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That fishing shack is exactly my jam. Really hope it gets made.
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veni veni veni posted:Lol that women of NASA thing is so pandering. I don't know, I'd buy a Lisa Nowak kit in a heartbeat if it came with all the accessories.
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Lizard Combatant posted:That fishing shack is exactly my jam. Really hope it gets made. Um, they just announced that it will get made.
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Oct 7, 2016 15:29
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Hopper posted:triple VIP points ???
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Daaku Shinsei posted:It's stupid, and I don't know why I care, but the new AT-ST doesn't quite scale right with the Rebels AT-DP, which is supposed to be a precursor to the AT-ST. It's supposed to be bigger though isn't it?
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Oct 7, 2016 16:35
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http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=57106596&cp=&parentPage=search 30% off store exclusive. Best price yet for this thing.
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I bought the midi scale Millennium Falcon (7778-1) from Aliexpress. Aside from shipping taking 3 weeks I'm happy with it. The clutch on the pieces isn't quit as crisp as legit Legos, but I can live with it. Some of the printed pieces are a little crooked, but the stickers seem to be good quality. Oh, and the tube that makes the thrusters smelled a little weird at first. I bought the Lepin Orthanc, but it hasn't come yet. Does Lepin do numbered bags?I'm worried about sorting 2,000+ black pieces. These knock off sets are much better for my wallet, but harder on my shelf space.
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Oct 7, 2016 18:14
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deoju posted:I bought the midi scale Millennium Falcon (7778-1) from Aliexpress. Aside from shipping taking 3 weeks I'm happy with it. The clutch on the pieces isn't quit as crisp as legit Legos, but I can live with it. Some of the printed pieces are a little crooked, but the stickers seem to be good quality. Oh, and the tube that makes the thrusters smelled a little weird at first. Nope, no numbered bags! Have fun lol.
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deoju posted:I bought the midi scale Millennium Falcon (7778-1) from Aliexpress. Aside from shipping taking 3 weeks I'm happy with it. The clutch on the pieces isn't quit as crisp as legit Legos, but I can live with it. Some of the printed pieces are a little crooked, but the stickers seem to be good quality. Oh, and the tube that makes the thrusters smelled a little weird at first. No, the bags aren't numbered. Little bit from each of the bags.
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uXs posted:Um, they just announced that it will get made. Awesome. I must have misread, I thought it still needed a final approval.
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Oct 7, 2016 18:54
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Germany got triple VIP points on all force Friday star wars products from Friday to Sunday. This is the highest VIP multiplayer I have ever seen aside from the 4x on Duplo, which is useless as it is Duplo. We'll also get a 2x around mid October, I'll buy Big Ben then to also grab the red bus freebie. And possibly the new minifigs. Then I'll have enough points to get Buckingham palace for free.
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Oct 7, 2016 19:25
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mattfl posted:Nope, no numbered bags! Have fun lol. I might be crazy, but sorting can be relaxing. It takes just enough concentration so I'm not thinking of other poo poo, but not so much that it is taxing. Oh, BTW that set I bought came with two minifigs. I'd give them a C-.
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Oct 7, 2016 20:22
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Oh poo poo! Lepin are upping their game. http://www.thebrickfan.com/lepin-moves-from-lego-sets-to-lego-fan-designs/
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Oct 8, 2016 00:28
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Anyone ever been to a Brickfest before? I have a 2:00 - 6:00 ticket for tomorrow in NJ, but i'm curious if they let people in earlier than their ticket time. I don't remember choosing a time when i bought the ticket a few months ago but i guess i must have.
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veni veni veni posted:It's supposed to be bigger though isn't it? Even taking into account the AT-DP holds 2 minifigs, rather than the AT-ST's 1, it's taller, and the feet are huge in comparison.
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Yeah. I mean the AT-DP is actually a bigger machine than an AT-ST iirc so it should be bigger. Finally finished the AT-ST last night. Took me like 4 sittings since I was busy this week and I felt pretty middling about the whole build since it was almost identical to the AT-DP. Really liked that there was like a dozen new parts though. Once I stuck it on the shelf all I could think is "drat that's a close to perfect representation of the AT-ST in Lego. I personally like the scale it was done in. I don't care that it only fits one driver but I wish they had included 2 driver minifigures instead instead that dumb rando from the movie.
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Oct 8, 2016 04:39
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My only complaint is that the feet aren't poseable, so it's stuck standing forever.
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It's kind of funny to browse craigslist for deals (and it is occasionally a great place to find them). You'd think it would be the top place to find cheap Lego but 90% of these idiots think that their booger covered buckets of Lego are worth 500% msrp.
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Try going to flea markets, it's the same. Hell I went to sell at one the other day and before I had even parked there was this fat old guy walking alongside my car as I was positioning to park asking if "ya got any cartridge-based video games, legos, or transfarmers?" and wouldn't go away until the third time I had to say I was still setting up and had to say "please go away, you can come back once everything is set up". Bunch of other sellers came by asking the same thing during setup hours, so those three things are prime targets it seems if you're a newbie to the market.
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The_Doctor posted:Oh poo poo! Lepin are upping their game. I admit I laughed at how scummy and ballsy this is, taking designs people submitted because they wanted to live their dream of being considered a LEGO designer. Nope, sorry kiddo, your idea just got nicked by the champions of knock-offs.
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It is the most sincere form of flattery though.
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Oct 8, 2016 18:14
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At least the models are getting made and sold. Lego already rejected them so it's not like they would get produced otherwise. On the other hand, no $$$ for the creator. I don't see these sets selling well overseas but I am sure they will do just as well in China.
