Lego thread: Shiiiiiiiit, I don't got the money for this.

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Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Can someone explain how companies like Mega Bloks can legally rip off Lego so shamelessly? Even as a kid I could see how blatantly wrong it was.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2010 16:45

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 07:32

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/08/08/pkg.expressive.legos.cnn?hpt=C2

Is that Shupp's train station at 39s in?

Dame Cook posted:

Exactly. The last patentable change they made to the basic brick design was introducing tubes, and that was in the '60s or early '70s. Some of the more recent part designs have their own specific protection, but Mega Bloks (unlike some of the others) have always been very good about designing their own specialised parts, not just copying Lego's.

Maybe they make their own specialized pieces, but they are a parasite on Lego's success. Otherwise they'd succeed making their own system of brick sizes instead of needing to make pieces that fit with Lego so they can sell them to grandmothers who don't know better.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2010 18:36

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Dame Cook posted:

Tente tried that and were quite successful for a while, so were the original non-compatible Best-Lock designs. But having them all compatible is better for consumers, really, especially now that Lego's quality is slipping. Do you also campaign against interoperability between software? Don't forget that Lego's patent was based on a stolen design in the first place.

It's not better for the consumers when I have to spend two hours picking Mega Bloks out of every goddamn Lego pile I buy :argh:

And the software comparison is a non sequitur for a variety of reasons. I would like to read more about the stolen design though; do you have a link?

# ¿ Aug 8, 2010 20:08

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Veeb0rg posted:

Hit the jackpot today at the thrift store.. 25+ pound box for $49.80 *my postal scale maxes at 25*

What I thought to be a pirate ship turned out to be set #6493 - Flying Time Vessel, still sorting the box though.

Score! From the classic era too, I see some Space Police I in there. Post more pictures

# ¿ Aug 28, 2010 18:57

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

My yard sale score today, incomplete but only $2! I dig the giant wheels.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2010 18:35

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

InfinEight posted:

Also, this thing is drat cool- a giant sea plane in the old technic style. Looks like it has working everything.

I love the old Technic style. The new Technic beams without studs piss me off because they're so much less multi-purpose and make mixing Technic with other themes more difficult. I've never really bonded with studless construction anyway. The bumps are part of the character of Lego sets

# ¿ Oct 3, 2010 19:41

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Burnt house is the most amazing MOC I've ever seen, ever.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2010 15:14

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Torael_7 posted:

I posted some enormous spaceships a couple weeks ago from brother's brick, but these are far, far more amazing.

It's a 23 foot long WWII aircraft carrier with a pair of 8-10 foot long escort destroyers/cruisers. I didn't believe the scale until I actually looked at the video.

That page also led me to this amazing automated Lego turtle factory. Whoa.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2010 15:12

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I'm 99% done replacing all the missing parts on the Intergalactic Command Base I got as part of a big lot 7 years ago. One grey stanchion and slightly shorter hoses are all that's left. We built it for the first time ever yesterday. I lusted after this set all through my childhood, so it was a rather gratifying moment. Those trans-red castle shields are stupidly expensive, $2-3 each.

We also gave one of the MMM's a bath:

One of my son's friends told him, "I wish your dad was my dad." :shobon:

# ¿ Oct 16, 2010 18:49

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Tanith posted:

Wait, how many do you have?

One from childhood and one from a lot in SA-Mart. I actually meant to get rid of the second one to cover the lot cost, but I never got around to it.

Anyone want to trade me some Classic Space or Blacktron I for a Mega Core Magnetizer? :v:

# ¿ Oct 16, 2010 21:03

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

fursmbrero posted:

Question for 'you people' - I've been giving some consideration to the idea of buying a Lego table, the kind with the (4) removable 32x32 baseplates on top... any of you seen/used one of these? Are they good/bad?

Oh yeah, this would be for my 3yo & .5yo, not for me

When I was a kid, my dad took a double-wide wooden hospital door, put sturdy legs on it, and gave it to me as a Lego table. It took up half my room, but it was the best thing ever. I used the knob-hole for all kinds of cool trap-doors and deathpits, and I'd build bridges over to my bed. The floor, of course, was either lava or shark-infested water.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2010 04:03

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

fireWARKs posted:

Oh man I want that so badly

Where is your avatar from?

