Pet shop is bottom tier for me, poor man's Green Grocer as far as I'm concerned
COME AT ME!
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Pet shop is bottom tier for me, poor man's Green Grocer as far as I'm concerned
COME AT ME!
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Parisian Restaurant is a beast.
Rodney McKay
Member
I've been getting the LEGO itch recently and have been looking at finally expanding my Mini-Modular set with the Modular building that have come out since that set.
Using the LEGO Digital Designer years ago, I designed my own Mini Pet Shop, Cinema, and Town Hall. The Pet Shop was based off of a photo I found of a Mini Pet Shop, but it has since had instructions put online (but I think I like mine better).
I built my own Mini Cinema from scratch back when it released, but looking back at my design it's pretty rough; one I found one online looks better in a lot of ways, so I'm planning on trying to merge my design with that one.
The Mini Town Hall I designed based off of an existed one someone had made online, but they didn't get the scale right compared to the other Mini Modular. I'm actually super happy with how mine came out and I posted it on Moc Pages.
I was planning on designing my own Mini Restaurant, Detective Office, and Bank, but there are actually some great ones other people have done online with instructions and piece lists. Some of them I'll want to tweak myself but I think I definitely want to buy the pieces and build them for myself.
Using the LEGO Digital Designer years ago, I designed my own Mini Pet Shop, Cinema, and Town Hall. The Pet Shop was based off of a photo I found of a Mini Pet Shop, but it has since had instructions put online (but I think I like mine better).
I built my own Mini Cinema from scratch back when it released, but looking back at my design it's pretty rough; one I found one online looks better in a lot of ways, so I'm planning on trying to merge my design with that one.
The Mini Town Hall I designed based off of an existed one someone had made online, but they didn't get the scale right compared to the other Mini Modular. I'm actually super happy with how mine came out and I posted it on Moc Pages.
I was planning on designing my own Mini Restaurant, Detective Office, and Bank, but there are actually some great ones other people have done online with instructions and piece lists. Some of them I'll want to tweak myself but I think I definitely want to buy the pieces and build them for myself.
hooijdonk17
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Does anyone have links to Instructions for decent Warhammer 40K MOCs?
hooijdonk17
Member
EDIT: Removed, posted in error
Winnie the Pimp
Member
Just....how? Can't even imagine the amount of pieces, money, time, frustration etc. that must have gone into this project.
Sometimes i wonder how so many people seem to have unlimited amounts of motivation, time, money and more in order to manage such giant projects while i am often struggling to put together a single set in less than a week or 2
Also: We REALLY need Mini Modulars vol. 2 now! Come on Lego! There's been enough new modulars now for that to happen!
hooijdonk17
Member
I'd really like a Midi Modulars line that would be more in scale with the City line in terms of size and detail..
hooijdonk17
Member
It would be an impulse buy for me if I had access to such a price. It's REALLY good. I love the Troop Transport as well but the Lambda class shuttle is so iconic, and the set is so much nicer, especially wrt the minifigs you get with it..
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!!
Pretty funny and well-made brickfilm about how TFA should have ended (TFA spoilers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=griLe2vwqe8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=griLe2vwqe8
I really like it, and I paid full price. I'd recommend making a stand for it so it can be displayed with the wings down, but that does increase the space needed to display it. I haven't got the UCS version, so this was the next best thing.
Uhu, the stand thing is what's keeping me from pulling the trigger for now, as landing mode doesn't look as good. Well, I'll get my paycheck tomorrow and will decide then, depending on how much I earned this month (a freelancers bane)
SiegfriedFM
Member
That's what the Creator line is for.
TalesFromHoth
Neo Member
It's one of my favorite Lego SW ships and it looks great! I also thought it was fun to build.
hooijdonk17
Member
I already buyall of them.. They are mostly dollhouse designs with open backs though, if you know what I mean
I already buyall of them.. They are mostly dollhouse designs with open backs though, if you know what I mean
Buy 2 of each and combine them to make them whole!
