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Carbohydrates posted:All righty, since you guys are intent on They told me in high school that peer pressure didn't work. Looks like they were wrong! It's an uphill climb to get selected, but I do hope this bank makes it the whole way.
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Mindstorms inventor kit 51515 arrived today. The good - The battery arrives pre-charged. The kit is sized for small hands to easily work with, including the hub. The giant lattice technic platters/rings are great. The wheels are nice. There's some very clever presentation and the box is actually useful while building. (It has piece illustrations printed on the inside to help sort) The motors are much nicer to build with. The bad - There's no printed instruction book. Have a tablet handy and charged! The bags the parts come in are not nearly as nicely staged as some of the other lego sets. Expect to spend your first time sorting down the box into something that works for you. The motors/sensors have their wires hard connected. (Hopefully someone comes up with extension cables) The brick doesn't have a screen, presumably so it could be smaller. One of the things that is super clear is that the baseline assumption at LEGO is that if you are playing with their powered toys, your family owns a recent smartphone and have solid internet. That's not unreasonable for this kit (it's not cheap) but I hope they have a plan for supporting some of the cheap tablets for schools if this kit is going to be the next Mindstorms for education product. I'll have more thoughts once the first robot is finished building by the kiddo and we see if she can figure out how to connect it to one of the computers. (She got to step 27 with the only help from me being "yes you may borrow my tablet, let me grab the builder app off the appstore" then ran into bedtime.)
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Carbo: wagon or stagecoach?
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Ultimate Mango posted:Carbo: wagon or stagecoach? If it's the thieves getaway tool should it be a stagecoach?
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Earth posted:If it's the thieves getaway tool should it be a stagecoach? No because the stagecoach is it’s own set in the line of western sets LEGO is going to hire Carbohydrates to design. 
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Oct 20, 2020 03:54
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You don't use a stagecoach to rob a bank, you would use a wagon.
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Personally I'd use a gun
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Wow this is a kickass build (not mine)
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Oct 21, 2020 13:49
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DON'T GO IN THERE!!
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Kickass?! Are you serious? That thing's obviously not up to code!
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Oct 21, 2020 20:31
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Holy poo poo
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I'm looking to refine my collection sorting, anyone have a particular bin system they really like?
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Yes, but I do it like no one else does so you probably won't like it.  I got a shitton of these: https://www.globalindustrial.com/p/storage/bins-totes-containers/shelf/little-bin-plastic-stacking-bins-2-3-4-x-5-1-4-x-3-yellow And put them inside these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002SMU0ZS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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xzzy posted:Yes, but I do it like no one else does so you probably won't like it. Love the idea of removable bins. I use tackle boxes and let me tell you picking through for a specific round 1x1 is torture.
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Carbohydrates posted:
Saw it on brother's brick. It's absolutely awesome. I'm also really impressed with this thing. As "boring" as it looks, the use of parts is very interesting. 
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Sloppy posted:I'm looking to refine my collection sorting, anyone have a particular bin system they really like? Small(I use these for minifig accessories and other very small pieces that I don't have a ton of) Medium(good for general parts that you don't have a lot of) Large(good for bulk and large pieces) and use like, a big tupperware bin for huge parts like wings and baseplates and such.
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Oct 22, 2020 10:48
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Dozens and dozens of ziploc bags of varying age/opacity.
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Sloppy posted:I'm looking to refine my collection sorting, anyone have a particular bin system they really like? Like Tommie said, ziplocks are a good place to start, and then plastic shoe bins to start bulk organizing by element taxonomy, eg slopes, slopes, bricks, plates, tiles, minifig, technic, transparent, etc. Here’s a really great article about sorting and bin recommendations Papimax bins are what I wanted to buy, but they’ve been perpetually sold out since I started checking a year ago. I wouldn’t hold my breath. However, I did buy a metric shitton of these Really Useful Boxes drawers and organizer trays, and those I can heartily recommend. The drawers are 100% modular with height and tops, very sturdy plastic, slide well, large size, and the dividers neatly drop in. I’m still trying to get sorted myself, but this system seems to be the best one I’ve found so far. Just be warned the price does add up.
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Literally A Person posted:Love the idea of removable bins. I use tackle boxes and let me tell you picking through for a specific round 1x1 is torture. It makes sorting a breeze too, spread out all your parts on a towel, sort pieces into empty bins, then once done go over to your main collection and dump them into the matching part bin. The straight wall cases are super nice too, the bins fit neatly and everything stacks real nice. 
