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[Lord Error]

No, don't start linking us to custom accessory makers. :copies link:

If there's one custom brick I'd consider Lego-kosher, that's it. I think it's more "Lego" in fact than Lego's own PF lights. It's basically a hollow brick with a curcuitboard and battery in there, and a 2x4 plate at the bottom to close it off (although you can just place it on any other plate, of course). You plug in four mini LEDs to it and the lights fade and cycle in a sequence. It's really thoughtfully and impressively made, the wires are thin enough to go through typical lego bricks openings etc. The Lighthouse I made has no visible wires anywhere, just the light at the top, and brick at the bottom where you control the light sequence. It's also really inexpensive considering that they give you a battery and those four LEDs with every brick.

 

[SebastianAlexander]

I didn't actually realise series 7 was out already! So when I saw the stand today I enlisted 2 mates who spent 10 minutes (with a lot of sighing and eye-rolling) helping me find this guy! First minifigure, now I want more, there's a few from series 6 I want but the shop I would get them from in Newcastle doesn't have 6, only 4 and 5 for some reason. The tip for this was I told my mates to feel for the cup, as soon as one of us felt that we knew we'd found it.

Apologies for the shitty camera quality:

AWESOME! i need him! he could be the perfect nerd-boyfriend to my olivia

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Seeing all of the Friends line pics makes me want to get some of them. I feel like a dirty old man thinking that. But the cool bricks that come with them, and that ballin' Olivia is making me want to get a few sets.

 

[nicoga3000]

Seeing all of the Friends line pics makes me want to get some of them. I feel like a dirty old man thinking that. But the cool bricks that come with them, and that ballin' Olivia is making me want to get a few sets.

The colors included are just too good to pass up!

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Also, what is a good set to get lots of 1x6 and 1x8 beams in mostly one color? The Builders of Tomorrow sets have tons of pieces in them, but not a ton of 1xwhatever bricks in them. I am wanting to stockpile a lot of those bricks to make a custom modular. Most of what I have is black or technic due to all the space sets I owned as a kid.

I don't have a Lego store nearby, so Pick a Brick is out (dammit), but might just do it from the Lego site. I have looked at some of the other Creator series houses that the local BN carries to use as a stock of those beams.

Do they sell a pack with just those types of pieces?

 

[mrklaw]

I think the brick buckets usually have a lot of 2x bricks more than 1x, so maybe not cost effective.

Creator houses (apple tree house, hillside house) will be good, as will other modulars.

TBH Bricklink is probably your best bet for bulk buying. You'll also be able to see the prices based on colour, so you can tweak the colour you're looking for if a particular one is too expensive

edit:

- Apple tree house ($45) has 21 1x6 white bricks, 9 1x6 light bley bricks, and 9 1x10 white bricks
- Hillside house ($70) has 4 1x6 dark bley, 3 1x6 light bley, 11 1x6 white, 27 1x8 white

both 6177 and 5508 deluxe brick buckets are fairly light on 1x bricks - they have 2-4 1x6 in each of a few colours.

as a comparison, the 1x8 white bricks are around 20c per piece on bricklink (from those stores that have a good quantity), and 1x6 are around 15c per piece.

Spending the $45 for the apple tree house would get you 300 1x6 white bricks, spending the $70 on the hillside house would get you 466 1x6 white bricks. (those sets would be fun to build though, and you'd get other bricks that might be useful for your own stuff)

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I think the brick buckets usually have a lot of 2x bricks more than 1x, so maybe not cost effective.

Creator houses (apple tree house, hillside house) will be good, as will other modulars.

TBH Bricklink is probably your best bet for bulk buying. You'll also be able to see the prices based on colour, so you can tweak the colour you're looking for if a particular one is too expensive

The brick boxes are more 2x bricks than anything. The Builders of Tomorrow set has a fair amount of 1x bricks and in many colors. But still a ton of 2x bricks. I might get one or two of those anyways.

