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Waltzing Along posted:Carbs robbed again. Would be better either without the wooden bridge or with hillsides to cap it off
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I like the brick cross train station
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Junkenstein posted:Bought a relatively new set, Central Perk, for cheap off Vinted and the clutch power (I believe that's the term) is about 75-80% for everything. Just wondering what can make that happen. I doubt it's something that's been played with a lot or rebuilt loads of times. Displayed right above a radiator or something? I had the bonsai right in the window in sunlight for a while and while I suppose the windows have a UV filter it still got pretty warm and the pieces started to feel very loose. They did tighten back up though when I moved it elsewhere, or at least I think they did.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:I like the brick cross train station yeah Brick Cross is pretty great
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:I like the brick cross train station It’s really nice, but I’m thinking $400 easily.
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The mushroom house is rad. The others are pretty cool but not my cup of tea.
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Jonas Kramm's mushroom house is amazing and some version of it is long overdue for production. It's adorable and full of super charming details. The build itself is very simple, so I hope nobody's holding out for any revolutionary tech, but the result is great. Some of the larger plant details look a bit fragile. Logging Railway is a choice. Honestly, this build looks awful. Aside from the fact that you're doing the same thing 15x, look at this:  The SNOT bricks holding that black flex hose are only attached from the top? Why? Aligning the track looks annoying, too. I have other concerns, too, like what is stopping the logs from sliding forward and backward on their car? How is the train going to roll if the track is slightly misaligned, given how it's attached? Will that technique stand up to the weight of the train? I worry that this one may suffer a lot from a lack of IRL testing. We'll see! I don't like the Ocean House at all. I think the colors are awful and muddled, the building is way too big for what it is, and the techniques used are really basic. That boat is straight out of the 90's. Everything except the windows is just stacked bricks, plates, and slopes. The watery base is extremely plain and just a massive stretch of nothing. This thing has an astounding 14x22 interior space and it's used for a small strip of kitchen, a table and 2 chairs, a chest, and a 2 x 4 bookshelf. Wild. Brick Cross owns. I've spoken about this one before but I have little bad to say. A section that opens from the side is iffy for a modular building that connects from the side and it's quite parts hungry. The rest of it rocks. Much more sophisticated than Studgate. Another super worthy choice. Ominous Isle? What the hell? I've looked thoroughly through every single submission to both series so far and I don't even remember seeing this one. More Pirate nostalgia bait. The build looks fine. Some proper SNOT rockwork is always nice to see, the foliage density is nice and I like the tree design, and there's a fun smattering of details. I like the care put into making sure everything can be traversed. Pretty efficient use of pieces, for the most part. I don't think the bridges and railings look good at all, and the big focal point is... okay. Bit of a mixed bag here. It's fine.
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It sucks that ideas that use fancy renderers and stuff usually win. I just hate that there's been an influx of CAD models that have made it through and the designers have not taken into account how it would actually build and if it would hold up if it was produced in the real world.
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Aug 24, 2023 15:23
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Yeah, but, Mushroom House.
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w00tazn posted:It sucks that ideas that use fancy renderers and stuff usually win. I just hate that there's been an influx of CAD models that have made it through and the designers have not taken into account how it would actually build and if it would hold up if it was produced in the real world.
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I love that the pun-packed departure board in Brick Cross has cancelled and late trains, very true to life of the British rail system
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Silly quick sketch because I'm just kinda in love with this game right now and I needed to get this out of my head:
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This Insider thing has been prety dissapointing. I don't care about the name rebrand, that's just marketing BS. The point system is a bit of a kick in the dick. I know I probably shouldn't complain about "free" points, but making a $10 set be worth the same as a $400 set is awful. You could at least have a sliding scale of 10-100 or something. And the number of sets that don't have a barcode is astounding. No polybags (which I have a lot of), no gwp, no holiday/theme sets, no brickheads (although I had one that worked), no sets seemingly under $10-15 have a qr code on them. I'll take the free points for not much effort, but I guess it stands out when the company usually has an amazing reputation for thinking about their customers and going way above and beyond.
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Pulled the trigger on Rivendell, got wonders of the world and houses of the world 3 as GWP Now to contain my excitement because I know it won't be here until mid next week due to the UK bank holiday
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If anyone is looking to buy a Tallneck, I have one for sale... https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4040424
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Which reminds me, the park meadows lego store (south side of Denver) had three tallnecks sitting on the shelf the other day.
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If the Lego McLaren F1 wasn't your thing, you can get a worse brick set from a worse F1 team and pick up the offically-licensed CaDA Alfa Romeo F1 https://decadastore.com/products/cada-alfa-romeo-f1-team-orlen-c42-c64005w
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Boco_T posted:If the Lego McLaren F1 wasn't your thing, you can get a worse brick set from a worse F1 team and pick up the offically-licensed CaDA Alfa Romeo F1 This actually looks kinda good? at least it seems more accurate and has the right livery. Shame that it's like more of a hybrid model instead of a fully technic model tho.
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ChesterJT posted:This Insider thing has been prety dissapointing. I don't care about the name rebrand, that's just marketing BS. The point system is a bit of a kick in the dick. I know I probably shouldn't complain about "free" points, but making a $10 set be worth the same as a $400 set is awful. But the part where you earn points based on how expensive the set is already exists. It's when you buy it, from Lego.com
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Updated my Bomb Rush Cyberfunk thing with some more stuff from the game: Y'all, this game owns so hard. If you enjoyed Jet Set Radio / Future even a little bit, check it out.