# ¿ Oct 19, 2010 19:56

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I agree, the 2-chain method looks way better than the regular track.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2010 15:26

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Dame Cook posted:

In other news, the founder of Bricklink has died at the age of 33.

http://www.bricklink.com/danjezek/

Ugh, that sucks.

They don't say how he died.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2010 16:30

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Pyroclastic posted:

Now I just have to assemble them all and see what's missing so I can add to my BL Wanted List. I'll take pics when I have everything assembled.

Bitchin' haul, pictures!

# ¿ Oct 30, 2010 05:57

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

GoldenSeraph posted:

how come whenever I see a majestic lego creation I get this inkling to HULK SMASH the ever-loving poo poo out of it?

You were one of those kids, weren't you? My childhood friend had the Test Car and the neighborhood Moes enjoyed snapping the big beams when they visited

# ¿ Oct 31, 2010 02:02

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

After three weeks of waiting on a slow, slow Bricklink seller, I finally got enough pieces to mostly finish this guy. The slow seller even screwed up my order, sending me a 6x16 plate instead of a 6x14 like I ordered, but it was close enough to put the set together. Also, I used the modern 2/3 tongue yellow hinges on the rocket, because gently caress paying $4-$5 a pop for the old-school 1/2 tongue hinges :mad:

Also, this is a repeat but totally worth it, the best remake of this set ever:

# ¿ Oct 31, 2010 19:52

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Got a Blacktron I bug, spent a great afternoon playing Lego with the kids.

VROOM VROOM VROOM zap zap

# ¿ Nov 21, 2010 03:19

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Is that the first time there's been a Lego Mohawk? Because that is sweet.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2010 04:18

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Mascot posted:

...just came across this awesome ad too:

That is too cool to be real.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2010 18:44

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The kids are getting the Grand Emporium for Christmas. I'm so stoked to build it with them tomorrow :woop:

It's just sitting there in my bedroom, taunting me.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2010 23:42

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Yeah, Christmas day was fun. My back hurts from sitting on the floor.

Nobody got me any Lego though

# ¿ Dec 26, 2010 03:40

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Gom Jabbar posted:

I got my 4 year old daughter a couple of the small sets of starwars legos and we did the advent calender this year, she is having a blast with them. The real haul is that because my daughter is the first to ask for legos my parents gave me a present that was supposed to be mine back in 1984 but wasn't given because of a difference in the number of presents between me and my brother. It has been sitting wrapped in 1984 wrapping paper for the past 26 years in my parents basement. I open it up and I have a new in box 6971 Inter-Galactic Command Base, I remember wanting a space base forever as a kid. I quick search on brick link gives me a guy selling one for $750 sealed new in the box. Now the problem, build the space station I always wanted or sell it and buy an rear end ton more legos for me and my daughter to build.

Holy crap. Sell it, buy a used command base for ~100, and blow the rest on other cool sets for your daughter. Don't open it though. NIB is insane!

# ¿ Dec 26, 2010 18:33

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Look what someone donated to Goodwill :monocle:

http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=7202969

# ¿ Jan 3, 2011 07:16

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

What do Lego and GTA have in common?

Parents whine about the violence

http://www.theroot.com/views/lego-prison-industrial-complex-toy?wpsrc=OB00000001&wpisrc=obnetwork

# ¿ Jan 28, 2011 15:16

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

That Lego redneck is awesome.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2011 20:24

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Sockser posted:

He's a lumberjack, not inherently a redneck.

You play Lego your way, I'll play mine :colbert:

# ¿ Mar 16, 2011 20:44

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Boru posted:

You captured the lines REALLY well in this MOC. I love the grill/lights configuration.

I was thinking the same. It totally captures the essence of the real thing.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2011 06:56

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Shuppiluliumas posted:

It runs quite well, as a matter of fact. The main issue is just how heavy it is. Each engine has 2 XL motors and its own IR and battery. They can pull the whole train (about 14 feet long) for around 2 hours on one battery charge.

Wow, 14 feet? Do you have a shot of that?

Chris Knight posted:

Owns, hard. I went through the close-up saying "Got it, got it, need it, need it" etc.

Haha, me too.

Classic Space is by far my favorite Lego ever.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2011 00:40

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Revol posted:

Really? What would you use them for? The only thing I can think of is if you wanted to build a minifig scale garage. And even then, I don't know if I need seven of these things.

