Jesus Christ: http://www.flickr.com/photos/40182896@N00/sets/72157607412386119/
― kingfish, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:02 (fourteen years ago) link
lego starwars and steampunk, together at last
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28192677@N06/sets/72157605933386036/
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Scored a huge storage tub on wednesday from some lady offa CL, filled about 1/2 full with lego and half with other toys. There's like 20lbs of stuff in here, all for $35. I'm _still_ sorting thru it.
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Sunday, 7 February 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Remember those little $2 minifigs that they're coming out with this summer?
They're already previewing round 2:
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=38485
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Monday, 8 February 2010 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
previews of other stuff this year:
http://krisabel.ctv.ca/post/A-Preview-Of-LEGOs-New-Sets-For-2010-From-Board-Games-To-Prince-Of-Persia.aspx
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Monday, 8 February 2010 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link
ha some of those duplo cars look great!
no great new technic releases it seems, and they're still persisting with that horrible fake mechanical pneumatic system.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Monday, 8 February 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://universe.lego.com/en-us/beta/Default.aspx
Beta sign-up for the Lego Universe MMO is open. This could be entertaining.
Also:
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs126.snc3/17376_296518096595_681036595_4041377_7291736_n.jpg
Another busy week, and Farmer John begins his Monday by mowing the keyboard. "It's gotten pretty thick lately," he thinks. He's thirsty now, perhaps he'll get an iced tea on his next pass.
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
in today's insane collection news, local dude is selling his 30-year collection for http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/tag/1593649940.html5,000
Check the pictures, at least. He doesn't mention if the cat shown comes in the deal or not.
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Odd formatting, that
Signed up for the beta so I hope I get in. This looks perfect for my first MMO experience.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess this needs some pretty decent graf card, which counts me out. let us know how you get on
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I never get in on these things, but if I somehow do I'll share.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm signed up even tho my current gaming pc is offline.
Also, for those who wish Lego got more rural:
http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/7684-1.jpg
pigs!
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Thursday, 11 February 2010 07:49 (fourteen years ago) link
finally, better photos:
http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/8089-1.jpg
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Thursday, 11 February 2010 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure what this is
http://legoclick.com/
Some sorta Lego Twitter client?
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Friday, 12 February 2010 08:48 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef70O0a3Yyo
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Friday, 12 February 2010 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i installed the all the virtual lego tools the other night and got it raytracing output, which looks great. haven't rendered anything interesting yet, just the usual demos. the main linux designer thing, leocad, is a usability nightmare though. and i had to read the source to find out that i'll save in different formats depending on which extension you give the output filename - it defaults to adding .lcd, its own binary format, and doesn't mention the other choices at all.
― koogs, Friday, 12 February 2010 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4347304920_67f4cd989d_m.jpg
― koogs, Friday, 12 February 2010 09:58 (fourteen years ago) link
So after grousing that new Lego kits don't contain very many universally useful bricks for making other stuff with, I see there's already a range of kits seemingly aimed at just that concern, the Creator series. Mostly trucks and helicopters and such from what I've seen, so not super flashy - I'd have been pleased with them as a kid, but I'd have preferred a space kit. They don't seem too expensive in the scheme of Lego pricing given that you get more bricks, though.
Be interested to see if they sell, or if my idea of what Lego should be like is totally removed from what the kids want. I suspect the latter, to be honest.
― boing boom love tshak (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 12 February 2010 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link
> but I'd have preferred a space kit.
i had one, and this was in the 70s so it was all chunky bricks and those quarter circular ones for the main rocket. will see if i can find it...
um, this looks right, but there's a lot about it that i don't remember (the astronauts, the lumpy baseplate)
― koogs, Friday, 12 February 2010 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/920_2
(helps if i paste the link...)
― koogs, Friday, 12 February 2010 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link
It's more like "what do stores want to put on their shelves?" - a trad Lego set nets less profit for the store than a Star Wars set in the same sized box.
― might seem normal (snoball), Friday, 12 February 2010 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
(xpost) That's definitely a 70's set. I didn't have one of those, but it was in the big diorama picture on the back of the instructions for another set, so I was able to piece together something similar. I don't think that the quarter circle pieces were used for a rocket until much later - by which time I'd grown out of Lego.
― might seem normal (snoball), Friday, 12 February 2010 11:26 (fourteen years ago) link
it was this one from '73 and did use the quarter circle (or HALF_PI) bricks. it's a 'building' and not 'space' apparently, i was looking in the wrong section.
