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ChesterJT posted:https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/blacktron-cruiser-40580 contra: looks fun as poo poo to play with
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Always bought this polybag at Target today before it was taken for being register locked for Jan 1. She atleast let me me take a pic of it. 
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radlum posted:I got the Noodle Shop for Christmas and I have finally decided to start my (small) Lego city. Any suggestions on how to start? Should I just buy baseplates and roads? You don't necessarily need roads. My city is car free. Embrace the train. I'm working with a shelf so my city is only 48 studs deep. I'm using the winter village sets as placeholders, they'll be replaced with custom builds as they get done. I got started by buying the 48x48 baseplates when they were on sale and built up a decent stash of basic bricks using Goodwill to build the substructure for the cutting.  Please excuse the dust.
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DrChud posted:Always bought this polybag at Target today before it was taken for being register locked for Jan 1. She atleast let me me take a pic of it. That's the best polybag in a minute, hope they come here!
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Other than the modulars which have sidewalks implying a street, and just parking the various vehicles, Speed Champions etc in front, I have embraced a waterfront approach to the other structures in my city. This was dictated by the Ninjago City sets- I just love the effect of the water stages, it was a renaissance moment seeing Docks in the store vs the plain blue baseplates that were previously used to imply water surface.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Are people not liking the new road plates Lego started making earlier this year? Aside from the glossy surface and price, the main problem people have seem to be them beeing pretty narrow, and actually beeing build plates instead of baseplates, which means they are pretty hard to integrate well with existing buildings and cities that are entirely on baseplate foundations, requiring some clever adaptions to make them look nice/not out of place. There's just no "out of the Lego box"-solution for connecting a baseplate to a buildplate (without the connection then again beeing too high/too low to plates stuck on other baseplates etc.)
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Doesn't help with the gift card, but Zavvi has the Chiron for $330 right now. It's regularly $300 during their many sales, if you want to risk that too. Thanks for this.
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There are some fresh new rumors today. I was going to only post the first one but figured folks might care about the rest. There will be 5 Sonic the Hedgehog sets coming out, minifig scale, focused on play, ranging from $30 to $100. Technic is getting NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover 1132pcs, Audi RS Q e-tron 914pcs, and a Lamborghini Huracán 816pcs, John Deere Skidder 948L-II 1492pcs, and some unknown licensed vehicle 1475pcs There's going to be an Incredible Spider-Man Art set Some Minecraft and Disney 4+ sets City is getting: Car Wash 245 pcs, Ice Cream Shop 296 pcs, Urban Skate Park 454 pcs, Apartment Building 688 pcs, Ski & Climbing Center 1045 pcs. A new Passenger Plane 913 pcs and the biggest City set yet, Urban Centre 2010 pcs. City Arctic Exploration theme will be coming back with the Arctic Explorer Ship 815 pcs & the Arctic Snowmobile 70 pcs. City Deep Sea is back too. Underwater Exploration Ship 182 pcs & Deep Sea Submarine 842 pcs. A bunch of Ninjago stuff with the highlight being the Destiny's Bounty: Race Against Time 1739 pcs. Creator is getting Main Street 1459 pcs & Space Roller Coaster 874 pcs. A bunch of unknown super hero and harry potter sets.
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BaconCopter posted:There are some fresh new rumors today. I was going to only post the first one but figured folks might care about the rest. Well, that'll be my first Technic purchase in a while! Still annoyed the Ideas Curiosity barely had a release.
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Pyroclastic posted:Well, that'll be my first Technic purchase in a while! If true that will be my first Technic since the 90s! Not missing that though.
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Pyroclastic posted:Well, that'll be my first Technic purchase in a while! It wasn't hard to buy the parts on BL a few years back. I think it's very $$ now due to some bricks going out of print. E: there are a couple sets on BL for not bad prices. $70 or so for a set w/ no instructions. $105 for a set w/ instructions, which I think is probably a very good deal.
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Prophet of Nixon posted:If true that will be my first Technic since the 90s! Not missing that though. If you haven't built one of the large Technic supercars, it's actually a neat experience ... once. The level of detail in the steering, suspension, and especially drivetrain are cool. But it's rather samey across builds until the body work which is (in my opinion) less interesting on Technic builds.
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Digital War posted:You don't necessarily need roads. My city is car free. Embrace the train. I'm working with a shelf so my city is only 48 studs deep. I'm using the winter village sets as placeholders, they'll be replaced with custom builds as they get done. I got started by buying the 48x48 baseplates when they were on sale and built up a decent stash of basic bricks using Goodwill to build the substructure for the cutting. What's going on to the right? Looks like a Zamboni polishing the ice on a frozen aqueduct
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Brawnfire posted:What's going on to the right? Looks like a Zamboni polishing the ice on a frozen aqueduct It’s a narrowboat on a canal bridge
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My son got me one of those FOCO football helmets for christmas, they are like 1/4 size lego blocks. I like the fact that I now have a helmet for the college I went to, but man the building techniques are really not great, and the fitment of the pieces is pretty poo poo. Also the instructions suck pretty bad too. On the other hand now that it's done, it's really cool looking. It was about 1500 pcs, so unfortunately it would be cost prohibitive to recreate it in lego using pick a brick.