And I also got like ten extra doors for them too.

My daughter seems to love them for her houses. Maybe you should build more houses.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2011 02:44

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Tanith posted:

You minifig spergs are ruining the building of cool things for the rest of us.

Nah, new Lego has always been far too expensive. Yard sales and Craigslist are where it's at. Old sets were better anyway :corsair:

# ¿ Jul 18, 2011 15:25

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Revol posted:

On the reissue, it's dark gold.

Actually the originals were that gold color as well, but it wore off really easily. 'Gold intact' is a major selling point for the original space figures. Your guy looks pretty good for his years, especially the chin strap. Those things are terribly fragile.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2011 23:38

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

mhsneon posted:

My Unimog came on Saturday. It has 5 books. I got through the first 1.5books yesterday, it is pretty complex and large. Too big to take with me on my buisness trip this week to finish, guess I will have to wait till next weekend. Once I get it build I want to figure out how to remote control it with the PF stuff.

Wow, I had no idea this set was coming down the pipes. Hoooly poo poo, that looks fun. When you finish, can you post impressions of the claw? I remember the Airtech Claw Rig was a huge letdown because the claw had almost no grasping power or friction to hold anything..you could feed it beams, but not much else.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2011 04:34

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

mp5_smg posted:

The trailer is about 90% done, i'd like to do a couple more things to it but having a kid eats up a lot of your time.

You should continue the red stripe from the truck onto the trailer. That would break up the black a bit and make them look more like they belong together (since the truck has so much minute detail)

# ¿ Sep 12, 2011 23:37

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

physeter posted:

When I was 10 years old, my best friend Billy moved into a nearby apartment that had a huge fish tank built into the back patio. His mom stocked it with fish, and we used to play legos out there every afternoon. You see back in the 80s, we didn't have these legos for pussies you guys have now. You knew you were playing with space legos because some pieces were translucent, and the little yellow dudes had helmets. That's how you figured that out.

And one day, we discovered that the plastic nozzle at the end of the fish tank air compressor fit quite snuggly into the centrally placed hole on this certain ubiquitous lego piece. This thing: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/970632_1_x_2_Beams. Not airtight, but enough that tightly built lego constructs would pressurize sufficient to keep water out.

Out first undersea mission featured two bewildered grasshoppers manning a decidedly boxy submarine. We put a window in it for them, which I can only suppose in retrospect magnified their terror. It seemed important to me at the time that they be able to visually participate in the process. They returned dry and alive. Two weeks later, a veritable grasshopper Rapture spread across the fish tank bottom, powered by three compressors and populated by over a hundred grasshoppers. Enough water and humidity squeezed in to keep them alive, bolstered by random heaps of greens we hurled into the airlocks.

A month after that, a freak accident broke open one of the corridors, sending the entire population into the merciless sea, to be devoured by a large parrotfish named Gertrude. Gertrude died the next day, presumably of indigestion.

Legos own. RIP Grasshopper Atlantis & Gertrude.

This is incredible. Your link seems to be broken, which piece was it? I'm really having trouble imagining Lego holding enough air for poor grasshoppers to live in :psyduck:

# ¿ Nov 23, 2011 06:25

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

From that prototypes link:

REMOTE CONTROLLED SPACE

In 1985! That would have been a dream come true as a child. I was always trying to motorize my Lego creations in ways they weren't intended.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2011 22:59

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

front wing flexing posted:

That thing is hideous even by 1985 standards.

For sure, the remote control was the exciting part.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2011 22:29

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

InfinEight posted:

Best thing about LOTR lego is the new title.

Ahaha, that is beautiful.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2011 19:39

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Anyone played the Heroica games? My son and I picked up the medium one and are having a total blast. The vanilla game is a little simplistic, so we added PVP rules, insta-death traps, the ability to buy back monsters you've killed and place them wherever you want, and a victory condition that requires you to escape out the entrance with the sceptre.

Also, I got some classic space as a christmas present for myself..

# ¿ Jan 2, 2012 23:03

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 07:32

Sloppy: Apr 25, 2003; Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Merchant of Death posted:

I saw this at eurobricks. Olivia's basement.

nice and disturbing.

This is awesome.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2012 18:16

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