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tomapot posted:Winnie the Pooh Ideas set announced. While I'm of the opinion that they totally hosed up the blacksmith in regard to the original design, in this case they actually made a wonderful set out of that pretty boring ideas entry (I have no nostalgia for Winnie the Pooh). I really like that. Still hope the thing that they did to the Blacksmith entry was to make it in line with the castle or whatever (and hopefully a full series) that's coming this year in regard to castles.
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Mar 4, 2021 16:53
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Do we know when the amelia earhart GWP happens? I'm guessing monday the 8th because that's international women's day and the page for the set mentions they made it in honor of the day.
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Mar 4, 2021 18:34
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Cojawfee posted:Do we know when the amelia earhart GWP happens? I'm guessing monday the 8th because that's international women's day and the page for the set mentions they made it in honor of the day. 6th through the 14th, according to this.
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Mar 4, 2021 18:44
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Watched OPs worst-of stream, I could have gone my whole life without knowing about Jack Stone. Truly the darkest of the dark ages for the LEGO company.
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Mar 4, 2021 19:24
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I guess Rock Raiders and Insectoids at least yielded some cool unique pieces. Stingrays were weird for the minifig heads but again probably too creative to belong in the bottom 10. I disagree regarding Scala because there are so many great (wrongly sized) pieces. They’ve yet to do a better milk carton!
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Mar 4, 2021 19:39
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For the new Pooh set I like the build and don't care about the figs. What an experience change for me! Usually I'm buying the set just for the figs. I'm thinking I'm going to try to get that Amelia Earhart set next week. I've got a doctor's appointment in the area of the Lego store so it won't be a big step for me to try to get it. I don't care about airplanes at all, but it would make a good gift for a friend that does love airplanes. I've found they tend to have the sets in the store. It's really online where the issues of items getting sold out happens. I guess Lego wants to make sure their stores are stocked first.
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Mar 4, 2021 20:57
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I’ll probably buy my mom that Pooh set because she loves Eeyore and Piglet and I’ve gotten her into Lego through the Disney CMFs.
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Mar 4, 2021 22:12
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So for those of us who didn't watch the stream, what were Carbohydrates top 10 poo poo themes?
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Mar 4, 2021 22:37
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:So for those of us who didn't watch the stream, what were Carbohydrates top 10 poo poo themes? 9. Time Cruisers, for being an aesthetic mess 8. Znap, for being an unpopular attempt at knocking off K'nex 7. Scala, unpopular and super expensive-to-produce dollhouse theme 6. Sports, total mess of a theme with no clear direction 5. World City, the worst ever version of LEGO's core theme 4. Studios because, despite a great foundation in the MovieMaker set, the theme was expensive, bloated, and had some of the worst set designs ever 3. Galidor, because of its non-Lego-like subject matter, unpopularity, terrible TV show, and poor quality 2. Jack Stone, for being juniorized, having bad figures and worse set design, killing Town, and attempting to replace the minifig entirely 1. Explore, for its super expensive production, confusing organization, poor sales, killing the entire DUPLO brand, destroying LEGO's rep woth retailers, and the damage it did within LEGO's management
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Mar 4, 2021 23:07
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Carbohydrates posted:1. Explore, for its super expensive production, confusing organization, poor sales, killing the entire DUPLO brand, destroying LEGO's rep woth retailers, and the damage it did within LEGO's management Wait, what's the story here? This is the first I've heard of it.
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Mar 4, 2021 23:10
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Pretty solid list I think. I do like RoboRiders and Time Cruisers but they weren't good themes. Wasn't part of the reason Time Cruisers even exists to use up surplus parts from other discontinued themes? I also thought that Slizers had already done it's run by then (as more or less a prototype for Bionicle) and RoboRiders was just a stopgap as Bionicle proper wasn't quite ready by then.Straight White Shark posted:Wait, what's the story here? This is the first I've heard of it. Lego rebranded Duplo as Explore in the early 2000s and also made a whole bunch of expensive toys in that brand that had little if anything to do with traditional Duplo. It was a colossal failure and one of the main reasons Lego almost went bankrupt around then. The core issue was that Lego was trying to reinvent itself and had hired a whole bunch of hotshot designers who, while by all accounts good designers, didn't understand Lego and the Lego system. That's why you had themes like Galidor and Jack Stone where the sets were mostly made up of a few large specialist parts and almost no traditional bricks/plates/slopes etc. As you can imagine, people hated it and didn't buy it since, in a lot of ways, it was Lego in name only. There were also other issues like terrible organisation and bookkeeping so there were many sets which were being sold at a loss at RRP.
