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Torbo posted:I know this is a while back, but i just finished building this, and i want to thank you. Its so rad, and its the first like non-official lego project ive worked on, bricklinking the pieces and stuff. I was really drawn to it, because i love the diner, but i just missed it getting back into lego as it was being retired, and i havent had the heart to pay $350 for a set that retailed for 180. I spent enough on the mini version, maybe i should have just saved the money towards the big one. Either way, i really enjoyed the build, very clever, and im really happy about it, so thank you again. That's awesome! Did the build go smoothly? I haven't built any of those mini-modulars IRL yet (though I will probably next year). Any chance you could post some pics of it completed here or on Rebrickable?
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Doji Sekushi posted:I have gone into the deep end with this Lego business I think. The wife and I just started a few months back after not touching a brick in years. So far we've bought every botanical set, the globe, the chess set, ship in a bottle, the 4 available modular sets, and nearly every star wars set out aside from the UCS ships. Most people go way into the deep end when they first get back into it and just impluse buy tons of stuff. After a while you'll start to level out and it's easier to judge what you want to buy and skip. They make so much cool stuff it's easy to just want all of it and it's impossible to keep up with everything. Which is why I think a lot of people only stick with one or two lines.
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Yeah, it's a good thing I don't have more space to display sets or it would be a lot harder to resist the urge to buy everything.
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I have a blast building with my kids (7 and 9), we just finished the Mario 64 ? Block. How was the globe, both as a build and in the final appearance?Doji Sekushi posted:I have gone into the deep end with this Lego business I think. The wife and I just started a few months back after not touching a brick in years. So far we've bought every botanical set, the globe, the chess set, ship in a bottle, the 4 available modular sets, and nearly every star wars set out aside from the UCS ships.
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Ratatozsk posted:I have a blast building with my kids (7 and 9), we just finished the Mario 64 ? Block. How was the globe, both as a build and in the final appearance? Globe looks cool but it was super monotonous.
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Apr 10, 2022 21:31
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veni veni veni posted:After a while you'll start to level out and it's easier to judge what you want to buy and skip. This was a ten-year process for me. Only the combination of a baby and literally running out of allowable places got me to slow down. Also less money. Babies are expensive.
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UCS Snowspeeder was my first big-boy UCS acquisition. Got it, I wanna say on May 4th of whenever it came out. I was happy to build it, but as I’m starting to run out of shelf space it’s always the Lego set my eyes settling me on as I scan options to disassemble. My question is: Do I disassemble and keep lots of white, gray and orange parts? Do I try to sell it.. Disassembled and Ziplocked? Is it worth much that way? I may or may not have the box but I imagine that makes the shipping awkwardly sized.
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UCS snowspeeder would probably be one of my last sets standing if for some reason I had to sell my collection off . I love that set.
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veni veni veni posted:UCS snowspeeder would probably be one of my last sets standing if for some reason I had to sell my collection off . I love that set. It’s a good set and a neat thing. It just takes up a lot of space and I just don’t have the love for SW sets I thought I did.
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If I got into SW sets I'd have to hang them from the ceiling
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Futanari Damacy posted:If I got into SW sets I'd have to hang them from the ceiling Problem with that is they all look like poo poo from the bottom Youd be buying this  and displaying it like this 
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I've done that. You've just gotta get your angles right, there's typically not a lot to see on the bottoms.
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They're spaceships. They can fly upside down.
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Was that Optimus prime May 1 rumor ever debunked? Or is there still a possibility it might be happening? Also, as an aside, I’m low-key over here hoping one of you will make a reasonable offer on my snow speeder.🤣
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Feenix posted:Was that Optimus prime May 1 rumor ever debunked? Or is there still a possibility it might be happening? I have some pogs....
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Somebody is writing a dissertation on AFOLS https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/190163-afol-dissertation-participants-needed/ took me about 15 minutes to do the survey.
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Feenix posted:Was that Optimus prime May 1 rumor ever debunked? Or is there still a possibility it might be happening? Honestly wish I could give you an offer, but budgets been lean for a while now. a sexual elk fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Apr 11, 2022 |
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Y'all should trade some sets. The funnest type of transaction
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God help me, I might get the Hungarian Horntail even though I haven't touched a Harry Potter book in almost twenty years and even though I'm fully aware of the author being a garbage person. This is the first bit of Harry Potter Lego that I'm genuinely considering buying, especially at that price.
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After the announcement of the cancellation, this seemed like a good idea in case I ever get around to building that record shop modular I've been dreaming of: It was not a good idea, but at least they're really nice to look at.
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Fun pop quiz: how would y'all build a browsable table of LP's without dropping them loose into a 2 stud wide channel? Secure them with hinges somehow? Wedge between studs? Something else?
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these? https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalo...ainer%5D#T=S&O={%22iconly%22:0}
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xzzy posted:Fun pop quiz: how would y'all build a browsable table of LP's without dropping them loose into a 2 stud wide channel? obviously the solution is to build a motorized jukebox that can flap through pages of them
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:After the announcement of the cancellation, this seemed like a good idea in case I ever get around to building that record shop modular I've been dreaming of: Yeah I really wish those sets were more interesting, or not so drat expensive. I know I'm not the target audience but some of those pieces were really cool.
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Skios posted:God help me, I might get the Hungarian Horntail even though I haven't touched a Harry Potter book in almost twenty years and even though I'm fully aware of the author being a garbage person. This is the first bit of Harry Potter Lego that I'm genuinely considering buying, especially at that price. This looks dope.
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Those vintage caps are live on the VIP shop...
