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Hey cool! Didn’t realize the forums had a lego thread until I went hunting for a laser cutting thread in DIY. I just got back into Legos for the first time in 20 years after seeing the Saturn V set at an Apollo exhibition a few months ago, and fell down the rabbithole after getting my childhood collection from my parents. Now I’ve got enough new sets built I’m trying to figure out the best way to display everything and add trains... wish Lego would re-release the monorail or one of the third party brick makers would make a set.The_Doctor posted:Oh man, the water stage of Ninjago city. You’re probably done, but I had good luck placing the lillies first and filling in between them so I didn’t have to look at the instructions for everything. The pattern makes sense when you have a few markers to go off. Otherwise, I love having Kowloon walled city, it very much embodies everything I think lego to be! Now I just need to figure out how to add LEDs... what do you guys do? Thinking of adding a small arduino board and neopixels to cycle colors and stuff, but I’m probably better off not adding another project to my list and just getting something out of the box...
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:They're not sets exactly, but there's a company called 4D Brix that does 3D printed monorail, including a whole bunch of parts that Lego never made. I'm not sure they're much cheaper than just buying actual Lego monorail second-hand though. Interesting! The tracks look great and very well thought out, but it’s too bad they’re 3d printed and not molded.... I may try seeing if I can find models to print them myself if that’s the case. Might even try elevating train track as well, that might be the way to go, or make a subway with some bricks and custom plywood tables. I just wanna cram as much into a small space as I can and train tracks just have such a stupid large curve radius. The_Doctor posted:The water stage, yes. So many more to go!
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^^ I’ve never heard of LUGs before and google shows that there’s one stupid close to me... you guys rock, I’m going to check out their next meeting!1000 Brown M and Ms posted:To be fair, good molds for plastic cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (especially for parts as big as monorail track, hence why Lego doesn't make them anymore) so I can understand doing 3D printing for niche stuff.  Whelp, that’s a permanent addition to my bricklink cart till the next pay cycle
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veni veni veni posted:Since you guys keep bringing up train track, if anyone is interested in a fuckton of 9v train track lmk because I'm going to sell a big lot of it. I think it was over 100 segments when I counted. Bunch of straight track and a controller as well as 2 junctions. Keep talking... what we’re you thinking price wise? Potentially interested since I have one of the older train sets and am interested in eventually extending that.
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kefkafloyd posted:You could make a pretty good wreck-it ralph out of that fig. You didn’t get the Wreck it Ralph New York edition? 
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rickiep00h posted:Speaking of sadism, everyone go vote for the Untitled Goose Game Ideas set, because good meme game needs a good meme set. Already did! COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Vote for anything/everything that is NOT a diorama for a tv show or film franchise, imo. Those are pure laziness (except the Planet Express which the designer clearly put thought and effort into) Planet express too—that’s just begging for legoification. Ultimate Mango posted:Comedy option: Lepin Imma out myself as a dirty lepin liker... the bricks are actually pretty decent, like better than megablocks ever were, and especially for MOCs where I can buy the instructions directly from the designer (like the modern library) or retired lego sets with stupid secondary market gouging, my conscious doesn’t hurt too bad. My purchases over the last few months have been about fifty fifty, so I figure a rising tide lifts all ships, especially if it’s not in direct competition with anyone 
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Jan 22, 2020 22:33
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Scipiotik posted:For those of you who might care, Lego is running a poll to choose the next UCS Star Wars set. Don't let the prequel fanboys get their way! Hell yeah! Just cast my vote for that sweet clone gunship. I know star wars sets basically saved lego, but the things I wouldn’t give for something different, like a UCS Battlestar Galactica or Firefly set or something. Or maybe those are all culturally irrelevant now and I’m trapped in the abyss of my youth
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Blue Moonlight posted:At least for Firefly, LEGO has previously said it was a no go due to (IIRC) space prostitution, but they released a wildly popular set depicting a show that once made a blowjob joke out of a water fountain at a dentist’s office, so I think they should get off their soapbox a bit. That’s a real bummer. I’ll just have to look out for or build a MOC one of these days then. Forgetting ships for a second, I have to say this is my favorite ideas set I’ve come across: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/874084e7-3ecb-410f-a18b-e7451ae5f2a8 Would love to see some more landscape and park stuff!
