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Any idea when we hear about 2020 Harry Potter stuff? My daughter's just old enough to enjoy LEGO and it's getting me back into it as well. Building Hagrid's Hut and the Deep Sea Creatures blew my mind given I haven't done much with LEGO for 25 years.
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PriorMarcus posted:There's a Mando battlepack out soon that has his new armour. And here it is. 
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Nov 27, 2019 08:00
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Just bought my first modular, I guess my dark age is over.
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Dec 1, 2019 16:17
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My daughter has been waking me up each morning to do the next box of the Harry Potter calendar. It's been a huge hit so far.
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Dec 3, 2019 23:36
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Dec 4, 2019 14:33
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New modular being announced at Singapore Comicon this weekend.
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Dec 4, 2019 21:48
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Oh that's pretty. Looks much better than the last two.
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Dec 6, 2019 09:24
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360 degree view. Splits into 2x16-wide buildings.
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Dec 6, 2019 11:23
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Butterfly Valley posted:I saw the Harry Potter advent calendar set reduced to half price and picked it up for me and my girlfriend to play with and it's a really cute little thematically appropriate Christmassy scene we're building. Already we have the 3 main kids, McGonagall and a couple of tables heaving with food along with some Christmas Trees, house banners and a mini Hogwarts Express. Definitely great value at 12 euros. Not super into Harry Potter enough to get the general sets but this is a nice little display scene if you can find them discounted. Yeah it's going to form a nice little playset / display when it's finished. Helps that Christmas is a regular part of the Harry Potter series. Banners were a bit disappointing but it's been good otherwise, and just based on the box there are some neat things to coming.
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Dec 14, 2019 11:56
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Oxyclean posted:I just noticed there's no gift-with-purchases on the lego site right now? (Or at least I shoved a 100$+ set into my cart to check) I assumed there was always one going, when do they typically pop up?  ) seems to be it here in Australia.
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Dec 27, 2019 15:38
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Butterfly Valley posted:When I ordered it I bought myself the ship in a bottle because it was discounted and about to go out of print I think, and lol did they really put the Lego designer's initials on the fuckin bottle and not the fan's? Dick move I grabbed the Ship in a Bottle a few days ago too because it's already difficult to find here in Australia (stuff seems to disappear from here earlier than it does in some other countries). The fan designer posted:While I admit I would have been very happy to have my initials on an official lego element, the designer did completely adapt the design for lego. The wax seal was his idea, I thought it was a nice touch. But yeah, would have been better to have the fan's name I think.
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Jan 2, 2020 00:58
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It's been funny seeing what is still in stock in places after Christmas. One large department store had several dozen Corner Garages, and I guess they must be storing them there instead of in a warehouse.
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Jan 6, 2020 06:07
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The 31105 Toy Store has half a dozen advent calendar style builds and it's adorable. Nice looking building too.
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Jan 9, 2020 05:41
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Carbohydrates posted:There will be rioting in the tiny plastic streets if those solar panels aren't printed. Post on Reddit says they'll be printed and gave part names. No idea how credible it is.
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Jan 10, 2020 11:07
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The last 3 sets I've bought (the Harry Potter calendar, the LEGO store, and the new 3-in-1 Toy Shop) have used it as a set of wheels for a microbuild.
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Jan 17, 2020 21:45
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MaliciousOnion posted:I voted for the Nebulon B frigate, solely so that I could also vote for diaper Luke. Bacta tank Luke?
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Jan 24, 2020 01:03
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Looking back at the older technic sets (70s and 80s) they really crammed more onto a page 8860 was 25 pages (not including alternate builds) but you had things like this going on:  Or this from 8865 which gets into "rest of the loving owl" territory. 
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Feb 2, 2020 14:12
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Taeke posted:Wow, that explains a lot. I remember 20something years ago, as a 8/9 year old, not liking technic because it was too hard or too much effort and didn't look as good/smooth as regular sets.They were downright intimidating. Looking at the modern technic sets now I was sure that it was just me being young and not technical at all, but it really was a lot more inaccessible back then. Admittedly I did pick the biggest sets of the era because I figured they'd be the rough equivalent of things like the Chiron. The smaller stuff tended to be better and by the mid 90a they tended not to be doing things like making an entire gearbox in a double page spread or whatever.