Well, just bought it
73 euros in stead of rrp 109Beenhaving my eye on it for far too long to pass up on it now
hooijdonk17
Member
Buy 2 of each and combine them to make them whole!
Whoa.. That's fucking fantastic. I feel so stupid now
To be fair that image uses a few extra bits as well, but the idea is there
There's a nice video of someone doing something similar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDONUUqlTuk
There's a nice video of someone doing something similar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDONUUqlTuk
hooijdonk17
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Just received a score of bootleg chinese stormtrooper and clone trooper minifigs I bought as an experiment in the mail and I'm amazed at how hard they are to tell apart from real LEGO minifigures..
Supa Necta
Banned
Do they have the Lego logo on neck stump, between leg pegs, and on bottom of feet?
hooijdonk17
Member
Nope, nothing on any of them.
Well, just sold my Tumbler and Helicarrier for $300 all together. They were gifts from an ex gf that I despise so its pure profit. I really didn't think LEGO was THAT popular in my area but I put the ad on craigslist at 7am this morning and by 8am I had seven people interested and no one tried to lower the price, which is crazy.
Yup.
Yup.
Jeez, they shouldn't try to lower it cause thats a steal. Tumbler is oop and already seeing it going for around the $300 range. That was basically half of 2 huge lego sets. Love stinks I guess.
Supa Necta
Banned
Am cry.
Would have paid more than that. You could have kept all minifigs and still got that price!
Brilliant! And is it me or does this look way better then previous lego games?
TheFuzz
Member
Yeah, you got hosed. That's an easy sell for double. You got so many bites because you basically gave them away.
I knew it was low, but it was priced to sell. I did not anticipate the level of willing buyers. Now that I know, I will price it better for other sets if I decide to sell them.
hooijdonk17
Member
What have you done GAF.. You ruined my chances of buying out the rest of his collection for dirt cheap
What have you done GAF.. You ruined my chances of buying out the rest of his collection for dirt cheap
Lol I don't think anyone could afford the whole collection.
toythatkills
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I sort of liked that they were a bit confusing, it made me concentrate a lot more. When I'm building Lego I quite often won't even bother finding all the pieces I need for each step before putting it together, just kind of wing it.
I knew almost immediately that that wasn't gonna fly with this, though, so I was a good little builder. Still messed up a few times though, all part of the fun! They were easy fixes, luckily.
BentBricks
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The greeble is strong in that one.
With all the retro space nostalgia from the exo-suit variants, I enjoyed seeing this MOC that cleverly put minifigs from different eras all together.
Space Academy - Lecture Room L15a by justin_m_winn, on Flickr
Wow. Must've been really bad to unload at that price. I'm sure you are familiar with Bricklink as you're an on and off regular in this thread. I use that site also for gauging selling prices. eBay tends to be priced all over the place and be hyper-inflated sometimes.
Now we're all curious. Put an estimate out there.
If not in $$$, then in pieces and minifigs. The greeble is strong in that one.
With all the retro space nostalgia from the exo-suit variants, I enjoyed seeing this MOC that cleverly put minifigs from different eras all together.
Space Academy - Lecture Room L15a by justin_m_winn, on Flickr
Oh that is awesome - I love Benny in the back.
Makes me wish for a Classic Space revival...
Wow. Must've been really bad to unload at that price. I'm sure you are familiar with Bricklink as you're an on and off regular in this thread. I use that site also for gauging selling prices. eBay tends to be priced all over the place and be hyper-inflated sometimes.
Now we're all curious. Put an estimate out there.
Honestly, I woke up this morning and just decided to sell those two. Im not needing money or anything. All the money is actually going to my next annual LEGO Day that I have with my two kids.
Estimate would def be in the tens of thousands to a real AFOL. I've been collecting since I was 5 (28 now). I've gone through my dark ages but I always came back and never got rid of any of mt sets.
Until now. And yeah, I'm aware of bricklink. Just never really gave it a shot. I might soon though.
