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More than once in my childhood, I found myself looking at megablocks and saying "What the gently caress, these aren't LEGOs." I'm not sure they run the risk of Kleenex-level overfamiliarity, because their product actually is so much better. Anytime my brother and I found a megablock in our pile of LEGOs we'd pop that sucker between the teeth and give it a good squeeze; the inferior plastic would crumble readily. A true, humble 1x1 LEGO block on the other hand can take an enormous amount of molar gnawing before it finally becomes unusable.  It'd suck if they didn't hold up so well, because teeth are the best brick separator known to man
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President Kucinich posted:This was posted in the comments. Ohhhhhhhh poo poo, I've been wanting to pick up some for a while and now I think I know what set I'll try to get.
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Lord Commissar posted:Why? Does it matter? I didn't have it bookmarked and missed it for a while
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Feb 7, 2011 04:01
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InfinEight posted:Holy poo poo, another (delayed) MOC from me so soon? Say it ain't so! Everytime I see this, I miss my Deep Freeze Defender. I'd love to see some sort of faction/series reboots for those great old sets, even if we can't have magnets these days because kids swallow them or whatever.
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Mar 1, 2011 04:26
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So I finally got the Space Pimpmobile (my wife got it for me for my birthday) and also the large Space Police ship with the removable front. Interesting to see how construction methods have changed since the Deep Freeze Defender. Still impressed they made a pimp limo.
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Jun 29, 2011 00:36
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Saint Sputnik posted:I regret I didn't buy any of those, or any Indiana Jones sets. It all came out during the few years of my life when I wasn't playing with Lego for some reason. This is my return to owning Legos, that began with my wife and another goon getting me the old Dark Dragon's Den and the newer Outpost Attack, plus the Lunar Limo. I found the big Space Police ship for like $45 with two day shipping so I got that myself while looking at newer sets.
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Jun 29, 2011 05:28
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Xenophon posted:Time Cruisers was just about the dumbest thing, it really looks like they just had some extra pieces from their other themes and tried to throw something together: That is the entire point, to recoup the costs on less common pieces.
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Jul 8, 2011 02:45
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Revol posted:There's a lot of 1x2 white grill bricks, which are always nice to have. I also see a lot of 1x3 green bricks. But then I get this useless poo poo: These are neat pieces and I wish I had more 
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Jul 12, 2011 21:26
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I'm prone to favorite a lot of Space style stuff, so those would go well in a garage as you said, somewhere on a mech, to hold all the extra air tanks and helmets and weapons onboard a ship while also functioning as a bulkhead. From what I recall those doors fit pretty snug, you could use them for refillable bomb bays for when you're swooshing your spaceships. Maybe I should point out I also really liked the old 2x2 slotted hatched containers that were everywhere when M-Tron was around.
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Jul 13, 2011 00:27
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A Samus minifigure? Too good to be true.
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Aug 2, 2011 04:12
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Sexual Lorax posted:Good call. Those are surprisingly good Lego P90s  Any idea who makes those? I love the use of the ski in that robot.
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Aug 3, 2011 22:24
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meme23 posted:For cheap plastick blocks Lego's are expensive as gently caress. Exacktly what standard's suggest plastick's all cheap?
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Sep 1, 2011 07:09
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Davros1 posted:Until its orbit decays and it plummets into the Earth, leaving Lego City a smoldering pile of bricks! It turned out okay in the game
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Jun 4, 2019 20:44
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Amazon had that huge Saturn V on sale for $20 off (so $100) if anybody's looking to get it
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Sep 19, 2019 18:53
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Amazon has the Ninjago docks for fifty bucks off right now
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Nov 16, 2019 02:47
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Everybody knew: legos could be pulled apart with your teeth, megabloks would warp and crumble instead.
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Sep 1, 2020 07:16
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:That is pretty awesome. I wanted to highlight this, I didn't know those Technic gears came in green - clever parts usage. I know nothing about plastics Lego used, but could grey and white pieces be recolored or dyed?
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Sep 3, 2020 05:34
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Was looking for Christmas presents and saw Amazon has the Saturn V back up for $120 if you missed out and want to spend $120 on a gigantic showpiece. Yes, I'm an enabler. No, I have no guilt.
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Yeah it's nuts, it popped back up the other day, dropped in price suddenly, and sold out instantly!
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Oct 26, 2020 16:45
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bird with big dick posted:I had 6080 which was the same way. I remember this set just being absolutely enormous and amazing and then you look at it compared to modern sets and it's kinda lol. 664 pieces? I don't even get out of bed for less than 3,000 pieces. Those building wall prefabs with the window cutouts and recessed top for roof plates and bottom connectors get a lot of mileage at low part count. They looked nice and function well! King's Mountain Fortress was like 400-something! Chronojam fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Jan 15, 2022 |
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Prophet of Nixon posted:Finally finished that mini Brick Bank! I think they look even better placed all together like that, but do like the details on the other sides as well
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