Modulars are a good place to get them, but I want to keep those built.

I was just looking at bricklink, and to get the quantities I want or need would be rather hard. Getting new or better condition beams that size is just about the same price as custom ordering from Lego themselves. And many sellers only have 5 or 6 to sell. I am looking for like 50 or so of one brick. I know I can spread around where I buy from and add in other pieces, and I might. It just sounds easier to just make one massive order at Lego.

Or maybe one day when I do a day trip to NYC I can go nuts with Pick a Brick at the Lego store.

Thank you for the advice though.

 

[mrklaw]

The brick boxes are more 2x bricks than anything. The Builders of Tomorrow set has a fair amount of 1x bricks and in many colors. But still a ton of 2x bricks. I might get one or two of those anyways.

Modulars are a good place to get them, but I want to keep those built.

I was just looking at bricklink, and to get the quantities I want or need would be rather hard. Getting new or better condition beams that size is just about the same price as custom ordering from Lego themselves. And many sellers only have 5 or 6 to sell. I am looking for like 50 or so of one brick. I know I can spread around where I buy from and add in other pieces, and I might. It just sounds easier to just make one massive order at Lego.

Or maybe one day when I do a day trip to NYC I can go nuts with Pick a Brick at the Lego store.

Thank you for the advice though.

you can buy more modulars just for parts

and have you sorted bricklink by 'highest quantity'? Some of those guys have thousands of 1x bricks

 

[PhoncipleBone]

you can buy more modulars just for parts

and have you sorted bricklink by 'highest quantity'? Some of those guys have thousands of 1x bricks

Buying modulars just for parts makes too much sense. The price per brick ratio does go down a lot doing that.

And no, I have not done the by quantity sorting yet. Good idea. I have only poked at Bricklink a few times.

 

[Naka]

Alright. It took days to get this sucker together, but here is me putting together Fire Brigade and Town Hall simultaneously.

http://youtu.be/Bb_5AS5W-xU

The build quality was not as good this time. I feel the top floors did not come together as well as they did the first time, but that is probably due to me building them on top of the previous floor instead of separate like usual. It certainly added an extra layer of challenge to the build, especially the times the walls were touching.

Awesome video. I know we talked about it but which app did you end up going with? Did you get Frameographer or Timelapse Pro? Sorry my memory sucks lately!

 

[Naka]

Ok I have initiated stage one of my plan to spend as little as possible to get all the avengers. Today I ordered a big hulk, black widow and thor minifigs.

Then when the s@h deal for the little mini hulk is on I will order the captain America, wolverine chopper and loki cosmic cube
escape sets.

Only problem is if the ocd collector in me demands I need the different iron man suit.

Buying those 3 minifigs separately saves me buying the two biggest sets that I didn't like the look of apart from the minifigs and in monetary terms saves me at least $100 in sets and postage.

Where did you order them from and for how much? I'm assuming bricklink?

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Awesome video. I know we talked about it but which app did you end up going with? Did you get Frameographer or Timelapse Pro? Sorry my memory sucks lately!

Frameographer. When it gets really high into the frames it does seem to make my iPhone 4 chug though. But it is very simple to use and export.

 

[Naka]

Frameographer. When it gets really high into the frames it does seem to make my iPhone 4 chug though. But it is very simple to use and export.

I'm pleased with Timelapse Pro but from what I can tell I like the UI a little better on Frameographer. I just wasn't sure if I wanted to spend money on another app that does the same exact thing. I know its only a couple bucks, I'm just being cheap haha. Does Frameographer allow you to add music and select the FPS of the output video? What about control the interval of how often it takes pictures?

 

[Mengy]

Just returned from the Lego store to fill up a PAB cup. Today and tomorrow, Lego is having a sale where the large cup is only $7.99.

Yep, the gf and I are going tonight to our closest store to buy a $7.99 cup each. We actually have fun trying to pack as much as possible into those cups, then we get home and count our pieces out and see who did better, lol.