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xzzy posted:Use this as a template, should be easy! Holy hell, 135 pounds of bricks... I can’t even begin to fathom what that cost on Bricklink, considering I just spent almost 70 just to make a stupid tiny computer desk for work, and even that was a shitshow as Bricklink didn’t tell me half the bricks from my wish list weren’t being computed and included in the easy buy My absolute favorite thing is the dinosaur toy in the cockpit with Wash 
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:Toe dipped into chinese ripoff technic sets: Technic can be a bit hit and miss depending on the maker... for instance Decool is far closer to OEM than Lepin is persay. I had no idea how cool technic stuff was until recently though, with the working linkages. Steering, clutch, and pistons just utterly blowing my mind every time I build a set. This guys videos are one of my favorite things and convinced me to buy the xerion tractor recently: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj57iL7bes8 Speaking of knockoff bricks though, there is a MOC tie bomber that looks pretty good for sale, though no idea on the store or if it’s inventory. That plus 18$ for the instructions is a good deal imo Koramei posted:I think there’s enough people that grew up watching the prequels that are old enough to throw money around for UCSs these days really, attack of the clones was nearly 20 years ago now. Confirmed, millennial who grew up with OT and prequels who loves both. My favorite thing though is comparing the UCS slave 1 with the one I had as a kid:  Looks like N64 vs modern consoles lol
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Vintersorg posted:Prequel designs are redeemed due to the amazing Clone Wars series (new episodes coming next month!). Whaaaaaa I only just started watching them, and even though it’s aimed at a younger audience, it is directed by Lucas and it’s great background content to build legos to. Plus the clone wars/old republic stuff are my favorite star wars storylines since KOTOR and Shadows of the Empire. Disney’s death star 5.0, 5.1 death star on a planet, 5.3 death star on a star destroyer boogaloo just doesn’t have any appeal for me. That being said I can’t wait for a Razorcrest set 
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Chris Knight posted:What we've got here is a failure to Force Communicate. 
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CommanderApaul posted:Still pissed I got out of LEGO after the original UCS TIE and X-Wing (both now sold off) and didn't get back in until the Saturn V and missed the loving BWing. It's my favorite ship and the original 7180 is the only SW ship I still have assembled and didn't give to my son. It’s out of stock now due to the Chinese New Year (and potentially Coronavirus), but the bootlego UCS B-Wing was only like 70$ at yourwobb recently I feel the same pain though, I only just got back into Legos a few months ago after seeing the Saturn V at an Apollo 11 exhibit, and I come to find out that all these amazing modular and UCS sets have not only been released, they’ve also been retired
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IG-88 posted:Oh for fucks sake. I bought my son a robot off of Amazon that’s made from knock off LEGO. It’s kinda cool, rechargeable battery and it zooms around really quick. The good news is that Mould King uses Gobricks, which are the most identical to oem lego quality of the clone brick manufacturers. If Lepin is traditionally considered 95-98%, Mould King is closer to 99% relatively speaking. It’s much better than having megablocks mixed in... I’m still going through my childhood collection and trying to separate out all those poo poo bricks.
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:I am really wanting a Slave I Ultimate ship to display on my desk. I am mulling over trying out my first Lepin, purchased from the Lepin site. I'd assume i'm ok to try this? How long does shipping usually take? I would advise not buying from there. There is no official Lepin store, and indeed no more Lepin. The remnants are branded King/Queen. What you’re looking at likely doesn’t have accurate inventory listed, and expensive shipping. Here’s a good article for reference. Yourwobb.com is my favorite place to buy third party bricks from. They ship fast (everything arrives at my door in ~10-11 days), they take paypal, and Loy has been great at finding random sets for me. I bought the slave one from there, and it’s a great kit, highly recommend. The miscolored bricks you see in the pics have been fixed in the newer batches:  Chinese Lunar New Year ends here in a few days, so things should get back to normal after that. There may be a delay till then, or you might see things listed as out of stock till production spins back up. Also NOS Lepin is listed as “Loose Bricks” on yourwobb. Enjoy the kit, it’s a fun build! Butterfly Valley posted:The imperial shuttle talk is upsetting me, it's right at the top of my list of sets I want but wasn't into Lego enough at the time Join the dark side 
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veni veni veni posted:Yeah I’ve noticed that if a City set has a really bad price to part ratio there’s usually a reason like big, specialized parts or tons of mini figures loving city sets screwing over the working man, leaving us with no other choice 
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veni veni veni posted:That sucks. Really would have been into a UCS Tie Bomber. Well I guess that saves me at least 200 dollars. I guess people that like those bad movies finally have a real UCS set to buy, so good for them. Prequels do have some of the best ship designs though.
