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Quick Santa Sleigh review: lots of stickers on curved or small pieces, build is pretty fragile, a bunch of the piece count is spent on the presents which just get piled in the back. Sleigh looks great though. Not my favorite set but will look nice on the mantle.
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Bags Fly at Noon posted:Oh she has three Pink Princesses but their value has dropped significantly so they aren’t as prized anymore. Some company managed to successfully produce them from tissue cultures and flooded the market. Do plant people like Madagascar Jewel? That's the weirdest thing I grow.
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Prophet of Nixon posted:Do plant people like Madagascar Jewel? That's the weirdest thing I grow. Is that an indica?
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Dec 17, 2021 15:25
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Prophet of Nixon posted:Do plant people like Madagascar Jewel? That's the weirdest thing I grow. My partner isn’t into succulents so if it’s big in the houseplant world I wouldn’t have heard about it.
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By the way we have the Lego Bird of Paradise on a low shelf with a bunch of other plants and she’s almost watered it a few times when she isn’t paying close attention.
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Dec 17, 2021 15:52
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Bird of Paradise to bring the family together.
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Dec 17, 2021 15:54
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Swung past the Lego store today and saw the AT-AT in person and drat is it massive. Waiting for Xmas break to get started on mine. I have the box stacked on top of my big falcon box which I haven’t built yet and my wife asked “are going to continue to surround yourself with massive Lego boxes until you can’t move?” The problem with the Falcon is not enough horizontal space at the moment while the AT-AT is vertical which is easier for me to make room for. 
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Dec 17, 2021 22:46
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tomapot posted:I have the box stacked on top of my big falcon box which I haven’t built yet and my wife asked “are going to continue to surround yourself with massive Lego boxes until you can’t move?” woah dang the first stream in weeks 'cause we're done moving and stuff! Come join a design stream at 7PM Central / ~45 mins away!
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Dec 18, 2021 01:13
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Look, everyone loves box forts if they let themselves.
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Dec 18, 2021 01:15
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tomapot posted:Swung past the Lego store today and saw the AT-AT in person and drat is it massive. Waiting for Xmas break to get started on mine.
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Dec 18, 2021 01:21
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If you work in a Lego store do you build the displays or are they shipped to you assembled and glued
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Dec 18, 2021 01:22
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tomapot posted:The problem with the Falcon is not enough horizontal space at the moment while the AT-AT is vertical which is easier for me to make room for. Well while you're building the AT-AT just order yourself a cheap stand for the Falcon as shipping may take a while around the holidays. I went with knock-off pieces of the stand everyone uses, or you can get a fancy acrylic one.
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Dec 18, 2021 01:22
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HootTheOwl posted:If you work in a Lego store do you build the displays or are they shipped to you assembled and glued
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Dec 18, 2021 01:30
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Just put the Falcon on top of the AT-AT
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tomapot posted:Swung past the Lego store today and saw the AT-AT in person and drat is it massive. Waiting for Xmas break to get started on mine. Holy poo poo I'm stupid, I spent so long trying to figure out why you'd circled those parts
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Dec 18, 2021 02:27
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That's alright, my eyes skipped from that AT-AT to the placard that says "Queen Of The Ocean" and I was understandably confused.
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Dec 18, 2021 02:43
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Trying to hide my excitement as my wife just said she loves the home alone set. She’s is support of my habit but never joined in. Dare I get her Lego for Xmas, that seems kinda like sneaky buying myself a gift.davebo posted:Well while you're building the AT-AT just order yourself a cheap stand for the Falcon as shipping may take a while around the holidays. I went with knock-off pieces of the stand everyone uses, or you can get a fancy acrylic one. tomapot fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Dec 18, 2021 |
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tomapot posted:Swung past the Lego store today and saw the AT-AT in person and drat is it massive. Waiting for Xmas break to get started on mine. Getting a stand for the Falcon makes it sooo much easier to display and having it swooshing looks way better than it just sitting there flat (unless there’s some sort of cool display built around it like a landing bay in a coffee table or whatever. It should have come with a stand tbh.
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tomapot posted:Can you point me to what you used. I'll chime in to say that I got the clear acrylic stand from Wicked Bricks and it looks great! I had a cracked piece (most likely from careless delivery people) but they were great and shipped a replacement straight away. Only thing I'd suggest is removing all the panels you can before mounting it, otherwise it's really tricky and those pieces are quite easy to reattach once it's on the stand anyway. The model looks so much better on its side.