 

[nicoga3000]

I really can't stand the PAB wall at my local store. It's got poo for selection and it never seems to change.

 

[echoshifting]

Mine is the same; I always see pics of people with a cool variety in their cups and wonder where the heck they are shopping =/

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I'm pleased with Timelapse Pro but from what I can tell I like the UI a little better on Frameographer. I just wasn't sure if I wanted to spend money on another app that does the same exact thing. I know its only a couple bucks, I'm just being cheap haha. Does Frameographer allow you to add music and select the FPS of the output video? What about control the interval of how often it takes pictures?

Adding music I have no idea. I didnt plug around it enough to find that, but I dont think you can. You can adjust the frame interval on the projects, and even change it in the middle of it. During that entire modular video it was at 1 frame every 3 seconds, but at the end I changed it to 1 per second to get better speed as I rotated the building.

You can also select the FPS for output before exporting it. It lets you watch the video at any speed from 1fps (i think. Never went THAT low) up to 30fps with any number in between. From there you get either 60fps or 120fps for video output. All adjustable with a slider.

You can add the frames anywhere in the project as well. Middle, beginning, end; it doesn't matter. It is really stoopid easy to use, and the UI is very simple to follow.

 

[BGBW]

I really can't stand the PAB wall at my local store. It's got poo for selection and it never seems to change.

The one I went to the other day only had one piece that caught my eye and I certainly was going to buy a tubs worth of just that one piece.

 

[Lombaszko]

Hot off the machine!

Designer Steen Andersen.

 

[The Lamonster]

^ hnnnngggg

 

[Naka]

Adding music I have no idea. I didnt plug around it enough to find that, but I dont think you can. You can adjust the frame interval on the projects, and even change it in the middle of it. During that entire modular video it was at 1 frame every 3 seconds, but at the end I changed it to 1 per second to get better speed as I rotated the building.

You can also select the FPS for output before exporting it. It lets you watch the video at any speed from 1fps (i think. Never went THAT low) up to 30fps with any number in between. From there you get either 60fps or 120fps for video output. All adjustable with a slider.

You can add the frames anywhere in the project as well. Middle, beginning, end; it doesn't matter. It is really stoopid easy to use, and the UI is very simple to follow.

It sounds like the applications are both very similar. In TLP when you go to save the project as a movie it lets you choose a song from your music library to add as the soundtrack but you really dont get any control over it. I suppose it would probably better to do the sound part in a different application, it's just nice having everything all I one place. Thanks for all your feedback on it.

 

[anonymous_abc]

This Lego Thing is getting out of controll xD
My table is full and I have no place to properly display...
And there are still unbuilt models around.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

This Lego Thing is getting out of controll xD
My table is full and I have no place to properly display...
And there are still unbuilt models around.

Go to Lowe's or Home Depot and get some wall mounted shelves. Just get the braces and then a length of shelf that you want to go on top of it. Many braces can support up to 100 lbs, and you can put the things anywhere.

 

[Snkfanatic]

This Lego Thing is getting out of controll xD
My table is full and I have no place to properly display...
And there are still unbuilt models around.

I knew I had a new obsession when I went out shopping this weekend just to get some new shelves to display stuff on.

 

[Naka]

Go to Lowe's or Home Depot and get some wall mounted shelves. Just get the braces and then a length of shelf that you want to go on top of it. Many braces can support up to 100 lbs, and you can put the things anywhere.

Can you post some pictures of this setup? I bought a shelf at Target and it was such a piece of crap I couldn't even get it to mount on my wall properly. I decided to return it so I'm looking for other options.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Picked up Apple Tree house while at B&N this afternoon. Going to just use it for parts for now. Good amount of pieces for the price, and now I have no shortage of dark blue slope pieces. Seriously, it is obscene how many of those are in the set.

