Lego: C/D, S&D

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.

Just found this. Neat little 30 min docu on lego fans. Worth your time.

http://vimeo.com/9581676

AFOL: A Blocumentary

Passion combines with creativity in this documentary that features a selection of AFOLs (Adult Fans Of LEGO) from the Pacific NorthWest.

Directed by Jess Gibson

See, this is one of the things that I like, and that i've tried myself:

http://www.classic-town.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/programming.jpg

I like how you can recreate both the quotidian and the fantastic from day-to-day life into minifig scale

After looking around for a while, I finally have a classic blue space dude again. This time, with a couple upgrades.

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9654/blueclassicspace.jpg

Hooray for finally winning one of the Shopgoodwill.com auctions.

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs473.ash1/25931_333515791595_681036595_4166522_4852536_n.jpg

Last night's creation: a Lego sofa, seen being enjoyed here by Spiderman and Lieutenant Chumsley

beware: the natives have evolved:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Hippotam/Evolution-Revolution/01.jpg

http://mashable.com/2010/03/02/geeky-lego-creations/

10 Incredible Geeky LEGO Creations [PICS]

#7 Young Woz and Jobs Playset

PodBrix’s Apple-themed scene is set back in ‘72 and shows the two young Steves in minifig form – Steve J already dreaming of the iPhone and Woz, wrench in hand fiddling with a circuit board.

http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/woz.jpg

lol calender

100 (small) models in 100 days

http://digyourfins.wordpress.com/

part of the 100 days project that people are doing (today is day 97)

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/one-hundred-days-to-make-me-a-better-person/

germans are fucking weird, part 234:

http://gizmodo.com/5490536/girl-recognizes-lego-star-wars-minifigs-by-sucking-on-them

http://www.toysrus.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=3927121

Prince of Persia sets are available.

Also, the Daily/Sunday Mirror is having their free Lego promotion again, this time with Racers sets.

http://www.kimag.es/share/3782055.jpg

http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Leaf.aspx?cn=632&d=70

prince of persia sets finally available

which i already posted about. Of course. Hmm.

man, some awesome stuff. wish they had this out when i was still buying a lot of LEGO

so expensive though

http://www.flickr.com/photos/repoort/4521391058/sizes/o/in/pool-44124304756@N01/

someone flickred a spreadsheet he'd put together of recent sets along with their price per piece calculations. (am guessing us dollars given the bloke lives in sacremento). all the cheap sets have a low value, the best value being the $250 (sale price!) taj mahal model with its 5900 pieces (4c a piece, average seems to be about 12c)

http://minifigures.lego.com/en-US/Default.aspx

New site for the custom minifigs is live. The fun bit? They wrote bios for each dude:

http://cache.lego.com/upload/contentTemplating/MinifiguresBios/images/picD26539A58BF06D64DFCF57B1E26E051A.jpg http://cache.lego.com/upload/contentTemplating/MinifiguresBios/images/picEAB701EBF72D9F4D62D84E59EE1C079C.jpg http://cache.lego.com/upload/contentTemplating/MinifiguresBios/images/pic11F9C2AE0B5949358B817C2861E0EECD.jpg

Where in manhattan can I buy some Lego?

there's a big fao schwartz on 59th. this is probably the NYC equivalent of hamleys though.

and apparently there's a big Toys R Us in times square.

NYC has Targets, don't they? Hit up a Target, and you won't have to pay TRU's inflated prices.

and you might want to avoid times square...

I left my hire car there; anyone seen it?

We popped in FAO Schwarz yesterday lunchtime; surprisingly little Lego compared to the amount of massive $1000 cuddly polar bears. Saw a Falling Water Lego set in Barnes & Noble but $90 was a bit much.