WordAssassin
Member
God Blackton is so cool. I know I have at least one minifig somewhere from my Long Long Ago collection but I wish they'd make an update or something so I could get more. Though it's such a badass figure having only one makes him kind of a lone wolf and that much better.
Edit: I know they did Blacktron II but I think we can all agree that while being cool in their own way, those minifigs don't even come close to as cool as the originals.
Edit: I know they did Blacktron II but I think we can all agree that while being cool in their own way, those minifigs don't even come close to as cool as the originals.
MAY 4th promo is... Disappointing!
http://m.imgur.com/TkO8kQN?r
Wish I'd have known this yesterday so I could skip it and get the slave 1 on double VIP.
Edit: says you double VIP on all all Star Wars sets anyway.
http://m.imgur.com/TkO8kQN?r
Wish I'd have known this yesterday so I could skip it and get the slave 1 on double VIP.
Edit: says you double VIP on all all Star Wars sets anyway.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Blacktron 2 had a cool color scheme and the one big wheeled vehicle was a pretty cool one.
Though Blacktron 1 had the superior color scheme.
Though Blacktron 1 had the superior color scheme.
Wow, that is super weak. A stormtrooper, jeez. Well, no need to order anything extra.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
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... wow. I'm just, in total awe of how bad that SW May the 4th figure is.. wow. WOW.
It's almost insulting compared to past promos. Sigh.
It's almost identical to the vested stormtrooper from the recent Battle Pack only it has... wait for it... one extra pouch on the vest...
thanks, LEGO
It's almost insulting compared to past promos. Sigh.
It's almost identical to the vested stormtrooper from the recent Battle Pack only it has... wait for it... one extra pouch on the vest...
thanks, LEGO
Agreed. But at least there is also a free TFA poster, which I'm assuming (or hoping) will be in the same style as the 6 that came out last summer/fall. So for that, I'll still be placing an order beginning of May to complete that collection. But the free fig is definitely a disappointment this time.
Curious now as to what the early access set for that month is. The rumored Big Ben set finally?
It burns me, but, since I'm already committed to buying some of the May sets (there are a lot of good ones coming, thankfully), I'll be getting the May the 4th minifig regardless, lol.
Just imagining some of the awesome ideas they could go with though.. such an uninspired choice.
I can hear them in their meeting about this many months ago...
"Alright fellas, we need some ideas for the next May The 4th promo figure, anyone? Anyone?"
"All our brainpower is focused on Rogue One at the moment, can't we just slap an extra pouch on a stormtrooper and call it a day?"
"It's not exactly what I had in mind, but those Star Wars nerds will buy anything. Guess that'll work."
Just imagining some of the awesome ideas they could go with though.. such an uninspired choice.
I can hear them in their meeting about this many months ago...
"Alright fellas, we need some ideas for the next May The 4th promo figure, anyone? Anyone?"
"All our brainpower is focused on Rogue One at the moment, can't we just slap an extra pouch on a stormtrooper and call it a day?"
"It's not exactly what I had in mind, but those Star Wars nerds will buy anything. Guess that'll work."
Rodney McKay
Member
Yeah it looks a lot better.
LEGO seems to use the Star Wars games as the graphical leaps with their games (they probably sell the most if I had to guess).
LEGO Star Wars was the first game, and then LEGO Star Wars 3 was the first one that bumped up the graphics for last gen, and now this gen seems to be getting its graphical bump with the Force Awakens.
I'm so close to pulling the trigger on Fairground Mixer. I've always been interested in it, but with it retiring soon, I'm really itching to pick it up.
Somebody tell me how amazing it is.
I'm kind of craving a build at least similar to that with a good amount of technic mechanisms happening in it. Any other recommendations like that or is the Mixer what I'm looking for?
Somebody tell me how amazing it is.
I'm kind of craving a build at least similar to that with a good amount of technic mechanisms happening in it. Any other recommendations like that or is the Mixer what I'm looking for?
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