/lg/ Lego General: Tech Infection Edition

>>6512813
2018 themes:
Nexo Knights-EU exclusive
Elves-EU exclusive
DC Super Hero Girls-US esclusive
Ninjago SoG
Friends
The Lego Batman Movie
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom(5 normal sets,3 Juniors sets and 2 Duplo sets)
Juniors The Incredibles II(3 sets)
City-winter:mountain police,great vehicles and miners.
City-summer:arctic and trains.
Harry Potter sets and CMF-august/september 2018
Fantastic Beasts sets-september 2018
Marvel-6 IW sets and 2 BP sets
DC Super Heroes
Star Wars(4 TLJ sets in january and 5 Han Solo sets in April).
Duplo
Brickheadz
Speed Champions(it could be EU exclusive too).
60th anniversary sets(1 brick box and 4 normal sets-town,space,castle,pirates)
Technic
Creator

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Has anybody had luck selling MOC instructions/LDD files? I looked at eBay and Bricklink's MOC Shop, but I was wondering if anybody had any advice.

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>>6512801
Did they made her as a fig?

Need some pal for my BDSM Baron crime Lavaria. (That i totally not copied from a guy from here)

>>6512826
you'll have better luck if you sell it with the pieces

>>6512829
Yes whiparella was made, but the sets she's in are retired

>>6512829
Yeah, she was in the TRU exclusive black knight mech set last year. It apparently shelfwarms here and there up to this day.

>>6512831
Yeah, that's what I feared. I guess I was trying to make a quick buck without actually having to do anything. Thanks!

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>>6512834
>the TRU exclusive
I never saw any exclusive set, even if there is TRU in my country... Even for things like SW's Black series figure, they keep the unsold Finn's and constable Zuvio's one and they'll not take newer until everyting is gone.

>>6512832
At one point you could get the complete figure minus hair through Bricks & Pieces. Most of the parts are out of stock now, but you might be able to order them if you call it in.

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>>6512820
>Nexo Knights-EU exclusive
>Elves-EU exclusive
>DC Super Hero Girls-US esclusive
We don't know these are regional exclusives, just that their set to appear in their respective regions first.

>>6512829
>Did they made her as a fig?
>>6512832
>Yes whiparella was made, but the sets she's in are retired
>>6512834
>Yeah, she was in the TRU exclusive black knight mech set last year. It apparently shelfwarms here and there up to this day.
I went and just bought her from Bricklink to resist buying the whole Black Knight set...

>>6512841
BK mech is shit, though, only good things about it are Whiperella and, if you like bonkle, the exclusive visor. No point in getting it when there's King's Mech or even the battlesuits.

>>6512813
Sir Von Lego confirmed on EB that Harry Potter will be an whole wave.

>>6512841
What I heard was that the Nexo sets are actually in the European catalog, and set for a January '18 release date. Then there's the fact that given LEGO's established release scheme that a delayed American release would mean a whole year between wave releases.
Could they be coming to America? Sure, but I'm preparing myself for a Nexo-free 2018.

>>6512832
Just checked on BL, she's in there, could live without her set.

She'll be on my "Really want it" list with Salacious Crumb and Luna Lovegood. That kind of fig that i want but i never thought about them when i'm taking a BL order.

>>6512834
Funfact: the reason the black knight mech sucks compared to the king's mech is because execs meddled with the release schedule.
The BKM was designed first by Mark Stafford based on the original concept art and Junya Suzuki then modified it into the King's Mech which had much better articulation and was supposed to come out in the summer wave.
Stafford even apologized for it on Brickset.

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>>6512813
We'll never get him :(

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>>6512846
>Then there's the fact that given LEGO's established release scheme that a delayed American release would mean a whole year between wave releases.
It's not like that's actually a bad thing considering how cluttered the Lego shelves are these days, for the longest time we had Nexo Summer '16 sets deeply clearance to make room for Winter '17.

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>>6512846
The american catalog which was leaked only covers the first half of the year so NK and Elves might still be released in USA in july or later.

This being said, since Ultra Agents has a final wave which was USA exclusive, it's not unlikely the NK and Elves sets are indeed euro only, especially since both themes will likely end this year.

>>6512848
Suzuki might be one of the best designers Lego has now, he's behind the battlesuits too. There was a lot of various prototypes at his panel on Japan Brickshow earlier this year.

