Lego: C/D, S&D

Anyone watching the awful looking movie?

actually, yeah, and we quite enjoyed it

THE LEGO MOVIE

FYI: the Lego Marvel Superheroes game is $10 downloadable on Amazon right now. GET THIS.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FZ03PYS?pf_rd_p=1731075902

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They upped the price on minifigs; now $4 per, for this series at least.

the lego movie minifigs were £2.50, up from £2 (olympics were £2.50 also). i didn't bother with either. might pick up these though.

We never got the Olympics ones over here. The movie figs stayed the same price.

actually, thinking about it, they were Team GB minifigs.

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/8909_Team_GB_Minifigures

http://ideas.lego.com/projects/50814

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Duder, if you get the chance, pick up the new Lego Batman game.

I am on a big Lego tip at the moment.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13803131@N00/sets/72157651384781745/

The local Lego convention happened today, so I took the good camera and snapped photos

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oops:

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And for some reason, there was a dude there in a full Steadicam rig filming it all:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16826828842_1a07ebec34_b.jpg

Lol at M.A.S.K. vs Galactus

http://www.exquisitetweets.com/tweets?eids=SOlZp2L8I8.SOl4CsO6YC.SOmhNAiuES.SOmlJ2T2Gq.SOmpjeGn1w.SOmwta15gX.SOmB4207kO.SOmJPgkOFU.SOmOl1j08a.SOmW0jPTRA.SOm72fKFfE.SOncwNl2SP.SOnlkgH05k.SOntnuAhGw.SOqg0uZR8K.SOqkXGJtbU.SOqrXBJruS

make them only visible from one angle

I'm imagining people building stuff so that it appears like Jareth's face in Labyrinth.
http://labyrinthfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/labyrinth-jareth-stone-face-2.jpg

"WE GOT ONE!"

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Firehouse-Headquarters-75827

Bought myself the Lego Millennium Falcon over Xmas. It is perhaps the best thing I own. I have ordered some more specific parts from the Lego website to make it EVEN BETTER.

Coming in May:

http://www.bricktoynews.com/lego-disney-minifigures-series-1-figures-hi-res-photos/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CeuH_XhWAAAiHKt.jpg

Interesting design contrast with the human characters' eyes. Minifig black dots vs Disney large pupil.

I think maybe yoda/jarjar were the ones that started this, but custom moulded heads for minifigs feel like a big design failure to me. At that point you're just making generic little action figures, it's only the claw hands that make them look anything like lego, and so selling them as minifigs starts to feel like a con.

(Actually I guess it was probably fabuland's fault, way before lego star wars was a thing).

I wish Fabuland was still a thing, my daughter would love it

I loved Fabuland.

Me too! I loved Fabuland and then I loved the space sets and the knights and pirates and basically anything Lego and now I am one of those sad adults that still owns Lego.

So whenever people say that Lego Friends is bad because it's pink and girls like it, well... those Fabuland animals were a pretty great gateway drug, and who am I to deny the new generation that?

I've got such a strong tactile memory of the smoothness of the inside of the ear of my fabuland mouse.

I was one of the people who moaned about the introduction of Lego Friends because LEGO IS GENDER NEUTRAL ANYWAY GODDAMNIT but I read the other day that TLG say pre-friends, the lego customer base was 90% male, since friends it's switched to 70/30. So...shrug.

But my guess is that the different types of Lego have more a clearly defined gender split. Ninjago, Bionicals & Nexo Knights are clearly for boys and certainly my son and his pals all connect with the elements of those sets that are traditionally signifiers of boy toys - the weapons, baroque fighting details, booby traps, havoc-wreaking robot dragons and that kind of thing. Much more so than the old pirate sets, Lego City etc, which were essentially gender neutral.

Molded heads on minifigs work for me when the characters aren't humanoid

The minifig series from last autumn was great, it was all Halloween monsters:

http://triangularroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MinifigureSeries14.jpg

http://on.io9.com/BEicw9E

Lego Beatles, anyone?

My daughter has been watching LEGO Elves webisodes on loop while recovering from a bad cough. The merchandising is strong, but the theme song is really catchy.

Oh man, we went to the mall today and had a total meltdown in the Elves section of the Lego store. She wanted the $79 super dragon castle or whatever and that just wasn't on the itinerary. Negotiations went south pretty quickly. Next time if she's good it's hers, though, because it looks awesome tbf.

This is a pretty good article http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/lego-is-the-perfect-toy.html

but most importantly:

Lego argues that the instructions serve as a way to teach children how the toys work. “If we gave you a piano, there’d be very few people who could immediately play something that is, like, fantastic and creative,” said Lego press officer Rude Roar Trangbaek. “You need to learn the notes to play the piano.”

also my kid was totally crushing following the instructions in an ages 6-12 set all by herself this weekend. I'm out of yet another dad job! I'm basically here to help open bags and offer occasional course corrections.

I am excited about this upcoming city modular set, looks amazing:

https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Assembly-Square-10255

I swear, Lego is the only actual toy my kids will even play with anymore. Though I am intrigued by snap circuits.

Apparently 99c stores in the US are selling off tons of Lego Dimensions inventory, people are picking up complete year one collections etc. Kinda frustrating given that here in the UK you're doing well to find anything sub £7 but still, those of you who can should have a look. And if anyone feels like grabbing a load for me and shipping them over, even better!

oh god

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/the-lego-has-landed-new-set-allows-you-to-build-the-moon-rocket/

Works for me!

https://brickset.com/article/45035/collectable-minifigures-series-19-revealed!

https://www.the-modernist.org/shop/trellick-tower-lego-instructions-digital-download

How plausible/expensive do you reckon it would be to order the pieces for this?

white pieces (the most common brick color) should be pretty cheap and easy to obtain on the secondhand lego market. the instructions probably have an inventory which you could use to make an order on bricklink.

Thanks f.hazel.

also, your first stop should be Lego's pick a brick site, might be able to get everything you need from them directly:

https://www.lego.com/en-us/page/static/pick-a-brick

I can't see how they've done the hidden bit holding the vertical tile part but I calculated all the other bits I could see using pick-a-brick and got just under a tenner (£)

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=87087&name=Brick,%20Modified%201%20x%201%20with%20Stud%20on%201%20Side&category=%5BBrick,%20Modified%5D#T=C

one of these probably (or 4 given 2 ends of two long tiles).

i might try knocking this up in leocad.

good idea, might have to try that myself. Had a quick go at it in Brick Rigs but only issue with that is it removes all the sight of all the connecting edge gaps and for me that takes away the charm of builds.

Oh, thanks Ste. I was kind of being a tight-wad in not just downloading the instructions and calculating the cost ... but "about a tenner" sounds do-able.