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Welp, glad I didn't give into temptation!
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| # ¿ Nov 12, 2010 02:30 |
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3 posted:Flickr is about your best bet. It reduces image size incrementally so you can have multiple convenient sizes, without the horrible image compression that Facebook applies. Keep in mind that a basic flickr account only allows up to 200 visible images in your gallery (once you hit 200, it starts moving your oldest pictures into an archive that only you can see) and caps maximum image size at 1024 pixels vertically and horizontally. A pro account forgoes these restrictions, naturally, but at the cost of about 25bux a year. This is why I haven't bothered with flicker... also Captain Scandinaiva, why don't you just adjust the settings on your camera to take smaller pictures? Or you could try GIMP, it's free and I'm pretty sure it can resize images.
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| # ¿ Nov 12, 2010 17:50 |
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Captain Invictus posted:So uh, anyone else who tried to buy some of those Batman sets get a refund yet? Is it really going to take 5-10 days to get my money back? Holy loving poo poo You can try calling your credit card provider and tell them what happened, they can probably give you a credit until it's sorted out. But otherwise they will take their own sweet time.
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| # ¿ Nov 13, 2010 19:37 |
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zenintrude posted:Apparently a way to tell the difference between the new Minifigs before buying them has been revealed... each pack has a unique set of bumps along its edge, which correspond to a certain Minifig: gently caress this poo poo.
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| # ¿ Nov 19, 2010 20:11 |
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One fuckin' huge Lego tree on the way: Also, I saw exactly two Series 3 Minifigs at Smith's last night, and said what the hell, I'll get them. Took them up to the register and... gently caress off, I'm not paying $3 each.
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| # ¿ Nov 23, 2010 17:39 |
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I'm not sure what's more impressive: its size, or the sheer determination the builder had to hoard enough pieces to make it. Click here for the full 768x1024 image.  Click here for the full 1024x768 image.  Click here for the full 1024x768 image.  Click here for the full 1024x768 image. There's some other neat stuff here from the same event: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=452769 Also, a place to worship the Blood God:  Click here for the full 1024x768 image. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=452720
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| # ¿ Nov 24, 2010 20:26 |
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Carbohydrates posted:Hmm. How's the swooshability? You're going to need a forklift.
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| # ¿ Nov 24, 2010 21:46 |
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:So I finally resized some of those photos and uploaded them to brickshelf. You've got some redundant HTML in your whole post, it opens the image in a new window and two more windows with the gallery the picture is in. Also if you're gonna use brickshelf for your own pics, you don't need to host them on waffleimages, just click on the image in your gallery until you get it by itself, then copy the address. Then paste it in your post like this: [img] http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/ragnarock01/Odds-n-ends/landfillsurvivor.jpg [/img] without the spaces. It'll look like this:  If you want them thumbnailed, use [timg] and [/timg]: This way you're not uploading things twice, and you only have to copy&paste once. Anyway, your stuff is blocky but that's hard to get away from if you don't have a lot of pieces. Keep experimenting and look out for new sets on sale, especially Creator sets. They have tons of SNOT parts and angled bricks that will help you go beyond flying bricks. You've got nice ideas so don't be afraid to get new parts and expand your palet.
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| # ¿ Nov 27, 2010 22:16 |
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Nice, high-res Ninjago pics. Throwing stars, samurai helmets, new skeletons? There goes all my money for next year. EDIT: The new wave of Hero Factory looks like it'll have some really interesting and really useful parts as well.  http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=453459 So I'm gonna leave some room in the budget I think. InfinEight fucked around with this message at Dec 3, 2010 around 18:25 |
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The Rage posted:All I want is the Samurai. I'm kinda disappointed Ninjago doesn't have more Samurai, but maybe the second wave will. Anyway, I took advantage of the TRU buy one get one 1/2 off:  Total cost: ~$37, so even with the TRU markup it's about 5.5 cents per piece. I mostly wanted the hammerhead dude, but it's really hard to hold back on payday 
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| # ¿ Dec 4, 2010 07:19 |
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Am I cute? uguu~
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2010 03:59 |
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This kinda poo poo is ridiculous: Click here for the full 800x300 image.  Click here for the full 800x250 image.  Click here for the full 800x250 image.  Click here for the full 800x250 image.  I consider myself fairly addicted to lego, but goddamn.
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| # ¿ Dec 8, 2010 18:15 |
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Super Waffle posted:And after all that, no giant block of 300 Spartans? For shame. He's working on it. 
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| # ¿ Dec 8, 2010 18:23 |
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tonelok posted:If I had the money and the photography skills, I'd turn my office into this: This is insanely cool, the level of detail and number of pieces is just astounding. It doesn't even look like Lego until you get closer, and the minifigs are the perfect size for it. My own share&tell isn't as slick but here it is anyway, since I can finally say it's done. Here's some highlights:      You can see everything here or check out my ramblings on MOCpages.