>>6512853
>that awful streaking in those gold shoulder pieces
jeez

>>6512853
>The american catalog which was leaked only covers the first half of the year so NK and Elves might still be released in USA in july or later.

Which I fully grant is possible, but like I said, a year between waves seems excessive and out of character.

They really should have turned that recolored King's Mech into a real set.

>>6512866
There were some themes with waves separated by a whole year instead of 4-6 months, but it's been a while since the last time they did it - Agents and Mars Mission were the last case, and the latter only because in some european countries one small wave was skipped.

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>>6512853
>This being said, since Ultra Agents has a final wave which was USA exclusive, it's not unlikely the NK and Elves sets are indeed euro only, especially since both themes will likely end this year.
I somewhat doubt this, if only because a Euro release still requires an English Language version of tie-in material to be produced, so it's not like those can't also be sold in North America.

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>>6512852
that image, first thought
>now this is podracing
also, cavalry hoarder reporting in

>>6512899
that reminds me that i need horses. where are the fucking horses in modern sets?

>>6512928
There was a horse in a 10$ from the lego movie, I think less horses is the price we pay for a lot of new animal molds in city and cmf. Also, friends horses might be at fault too.

>>6512928
i see a few from time to time on city sets when i browse, and even the castle sets that i see have maybe 1-2 at most. 2bh i haven't browsed online in awhile, so most of what i've seen has just been in walmart or whatever. i picked up quite a few of mine up on ebay some years back, but them shits have really gone up in price.

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>>6512928
>where are the fucking horses in modern sets?

Also what this anon said >>6512939
The new System horse mold is perpetually rearing, which I don't like as much as classic four-hooves-on-the-baseplate horsies even if it is more dynamic of a pose.

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>>6512928
>where are the fucking horses in modern sets?
We've got Mecha Horses now!

Will we ever see the skeleton horse mold again?

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>>6512944
>The new System horse mold is perpetually rearing, which I don't like as much as classic four-hooves-on-the-baseplate horsies even if it is more dynamic of a pose.
100% this. I'm not a fan of this or the trend creating big molded pieces that are designed for a specific set. I wish they'd do a limited re-release of some of the classic sets like they did in the early 2000s. I got 6074, 6067, and pic related for like $110 combined.

>>6512945
But I want classic horses. Fuck off with this sci-fi fantasy bullshit

>>6512958
>the trend creating big molded pieces that are designed for a specific set

This is by no means a new trend, do you remember Fabuland?

>>6512959
The strict separation of sci-fi, horror and fantasy is a relatively recent, synthetic concept :^)

>>6512959
Check ebay. Been browsing a little today and one guy has a lot of 9 for buy it now $27, but no saddles included (reeeee). Otherwise, a lot of people seem to be charging around $4+ per horse. Shit sucks.

>>6512813
how do you find nexo content in lego worlds? on what kind of terrain/biome?

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>>6512960
Yes, but for my purposes I don't really consider duplo and the little kid shit to be LEGO. I'm thinking about sets like pic related. Nowadays it seems like the majority of vehicle sets have a giant nose/windshield piece that used to require 5+ pieces.

>>6512969
>Nowadays
Since 90s.

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>>6512969
The whole boat is a single piece, 1987.

There were sets with pieces that only serve one purpose for basically as long as minifigs, with time we forget the shittier old toys and only remember the good ones, often additionally idealizing them through nostalgia. There are problems with modern Lego, like heavy reliance of shit licenses which usually only lead to crap sets (TLBM was the only capeshit line with decent sets for example, imo), but this is not something new, and also hardly a problem, kids are meant to start with the simpliest stuff and gradually move to more complex builds - planes and ships with a few huge pieces like that are a middle ground, basically.

>>6512813
#JusticeforJang

>>6512962
Or bricklink for much less
Never buy lego on ebay unless it's less than bricklink. It's just filled with scampers preying on the uninformed

>>6512969
Creator sets almost never use large molded pieces, city sets are just plain shittier and are meant to be more like action figures and toy vehicles than building sets
Also jack stone and around 2000 lego was much much worse. The new sets are vast improvements across the board in building techniques and design

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>bricklink invoice
>paypal 63.75 burgerbucks to this address
>okay sent

>get refund
>NO why you only send me 12,935 pyбльs instead of 12,936

>>6512976
>TLBM was the only capeshit line with decent sets for example

Because they weren't tied to any existing designs and could just go wild.