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Mar 4, 2021 23:26
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Pretty solid list I think. I do like RoboRiders and Time Cruisers but they weren't good themes. Wasn't part of the reason Time Cruisers even exists to use up surplus parts from other discontinued themes? You should watch the stream.
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Mar 4, 2021 23:51
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Oh, I didn't know they were archived. To be fair I've never watched anything on Twitch before. I'll have a listen tonight after work.
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Mar 5, 2021 01:31
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Yeah unfortunately I missed the live stream, but caught up on the VOD and it was great. I knew some of the themes, but also didn't really know the depths of their failure or anything, so it was all interesting stuff to learn.
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Mar 5, 2021 01:41
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Time Cruisers should come back with an Umbrella Academy style
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Mar 5, 2021 01:46
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I have to have this Pooh set, I am big fan. It was the first book in English I ever read in 5th grade. However, I agree that Pooh's head is really ugly, and rabbits head is a different shade of yellow from his body, and why is there no owl? Those minfigs look almost like counterfeits. The Disney CMFs are way better quality.
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Mar 5, 2021 02:27
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Carbohydrates posted:10. Robo Riders, mainly for pre-emptively killing the far more successful Slizer I was able to watch this today. Really good presentation!
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Mar 5, 2021 02:50
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Hopper posted:I have to have this Pooh set, I am big fan. It was the first book in English I ever read in 5th grade. However, I agree that Pooh's head is really ugly, and rabbits head is a different shade of yellow from his body, and why is there no owl? I'm a little mystified as to why Pooh has full sized legs. Surely the mid length legs would make for better proportions?
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Mar 5, 2021 03:48
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GlenMR posted:I'm a little mystified as to why Pooh has full sized legs. Surely the mid length legs would make for better proportions? they used the stubby legs for piglet and Pooh has to be taller
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Mar 5, 2021 04:10
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crazy eyes mustafa posted:Are those goonswarm bees? Lol Great reference, I just hunted down that old thread, it was back in 2007. I remember trying to explain to my wife how it was funny that my internet friends bought 4,000,000 bees for charity. She just ooked at me blankly. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2722818
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Mar 5, 2021 05:59
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Weedle posted:they used the stubby legs for piglet and Pooh has to be taller I guess so, but Rabbit and Tigger should be taller still, and can't Piglet have the child legs? Edit: Piglet HAS the child legs, hmm.
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Mar 5, 2021 06:16
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Pooh - boy Piglet - boy Eeyore - boy Tigger - boy Rabbit - boy No Kanga. 
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Mar 5, 2021 06:23
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RodShaft posted:That's as close as any available train to this, Depending on where you are in the world (in regard to shipping) this might also help: https://www.bluebrixx.com/en/bluebrixxspecials/trains?limit=190
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Mar 5, 2021 07:10
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Are these prices including the (presumably non Lego) bricks?! That's not bad at all for some massive locos and buildings!
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Mar 5, 2021 08:50
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Just wanted to chime in that Carbohydrate's Mustang builds made me finally buy the Creator Mustang even though I already have the Ecto-1 in the mail. Speaking of the Ecto, it's €200 at Lego but I found it for €165 and a week after, prices went to €155 and today €145. What's the deal with that? I can live with not having the best bargain but this seems weird. Different retailers, probably actively undercutting offers but it's weird.
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Mar 5, 2021 09:02
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Carbohydrates posted:Final(?) update: slightly redesigned the splitter and the add-on bits are now modular and can be hot-swapped on or off, just like on the big car. This looks so much better than the Speed Champions Mustang I have. I can't even believe it.
