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It finally occurred to me to check if there's a LEGO thread! I'm glad there is! I've been getting back into LEGO because I have a nearly-three year old and she likes them a lot. Mostly she likes when I build things that have lots of stuff to open, close, pivot, claw arms for grabbing, stuff like that. I just finished up this guy: (well we all know these things are never really finished) https://imgur.com/a/2b2XyiQ I also have a few pictures of other things I've done recently I can summon up if anyone is interested. I'll be digging into the thread to see peoples' creations, I hope you guys do lots of spaceships.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Please share! Personally, I'm not really interested in sets and I'd much prefer seeing peoples MOCs. Yesss, love classic space stuff. Blacktron and Space Police were great. I had the big Explorien spaceship. I was also amused to see one of the first creations you posted being made from UFO parts. I got the second-largest UFO ship and had no idea what the gently caress to do with the big saucer pieces after I disassembled it. I use them for a spaceship every now and then, and once for a steampunk ironclad, but they're mostly big pieces that hang around in my LEGO bin. So, good work! I like your mechas a lot, too. Here's a piece I made last week that I really like, called The Interruption Unit.  
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Dec 22, 2019 07:09
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Ultimate Mango posted:Welp, just found out that a relative got my kids the LEGO Disney Train as a present. Boy I hope people buy my kid lots of LEGO.
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Dec 23, 2019 00:57
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If you can read this, thank an educational mainframe. If you can read this in Terran Standard, thank the Orbital Defense Ion Cannon.   
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Dec 23, 2019 03:57
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VaultAggie posted:The worst line is Time Travelers or whatever, because it was a lovely mix of better lines. I liked it for the unusual extras I would get. Also, just for an idea of what to do with my very mixed themes; time traveller HQ! Bring back goods from other times, sell them to other times, profit! But I'll always thank Aquanauts for filling my bin with dozens of bright yellow pieces.
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Dec 23, 2019 18:00
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Aquanauts/Aquasharks seems like the start of overly specialized sets that don’t really fit into a main “overworld” theme- the adventures you were meant to have were too linear as far as good guys vs bad guys and the pieces don’t integrate well with the main themes unless you’re building a really eclectic MOC. LEGO was doing that over and over again for a while. Pogo Stick HEROES set 1: megapogo ($200) (two walls and a pogoship) set 2: pogo base ($125) (a wall, two small pogoships) set 3: encounter at pogo ($74) (stupid setpiece, one minipogo and one darkskater miniskater) set 4: minipogo ($40) (tiny vehicle, one minifig) DarkSkaters set 1: Darkskater mobile fort ($100) (like, one moulded piece on some wheels) set 2: DarkSkate interceptor ($75) (a ship that's mostly canopy and a grabber) Set 3: Darkskater Gang ($30) (some minifigs, two miniskates) Help the Pogo Stick heroes explore and find the rare Pogonium! But don't let the DarkSkaters get the Pogonium first!
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Dec 23, 2019 18:23
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Blue Moonlight posted:I built Star Trek ships with them that had been partially assimilated by the Borg. ...I didn't post this. This isn't my username! How are you me?!?
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Dec 23, 2019 19:16
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Nth Doctor posted:I think my favorite bit was the ship with flapping wings as you rolled it across the table. That was great. I had that one. Weirdly my favorite part of it is that it came with a top hat and a proper villainy-looking face, monocle and all. Precious items in my bin! Edit: actually, now that I look, it came with this guy:  So where did my top hat and monocle guy come from...? Edit 2: Okay, monocle guy is from this:  Still looking for top hat source. Also ironic that I had dozens of pirate sets but never a hook hand until I got this minifig. Don't know why, really. Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Dec 23, 2019 |
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Dec 23, 2019 19:27
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:The Adventurers sets had a guy in a suit with a black top hat who looked decidedly sinister. Sam Sinister, I think that may be the guy above, but he's in aviation gear because he was on a biplane. I must have had a second version of him? Or on second thought, the Time Twisters sets came with a few extra props from historical eras, perhaps it was from that. Oh LEGO bins. It's like archeology lite.