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Feb 2, 2020 23:26
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Today's haul was the Ferrari speed champions for a present for my bother, the birthday cake for my daughter plus some custom min-figs she made, the brickheads Lucky Cat, and the Olaf keyring which gave me just enough for the Rat.sigher posted:What the gently caress. It's a bit of an extreme example but it's still amazing. The other thing in those older Technic sets was that often the alternate models didn't have the component list for each step Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Feb 3, 2020 |
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Feb 3, 2020 05:51
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Info on the next wave of Harry Potter setsEurobricks posted:Here's some more info on the builds of the sets: Some other details about minifigs etc elsewhere in the thread.
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Feb 5, 2020 07:28
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Lizard Combatant posted:I'd say Kylo Ren's shuttle is the only design that's memorable. It's a good design too. The bombers from TLJ are a good design weighed down by their only scene being about how bad they are. Oxyclean posted:Something that I was thinking about this morning is that it seemed kinda funny the Jedi Starfighter from Episode 2 needed a big fancy hyperdrive ring. I guess hyperdrive tech came a long way in 20-30 years to the original trilogy for junker rebel ships to all have onboard hyper drives? Thee Jedi Starfighter is the TIE fighter's predecessor.  
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Feb 6, 2020 23:21
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It's been in shitloads of buildings in the past 2 years. Lots of modulars, 3-in-1s, Harry Pottter, Friends, Princesses, etc
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Feb 17, 2020 07:41
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Either that ship is dense with parts for its size, or the Star Wars price tax is about to get even worse From the description it's got a a decent amount of interior detail for the size quote:cargo hold with opening sides that double as access ramps and carbonite bounty elements inside, a dual LEGO minifigure cockpit, spring-loaded shooters, escape pod
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Feb 20, 2020 22:46
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djfooboo posted:What’s the average shelf life of the modular buildings? I will not have the cash for a bit to catch up and hope I don’t have to depend on the secondary market. Everything except the first two has lasted at least two and a half years.
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Feb 28, 2020 21:52
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 Guess I'm spending 200 AUD on Lego this week.
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Mar 1, 2020 03:53
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I just saw what set 42069 was and it didn't disappoint.
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Mar 9, 2020 06:45
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The LEGO of Zelda.
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Mar 10, 2020 22:29
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My backlog is a mix of stuff I've got as a treat for myself when I've finished certain projects and stuff for rainy days / quarantine periods / when my daughter is older.
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Mar 12, 2020 13:22
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Holy poo poo the pieces of the ship can be removed and turned into an actual boat?
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Mar 24, 2020 14:17
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This video shows a bit of the detail of putting the ship together from the island. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvVEQq0StcI&t=813s
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Mar 24, 2020 14:35
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As someone who wanted a Lego pirate ship in the 80s I feel extremely pandered to.
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Mar 24, 2020 14:58
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Mar 25, 2020 09:38
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It was neat comparing the instructions from the recent 400370 GWP push along train to those for the original 7810. Even ignoring the fact the base in the new one needs to be build it's still got twice as many steps over even more pages.
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Mar 26, 2020 13:58
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Red posted:No, there was a picture of just a desert island with some small fort. I'd be happy with just that. Yeah.  It's not especially flashy but it'd be easy to flesh it out.
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Mar 26, 2020 21:59
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Waltzing Along posted:Someone convince me not to order pirateland the second it becomes available in 2 days, 5 hours, 11 minutes. Save it for when there are double points or a GWP you want?
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Mar 29, 2020 23:55
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The secret to disassembling a set is a preschooler and a lack of supervision.
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Apr 2, 2020 00:39
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CodfishCartographer posted:Disassemble it, then try to reassemble it purely from memory. Thanks to my aforementioned disassembly method I can basically do this with Hagrid's Hut.
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Apr 2, 2020 01:15
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I stopped playing with LEGO / Technic some time in the mid 90s and when I came back last year the three things that amazed me most were that brick separators were A Thing, that the line for girls was actually really cool and that Technic was studless.
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Apr 3, 2020 04:07
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Lizard Combatant posted:That's why I'll never besmirch things like Friends, the colours are too good Sets like the 41381 Rescue Boat are really cool. Got it and the Dolphin Rescue set to build with my daughter at some point in the next few months. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:I'm not much of a Lego Star Wars guy (I think it's pretty played out at this stage)
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