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Oxyclean posted:"wtf 17.99$? That's insanely cheap"
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Carbohydrates posted:Granted, this is only one side of the story, but it seems pretty cut and dry. Sad to see from LEGO, a company I tend to associate with pretty honest business practices. Yeah, this is pretty lovely... I had no idea there was this level of design in this space! I just assumed people were tacking on some surface mount LEDs soldered to 26awg, not that someone had developed and thought through standards and hubs for . Hopefully this produces some peer pressure to get Lego to do the right thing. I was thinking about hooking up an arduino and running my own wiring, maybe pop in some color changing individually addressable neopixels and network buildings together on down the line or something. Could even 3d print some custom bricks for housing these pieces, or lego may eventually make some kind of conduit or hub bricks... we’ll see.
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Still waiting on another bricklink order for the hinges to finish connecting the roof, but I recently cobbled together the Modern Library MOC from Brickative! Some more pics over here
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Built some desk swag with some custom printed tiles from minfigs.me: kali.lego
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The_Doctor posted:Keyboard’s upside down. Lmao, I don’t know how I missed that... good catch!
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EvilJoven posted:That desk is cool but even with the spoiler idk where its from It’s just computer software and tools used for pentesting. Kali is the linux distribution on the screens with wireshark and a few other applications. Just more desk swag 
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Jamie Faith posted:Does anyone know of some good plastic shelving units with sorting drawers for lego? The big sterilite drawers suck for organization, and akro mills drawers are too specific for me right now. I’ve been looking at the Papimax drawers, but they’re backordered for awhile and pretty pricey. In the meantime I bought about 80 clear rubbermaid shoe bins for ~36$ on sale to begin a rough organization of my bricks before deciding on anything more granular. I’ve started sorting each bin into stuff like: Sloped Plates Minifigs Minifig accessories Clear & chrome Large building pieces like doors, log walls, castle blocks Smooth tiles Snot bricks 3+ by 3+ Plates 2 by X plates 1 by X plates Brick depth plates 1 by X bricks 2 X bricks Specialty pieces Printed or stickered pieces Technic (will subsort that probably by akro mills organizer drawers soon) Round pieces Road plates and base plates in a larger bin Etc From there I can subsort based on quantity. Here’s a good link for sorting methods: https://brickarchitect.com/guide/bricks/
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:One thing that’s changed how I look at creating anything custom with LEGO is how many more new pieces have come out since I played with it as a kid. With SNOT techniques you can pretty much build anything now. Any shape you want to create, there’s a piece for it now when once there wasn’t. I would say look at some new sets just to see what advances have been made since the LEGO of youth, and you’ll get some good insight on the new building techniques that are possible. Any piece you could think of now exists and in almost any colour. It’s amazing. My favorite example is the early 2000’s statue of liberty vs the recent re-release:   Voxel art vs snot techniques with a technic superstructure
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Groetgaffel posted:I made a table lamp. This owns! I love it... how’d you do the lighting? On an unrelated topic... does anyone know what kind of breaks or pre-planning they’re getting with the Lego Masters show? Just started watching it and feeling super bad that I can’t even complete a Modular in the time they build an entire loving store centerpiece display
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Carbohydrates posted:Here, I don't know if you'll get any value out of this, but here's some WIP shots from parts of my process. Much better than my last attempt to digitally design a lego car:  For real though, those vehicles are amazing! Exactly the right lego scale to integrate into a city and be fun to build. 10/10 would buy instructions if that’s something up your alley. One of these days I’d love to MOC a parking garage and fill it up with cool vehicle builds
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Carbohydrates posted:Thank you so much! I've been known to do instructions. Oh hell yeah, thanks for the link! Went ahead and bought the tiny house instructions because that might just be the best set I have seen in a long time   Now the only question is whether I should use this as a catalyst to sort ~150 pounds of lego or just bricklink the whole thing...
