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ExParrot posted:Edit: The plane shows up in my payment confirmation Email, but not on my order on the site. I'm sweating here! That's weird. Mine does show also on the web site: Hopefully it's some kind of temporary discrepancy on Lego web site for you.
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deoju posted: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. Of the two, I'd say the second option. Good luck with this, I briefly attempted a version of that same spinner, got frustrated and gave up. I wish you better success than I had.
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Oh poo poo, wife bought me an R/C truck for my birthday after mentioning I used to be huge into it as a teenager. Started watching YouTube vids and stumbled upon Jangs R/C videos. Was like hey I know that voice... (Raised on Team Associated, had the electric buggy, the electric rally truck, the gas rally truck and the tc3 4 wheel drive car) All of which spent sooo much money on brushless motors, graphite and titanium parts, micro servos etc. She got me a Traxxas Stampede 4x4 which is perfect for just goofing around our big rear end mountain yard. I will not get sunk into another expensive hobby........ a sexual elk fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Electric R/C is loving amazing compared to what we had in the 80s/90s. The motors and the batteries have improved so much there's no comparison. The 1:43 stuff is super fun if you're stuck indoors and have a hard floor. Definitely hasn't gotten cheaper though.
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ivantod posted:Well, the Amelia Earhart GWP is live in Europe. And with that the chinese new year sets are out of stock again.
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a sexual elk posted:Oh poo poo, wife bought me an R/C truck for my birthday after mentioning I used to be huge into it as a teenager. Started watching YouTube vids and stumbled upon Jangs R/C videos. Was like hey I know that voice... I really want only one rc car and that’s the tycho rc rebound. I got it as a kid and broke it the same day going down the stairs. I was unhappy, but that was my one gift for the year so no replacements. And it was the 90s so no calling up tycho to complain. I would spend quite a bit to get that part of my childhood back. In lego news I bought the blacksmith and have the Amelia airplane coming. Looks like they had enough for me to casually buy one this morning.
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The deal is supposed to last a few days, so I'd hope they would have enough to get through the night.
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I’d buy the flower bouquet this weekend but of course it’s still sold out and my local store doesn’t have it either. The plane I can take or leave but if both the store and the website had the bouquet in stock I know I’d have a much better chance going with the actual store. The GWP gods are fickle
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I bought the purple spider base thing because it's cool looking and different from most sets. A lot of the new ninjago and monkie kid sets are really good looking.
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Ika posted:And with that the chinese new year sets are out of stock again. Yeah, what is up with these, they seem to be out of stock more than in? I also had difficulty getting the lantern festival one because it seems to be out of stock most of the time and basically sells out immediately whenever it comes back. I know these are generally popular, but really, this popular? Or does Lego just keep underestimating their popularity--I know that there was a big outcry the first year they did these because they weren't even going to release them outside of East Asia and only came to the rest of the world many months later.
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It's part speculators/resellers and part popularity and part LEGO not making enough to satisfy demand. The Lantern Festival, being essentially a modular, has probably increased its desirability by a lot. It seems a lot of people in this thread said they wanted it after not being particularly interested in the earlier sets.
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The Chinese New Year sets rock, they're some of the most creative sets of the year in terms of ideas and building techniques.
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How often do they release new catalogs? Last one on the website is for Holiday 2020.
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Captain Duvel posted:I bought the purple spider base thing because it's cool looking and different from most sets. A lot of the new ninjago and monkie kid sets are really good looking. Zane's Mech has actual working knees and the mechanism is ingenious.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:How often do they release new catalogs? Last one on the website is for Holiday 2020. I used to be able to get these via the mail but since I moved I can’t find the link to sign up. Does it still exist or is the kids LIFE magazine the only option now?
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Mar 7, 2021 07:59
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Last one I got is a January 2021 catalogue.
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Ordered Pirates of Barracuda Bay to get the GWP. Will be my third and fourth post-Dark Ages sets, after building the Haunted House + Skating Rink two months ago. Really excited! I also ordered some minifigures off bricklink (spooky ones and cryptids, because those are my favorite) and I think to dip my toe into building techniques and MOCs I'm going to make some small 4x6 stands/tiny dioramas for them. Like I ordered the Bigfoot CMF and I think I'll make the trunk of a redwood tree next to a creek for him to pose next to. Stuff that doesn't take up much more space than the minifigure itself, but more interesting than just having them standing on a plate.
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I got all my pieces in and made this lol guy.   It's my lil twitch avatar that is in no way copyright infringing.  
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Man I really want that GWP but everything i'd want to buy is OOS. 
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w00tazn posted:Man I really want that GWP but everything i'd want to buy is OOS. You can always buy from resellers. Not ideal, but it’s the position I’m in a lot of times recently. Or buy a set you think will go up enough in value to sell later and keep the gwp. I’ve done that too in the past.
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I did some more work on the spinner... It looks pretty good from the front, and the doors open, but the rear end looks bad, and I can't get all the pieces in the right colors.  
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Nice!quote:Thanks for your recent LEGO® parts order with us. Due to a recent change in European customs regulations, your order has been returned to our warehouse. ... We expect to reship your parts within the next 10 business days.
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Brick-xit strikes again!
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Saw the cargo train with the bluetooth controls on sale and caved. Guess I'll get to see for myself what all the negative reviews are talking about, but at least the train looks nice. We also started watching Lego Masters on hulu last night. Pretty amusing and impressive what they come up with in the time they have.
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davebo posted:Saw the cargo train with the bluetooth controls on sale and caved. Guess I'll get to see for myself what all the negative reviews are talking about, but at least the train looks nice. Seems like the biggest issue is poor battery life, and needing 10 AAA batteries. And then a few people complaining that extra features require a smartphone that they've decided they don't want, and that is lego's fault for some reason.
