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Waltzing Along posted:Japans umbrellas are pretty good quality. If you go to Japan and you want to know what to buy to bring home? Umbrellas and nail clippers. When all this is better, and I can travel, Japan is top of the list and I’m taking an empty suitcase. I wasn’t expecting an umbrella to be on the shopping list but ok!
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Fatkraken posted:gluing one lego piece to another, or repairing broken pieces? Glueing together thousands of pieces that make up a critical but really loving fragile part of a MOC, a MOC i will have to transport a few times a year.
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ChesterJT posted:You hardly ever see a bike chained up either. I always laugh when someone says that. Bikes might not often be chained up in Japan but they are usually locked. The typical bike lock over there looks a bit like an oversized brake - it fits over the back wheel and a rod goes through the wheel spokes when it's activated. But yeah, Japan's dope. I lived there for a couple of years and hopefully I'll be able to visit within the next couple of years. Searching through the second hand shops for Lego is fun if you know where to look, and you can often find some pretty cool stuff. I once found a sealed Asimo for a few hundred yen.
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Dec 15, 2020 11:54
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Butterfly Valley posted:This isn't meant as a slight against your gorgeous model but that bubble canopy reminded me of the car Homer Simpson made that sunk his brother's company and I thought it would be funny for you to try to reproduce that in lego form
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Dec 15, 2020 12:39
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Ineptitude posted:Glueing together thousands of pieces that make up a critical but really loving fragile part of a MOC, a MOC i will have to transport a few times a year. Wow, than good look with nitro dilution. It'll work perfectly, but you will definitely have to work something out in regard to the stench, like a good mask/airbrush mask or something. That stuff can't be good for health when you inhale it for hours. But it's basically what Lego themselves use when they glue larger showpieces that need to get transported a lot.
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Carbohydrates posted:Great advice from everyone - thanks a bunch! One word, Thundercougarfalconbird
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tuo posted:Wow, than good look with nitro dilution. I doubt i can use this solution, you generally cant buy "chemicals" over the counter just like that where i live. E.g. that stuff that you mix with water and Lego and leave them out in the sun to remove discoloring. If it was an actual product then it would be a different matter, but a bottle of "pure chemical" that you can do DIY projects with? no go.
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Ineptitude posted:I doubt i can use this solution, you generally cant buy "chemicals" over the counter just like that where i live. I mean, I’ve bought uranium core samples that make my Geiger counter go clickey clack. And that doesn’t even top the most questionable list, as just last week I bought a Mercury filled plumb bob over the internet. Hardware stores are generally a good place to ask about these kinds of things
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Dec 15, 2020 16:07
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Carbohydrates posted:Great advice from everyone - thanks a bunch! This would be right at home in that Futurama episode where they meet the oxygen farmer on the moon.
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Dec 15, 2020 16:30
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It looks glorious but I am super concerned about the anti-grav thruster things at the front that are angled downwards, and the spoiler at the back which would produce downforce. That thing seems built to do vertical loops and nothing else.
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Dec 15, 2020 16:47
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Hell yeah that bubble car rules
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:I always laugh when someone says that. Bikes might not often be chained up in Japan but they are usually locked. The typical bike lock over there looks a bit like an oversized brake - it fits over the back wheel and a rod goes through the wheel spokes when it's activated. Yeah sure the rings, but someone could still just pick the bike up and carry it away. Immobilized /= anchored. Awesome
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xzzy posted:It looks glorious but I am super concerned about the anti-grav thruster things at the front that are angled downwards, and the spoiler at the back which would produce downforce. That thing seems built to do vertical loops and nothing else. Visualizing this in my mind made me chuckle.
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xzzy posted:It looks glorious but I am super concerned about the anti-grav thruster things at the front that are angled downwards, and the spoiler at the back which would produce downforce. That thing seems built to do vertical loops and nothing else. spoiler can't produce downforce if you're in a vacuum (don't vacuum up your lego please)
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The Bloop posted:spoiler can't produce downforce if you're in a vacuum Broke: Accidentally vacuuming up your legos Woke: Building a small city and getting a canister vacuum with the see through canister and reenacting that movie Twister.
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The Bloop posted:spoiler can't produce downforce if you're in a vacuum I guess we need to determine if this is a space car or a terrestrial flying car that lives in a 5th element type city.  Also is the intake purely a cosmetic throwback, or do flying cars actually need to draw in cold air? Or maybe those are mr fusion units.
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I really need to not let my unread count fester on this thread, but less money means less LEGO purchasing and so my desire to keep up flags. Great builds everyone.
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xzzy posted:I guess we need to determine if this is a space car or a terrestrial flying car that lives in a 5th element type city.
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Sloppy posted:I haven't had anything displayed in a while to test, but I picked up one of these recently and it's been incredible for computers and RC cars. I'm looking forward to trying it on Lego. I think my bookshelves soon won't know what hit 'em lol.
