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In answer to the question about adults wanting to buy better versions of sets they had as kids: surely the rampant success of the whole Star Wars line attests to this
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Any idea when they'll eventually retire the UCS Millennium Falcon? My work gives us a yearly $400 "self care" stipend in which we are encouraged to buy things/services for ourselves and I'm extremely tempted to blow some/all of it on bricks. The big castle is tempting too, but I don't know that I have space for it to sit anywhere once assembled.
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Jan 9, 2023 17:19
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smackfu posted:Also kind of an open question: do adult Lego fans actually want to buy updated versions of the sets they had as kids? If they release an updated aqua sharks set, I'll buy five.
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Jan 9, 2023 17:24
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smackfu posted:Also kind of an open question: do adult Lego fans actually want to buy updated versions of the sets they had as kids? Only if they have buttholes
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Jan 9, 2023 17:27
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Cojawfee posted:If they release an updated aqua sharks set, I'll buy five. 2025 will be the Aquazone 30th anniversary. If Lego wants all of my money that year they'll do an ultimate Nauts vs. Sharks set. Or Nauts and Sharks vs. Raiders. Or Everybody vs. Stingrays battle royale.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Only if they have buttholes id assume just about every adult has a butthole so this is a weird stipulation
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Jan 9, 2023 17:38
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xzzy posted:but these days no one wants to see a minifigure's rear end through a gap in the underside of a space ship. BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Only if they have buttholes
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Jan 9, 2023 17:46
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I'll say what we're all thinking but are too afraid to say it... WE NEED MORE ARCHITECTURE SETS drat IT, there's so many potential sets possible, I'd gladly put myself into debt for them.
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shut up blegum posted:I'm new to bricklinck, why do some parts have a *! under them?
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PowerBeard posted:I'll say what we're all thinking but are too afraid to say it... I want a giant Calatrava with moving parts so bad. Motorized even. Also PKMN Trainer Red posted:80% of my leisure purchases as an adult are a feeble attempt to recapture a fraction of the joy I once experienced as a child, and I will throw stupid amounts of money at anything that I think might trigger the last little serotonin receptor in my brain.
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Are there any leaks what this year's 'big set' is going to be or is it too early?
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smackfu posted:Also kind of an open question: do adult Lego fans actually want to buy updated versions of the sets they had as kids? HootTheOwl posted:When i was a kid we could only afford the 3/4 dollar sets. It was a big deal when I got something in the 20 range, so when a company weaponizes my nostalgia like this it's a big deal and I'm a huge sucker. Yeah this. Not everyone who wanted a pirate ship had one.
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Jan 9, 2023 19:08
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Mr. Neutron posted:Are there any leaks what this year's 'big set' is going to be or is it too early? I hate to inform you that this year’s big set is a celebration of 2001-2003’s Jack Stone theme, featuring a brick-built replica of the Jack Stone 4+ Figure that is, naturally, four feet tall.
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Jan 9, 2023 19:09
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Sloppy posted:I want a giant Calatrava with moving parts so bad. Motorized even. The best part is they don't even have to label what city it's from since everything he designs looks like a picked over fish skeleton
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Blue Moonlight posted:I hate to inform you that this year’s big set is a celebration of 2001-2003’s Jack Stone theme, featuring a brick-built replica of the Jack Stone 4+ Figure that is, naturally, four feet tall. Piece count: 4 MSRP: $700USD
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Neo-Galidor: now with airplane LEGS!
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I am an old man that derives joy from putting together the model cars offered by this company. Speaking of that, I placed an order for 2 Speed Champ cars for me and the Wile E. Coyote pack as a gift for my wife. I got a gift card for Christmas so I used some of it on this order. Was supposed to arrive last week via UPS. I was sitting at home and got the text that it was delivered, which is not out of the ordinary because for some reason UPS and Amazon have something against ringing the goddamn doorbell. I went outside and looked around and there was no box. I looked that the neighbor's house since we are very close to each other and one other time a package for us was on their steps. Nothing. Searched around again, nothing at either side of the house where we have doors. Text message said it was delivered at 4:46 so I checked my Ring camera. At exactly 4:26 I was getting home from an errand I had to run. I remember looking down to the next block and seeing a UPS truck driving up the hill and thinking "man I hope I get my poo poo today." I went to the tracking page and it said that it was delievered to MET THE CUSTOMER. So now I'm upset because they apparently handed it to someone that wasn't me and wasn't even in the right block (we live on a corner). I got in touch with UPS and the next morning they pretty much said "can't find it, contacted the seller, case closed." What the gently caress does that mean for me? I contacted Lego and told them what was up and they said they would send out another order, except the Lotus I ordered was now out of stock so they would refund my card. I told them I paid for a gift cert and they said that was no problem and that they would email me a new gift cert for the amount of the Lotus. I know you can get sets cheaper other places, but it is nice to have customer service like this. Also I ordered the Lotus from Amazon for $5 less than the Lego site (along with the Batmobile from the old TV show). That is my Lego story and I wanted to share it with you nerds.