Might pick up another one just for more bricks to do MOCs.

Can you post some pictures of this setup? I bought a shelf at Target and it was such a piece of crap I couldn't even get it to mount on my wall properly. I decided to return it so I'm looking for other options.

I have not done it yet, but I will be soon. The one piece shelves at Target are rubbish, as are most things like it. The trick is to get a few of these things:


And then some shelves to mount on top of them. The good thing is that they are easily installed and you can get any size you want. When I get some I plan on getting a few to put through the middle as support.

 

[mrklaw]

Frameographer. When it gets really high into the frames it does seem to make my iPhone 4 chug though. But it is very simple to use and export.

Have you tried istopmotion motion? I like the idea that you can use an iPhone/iPod touch as a remote camera, and an iPad for controlling it.

Buying modulars just for parts makes too much sense. The price per brick ratio does go down a lot doing that.

And no, I have not done the by quantity sorting yet. Good idea. I have only poked at Bricklink a few times.

Do you mind saying what colour you're looking for?

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Have you tried istopmotion motion? I like the idea that you can use an iPhone/iPod touch as a remote camera, and an iPad for controlling it.

Hmm. A remote to control sounds really nice. How much is that app?

Do you mind saying what colour you're looking for?

Pretty much anything not black. I have tons of black, and I put together a quick MOC using black and it looks like ass. So I am going for gray or white.

 

[anonymous_abc]

Go to Lowe's or Home Depot and get some wall mounted shelves. Just get the braces and then a length of shelf that you want to go on top of it. Many braces can support up to 100 lbs, and you can put the things anywhere.

Yea I need to think of something, ... soon

 

[Naka]

Hmm. A remote to control sounds really nice. How much is that app?

I just looked it up cause I was curious.

http://boinx.com/istopmotion/ipad/

Kind of expensive. I'm trying to think of how or why I might want to use this over using TLP or Frameographer on a tripod automatically taking shots.

 

[Little Old Man]

God damn it, my Lego store had already moved onto series 7 minfigures. Wonder what they do with the masses of leftover series 6 stock?

Thankfully Ebay has sorted me out for the Leprachaun, the Bandit, the classic alien, and the female space marine, just postage as an extra. I'm going to go bag feeling in Tesco to get a couple of Roman Soldiers.

Can't wait to soon get the Grand Emporium!

 

[LazyLoki]

God damn it, my Lego store had already moved onto series 7 minfigures. Wonder what they do with the masses of leftover series 6 stock?

Last time they went on sale, at least at the shop near me. I hope they do again, I'm waiting for it to complete my series 6. Only 3 missing!

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Experimenting trying to get a nice corner doorway on a MOC. Had to look up the PDF instructions for Cafe Corner to see how they pulled it off. Relatively simple in theory, but trying to get it stable and looking good on my own is kind of tough.

 

[zou]

I couldn't resist, been a busy and expensive week.

Got green grocer on the way and thinking about adding a second GE at the end.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I couldn't resist, been a busy and expensive week.

Got green grocer on the way and thinking about adding a second GE at the end.

I would wait on another GE for the end. I have a feeling next year's model will be another corner.

Of course, you could just stack the GE floors and make a super GE.

 

[wetwired]

Where did you order them from and for how much? I'm assuming bricklink?

A bricklink store called house of logos. I paid
$24 for the hulk
$19 for black widow
$8 for
$20 for the iron man with the circle on his chest
it sounds like a lot but at local Australian prices the 2 sets they come in would have cost me $220 and even if I'd have ordered from overseas it would have cost $120 plus at least $50 for shopping. Too much when I was only interested in those minifigs.

The smaller sets it actually works out cheaper to buy them outright, plus I actually like the chopper and pickup vehicles.

 

[mrklaw]

I couldn't resist, been a busy and expensive week.

Got green grocer on the way and thinking about adding a second GE at the end.

