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Carbohydrates posted:News! Upcoming sets! That is amazing, but I can't justify spending over $300. I'd love to have the Taj Mahal and the Statue of Liberty too, but i just can't afford them.
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WaynesWorldGirl posted:I love Ghostbusters as much as anyone but once you've got your $30 Ecto-1 and $99 Fire Station, there's not much more to do with it. Ditto TMNT. Lego needs vehicles to work off of, or we get half-assed excuse-to-make-minifigs lines like Batman and Indy. So yeah, Trek is the only real answer there. The top of Dana's apartment building could be cool.
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Joudas posted:I'm almost more excited that this implies a fourth pirates movie in the horizon. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298650/ Please note who McShane will be playing.
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Does anyone have a picture of ALL of the Lego Modular Houses set? The ones I've seen online usually leave out one or two of them. Market Street, Cafe Corner, Green Grocer, Fire Brigade, Grand Emporium and Pet Shop. I just want to see what they all look like lined up.
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JohnWilkesGoonth posted:I wouldn't expect any huge location sets outside of whatever the range-topping set is. I wonder if they will do something like this:  I figure something of that size should go for about $100 or so. Including minifigs. In unrelated news, I recently had a major head injury.
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So all of the modular houses are: Cafe Corner, Market Street, Green Grocer, Fire Brigade, Grand Emporium, Pet Shop, and Town Hall, if I've got them all correct. If I went on Ebay, that's over $2200 worth of Lego. Holy crap, I wish I had disposable income, or I wish I had the foresight to buy up a couple of Cafe Corner's and to hold on to them. They are going for about $700+ on Ebay right now. I'd love to see a picture of all of them together. I've asked this earlier, and got this reply, but it's now missing the Town Hall. Basilson posted:http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=5090861 AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Jan 12, 2012 |
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I took my 4 year old son to the Lego store over the weekend, which was a good excuse for me to go too. I ended up getting a bunch of grey and black pieces for my old castle sets so we can build even larger castles, as well as one of the huge grey baseplates. I told him he could pick one set in the store (He went for the Maersk Train, which I then had to tell him was out of our price range), but he settled on the Lego Town Forest Fire Fire Truck (http://city.lego.com/en-US/Products/Default.aspx#4208) for his first official lego set. It was fun as hell to build it with him. The slide out equipment holder is pretty drat cool, although the air tank tends to get lost when he's playing with it as there's no way of locking it into place.
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Feb 27, 2012 16:52
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smackfu posted:What are those weird pieces on the bottom with the mountain outline? I think it's this piece, only in grey. http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=47847
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Mar 5, 2012 22:36
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ireladd posted:
If that's the same tan that is used in the Brandenburg Gate lego, I'm pretty sure they gave me an extra 1x1 flat plate. I'll check tonight when I get home if you still need it.
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Jan 14, 2013 23:56
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ireladd posted:Looking at the pic of the Brandenburg Gate they are indeed the same. That would be amazing! No worries if you don't have it but if you do I'll send you something fun in return. Found a 1x1 tan flat plate. Pm me your address and I'll mail it out tomorrow. Edit: Put it in the mail. I taped the edges of the envelope since it's so small it could possibly sneak out of one of the corners. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Jan 15, 2013 |
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:Heh, interesting how so many seem to love Redbeard, that may be my favourite fig as well. I guess he was really detailed before any other minifigs were. I love that ghost.
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I have the Saturn V, and I just saw this over in coupons/deals.Dr. Eldarion posted:LEGO Overwatch Watchpoint: Gibraltar 75975 Building Kit, 2019 (730 Pieces) $62.99 I jokingly posted that I'd buy 6 of them and build a gantry for the Saturn V, but now I'm seeing that I could probably do it in 3. This is a dumb idea that I shouldn't do, correct? Edit:VV Thanks. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Jan 7, 2020 |
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Cojawfee posted:Lepin also sells the launch tower moc Isn't that kind of lovely to the original designer of the set?
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Rhyno posted:They're a knockoff company, their entire business model is based on ripping off someone else's IP. Obviously not, but it's a reason for me not to buy it from them.
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AFewBricksShy posted:I have the Saturn V, and I just saw this over in coupons/deals. xzzy posted:Yes, because you could buy the necessary parts cheaper on bricklink. I ended up picking up one copy of the set and then ordered additional parts from Bricklink.  I still have a little bit of fine tuning to do with it, but it worked out pretty well and looks better than just displaying the Saturn V with no tower. I'm considering doing something similar with the space shuttle as well.
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Lizard Combatant posted:I was really worried I'd stumbled into the Tales From EMTs thread for a moment there. Taking the “build in the bag” challenge to the next level.
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Carbohydrates posted:Hey, look at this dumbass car. 1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst Edition. I love that car, and it would go perfectly next to the speed champions charger that I have, but it has the same issue I have with most of the speed champion cars, and that's that it isn't truly minifig scale, in that cars don't have center cockpits for 1 driver. With that said, it looks fantastic and I love the spoiler. I just built the GTR last night, and I really like how wide it is. To have the charger be that wide (and still be scale) it would have to be about 4" longer than it is now. I get why they do them that way, but I'd like the bigger cars. I think the only ones that don't have the center cockpit thing going are the GTR and the Audi. I'm curious as to how the fast and furious cars are going to look. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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Carbohydrates posted:Thank you! No car is truly minifig scale, except some of the 4w and 5w builders that don't care that their cars can't actually fit a minifig. Actually, take that a step further: when you say minifig scale, are we talking about a minifig's height or width? Because a minifig isn't even to scale with a person. So given these compromises inherent to the very idea of building LEGO cars, I'm fine with the classic conceit of "centered cabin, one fig" to make these cars look good on the roads of a LEGO city. Your comments about minfig scale are dead on. With the height of the GTR, the little lego guy scales out to about 4' tall, so the GTR pretty much doesn't fit that bill. When I display my cars, I rarely put the lego fig in the car, they pretty much hang out next to it holding their wrench and helmet. I like the 8 wide scale because I guess it's a more realistic version of the car. I also don't have any sort of city setup, so the scale vs. any of the buildings doesn't really bother me either. I also forgot you were the one who did the used car lot, I absolutely love that. What other 8 wide sets are there? On the Lego site, the only ones I saw were the GTR and the Audi rally car.
