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dangittj posted:I've been impressed with the Lego Movie sets as well. Probably going to pick up one or two of them. That spaceship looks fantastic Welcome to the club
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I didn't have much of a list for 2014 until the fall 2014 Star Wars sets was leaked from a Hungarian site the other day. Now I want: Benny's Spaceship Death Star Troopers battle pack B-Wing fighter (I can finally complete my Rebel Starfighter set!) Snowspeeder At-At Mos Eisley Cantina Imperial Star Destroyer Yes, I am a sucker for Star Wars Original Trilogy Legos. Of the last three I will probably only get one this year depending on minifigures and how the sets look but all the other ones are definite purchases.
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PeePot posted:http://shop.lego.com/en-CA/LEGO-Movie-Poster-Sticker-5002891?_requestid=7924927 Let me know what they say, I have had my set for about as long as you have and I would kill to get that sticker for my set. Pretty sure I would have to buy a few spare bricks to stick them on but that is well worth the cost. Edit: They are going for $10 on E-Bay with shipping, I might jump on that for my movie set. Rythe fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jan 3, 2014 |
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Jan 3, 2014 02:01
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The new Maersk ship has 134 stickers. http://i.imgur.com/t0UvK8O.jpg insanity. Those 2H star wars sets are tempting me too, I don't have a B-wing and the Cantina sounds good I think they only did it once before should be a good source for star wars aliens.
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Jan 3, 2014 15:15
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Merchant of Death posted:Mos Eisley Cantina! Finally!
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Jan 3, 2014 15:27
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Merchant of Death posted:The new Maersk ship has 134 stickers. http://i.imgur.com/t0UvK8O.jpg insanity. You would think that when they have so many identical stickers they would actually print the bricks. I'm assuming they are always placed on the same types of bricks.
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Jan 3, 2014 16:06
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Ika posted:You would think that when they have so many identical stickers they would actually print the bricks. I'm assuming they are always placed on the same types of bricks. Apparently printing the company name on the bricks would give the company some legal right to them that doesn't happen if they just use stickers. LEGO learned this after that fiasco where OCTAN took over the company.
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Jan 3, 2014 17:02
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Merchant of Death posted:The new Maersk ship has 134 stickers. http://i.imgur.com/t0UvK8O.jpg insanity. Holy hell! I'm glad I passed up on building the store model of that set. Applying stickers is my least favorite part of building.
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Jan 3, 2014 17:47
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What's especially dumb is that a real container ship doesn't have matching containers. I want to see someone do it up with lots of various colors and no stickers and see how it looks.
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Jan 3, 2014 18:05
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Does it come with a Somali pirate skiff? I suppose you could use the Jabba's Palace skiff...
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Jan 3, 2014 19:09
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Neurion posted:Holy hell! I'm glad I passed up on building the store model of that set. Applying stickers is my least favorite part of building. And 52 of those stickers span pieces! The top 4 containers on the stacks are 2 1x2 plates and a 1x2 tile.
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Jan 3, 2014 20:13
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What the hell, that's unconscionable. I guess the model is mostly intended as a display piece so I guess anyone who assembles it isn't gonna care, but stickers forbidding you from breaking lego apart and making something else out of it is pretty much anti-lego.
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Jan 3, 2014 20:37
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Roots Radical posted:Aha. I am a VIP but maybe it's cause I'm in Canada. The catalogues come to Canada too.
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Jan 3, 2014 21:23
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Roots Radical posted:Where do you get these catalogues? If you were referring to the part about Benny's Spaceship and Metalbeard"s Sea Cow specifically, they're not in the catalog only rumors. Sorry for any confusion. Speaking of which, how is it that Hungarians almost always get first word of leaked photos on upcoming LEGO sets? It's like they have their form of NSA pointed straight at Billund.
