series 10 of the minifigs are out btw.
― koogs, Friday, 3 May 2013 06:55 (eleven years ago) link
is this the thread where we anticipate the lego movie y/n
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnY2NjSjrg
― nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
Sure, why not.
I like the deliberate stop-motion look to the animation.
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
Free mini kits in the fucking Daily Mail every day this week starting today. If you can bring yourself to do that.
― JimD, Saturday, 29 June 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
That actually doesn't look too bad. I'm surprised.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 29 June 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
lego ent!
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8543/8683938080_8c1e73ae0b_n.jpg
part of enormo tower of orthanc set
http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/The-Tower-of-Orthanc-10237
― koogs, Friday, 5 July 2013 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/The-DeLorean-time-machine-21103
http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/lego-delorean-jul13-m.jpg
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Thursday, 1 August 2013 06:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://architecture.lego.com/en-us/architecture-studio/architectural-studio-product-info/
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://marvelsuperheroes.lego.com/en-us/videogame/default.aspx
Demo for the new Lego Marvel Superheroes game is out.
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vkt8l
Culture Show: Lego - The Building Block of Architecture
The Lego Movie (released 14 February) is the latest big-budget incarnation of one of the world's most popular toys. Yet Lego is more than a global brand. Tom Dyckhoff explores its fascinating relationship with architecture, and argues that it has changed the way we think about buildings.
(tonight at 22:00 bbc2)
― koogs, Monday, 10 February 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
They're coming out with an Arctic line. Now you too can re-enact John Carpenter's The Thing only with minifigs.
https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1798362_10151906095196596_308755562_n.jpg
Lego huskies and polar bear look cool, tho.
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Saturday, 15 February 2014 10:02 (ten years ago) link
That prog was ok, apart from Alain de whatever talking about how most toys are about destruction. No they are not.
Anyone watching the awful looking movie?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 15 February 2014 10:13 (ten years ago) link
most toys are about abstraction
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Saturday, 15 February 2014 10:17 (ten years ago) link
actually, yeah, and we quite enjoyed it
THE LEGO MOVIE
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Saturday, 15 February 2014 10:23 (ten years ago) link
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
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Saturday, 15 February 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--kdkmcSJQ--/t_ku-xlarge2/xufxnl5k4hlemi9fenio.jpg
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
They upped the price on minifigs; now $4 per, for this series at least.
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
We never got the Olympics ones over here. The movie figs stayed the same price.
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
actually, thinking about it, they were Team GB minifigs.
http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/8909_Team_GB_Minifigures
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
http://ideas.lego.com/projects/50814
https://dp1eoqdp1qht7.cloudfront.net/community/migrated/47b/826/437646/image
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Thursday, 29 May 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10702030_10152685556093069_3869330207700998298_n.jpg?oh=d7aee80f686fe88232454b56a1b22844&oe=548D512E&__gda__=1422771139_5ad0c9427584057b367b73fcb7ef784b
― goth colouring book (anagram), Friday, 12 September 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
http://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3875/15002143780_30d39bf857_b.jpg
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Friday, 3 October 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
Duder, if you get the chance, pick up the new Lego Batman game.
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
I am on a big Lego tip at the moment.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13803131@N00/sets/72157651384781745/
The local Lego convention happened today, so I took the good camera and snapped photos
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Monday, 16 March 2015 04:19 (nine years ago) link
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8655/16640472108_ffbecded87_s.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8752/16620729297_0199af900e_s.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8600/16208115623_c97d2c3294_s.jpg
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Monday, 16 March 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link
oops:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8655/16640472108_ffbecded87_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8752/16620729297_0199af900e_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8600/16208115623_c97d2c3294_b.jpg
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Monday, 16 March 2015 04:25 (nine years ago) link
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
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 06:49 (nine years ago) link
Lol at M.A.S.K. vs Galactus
― toucan orca ink (how's life), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
http://www.exquisitetweets.com/tweets?eids=SOlZp2L8I8.SOl4CsO6YC.SOmhNAiuES.SOmlJ2T2Gq.SOmpjeGn1w.SOmwta15gX.SOmB4207kO.SOmJPgkOFU.SOmOl1j08a.SOmW0jPTRA.SOm72fKFfE.SOncwNl2SP.SOnlkgH05k.SOntnuAhGw.SOqg0uZR8K.SOqkXGJtbU.SOqrXBJruS
― got bent (mild cheezed off vibes) (s.clover), Sunday, 21 June 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
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
― passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Sunday, 21 June 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
"WE GOT ONE!"
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Firehouse-Headquarters-75827
― koogs, Thursday, 12 November 2015 11:37 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 11:52 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
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.
― JimD, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 09:48 (eight years ago) link
(Actually I guess it was probably fabuland's fault, way before lego star wars was a thing).
― JimD, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 09:50 (eight years ago) link
I wish Fabuland was still a thing, my daughter would love it
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 March 2016 01:43 (eight years ago) link
I loved Fabuland.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 31 March 2016 08:59 (eight years ago) link
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?
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 31 March 2016 12:54 (eight years ago) link
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.
― JimD, Thursday, 31 March 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link
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.
― everything, Thursday, 31 March 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
Molded heads on minifigs work for me when the characters aren't humanoid
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Thursday, 31 March 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
The minifig series from last autumn was great, it was all Halloween monsters:
http://triangularroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MinifigureSeries14.jpg
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 31 March 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
http://on.io9.com/BEicw9E
Lego Beatles, anyone?
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 October 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 23 October 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
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.”
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 02:44 (seven years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 03:10 (seven years ago) link
I am excited about this upcoming city modular set, looks amazing:
https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Assembly-Square-10255
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link