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They have a bad aura of "well we want to hit these thematic bullet points but we don't want the set to cost a thousand dollars.. so make it work." Crappy set that will sell like hotcakes because of the minifigs.
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Dogen posted:I still can't believe the Ghostbusters firehouse made it to 10k (not that it isn't super cool). I feel like this round is going to be another one where the winner will be obvious because all the other ideas are ridiculous, impractical, or ridiculously impractical. I would not give a second thought about buying that firehouse.
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DrChud posted:I would not give a second thought about buying that firehouse. Pretty much. I'd throw down $150 easy.
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Aug 18, 2014 16:15
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Sockser posted:Ehhhhhhhh, I feel like they don't really evoke Minecraft, simply because there's so few bits. I love the microscale ones, but it's because there's so much in there that they feel like Minecraft. Minifig scale Zombies and Skeletons and Steves are cool, though. Honestly it gives ideas for various Minecraft elements(such as the tree) and expanding it using your own bricks(which let's be honest, is insanely easy) and also provides a bunch of those handy 2x2 1 central stud plates. It's a good idea as a starting off point while providing useful minifigs and stickers/printed bricks. They should honestly just release a set comprised mostly of characters/animals though, yeah.
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Aug 18, 2014 16:40
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The_Doctor posted:Pretty much. I'd throw down $150 easy. It's perfect as the ghostbusters firehouse, if you don't care about GB, take off the buster logo and boom, old style NYC firehouse modular. I don't think it would fly as fast as the car, but I would sell well. Maybe put in Janine, Lewis, and Slimer figs to sweeten the deal and round out the team.
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They've been super conservative with the picks so far, though. I'm not saying it would be a cool set, or even that it wouldn't sell somewhat well, but based on history it's just not going to happen. Too much money, there's already been a Ghostbusters set, etc. Also, I did get my Tumbler from the store. Going to start working on it in a little bit. Perhaps my polybag tumbler can drive it (Tumblers all the way down)
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Captain Invictus posted:Honestly it gives ideas for various Minecraft elements(such as the tree) and expanding it using your own bricks(which let's be honest, is insanely easy) and also provides a bunch of those handy 2x2 1 central stud plates. It's a good idea as a starting off point while providing useful minifigs and stickers/printed bricks. Problem is the 2x2 1 stud guys and even like, brown 2x2s are fairly rare, AFAIK. Not to mention all those basic orange bricks.
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The_Doctor posted:Pretty much. I'd throw down $150 easy. Is it the same scale as the current modular buildings?
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It's good to see that the RI and Exo suit are likely coming back. I had the 1st off, and didn't realize they might have on sale that day. I ended up at a store that weekend my coincidence and was disappointed they didn't have the Ghostbusters set in-stock. Was on the web store this evening and was getting broken links all over the place, it kept redirecting me the US site, and kept telling me that the free Mini Cooper set "wasn't available in my region" when I tried to set it back to Canada. Also wouldn't take my password when I did go to check out with the big Mini Cooper and Ghostbusters sets. Some survey thing popped up so I sent them feedback on all the BS I'd gone through. Hopefully they'll fix it soon. I'd given up on the whole last 2 or 3 Minifigures lines because I never got anywhere feeling the bags and dealing with the inevitable duplicates of duplicates. But damnit if the upcoming series makes me want to 
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Chris Knight posted:I'd given up on the whole last 2 or 3 Minifigures lines because I never got anywhere feeling the bags and dealing with the inevitable duplicates of duplicates. But damnit if the upcoming series makes me want to The Simpsons line was the easiest to feel out thanks to all the distinctive heads. But these new prices just encourage feeling. They've doubled in price since the first couple series, and they were much, much harder to find.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:23
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The Manchester Lego store sorts all of the figures and leaves them behind the till for anyone that ask for a specific one. So, if anyone wants any of the upcoming figures PM when they hit stores and I'll send them your way.
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I promised some progress pictures of my lego minifig chairs, got them started after work today, spent about 2 hours cutting and filing, then a trip to the paint store to see what lego colours I could come up with, think I nailed all the ones I wanted... here are three progress pics, first Emmitt traced out, then cut out, then the three of them. I am going to have to do some work on the hands, as going from 3-D to 2-D makes it tough for them to get right, but I'm fairly happy with the progress I made today. Tomorrow will be routing the edges to round them, then start painting, and cut out the seat and other legs of the chairs. Turning out to be an easier project then I thought, I may end up making some extras and selling them, but we'll see, I can really only woodwork in the summer, so time is limited.    These are the chair backs, and about 2 feet high.
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Pyroclastic posted:The Simpsons line was the easiest to feel out thanks to all the distinctive heads. But these new prices just encourage feeling. They've doubled in price since the first couple series, and they were much, much harder to find. If they really wanted to eliminate feeling they'd ship them in tiny 1"x2" boxes. Probably more expensive to print and assemble a box though.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:49
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Shin-chan posted:If they really wanted to eliminate feeling they'd ship them in tiny 1"x2" boxes. Probably more expensive to print and assemble a box though. Ridiculously more expensive, and it'd just encourage people to open every box on the shelf rather than spend 20 minutes feeling up polybags. I really dislike the blind bag mentality. I've seen blind boxes for some things priced at $10 or more, and Lego's nearly at half that price now.
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Fozzie Bear posted:I promised some progress pictures of my lego minifig chairs, got them started after work today, spent about 2 hours cutting and filing, then a trip to the paint store to see what lego colours I could come up with, think I nailed all the ones I wanted... here are three progress pics, first Emmitt traced out, then cut out, then the three of them. This is super sweet. I'd totally sit in a Benny chair (but never in front of my adult friends).