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| # ¿ Dec 10, 2010 01:40 |
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Yeah, now I can take even longer to make something bigger!
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| # ¿ Dec 10, 2010 02:14 |
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Mascot posted:I figured this warranted its own post: I don't think I've ever seen this guy in stores, which I thought was a shame... until now! I bought 4. If I hadn't taken advantage of TRU's sale last week it would have been more though. Captain Scandinaiva posted:That's awesome. I must admit, I found the design weird in the first WIP pictures you posted, but it turned out really good. Thanks! I wanted a mixture of a C-130 Hercules, Semi-Truck, and Matrix Hovership with a sorta steampunk feel. If I ever make another version, maybe I'll use Zurg's torso as the fuel tanks. Found this just now:  \/\/\/It should be visible pretty soon, I added one more image this morning and Brickshelf seems to update around the middle of the day. Most of it is on MOCpages though. InfinEight fucked around with this message at Dec 10, 2010 around 18:48 |
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Mascot already posted that (on this page) and it's drat cool. I'd still swoosh it too. \/\/\/ I think we all did 
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| # ¿ Dec 10, 2010 19:15 |
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This looks like a nice buy: Click here for the full 1326x1060 image. This, this thing:  Click here for the full 1350x918 image. I don't know. I really don't like the two-piece cockpit, it really doesn't fit the rest of the shape. I do like the new wing plates, and the click-style cargo bay doors, and the trans-blue clip-plates as solar panels. If the price is decent I can see myself buying both.
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| # ¿ Dec 11, 2010 08:33 |
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The ARC-170 Starfighter was on sale at Smith's/Fred Meyer for $42, plus they had a one-day coupon for 30% off all Lego. That made each one half off so... I bought two. That's about $230 in Lego since the beginning of November. 'Consumer Whore' mode, activate!
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| # ¿ Dec 12, 2010 01:38 |
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The new pieces are a definite plus with the 2nd Atlantis wave. Also, this should be alongside that Predator bust so they can growl at each other: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=454648
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2010 00:52 |
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I can't believe Brick Daddy goes for $10 minimum on bricklink.com. That said, I decided to get another Lunar Limo and the Undercover cruiser from Target, and my 4 Construct-a-Zurgs arrived today. My stock of purple is piling up!
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| # ¿ Dec 18, 2010 01:43 |
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Flavor Bear posted:I know LEGO sets have stupid names in general, but I don't get what is "undercover" about the Undercover Cruiser. I guess 'Needless Pendulum See-Saw Gimmick Cruiser' was too convoluted.
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| # ¿ Dec 18, 2010 02:02 |
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Coder posted:I finished my clock and took a video: That's very cool and well made. I'm sure with some tweaking you could make it run longer than an hour, but even as is its impressive.
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| # ¿ Dec 20, 2010 03:18 |
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So I got on Brickset finally and put in as many sets as I could remember/find in old pictures. This doesn't count all the loose pieces/mixed lots I've bought over the years and I know I'm missing more than a few, but I'm already at 280+ sets and nearly 75,000 pieces. It helps that I bought Portal of Atlantis today for nearly half off. 25 more and I'll have 100,000 pieces easily!
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| # ¿ Dec 20, 2010 05:31 |
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Pyroclastic posted:Peeron (why, oh why is it so goddamn slow? I need to change to Brickset) tells me I have 197 sets (132 unique) with 52,701 parts and 394 minifigures. I haven't input my more recent purchases, including my big Craigslist score. I think the best thing about having so many is you never really have to take stuff apart to cannibalize pieces anymore. And even if you already used that one rare piece you have, you can just buy another on Bricklink. The worst thing is all the sorting 
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| # ¿ Dec 20, 2010 16:42 |
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Shuppiluliumas posted:Congrats on getting blogged, InfinEight! Well drat, that's a nice surprise. Hopefully the next big thing will be just as popular (and get done sooner!).
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| # ¿ Dec 20, 2010 22:07 |
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Pyroclastic posted:I'd really like to see Lego do some proper large-scale NASA kits like Mars Exploration Rover. A 3' tall Saturn V would be awesome. I have all of those except the mission to mars one. The Rover was pretty cool and added a lot of new technic bits to my collection; one of the blue panels and dampened shocks are on the Infinity. Coder posted:Clock stuff I think your clock should get blogged at a few places, it's really impressive despite the limits of the parts.
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2010 17:27 |
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Red_Fred posted:Which website is the best to keep track of your sets and pieces? BrickLink or Brickset? Where can you keep track of stuff you own on Bricklink? All I see is the wanted list section. Brickset is pretty easy to use, I added 200 sets in about 20 minutes as I remembered them.
