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"I accidentally bought three copies of that castle set. Might as well scalp 'em!" E: horrible snipe.
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Cloks posted:I've been building the Seinfeld set and while I respect that a lot of people in this thread don't care for the sitcom sets, I really like the creativity that the scale calls for. The desk and radiators in the Seinfeld set and the Expresso machine in the first Friends set are two great examples of creative microscale builds. This looks pretty cool indeed. It would be stuff like this that might make the upcoming "The Office" build worthwhile.
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Oct 25, 2021 22:43
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Does anybody know the name of this piece? Or know of a set that it appears in? I can't seem to find it on bricklink or Stud.io searching for slope, curve, 4 x 6, 6 x 4. Edit: nevermind, found it. Slope 4 x 6 x 2/3 Double. 32739
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Oct 26, 2021 01:27
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if you were to make a sunset what color tiles would you use?
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Oct 26, 2021 03:36
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Hello lego thread I don't usually post here, though I do agree that lego is very good. I am head judge this week for the notorious weekly flash fiction competition known as the Thunderdome, and I have offered to assign entrants lego sets which they then must use to derive their characters and setting. If you want to write a short story you should consider entering! It is very good and fun. Here is the link to this week's prompt, and everything you need to know is explained in the OP: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3953574&pagenumber=55&perpage=40&userid=0#post518764270 But my problem is, I don't know what the best lego sets are. Maybe you can tell me? Please?
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Oct 26, 2021 04:08
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Hello lego thread Agreed, come write with us Also, this is the best set https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/21322_Pirates_of_Barracuda_Bay
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Oct 26, 2021 04:11
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Maybe it’s just me, but at 10” doesn’t Home Alone house seem a little small? I guess from the photos I was expecting it to be over a foot tall
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Oct 26, 2021 04:13
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Yoruichi posted:Hello lego thread Pirates of barracuda bay The lego roller coaster Lego friends summer water park or friendship bus MINDSTORMS Any of these would make a good prompt. Someone else will have to suggest the best castle set, I haven’t looked at that line recently.
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Oct 26, 2021 04:15
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The "best" sets tend to be big display pieces that might not be the greatest story prompt. Something like the old ice planet sets or maybe the hidden side haunted lighthouse is the kind of thing I'd be looking at.
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Oct 26, 2021 04:31
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the objective best lego set
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Oct 26, 2021 05:13
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Do they have to buy the set? Cuz that gets expensive. In any case, from a creative perspective, I'd suggest avoiding licensed intellectual property. Somebody picking a Marvel set and then just writing MCU fan fic might defeat the purpose. Lego didn't have licenses before 2000 or so. I could maybe help pick out sets, or at least demonstrate good ways to look for them.
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Oct 26, 2021 05:16
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Here are a couple non-licensed sets that I think might be appropriate; https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions/10193 https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions/10184 https://brickset.com/sets/6983-1/Ice-Station-Odyssey https://www.lego.com/ms-my/service/buildinginstructions/8632
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Oct 26, 2021 05:36
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Thank you, these are all very good suggestions! If you want to read the stories inspired by these sets, come check out the Thunderdome thread after midnight PST on Sunday. If you want to enter a story, you have until midnight PST on Friday to sign up!
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Oct 26, 2021 09:37
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So I've completed the brick moulding machine, and I've noticed a few oddities. The biggest one is the mechanism - it has a knob at the back that you can turn to make one half of the mould move back and forth, just like it does on the actual machines for the bricks to be objected. It's basically impossible to get any kind of smooth movement going with it, a crank mechanism would have made it work a lot better. It also does that thing where you get some weird part usage that I guess is meant to reduce the number of different kinds of bricks used in a bag, so you end up doing things like using two 2x2 corner bricks where you would have used a regular 2x3 brick. It also has an oddity in the build order. You add the legs (2x2x2 stands) with bag two, but don't build the big baseplate until the final bag. It would have made a lot more sense to either add the supports to the same bag the baseplate is in so you build on a flat surface all the way through, or to make building the baseplate the start. I ended up doing the latter. Overall though, it was a very fun build. I'm looking into motorizing the mechanism as part of how I'm going to display it, but I have no idea where to actually put it yet.
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Oct 26, 2021 12:25
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Yoruichi posted:But my problem is, I don't know what the best lego sets are. Maybe you can tell me? Please? Some of my favourite sets from when I was a kid which could be fertile settings: The Aquashark, crystal hunting scuba pirates' submarine headquarters in the shape of a giant shark The Neptune Discovery Lab, the underwater base for people mining the crystals the aquasharks want to steal Enchanted Island, pirates facing off with tribal islanders on their island home
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Oct 26, 2021 14:27
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Yoruichi posted:But my problem is, I don't know what the best lego sets are. Maybe you can tell me? Please?
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Oct 26, 2021 14:38
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Space pimpmobile. https://brickset.com/sets/5984-1/Lunar-Limo
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Oct 26, 2021 14:42
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Not emptyquoting. Mega Core Magnetizer rules, too.
