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InfinEight posted:This is deceptively cool: Greeble overload!
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Substar posted:And this is something my girlfriend made, she keeps asking me to post it in this thread. It's pretty That white bowl under that big window, is that blood...? Some sort of sacrificial altar?
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One of these were my first set: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=6644-1 http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=6661-1 While the TV-van was released first, putting together that sportscar is one of my earliest memories (born '87).  Bboth sets are awesome even today. Edit: ^^Holy poo poo, I had that ship too! Was it really that early?  for awesome parents, I guess.
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May Contain Nuts posted:Would it have been racist to make the rapper black? Minifigs are yellow, not white. Lando Calrissian didn't happen.
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Flavor Bear posted:Made a chopper last night. That's awesome. Gives me Fallout wibes for some reason. Also, yay for Lego cooperating with NASA!
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I'm thinking about uploading some pics of my creations. I'm wondering what image hosting site would be best for this? Specifically, I'd like a function that reduces the size of images automatically, like Facebook. Does MOCpages do this? I already have a Brickshelf account, and while images are thumbnailed, they're actually saved at the original resolution (unless there's some setting I've missed), meaning uploading takes forever if you don't resize them manually beforehand.
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Nov 12, 2010 13:31
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InfinEight posted:This is why I haven't bothered with flicker... also Captain Scandinaiva, why don't you just adjust the settings on your camera to take smaller pictures? Or you could try GIMP, it's free and I'm pretty sure it can resize images. Huh, hadn't even thought of that. Unfortunately, because of my limited amount of pieces, I usually only build two MOCs at a time, photograph them then break them down. About resising, it's mostly the fact that I need to be able to do it in a batch, resising just above 100 pics is too much.  So unless GIMP can do that... I'll check out flickrThanks for all the advice!
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So I finally resized some of those photos and uploaded them to brickshelf. My collection is mostly from the early 90's with lots of basic bricks, so MOCs are less 'awesome SNOTing' and more 'what if LEGO licensed The 5th Element around the time the movie came out?' They're a bit bulky.  Also, because I have relatively few pieces, I can't make any improvements on most of the MOCs, because they've already been taken apart.From oldest to newest (roughly):  A sci-fi hotrod with a side-car. Featuring two angry dudes. More  A small modular transport which was never fully completed. More  A space fighter. Really basic but I like the top fin. More  Another fighter, inspired by the Myrmidon found in Freespace 2. I looks nothing like that ship but I like how it turned out. More  Another civilian vessel, a space limousine. Tried to make something less shaped like a box, failed utterly. More  There were once in the Lego space community people who built MOCs dedicated to different 'factions'. This one was meant as an AWACS ship for The Red Bloc, a soviet-inspired faction. More  In a world where there are flying cars and skyskrapers reach several km into the sky, what would a firetruck look like? Well, for starters it would have a horizontal ladder and a steel fence in the front, to protect against attacks from the underclass youth/mutants of the future dystopia. More  A high security transport, transporting the precious commodities of the future -kittens! More Fixed Captain Scandinaiva fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Nov 28, 2010 |
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Nov 27, 2010 22:27
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InfinEight posted:You've got some redundant HTML in your whole post, it opens the image in a new window and two more windows with the gallery the picture is in. Also if you're gonna use brickshelf for your own pics, you don't need to host them on waffleimages, just click on the image in your gallery until you get it by itself, then copy the address. Then paste it in your post like this: [timg] http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/ragnarock01/Odds-n-ends/landfillsurvivor.jpg [/timg] without the spaces. It'll look like this: Thanks.  I tried using [timg] and using images as links at the same time, that's what hosed it up.I'm slowly building up a better collection, got the new Republic Gunship (sweet new hinges!) and Wind Turbine Transport plus bits and pieces from Ebay. But those darn stickers make you kinda want you to keep your sets in one piece for as long as possible.
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Nov 28, 2010 00:54
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Shuppiluliumas posted:Finished my Vic Viper, finally. I had been waiting on the 2x2 round tile for the nose for about two weeks. Wow. What did use for lighting?
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Nov 28, 2010 13:42
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InfinEight posted:My own share&tell isn't as slick but here it is anyway, since I can finally say it's done. Here's some highlights: That's awesome. I must admit, I found the design weird in the first WIP pictures you posted, but it turned out really good. Love the little details like the internal access hatches for the landing gears!
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Dec 10, 2010 18:05
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I'm not terribly excited about the new space sets either. They remind me of what City looked like a couple of years ago. Low detail due to only having a few, big pieces. The color scheme is ugly too. It sounded so promising when they announced they were cooperation with NASA.  They got some nice pieces, though.
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Knormal posted:That Alien Conquest line looks amazing. Those blue human vehicles really remind me of classic space. This. It looks amazing, but otoh I guess this means the New Space Police line will be discontinued. Better track down a Lunar Limo in the Post-Christmas Sale before it's too late!