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Yeah some people were saying they had problems where when you switch to another app on your phone the train just stops? Stuff like that is ridiculous so I'll just stick with the remote. I'm not sure how the remote pairs with the battery box but I'm guessing I can't use one remote to control 4 trains like you can with the IR receivers. Eventually I want to customize a train to use the technic AA box for longer battery life, but I'll play with that later.
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Finally got around to watching Carbohydrate's worst-of stream. Good stuff, I learnt a lot.1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Wasn't part of the reason Time Cruisers even exists to use up surplus parts from other discontinued themes? Yeah, I was wondering if that was an urban legend that had stuck. I was always a bit skeptical of that, since I figured if you had a bunch of surplus parts there was no guarantee you'd have enough for x sets and would likely have to make more anyway. I am glad a lot of the late 90s themes like UFO and Insectoids weren't on there. I thought most of those themes had pretty solid concepts, just poor execution. Hell, you could even argue that Alien Conquest and Galaxy Squad were remakes of UFO and Insectoids respectively and they were both pretty cool. I'll also second the recommendation for Brick By Brick, I've read it too and it's a great overview of how Lego hosed up in the early 2000s and how they fixed it.
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I've always thought Time Cruisers was LEGO saying, "this is what kids do. they mix up all their sets with their wild imaginations. we can do it for them." And the the kids were like, I'd rather do my own mash-ups.
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Cojawfee posted:Seems like the biggest issue is poor battery life, and needing 10 AAA batteries. And then a few people complaining that extra features require a smartphone that they've decided they don't want, and that is lego's fault for some reason. To be fair, if I gave my kid a Lego set to play with I'd be pretty miffed if I had to give them a smartphone to use as well. Everybody knows once you switch one on, the kids entire focus is on it and nothing but it. That's why the entire smartphone as remote/AR app for Lego sucks. Many people want their kids to take a break from this stuff and then the supposedly creative building toy encourages more smartphone use. That is stupid as hell. And the remotes worked just fine, so it is Lego's fault basically for making smartphone use mandatory to get all features/run at all.
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Hopper posted:To be fair, if I gave my kid a Lego set to play with I'd be pretty miffed Dont buy Boost 
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ExParrot posted:Edit: The plane shows up in my payment confirmation Email, but not on my order on the site. I'm sweating here! Sent out a support ticket, and LEGO kindly said they'd ship the plane as a separate order; just a heads up for anyone else that may have this issue! This is how you customer support, people.
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Hey folks! Just coming out of a dark age, thought I'd pop in and say hello. Hoping the Mos Eisley Cantina and the Falcon come back in stock soon because I'm champing at the bit and ready to make some bad financial decisions.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Hey folks! Just coming out of a dark age, thought I'd pop in and say hello. Hoping the Mos Eisley Cantina and the Falcon come back in stock soon because I'm champing at the bit and ready to make some bad financial decisions. Oh dang, sorry you missed the falcon. It was up for a good five days I think, starting Jan 27. That was the first I had seen it there since I started looking last fall.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Hey folks! Just coming out of a dark age, thought I'd pop in and say hello. Hoping the Mos Eisley Cantina and the Falcon come back in stock soon because I'm champing at the bit and ready to make some bad financial decisions. If you live near a lego store they tend to have items in stock more than the website.
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A while ago, I made a model of the Hoonicorn V1. It's a pretty popular car for people to make Speed Champions versions of because LEGO built and gifted one to Ken Block, of which some pics made it online, so everyone had a base to work from. As a result of its popularity, a number of people make sticker sheets to replicate all the branding that the real car has. I was kind of tempted to get a set for my own build, but I got to thinking: why am I gonna pay real money to buy advertisements of real brands I have nothing to do with? Nah, let's have some fun with it. Some in-universe fun.    This took many, many hours. It was hard finding references for some of these obscure in-universe LEGO brands, especially the Nutrax Tyres logo, which I had to reconstruct from scratch. I did have a ton of fun with it, though. Hey, anybody know of any really high quality printers that can make me a finely detailed sticker sheet?  References: - Hoonikitty is, of course, a blend of Hoonigan/Hoonicorn and Unikitty - Vita RUSH is a beverage company that appears in many City sets, most recently 60290: Skate Park (2021) - Nutrax Tyres was advertised on the spoiler of the red car in the Tiny Turbos set 8198: Ramp Crash (2010) - Smooth Oil and Heavy Cargo are two of the brands advertised on the front bumper of 42041: Race Truck (2015) - SPARK is advertised on the side of 75884: 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback (2018) - TOOLS and ENgyne are advertised on the side of 60218: Desert Rally Racer (2019). This is also where I got the "Racing" variant of the Vita RUSH logo. - The 43 number on the roof uses the classic LEGO skull head set over the crossed bones from the latest version of the Jolly Roger in 21322: Pirates of Barracuda Bay (2020) - The fake mustang logo is a poseable LEGO horse in profile - The LEGO badge is a classic oval logo from 1956
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Carbohydrates posted:A while ago, I made a model of the Hoonicorn V1. It's a pretty popular car for people to make Speed Champions versions of because LEGO built and gifted one to Ken Block, of which some pics made it online, so everyone had a base to work from. As a result of its popularity, a number of people make sticker sheets to replicate all the branding that the real car has. I was kind of tempted to get a set for my own build, but I got to thinking: why am I gonna pay real money to buy advertisements of real brands I have nothing to do with? Nah, let's have some fun with it. Some in-universe fun. I usually lurk but god drat, this is incredible.
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Oh poo poo, the bonsai tree and flower bonquet came back in stock for the first time in Canada! Guess I'm getting a second GWP
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Mr_Chicken posted:I usually lurk but god drat, this is incredible. 
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