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If you have a 3D printer you could print your own storage solution. This dude created a pretty awesome system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VntGnLuwoeY He has a bunch of videos with ideas. Depending on the amount of lego it might even be cheaper to get a 3d printer and print them yourself :P
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Man I'm a couple decades into this hobby and I still use "varying nestled plastic bags" lol. I have broad categories with many smaller bags for specific pieces or classes of piece. Big categories are: - Bricks - Plates - Modified Plates - Tiles - Slopes - SNOT pieces - Clip and Bar - Articulated (ball joints, hinges, turntables) - Car-specific - Minifig related - Technic - Misc Decorative (printed tiles, plants, boxes, barrels, windows and doors all end up here) It's a rudimentary but solid system. I can get to any specific piece I'm looking for within 15-20 sec, which is an eternity compared to a proper bin setup, but it takes up like no space. Just one medium sized box under a bed.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Dozens and dozens of ziploc bags of varying age/opacity. Been helping my dad stock up his Bricklink store and I can easily tell you that if you think you have enough ziploc bags, you don't.
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I've always used bead organizers from craft stores for small/ unique pieces
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Sesame Street is up on the store - becomes available Nov 1st. 1367 pieces 119$ US, 149$ CAD. https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/123-sesame-street-21324 The the whole "18+" thing feels a touch goofy, even if the style of is aimed at the older audience.
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Looks like a playset not a display set. Sesame Street never really was a thing in my country, maybe the whole of europe. Doubt this set sells well here. I have literally only seen those 2 main dudes (Ernie and Bernie?) in memes. We had Sesame Station though.
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Cooked Auto posted:Been helping my dad stock up his Bricklink store and I can easily tell you that if you think you have enough ziploc bags, you don't. I sold on BrickLink for some time, but got out of it. Never sold any individual pieces though. That is a step too far for me. My organization for pieces is ziplock, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LDH3JC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1, and random larger plastic drawer bins. I'm a huge fan of the akro-mils thing. I've got two of them. Big warning is they do not move house well though.
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Not sure how well an 18+ Sesame Street set that looks like it is meant to be played with will do. The pieces are too small for any children at an age who would want to play with it, and it doesn't look all that great as a display for an adult that really likes Sesame Street enough to spend 120 bucks on it for some reason.
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Other than Gardens of Ninjago City I'm mainly interested to see what they come out with for Speed Champions next year. I got the Audi and the GT-R from this year's run and ended up really rather disliking the latter. The F8 is maybe a bit better but at this point I'll wait to see what 2021 has to offer.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Other than Gardens of Ninjago City I'm mainly interested to see what they come out with for Speed Champions next year. I got the Audi and the GT-R from this year's run and ended up really rather disliking the latter. The F8 is maybe a bit better but at this point I'll wait to see what 2021 has to offer.
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Sesame Street set is super cute. It's like a year and a half too late for my kid to care about Sesame Street but I'll probably still grab one and she'll probably still want to play with the minifigs sometime.
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Carbohydrates posted:I'm curious, too. I certainly don't care for the 8-wides as much as the 6-wides because of how they integrate poorly into my own City-scale poo poo, but I'll keep collecting any "classic" (non-contemporary) cars they wanna throw my way. The Audi is really cool. They need to make an 037 so I can race Röhl v Röhl with the Audi but some kind of Delta would be fine and more likely.
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Holy gently caress that's great.
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Earth posted:I sold on BrickLink for some time, but got out of it. Never sold any individual pieces though. That is a step too far for me. All of that is his responsibility, all I do is catalogue large batches of pieces into bags. Although now I've come to the special hell of Lego sorting. Minifigures. Good lord do I hate having to try to find the correct inventory number for minifigure parts. Especially with how weird and vague Bricklink can be and how loving tiny their preview images are.
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Cockblocktopus posted:Sesame Street set is super cute. It's like a year and a half too late for my kid to care about Sesame Street but I'll probably still grab one and she'll probably still want to play with the minifigs sometime. I was loving devastated when my daughter stopped being interested in sesame street, I love watching that show
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Cooked Auto posted:Although now I've come to the special hell of Lego sorting. Minifigures. Good lord do I hate having to try to find the correct inventory number for minifigure parts. Especially with how weird and vague Bricklink can be and how loving tiny their preview images are.
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Ziplock bags are very space efficient but god awful for trying to find the right bag or storing in any searchable arrangement.
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Oxyclean posted:Sesame Street is up on the store - becomes available Nov 1st. 1367 pieces 119$ US, 149$ CAD.
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The Brickset review mentions that Hooper’s store has several spots left open for connecting a potential future set, like a modular. I love Muppets and the set looks solid but I’ll probably just wait to see what’s next since this one lacks the Count and Grover. I’ll probably just BrickLink Cookie Monster and some cookie tiles.
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Chris Knight posted:Good to see they included Mr. Snuffleupagus. Nice! Brawnfire posted:I was loving devastated when my daughter stopped being interested in sesame street, I love watching that show Showed the set to my wife and she wants it just for nostalgia. She shared a memory of her childhood watching the show after her siblings went off to school while her mom made her breakfast. Our daughter was a big Sesame Street fan too. So many fond memories.
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I'm taking apart Ninjago City and Docks to make some room for newer sets and wow, City is still one of the best sets ever made. Just a fantastic amount of detail and interactivity; I love the touches like the crab bake and sushi counter.
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