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FBS posted:How many more obscenely expensive all-gray sets can they possibly release? *gestures to entire Star Wars catalog of ships*
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And I'll buy (almost) every single one of them 
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Nov 3, 2021 13:56
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Butterfly Valley posted:can someone less mathematically disinclined than me help with this please It's 3 pieces so the angles are all going to be 180/3
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Nov 3, 2021 14:14
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I think I would have got the home alone set if there weren't so many stickers.
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Nov 3, 2021 14:51
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I'm glad I didn't build the 75288 AT-AT version yet. Will have to sell it and get the giant version instead.
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Nov 3, 2021 16:39
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Bags Fly at Noon posted:*gestures to entire Star Wars catalog of ships* I've always found it baffling that they didn't add a lot more colour to the Star Wars ships, for precisely this reason. Surely it must be much easier to sell toys if they have more interesting colours than 95% grey?
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Nov 3, 2021 17:10
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Star Wars fans can only see in black and white
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Nov 3, 2021 17:25
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only the evil fans though
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Nov 3, 2021 17:29
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So this discussion is hilariously topical for myself. My siblings and I are going in together to get my Dad a large Lego Star Wars ship of some type. The issue is he already has the new Star Destroyer as well as the Falcon (68 Year old AFOL/Sci-Fi geek he is, much to my Mom's detriment). He is a big fan of the imperial star ships, but the old Super Star Destroyer kit from several years back is crazy expensive. I see that there are people selling the Onecase MOC of the Executor for like $250-$300 but with Chinese bricks. A little further up in this thread was a link to a MOC site (rebrickable? I think) where they were selling the instructions for the same set for something reasonable like $25.00. My question is...how in the everloving gently caress does someone get all the pieces ordered for that? It would have to be $1000's of dollars in bricklink orders or is there a different way?
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Nov 3, 2021 17:43
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You can still get the UCS TIE for a decent price and it's one of my favorite UCS starships honestly.
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Nov 3, 2021 18:04
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I believe LUGs can get large numbers of individual bricks for cheap but I can’t imagine the hell of setting max prices, paying for shipping from multiple sellers etc for dozens or perhaps hundreds of different pieces 
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Nov 3, 2021 18:08
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You might unlock some of those sellers that have like a $150 minimum buy though
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Nov 3, 2021 18:09
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uXs posted:I've always found it baffling that they didn't add a lot more colour to the Star Wars ships, for precisely this reason. Surely it must be much easier to sell toys if they have more interesting colours than 95% grey? From a toy making perspective, they might have more shelf appeal, but they would be more expensive - that detail means additional plastic molds, stickers, printing, or paint. It’s literally the “boxes” reason we all joke about, but we’re pretty spoiled with the flexibility the Lego system affords to actually pursue that sort of detail in a scalable fashion.
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DoriDori240 posted:So this discussion is hilariously topical for myself. My siblings and I are going in together to get my Dad a large Lego Star Wars ship of some type. The issue is he already has the new Star Destroyer as well as the Falcon (68 Year old AFOL/Sci-Fi geek he is, much to my Mom's detriment). He is a big fan of the imperial star ships, but the old Super Star Destroyer kit from several years back is crazy expensive. I see that there are people selling the Onecase MOC of the Executor for like $250-$300 but with Chinese bricks. A little further up in this thread was a link to a MOC site (rebrickable? I think) where they were selling the instructions for the same set for something reasonable like $25.00. Is there no way to export a parts list from the instructions and then upload that to the brick site? I mean, TCG websites have this technology. Does Bricklink or whatever?
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There is, but that's not the point. Even if uploaded to Bricklink, you still have to go through and order all the parts manually from lots of different stores, you can't just buy the parts as a pre-made pack. That's part of why it took that guy I know two years to build Cavegod's AT-AT, it took that long to do all the Bricklink orders to get the parts. As for LUGbulk, I've explained how that works previously in this thread. LUGs are limited to 85 part choices so you're unlikely to make much of a dent in what you need to build the AT-AT. Of course, the other option is to say 'gently caress it' to making it grey and go the rainbow route like this guy with the UCS Falcon: 
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That is the finest Millennium Falcon I've ever seen!
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I would buy a lot more UCS ships if they came in paint your own colors direct to user from a webpage, so I guess thanks lego for not doing that to me.
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I've been tempted to do the random color UCS falcon, I'm pretty sure I could build it with the pile of parts I have on hand. I just haven't done it because it would still be an enormous build and where the gently caress would I put it.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Of course, the other option is to say 'gently caress it' to making it grey and go the rainbow route like this guy with the UCS Falcon: This is what everything I built as a kid looked like. Gotta work with what I have in the pile.
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Nov 4, 2021 03:04
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Dogen posted:You can still get the UCS TIE for a decent price and it's one of my favorite UCS starships honestly. Also the Tantive IV is great and still pretty affordable.
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Nov 4, 2021 03:40
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Grand Fromage posted:This is what everything I built as a kid looked like. Gotta work with what I have in the pile. But most bricks in the bottom had the same color, because when you started building you thought you could still make the whole thing out of that one color.
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just finished the speed champions nissan gt-r without applying a single decal and it feels good, man. I'm gonna bricklink a plain black hood, a pair of 1x2 curved white pieces and a pair of 1x2 transparent tiles to redo the headlights and it's going to be beautiful. is the supra a two seater or a one seater?
