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Does a minifig fit inside? It looks like it would, but it’s not mentioned in the features. I suppose it’s not the right scale anyway.
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What bricks do you all recommend for creating water? Maybe a white base with transparent blue plates?
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Feb 18, 2018 22:09
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Dang it, I just bought a Black Seas Barracuda. The 60 Years of the Brick promo set along with the Ship in a Bottle really had me in the mood to get one of the classic ships that my parents couldn't afford when I was a kid. A couple days ago, I found a used Legends reissue of the BSB at a local shop for a really good price. I traded in a few sets that I'm not displaying anymore and I guess I have a big cool pirate ship now! I definitely don't have room to display it right now, though. Hmm.
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Feb 18, 2018 23:30
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Dpulex posted:What bricks do you all recommend for creating water? Maybe a white base with transparent blue plates? Ninjago City uses transparent blue 1x2s with several different plates underneath. It's very effective at conveying different depths of water.
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Feb 19, 2018 00:28
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CommanderApaul posted:$120US, that's going on the shelf. 
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Feb 19, 2018 01:00
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Anyone here sell off a major part of their collection? I just don't have space for all my sets. I want to cut down but don't really want to sell most of them. Advice on paring down? I think I'd like to cut down...by half. Which I doubt I'd do, but it's a goal.
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Feb 19, 2018 02:38
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Waltzing Along posted:Anyone here sell off a major part of their collection? I just don't have space for all my sets. I want to cut down but don't really want to sell most of them. Aren’t you in the Bay Area, or am I imagining that? Craigslist is super effective at moving sets here. Also, you may go be them to my children if you want to.
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Feb 19, 2018 04:00
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I know how to sell them. I mean how to choose.
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Feb 19, 2018 05:05
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Waltzing Along posted:I know how to sell them. I mean how to choose. Post your collection and I’ll ask my kids which ones they want? Sell the sets that take up a larger floor area, and are harder to shuffle around? Honestly this is a tough question to answer without knowing what you have/how they are displayed. My family has a set amount of space for displaying built Lego things, and when we want to add something we break down into parts a thing of comparable size and it goes in the unsorted bin.
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Feb 19, 2018 05:23
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Are there any sets that you haven't touched in over a year? If you keep deciding not to sell a set just because "maybe I'll use it in the future" then you should probably get rid of it. Of course, if it holds significant sentimental value then that's something to consider, but I doubt all of your sets do.
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Feb 19, 2018 05:53
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Ever since my wife and I moved into our new house we haven't touched our Lego. It's been over a year. I know if we could manage to sell everything at used unboxed BL prices we'd get somewhere around 8-10K for it. I broached the subject to her once and she got super mad. EDIT: I think I might suggest offloading some of my Star Wars stuff at least, and maybe the mechs from that series that was like lego anime. EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Feb 19, 2018 |
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Feb 19, 2018 05:59
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Once you start moving it to sell it, you'll probably start to mess with it again.
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Feb 19, 2018 09:24
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Anora posted:Once you start moving it to sell it, you'll probably start to mess with it again. This happens everytime I drag out old consoles to test before selling. I end up cleaning them, and playing with them again and not wanting to sell any longer.
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Feb 19, 2018 11:09
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Waltzing Along posted:I know how to sell them. I mean how to choose. Sell everything with loving stickers.
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Feb 19, 2018 16:23
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I'm building the fishing store, it's pretty great. They should make all the others the guy has designed too, I'd buy all of them. I'd make a fishing village and then put the haunted house near but not right next to it, I'd be awesome. I also noticed that the newspaper you get in the set isn't actually the one that is printed in the instructions, which is vaguely worrying. Finally, it was interesting to read in the designer comments that while they didn't change the design much or at all, he still changed practically every single brick, to make everything fit together like it should. (Cross-linking the walls and the planks they're attached to and such.)
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Feb 19, 2018 17:09
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uXs posted:I also noticed that the newspaper you get in the set isn't actually the one that is printed in the instructions, which is vaguely worrying. I had that same feeling when I was building the Parisian Restaurant last week. The instructions have the fences shown as 30055, with two studs on top. The ones in the set are 15332, with four studs. I ended up popping the tiles off of every fence to make sure that I didn't misuse some fences in the wrong places.
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Feb 19, 2018 17:27
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Finished the fishing store. Great set, 2 minor points, both about the roof: I'm not a fan of how loose it is, and I think it has a bit too much crap on it. The walls are sufficiently varied to make them just look old and frequently repaired, but the roof looks like some giant swallowed the roofs of about 3 different smaller houses and vomited them all out again in one huge stinking mess.
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Feb 20, 2018 13:23
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My complaint was that at least some of the baseplate should have been covered with water.
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Feb 20, 2018 13:49
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smackfu posted:My complaint was that at least some of the baseplate should have been covered with water. Yeah, or use a blue baseplate. It seems like they could have added $5 worth of parts/changes and made the set a lot nicer.