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Oct 26, 2021 15:52
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I thought this was Back to the Future at first. Hill Valley town square anyone?
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Oct 26, 2021 17:02
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crazy eyes mustafa posted:I thought this was Back to the Future at first. Hill Valley town square anyone? Oh yeah, I can see it.
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Oct 26, 2021 17:25
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I like this little GWP Coffee Cart coming next month, free when you spend $65.
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Oct 26, 2021 18:37
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The_Doctor posted:I like this little GWP Coffee Cart coming next month, free when you spend $65. Yeah, it's cute. That and Black Friday are the only things on the calendar again. Another empty month. Guessing BF will be double VIP and a $100 GWP of some Xmas themed set.
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Oct 26, 2021 18:56
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Double VIP is on the weekend of Nov 19-21 I think.
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Oct 26, 2021 19:09
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The_Doctor posted:Double VIP is on the weekend of Nov 19-21 I think. So the question is either try to snag a Titanic preorder on the 1st, or hold off to Double Points week and hope it’s in stock then.
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Oct 26, 2021 19:19
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Sexual Lorax posted:Not emptyquoting. These are good but the objective best Lego set is BYGGLEK!
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Oct 26, 2021 23:40
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So today at noon was Chevy's livestream of the reveal for the 2023 Corvette Z06, so while watching that I built the C8.R I got recently, which is my first Speed Champions set. Now I see what some of you were saying about the 8-wide width, this thing is quite large compared to the minifig. But whatever, it won't fit in with my modulars or any other Lego I have but that's fine. My main problem was just how many decals it had. Good gravy, I should have just bought a diecast model of the thing and bought the minifig off bricklink.
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davebo posted:My main problem was just how many decals it had. Good gravy, I should have just bought a diecast model of the thing and bought the minifig off bricklink. Yeah, of all my complaints this is probably the most egregious. At that scale most details can be brickbuilt, and failing that the pieces should be printed.
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Oct 27, 2021 00:40
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I'm fairly new to the world of LEGO rumormongering, how likely is this story about 2022 Muppets Minifigs to be true? On the one hand, it's literally just a list of Muppets characters possibly based on a one-off comment from some LEGO exec about landing a license. On the other hand, why would it be on the internet if it was a lie?? What to believe!!
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Oct 27, 2021 05:19
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Promobricks is pretty reliable I think?
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Oct 27, 2021 05:21
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Promobricks can be regressive shitheads, but they’re usually very accurate when it comes to leaks
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Oct 27, 2021 05:22
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Promobricks is basically always correct yeah
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Oct 27, 2021 06:36
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I hope it's true that would rule
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Oct 27, 2021 07:00
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crazy eyes mustafa posted:Yeah, of all my complaints this is probably the most egregious. At that scale most details can be brickbuilt, and failing that the pieces should be printed.
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Oct 27, 2021 13:38
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So I've resisted all these blind bag sets so far, not wanting to get sucked into just minifig collecting, but this might do it. How do you all typically ensure you get everything in a wave? Just buy a ton of bags then sell the duplicates, buy a few then get what you're missing off bricklink/eBay, or actually trade what you're missing with other goons or Lego forum people?
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davebo posted:How do you all typically ensure you get everything in a wave? With the Marvel ones we got a box off the Disney store and it was 6 unique characters, so in theory if you ordered two boxes you could get all 6 + 6, but you might also get 6 dupes, in which case you'd have to keep rolling the dice or buy the other 6 individually at $8-10 and not come out ahead. I don't love how this rewards scalping/arbitrage but whatcha gonna do?? Other than have a favorable relationship with someone at your local store who is willing to sell you a known set or let you grope all the bags.
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Oct 27, 2021 16:05
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davebo posted:So I've resisted all these blind bag sets so far, not wanting to get sucked into just minifig collecting, but this might do it. How do you all typically ensure you get everything in a wave? Just buy a ton of bags then sell the duplicates, buy a few then get what you're missing off bricklink/eBay, or actually trade what you're missing with other goons or Lego forum people? I buy full sets from Bricklink or pre-order them from eBay. Once I just bought every blind bag at Target, felt them at home and returned the duplicates but I really don't recommend that.
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I’ve always been kind of disappointed that Lego doesn’t simply sell a full set (maybe with a display stand or something) on its own for a bit of a markup. Maybe not for the “mainline” collections, but for the themed collections especially. Presumably such a move would be throwing away money for them.
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Oct 27, 2021 16:29
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Blue Moonlight posted:Presumably such a move would be throwing away money for them. Nailed it!
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Oct 27, 2021 17:17
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I was thinking I'd like a CMF line of historical figures, and it got me trying to figure out who is out there already. Could come up with a few: - Shakespeare & Lincoln (Lego Movie) - "Roman Emperor" Caesar (CMF9) - "Admiral" Napoleon (Pirates 2015) - Women of NASA Ideas (Jemison, Ride, Hamilton, Roman) - handful of football & basketball figs Other big ones?
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