Nah, get a cafe corner (buy or bricklink the parts), or wait and see if they bring out a corner restaurant next year

 

[Little Old Man]

Last time they went on sale, at least at the shop near me. I hope they do again, I'm waiting for it to complete my series 6. Only 3 missing!

Thing that bugged me is that the Lego website said May for the release of series 7. Guess I'm too used to accurate release dates of the gaming world.

 

[BGBW]

I know it's too early to call it a pattern, but there were three models in between the corners, so wouldn't the next model still be a front facing modular?

 

[Naka]

A bricklink store called house of logos. I paid
$24 for the hulk
$19 for black widow
$8 for
$20 for the iron man with the circle on his chest
it sounds like a lot but at local Australian prices the 2 sets they come in would have cost me $220 and even if I'd have ordered from overseas it would have cost $120 plus at least $50 for shopping. Too much when I was only interested in those minifigs.

The smaller sets it actually works out cheaper to buy them outright, plus I actually like the chopper and pickup vehicles.

Thanks for the info. I'm trying to decide if I want to get one of the bigger sets or not.

 

[Naka]

I loved this image at the back of the X-Men instruction book:

Yes, I LOVE the new Deadpool figure. I can tell I am going to have a lot of fun with it.

What did you use to add the thought bubbles? Please tell me it's an iPhone app

 

[PhoncipleBone]

What did you use to add the thought bubbles? Please tell me it's an iPhone app

Photoshop. Sorry. Probably going to have Deadpool spam every type of lego pic I take from now on. Well, the ones I stage at least. That is the beauty of that figure. Just put the head on nearly any other body and it works perfectly.

Also, when I was at Target they had a couple of series 6 figures left so I just grabbed them:

Already had the female Space Marine, but the other two are brand new for me.

 

[Naka]

Photoshop. Sorry. Probably going to have Deadpool spam every type of lego pic I take from now on. Well, the ones I stage at least. That is the beauty of that figure. Just put the head on nearly any other body and it works perfectly.

Also, when I was at Target they had a couple of series 6 figures left so I just grabbed them:

Already had the female Space Marine, but the other two are brand new for me.

No worries. I'm trying to find a decent iPhone app that lets you make comic book style pages now with multiple frames. I could have some fun with that.

 

[iamvin22]

my visit to lego land 2012. enjoy

this is new york with the freedom tower being built in the back. dope

let me know if you want me to add more lego-GAF

 

[wetwired]

Thanks for the info. I'm trying to decide if I want to get one of the bigger sets or not.

I was going to buy the big jet thing originally as I thought it looked pretty cool, I saw a review of it on eurobricks and it changed my mind, it looked a lot flimsier than I thought and has a fuckton of stickers

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I was going to buy the big jet thing originally as I thought it looked pretty cool, I saw a review of it on eurobricks and it changed my mind, it looked a lot flimsier than I thought and has a fuckton of stickers

Flimsy AND stickers? DO NOT WANT!

I might get the Cosmic Cube Escape though. The truck is pretty cool.

 

[Vyer]

Where is legoland?
Holy shit @ that NYC model.

More pics vin!

 

[isny]

Where is legoland?

Legoland (trademark in uppercase as LEGOLAND) is a chain of Lego-themed theme parks. They are not fully owned by Lego Group itself; rather they are owned and operated by the British theme park company Merlin Entertainment.

The chain currently consists of:

Legoland Billund (Billund, Denmark)
Legoland Windsor (Windsor, England, United Kingdom)
Legoland Deutschland (Günzburg, Germany)
Legoland California (Carlsbad, San Diego County, California, USA)
Legoland Florida (Winter Haven, Florida, USA)

 

[mickcenary]

^ hnnnngggg

'Hnnnngggg' indeed. It musn't be far off. The square box is tres cool.

 

[parrotbeak]

My Alien Conquest Earth Defense came in. I'd forgotten I'd ordered it. Box is frakking huge. Nice surprise this evening.