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Jan 3, 2014 21:52
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If that's true, I admire the priorities of those Hungarians. (isn't there a big lego factory in Hungary? that could explain where they get the info to leak)
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You are correct, sir. Didn't know that. E: This line just gave me an idea. wikipedia posted:If all the Lego bricks ever produced were to be divided equally among a world population of six billion, each person would have 62 Lego bricks. Maybe we should see what we can do with 62 bricks. Any theme. The only caveat is that you have to use one 2x4 brick somewhere. Dr. Benway fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Jan 3, 2014 |
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Jan 3, 2014 22:24
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xzzy posted:What the hell, that's unconscionable. There was a holiday Lego truck several years ago (late 90s?) that came with stickers and the instructions for building a trailer from your own bricks (i.e., a lot of 2x4 bricks). For some reason, these were the most resilient stickers ever. I still have clumps of red and black bricks that won't come apart. I'm sure hot water would do the trick, but at this point it's become a sentimental part of my collection. 
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Jan 3, 2014 22:43
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Dr. Benway posted:You are correct, sir. Didn't know that. I like this. It is A Good Idea.
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Jan 3, 2014 23:32
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Phy posted:The catalogues come to Canada too. I remember getting them in Australia, too. Except between the years of about 2005 and 2013, when none came and I thought my membership must have defaulted or something. Then I got one out of the blue halfway through last year.
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Jan 3, 2014 23:45
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I remember picking up a catalogue in Australia when I was young. Accidentally stole it, too, because I was too young to realise you had to pay for them.
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Jan 4, 2014 00:12
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I filled 2 1/2 of my holiday pick-a-brick boxes today with 2x1 grey masonry bricks. I probably went overboard.
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Finally got to TRU tonight, grabbed about 20 random bags. Excited to finally get my hand on them, I did a double take passing actually sets. They were priced at normal price without the normal TRU mark up that all the other sets have. The series 12 minifigs were 2.99 and the series 11 they had left over were 3.49. Wonder if Lego told them to not tack it on with these sets.
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Jan 4, 2014 01:10
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Phy posted:The catalogues come to Canada too. I have been signed up for catalogs and am a VIP member. Delivery is spotty at best some times I get it before the 1h or 2h if I don't have it by the february or august I have to request it and get it within a week or so. I came across this today http://www.sheepo.es/2013/10/ford-mustang-shelby-gt500-14.html it is a technic mustang and looks amazing. At 3500 parts and 5 motors/any other PF stuff trying to make one would end up costing me a fortune but it is really nice to look at.
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Dr. Benway posted:You are correct, sir. Didn't know that. But even my smaller models top a 100 bricks easy D:, I'm game for it though. let's do this!
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I really don't understand the pricing on the Architecture sets at all. Every one of them seems like it should be an £11 - £20 pound set, but they are all much more expensive. I know they have a high piece count but all of the pieces are small and mass produced in other sets. What am I missing?
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Ville Valo posted:Does it come with a Somali pirate skiff? I suppose you could use the Jabba's Palace skiff... Do any of the movie licensed themes have a Tom Hanks minifig?
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PriorMarcus posted:I really don't understand the pricing on the Architecture sets at all. Every one of them seems like it should be an £11 - £20 pound set, but they are all much more expensive. I know they have a high piece count but all of the pieces are small and mass produced in other sets. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it's the nicely-bound instruction book with all the information and history in it.
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Neurion posted:If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it's the nicely-bound instruction book with all the information and history in it. That book alone can't be bumping the prices up as high as they are. Do they have to license their image?
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 Hotknife - Turbo Viper by AzMiLion, on Flickr So I made a thing. after a while of not making said things, i present the Hotknife Turbo Viper. So for the 62 parts challenge, i propose the following. Use 62 parts(exactly!) Use at least one 2x4 brick. I have some ideas for what i can make for this.
