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Xenomrph posted:I knew the technique was coming because the review video I watched spoiled it and it still made me grin when I assembled it myself, it’s so slick.
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Xenomrph posted:I’m building the Speed Champions Countach and whoever came up with the bit where the rear curved panels slide sideways into place over the back quarters of the car must have been running around the office high-fiving everyone in sight after they came up with it. They probably dislocated their shoulder patting themselves on the back. They must have had to go to the emergency room after their erection didn’t go down after several days. can you link to the bit in the video? i'm curious
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Futanari Damacy posted:Toy Story 2 rules. Aged out of it by the third one so I didn’t see that one though. I, too, am too old for things like cartoons or toys
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Chairchucker posted:I, too, am too old for things like cartoons or toys In real time. You know what I'm talking about
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Carbohydrates posted:And yet it's still not even my personal technique in the set. For me, it's the way the whole rear lower fascia assembly is built around using those wedge plates to fill the gap behind the rear fenders. You do this whole SNOT assembly and only the very tips of the wedges are even visible. What does SNOT mean? mastershakeman posted:can you link to the bit in the video? i'm curious https://youtu.be/f1SzS0IspGg 9:38
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Xenomrph posted:What does SNOT mean? Studs Not On Top. The most basic way to build with legos brand interlocking plastic bricks is to have all the studs on top. But there are pieces that can change the orientation of the bricks so you can end up with studs on the sides or the bottom which allows for new shapes not possible when building the traditional way.
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The_Doctor posted:I love lighthouses, and I want that. To recreate Horror of Fang Rock, I hope!
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Kroger (king soopers/city market etc etc) has the muppets figs on sale for $3.99 atm.
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Davros1 posted:To recreate Horror of Fang Rock, I hope! I’d have to get one of these! 
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Just made the new Creator Viking ship. Was great in general, but the way the hull comes together is amazing, and makes me curious if we'll start getting Age of the Sail ships will fully brick-built hulls at some point. Not a particular fan of the brick-built sales, but I guess Creator's going for a kind of different thing with the line, and some of the other brick-built details like the cow and ravens were pretty fun to put together. Might see if I can't find if I still have the cloth sail from the Viking ship from 2005 to replace it -- which, speaking of, I was pretty struck that this new one feels like a flat out Neo-Galaxy Explorer-esque remake of. Not just the ship and the serpent, but even down to stuff like the ballista and tent. Feels strange to have a remake of a set from my own childhood for a change, and actually putting it together it felt way closer than I'd appreciated from just the pictures.
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Futanari Damacy posted:In real time. You know what I'm talking about I'm 40 and I've seen all the Toy Stories. I absolutely do not know what you're talking about.
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Chairchucker posted:I'm 40 and I've seen all the Toy Stories. I absolutely do not know what you're talking about. ok 
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Just LOL at anyone who thinks they are too old for Toy Story 3.
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I've said it before, the XL-15 Spaceship set from the Buzz Lightyear movie is seriously fantastic and shouldn't be overlooked because of the license. The build is surprisingly complex and very different from the new Galaxy Explorer; Lego somehow knocked out a phenomenal un-weaponized viper in the same year as that insane nostalgia bomb Classic Space release.
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I almost bought it for $40 but missed out and now I don't want to spend more than that. I have a feeling it will be available around that price or lower in a few months again.
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I was just thinking something very similar, about potentially picking up an extra copy or two to modify into a heavy fighter version or something like the incredible classic space color swap someone in this thread posted a bit ago. Definitely worth $50, but $40 or less should be an instabuy for anyone who likes Lego Space.
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BaconCopter posted:I've said it before, the XL-15 Spaceship set from the Buzz Lightyear movie is seriously fantastic and shouldn't be overlooked because of the license. The build is surprisingly complex and very different from the new Galaxy Explorer; Lego somehow knocked out a phenomenal un-weaponized viper in the same year as that insane nostalgia bomb Classic Space release. The director is not just an AFOL but designed the WALL-E set. https://twitter.com/AngusMacLane/status/1508431010148413444
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Waltzing Along posted:Just LOL at anyone who thinks they are too old for Toy Story 3. I read the reviews at the time and didn't think it was worth seeing. This also corresponded with the "dark age" of Lego for me. Though it must be interesting to go straight from being a child to being a grown-rear end child unencumbered by any adult preoccupations 
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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/toy_story_3 98% Not worth seeing. I only see movies at 99%
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Just lol at the concept of actually believing you’re too old to enjoy a movie just because it superficially appeals to kids
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Especially seeing how TS3 is not a kids movie. Anyone who has seen it knows that the themes and especially the 3rd act are very adult.
