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The_Doctor posted:They are in the London stores, so YMMV? Yeah, its on a store by store basis.
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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. I bet it's the "switch". Would probably be trivial to make the battery box "always on".
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Lego is accidentally leaking upcoming Marvel series What If...? details. 
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The_Doctor posted:Lego is accidentally leaking upcoming Marvel series What If...? details. Honestly, that looks horrible. But is that an easily convertible robot? Because that is cool.
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Robot would be cool if it weren't for the turquoise codpiece.
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More to look at here. The "Stuntz" subtheme is gonna provide me more minifig drivers for my cars, so that's nice!
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Jun 3, 2021 14:53
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xzzy posted:Robot would be cool if it weren't for the turquoise codpiece. I'm not sure I understand the color choices at all, is this a thing portrayed in other media already? does it look better there?
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I'm pretty sure it's "What if Iron Man was created on the Jeff Goldblum planet instead of a cave in Afghanistan?"
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Ah ok, I'm pretty Marvel ignorant so I looked up this "Sakaar" thing and I guess this is meant to evoke the jumbled, technicolor dump look? Although I think they should've mixed it up even more in that case.
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Also some more Mandalorian set leaks including Moff Gideon's gunship, a Slave 1, the stormtrooper transport thing with Greef Karga, a Mandalorian shuttle that looks to be based on the animated series rather than The Mandalorian, and the Star Wars advent calendar is Mandalorian themed this year so expect Baby Yoda in a christmas jumper
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Love the colors and What If concept. Not sure about an early purchase but will see if it comes down in price. Edit: and a Marvel advent calendar this year!
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tomapot posted:Love the colors and What If concept. Not sure about an early purchase but will see if it comes down in price. Gideons gunship owns, the Mando fighter owns, Small set with Ahsoka and Maul owns, Lego owns.
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Jun 3, 2021 17:31
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Where's my UCS AT-AT leak?!? 
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Lol I don’t think we’ve had enough slave 1s lately.
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veni veni veni posted:Lol I don’t think we’ve had enough slave 1s lately. This one looks more in vein with the recent scaled down X-Wing, Tie and Shuttle, so it shouldn't be too expensive at least. It's akin to the Slave 1 that came with Cloud City rather than the most recent anniversary set
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VaultAggie posted:Gideons gunship it's a light cruiser
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Jun 3, 2021 20:32
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There needs to be a Bill Burr LEGO minifig with his trademark smiling smirking scowl. "Did'ya hear I've got a LEGO minifig version of me now? That's TWO loving adult fangroups that hate me now! I'm collectin' 'em like those stupid fuckin' Pokemon cards! Wait, that's three now!"
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BIG HEADLINE posted:There needs to be a Bill Burr LEGO minifig with his trademark smiling smirking scowl. I can hear it in his voice.
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Dodge Daytona! It's long!   This uses the same technique I devised a while ago in order to brick-build the stripe on the official Charger Speed Champions set, which is a total nonsense bullshit connection involving clipping two tiles together. 
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Knowing little about cars but a decent amount about your skill at faithfully recreating them, drat that’s a well done model of an ugly rear end car
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Butterfly Valley posted:This one looks more in vein with the recent scaled down X-Wing, Tie and Shuttle, so it shouldn't be too expensive at least. It's akin to the Slave 1 that came with Cloud City rather than the most recent anniversary set Oh, I actually thought the little one came out months ago and they were already doing another, but it looks like the same set that just hasn't come out yet.
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Dude that's genius... And also would be considered "illegal", or wouldn't it?
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Hopper posted:Dude that's genius... And also would be considered "illegal", or wouldn't it?
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Carbohydrates posted:Dodge Daytona! It's long! One of my all time favourite cars. Love it!
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Carbohydrates posted:Sure, but why should I care? I'm not a LEGO set designer so the term "illegal" is not relevant to me. Whoah there, Texas Red.
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Carbohydrates posted:Sure, but why should I care? I'm not a LEGO set designer so the term "illegal" is not relevant to me.  LEGO Police, you’re under arrest for LEGO crime!
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A minifig with an unattached leg holds no authority over ME. That's not only illegal, it's impossible!
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Received a BL order with all like pieces stacked together- normally wouldn’t be a problem but I ordered literally hundreds of plates  Now that should be illegal!
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xzzy posted:A minifig with an unattached leg holds no authority over ME. That's not only illegal, it's impossible! “I do not give LEGO retainer!” cries the sovereign LEGO citizen.
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crazy eyes mustafa posted:Received a BL order with all like pieces stacked together- normally wouldn’t be a problem but I ordered literally hundreds of plates At they at least offset?
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Lizard Combatant posted:Whoah there, Texas Red. Nah it's all good. "Illegal technique" is a phrase that gained popularity online when a LEGO internal document, leaked to the internet, started making the rounds. It's called Stressing The Elements and people quote it like it's the loving Bible. It was never meant to be seen outside of the LEGO design team and it's way out of date, by like 15 years or so. "Illegal" is a shorthand for a standard that LEGO set designers abide by, and it means different things in different contexts. It governs how sets designed for production and sale must be designed, and considers things such as build stability, stress imparted on elements, and ease of building for various age brackets. That means that it isn't even a hard set of rules: a technique or build that may not be permitted in a set designed for 4 year-olds may be fine in an 18+ set. Even the specific rules that are presented in the document as "hard" rules have been subverted by LEGO, and recently: the Disney Castle from 2016 violates page 3 of the doc, and the Hell Charger from 2021 violates page 5. So clearly, it is a moving target and/or an evolving standard. I think a lot of people who like to call out illegal techniques on Reddit and such are doing it to try to appear more knowledgeable about the hobby, or for the memes/imaginary clout. I dislike this practice strongly because (again, mostly on Reddit) the "IS THAT AN ILLEGAL TECHNIQUE" discussion takes over a conversation that should more frequently be about a model and its clever parts usage. edit: tl;dr: ft(l)p Carbohydrates fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Jun 4, 2021 |
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Cojawfee posted:At they at least offset? They are not!
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I like “illegal” techniques (and seeing them pointed out) because they show innovative ways of making connections that I wouldn’t normally think of or see in instructions, and I decide which ones I’d like to try and which ones are too far-out. I think as far as stressing the parts, that should be avoided- lego does break, after all but not all illicit connections do that, really. Part of the inherent fun of the lego system itself is finding ways to work within the system, and that involves following a set of rules whether that guidance is given by the lego group itself or if you decide for yourself. I think the people crowing about it excessively just demand a psychological level of orderliness in their lives/hobbies or really do think those are hard rules and that all of those connections will result in broken pieces.
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This. This is straight up illegal.
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If it's in a lego instruction manual the connection is now canon.  At least until Disney buys them and throws 90% of the literature out.
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The_Doctor posted:This. This is straight up illegal. However, panel pieces, such as the 1 x 4 pictured, actually have a base whose height is equal to that of plates, not tiles, meaning that yes, this is still an "illegal technique" due to the stress imparted. The Old Trafford stadium does the same thing with its goal nets. Carbohydrates fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jun 4, 2021 |
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xzzy posted:If it's in a lego instruction manual the connection is now canon. 
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I have that set and have no memory of cutting those tubes. But it's been at least 10 years since then so maybe that doesn't mean much.
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