Lego: C/D, S&D

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Odd formatting, that

Signed up for the beta so I hope I get in. This looks perfect for my first MMO experience.

i guess this needs some pretty decent graf card, which counts me out. let us know how you get on

I never get in on these things, but if I somehow do I'll share.

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!

finally, better photos:

http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/8089-1.jpg

not sure what this is

http://legoclick.com/

Some sorta Lego Twitter client?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef70O0a3Yyo

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.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4347304920_67f4cd989d_m.jpg

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.

> 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)

http://guide.lugnet.com/set/920_2

(helps if i paste the link...)

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.

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.

(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.

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)

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...

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

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

Oh wow thanks koogs for finding that (I tried looking around myself once, but couldn't find it) -- I really loved the 358! :-D

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...

The TV style antennas later appeared on this bad boy - possibly their last use?
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/493_1
I 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.

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

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.

They're coming out with a revamped Slave 1, but it'll will have 4 minifigs and probably be around a hunnerd bucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3nN09yczY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7P7GfKFw90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaRcWB3jwMo

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.

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

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

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mullsports/zombies/rescene7.jpg

HA. awesome.

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?

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

someone just posted a pic of the space set, and a couple of others of the same vintage, in the lego flickr group
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22193256@N04/4369140612

oh, i had that helicopter. and that shell garage. the 70s were so boxy.

http://i.imgur.com/6coPa.jpg

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...

LOL at that strip

glad to see that PBF has inspired good comics

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)

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

oh i like that

Brickston! 8)

have been hacking leocad to, amongst other things, fix the colours and make the text boxes big enough for the text. there are whole chunks of functionality missing in the linux version. (apparently it works ok under wine)

have been having trouble with missing pieces - things that are available to leocad but not available to ldview. i keep getting holes when rendering pieces. think it's sorted but still can't find the 6 spoked wheels that, say 6743 uses.