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Futanari Damacy posted:I read the reviews at the time and didn't think it was worth seeing. This also corresponded with the "dark age" of Lego for me. This is an especially dumb take to have in the literal thread for adults playing with and discussing kids toys
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No it's a highly sophisticated interlocking brick system.
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Finally cracked the Galaxy Explorer over the weekend. Five bags in, and the whole build so far has been an absolute blast. I haven't built a Lego spaceship since childhood, and never one of that size. Watching the frame come together, with the trim around the edges and then the mosaics of plating on top, it was so much fun, and the way they created the silhouette and pinned the outer edges in place was fascinating.
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The speed champions F&F charger is a snooze as a build and a model (happy to have a vin diesel minifig tho) but the DB5 is almost Carbs quality, both in build technique and final appearance. The hood in particular on the DB5 is impressive. Dogen fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Just lol at the concept of actually believing you’re too old to enjoy a movie just because it superficially appeals to kids I didn’t want to see it, end of discussion. I don’t need to provide any further context than that and it’s frankly unseemly to needle someone over something like that. It’s the definition of “does not matter” which begs the question why you or that other dork have a hair up your rear end about it in the first place Just because this is a toy thread doesn’t mean you have to be rude children, sheesh
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Dogen posted:The speed champions F&F charger is a snooze as a build and a model (happy to have a vin diesel minifig tho) but the DB5 is almost Carbs quality, both in build technique and final appearance. Sadly the "instructions" are a video, but someone made a pretty nice BTAS Batmobile from that: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-119776/KMPMOCS/free-76912-batmobile-from-batman-the-animated-series/#comments
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Futanari Damacy posted:
Dude, you literally started it by saying you had aged out.
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TheMadMilkman posted:Dude, you literally started it by saying you had aged out. As children tend to do... they become adults. Adult interests like cars and girls start to take hold. I'm sure it'll happen for you someday
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Futanari Damacy posted:Adult interests like cars 
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When you turn 16 you can get your license, it's an amazing feeling. It tends to reify the interest in a way that Hot Wheels etc. don't I genuinely don't know what's wrong with you people or why the dogpile but can we talk about Lego please? You clearly can't converse about anything else.
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Futanari Damacy posted:When you turn 16 you can get your license, it's an amazing feeling. It tends to reify the interest in a way that Hot Wheels etc. don't "Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis anyway here's a thing I've been working on 
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Enough of this. lol it's not like I went "it's time to put away the things of a child. it's time to become a man." I didn't want to see the movie, it didn't interest me at the time, I mean that in the most genuine way I can convey- but this is being deliberately mistaken as posturing about what an adult or child should or should not like in a given stage of life. If I say I aged out of it, that's the end of it. I didn't say you should, or anyone else should or should not- I'm providing context for my decisions, which seemingly just beckons more personal criticism, and I can't understand it from either a child or adult's perspective. And of course I can't help anyone who themselves are choosing not to understand.
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World is a gently caress, play with toys or watch kids movies who gives a poo poo
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:World is a gently caress, play with toys or watch kids movies who gives a poo poo That's my point. Nooo I have to give people poo poo for not watching the stupid movie I like Sorry if I'm cantankerous. None of the sets out right now are doing it for me, I'm waiting on that stupid Eiffel Tower to leak. The Friends theme is incredible this year but I've reached the limit of what can be reasonably displayed without acquiring more shelving and display space. I'm having to rotate poo poo out, I don't even have Titanic on display right now  lol these assholes just can't help themselves 
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Futanari Damacy posted:I didn't want to see the movie, it didn't interest me at the time
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Futanari Damacy posted:I didn’t want to see it, end of discussion. I don’t need to provide any further context than that and it’s frankly unseemly to needle someone over something like that. It’s the definition of “does not matter” which begs the question why you or that other dork have a hair up your rear end about it in the first place You seem like a lot of fun.
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deoju posted:Love it.      With a couple basic MILS roads for context:  And a bonus render to show its viability as a backdrop for photographing cars: 
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Carbohydrates posted:Thanks! I wanted to do this sort of hyper exaggerated 1970s Americana thing, generally tied in to car culture. It's built on MILS plates so would drop right into any LUG display at a show or event. No interiors, because they'd never be seen in that display context. The theater required some engineering, because the marquee overhangs the sidewalk SO far. It's built around a reinforced Technic beam structure that runs through the entire building, cantilevered with a weight on the back. Wow! Awesome build, and also what are using to make renders? Edit: Totally unrelated, but is everyone aware of the Wal Mart 90th Anniversary mini castle promo? https://www.lego90offer.com/ Prophet of Nixon fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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