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Dec 26, 2010 11:28
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VaultAggie posted:Just got this baby in the mail That is so nice. Love the helmets for the aliens. I had a chance to buy that particular set a while ago but forgot to keep my bid up.
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PriorMarcus posted:The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > DUPLO Pooplo: the Authentic Collector's Series Babytoy thread Name change frequenzy increasing. Good thing I have this thread bookmarked.  Found 5876 Creator set used for half the retail price yesterday. Mmm, red sloped bricks.
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Feb 9, 2011 19:42
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Schindler's Fist posted:I enjoyed putting this together. One of the few instances where I approve of stickers. It's a lot cooler than the Toys'R'Us one, I think. I got a gift cert for a major store chain for my birthday. They've got some Lego so I'm probably gonna pick up a small set together with the things a actually need tomorrow. Either one of the Star Wars battle-packs or that little Space Police III fighter.
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InfinEight posted:So I've had a sort of late birthday spree. First, I was out grocery shopping today and my usual Fred Meyer/Smith's had 4 boxes of series 4 figs Buying birthday presents for yourself is the best thing. And the Slave I is incredibly nice.
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Mar 27, 2011 20:31
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With no cheat sheet I set to work, and before long I had 4 Hazmat guys, which was what I really wanted:
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Time Cowboy posted:Any suggestions for making Lego into a fun social activity? Weed? Actually, what Saint Sputnik said is a really cool idea; write down a bunch of nouns on pieces of paper, get an hourglass or a stop watch, and you've got your own creationary.
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Apr 1, 2011 22:01
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IIRC, they started with the non-yellow minifigs when they starteed releasing models based on The Clone Wars animated series, they also made the faces more detailed. I actually hadn't noticed it had 'spread' to all of Star Wars until now. I don't like it.
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Apr 9, 2011 18:22
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Oh dear. http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=10221-1 Edit: In case the image gets taken down; the next UCS set will be the Super Star Destroyer.
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beato posted:It's also mid-season sale time: I wish I could afford that one, so many useful pieces of the same kind! Reminder that the SSD is awesome: http://youtu.be/RjiO-63X3dM
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The first MOC I can remember is a huge aeroplane I built and tried to photograph for a contest. I also had a town under my bed with a hospital, a church, a post office and a factory that made jet engines. For some reason there always ended up being a strike at the factory that developed into a riot, which in turn led to a response from the city's massive police force.  The sci-fi stuff came later, as I recall. Also I loved recreating scenes from Treasure Island (the one with Charlton Heston) with my pirate figs.
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einTier posted:This Porsche 911 just popped up on Jalopnik. I can't even begin to imagine how he fit all those functions into a car of that scale.  I mean, lights, electric motor for the roof, a 7 steps gearbox, functioning brake discs?!
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I found This list of sets rumored to be released in 2012. It was posted in august, but most of the things posted seem to have held true so far. If it all checks out, this will be cool: 6860 The Batcave (Super Heroes) 6867 Iron Man (Super Heroes) 4205 Off Road Command Centre (City) 4439 Police Heavy Lift Helicopter (City) 4435 Car and Caravan (City) 4440 Forest Police Station (City) 4442 Crooks Hideout (City) Edit: Found some more scans from the same blog: http://www.bricktuts.com/2011/09/lego-2012-pictures/ Apparently the Super heroes line will not be sets with minifigs (at least, not all of them)
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Some of those sets I have seen leaked before but others were completely new to me. That Mobile fire command center really is something else. Good to see City being reinvented with new sets, not just another police station, etc. Also nice to see the liberal usage of 2X1 trans blue and orange. May have to get that Chinook, looks very interesting.
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Man, I wish Lego would release Basic Bricks sets with only one-stud-wide pieces, maybe some slopes and curved pieces too. I guess it's not that much of a hazzle to buy from Pick A Brick or Bricklink, it would just be a lot more convenient to buy a box with a ready made assortment.
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I got something in the mail today.  Look at all those slopes and curved pieces! (Not pictured: 36 1x1 slopes)  'Light' bricks with their own internal battery? That's handy. Big gently caress-off engines and cockpit windshields are always useful, too.  00:30 mark.  01:00  01:30  02:00  02:20 and 5892 is done! Sorry for the shoddy quality.
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SynthOrange posted:Sonic Boom is such a fun set, and the jet is ridiculously huge! I actually took mine apart over the weekend and rebuilt it as the prop plane though, since I like older planes. It's definitely at a more swooshable size too. It is! And it's pretty ridiculous how fascinating it is to pull that lever an watch the engines light up (although the mechanism is a bit finicky). I don't think I will keep mine as it is for long, either. It's begging to be remade into something inspired by Crimson Skies.