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Nov 4, 2021 07:51
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As much as I don't need another AT-ST, I really hope that rumored Hoth one (which makes a lot of sense now) is an actual redesign instead of just the Rouge 1 AT-ST with a few parts swapped for a third (or 4th if you count that awful last Jedi or TFA one without the top  ) I always liked the leaner, more angled look of the hoth appearance vs the final ROTJ design.probably wishful thinking though. It's just gonna be the rouge 1 AT-ST again lol.
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Nov 4, 2021 07:58
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I once had a graphics card that would do that. Think I clocked it a bit too high...
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Nov 4, 2021 08:07
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I should NOT have looked up reviews of the titanic… because now I kinda want it!!
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OperaMouse posted:But most bricks in the bottom had the same color, because when you started building you thought you could still make the whole thing out of that one color. I'm colorblind enough that I never think about color as a distinguishing feature in things, so I didn't even do that. Speaking of, the roof of the loving medieval blacksmith is impossible as a colorblind. Fortunately it doesn't matter if you don't match the pattern in the instructions. I was halfway through when I figured out apparently there are three different roof tile colors?
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Nov 4, 2021 16:57
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Not really a good test because it's drat near impossible for a non-colorblind person to tell those shades apart unless you put a spotlight on it.
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Grand Fromage posted:I'm colorblind enough that I never think about color as a distinguishing feature in things, so I didn't even do that. Four, actually, if you're counting the mossy ones.
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I'm color blind and had no trouble with it at all. IIRC, they are completely different shades so not hard to differentiate at all. Might as well be white, black and grey. I think there are much harder builds where the colors bleed together and the shades are nearly identical. But the blacksmith is dark blue, light blue and blue. I don't see how that would effect a color blind person at all.
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Waltzing Along posted:I'm color blind and had no trouble with it at all. IIRC, they are completely different shades so not hard to differentiate at all. Might as well be white, black and grey. I think there are much harder builds where the colors bleed together and the shades are nearly identical. But the blacksmith is dark blue, light blue and blue. I don't see how that would effect a color blind person at all. Weird that someone not colorblind wouldn't get how colors would be difficult to distinguish if you are. I'm shocked. the holy poopacy posted:Four, actually, if you're counting the mossy ones. Are the gray ones with studs supposed to be moss? Man. It looks cool though, anyway.
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Grand Fromage posted:Weird that someone not colorblind wouldn't get how colors would be difficult to distinguish if you are. I'm shocked. I am color blind. Re-read my comment. My point is they are totally different shades. Color blind people still see shades.
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Waltzing Along posted:I am color blind. Re-read my comment. My point is they are totally different shades. Color blind people still see shades. Missed that, sorry. Lifetime of being colorsplained to. You do understand there are different types of colorblindness though, yes? The two dark tiles are completely indistinguishable to me in both the instructions and the model. If I put them right next to each other under a strong flashlight I can sort of tell they're not the same, but I have no idea which is which.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:I should NOT have looked up reviews of the titanic… because now I kinda want it!! very wet and cold. poor service. one star
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Grand Fromage posted:Missed that, sorry. Lifetime of being colorsplained to. You do understand there are different types of colorblindness though, yes? The two dark tiles are completely indistinguishable to me in both the instructions and the model. If I put them right next to each other under a strong flashlight I can sort of tell they're not the same, but I have no idea which is which. Ah, that's right. I forgot there were black tiles, too. Yeah, if you don't have good lighting, those are going to be harder to determine.
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Waltzing Along posted:Ah, that's right. I forgot there were black tiles, too. Yeah, if you don't have good lighting, those are going to be harder to determine. Yeah the black and what I'm assuming are dark blue ones are just impossible. The light blue and gray studded ones (though if they're moss I guess those are actually green) are fine. There were some wall bricks that I think I hosed up too. Fact no one cares about : me referring to a green backpack as gray when I was a little kid was how my mom noticed I was colorblind. Fortunately I'm nowhere near as bad as my uncle, who cannot distinguish any colors at all.
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Before I learned lighting tricks, I used to have my gf separate dark red and red brown for me because they looked exactly the same. But with sunlight or a LED that comes close I can tell them apart. Sunlight seems to be the best way to figure out tricky bricks.
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veni veni veni posted:rouge 1 AT-ST Flashbacks to when Rogue Leader was released on the Gamecube and no-one could spell it right so someone mocked up Wedge Antilles in makeup to make fun of this misspelling RE: colour chat, we're talking about these?  I get that the colour IRL is going to be different than in stud.io but it's wild seeing how colourblindness affects different people. Looking at photos of the set I don't think I'd have any problem with it, but I posted recently about how some of the shades of dirt that went into the bonsai tree were nigh on indistinguishable for me, and that I nearly hosed up the sticker placement on the different shades of red on the Mandalorian AT-ST's legs.
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Yeah, but IRL, the dark blue and black tiles, in poor light, are nearly indistinguishable. Even for people with good color vision. The dark blue is pretty dark. I think it is the darkest color other than black.
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RatHat posted:UCS AT-AT leaked Welp  Wife might murder me and I might have to start putting some other stuff in storage because I don't have enough room for a ton of display cases, but this looks cool as gently caress.
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