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Carbohydrates posted:I was imagining a hovercar situation. I was also waiting for someone to point out that its engines are clearly in the back, yet it has another engine up front, and that it appears to be a manner of combustion engine as well. And you know what? All that bodywork is steel. Yeah. You're not gonna hear me questioning how many engines a future car needs. I mean, I built this: 
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xzzy posted:You're not gonna hear me questioning how many engines a future car needs. I mean, I built this: Oh hey it's the truck my neighbor warms up at 3am
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xzzy posted:That thing seems built to do vertical loops and nothing else. not seeing the downside
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Brawnfire posted:Oh hey it's the truck my neighbor warms up at 3am This makes your neighbor seem rad as gently caress which I think is probably the opposite of your intent
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xzzy posted:It looks glorious but I am super concerned about the anti-grav thruster things at the front that are angled downwards, and the spoiler at the back which would produce downforce. That thing seems built to do vertical loops and nothing else. The trick is to make it look cool, then invent  to explain the greeblies later. That's not a spoiler, it's a deionization matrix manifold.
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xzzy posted:You're not gonna hear me questioning how many engines a future car needs. I mean, I built this: I'm that horn just blasting in the driver's face.
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Pretty sure some of you will like this: http://www.brickfinder.net/2020/12/06/liven-wall-periodic-table-lego-colours/
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Is that every color LEGO offers?
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Its about half, there are 145 different colors, though that is being a bit pedantic. Several colors has only a single part, and several colors are so similar they are hard to distinguish yet they have separate entries in the list.
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I decided to not one-bag the Batmobile because I thought it'd make things easier and now I've had two pieces turn up in different bags (at least I hope I won't be needing them from the other bags) and now I'm again missing two more pieces. Is this normal? Two big pieces seemed to be from a "special" bag for big pieces but the other missing pieces so far are regular small bits. Actually it's three, I had one leftover from the first bag which I used up in the second bag's building. I'm supposed to be on bag 2 but I've already torn up bags that are supposed to come later  e: nevermind I hosed it up and did one building step twice instead of once. I'm dumb Zwille fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRn5waE0qfk
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They just posted a follow up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepSeO-ovlI
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With all the train motor/ir receiver/remote stuff listed as retiring soon, how will trains be powered moving forward? One of the technic motors that just rotates a peg linked to lego pieces that then spin the wheels, with the only control being via the Bluetooth app, or is there some standalone controller for those? I think that's how that crocodile train moves but haven't seen exactly how the mechanism works.
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Zwille posted:e: nevermind I hosed it up and did *something*. I'm dumb I love how this is the answer to most lego building ailments 99.9% of the time
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Nth Doctor posted:They just posted a follow up Yes, but can lego break a heart?
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Butterfly Valley posted:I love how this is the answer to most lego building ailments 99.9% of the time I skipped the one bagging this time because I thought it’d help with „is this piece missing or am I dumb“ and the only difference is that it happens in a more rapid fire fashion. Win-win!
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Waltzing Along posted:Pretty sure some of you will like this: The flat view might be a bit misleading, I thought it was just a poster. Actual size, it has those single pieces attached to the poster, so to frame it you would need more of a shadowbox or something with depth. Very neat. What's the price point on 70 pieces for $40 anyway?
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Butterfly Valley posted:I love how this is the answer to most lego building ailments 99.9% of the time Can confirm as similar has happened many times over the last year. Which is making me very concerned about being one black technic peg short on the stage of the Bugatti I just did. I can't find it in any bags I opened, couldn't find it on the floor, and I certainly can't see anywhere I accidentally used it. I have plenty of spares so it's a non issue, and I think the gearbox is functioning correctly at this point?
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davebo posted:With all the train motor/ir receiver/remote stuff listed as retiring soon, how will trains be powered moving forward? One of the technic motors that just rotates a peg linked to lego pieces that then spin the wheels, with the only control being via the Bluetooth app, or is there some standalone controller for those? I think that's how that crocodile train moves but haven't seen exactly how the mechanism works. Power Functions is being retired. Powered Up is the replacement system that is currently used in Lego City Trains. They're pretty similar, but not cross compatible: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/train-motor-88011 vs https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-power-functions-train-motor-88002
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Digital War posted:Power Functions is being retired. Powered Up is the replacement system that is currently used in Lego City Trains. They're pretty similar, but not cross compatible: When you say not compatible, it's just the plug on the end that's different? Size wise it seems identical. I'm assuming this has a lot more applications for technic stuff that called for a change in design, because from a train perspective it seems like just a way to sell a way more expensive battery box with bluetooth? Or at least a box that's as expensive as the previous box, plus ir receiver and remote controller, but now you need to use a phone. Edit: Oof, the user reviews for that battery box on lego.com are pretty bad.
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Digital War posted:Power Functions is being retired. Powered Up is the replacement system that is currently used in Lego City Trains. They're pretty similar, but not cross compatible:
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