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Oct 27, 2021 18:17
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Mansa Musa and so many gold coins LEGO has to shut down
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Oct 27, 2021 23:05
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davebo posted:So I've resisted all these blind bag sets so far, not wanting to get sucked into just minifig collecting, but this might do it. How do you all typically ensure you get everything in a wave? Just buy a ton of bags then sell the duplicates, buy a few then get what you're missing off bricklink/eBay, or actually trade what you're missing with other goons or Lego forum people? Probably not advisable in covid times (depending on where you are, of course) but I've always just felt the bags in the store to get the ones I want. It takes a bit of practice but isn't too bad. That said, I never want the entire set, just the few I'm interested in, and that makes it easier. Another option is to just buy a whole unopened box. I'm not sure if you can do that off the Lego site (or Amazon or whatever) but some retailers will let you do that. From there you can cut open the bags, take a set for yourself and sell the rest.
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davebo posted:So I've resisted all these blind bag sets so far, not wanting to get sucked into just minifig collecting, but this might do it. How do you all typically ensure you get everything in a wave? Just buy a ton of bags then sell the duplicates, buy a few then get what you're missing off bricklink/eBay, or actually trade what you're missing with other goons or Lego forum people? having done some limited experimentation with the vidya minifigs, the answer seem to be 1:)find a box that just got opened and hasn't been distrubed 2:) buy one (of the two) entire columns of minifigs
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Oct 27, 2021 23:25
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Next round of the designer crowdfunding program starts on November 9th I was gonna order the Seasons in Time calendar but it’s $249  Guess I’ll just go for the aquarium
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Oct 29, 2021 01:22
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Woof, that's... a pretty steep price jump for unofficial sets.
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Oct 29, 2021 01:34
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The only one I'd maybe be interested in is the Bowling Alley but not for ~$300CAD. Happy to sit this one out. When will we find out more about the next modular?
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Oct 29, 2021 02:00
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RatHat posted:Next round of the designer crowdfunding program starts on November 9th WTF. I wanted that, too. But $249 is nuts. I'd guess that most people would be happy with it if it ONLY had the calendar. The other stuff is extraneous and just bumps the piece count/price up. Sigh.
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Oct 29, 2021 03:00
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crazy eyes mustafa posted:The only one I'd maybe be interested in is the Bowling Alley but not for ~$300CAD. Happy to sit this one out. In the next 5 weeks. Could be sooner, could be later. But no later than the beginning of Dec. IIRC, they have been announced as early as september and as late as, as I said, beginning of Dec.
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Oct 29, 2021 03:01
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Woof, that's... a pretty steep price jump for unofficial sets. They aren't regular sets. It's a semi official offshoot thing bricklink does. The pricing doesn't really line up1:1 with something Lego is going to mass produce.
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Oct 29, 2021 09:11
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veni veni veni posted:They aren't regular sets. It's a semi official offshoot thing bricklink does. The pricing doesn't really line up1:1 with something Lego is going to mass produce. That $250 calendar has over 3k pieces, for instance. the $230 bowling alley has about 2,800. The little $65 aquarium, despite its small size, has 874 pieces. If you're looking at these for the density of the build and the quantity of parts, it'll feel pretty fair. If you do the Jang "volume of stuff you get" analysis, they look much worse. Carbohydrates fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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Oct 29, 2021 13:31
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It's Friday, time to slay!
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Oct 29, 2021 17:10
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For real though, those new Stuntz bikes are really well designed. I got one a while ago because the minifigure that came with it was cool but they zip around in a way that I would have absolutely loved as a kid. The flywheel mechanism is really well designed and engineered.
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Oct 30, 2021 00:18
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There's some rumblings in a PAB/B&P Discord server I'm in about changes coming to the Bricks & Pieces program. Prices are being altered pretty regularly right now, and we may see about a 15% increase or so across the board due to the unprecedented rising popularity of the service and the greater amount of ABS they have to commit to it. Additionally, a manager mentioned during the recent AFOL day tour at Billund that large amounts of sub-$40 orders are really killing them, so they may have to implement a minimum order soon. Unsure how any of this relates to the "big change" coming to the B&P program soon, or if that's what it is. Bun and I are streaming tonight! Gonna be a fun, irreverent one where we talk about the best sets of 2021. We welcome the discourse and angry disagreements. 35 mins out / 7PM Central!