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Dec 23, 2019 19:44
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By the way while I was looking at Adventurers stuff yesterday I came upon this build I thought was pretty: https://www.brothers-brick.com/2018/07/04/float-away-from-sam-sinister-in-this-adventurously-colorful-hot-air-balloon/
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Dec 24, 2019 18:55
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A brickwash might be a good idea, some of mine are still packed with modelling clay from my experimental single-digit years, which are rapidly approaching a quarter-century ago. Not much I can do about the gold paint pen on the "special" items, unless alcohol would take that off.
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Jan 2, 2020 16:58
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I'm doing a build that's going to be an old-school pulp sci-fi style alien hovertank. I know it's gonna take me a while; so far, I'm very pleased with how the main turret weapon is looking.
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Jan 3, 2020 20:58
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By the way, does anyone happen to know if Mars Attacks! is streaming anywhere?
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Jan 3, 2020 21:17
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Love that Planet Express
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Jan 6, 2020 17:52
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It's been so long since I build an official set, I can barely remember what it's like. My most memorable build was the Explorien Starship from back in the day, that beautiful white ship with its billion green antennae and its folding configurations. I remember how pretty much everything came together on one Technic rod trussing a two-stud-wide area in the middle. My "friend" Peter came over one day, picked it up, promptly dropped it. I gathered the pieces together as best I could, but somehow the thing never came together quite right again, in that weak spot, and it was eternally in the folded position and I wasn't a clever enough lad to figure out a solution. So disassembled and into the common bin it went.
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Jan 10, 2020 19:35
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The_Doctor posted:He has a buggy in the comics! Is that thing swinging around above the streets, too?
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Jan 14, 2020 02:44
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I want LEGO vessels from Star Trek. And Babylon 5. And Farscape. And The Expanse. And Red Dwarf.
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Jan 16, 2020 18:55
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The Bloop posted:I think a Lego Red Dwarf would work perfectly, though. I think I'd be content with this. If I had to pick a ship, that's it.
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Jan 16, 2020 19:58
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Oh man, those minifigs. I can't believe how desperate and smarmy they are!
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Jan 20, 2020 19:18
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There's blue flame pieces these days? Tight!
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Jan 23, 2020 15:53
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tuo posted:The best way to shoot pictures of Lego is having a cat nearby. A single stroll of the cat along the set will leave you with endless joy in regard to static charged cat-hair either on the set, the lens, you, or the cat you are currently trying to murder (which is impossible because a cat is basically like a wet piece of soap once confronted) That's like every time I go to use my gig bag I have to shoo a cat out of it and vacuum it. It was hanging on a hook, last time! How did the cat figure out how to sleep in it?
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Jan 23, 2020 16:49
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My cats rub their mouthcorners on antennae until they pop off, then they bat them around until they vanish into a neighboring reality
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Jan 23, 2020 19:25
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Space prostitution?! Star escort!
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Jan 23, 2020 21:46
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FBS posted:Actually, it looks stressful and upsetting because reality TV is an utter garbage medium worth less than nothing regardless of context or content. I wouldn't necessarily go that far but I did try to watch a gingerbread house building competition and instead of Christmassy joviality and tips for making sugar icicles there was a bunch of team drama and tense poo poo. I wanted holiday spirit, damnation!
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Feb 3, 2020 16:16
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The_Doctor posted:The time has come. How in the hell have I never thought to use one of those clip bricks to hold the side of a flat brick, like the one holding the blade here? It seems so obvious to me now.
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Feb 5, 2020 19:56
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CodfishCartographer posted:I really dig 20x20 stud microscale cities made by Jeff Friesen. Not 20x20 buildings or blocks, 20x20 cities. This is my loving jam!!! Look at these!