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| # ¿ Dec 22, 2010 18:35 |
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I put my first Undercover Cruiser together today, and I have to say, it's much better than the Gold Heist set simply because the design isn't so flimsy. It transforms smoothly and easily, even if it is gimmicky, and it has a good selection of parts. I'm not sure it was worth $10 more than Gold Heist, but at half off it's a good set for sure. I decided to order another one through Lego Christmas Eve/Morning along with a Home One set. I'm greatly looking forward to the new wave of sets in 2011 
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| # ¿ Dec 27, 2010 05:46 |
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So I wasn't intending to buy any Lego today, but I saw Space Police Central on sale for $48... and, well, I have gift cards to use If anyone wants, I did some review pictures of this set awhile ago: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=412560
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| # ¿ Dec 28, 2010 03:54 |
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Sexual Lorax posted:If you sort by color before function, I will crawl through your computer and end you. Then take all your Legos. I have a bear trap under my monitor at all times 
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| # ¿ Dec 28, 2010 23:49 |
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You lucky bastard. I guess I could be lucky too if I stopped buying so many smaller sets 
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| # ¿ Jan 5, 2011 22:17 |
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I'd rather buy you a few PAB cups next time I fly back east. As much as I love the PAB wall, paying $70 before you even get in isn't worth it (unless the shopping pass is less, but it sounds like you hafta pay $70 just to get in at all).
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| # ¿ Jan 8, 2011 03:57 |
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Pyroclastic posted:The shopping pass involves them putting a hold on your card for admission price, then removing it if you return within an hour. And if you spend $20 in a store, you get your parking comped. Ahh, that doesn't sound that bad. I've driven that far to a Lego store before, and even with the increased people traffic I bet you could be in and out within an hour. I say go for it.
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| # ¿ Jan 8, 2011 04:51 |
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Having some fun with that new crowbar: Ingraman posted:
These are pretty neat, makes me wanna try some smaller mechs for fun.
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| # ¿ Jan 9, 2011 06:24 |
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Yeah, I got mine at Wal-Mart but I've also seen it at Toys R Us. On another note, the new V-Wing fighter is $20. I was hoping for $15 
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| # ¿ Jan 9, 2011 19:24 |
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Yeah, Lunar Limo hood ornament (which screamed 'headcrab' to me the second I saw it), Exo-Force Torso, and the head is from some City set. None of them are a perfect fit, but I think they're close enough for fun.
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| # ¿ Jan 9, 2011 21:09 |
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Despite the table breakage and dirty bricks, that's still a pretty clever execution. When I was younger, my mom got me some construx as a sort of "You can build stuff with this too" suggestion. I got quite a few and played with them a lot for a month or two. Then I dropped them  They have since found new life as a laptop stand, monitor risers... pretty much anything I wouldn't wanna use Lego for.In other news, my two Midi-Scale Star Destroyers arrived from Lego. I haven't had any luck with clearance stuff at walmart, so I had to pay a little more, but it was worth it since they're full of parts I wanted/needed. I also got lucky and scored this Anikin's Y-Wing and Hyena Bomber for ~$31. Pretty good for $80 worth of sets
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| # ¿ Jan 14, 2011 17:20 |
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^^^There's nothing wrong with that, it looks like a classic space set that could have been on shelves back in the day.downfall posted:Also, check your Wal-Mart again! Near their outdoor / garden section, they have a few clearance aisles. Found some great deals there again - including the big $100 Portal of Atlantis set for $50. You guys just have more luck than me, I checked again in the clearance section and there was nothing. In fact, they've cleaned out all of the out-of-season Lego stuff already... so either I was too slow, or not lucky enough to catch anything on clearance. Oh well, I need to focus more on sorting anyway. InfinEight fucked around with this message at Jan 15, 2011 around 03:50 |
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Shuppiluliumas posted:Wow, I'd totally forgotten about sticklebricks, and I also had no idea they were called that. Anyway, I've actually been building lately, so I wanted to share a bit. I've embarked on something of a project: modeling the late 1950's 20th Century Limited. I'll let you read the wiki if you care to but, in short, it was just about the most luxurious train ever to run in the US. Perfecting the striping has meant venturing into quasi-legal technique territory with some vinyl applications, but I'm pretty happy with the results, so rules be damned. So far I've finished the observation car and the dining car. Two sleeper cars are almost done, and yet to be built are the two engines, the mail/baggage car and the lounge car, which featured a radio phone, a secretary and a barber shop. Here are the finished cars: These would be good for a Lego Noir theme, they're very classy lookin. Definitely post more when you got more  EDIT: I got my second Anakin's Y-wing/3rd Hyena Bomber yesterday, and while I'm going to part them both out, they arrived already put together. I didn't realize it when I first made it myself, but the Y-Wing is huge:  Somehow it makes me like it as a set a lot more. Maybe I'll leave it intact for awhile since the current thing I'm working on uses dark green and light gray. InfinEight fucked around with this message at Jan 20, 2011 around 18:24 |
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