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Dareon posted:The first one seems benign, standard family pablum. I have NO idea how you'd make a sequel to Red Fern. Or get Wilford Brimley to star in it. It gets a paragraph on wikipedia quote:In 1992, a sequel entitled Where the Red Fern Grows: Part Two (alternately titled Where the Red Fern Grows 2: The Homecoming) was released by McCullough Family Media, Inc. and Red Fern II Ltd. In it, Billy returns home as a veteran from World War II, bitter and sad at having lost a leg. His ailing grandfather gives him two new puppies which he is reluctant to accept, but his sister Sarah convinces him to do so. Later, he befriends a neighbor boy named Wilson. The film starred Wilford Brimley, Doug McKeon, Chad McQueen and Lisa Whelchel.
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It's ALL vagina bones!
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Whoops, all vagina bones e: skelethot
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Lodin posted:NYAH! 
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Lodin posted:NYAH! I must have this, it's too late for Xmas this year but for next year I have the perfect victim!
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Lodin posted:NYAH! much better than the bottom half being a fish.
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Lodin posted:NYAH! This and the Sexy Hulk Hogan costume are cool and good for...similar reasons.
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I bought one of these from AliExpress for a friend last Christmas. I don't know if he's ever played it but the cartridge makes for a nice art piece at least.
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So my 6-year-old daughter is big into Legos, and old Mickey cartoons. Like, old ones. She calls Mickey "Steamboat Willie." She's a weird kid. Anyway, this is to say that I found out a perfect present for her for Christmas: a Steamboat Willie Lego set. I hunted around online and couldn't get a deal except on some semi-shady online toy store. I took a chance and saved  . The thing finally arrived and it's a Chinese bootleg, of course, but it's spot-on and compatible with real Legos. But it came in a fucken bag, with no display of what it is, so I'm worried that my kid is going to open it tomorrow morning and be like, "what the gently caress is this?" It's supposed to be one of her two big presents. 
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Railing Kill posted:So my 6-year-old daughter is big into Legos, and old Mickey cartoons. Like, old ones. She calls Mickey "Steamboat Willie." She's a weird kid. Anyway, this is to say that I found out a perfect present for her for Christmas: a Steamboat Willie Lego set. I hunted around online and couldn't get a deal except on some semi-shady online toy store. I took a chance and saved Can you print off the image and include It in the gift box?
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When I was a kid I had a bit tarp full of lego so I'd probably be chuffed with just a big sack of lego.
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UPDATE: Kiddo saw Ol' Timey Mickey's head in the mix and put together what it was. She had apparently seen it on a shelf somewhere before. She loved it.  No questions about why Santa delivers Lego kits in unmarked bags instead of boxes. 
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Railing Kill posted:No questions about why Santa delivers Lego kits in unmarked bags instead of boxes. Santa gets his poo poo OEM style, saves on packaging, helps save the environment. OwlFancier posted:When I was a kid I had a bit tarp full of lego so I'd probably be chuffed with just a big sack of lego. Yeah, secondhand lego/duplo in just a giant bag is a great and pretty cheap gift for kids. Sure it's not specific kits or anything, but just having a ton of lego/duplo is something most kids will just love. Doesn't hurt that you can often buy like a huge bag or box for the price of 1 small kit.
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SubNat posted:Santa gets his poo poo OEM style, saves on packaging, helps save the environment. A while back, my mother showed me, on her phone, someone on facebook had some Lego for sale for 15$. I glanced at it, thought they were those small storage tubs, and 15 would still have been a good deal She came back later with a couple giant loving totes full of LEGO(and misc other bits). I spent a few weeks sorting all the LEGO and KNEX pieces out. Ended up with a large tote packed FULL of LEGO.(and some KNEX) Taped it closed, put it in the attic for a few years until my 2 Year old nephew gets old enough for em I read an article once that said LEGO was a more stable investment than most things, since LEGO value has remained fairly constant at 50 cents a piece
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Kheldarn posted:BootLEGO I can't believe I've never heard this term before.