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BaconCopter posted:Technic is getting NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover 1132pcs, Audi RS Q e-tron 914pcs, and a Lamborghini Huracán 816pcs, John Deere Skidder 948L-II 1492pcs, and some unknown licensed vehicle 1475pcs Is it too much to ask for a good STi build in WR Blue? Probably is
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Butterfly Valley posted:It’s a narrowboat on a canal bridge Ah sweet, I wasn't really getting the boat but was definitely getting aqueduct. Maybe I just need a different angle on the boat. My city used to have one of those across the river but it got filled in in the 20s and became a normal bridge. Lame.
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Yeah, it's a British narrowboat. Here's a better view of it. 
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I like the style of your walls, they're detailed enough to look good without going over the top with greebles like most builders do. There's something to be said for restraint.
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Flyinglemur posted:Is it too much to ask for a good STi build in WR Blue? It's great, until you realize all the yellow decals would be stickers and your scooby would end up being a blue street legal version because you can't be arsed...
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Hopper posted:It's great, until you realize all the yellow decals would be stickers and your scooby would end up being a blue street legal version because you can't be arsed... I would be happy either way. Maybe a DeLorean deal where you could build either one! And for only $500!!!
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Digital War posted:Yeah, it's a British narrowboat. Here's a better view of it. That's very nice! You've got a lock and everything! Oh man I'm getting excited over here. Here's some boats going across the canal aqueduct in my city Rochester, NY in 1899, just as a reference. 
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Digital War posted:Yeah, it's a British narrowboat. Here's a better view of it. Sweet, my uncle used to live on a houseboat like that over in England.
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Hit my limit and need to start breaking down some sets for storage. Do I buy some big gallon sized freezer bags and just sharpie them with like “Seinfeld set” or what do you all do?
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ziploc bags are the most readily available and pretty cheap, but they lock in that plastic "funk" that lego bricks emit over time. So I buy muslin drawstring bags off amazon and use those, you lose the transparency but they are more durable than plastic. I'll mark the bags with tape.
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Stan Taylor posted:Hit my limit and need to start breaking down some sets for storage. Do I buy some big gallon sized freezer bags and just sharpie them with like “Seinfeld set” or what do you all do? Get the manual. Go to last page. Unbuild by bag #. Put the bricks in a ziplock with a small piece of paper indicating bag. If you kept the box, put these bags in the box and seal it. Your future self will thank you.
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I see that the Great Wave art set got revealed today. Looks good! https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/art/the-great-wave
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:I see that the Great Wave art set got revealed today. Looks good! I saw some bricklink and other MOCs of it and I gotta say I like those better 
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Seeing great wave and lego in a sentence together made me think, have they done a beach or a pier as a city set before? Not like industrial docks but a beach with like an ice cream seller, sand castles and surfers and stuff? Sorta related but when I was a kid I had an underwater set with a load of rocks and seaweed and a little submarine with divers, I think it was this one. https://brickset.com/sets/6559-1/Deep-Sea-Bounty Obviously that was somewhat limited in technique so curious if they've done a modern take on that, like a coral reef type thing with some divers exploring it?
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I kinda wish it was more like Starry Night. I'm not a fan of the dot-art they've done, and this feels like a weird middle ground.
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thebardyspoon posted:Seeing great wave and lego in a sentence together made me think, have they done a beach or a pier as a city set before? Not like industrial docks but a beach with like an ice cream seller, sand castles and surfers and stuff? https://youtu.be/OFENIbi0HEg
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Waltzing Along posted:Get the manual. Go to last page. Unbuild by bag #. Put the bricks in a ziplock with a small piece of paper indicating bag. If you kept the box, put these bags in the box and seal it. Your future self will thank you. This is what I do, except I write directly on the bag with a sharpie: set number, set name, bag number. All extra pieces and the brick separator if any go in bag #1. I try to keep the manual's bag intact if possible; if not it gets its own bag.
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Lazy option: just put them fully assembled in a box or bin in the basement.
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CMF Series 24 is available at some Targets. I felt packages for about a minute and ended up with two brown Spacemen w/ Spacebaby, the newsie, and the robot warrior.
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graventy posted:I kinda wish it was more like Starry Night. I'm not a fan of the dot-art they've done, and this feels like a weird middle ground. Have you built any of them? I hated them too based on product photos, but then I was gifted the art project set and it looks much better in person.
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Just built the UCS Razor Crest over two days, it was pretty fun! No crazy techniques or anything, but nothing was too fiddly and it was not repetitive even with the symmetrical nature of the ship. Also I love the huge interior because I’m a child and I will absolutely play with it like a dollhouse (I still get my sandcrawler down to play droid salvage). Also it’s just impressive how huge it is, and that it sits on rock solid landing skids. Wish some of the top panels were secured in some way but it works ok I guess and probably would lead to broken bits given the size of subassemblies being moved around.
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