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>>6512976
meh, this seemed different to me. stuff like pic related that i got as a kid never bugged me. it made sense because the solid hull made it float. i'm probably just blinded by nostalgia and my fondness for the old stuff. i 100% agree about the license issue though. seems like all i ever see in stores is star wars, capeshit, creator, and rehashes of the same city shit.

Don't get me wrong, I know City is and will always be a staple. But I miss the old days of castle, pirate/armada/islanders, adventurers, and western. Even the stuff I didn't buy very often like exploriens and aquanauts just seemed so much cooler than what's introduced today. Meh. Nostalgia is a bitch.

>>6512976
>>6513013
>bunch of ugly cars
>decent sets

fuck off

>>6512820
>Nexo Knights-EU exclusive
JUST

>>6513023
Compared to the shit from Justice League and the new Thor, they're decent

>>6513038
Except the Arena set is one of the few good capeshit sets to be made in a while

i am thinking about buying a friends set just for the hair. how do they look on regular heads?

also: post waifigs

>>6513040
>a wall with random colors
Literally only worth it for the figs

The Spider-man bridge set from a year or two ago was nice, though.

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all these years later and I still want to get the 6211 Star Destroyer. the rerelease 75055 was fucking awful and knowing it will be years before another one I might fork up the $300-400. thoughts?

>>6513044
>not buying two to make an actual arena, complete with areas for spectators to watch, weapon racks and prisoner cells

vehicles are garbage.

>>6513046
>the rerelease 75055 was fucking awful
lel

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>>6513018
Anyway, enough of my incessant bitching about current set quality.

I'm >thisguy >>6512899 from the previous thread. I cannibalized a few parts from other customs last night and managed to get enough black pieces to cobble together another tower. Also, converted an old castle series boat into a dragon catapult.

Additional structures are going to be a bitch at this point. I have a fair amount of city doors/windows and colored pieces, but I'm pretty fucked on black and gray bricks.

>>6513048
You can dislike vehicles and also dislike shit builds
It's a shitty build

>>6513048
Two copies of a shitty set will still be shit, just build your own arena, blue pieces are cheap

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>>6513042
Decent.

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>>6513042
I think it depends on the hair, this one works pretty well for example.
But some of the longer ones might not work as well.

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>tfw you don't have a creative bone in your body and can't create mocs so you retroactively despise them

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>>6513042

>>6513042
Most of them look pretty good, especially the ponytail that usually comes in dark red and the standard blonde hairpiece.

Elves hair looks good too but the ears make the amount of heads that you can use with them without this detail looking weird much smaller.

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>>6513042
Almost 100% compatible, but the longer ones restrict what kind of stuff you can have attached to the torso.

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>>6513050

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>>6513042
>also: post waifigs

>>6513058
There's no shame in just modifying sets or mashing two together to make a better one
It's mainly practice

>>6512851
>dark souls minifigs when

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>>6513058
no problem anon, you can always roast this dog's breakfast of an MOC i've been dicking around with for the past two hours

>>6513143
>bifrost.jpg
>more like fagfrost.jpg amirite

But seriously I am digging the bold colors, gives me a Jack Kirby feel.

>>6513143
This is great though

>>6512854
Marbling isn't streaking.

>>6513077
>"It's smaller so it's worse"
The new interior is better. The new proportions are better. And the new minifigs are better. Also, the price is better as of now.

>>6513143
Brett cool actually, just needs better colors for the bridge itself
A lot of transparent colors would be cool

>>6512854
Gay

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>>6513156
can't claim that i was attempting to copy kirby; was trying to ape the thor: ragnarok trailers by going for bolder colours (which may itself be inspired by kirby, i dunno)

>>6513162
thanks anon

>>6513195
yeah...again, i was copying the movie bifrost which doesn't even have railings, so i was just kind of doing my own thing and was sick of building in grey

decided to add a bit more greebling or whatever. tell me if the lions are overkill, i've had those fucking pieces sitting around from god knows where for ages

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So... I've finally managed to finish this modular I've been working on. Kind of. I never had an official modular before and made it from parts I had on hands, so it's far from perfect and there is planty of fillers/placehoders and things to be improved.

>>6513218
really nice detailing on the outside anon, got a very industrial look. any interiors?

