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Manchild King posted:Don't you just hate that. Does anyone else ever feel ashamed about their Lego addiction?  ).
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Captain Invictus posted:I simply told my girlfriend that if it's okay for me to wait outside the makeup store while she putzes around trying things out and not actually buying anything, it should be okay for her to wait outside the Lego store while I putz around looking at really expensive toys and not actually buying anything(because they had no grab bags left, and had just taken series 5 off the shelf and weren't allowed to put series 6 out until Monday Did she leave you on the spot
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Shockingly, she's not completely shallow, has some rationality to her and understood what I was saying! 
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My girlfriend loves my children's toy addiction.
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In my experience I haven't ran into too many people who begrudge adults building with LEGO. Hell I had LEGO shipped to me in Afghanistan and we would have nights where 4 or so of us would just crowd around a table making cool stuff. Then we'd get incoming mortars, run to a bunker real quick, then continue building once it was all clear  .TL;DR- LEGO vs. Anti-coalition forces
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djfooboo posted:In my experience I haven't ran into too many people who begrudge adults building with LEGO. Hell I had LEGO shipped to me in Afghanistan and we would have nights where 4 or so of us would just crowd around a table making cool stuff. Then we'd get incoming mortars, run to a bunker real quick, then continue building once it was all clear Did you try shouting back 'Hey, we're trying to build lego in here, you fucks' because I'm betting the taliban have just as many AFOLs and would give you a break...
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Jan 8, 2012 12:32
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Self conscious? You can't be self conscious and efficiently fill a PAB cup. A good memory is when I was 18 I took a sports bag full of Lego into school and every free period we'd all spend the time building Lego. We'd make competitions of it too, building things like downhill racers and land yachts.
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While on the subject I think it would be interesting to hear how people explain their hobby to adults. I usually tell the person that LEGO is just a medium for my creativity, no different than a canvas or clay. But since I lack the creative wherewithal to create something from nothing I like LEGO because it gives me shapes to utilize without giving me a final product. Also I am mechanically minded and love all the opportunities to solve problems that arise during building. Also, spaceships go WHOOSH and PEW PEW is always fun.
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Jan 8, 2012 14:27
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I buy the occasional set but any of my major purchases are minifigs. I figure (and I guess this would be my "excuse" if asked) it takes up less space, they're easier to keep track of, and its hard to not look at a LEGO guy and think "Look at the little Jack Sparrow ". Plus I don't think anyone can deny how great the detail is on the collectible minifigs.
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This thread managed to finally bring me out of my dark ages which lasted from 1997 I think. I not only started a tiny mini figure collection, re-acquired 6085 Black Monarch's Castle and 6285 Black Sea's Barracuda off Ebay (while all my old Lego is still with my parents, I remember these two sets being incomplete due to a couple of accidents with vacuum cleaners etc) and requested Lego for this year's holidays (got Heroica and 10199 Winter Village Toy Shop, among other things), I also just finished building the 10220 VW T1 Camper I gifted to myself as a belated holiday gift:   I also started to play around with LDD and created a smallish low-detail Normandy SR2 from Mass Effect 2:   I fear for my poor wallet 
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Jan 8, 2012 16:16
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Saw this at the beginning of last week. Forgot I took it. LEGO Friends ads in the wild. 
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Jan 8, 2012 16:45
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I saw this at eurobricks. Olivia's basement. nice and disturbing.
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Thanks to this thread I am now a lego addict again. I hadnt touched the stuff for about 20-25 years but for christmas my girlfriend bought me the camper van. The few hours it took to build were so enjoyable. All the memories of searching for that small 1x1 square came back and I loved it every minute. I am now in the process of working out which sets I want for my birthday in a few weeks, and am planning a mighty collection. Thanks to you all for rekindling a love once lost 
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I was visiting my dad yesterday at his house, he had recently gotten remarried and his wife's daughter was over visiting and she brought her son and daughter. They're about 7ish, and when Sponge Bob was over on TV, they started playing with some little Lego Creator sets they had. Went down to the basement and brought up my box of Lego instructions from the golden era (early-mid 90s) Was very pleased to see they were interested in the old Castle and Space sets since they're used to Star Wars. They had to leave shortly thereafter, but next time they're over going to have to drag the big Rubbermade tubs out from the basement so they can have some fun.
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toby posted:Did she leave you on the spot If she had, good riddance.  (My wife not only feeds the habit by buying me more Lego, she helps me sort it. )foosel posted:I also started to play around with LDD and created a smallish low-detail Normandy SR2 from Mass Effect 2: I just had a fit of "gently caress, why didn't I think of that", because I've mentally bounced ideas around for building one of those but couldn't come up with a good way to do the curve of the hull. mynnna fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Jan 8, 2012 |
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Merchant of Death posted:I saw this at eurobricks. Olivia's basement. This is awesome.
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Merchant of Death posted:I saw this at eurobricks. Olivia's basement. While there is a lot to love about this, one of the things that sticks out as particularly well-done is the faux lighting effect done by using lighter grey around the ladder from what I presume is an open trap door
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Jan 8, 2012 18:40
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I kinda wish the walls were made with the cutesy purple/pink bricks rather than the grey.
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I hope Brickarms/Brickforge/Whoever (I don't know anything about third party LEGO stuff) start making accessories for the Friendfigs. It'd help them fit into MOCs better, though the above works very well.
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Fooley posted:Brickarms/Brickforge/Whoever (I don't know anything about third party LEGO stuff) Speaking of, is there a big list of third-party sites somewhere? I know about Brickforge and Brickarms, but are there others out there doing similar sorta stuff?