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Feb 22, 2020 18:33
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https://soundcloud.com/starfolder/starfolder-jezebel-iron-wine-cover I need to work on my transitions to falsetto but I did pretty good I think
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Apr 26, 2020 06:17
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How in the gently caress Edit: Now a snipe. Okay, sorry about that, but I will also have a LEGO-related post soon so enjoy that song I guess lol Hopper posted:That is a lot of effort to put into a wrong thread post. I have zero musical skills so all I can contribute is that the background crackling (sounds like a Vinyl record) is bit too loud. Oh and thanks for the genuine feedback, was working with a new plugin, will lower the noise a smidge. And yep, vinyl pop, good ear! Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Apr 26, 2020 |
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Apr 26, 2020 16:09
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To make up for my mis-post, here's a backlit photo of the spaceport control room I'm working on. More photos to come!
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Apr 26, 2020 18:54
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Holy poo poo, Lizard Combatant. I was very close to showing my space station control room I made but now it looks like bootleg bullshit lol
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Apr 29, 2020 16:35
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Time Cowboy posted:I hope they do a Forestmen-inspired build in the same spirit as Barracuda Bay. A big pirate ship, the big Space bases and ships, and the Forestmen bases were sets I always wanted and never got as a kid, so if Lego could keep supplying me with modernized versions of what I couldn’t get as a kid, I’d give them all my money. All the same ones I wanted. For some reason, the forest dudes were the ones the gift-givers in my life picked up on me liking the least so I have practically none in my bin, but I've always had a weird thing for Robin Hood themed stuff.
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May 4, 2020 23:30
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That's a holographic HUD, that's just how they look
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May 6, 2020 03:01
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sim posted:Yes, but I'm having to wait for something that I want now and I'm having trouble coping in these modern times. EDIT... so much trouble I decided to create my own pirate ship, using the rowboat as a base. Still a work in progress, especially the colors. I was kind of going for a mini-Seacow with the proportions. That's a cutie. Reminds me of those Elizabethan era ships that were like a castle on a barge for shooting fools from
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May 7, 2020 21:29
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Every time I think I'm ready to photograph my space command center, another part is added. I was going to first photo it when it was just the command center proper, and then suddenly I added a laboratory. And then, a small robotics lab. Then a robotic claw crane. Then a garage, and a hover-vehicle to go in it. Now I'm working on a multi-antenna communications tower... The only thing that I think will stop me is when I run out of parts. The minifigs I assembled for them are becoming impatient, awaiting the command center in their blue baseplate void
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May 8, 2020 18:53
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Plastik posted:Post pics? If you insist!  Note that these are my childhood LEGO so some are in rougher/dirtier shape than others. Also, it's in a cluttered playroom, I'm hoping for a more well-composed environment for better shots lol Ok, here's a shot of the outside:  Command sector entrance controls and drawbridge for module isolation.  Some views of command sector controls    It turned out to be a little difficult to get a shot inside of the laboratory, but here's the controls at the base of the ramp and the fusion reactor.  The robotics shop, here's a console, a nanofusion drill press, and a power strip.    Communications tower:  Crane:   The garage, with hover vehicle, Jack Placeholder, and you can see a portable hypersonic cleaner in the back there.  Jack Placeholder! Who gave you clearance to use that hover vehicle?!? You're not even on the crew!  A couple robots and weird tall white robotic alien, waiting for a place to work.  And an overview of our future cast of characters; the station crew, the crew of a starship and some fighter pilots. Some rogues. Some villains. Several androids. Some alien species. 
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May 8, 2020 20:40
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As you may have been able to tell from my space command center, I LOVE workstations. I like imagining each of the little minifigs coming in and sitting at their usual place, or wandering over to a console to do a certain task... I got an amazing little frisson when I built that drill press because I had a strong vision of the roboticist drilling a robot chassis on it, and it felt REAL. These guys look like they're having a nice calm day at work.
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May 8, 2020 23:47
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Great now I'm making a large cargo area
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May 9, 2020 00:39
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 Progress on the cargo bay.
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May 9, 2020 02:22
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 Why is this cargo bay so enjoyable to put together? Just space, some shelves, cargo containers and eventually a little forklift if I can find my forklift piece
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When yall are building a space theme, is grey metal or painted grey? Or does it depend? Just a poll.
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May 9, 2020 17:42
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