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Railing Kill posted:The thing finally arrived and it's a Chinese bootleg, of course, but it's spot-on and compatible with real Legos. I heard somewhere that a lot of the Chinese bootleg Legos are made at the same factories that make actual Legos from the same materials, dunno if that's actually true. But a lot of the online reviews mention that the quality is usually top notch and the only problems are that some of the pieces might be missing or have not-quite-right decals or printed parts. The studs usually don't have the Lego logo on them but apart from that the individual pieces are otherwise indistinguishable from actual Lego pieces.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I heard somewhere that a lot of the Chinese bootleg Legos are made at the same factories that make actual Legos from the same materials, dunno if that's actually true. But a lot of the online reviews mention that the quality is usually top notch and the only problems are that some of the pieces might be missing or have not-quite-right decals or printed parts. The studs usually don't have the Lego logo on them but apart from that the individual pieces are otherwise indistinguishable from actual Lego pieces. I've bought many Lepin kits and it's not (from my experience) the old cheeky 3rd shift churning stuff out in the dead of night. None of the studs on my stuff has Lego on it. But Everything works great, even my Falcon and Technic Aston Martin.
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Chances are good that instead of being made in the same factory, they’re either made with the exact same moulds (with branding information removed to make it “legal”) or someone went through the original patents and studied them hard enough to reverse engineer the entire process.
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The original Lego patent expired years ago, it's copyright laws they're running afoul of. Don't gently caress with The Mouse
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Somewhat related to knockoff Lego, it's been rumoured that 3rd party replacement phone parts are often assembled in the same place as the real stuff but with cheaper materials. I've ordered thousands of iPhone and iPad screens alone and while the parts themselves are indistinguishable from the real thing (in terms of looks), it's obvious they usually use worse components like digitizers, LCDs (viewing angle is a big tell) and especially adhesives.
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R.L. Stine posted:Somewhat related to knockoff Lego, it's been rumoured that 3rd party replacement phone parts are often assembled in the same place as the real stuff but with cheaper materials. I've ordered thousands of iPhone and iPad screens alone and while the parts themselves are indistinguishable from the real thing (in terms of looks), it's obvious they usually use worse components like digitizers, LCDs (viewing angle is a big tell) and especially adhesives. That reminded me, haven't seem much action from Scottie's Strange Parts channel lately. Obviously COVID is ruining his ability to run around in China having fun.
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Railing Kill posted:UPDATE: Kiddo saw Ol' Timey Mickey's head in the mix and put together what it was. She had apparently seen it on a shelf somewhere before. She loved it. It sounds like it didn't even come with instructions but they should be here. At least I'm assuming the bootleg is the exact same as the official set. https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions/21317
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Lodin posted:It sounds like it didn't even come with instructions but they should be here. At least I'm assuming the bootleg is the exact same as the official set. It came with instrutions, but they just weren't packaged in such a way that the finished kit was visible from outside the bag. We're good, and working on it in stages, but thanks anyway! 
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My brother sent me this after asking 'you remember that Japanese baseball game that was all horribly misspelled NHL players?' Six of the names are misspelled. I'm a big fan of 'The Mathe Eomunos'.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I read an article once that said LEGO was a more stable investment than most things, since LEGO value has remained fairly constant at 50 cents a piece Retired sets in good condition may be worth that but second-hand bulk Lego generally sells for $5-$10 a pound and new Lego sets are priced at around $0.10 per piece (although Star Wars and other licences may be slightly higher due to licencing costs).
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MrUnderbridge posted:Wasn't The Mathe Eomunos the tax accountant for Theoden? Pretty sure the House of Eorl uses H.R.R. Block.
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tribbledirigible posted:Pretty sure the House of Eorl uses H.R.R. Block. 
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How many loopholes does Smaug exploit to keep all that wealth of his?
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:How many loopholes does Smaug exploit to keep all that wealth of his? You can't get more "offshore account" than hoarding all your gold in the ruins of a doomed dwarven keep.
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Rust Martialis posted:I thought Lepin got raided? From what I remember the raid was to do with specific Lego kits and not the licensed stuff, so Lepin changed the boxes again and carried on selling. They're maybe slightly harder to find now, but you can still buy their sets.
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