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Pretty sure from lego's pov the spreadsheet is reporting things like: Time in production cost per hour gross sales gross margin The people making the decisions probably don't give a single poo poo about the decision for the bulk of sets they make production decisions about as "is this enough of set 23423332" and are instead way more interested in "does this most efficiently use line 3 at the wherever plant". At best someone else is saying "don't make more of these, we have a ton in stock". So yeah, they're going to have misses like this that drive fanchats and discussion and that's great soft marketing for them as long as it doesn't turn people off the product.
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Carbohydrates posted:Because they were working off the assumption that this round would fly under the radar like the first one did. The first one required only 2,500 supporters each and took weeks to hit that for some of them. This time around, it was much bigger: more entries, more advertising, longer hype period, etc. So demand came through massively higher and they just weren't prepared for that. I think the public perception changed a lot between round 1 and 2. The first one was sort of confusing and it seemed like they were picking parts for MOCs and the whole thing felt low key. This one it feels like people are viewing them as super limited official sets. which is a problem.
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 "I'm telling you Jerry, you just stack them up, put them in the closet and 18-24 months later ~*zrrrrrrrp*~ you turn around and flip them for a coooooool $200." "They're children's toys, Kramer!" "Oh there's no kids, I'm going through the scalper's haven now. Straight from the distributor! They're in Denmark, Jerry. Denmark! The kids don't even know they're missing out, it's victimless!"
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Electromax posted:
Tone on this is perfect.
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I’m dead This is the kinda thing that just sort of *evaporates* into nothing And let me tell you, gently caress Seinfeld
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Imagine liking Star Wars but not liking Seinfeld.
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What's the deal with Star Wars?
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It’s not death AND it’s not a star!
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What is the question??
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So Padme tells me she's pregnant, naturally I start to worry, and yadda yadda yadda all the younglings are dead
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Waltzing Along posted:Imagine liking Star Wars but not liking Seinfeld. Seinfeld wasn't funny. Neither was curb. The pregnant pauses where the laugh track was supposed to insert laughter while the stars mugged for camera were poo poo. That's a sign of poo poo comedic timing. Seinfeld himself was the least talented of the lot, followed closely by Larry David. Comedy that comes from "LOL ISN'T THIS SCENARIO THAT WE COOKED UP IN A LAB AWWWKARDDDD" is also poo poo. gently caress the uncreative lot of them. There I said it. Got that poo poo off my chest after 23 or so years. But if Friends (also not funny trash) got a set, sure, why not Seinfeld. deoju fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Jul 4, 2021 |
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Lol, no one cares.
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Quote does not equal edit Edit: I'm being a grumpy gus in a thread that doesn't normally have any negativity. Sorry. deoju fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Jul 4, 2021 |
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Can we go back to star wars spaceship naming argument?
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I LIKES THAT THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF PURDY PINKS AND PURPLES AND THE PASTEL YELLOW IS REALLY VERY NICE :)
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Star Wieners
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Electromax posted:
Congrats on the new thread title
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Jehde posted:Can we go back to star wars spaceship naming argument? Sure, what made Benatar a no-no word in the time since Infinity War?
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I like that there's a Friends set because one of my friends who is not normally into Lego likes Friends, so I can give her Lego for her birthday without her hating it, well that's my opinion on sitcom Lego sets, thanks for reading, bye.
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Seinfeld theme but it's in the style of a Star Wars fanfare
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Time for the most iconic vehicle from the Back To The Future franchise: Marty's Toyota Hilux / SR5 4x4! 
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corgski posted:Congrats on the new thread title It's amazing
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Carbohydrates posted:Time for the most iconic vehicle from the Back To The Future franchise: Marty's Toyota Hilux / SR5 4x4! Check out that 4x4!
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Do you think the Seinfeld set will come with a high school age minifig for Jerry to date?
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deoju posted:Seinfeld wasn't funny. Neither was curb. The pregnant pauses where the laugh track was supposed to insert laughter while the stars mugged for camera were poo poo. That's a sign of poo poo comedic timing. Seinfeld himself was the least talented of the lot, followed closely by Larry David. Comedy that comes from "LOL ISN'T THIS SCENARIO THAT WE COOKED UP IN A LAB AWWWKARDDDD" is also poo poo. gently caress the uncreative lot of them. The only laugh I ever got out of any Seinfeld episode was the Black & White Cookie bit. Did *not* understand the appeal.
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seinfeld rules friends drools. the office was okay for a while
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We can all agree there is a significant lack of sets based on the 1990s sitcom Dinosaurs.
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Where's my SeaDuck model, lego??
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xzzy posted:Where's my SeaDuck model, lego?? Needs a dock with Higher for Hire office.
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This is a really broad question, but for people who do a lot of free building, how did you improve? Is it just a matter of picking things to build and working on representing it in Lego? I'd really like to be able to build some of the stuff i see in this thread but i have no idea where I'd even start with MOCs.
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I'm definitely nowhere near on par with the thread skill level, but as with most things I think it's just doing the deed. Build and build, you'll develop a vocabulary of pieces and techniques and you'll develop shorthands for representation of various materials, forms, etc. Most of the elegance I see in, say, a Carbohydrates build comes from knowing the pieces and connections enough to be able to solve problems in multiple ways during a build.
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Either get an idea and hack at it until you figure it out, or take technique inspiration from official sets and go wild with it. Like this is basically an ecto-1 (the first ideas one) chassis with a new skin:  And this was completely built around the wheel arch design for the caterham set:  Microscale stuff is harder because it requires a lot more familiarity with tricks to get weird angles and small details but if you look at enough people's work you'll start to figure it out.
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Seinfeld is a good show Jerry Seinfeld is poo poo and was the worst thing about the show named after him I also like star wars, star weiners, and Lego
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Get yourself a small set of lego creator, and then just make a pyramid, a ball, a cube, then a hollow pyramid, ball, cube. Make those same 3 forms in different sizes. Make them on top of each other. Make them next to each other. Make them inside each other. Make sure you're having fun, and you're thinking of this as "I wonder what I can do next" and not "now the list says to do z". Attitude matters a lot for getting your brain to make new connections. This exercise, sometimes called "playing with forms" comes up in various ways in regular art classes, and is about learning what your media can do and training your eye to see forms instead of just shapes. The next step is to pick something real, that you own, and then sitting down to make a form-based-moc of it. The next step would be to pick -part- of the real thing and build that part out in detailed forms. You can learn in other ways, and I'm sure people will suggest other ways, but this way is very translatable to different media and I think it's loose enough that it is the closest adults are going to come to the young kid doing it for the first time.
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deoju posted:Seinfeld wasn't funny. Neither was curb. The pregnant pauses where the laugh track was supposed to insert laughter while the stars mugged for camera were poo poo. That's a sign of poo poo comedic timing. Seinfeld himself was the least talented of the lot, followed closely by Larry David. Comedy that comes from "LOL ISN'T THIS SCENARIO THAT WE COOKED UP IN A LAB AWWWKARDDDD" is also poo poo. gently caress the uncreative lot of them. Seinfeld was a bad show, but it was a safe harbor in a sea of even worse shows. At the time it was amazing compared to the competition but taking it outside the context of endless 90s formula sitcoms shines a rather harsh light on it.
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Lol amazing https://twitter.com/manyapan/status/1411370216215486466
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