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Alpine Mustache posted:Anyone ever been to a Brickfest before? I don't remember last time I went, you might be able to swap it out if there are still openings. Have you tried emailing them? brickfestlive@meadowlands.brickfestlive.com That guy Chad Collins who runs the thing spams the poo poo out of me every day about pre sale tickets and other announcements. I'm at NY ComicCon this weekend otherwise I'd drop into brickfest.
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Guzwar posted:I admit I laughed at how scummy and ballsy this is, taking designs people submitted because they wanted to live their dream of being considered a LEGO designer. Nope, sorry kiddo, your idea just got nicked by the champions of knock-offs. Yep, this is grade-A bullshit. Stealing ideas from people who put them on Ideas and not giving them a cut is complete and utter trash. I didn't support Lepin knockoffs to begin with, this just makes them scum.
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It would be pretty funny if they sent a check to the people whose ideas they took. It'd never happen, but it would be hilarious if it did.
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Oct 8, 2016 19:55
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I am too good for knockoff Lego and so are you guys. Treat yourself to quality boys and girls.
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They could give them the same 1%. But seeing these things are going to sell for $10, a dime isn't really much.
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veni veni veni posted:I am too good for knockoff Lego and so are you guys. Treat yourself to quality boys and girls.
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Electromax posted:
I modularized it and started working on a Monk's Cafe to go underneath:   One wall is kind of a forced-TV perspective viewing window. I'm going to do out the inside of the coffee shop another day, and try to make the cast. Also am going to add a 2nd floor of white windows between cafe + apartment and do the sidewalks. On tuesday I'm getting a bunch of red brick in the mail to redo the outside of the apartment too. e: everything you see here is GENUINE LEGO for the record 
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I saw a castle on sale at Wilkinson's today, fake Lego but £15 and no IP stolen (beyond the basic concept, I mean). Might get it just to expand my LotR sets... Lookit: http://www.wilko.com/construction/wilko-blox-castle-mega-set/invt/0438408
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Marmaduke! posted:I saw a castle on sale at Wilkinson's today, fake Lego but £15 and no IP stolen (beyond the basic concept, I mean). Might get it just to expand my LotR sets... Looks reasonable, but the helmets on the guards are absolutely copied from the dwarf helmet mould Lego has. Its like they can't resist ripping off at least one item. I assume its because they use existing Lego elements to make their own moulds?! I'd love to have more insight into these knock off companies. Like at Lepin, for example, do they have a team of people deciding what to copy? How do they acknowledge it internally? How do they hire people to take part in fraud? Or is it just "China" and noone gives a poo poo.
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I bought the shop's pirate ship a while back (and it was great, I turned it into a lake town building) but threw away the terrible minifigs, and I'd do the same with these... maybe I'd keep the helmets though now! Horses look decent as well.
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A customer told me he could buy a new-in-the-box Disney Castle for $280 on e-bay, and I see no way he could not be lying or getting screwed by the seller.
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Guzwar posted:I admit I laughed at how scummy and ballsy this is, taking designs people submitted because they wanted to live their dream of being considered a LEGO designer. Nope, sorry kiddo, your idea just got nicked by the champions of knock-offs. Well, I can't help but wonder if they contacted the designers and offered them money for the LDD files, since they're not going to be able to get them from Ideas directly. I could definitely see Lepin hitting them up and saying 'look, your idea probably isn't going to get made, but here's some money for your LDD files', otherwise the bigger mystery is how they did get them.
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They probably just reverse engineered them from pictures. This will introduces differences but it will still look right.
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Waltzing Along posted:http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=57106596&cp=&parentPage=search I would have needed that set so bad as a kid. Not just a plane, but an amphibious plane, plus bonus submarine and undersea base. I still have the undersea base from the first realistic divers theme around somewhere.
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I got the Lepin Haunted House for $65 and it arrived this week. I have to say it is pretty accurate. The Stickers are a little faded when placed on the darker pieces like the record and the brown plates, but everything else was pretty solid. A small bag seemed to be missing as anything that clips (such as the bases for the iron working) was not in the bag. Nothing a bricklink order won't fix, though. Minifigures were pretty accurate except for the ghosts whose sheets were raised off the shoulders. Considering how much this set goes for now that it is OOP, I am extremely happy, even with the missing pieces.
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The_Doctor posted:Well, I can't help but wonder if they contacted the designers and offered them money for the LDD files, since they're not going to be able to get them from Ideas directly. I would be hilarious if Lepin ends up producing more Lego Ideas products than Lego... well, if the designers got some cash for it. Just ripping off people who have a neat idea is pretty low. Jerk Burger fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Oct 9, 2016 |
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Jerk Burger posted:I would be hilarious if Lepin ends up producing more Lego Ideas products than Lego... well, if the designers got some cash for it. Just ripping off people who have a neat idea is pretty low. Their entire business is built around ripping off Lego, of course they're ripping off nobodies that uploaded some pictures to a website.
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NickThorn posted:I got the Lepin Haunted House for $65 and it arrived this week. I have to say it is pretty accurate. The Stickers are a little faded when placed on the darker pieces like the record and the brown plates, but everything else was pretty solid. A small bag seemed to be missing as anything that clips (such as the bases for the iron working) was not in the bag. Nothing a bricklink order won't fix, though. Minifigures were pretty accurate except for the ghosts whose sheets were raised off the shoulders. Considering how much this set goes for now that it is OOP, I am extremely happy, even with the missing pieces. Could you make a list of missing/upgrades needed? I'd like to order it but have been waiting on reviews. Also, aren't the ghosts supposed to glow or something?
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