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Butterfly Valley posted:Having a Lego backlog is such an alien concept to me, I think the longest a sealed new Lego set has survived in my house is 1 day (excluding in the form of wrapped presents) I've had lego sets sitting unopened for 2 reasons. When we found out we were having a kid, at the same time Lego put the entire castle line on a clearance sale so I bought about 20 different sets and we were set for christmas and birthdays for about 4 years. Other than that, I've currently got the space station on hold to build, but that's because we're re-doing our basement and I'm putting shelves up to display my better lego creations, from everything I hear the space station is fragile as poo poo so it's getting built and thrown up on the wall immediately.
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I just finished up the ISS. Overall an enjoyable build, although the Saturn V is still my favorite. Here's my "NASA Lego" area in my basement that I'm working on finishing up.  Unfortunately that's probably it until they release another set, the mars rover is way too expensive on Ebay.
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Luceo posted:I just bought the parts for it on bricklink for $50 shipped from four stores, thanks to this thread! (edit: beaten, but I also insisted on new parts.) Dr. Eldarion posted:LEGO Overwatch Watchpoint: Gibraltar 75975 Building Kit, 2019 (730 Pieces) $62.99 That set plus additional pieces to raise the gantry up another few levels and widen the base platform. (From bricklink) I really would have rather built that massive one that someone made but this was the cheaper way of doing it. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Apr 19, 2020 |
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veni veni veni posted:Ugh. I need to use my current Batmobile display, which is the top of a dresser for something else more functional and now I don't know where I am going to put it. It's such a perfect place to display it too. I could even put it at an angle it's such a big space. Was thinking of buying one of the little wall shelves I've been using for my Star Wars UCS, but it's so wide the back wheels sort of stick off. That set deserves the best possible display area cause it rules. I've seen it mounted vertically on a wall. https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/fmoz9l/wall_mounted_the_1989_batmobile_with_my_3d/
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veni veni veni posted:Yeah I’ve seen that. there’s just something strange to me about mounting a car vertically though. There's a precedent set.
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That thing is amazing.It took me a second to realize it was even actually Lego.
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This picture is where the shed playing a horn gang tag came from <----
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I just put in an order for the bonsai tree. That will be a nice one to have in my office.
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This guy holds my phone charging cord at my desk at work.
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I built the bonsai tree on Saturday, I really liked the build. I used the cherry tree blossom option, as I just can't see leaving those frogs in the bag. It's going to my office to sit next to my Brandenburg Gate and Trevi Fountain.
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Jehde posted:I'm patient. They got a lot of different cars to do so I don't think they need a rally car every year. I don't know how Lego licenses work, but they should be able to put out an Ford RS 200, Escort RS, or Toyota Celica easy enough. Would love some Lancia love though. There's an amazing delta out there on ideas. I'd love it but I guess it's not really getting votes. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/d874a947-0fca-49bd-91fc-ae795e0fb76a
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I finished the Hubble tonight. It is a really solid build and I’m looking forward to starting the shuttle tomorrow.
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Speaking of points, is there any news on when the Odyssey orbiter is going to be released for the shuttle set?
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When they say 9am, is that local time or Denmark time or what?
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Here's a direct link to the Odyssey probe if you want to try it: https://www.lego.com/en-us/vip/rewa...-VIP-GZCNBTGMNP Edit: I think I got one! Edit 2: I got a code, so it looks like I have to buy something still to use it, but that's fine. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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ROJO posted:Looks like I managed to snag one, although my actual order crashed on the confirmation page. Did get a paypal email saying it went through and the order shows processing on my account, despite no confirmation email from Lego. Here's hoping. Same here. I ended up purchasing the Creator 3 in 1 shuttle transporter, because that will give me a 4th space shuttle for my collection now. (the little one from the ISS, the one from 10 years ago with the boosters, and the new one are the other 3) Edit: No confirmation email yet, but the order shows up in my order page now. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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I really liked the build on the Hubble so I’m glad that I got the probe. The Hubble is on its own display, I’ll use the probe to display the cargo bay on the shuttle
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I got the Ulysses probe yesterday and built it. I changed it up a bit to be able to use the stand for the hubble, thanks to Carbohydrates on discord for the idea. I was actually shorted one of the 4x4 curved yellow plates (I had an extra white one) so it worked out pretty well. I also grabbed the shuttle transporter and built the shuttle from it, that's the little guy furthest to the right.  A pre-emptive answer to a question I get a lot, the Saturn V tower is from the Overwatch Gibraltar set with some additional pieces from bricklink to build it higher
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ixnay posted:Fender Stratocaster announced today, $100 on October 1: I'm gonna have to look into alternate builds to turn it into a bass.
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I built the Countach last night, I love how they did the back angles and the little accent thing on the door. It made me wish I still had those posters of it that were in my room when I was a kid, I'd totally hang them in my garage now.
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I've been waiting for that Lancia for a while.
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The_Doctor posted:When I went to the Billund park a few years back, it looked slightly tired, like everything could do with a fresh coat of paint and a touch up. Orlando was pretty similar.
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