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Oh yeah, I forgot to ask if anyone knows. I tried to go to the Lego store at Disney Springs a couple of weeks ago, and the line outside was huge. This seemed to be because they were only letting about 20 people inside at a time. It was roasting at the time, even in the evening (100°!) so I wasn’t going to stand waiting to get in and find out why they were limiting numbers so much. Any clues?
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The_Doctor posted:Oh yeah, I forgot to ask if anyone knows. I tried to go to the Lego store at Disney Springs a couple of weeks ago, and the line outside was huge. This seemed to be because they were only letting about 20 people inside at a time. It was roasting at the time, even in the evening (100°!) so I wasn’t going to stand waiting to get in and find out why they were limiting numbers so much. Any clues? The Springs website has a warning at the top that indicates that the entire place has a capacity limit, and the recent Google reviews of the store confirm through text ("Try and get there early to avoid standing in line (especially in the heat)") and exhaustive pictures of the outside sculptures just absolutely mobbed with people in something like a line that the line thing has been happening since at least 2 months ago. As a long-time local, Disney Springs shops have always had posted capacities but I've never seen them acknowledged. I used to see the big World of Disney store next door pack people in like they were the last lifeboat on the Titanic every summer for decades. Now that our absentee governor has declared war on the Mouse and taken over emergency services for the area it seems that doesn't happen anymore, and I wouldn't be surprised if everyone was told to stay a healthy margin below the letter of the law to minimize chances of collateral damage. I hate to say it and I hate even more that it might be the best viable path forward for the state, but Disney will almost certainly ensure that they own the next Governor so it's unlikely to continue past that point.
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Covid is spiking hardcore right now, so I'd expect to see more sporadic stuff like that. The Lego store in the mall by my house has always randomly had a line outside since everything reopened.
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:The Springs website has a warning at the top that indicates that the entire place has a capacity limit, and the recent Google reviews of the store confirm through text ("Try and get there early to avoid standing in line (especially in the heat)") and exhaustive pictures of the outside sculptures just absolutely mobbed with people in something like a line that the line thing has been happening since at least 2 months ago. Yeah, when I went back in May, it was business as usual with about ~200 people rammed in there like normal. I did wonder if they’d had people just walking out with things (something I could absolutely see happening there with the huge amount of people - walk in, take something off the shelf, put it in a Lego bag, calmly walk out again, smile at the staff member at the exit door) Conversely, the WoD was busy-busy like I’d never seen. I think everyone was packed in there because it had AC and wasn’t outside, which I completely understand.
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 And so it begins. So many 2x1 trans blue plates. Five bags in, we already have the first 'Roofing made from parts not normally meant for roofs' moment - The little ridge on the right side of the bakery is made of half books.
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Yup. There was one cool bit of modularity that wasn't used for the Ninjago City Gardens - you can actually lift the interiors of the buildings out for more playability.
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I finished up bags 1 and 2 of the used PoBB that I got and drat, I'm already loving this set and I know there is so much left too! I'm building the wreck/island first. Also, massive props to the seller for dismantling it and bagging it up step by step.
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I highly recommend looking at that pirate port of Nassau MoC on rebrickable once you're done with the island build, you get a big port AND the complete ship alongside it, for the cost of PoBB and the modular bookstore
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Beasteh posted:I highly recommend looking at that pirate port of Nassau MoC on rebrickable once you're done with the island build, you get a big port AND the complete ship alongside it, for the cost of PoBB and the modular bookstore Going to buy the instructions for this once I finish the Police Station and turn it into a bookstore  My Lego city already has a police station (60141) and the building is too good not to repurpose imo
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Beasteh posted:I highly recommend looking at that pirate port of Nassau MoC on rebrickable once you're done with the island build, you get a big port AND the complete ship alongside it, for the cost of PoBB and the modular bookstore Wow that's a freaking incredible MoC. I'll definitely keep this one in mind for the future!
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Carbohydrates posted:Updated my Bomb Rush Cyberfunk thing with some more stuff from the game:
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The Himeji Castle set was surprisingly enjoyable to build all the way through. I’ve gotten used to a certain amount of tedium in architecture sets but probably the worst part is putting the trees together in the final bag, which really wasn’t too bad. Also the end result is suitably impressive.
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Dogen posted:The Himeji Castle set was surprisingly enjoyable to build all the way through. I’ve gotten used to a certain amount of tedium in architecture sets but probably the worst part is putting the trees together in the final bag, which really wasn’t too bad. Also the end result is suitably impressive. How's the cladding color on yours? I've seen a bunch of reports on the dark tan being wildly different from brick to brick.
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Dogen posted:
Oh, that's "whatever" territory. Thanks!
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I know it's actually a manufacturing issue and all but I honestly think it makes it look better, lol. A great big hunk of monocolor can be a bit plain.
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Koramei posted:I know it's actually a manufacturing issue and all but I honestly think it makes it look better, lol. A great big hunk of monocolor can be a bit plain. i really wish it was a cobblestone print or something on the block
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Mr Phillby posted:As expected this is a cool and good build and i can only assume nobody is comenting on it because they followed your advice and are too busy ging all city rn.
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Looks like the new Winter Village comes out in Oct and is a Lodge. Looks like a return to the original ones.
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