― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mladenpejic/ Mladen, the god of LEGO mecha.
― fletrejet, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
sacrelige! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!!
...oh dear, i fear the obsessive-compulsive tendencies started young with this here one.
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― petra jane, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
My abiding memory of a family holiday to Belgium in 1979 was losing a piece of a space scooter; it was one of the 'special' pieces and I was never able to replace it, so the space scooter could never be finished again. It taught me the value of loss and it's role in the creation of desire, like any good Lacanian could tell you.
The lesson was reinforced when I lost one of the tiny cogs that made that car's differential gears work properly. I think my parents might have hoovered it up, as they had a bad carpet for lego, patterned as it was in such a way as to make small pieces invisible. Everyone I have spoken to who had that car lost one of those cogs. There should be a support group for us.
― Nathan Barley, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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Does Duplo still exist?
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Legos were the thing that united all of my toys as a child; thanks to legos, I managed to incorporate GI Joes, Transformers, hot wheels, Gobots, micromachines, etc, etc into one gigantic massive all-inclusive toystravaganza. My parents still have never forgiven me for that particular mess.
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― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link
My dad's Lego art.
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― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
but is there even any question about Lego being Classic? PLZ!!
― H (Heruy), Saturday, 21 August 2004 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.cca.org/dave/images/draper-dave.jpg
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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
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Sunday, 5 July 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
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 (£)
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 10:25 (three years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
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.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
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.
― djh, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 13:04 (three years ago) link
Here's a parts list that should work (unless there's more detail on the back side of the building not visible):16 1x1 plate8x 1x2 plate1x 1x3 plate6x 2x2 plate corner (part #2420)6x 2x4 plate6x 2x6 plate1x 4x10 plate7x 1x1 brick1x 1x1 brick w/headlight4x 1x1 brick w/1 knob4x 1x1 flat tile11x 1x2 flat tile44x 1x2 radiator grille5x 1x4 flat tile1x 1x6 flat tile2x 1x8 flat tile
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
that right hand side is a bit raggety, looks like there are floating bricks. this is what i have, the rest i'm going to have to guess.
http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/trellick.png
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
for the 2x2 square at the end on the right-hand side I did the following to avoid floating pieces:
top-down view of the 2x2 area, layers 1 to 3 from bottom to top:
layer 1: 1 = 1x2 grille piece, 2 = 1x1 plate, 3 = 1x1 brick with knob|1|2||1|3|layer 2: 1 = 2x2x1 plate corner (right-angle piece), 3 = already placed 1x1 brick with knob|1|1||1|3|layer 3: 1 = 1x2 grille piece, 2 = 1x1 plate, 3 = 1x1 brick with knob|1|2||1|3|
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
i just don't understand why he has runs of 5 edges all lined up like that. given that the gap is 5 plates high he could have a brick taking up 3 of those and then have a 2x6 all the way over.
maybe it's a pieces thing. i'm guessing this was done with the architectural lego box in mind and i don't know the the distribution in those boxes (although they were huge and expensive so you've think they'd run to more than five 2x6 plates)
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
(twelve)
https://brickset.com/sets/21050-1/Architecture-Studio
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
oh. the studs-on-sides collide with the nipples inside the vertical tiles, which complicates things a bit and might explain things - the brick is in the middle of the 5 plate gap with a tile 1x2 above and below it
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
yeah to place four of the stud-on-sides pieces to provide a good anchor for those two side-mounted flat pieces you need to stagger the vertical pattern a little
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
like this?
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VLXgDqKqRCw/XwTv4TvoVfI/AAAAAAAAA18/oV_a5fichkU_fa9lovJpK3iYPfRU6bp4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/2020-07-07.png
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
oh i forgot about the structure on the left, doh
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
lol i got too focused on how to avoid that floating grid piece
Ok so I forked out the £2, seems only one side has that vertical tile structure - which I didn't figure on at all. Makes things a lot easier.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
(although looking at the top, I really should have got that)
I shouldn't try lego before bed
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
Wow. I think this is the most engaged anyone has ever been with a question I've asked on ILE/ILM!
I also stumped up the £2 and ordered most of the pieces for around £9.50 - there were a few pieces that didn't appear on the Lego website but its a present for someone with a child who has Lego so I am hoping that they have some pieces they can improvise with.
Again, thanks.
― djh, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Cool, and somehow I got the price right even though I couldn't even build the flaming thing myself!
At least I know what I'll be attempting to build in Minecraft this weekend.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
you may think I'm getting too obsessed with this cool building, I'll only start worrying if I attempt to build the thing out of my mashed potatoes and garden fencing.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
here's how I did it:
http://fac123.net/pix/trellick_design.gif
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
Yep.
I used a 2x2 corner tile around the base of the laundry tower, rather than a 1x2 and a 1x1. Saved me about 10p. 8)
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
Where's good in the UK for buying Lego?
Wanted to buy this as a present but Lego aren't shipping to the UK at the moment, and it is double everywhere I have looked so far.
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/batman-40386
― djh, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
i'd offer to pop to westfield's lego shop for you and have a look (given it's about 10 minutes away) but i guess they're non-essential and closed.
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
Ha!
Yes, non-essential in the scheme of things.
― djh, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
🔊💩🔊 pic.twitter.com/OBrrzIezku— Louie Mantia, Jr. (@Mantia) October 16, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
Neat camera idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olgAcvamS80
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
very nice! not cheap I guess
― StanM, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link