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Aug 19, 2014 10:09
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Benny chair has to be shaped like a spaceship Spaceship SPACESHIP!
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Aug 19, 2014 10:10
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Tumbler is available for VIPs online!
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Amoeba102 posted:Benny chair has to be shaped like a spaceship Spaceship SPACESHIP! Maybe I'll paint some spaceships on the front legs for him.... you give me a great idea for decorating the rest of the chairs, I was thinking they were going to be too plain, but adding in some elements (spaceship, piece of resistance, Wyldstyle fan?) could turn out really well. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Aug 19, 2014 14:28
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Guzwar posted:This is super sweet. I'd totally sit in a Benny chair (but never in front of my adult friends). You need better friends.
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Aug 19, 2014 15:35
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There's a decent selection of sets at 15% off using code LEGOPALOOZA here. YMMV, I haven't actually ordered yet but 15% on that many sets (including the Spaceship^3 and Milano) it warranted a post.
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Aug 19, 2014 16:25
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Was in the area and hopped into the lego store, eyeballed the Tumbler for a few. No interest in owning it but holy jesus that thing is big. One thing I do want though are those tires.. they'd be a joy to use on minifig scale monster trucks. Anyone have a feeling on if they'll be exclusive to the set or we'll see them on other stuff in the future?
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mattfl posted:Tumbler is available for VIPs online! Or it would be if the site hadn't crashed. :/
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It was on sale already yesterday morning, although they had some kind of hiccup that kept it from going on sale at the planned time. I picked mine up at the store yesterday and just finished putting it together. It is crazy humongous. I don't know why they didn't do the manual for it the way they did for the sandcrawler. It's 5 regular instruction booklets with no additional info. Dogen fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Aug 19, 2014 |
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Spotted on flickr: PIMP my LEGO Classic mini with classic space mod! ! by dogens, on Flickr Pretty much owns. Not sure why the creator chose red hubcaps though, you can get those pieces in light grey.
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Aug 19, 2014 22:53
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That owns. Red hubs were pretty common in wheeled classic space vehicles.
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I remember being excited to get this as a kid because of the guns with shields that you could stick an antenna onto and use as a lance in motorcycle jousting 
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Oh duh I totally forgot about the red wheels. Still would have used light grey though. Busted rear end helmets, actually good for something now. 
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Mixels series 3 is on shelves. They've varied the body plans more this time around. You also get some pretty uncommon detail-piece colors in them, like purple and pearl silver 1x2 curved slopes. Also saw the 2014 City advent calendar which looks even more boring than usual. About the only interesting pieces are the 1x1 round tile cookies, the whole cooked turkey, which doesn't show up that often, and a black bowler hat (only available in 2 sets, one of which was a Lego employee-only set and the other the $99 Lone Ranger train).
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Benny needed a racecar: Benny's Racecar. Attempt #1 by mrxzzy, on Flickr  Benny's Racecar. Attempt #1 by mrxzzy, on Flickr Not quite what I envisioned going into it, but it was fun anyways and it's not super explodey either.. only the front bumper is a bit wobbly. The original idea was to make two long tubes with a seat in the middle, I just don't have the pieces/skills to pull it off quite yet. I'd probably do better just ripping off the front end of the Ecto-1 as this car is almost exactly the same size, but straight copying is lazy and I'd have to do a bricklink order to get the pieces in blue anyways.
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Pyroclastic posted:Mixels series 3 is on shelves. They've varied the body plans more this time around. You also get some pretty uncommon detail-piece colors in them, like purple and pearl silver 1x2 curved slopes. The cookie was available in one of the Friends set, and I think an early blind bag minifig had the black blower.
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xzzy posted:Benny needed a racecar 
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Bad news about the UCS Tumbler. The polybag Tumbler is just slightly too large to fit in the cabin 
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xzzy posted:Was in the area and hopped into the lego store, eyeballed the Tumbler for a few. No interest in owning it but holy jesus that thing is big. It depends on how the licensing for the mold itself is handled, but usually when you see a new mold in a licensed set (especially a really iconic mold), it means that the mold is now exclusive to that license and can't be used for anything else. I suppose they could make a simple exception, something like 'this mold can't appear in Marvel sets' but it's usually easier to just lock it into one theme/set to prevent any problems.
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xzzy posted:Benny needed a racecar:
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InfinEight posted:It depends on how the licensing for the mold itself is handled, but usually when you see a new mold in a licensed set (especially a really iconic mold), it means that the mold is now exclusive to that license and can't be used for anything else. Well the unimog tires first appeared in a licensed set, and now they are in the volvo frontloader and the tumbler as well.
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Thoroughly recommend the AT-AT! I haven't built a technic set since I was a kid and this was 80% pins, bars and clever joints with a system cladding over the top. The legs were a bit of a slog, but that was inevitable. It was a really fun build and looks awesome.
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Couldn't find my SNES so I just built a new one.
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A pretty neat 180 technique I spotted on flickr: 180 Degree Reversal by joeseidon, on Flickr If those new 1x1 studs ever show up on PAB I'm gonna go nuts, because they're a heap of fun to experiment with. I just don't have enough of them to really play around with building with them.
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When these went on 50% off clearance at my local Wal*Mart I grabbed three. I now have 36 of those 1x1 round plates with hole and I regret nothing.
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