bay with the Bellagio, which imo looks better and is more iconic anyway. The Encore is still rear end though.
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Aug 19, 2020 08:41
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The Sydney set is a pretty good representation of the view from the Botanic Gardens / Mrs Mac's Chair 
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tuo posted:Did you drop it afterwards? No but I did pull it off the shelf recently after like 2 years and could not remember exactly where it separates. It’s definitely more fragile than I remembered when i built it.
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Aug 19, 2020 13:35
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CEEi2IpAn3A/?igshid=b4jxecqft6kp Diagon Alley set has leaked. Pics in the link. Its a lot less interesting than I thought it would be as someone who was less interesting in the license and more interesting in the modding opportunities.
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It's interesting that two of the most prominent buildings (Gringott's and the Leaky Cauldron) aren't in it.
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Lego Berlin is fairly dull because the city doesn’t have much of a skyline outside the tv tower. I only own it because I lived there.
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Aug 19, 2020 13:49
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's interesting that two of the most prominent buildings (Gringott's and the Leaky Cauldron) aren't in it. Presumably so it fits in with that set already released. Essentially it’s a Part 2.
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PriorMarcus posted:https://www.instagram.com/p/CEEi2IpAn3A/?igshid=b4jxecqft6kp I don't know squat about this property, but I'm always down for interesting and even quasi historical looking buildings. Unfortunately most of it doesn't work for me. Especially that monstrosity on the far right, what are those whack colours?!
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Aug 19, 2020 13:52
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It's probably Weasley wizard wheezes or whatever it was called. The joke shop that Ron's brothers opened after leaving school. Trap sprung and I am outed as a Harry Potter dork.
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Lizard Combatant posted:I don't know squat about this property, but I'm always down for interesting and even quasi historical looking buildings. Unfortunately most of it doesn't work for me. Especially that monstrosity on the far right, what are those whack colours?! It's the Weasley's joke shop. The_Doctor posted:Presumably so it fits in with that set already released. Essentially it’s a Part 2. Both sets have Ollivander's, and the previous one didn't have the Leaky Cauldron either.
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Aug 19, 2020 14:03
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I guess the Leaky Cauldron would be like a "modern" pub (in quotes cause it's wizards but from what I remember it just looked like a typical back alley boozer) right? They might be hesitant to do that where they're fine with like, old timey saloons and stuff.
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Aug 19, 2020 14:07
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Is it those nauseating shades in the films? Cause I'd fire the art director who brought me a bright orange and pastel lavender disaster like that.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Is it those nauseating shades in the films? Cause I'd fire the art director who brought me a bright orange and pastel lavender disaster like that. Close! The wizards are generally portrayed as not giving a hoot about colour and decorum. 
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Lizard Combatant posted:Is it those nauseating shades in the films? Cause I'd fire the art director who brought me a bright orange and pastel lavender disaster like that.  You only really see it in the 6th movie and the colour grading in that film is as hostile to bright colours as it is possible to be. In other depictions (theme parks, games, other lego sets) it's much brighter.
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Aug 19, 2020 14:20
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Why is everyone so into Diagon Alley when Knockturn Alley is just so much loving cooler?
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Eh, I would have gone with that more pumpkin nougaty colour personally for the set. Still hideous 
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Hook us up with leaks of the new Ninjago set, TIA
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Brawnfire posted:Why is everyone so into Diagon Alley when Knockturn Alley is just so much loving cooler?  Knockturn Alley at Universal Studios is amazing.
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I was up late last night and it occurred to me that instead of fumbling around in Studio I could download instructions for a real set and try to construct it virtually. I found something that looked easy and gave it a go. Although I couldn't find a couple of pieces (even after searching for brick numbers online) I learned alot about the program and am encouraged to make more of these until I'm ready to design my own. 
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Studio also has the option to just straight up put a set number in and it will lay out all the bricks you need. Then you just grab them and build. Just go to file > import > Import official lego set
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Big Mean Jerk posted:No, they replaced Mandalay Bay with the Bellagio, which imo looks better and is more iconic anyway. Ah, that would explain the ordering of buildings. It’d be correct if it was Mandalay Bay instead of Bellagio.
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Cojawfee posted:Studio also has the option to just straight up put a set number in and it will lay out all the bricks you need. Then you just grab them and build. Do not type in 75192.
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xzzy posted:Do not type in 75192. They made a goatse kit? EDIT: I just tried the import feature and  Some of the parts I couldn't find for this kit are still missing, but the doorframe I couldn't track down turns out to be a windowframe. 
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Doctor Spaceman posted:
Yeah, the colour grading in the film changes it - having been to the studios and seen the set, it's lurid orange backed by pink-purple. Lego have got it exactly right. Looks like they've chosen: Ollivanders, Scribbulus, Quality Quidditch Supplies, Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour, Flourish and Blotts, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. The film set is: Left hand side: Gringotts, Scribbulus, Ollivanders, Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment, Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour, Flourish and Blotts, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Right hand side: Potages, Mr Mullpepper's Apothecary, Slug and Jiggers, Eeylop's Owl Emporium, Quality Quidditch Supplies, Madam Malkin's. So, they've replaced Wiseacre's with Quality Quidditch Supplies. As a result, the right hand side of the street seems too insignificant to make a second set (although Madam Malkin's makes an appearance a couple of times in the books). I would guess that Gringotts is iconic enough to deserve a set of its own, and that's why Ollivanders and Scribbulus have swapped locations.
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Hm. It looks fine. Happy to have another big, expensive set that I can pass on. I'll watch/read a review or two to get my fill when it comes out and call it good.
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Despite its prevalence, the Leaky Cauldron is still a pub, and Lego won’t touch alcohol.
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The_Doctor posted:Despite its prevalence, the Leaky Cauldron is still a pub, and Lego won’t touch alcohol. They've made several "restaurants" which have kegs, a bunch of inns, and the Mos Eisley cantina so it's a somewhat soft restriction.
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I spent way too much time on this.
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Dick Trauma posted:I spent way too much time on this. 
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Dick Trauma posted:I spent way too much time on this. So this piqued my curiosity and I googled it and: https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-ent...th-lego-pieces/
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