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Big Mean Jerk posted:https://twitter.com/veerswatch/status/1399685981687750656?s=21 I love that sticker screen with lego figs.
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The_Doctor posted:You’re missing out the best part! The brickheadz are a purchase with purchase! If you spend £/$85 on Ninjago sets, you can BUY the brickheadz set for €\$10! They’re not even a free GWP! That feels like an absolute bastard testing the water move to see what they can get away with. Lol are they actually serious with this poo poo? You have to buy X amount of money in order to be "allowed" to still buy another set? No. Just no. Forget me with that bullshit. For some reason they like to mess with Brickheadz availability--I still haven't been able to get the Lego Movie ones because they were US-only and I just don't want to pay 5-6 times the list price to the scalpers. But it's good that lego from time to time sends us all a reminder that, yes, they too are simply a large corporation whose only care in the world is to get more money. What customers want really comes into it only as a very very distant second. Of course I understand that they have to make the sets that customers will buy if they want to survive, but everything around it, the whole shopping experience with Lego can be generally pretty dismal in a lot of cases.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:https://twitter.com/veerswatch/status/1399685981687750656?s=21 You can re-enact this scene! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6OjLH7W5k
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ivantod posted:Lol are they actually serious with this poo poo? You have to buy X amount of money in order to be "allowed" to still buy another set? So Lego is kind of like Ferrari in that you have to have owned specific previous models in order to be eligible to buy the newer exclusive ones. Maybe they're also like Ferrari in that they only bother making cars to sell to rich people because it funds their expensive passion of racing cars. Maybe we're all just the rubes Lego extracts money from to fund their passion of molding plastic into brick form.
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As someone with a large amount of led lit Lego sets, they basically use super tiny wires that can get sandwiched between bricks and you have to like double stick tape the leds to bricks or sandwich them under a clear bit piece. The Lego light up preview they used was them rebranding an off the shelf kit and I don't think it'd ever really make it to production as the wires are prone to snapping easily (bitch to resolder) and it leads to reduced integrity with the builds as you can't actually fully seat bricks / plates against each other. The ideal would be to add a channel into each piece that would need to run/hide a wire but i don't think they'd go for that. Also the instructions for installation aren't the best either as you have to largely disassemble sets in a way to shoehorn in the LEDs/wires and then reassemble them after they've been fully built. As far as I can tell, it'd be near impossible for them to come up with modified instructions that would let you run led's and wires as you assembled the set without significant changes to the modularity of the wiring because of the assumptions/dependencies that the light kit designers have made in terms of placing control boards and bundling wires together.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLKfz2Okk9w Can't wait to learn Lego secrets at Lego Con. June 26, 9am pacific time, 12 eastern, streamed online.
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Pretty excited about that Vader pod model. Also the Twitter revealing would have been better if it were Piett or Needa Watch but oh well.
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A bunch of new Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous sets just leaked out. There’s a 4+ set which has the classic red/beige JP jeep in, so I expect that to go fast.  
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Big Mean Jerk posted:https://twitter.com/veerswatch/status/1399685981687750656?s=21 That’s really going to bump the price up from it being the $40 set it should be, but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t add a lot to the display value. I really like that set.
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The_Doctor posted:Two more: If there’s one thing that Lego Jurassic [Park|World] really nails is the comic amounts of incompetence and hubris that such an institution would entail.  T.Rex Fossil has had enough of their bullshit.
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I'm pretty sure it will be on Hulu or something. I know I watched the last season without filesing.
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https://twitter.com/NewElementary/status/1399674734313308165 Ok then.
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How many 9-12 year olds are there on twitter, and how many like to watch 90 minute presentations?
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Cojawfee posted:How many 9-12 year olds are there on twitter, ? Physically, mentally, or morally?
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9 years mmmhmm right. And yes, I am sure it's because they have noone to share their hobby with, not because of girls or anything being more interesting to teens...