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Feb 20, 2018 15:38
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Waltzing Along posted:Yeah, or use a blue baseplate. True, easy enough to modify. The Hot Dog Cart Polybag https://brickset.com/sets/30356-1/Hot-Dog-Stand Is available at target stores now. They are usually placed in weird locations. I found mine at State Street Chicago in the Easter Seasonal section. while others have found them at checkout lines and in the lego section itself (though near friends and not city). It's quite a good little set for 4 bucks.
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Feb 20, 2018 16:35
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Scipiotik posted:True, easy enough to modify. Ooh want.
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Feb 20, 2018 16:54
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I’m definitely going to look at doing the dock extension thing when I finally do my Fishing Store.
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Feb 20, 2018 17:04
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"Flawed" ideas sets are actually awesome because it's cool to see how people modify them to suit their tastes. I bet lego does it on purpose to stamp out the lord business in all of us.
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Feb 20, 2018 17:08
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xzzy posted:"Flawed" ideas sets are actually awesome because it's cool to see how people modify them to suit their tastes. God I am so very much The Man Upstairs as an adult. I was talking with some folks on Sunday night about how my office is covered in LEGO because my kids get handsy and stuff goes flying. "Yeah, I love LEGO as a sculptural medium and stick pretty closely to the instructions on the sets I buy because I'm not all that clever and I buy them because I appreciate the way that they look." I think the baby step for me is to reclaim display table real estate by putting my CMF minis into my burgeoning modular neighborhood. I'mma get that hot dog cart and he'll have his own suited up mascot (it'll be a banana obvs).
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Feb 20, 2018 17:40
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Wife had a friend over a few months ago, her kid snagged the penguin mobile I had sitting on a shelf and started rolling it around on the floor and one of the headlights popped off. She spent like five minutes trying to apologize and I was all "uh it's a toy, it's fine. even better it's a toy that designed to be disassembled. as long as nothing gets lost I can put it back together in a few seconds."
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Feb 20, 2018 17:44
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Being able to find instructions online is a godsend compared to having cats and a toddler brother in the house when I was ten. I had started saving books around then, so Spyrius and Aqua Zone were okay, but my Ice Planet and early Pirates sets were screwed. Now I can go “do I have the parts to build this set from 1985?” and Google provides.
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Feb 20, 2018 18:51
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All I have left of my instructions for my beta 1 command base is the front page, so I have a photo of the complete set and the minifigure assembly. 
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Feb 20, 2018 18:55
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The_Doctor posted:I’m definitely going to look at doing the dock extension thing when I finally do my Fishing Store. https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/70n3pj/21310_moc_so_i_added_a_second_baseplate_extended/
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Feb 20, 2018 19:09
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Scipiotik posted:True, easy enough to modify. 
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Feb 20, 2018 20:03
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Now you need the balloon cart from a few years ago. The street parents dread to take their kids down.
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Feb 20, 2018 20:05
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Can't wait for the Hot Dog Wars to commence between him and the Friends gang
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Feb 20, 2018 20:26
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That hot dog vendor is gonna be terrorized but my Slimer in front of GBHQ.
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Feb 20, 2018 20:39
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He's my mod of the Friends Hot Dog Van. 
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Feb 20, 2018 20:56
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Now add a health inspector shutting it down due to code violations!
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Feb 20, 2018 22:27
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Stopped by Targert on the way home from work and the guy was just unloading all of the new poly's from the boxes as I got to the toy area. Time to put together hot dog cart I guess.
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Feb 20, 2018 23:40
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So a friend of a friend has stumbled across an amazing find, her husband has a stack of new in box sets from 83. Electric Goods Train (7727) Passenger Carriage / Sleeper (7815) Post & Guardswagon (7819) Railway Station (7824) 3x Electrified Track (7854) Transformer / Controller (7864) They also have the firehouse from 85 (6385) also new in box. They're looking to sell, do y'all think it's worth trying to sell all the train gear as a single lot?
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Feb 21, 2018 11:48
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Man the nostalgia. I kinda want all of it but I'm pretty sure I'd be outbid by a lot of people.
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Feb 21, 2018 12:48
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Plinkey posted:Stopped by Targert on the way home from work and the guy was just unloading all of the new poly's from the boxes as I got to the toy area. Time to put together hot dog cart I guess. Was there anything beyond the hot dog cart? I’m still looking for the talon fighter.
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Lizard Combatant posted:So a friend of a friend has stumbled across an amazing find, her husband has a stack of new in box sets from 83. It depends on how much the $$$ matters to them. If every penny counts, then they will maximize profit by selling everything separately. If their time is worth more, they should just put the entire thing up on ebay as an auction and see what happens. Or they could spend 15 minutes looking at sold items on ebay and bricklink, coming up with an idea for what the lot is worth and putting it on ebay for 25% more than that figure with a best offer option and then take something a bit lower than the BIN.
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:Was there anything beyond the hot dog cart? I’m still looking for the talon fighter. Not that I noticed, what number is that set, I was doing some digging for a while but most of the poly bags that were out where batman stuff.
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