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Dogen posted:Built the Stonewars Ulysses model. Man the loving gold arch pieces are a bitch to get right but the whole thing looks great when assembled. The only missing part, for a change, was the technic gears for the RTG, which I could say I forgot to order or maybe it was an issue with lego bricks being made out of plutonium 238. Also, took some fancy pics of the completed Nova gasser, enjoy     gasser bros 
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Awesome as always. I love the air compressor, lift and toolbox too.
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Breaking news! The new Speed Champions wheel/tire situation mystery revealed! It's some weird poo poo! https://www.newelementary.com/2021/05/lego-speed-champions-2021-interview.html quote:This is a brand new co-moulded wheel, where the tyre is built on it. So it's the exact same size as what your existing wheel is, but it's a lot more 'low profile' tyre, and therefore there’s a bigger metal wheel in the centre. So you can then see the wheels look a lot bigger than they used to in the wheel arches but it still fits the exact same wheel arch. And this [silver wheel with thin rubber tyre], obviously being a low profile, works for supercars, but the way to get it to work for old cars is by doing it in black. So the silver looks bigger, but if it’s black, it looks like the tyre is bigger and therefore the wheel in the middle looks smaller. So it's basically using element design to trick the eye visually, if that makes sense. We're very proud of this. He goes on to explain that the wheel covers are new, too, featuring a "goblet style" connector where the connection point of the wheel wraps around the tube of another piece, allowing you to attach wheel covers, 1 x 1 round plates, 2 x 2 round tiles or dishes, or anything else with a tube on the underside. It's an extremely rarely used connection method. More tl;dr highlights from the article: - They have no intentions of going back to 6-wide. - They deliberately try to use different partners (brands) and colors, when possible, from the previous year's sets for maximum variety. - The Elva's seats are indeed prints, not stickers. - They plan to keep doing Speed Champions polybags in mini scale. - The success of the Audi last year has made them more comfortable and confident in picking iconic (and perhaps more niche) cars to feature. Carbohydrates fucked around with this message at 21:32 on May 12, 2021 |
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May 12, 2021 21:15
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So the wheel and tire are one piece now?
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May 12, 2021 21:27
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Cojawfee posted:So the wheel and tire are one piece now?
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 Ulysses with Discovery- the stand is nice (but I missed a key piece)- the black axle coming off the probe is missing gears to represent fins on the RTG- the probe (topmost gold part with the black dish) detaches from the big propulsion stage and has its own little stand if you like to display it separately.
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May 12, 2021 21:38
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Dogen posted:
Also, family photo time. This doesn't include any of the modded sets or modded other peoples' designs I've done, just my stuff! 
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Carbohydrates posted:- They have no intentions of going back to 6-wide. This plus the new road plates being too narrow for 8-wide... I don't get it. It's such an obvious incompatibility that it feels like two product managers being passive-aggressive at each other.
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May 12, 2021 21:52
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Carbohydrates posted:Wow, yeah, that's stunning. Does its stand allow a display kind of like the Hubble's, where it can sort of be displayed as if it was emerging from the hold (even if it doesn't quite fit?) Be honest - when you set up that display you spent a considerable amount of time zooming the cars around, didn't you?
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 So if you flip the stand the discovery comes with upside down, and leave the … grasping claw pieces attached, there’s a perfect spot on the propulsion stage to pop it onto. Then you just pop a 2x2 tile out of the center of the cargo bay to expose some studs and attach the anti studs on the “top” of the stand to that. The stand that it comes with is a display stand, not easily modified itself, but it connects with two clips and one could easily make another version of the cargo bay stand that uses clips instead of this slightly more hacky solution Carbohydrates posted:Also, family photo time. This doesn't include any of the modded sets or modded other peoples' designs I've done, just my stuff! Missed this! I have four of those cars, and someone I know has one that I gave them! Dogen fucked around with this message at 22:09 on May 12, 2021 |
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May 12, 2021 22:04
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I'm intrigued by the dual molded wheels. It'll give some new options for rims. I was never really into the swappable rims in some speed champions sets, you get a bunch of extras that aren't good for much else.
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Roadie posted:This plus the new road plates being too narrow for 8-wide... I don't get it. It's such an obvious incompatibility that it feels like two product managers being passive-aggressive at each other. Cloks posted:Be honest - when you set up that display you spent a considerable amount of time zooming the cars around, didn't you?
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May 12, 2021 22:05
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As someone who wants more detailed cars, I don't care if they fit in the city theme.
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May 12, 2021 22:27
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I started chipping away at my pile of shame last night. After having a build-a-thon a couple of weeks ago, I haven't started on Discovery proper but to ease back in I did the 40468 Yellow Taxi. Current pile of shame: Discovery main build and the 1967 Ford Mustang which arrived yesterday.
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Cojawfee posted:As someone who wants more detailed cars, I don't care if they fit in the city theme. 