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CADPAT posted:Hey I was curious on what peoples thoughts were on stickers vs. printed blocks? Agreed. I don't mind stickers for most pieces, but hate them for tiles and sloped 'computer' pieces. Also don't like it when stickers are supposed to be applied over multiple pieces (though this is unusual in my experience).
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From the prototypes: As if M-tron wasn't awesome already!   I'm suprised how advanced these models are, created long before internet and MOCs and AFOLs. I'm also sad this wasn't made to be the design of the police vehicles of SP III: 
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Gravy Jones posted:Even if Lego is seen as a boy's toy, whether or not that's right or wrong or good or bad I just wish there was a bigger female presence overall. My immediate issue as a parent is not so much the genderfication of toys (unfortunately I think the boat has sailed on that one) but how women are represented in the stuff the toys my son does choose to play with. Funny story, I sometimes go to my local toy shop to oh and awe at the LEGO I can't afford. One time I overheard a father and his son. Boy: I want this one! *points at the latest (2011) Police Station* Father: But you already have a police station? Boy: Yeah, but this one has a woman police officer in it!  Another time I overheard a mother and her daughter. Girl: I want this one! Mother: But you can barely keep your things tidy as it is. Am I supposed to give you lego that you go spreading around everywhere? No, I don't think so. Girl: But you said I could have whatever I wanted! 
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Jut posted:New things in the instructions...New bits at each stage are surrounded with a red line, and black bricks have a white line around the studs. Wow, that's good to hear. Hope it applies to other new sets as well.
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Merchant of Death posted:
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Captain Invictus posted:Flick missiles make for excellent joints for small scale mecha MOCs. I have no problem with their inclusion, just don't put them on if you hate them so. Yeah, at least they stand out to such a degree you can just remove them without lessening the design of the set. I wonder if Monster Fighters will be replacing the standard space/sci-fi theme this year? The theme seems more extensive than Pharaoh's Quest. Space Police III was replaced immediately by Alien Conquest, wasn't it? E: spelling Captain Scandinaiva fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Apr 26, 2012 |
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So I found the Res-Q Cruiser used, not complete but close enough. Really liked the Res-Q line when I was young but only got one set (that van-thing). Since I've seen and enjoyed others in this thread posting stop motion videos of the building process, I decided to try my hand at that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc7ypFAFNl0 Didn't think of putting any music to it. 
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Went to a local toy store today and found a box of series 7 minifigs. Picked up four. Three wins (two Programmers, one Space marine) and one dud (Little Red Riding Hood, mistook her basket for a bagpipe). Felt through every bag left in the box, a little surprised I didn't find more Space marines since they're supposed to be fairly common. Gonna give one of the programmer minifigs to a friend for his birthday.
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Thank you, Gravy Jones. I was going to type something passive aggressive but you worded it a lot better and more coherent.Bloody Hedgehog posted:I don't know, I can't really fault Lego for going with a girls line. Their stuff was mostly gender-neutral for decades, and it was still a toy predominently chosen by boys. It's not like girls were scared off because the minifigs skewed male. They gave it their best and girls as a whole were not all that interested. There's only so much can you do without forcing the toys into someones unwilling hand. At least with a girls line then some girls will be more interested in Lego, and as they get older they'll be exposed to more of the main Lego lines and be all that more receptive to Lego in any shape or form. Hopefully that'll lead to a trickle-down effect with their eventual kids and eventually both sexes will be equally enthralled with Lego. Those videos posted earlier gave the picture of LEGO deliberately switching tactics and marketing heavy towards boys though. Not saying you're lying or anything, I'd just like some source either way; LEGO being forced by a changing market or changing the market themselves. What about Paradisa? That line ran for a while iirc (and since it was a sub-theme of town, with normal minifigs, they had proper access to emergency services  )BetterWeirdthanDead posted:I really want the Western theme to make a comeback. What happened to that western Cuscoo set?
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osici posted:Haunted house set drat, I looked at the pic and thought it was an MOC for sure.
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So I finished my bachelor's degree and got me a little something from ebay: 7326 Rise of the Sphinx!     A few pieces missing but I got it for ~$18 including shipping so I'm okay with that. Pretty fun build, except for the four identical legs. Not sure what I'll end up doing with all those tan and dark red pieces.
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So a new toy store opened up near where I live and they're having 50% off on all Lego tomorrow. Based on other stores in the same chain I think they will mostly have City, Star Wars, Ninjago and Creator. Maybe a few sets from other current and previous themes but no UCS or modulars. I'll be looking to pick something up for myself but I also thought I'd buy something to sell online. If I can buy it for 50% and sell it for 75-100% of the retail price I'll make money and not feel like a bastard. I'm just wondering if I should look for or avoid anything in particular? Like Ninjago, is that easy to sell second hand or is the market saturated by retail? Should I just look for the biggest price tag?
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