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 I think I'm committed to my Shuttle Fleet plans now. All these printed tiles cost more than a new Discovery set. (Printed pieces bought from millionprints.com. They're not up on his etsy store right now because of high demand, but he does take special orders, like alternate livery and names; each of the 6x6 tiles was $10.50; each pair of wedges was $12) Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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Meditation chamber is up for pre order with some much better pictures. This is a definite buy for me although I think it's over priced at $70. Still a unique and cool thing to make a set out of and I think they did a good job with it. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/darth-vader-meditation-chamber-75296 Also looking at it closer I think the big base is justified. Most of it is an integral part of the build and the actual stand part of it isn't particularly excessive. I think it would lose a lot of displayability without it. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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I'm not sure what the idea is, but Walmart is doing preorders of the fishtank set for 35% off. Also the crocodile 3-in-1. Maybe others.
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Blue Moonlight posted:
Anyone had luck reviving the battery boxes? The battery in my blacktron base corroded - I scraped it all off, tried using deoxit on the contacts, but no luck.
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Sloppy posted:Anyone had luck reviving the battery boxes? The battery in my blacktron base corroded - I scraped it all off, tried using deoxit on the contacts, but no luck. Use white vinegar to clean off battery leakage.
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Sloppy posted:Anyone had luck reviving the battery boxes? The battery in my blacktron base corroded - I scraped it all off, tried using deoxit on the contacts, but no luck. if at all possible, disassemble it so only the corroded contacts and springs, and soak them in white vinegar and scrub.
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I made my first trip to a LEGO store since the before times this morning, hunting the Everyone is Awesome set. Turns out, despite showing up about ten minutes after they opened, I missed them selling the last 2 by minutes.  The little old lady who for the last one was still hanging out talking with the workers, I hope she enjoys putting it together.  I ended up ordering mine online from inside the store and bought a CMF to make it be not a wasted trip.
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It sucks that the set is timed for Pride Month and sold out so quickly. If my order for the 66 batmobile is any indication it'll be 60 days before a resupply.
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deoju posted:It sucks that the set is timed for Pride Month and sold out so quickly. If my order for the 66 batmobile is any indication it'll be 60 days before a resupply. That thing is a drat nightmare to get ahold of.
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Woah I didn't know this was time limited. Thanks, just got my order in, it is already on backorder in Germany. Also splurged and got the Bonsai because I had 25 € worth of VIP points.
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Oh, I didn't mean to say it was a limited-time, short-run thing, I don't know that for sure. Only that it was released at the start of Pride Month and demand seems to be too high to keep it on the shelves at the moment. I hope there'll be more coming this month and beyond.
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Nth Doctor posted:I made my first trip to a LEGO store since the before times this morning, hunting the Everyone is Awesome set. Turns out, despite showing up about ten minutes after they opened, I missed them selling the last 2 by minutes. Are they still presorting the CMF figs?
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My Daily Bugle set was missing Black Cat’s whip  Other than that, very fun build so far. Was my first major splurge.
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Asnorban posted:My Daily Bugle set was missing Black Cat’s whip Lego will send you a replacement with minimal fuss.
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veni veni veni posted:That thing is a drat nightmare to get ahold of. They really did mean Everyone
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Oh I meant the 66 batmobile. I’ve been checking for weeks and it’s always sold out. I wouldnt be surprised if they are both like that though. Basically every good set is a pita to find now
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My order shows “waiting for new stock” but I received an email saying it is back ordered so who knows. 
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The chamber isn't out until August, I think. I got the same sort of thing when I pre-ordered the probe droid a while back.
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veni veni veni posted:That thing is a drat nightmare to get ahold of. What's good is more are being shipped out. While I was there today the guy at the LEGO store got their store shipping notice for Friday and they were getting 93 more. Earth posted:Are they still presorting the CMF figs? Sadly no, and the guy implied they weren't allowed to anymore when we were chatting about what I thought I got.
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esperantinc posted:The chamber isn't out until August, I think. I got the same sort of thing when I pre-ordered the probe droid a while back. Thanks, backordered meaning "not released yet" didn't really make sense.
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tomapot posted:Thanks, backordered meaning "not released yet" didn't really make sense. You got it. Looks like lego.com got a batch of R2-D2s in, my "immediately backordered" order from day of release is now showing "in warehouse" and my card was charged.
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Earth posted:Are they still presorting the CMF figs? They are in the London stores, so YMMV?
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