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I got the bonsai tree the other day and I started building it and it's pretty fun. I was really excited for the cherry blossom config until I noticed something that can't be unnoticed: It's made of frogs! And you can see all the frog legs and eyes and now I can't unsee the frog legs and eyes and there's frogs all over the tree oh no..... OH NOOOOOOOO
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I think that’s a feature, not a bug. But also I went green for that reason.
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Snowmankilla posted:I think that’s a feature, not a bug. I have bought 100 Bright pink flowers and twist caps just in case I can fix it. The pink looks better tho! BUT THE FROGS NOOOOOOOOO
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A couple we're good friends with, one of them is very into puzzles/Lego/general building stuff so they went to the recently-ish opened Legoland in the NY awhile ago, but since their trip intersected with a spike in COVID not a lot of stuff was available there so the park gave them 4 free tickets, so they invited us to go last weekend because hey free Legoland. As far as parks go if I was a kid I'd think it was rad as hell but it was fun to check out with some friends, the important thing is that their shops are pretty good and it was cool to see a large spread of all the stuff Lego does and uh it got my wife and I into Legos. I was obsessed with Blacktron and all the castle Lego stuff when I was a kid and had a bunch of small sets and a few big ones. I remember salivating over Technic sets in their catalogs and stuff but my parents would always tell me I couldn't handle those. As far as my wife goes she had never had Legos at all as a kid. It was cool to see all the stuff they've cranked out since. Anyway long story short      My wife picked out the Megalodon and the bouquet also but she didn't assemble that one yet. I had so much fun putting the Ducati together, and I love all the details you don't even really see once these are all assembled like all the gears and how everything interacts with each other and stuff. THAT said, Cojawfee posted:I think you'll probably burn yourself out on technic after a couple big builds. Buy some sets that cover the bases with lots of gears, differentials, linear actuators, springs, and pneumatics and you've pretty much got everything you're going to get out of Technic. In my opinion at least. The sets aren't as interesting to look at as a detailed Lego build, and there's only so much you can do with the set of mechanical things they have. I can already see this happening, I see myself getting one or two more bigger builds and calling it a day for Technic, but these were very fun to work with. We love the stuff we got. The race plane for $10 I really enjoyed putting it together and oh my god I love those colors and its look. I like this a lot more than the jet build of it. Horizon is one of my wife's favorite video games ever so she's super hype that there's a Horizon set coming out soon, I'm excited to see that one come together (  ).Seeing all the themes while we were there, the character designs and mechs for the Monkie Kid theme are fuckin' awesome, that would be the hypest poo poo ever to me if I was a kid and we almost splurged on that City of Lanterns one but dang. I was surprised they don't seem to sell a lot of the vehicles/stuff from that separately like I'd get the moon rabbit mech or whatever in a heartbeat. I really do love all the look of like every character for it. One thing that surprised me, the Ducati was missing two pieces! That never happened to me as a kid! Fortunately they weren't major but I quintuple checked the box/every bag/disassembled/reassembled to make sure I didn't use something in the wrong place. But it also included a part that's not used in the set at all. Fortunately it still comes together and looks great without them but I requested the pieces and Lego is already sending them to me so that's awesome of them. But it made me curious, obviously missing pieces are a thing that is possible but for any of you that have been doing this for a long time, have you ever encountered it yourself? I love that the Ducati has all of these very specific pieces unique to it but also the windshield is held in place by two Ninjago swords fuuuuck yessss tldr: Lego is the best I notice there's various software folks use to design builds, does anyone here use those? Is there a particular best one?
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HootTheOwl posted:I got the bonsai tree the other day and I started building it and it's pretty fun. I was really excited for the cherry blossom config until I noticed something that can't be unnoticed: If you ever go to Japan during the Sakura you will find that all the cherry blossoms are actually frogs.
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what are the good modular buildings sets? assembly square is...not cheap but it looks nice, but idk if any of the others are any good
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HootTheOwl posted:I got the bonsai tree the other day and I started building it and it's pretty fun. I was really excited for the cherry blossom config until I noticed something that can't be unnoticed: protip don't dust it with canned air like I did yesterday.
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:what are the good modular buildings sets? assembly square is...not cheap but it looks nice, but idk if any of the others are any good Assembly Square is the pick of the bunch. Bookshop looks nice but is a little small. Police Station was the closest they've done to a large, single-purpose building in a while (though the Hotel also fills that role). Boutique Hotel is pretty unusual architecturally and might work better as a standalone than with the others. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Apr 13, 2022 |
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I liked the diner and the corner garage a ton, also spring lantern festival technically is a modular as well, they’re all out of print by now though  Book store was my first and I like it a lot even if it may feel lacking compared to others - I just like the birch tree. Police station isn’t my cup of tea but I’m told it has some great „storytelling“ going on inside. If I were to start out again I’d probably go book store and hotel, maaaaybe police station. Assembly square is huge but doesn’t feel that special to me for some reason.
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:what are the good modular buildings sets? assembly square is...not cheap but it looks nice, but idk if any of the others are any good Diner and Boutique Hotel are, IMO, the best of the currently available. For retired sets, Brick Bank and Detectives Office are both great. Bookshop is possibly the worst modular they have made. It's essentially a remake of the Pet Shop, which was already a substandard modular.
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 Turns out the Temple of the Endless Sea comes with a free bust of Karl Marx.
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Waltzing Along posted:Diner and Boutique Hotel are, IMO, the best of the currently available.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Diner is well retired by now. It is? Isn't it only 3 years old? Oh wow...it's older. Time flies way too fast.
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