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/358
those bright yellow circular 1x1s were so shocking at the time 8)
― koogs, Friday, 12 February 2010 12:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Dammit. I'm supposed to get two used sets offa guy on CL but he hasn't contacted me back since Tuesday.
I do have his number, however...
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Friday, 12 February 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Clicking around thru some of the Harry Potter sets, I found out that they included a minifig for Jon Pertwee in the 'Chamber of Secrets' set:
http://www.bricklink.com/ml/hp029.jpg
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Saturday, 13 February 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://toyfair2010.figures.com/showgallery.php/cat/534
Lego 2010 stuff from Toy Fair. Lotsa new stuff, including all the new Harry Potter sets coming out
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Monday, 15 February 2010 07:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh wow thanks koogs for finding that (I tried looking around myself once, but couldn't find it) -- I really loved the 358! :-D
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 15 February 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I've actually forgotten all about the vehicle and the antennas, to little me it was all about 1) the white/black pattern of the rocket quarter-circles; 2) the red/white pole on the house with LAMP on top; and of course 3) memorizing where the first level of blue bricks should be on the base for the thing to match up properly...
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 15 February 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
The TV style antennas later appeared on this bad boy - possibly their last use?http://guide.lugnet.com/set/493_1I remember that they weren't made out of the same solid plastic as the other aerials. They didn't have as much grip and kept falling off, so I removed them. In fact they were so bendy that after a couple of years knocking around inside the Lego box they were really mashed out of shape.And that big dish may look cool, but can you move it without part of it falling off? No.
― might seem normal (snoball), Monday, 15 February 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
those ariels look very much like standard (english) tv aerials and i think i had a bunch in house sets. but that may've been before '78.
have been playing with leocad recently, getting to grips with the brick library. nice to see where the panel with the picture of an astronaut comes from. and that the build instructions are available.
second attempt at building something. couldn't line up the wings or the canopy (but the file format is ascii-based and simple enough so i'll see if i can fix it up in post). it also needed two pieces not in the parts library.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/4354873690_3d5673523b_m.jpg
― koogs, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Not my photo, but I saw some of the new Toy Story Lego earlier and it looked awesome.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2535/3748189903_0e2f52cb94.jpg
You can get the remote control car from the film and it really works.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 15 February 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
They're coming out with a revamped Slave 1, but it'll will have 4 minifigs and probably be around a hunnerd bucks.
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Monday, 15 February 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3nN09yczY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7P7GfKFw90
― StanM, Monday, 15 February 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaRcWB3jwMo
― StanM, Monday, 15 February 2010 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
that last run for the cubestormer is a bit bogus, you can tell just by looking at the initial state that it's only a few moves from completion so it's no wonder that it only takes 4 seconds. it also looks inefficient, with lots of re-orientations of the entire cube. actual mechanics are impressive though.
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Full-length Lego commercial is coming out next week on DVD.
Has some awesome designed bits in it, tho. I really like this sausage stand:
http://www.legoclutchpowers.com/images/gallery/img6.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sLZP7h9gs0
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mullsports/zombies/rescene2.jpg
(renders i did on ldraw some many years ago)
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mullsports/zombies/rescene3.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mullsports/zombies/rescene6.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mullsports/robotwars/arena.jpg
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mullsports/zombies/rescene7.jpg
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
HA. awesome.
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 07:45 (fourteen years ago) link
am kinda shocked at the low polygon count in the heads of those minifigs. other round items look fine so why the flat shading on the heads?
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not sure, think it might have been an old model part i used. it was a really old version of ldraw that was really un user friendly and a lot of models were broken
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
someone just posted a pic of the space set, and a couple of others of the same vintage, in the lego flickr grouphttp://www.flickr.com/photos/22193256@N04/4369140612
― koogs, Friday, 19 February 2010 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, i had that helicopter. and that shell garage. the 70s were so boxy.
― koogs, Friday, 19 February 2010 10:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6coPa.jpg
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, apparently the Daily Mirror is setting up another free Lego kit giveaway, so maybe we need to set up some sorta exchange program with those of us in NA...
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL at that strip
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
glad to see that PBF has inspired good comics
― abanana, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29844928@N07/sets/72157623336807855/
(I know the mention of "steampunk" in the description will make ILXors itchy, but hey, I thought these were pretty neat)
― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I keep forgetting there are blogs covering other flavors of Lego:
http://www.classic-town.net/?p=5535
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2735/4373620486_532702378d.jpg
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link