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tomapot posted:Swung past the Lego store today and saw the AT-AT in person and drat is it massive. Waiting for Xmas break to get started on mine. Obviously the solution is to keep buying big Lego sets until you have enough boxes to make a display stand for the Falcon.
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tomapot posted:Trying to hide my excitement as my wife just said she loves the home alone set. She’s is support of my habit but never joined in. Dare I get her Lego for Xmas, that seems kinda like sneaky buying myself a gift. Sure, this is the knock-off I ordered just because I was placing an order at yourwobb at the time anyway: https://www.yourwobb.com/products/m...=41256191393948 I'm sure there are several similar things on rebrickable. The fact the image says designed by Efferman I assume yourwobb compensated him for the idea, I hope? I dunno how all that works, all I know is it was a pain to get mounted but it looks great and doesn't use up much room. Or if you've got the money and don't want to build a boring all-technic stand just get this: https://www.idisplayit.co.uk/us/stands/2in1-display-stand-mk2-for-75192-ucs-millennium-falcon/
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Did anyone get the big Diagon Alley set? Thoughts? I keep looking at it and finally added it to my wishlist. $400 just seems really high. But it does look like a cool display piece and fun build...
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Just finished the Mario Questionmark Block which I was skeptical about at first, but it‘s such a joyful build. Really cool set. Now gonna finish the AT-AT.
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HootTheOwl posted:Pictured, Kevin watching in horror as the empire blasts his home. Home Alone 3000: Left on Hoth Can Kevin stop the galactic emperor in time? Catatron Prime fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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Dec 19, 2021 13:41
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OSU_Matthew posted:Home Alone 3000: Left on Hoth Oh no we left Kevin home alone! And he's only a Padawan! *Cut to an AT-AT exploding*
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Why's everyone posing their AT-AT so weird? because they can
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OSU_Matthew posted:Home Alone 3000: Left on Hoth Wanna see a tripwire that launches a mouse droid right at Vader's nuts.
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Finished the AT-AT. I think from the big Star Wars UCS Sets I built (Falcon old/new, ISD old/new) it might actually be my favourite building experience. Only the feet dragged a bit (haha). Overall I would have wished they didn‘t include an interior, and spent the parts to make it just a bit bigger, so the legs don‘t look so much out of scale, as they are clearly way to thick, but I guess there is no other way to make it as stable as it is. And the mechanism both for the feet and of course for posing the legs is really cool. Might be the first UCS set I will mod a bit though. Still too expensive imo compared to Falcon and ISD.
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Fairly obvious manual error early on on the Titanic build. 
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Bags Fly at Noon posted:Fairly obvious manual error early on on the Titanic build. step 133 is early?
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tuo posted:Finished the AT-AT. I think from the big Star Wars UCS Sets I built (Falcon old/new, ISD old/new) it might actually be my favourite building experience. Only the feet dragged a bit (haha). Overall I would have wished they didn‘t include an interior, and spent the parts to make it just a bit bigger, so the legs don‘t look so much out of scale, as they are clearly way to thick, but I guess there is no other way to make it as stable as it is. And the mechanism both for the feet and of course for posing the legs is really cool. The legs are always going to be out of scale with the body if it's going to be stable enough to stand by itself. Increasing the size of the body would just necessitate scaling up the legs to cope with the extra weight. As it is its nearly perfect minifig scale.
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Butterfly Valley posted:The legs are always going to be out of scale with the body if it's going to be stable enough to stand by itself. Increasing the size of the body would just necessitate scaling up the legs to cope with the extra weight. As it is its nearly perfect minifig scale. CaveGod would like to have a word with you (it stands by itself, just don't bump it. It's not "Lego-stable" for sure)
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HootTheOwl posted:step 133 is early? In a set with 9,000 pieces and three separate 300 page instruction manuals? Yeah.
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So.. i just spend a week sorting all my childhood Lego and started building every set i have to check if its still complete. First five are done, another 75 to go I think. I'm amazed at the durability of Lego. Some of the stuff is now third generation and it holds up remarkably well. Except for printed tiles, they are starting to fade hard.
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Bags Fly at Noon posted:In a set with 9,000 pieces and three separate 300 page instruction manuals? Yeah. Okay, you got me. I didn't notice anything when I did this step, what's wrong with it?
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The parts list doesn’t match the assembly, it’s a different coupler.
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Oh I never look at the parts list, lol
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There's 3 or 4 mistakes between the three books, I think they're all parts list errors, except this one where steps 320 and 321 are in the wrong order.
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No wonder it sank.
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HootTheOwl posted:No wonder it sank. 
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