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Carbohydrates posted:Well, your odds of finding the necessary pieces in your pile seem slim, unless you have multiple copies of the 2018 Statue of Liberty in there - it calls for 70 of those sand green double cheese slopes. It also calls for x5 panel 1 x 2 x 1 in reddish brown, which are rare and expensive, but I bet it'd look just fine with the stairs in a different earthy color like dark brown or medium nougat. For sure will have to bricklink quite a bit since my bulk collection is pre early 2000s and doesn’t have much in the way of tiles, cheese wedges, and that amazing sand green color. Shame that sand green is so rare, that might be one of my favorite colors Lego has ever done. Buying a second statue of liberty just for parts would be stupid, right?...
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PowerBeard posted:I'm kind of pissed that the preview for next weeks episode showed way too much... But the latest episode made for good background noise while I sorted out my own Lego boxes. That’s a really good idea, I tried building with it in the background but I just get too wrapped up and don’t get much done
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PowerBeard posted:On the plus side, a Client of ours wants his lego house model and I've made the manual up and packaged the bricks. Sorry if this is a stupid newbie question, but do you bespoke lego? Because I totally didn’t know that was a thing and if so it’s super rad
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hosed-Up Little Dog posted:
Sometimes technic axles can be a bear to pull apart and redo a section you built backwards. I’ve had to resort to soft jawed pliers before  And cool! I’m glad you’re liking yourwobb! I’ve spent north of 3k there in the last few months alone. It’s a slippery slope of hmm, I’ll give this out-of-print set a shot, to these bricks are actually pretty great, to gently caress now I’ve got ALL of the modulars and then some, all the SW sets I ever wanted and more, a scale launchpad for the Saturn rocket, ghostbusters hq, trains and tracks for miles, hogwarts, the bigass roller coaster just came in, and a build backlog stretching into perpetuity. These things are taking over my house, bootlego is a dangerous addiction
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tomapot posted:In the last bulk batch I bought there were some Aquazone parts including that orange transparent shark canopy, and a couple of minifigs. If anyone wants the canopy I’m not attached to it and I’m selling the minifigs. They are listed here PM’ed By the way, speaking of bulk minifigs to fill out a city, anyone have any recommendations? I just bought most of the series 19 on fleabay, and I keep adding ones to my bricklink orders, but I’d love to just get an assorted pile of normalish figs.
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Ineptitude posted:I think this is the single most insane MOC i have seen. I clicked through on mobile and thought the camera was an actual product ad, lol I had to open it up in a full browser and stare closely before I realized otherwise
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tuo posted:I want all the Zelda LEGOs. I'd brush the dust off every day, maybe even two times a day (while all my other Lego piles up in dust). I'd play it Zelda soundtracks so it knows it is home, where it belongs. I'd put a bottle of milk next to it, and maybe even buy a small horse and an ocarina. I might even learn to play the ocarina. Zelda legos? They’re a thing. I’ve got the Kopf figs and they’re surprisingly better than expected
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Davros1 posted:Was not expecting this I’m shocked Nintendo just didn’t release their own bricks: https://customizeminifiguresintelligence.wordpress.com/2020/03/13/nintendo-was-once-a-lego-clone-brick-maker-50-years-ago/ Catatron Prime fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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Carbohydrates posted:1970 AMC Rebel "The Machine" That is rad... I’m loving this whole series of vehicles you’re putting together. Once I get a place to city up my modulars, MOC’ing a parking garage and filling it vehicles is gonna be fun. Would designing an El Camino be anywhere on your radar?
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Carbohydrates posted:Well friends, That sucks man, hopefully this all blows over soon. It’s not much, but I picked up a few of your other instructions and I’d love to chip in a few bucks for that awesome El Camino. Bummed I’m still waiting on a handful of bricks from the UK to start building the tiny house, I really can’t tell you how geeked I am by that set!
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