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Mar 5, 2021 09:34
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Lego's raggedy rear end customer service communication system has let me come out slightly ahead. Fedex misdelivered a lego shipment of mine. I knew it wasn't stolen because I watched the truck blow by my house and got the delivery notice like 10 minutes later. So I emailed lego. Then the next day a neighbor brought the package, so I emailed again telling lego that one of my neighbors got the misdelivery and brought it to me and no further steps would be necessary. But lego then emailed like two weeks later saying they were sorry that happened and that they would send out a replacement. It's just a small set so I don't feel bad, but it's silly that they don't have a more cohesive support system that would make it easier to link support requests to follow-ups.
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Mar 5, 2021 15:45
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AllisonByProxy posted:This looks so much better than the Speed Champions Mustang I have. I can't even believe it. His talent is seemingly endless!
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Mar 5, 2021 15:49
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AllisonByProxy posted:This looks so much better than the Speed Champions Mustang I have. I can't even believe it.
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Mar 5, 2021 15:50
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What time do GWP deals activate? I'm gonna be ordering my second post-Dark Ages set when the plane goes up. Is it midnight?
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Mar 5, 2021 16:14
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Star Guarded posted:What time do GWP deals activate? I'm gonna be ordering my second post-Dark Ages set when the plane goes up. Is it midnight? That's what I'm hoping for. I'd like to be able to order at midnight since I will be awake then and not in the morning.
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Mar 5, 2021 20:23
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does BrickLink have a system that I'm just not seeing for finding the cheapest option for buying parts from a list using multiple sellers? I'd love to put together Carbohydrates' Mustang, but when I import it and search for that list, it ends up being pretty pricy from sellers who have most of the pieces. of course, I'll probably end up sourcing some pieces from my collection if/when I put it together, which will bring the price down, but is there a "find the cheapest combination of stores" button I'm missing somewhere?
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Mar 5, 2021 20:52
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Assuming you're using the tool to put your parts list into carts, you can set max prices for each part as well as what condition you want. That does require you to actually research the average cost of parts though. It would be nice if you could just click a button and you could get "average price + %" or something to make sure you're getting near the average without missing out on some parts that are slightly above average in a store. Buying pieces on bricklink is quite laborious and takes the longest time aside from designing/building.
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Mar 5, 2021 20:54
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Cojawfee posted:Assuming you're using the tool to put your parts list into carts, you can set max prices for each part as well as what condition you want. That does require you to actually research the average cost of parts though. It would be nice if you could just click a button and you could get "average price + %" or something to make sure you're getting near the average without missing out on some parts that are slightly above average in a store. Buying pieces on bricklink is quite laborious and takes the longest time aside from designing/building. If I just hit Easy Buy, the non-geared version comes out to $46 pre-shipping, with one of those orders coming from Spain with expensive shipping costs, too. After about 10-15 minutes of playing with the buy / auto select settings, price capping a couple parts, and manually blocking a couple stores, and then set to North America only to save on shipping, I can get it down to $26 pre-shipping. Anyway, here's this! My FIL gave me a little birthday money and I was able to order one of my many backlogged cars  .   Also, design stream at 7PM CST!
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Mar 5, 2021 21:25
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Scipiotik posted:but it's silly that they don't have a more cohesive support system that would make it easier to link support requests to follow-ups. But that would decrease their profits.
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Mar 5, 2021 21:44
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Well, the Amelia Earhart GWP is live in Europe. Was able to get one in with my order, but no idea how long it will last. I guess this might end up one of the more popular GWPs because of the minifig?
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Mar 6, 2021 00:08
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ivantod posted:Well, the Amelia Earhart GWP is live in Europe. Can confirm the EU continent liveness, slammed my order for the Porsche and tulips down to grab that GWP. Fingers crossed! Edit: The plane shows up in my payment confirmation Email, but not on my order on the site. I'm sweating here! ExParrot fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Mar 6, 2021 00:46
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Been working on this Blade Runner 2049 Spinner for a couple of days. I'm pretty happy with the front, and kinda happy with the back end. But the middle has got me stumped for the moment. I'm considering the two different windscreens. The top one tapers towards the top, which is closer to the original. But the bottom one lets me get a steeper tilt and is 6 studs instead of 8 wide at the bottom, which gives me more options for attaching the doors. hosed if I know what I'm going to do with those. Edit: Here's an image of an official model for reference... 
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I ordered a porsche and it says I should get the airplane.
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