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I don't really consider myself nostalgic for Lego, it's just an enjoyable hobby. I had the space monorail as a kid and I guess if they still had something like that I'd be into it, but I got into all the trains because that's what they offer and they do so much more than back in the 80s. Wife and I are into the modulars too though, so if they had modular style updates to sets I had then I might get them. Thinking back I had a police station and gas station, so I guess I already did get those. Not sure how you'd do a modular truck stop though. I never had the parking garage but I wouldn't turn down a huge-rear end mostly empty modular parking garage to fit a bunch of speed champions in, even if the scale sucks with modulars. Hey Carbohydrates, make a MOC parking garage to display all those cars of yours! Edit: or a functional glass Carvana tower
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smackfu posted:Also kind of an open question: do adult Lego fans actually want to buy updated versions of the sets they had as kids? Why not just build the set you had as a kid?  The train I posted about a couple of pages ago is finished. Managed to find all of the pieces, except ~6 or so. I was able to replace most of them, annoyingly I lost one of the hooks for the crane. So it's pretty useless at the moment. But still, my kid is having a blast playing with this train (as do I).  (ignore the lack of floorboards. That's on my to do list but I chose to play with Lego for a week instead) Carbohydrates posted:In what context / on what pages? This page for example.  I have no idea what the * or *! mean. shut up blegum fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Jan 9, 2023 |
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EEKA GEEK posted:The best part is they don't even have to label what city it's from since everything he designs looks like a picked over fish skeleton Not everything, sometimes they look like novelty fingertraps  Fun fact, assholes keep breaking the glass panels so they're being removed and replaced with steel cables
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the sets I had as a kid were things like Aquazone and Spyrius and I don't have any personal desire to revisit that kind of object or theme now i'm a grownup and I use little bricks to make grown up things like Sonic the Hedgehog and the Creator 3-in-1 Ferris Wheel
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davebo posted:Hey Carbohydrates, make a MOC parking garage to display all those cars of yours! There’s a used car lot…
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I'm envisioning a multi-storey dealership with those wraparound curved trans-clear panels. My cars are just all parked out on the "street" (I don't have any road panels so I just put them in front of the modulars and other city buildings)
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shut up blegum posted:Why not just build the set you had as a kid? https://helpdesk.bricklink.com/kb/a5/what-does-an-asterisk-or-exclamation-mark-mean-below-a-catalog-items-small-image.aspx quote:A small asterisk (*) below a thumbnail image indicates that there is a large image (like the one you see on this page) available when you click on the small thumbnail. A exclamation mark (!) below a thumbnail image indicates that there is a 3D image of the part (like the one you see on this page).
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Dogen posted:There’s a used car lot… A parking garage is a pretty frequent suggestion, but it would be mad boring and absolutely enormous. I'm fine with just sticking 'em all on a table for cons and shows.
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You could make a giant train car hauler. Just have it haul everything around the convention center.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Yeah, it seemed like an honest question to me. I bought a modern version of a Transformer not because I had it as a kid, but because I wanted it as a kid but never got it, and I think a lot of Lego is like that as well. The recent lego castles are definitely doing this for me, as I always wanted a lego castle as a kid and never got one.
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HootTheOwl posted:This is what peak starship performance looks like, you may not like it but it is. gently caress me. That's the 1 Blacktron set I had. Goddamn. I need it again.
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Carbohydrates posted:Yeah, and when I designed it, it fit all my car MOCs at the time - all 15 of them. It was supposed to be the perfect display solution! I have 48 cars now, and that's just the 6-wides. Start de-making them and stack them in a junkyard waiting for the crusher.
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Vintersorg posted:gently caress me. That's the 1 Blacktron set I had. Goddamn. I need it again. Exploriens!
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Butterfly Valley posted:In answer to the question about adults wanting to buy better versions of sets they had as kids: surely the rampant success of the whole Star Wars line attests to this I mean, a big difference is those sets also appeal to new fans of Lego
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shut up blegum posted:The train I posted about a couple of pages ago is finished. Hell yeah sweet train vid! spaced ninja posted:You could make a giant train car hauler. Just have it haul everything around the convention center. 
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xzzy posted:Start de-making them and stack them in a junkyard waiting for the crusher. Ending of Brave Little Toaster moc?
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Sloppy posted:Exploriens! Thanks! Makes it easier to look up.  I google'd and im like, these don't look like that! Neon yellow pieces were all a kid in the 80s needed.
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Jehde posted:The recent lego castles are definitely doing this for me, as I always wanted a lego castle as a kid and never got one. same but the pirate/imperial ships
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Space sets that could probably be remade into great GWP sets: * The M-Tron Particle Ioniser - Who doesn't want a space helicopter? * The Blacktron 2 Allied Avenger - Those canopies got so much use when I was a kid. * Space Police Galactic Peace Keeper - I've already waxed nostalgically about this set a few pages back, and it dovetails nicely with the Blacktron GWP we've just had. * Ice Planet 2002 Ice Sat V - Not going to lie, Ice Planet 2002 made it hard to find a set that was in the right range for GWPs, while also having the right aesthetic.
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Skios posted:Space sets that could probably be remade into great GWP sets: This is one of my all-time favorite space sets from any line. All the moving parts, cool pieces, and it just looks awesome. Super feature dense for its size, has magnets, all the cool wheels, etc etc.
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Skios posted:Space sets that could probably be remade into great GWP sets: These two are my babies
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Sloppy posted:This is one of my all-time favorite space sets from any line. All the moving parts, cool pieces, and it just looks awesome. Super feature dense for its size, has magnets, all the cool wheels, etc etc. I forgot all about the magnets. Haven't seen any on a set lately, was there a particular reason they stopped?
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They look dope. Luv space helecopter
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