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May 12, 2021 23:05
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I like both the 6 and 8 wides, I didn't have any modulars until recently so I never even had any impetuous to set up a "city" sort of thing. That said, I'm a bit disappointed with the 8-wide offering this year, which is a shame because I have a real itch for some lego cars.
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They need to build all group b wrc cars or I’ll deem it a failure! Where’s my S4 and 205 T16!
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But how will the change in car width affect Lego Speed Champion DLC cars in Forza Horizon 4?! I haven't actually bought that DLC but it is just weird as hell when I'm doing normal races in that game and I have to pass some supercar that looks all chunky from a distance then I realize it's a Lego car. My immersion!
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May 13, 2021 01:38
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When will they release the stately 1987 Lincoln Towncar?  When?
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I’d personally love a ‘95 Impala SS, but there’s no Lego equivalent for that metallic dark cherry.
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Getting out of the Modular game. Anyone want this crazy amount of stuff? Located in St Louis.  SA MART THREAD https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3967600 Carbohydrates posted:...followups and specific inquiries to PMs or an SA-Mart thread as to not fill up the thread with buying/selling stuff thank yooouuuuu... djfooboo fucked around with this message at 16:58 on May 13, 2021 |
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May 13, 2021 14:49
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Like for EBay prices or goon price? Or somewhere in between. Cause I'd take all of it for MSRP, and at least the diner at a reasonable markup Edit: oh aside from assembly square, we've got that
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The stones look weird
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djfooboo posted:Getting out of the Modular game. Anyone want this crazy amount of stuff? Located in St Louis. Interested in Brick Bank
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Nth Doctor posted:I started chipping away at my pile of shame last night. The Mustang owns. One of the best builds of the last few years imo
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May 13, 2021 15:51
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Would it kill Lego to say when there are multiple bags with the same number?
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New Wave Jose posted:The stones look weird Also, I guess today was a review embargo day, so look forward to a buncha reviews flooding out. Racingbrick already did a few of the new Speed Champs cars on Youtube. Brickset did a Disney Brickheadz review and NewElementary published a Vidiyo Boombox review. Should be a whole buncha stuff to look at today onward.
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djfooboo posted:Getting out of the Modular game. Anyone want this crazy amount of stuff? Located in St Louis. If you’re willing to break apart the set and ship, I still need the fire brigade.
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Friendly reminder that, although I'm totally fine with mentioning that you've got LEGO stuff for sale like djfooboo did, it would be nice to take followups and specific inquiries to PMs or an SA-Mart thread as to not fill up the thread with buying/selling stuff thank yooouuuuu edit: the ideal scenario, I think, would be creating an SA-Mart thread and linking to it from this thread with a brief summary and/or photo(s) so you can still reach the maximum interested target audience with a minimum of spam for people who aren't interested. I suppose I should codify this somewhere but I haven't touched the OP in 10 years and I don't plan to do it now, dammit. Or maybe I will. Carbohydrates fucked around with this message at 16:32 on May 13, 2021 |
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Carbohydrates posted:Friendly reminder that, although I'm totally fine with mentioning that you've got LEGO stuff for sale like djfooboo did, it would be nice to take followups and specific inquiries to PMs or an SA-Mart thread as to not fill up the thread with buying/selling stuff thank yooouuuuu Thank you, should have made that clear in OP. Edited for posterity.
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smackfu posted:Would it kill Lego to say when there are multiple bags with the same number? Seriously! On the Porsche 911, I was just about to open a support case when I decided to do one final pass in the box and found Bag 5, Part 2.
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Looks good. Better than the other new Marvel sets.
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I still think bigfig Thanos with the stones found in different sets is the most aesthetically pleasing instance of the Infinity Gauntlet. Also because it lived on my desk at work in the before times. 
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smackfu posted:Would it kill Lego to say when there are multiple bags with the same number? Would it kill them to list what page each bag started at the start of the book?
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Lego randomly slips in instruction improvements with new sets, maybe send them an email and it'll happen someday.
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so much for the lunar lander's title as "set with the most gold pieces"
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Is 2021 the year LEGO figures out how to print light colors on minifigs without it looking awful??? (source)  (source) - that yellow on purple is not perfect, but the light aqua on black looks surprisingly great. Also, lemme know what you wanna see in the OP. I think it's time to update. I plan to add the thing about for sale posts, and maybe something about cleaning up / whitening old LEGO pieces because it's a topic that comes up again and again? Feel free to link a good guide for that, 'cause I've never had to do it. And so on!
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Waltzing Along posted:Would it kill them to list what page each bag started at the start of the book? I swear I've seen that on some of the larger sets but that might have been sets with multiple books.
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This set looks decent too. The rest of the infinity wars ones kinda suck. https://www.instagram.com/p/CO0cgn6J0XS/?igshid=ldzpqlcjfdbi
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