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PriorMarcus posted:That book alone can't be bumping the prices up as high as they are. Do they have to license their image? I wouldn't be surprised if they did, all of them are owned by commercial enterprises. The store at the Space Needle was absolutely stuffed with the lego model last time I was there so there's clearly a two way thing going on. The boxes they ship them in are higher quality material too. They also ship with a printed brick with the name of the structure.. basically everything about them adds up to "costs more."
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Phy posted:The catalogues come to Canada too. Aha, maybe I just need to wait then. Thanks.
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Dr. Benway posted:
 62Bricks Challenge - Rover by AzMiLion, on Flickr Can't sleep, got bitten by the creativity bug. Have a Mars Rover with some movable features such as -Adjustable Camera -Adjustable Robo-Arm-Grabber. -Adjustable Wheels(for steering!) -Adjustable Solar panel Two 2x4 bricks make up the frame for the wheel attachment points. E:Apparently i can't type very good either. E2: Don't you hate it when you finish a model and you immediately see things you could've done better?  62Bricks - Rover V2 by AzMiLion, on Flickr I know I do. E3: I really do hate that. Final Version!, added a rock and a drill. Play features for everybody! I also snuck the front camera back in, lowered the battery pack and replaced some bricks to make it more efficient.  62Bricks - Rover V3 by AzMiLion, on Flickr This is a really fun challenge, and I'd like to challenge the MOCers in the thread to join in. Start with a simple-ish base model and see how much detail you can work into it. Somehow this rambly rear end post makes a good progress log for this particular MOC. AzMiLion fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Jan 4, 2014 |
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Metalbeard's Duel is amazing. I didn't know he had a sword until I looked at the box in person. It's the perfect fusion of my two favorite things, pirates and giant fighting robots. My wife also picked up the Cloud Cuckoo Castle and three minifigs, two of which ended up being pantsless guy :argh; I really went to get the new batman riddler chase set, but they aren't getting more until Monday annoyingly.
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Built a Spyrius-inspired Vic Viper thing for 62Bricks, I'll upload some better pics tomorrow when I have daylight. It clocks in right at 62 pieces, though, and I really want to include a pilot. I may end up de-greebling and probably come up with a better engine solution. It's sort of in an alpha stage right now. Also it has an AquaSharks top/tail fin. 
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Cloks posted:Apparently printing the company name on the bricks would give the company some legal right to them that doesn't happen if they just use stickers. LEGO learned this after that fiasco where OCTAN took over the company. Wait, what happened? Do you have a link?
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Octan is a fake company that Lego created though?
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Fayez Butts posted:Octan is a fake company that Lego created though? Tell that to president Lord Business and his dirty, filthy oil money.
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Joramun posted:Do any of the movie licensed themes have a Tom Hanks minifig? Is Woody from Toy Story close enough?
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I put something together too.      62 pieces exactly. No interior to speak of, although a minifig would fit inside. Lego's early 90s strategy of "huge prefab ship parts and studded wings" works well to add volume here; the challenge is finding a way to make the big ship pieces part of an interesting form while building a good internal structure. As a result it's pretty sturdy despite the low part density, and is highly swooshable. Having to count every brick really helps enforce the need to add solid detail rather than just throwing more parts on. The final design ended up much leaner and well-balanced design-wise when I took out expensive structures that didn't add much to the overall shape and used the part count to flesh out more main details. The 2x4 brick ties together the band of armor that holds the dual engines together. Looking at the Deep Freeze Defender, which lends a few parts to this ship, Lego had a nice, if somewhat scattered color palette with trans-orange canopies and tools, white wings, blue fuselage and black engines, radar, and other mechanical parts. I tried to use something similar and also blend the black printing on the Deep Sea Predator's canopy into the engines and systems between the wings. I love putting red/green navigation lights on spaceship wingtips.
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Speaking of Octan, I wish I wish I never lost the little Octan-printed minifig and bricks, could have rebuilt this little guy properly from '94 when I got him as a kid Picked up this today though, bigger than I thought it would be 
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goku i won't do what u tell me