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Oct 30, 2021 00:25
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My dad texted me asking if there’s a Lego Home Alone set, and I said yes, sending him the link. He asked if I was going to get it, and I replied not this year, but I would be getting Barracuda Bay, and sent him the link for that. He also likes that one  Also, this moc microbuild castle was on Reddit and I love it. 
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Oct 30, 2021 11:06
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The_Doctor posted:My dad texted me asking if there’s a Lego Home Alone set, and I said yes, sending him the link. He asked if I was going to get it, and I replied not this year, but I would be getting Barracuda Bay, and sent him the link for that. He also likes that one That's beautiful
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Oct 30, 2021 11:39
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"Oh this room? This is the room I use to photograph my Lego microbuilds." - that person, probably
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Oct 30, 2021 13:41
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With Buddha’s blessing, of course
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Oct 30, 2021 13:49
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The_Doctor posted:My dad texted me asking if there’s a Lego Home Alone set, and I said yes, sending him the link. He asked if I was going to get it, and I replied not this year, but I would be getting Barracuda Bay, and sent him the link for that. He also likes that one That is a genius use of the little claws for the cathedral style windows
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Oct 30, 2021 16:26
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Wow, that mini castle is the kind of thing I want to make.
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Oct 30, 2021 16:38
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Love the Slave-1-style approach to the SNOT base.
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Oct 30, 2021 16:40
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The_Doctor posted:My dad texted me asking if there’s a Lego Home Alone set, and I said yes, sending him the link. He asked if I was going to get it, and I replied not this year, but I would be getting Barracuda Bay, and sent him the link for that. He also likes that one mother of god
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Oct 30, 2021 17:37
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The_Doctor posted:My dad texted me asking if there’s a Lego Home Alone set, and I said yes, sending him the link. He asked if I was going to get it, and I replied not this year, but I would be getting Barracuda Bay, and sent him the link for that. He also likes that one This looks like a render from a game who's art style really wins me over. I love it.
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Oct 30, 2021 20:04
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The_Doctor posted:My dad texted me asking if there’s a Lego Home Alone set, and I said yes, sending him the link. He asked if I was going to get it, and I replied not this year, but I would be getting Barracuda Bay, and sent him the link for that. He also likes that one Wow. That's incredible.
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Oct 30, 2021 20:48
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Finally got my last Bricklink order and finished my Vic. I have so much trouble taking nice pics of big builds. Feels like it looks way better in person  This'll work though. Still think they look allright after I put the spacey background in.    
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Oct 30, 2021 20:53
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veni veni veni posted:I have so much trouble taking nice pics of big builds. they look p' good to me. it might just be a matter of silencing that internal voice demanding 100% of the detail in every shot with the reasoning that you need at least 6 shots to get everything and that the human brain is surprisingly good filling in absent information based on the information that's present
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Oct 30, 2021 21:03
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haha thanks. I think the thing that always drives me nuts is that I take them and they look a little to muddy, so I hit them with the sharpener (Lego totally does the same thing) but then it looks better but highlights every gap that looked smooth, every crooked tile. It's a tradeoff.
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Oct 30, 2021 21:13
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veni veni veni posted:Finally got my last Bricklink order and finished my Vic. I have so much trouble taking nice pics of big builds. Feels like it looks way better in person drat that is really drat close to spot on! Excellent work!