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Is that axe from one of the minifig lines, or somewhere else?
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djfooboo posted:While on the subject I think it would be interesting to hear how people explain their hobby to adults.
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Arnold of Soissons posted:Is that axe from one of the minifig lines, or somewhere else? Yeah its from the Lumberjack I believe.
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So apparently there's a dude in the friends line. He's in the big set which my Target didn't have, but they did have on display. He's mowing the lawn with no shoes on while his girlfriend or whatever sits outside and watches. Sexism
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Travis343 posted:Yeah its from the Lumberjack I believe. He does. And a hat with a beaver on it.
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Sockser posted:So apparently there's a dude in the friends line. He's in the big set which my Target didn't have, but they did have on display. He's mowing the lawn with no shoes on while his girlfriend or whatever sits outside and watches. He is bbq'ing on the box while the woman is cutting the lawn. Really they should of had one of those robots that cuts the grass so we could argue about how its wrong to enslave robots while humans sit around watching tv.
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Well, I bought the Superman vs. Power Armor Lex today, and it's pretty sweet. Really a fun build, and a great buy for $20. The ball-and-socket joints make the robot extremely posable. It can even do a split!  
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Merchant of Death posted:He is bbq'ing on the box while the woman is cutting the lawn. Really they should of had one of those robots that cuts the grass so we could argue about how its wrong to enslave robots while humans sit around watching tv. And the TV in the house has some pink rainbows-and-stars show on. It's clearly a house of bronies.
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Fooley posted:I hope Brickarms/Brickforge/Whoever (I don't know anything about third party LEGO stuff) start making accessories for the Friendfigs. It'd help them fit into MOCs better, though the above works very well. Friends... in... Spaaaace   Back to the AFOL shamechat, when I went to the Ft. Wayne con I felt kind of bad for the guys I talked to who mentioned being unemployed but still feeling compelled to fuel their addiction. Been there myself, and it's the reason I missed out on some good Indiana Jones and batman stuff, because I didn't have the money to burn.
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If that is exo-force hair it turned out amazing.
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X Wing and Millennium Falcon arrived, can't wait for the builds. Proudly displayed my purchases on Facebook, got quite positive feedback, including positive feedback from a girl I'm interested in. drat you Goons now I have to add Lego tolerance to the list of things I look for in a partner.
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Speaking of being slightly embarrassed while buying Legos, can I ask the folks in this thread who work at Lego stores something: do they train you to be waaaaaay over-friendly and helpful to the point of being bothersome? I went into my local Lego store this weekend and in 7 minutes was approached by 4 different employees asking if I needed help. When I said no I was just browsing each one of them continued to ask me questions, 3 of them asking "So, who is getting the Lego today? Is it for you?" I just want to browse in peace!
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I'm not too ashamed of my Lego hobby. I have no problem visiting the local LEGO shop and working the pick-a-brick wall, I usually end up helping other people with their PAB. The staff there are all AFOL's themselves. I get  from the wife now and then, but she usually lets me be. I feel fine with it, since some hobbies are stunningly dumb anyway. You bought a truck to tow your jet skis to the river, and you go there every weekend and get drunk/sunburned? What is that, $50K worth of hardware? Really? Lego fits my criteria for a good hobby: I am not thinking about my problems while I'm building.
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Schindler's Fist posted:I am not thinking about my problems while I'm building. THIS! I got out of my LEGO dark ages when I was going through real-life dark ages. It was one of the few things that could take my mind off tragedy.
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Rustie posted:Speaking of being slightly embarrassed while buying Legos, can I ask the folks in this thread who work at Lego stores something: do they train you to be waaaaaay over-friendly and helpful to the point of being bothersome? I went into my local Lego store this weekend and in 7 minutes was approached by 4 different employees asking if I needed help. When I said no I was just browsing each one of them continued to ask me questions, 3 of them asking "So, who is getting the Lego today? Is it for you?" I just want to browse in peace! Those employees also have a Lego hobby and were keen to talk about it with you.
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Schindler's Fist posted:
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Pretty much the only thing I wouldn't do is ask the cashier to hand me the box of minifigs behind the counter so I can rifle through them and feel up the bags, but that's more because I don't want to hold up other customers. I've felt minifig bags at other stores where they're just on the shelf with the other LEGO, on one occasion working with some other AFOLs to find the ones we wanted. It helps to be an uncaring aspie. On an unrelated topic, any Ausgoons going to Brickvention?
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A friend of mine has a pretty crap illness, the kind that causes intense stomach pain and prevents him from working etc... not unsurprisingly he became one of the most depressed, misanthropic fuckers around. Thankfully he is also the world's biggest geek and when I showed him the most recent Slave 1 I'd just built, I could see something snap in his mind. Pot and Lego have made him grin stupidly more than I thought possible. Side note, can't wait for more pics of the monster fighters sets.
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MaliciousOnion posted:On an unrelated topic, any Ausgoons going to Brickvention? Whah?! Link?
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Rustie posted:Speaking of being slightly embarrassed while buying Legos, can I ask the folks in this thread who work at Lego stores something: do they train you to be waaaaaay over-friendly and helpful to the point of being bothersome? I went into my local Lego store this weekend and in 7 minutes was approached by 4 different employees asking if I needed help. When I said no I was just browsing each one of them continued to ask me questions, 3 of them asking "So, who is getting the Lego today? Is it for you?" I just want to browse in peace! They do that to me too. Usually, I assume it's because they think I'm going to steal something. That or they want to talk to someone older than twelve I guess.
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