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veni veni veni posted:haha thanks. I think the thing that always drives me nuts is that I take them and they look a little to muddy, so I hit them with the sharpener (Lego totally does the same thing) but then it looks better but highlights every gap that looked smooth, every crooked tile. It's a tradeoff. I'm no expert but a flashlight, maybe with a diffuser, or brighter background light (outdoor, natural sunlight if you can swing it) might make things pop in a little smoother way than post processing, you can also spotlight stuff. macro lenses are relatively cheap and plentiful if you want to max the other side of the curve and just make every condensation finger print on every brick a prominent detail. I found real quick that if I'm doing a diorama I need to make things in different layers different colors to be visually parsable, black is the worst offender in this regard which a major pain. that principle might carry over to vehicles and such where if you want something to stand out it needs to be a different color than what's around it, even if only by a subtle shade. (edit: looking over your tile work again, this might not really be possible without figuring out how to, like, dye white tiles because lol at finding a bunch of the trim stuff in anything other than white or grey.) you're using a tripod, right? 'cause even the best autofocus will do a million times better on a stable platform, also using a remote shutter control removes a ton of jitter e: you gonna build some options to go with it? The Voice of Labor fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Oct 30, 2021 |
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Thanks y'allThe Voice of Labor posted:I'm no expert but a flashlight, maybe with a diffuser, or brighter background light (outdoor, natural sunlight if you can swing it) might make things pop in a little smoother way than post processing, you can also spotlight stuff. macro lenses are relatively cheap and plentiful if you want to max the other side of the curve and just make every condensation finger print on every brick a prominent detail. I found real quick that if I'm doing a diorama I need to make things in different layers different colors to be visually parsable, black is the worst offender in this regard which a major pain. that principle might carry over to vehicles and such where if you want something to stand out it needs to be a different color than what's around it, even if only by a subtle shade. (edit: looking over your tile work again, this might not really be possible without figuring out how to, like, dye white tiles because lol at finding a bunch of the trim stuff in anything other than white or grey.) I don't mind the tile work showing. I tried to sort of imply the texture on the actual ship with it. Sharpening just makes it pop a bit more than I want, but overall it's nbd I'm just OCD about it haha. I'm happy enough with the pics I should have probably just put more care into lighting.  Not sure what you mean by options. I was thinking about doing the little drones that float around the ship, but I was feeling thoroughly done with working on it, so this is probably it. The missiles come off easily. TBH I like how it looks better without them but I feel like they were too important to omit. They are pretty sloppy though. I didn't have many white cylinders. You can barely see them though and I was done making bricklink orders so I pretty much just called it good nuff.
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That's a great looking ship and, yeah, with a little more work on the lighting, it would look even better. I finished the ISS a couple days ago and took these for fun. Single flash as the light source, nothing fancy.     
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muPNlnm_i44&t=28s
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Oct 31, 2021 03:07
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seravid posted:That's a great looking ship and, yeah, with a little more work on the lighting, it would look even better. These are very pretty.
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Oct 31, 2021 16:01
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Does it seem like Lego isn’t really pushing the Titanic very hard since the initial reveal? It’s up for preorder tomorrow but there hasn’t been any advertising on the site. You can’t even find the product page unless you specifically search for it. I figured there would be some kind of GWP promo with it but I guess not?
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Bags Fly at Noon posted:Does it seem like Lego isn’t really pushing the Titanic very hard since the initial reveal? It’s up for preorder tomorrow but there hasn’t been any advertising on the site. You can’t even find the product page unless you specifically search for it. I figured there would be some kind of GWP promo with it but I guess not? Needs the Lego Ice Cube Tray as the GWP
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Oct 31, 2021 17:07
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It's so huge and expensive I don't think there's much point in marketing it. You're either into the Titanic enough to buy that or you aren't.
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Oct 31, 2021 19:51
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titanic set is only up on ebay platinum reserve, along with all their 3rd reich sets and the blockheadz head of keith moon set http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=04282006
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Oct 31, 2021 20:03
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Grand Fromage posted:It's so huge and expensive I don't think there's much point in marketing it. You're either into the Titanic enough to buy that or you aren't. Yeah most of the people who would buy a $650 Lego set already know about it
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Any other sickos thinking of buying the Titanic tomorrow? Waiting until Black Friday is tempting, but the way shipping is backed up worldwide I'm not sure I want to roll the dice on it actually being available at that time.
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