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>>6513225
Thanks, I was aiming for somethink cyperpunk/sci-fi-like, but for now it's a bit far from that.
>any interiors?
What really needs to be finised mostly about interior, as it's pretty empty, especially second floor. The kitchen turned out well, I think, just needs to be filled with some kitchenware. But I haven't touched it for like a month. Anon with his stackable mini-skyscraper thing, and the one with his expanion of ninjago city inspired me to post this, as well as gave some nice ideas. Gonna continue working on it soon.

>>6513218
Nice use of the discolored white tiles.

What's with the texture of the slanted front roof section? Looks really good, and I don't recognize those parts.

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>>6513238
It's made from Technic, but I can't get rid of those nasty gaps on the walls because of that. But it works for now, and won't be noticable with other modulars standing by.
The third floor is the most filled for now, just needs some drawer or something.
>>6513232
>and those typos, yeah

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Went on a building spree this weekend and knocked out a bunch of sets I'd been sitting on. Love the deep-sea theme sets! I want to complete it, eventually.

Still gotta get around to the Town Square set (60097) and I also picked up Rex's AT-TE for 60 bucks the other day at Target, which I'll probably tackle first as I'm really eager to add it to the Star Wars shelf. Love Clone Wars vehicles, but trying to limit myself to Imperial era sets, so the AT-TE was a perfect compromise, haha.

>>6513197
>>6513218
>>6513232
These are both so cool, anons. I can't do anything without instructions!

>>6513245
this is dope, really unique concept and well-executed. never thought of using technic connectors as roof texture before

>>6513250
you can do it senpai, start with something small like an 8x8 room or something. copy concepts that you like from official builds and steal liberally from other people posting their shit here. i believe in you

>>6513245
Ohh I see it now. Nice idea, even with the gaps.

Also great piano and computer station thing.

>>6512826
>>6512835
I know Andrew (https://www.flickr.com/photos/51476462@N03/) sells some of his instructions.

The thing about selling whole kits is that you have to become a store, and spend time buying parts and assembling kits. But instructions is a purely digital business, so your costs don't linearly scale with your sales.

Also, I would question the assumption that by selling kits with pieces you would make more money. Instructions are FAR cheaper, and can even be an impulse buy, whereas if someone is spending 50+ dollars on a full kit, they're going to think about the purchase.

>>6513197
I meant color for the rainbow part of the bridge, so it's actually a rainbow

>>6512844
Fuck that is sick news, i really hope that we will get some sets from the first few movies redisigned, there is a lot of potential for castle builders, and maybe hogwarts express for train fags. I hope that we will get redisigned cerberus dog, nagini, basilisk, troll, hypogriff and so on because those designs should be updated. The theme has got great potential but we will see the final outcome. Lego hp was released during my dark ages and i regret bitterly not owning a single hp set, especially the old ones have great minifigures and charm to them. I just hope we wont get some shit 800$ ucs sculptureshit which only few people can justify spending that much money on.

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>>6513264
oh i see what you mean. well i was going for something more subtle (if that even makes sense when looking at this build), like in the movies. i don't think i have enough tiles of the right colours to make full rainbow streaks anyway

but yeah trans tiles would be awesome...but i don't have any, at least not in a whole bunch of colours

>>6513046
I have the 6211. Sits nicely atop my shelf of lego starwars stuff. but i have to agree with >>6513190, the new one may be smaller but the interior and proportions are much nicer. 6211 is still a really nice set, but I'd err on the side of money and design

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And, strangely, the only pic with minifig. Strangely, because I have roughly 300 minifigs now, and they need some place to be, not just standing in rows with some mechs around, and that's why I started the whole thing.
>>6513250
Just choose the set you like the most and make some changes in it, then again and again. Dismatle some other, if you need parts.
>>6513257
I honestly was trying to steal this piano (http://www.moc-pages.com/moc.php/241202), but didn't have all necesarry parts in white, so I ended up with my own design (on the inside at least).

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opinion: lego needs to make a new rts game, preferably without much licensed stuff, just sticking to themes like in pic related

>>6513342
lego should make a moba

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made this at my parents' house at xmas and was surprised to see 6 months later that my nephew hadn't destroyed it, so i took photos

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back door opens and a bloke comes out in a little brum brum

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top view

the cockpit at the front lifts open and it has a steering wheel that moves the front wheels

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Added some bulk and some more details. Still waiting for some parts to come in.

Bonus copilot doggo.

>>6513421
Nice steering controls! Was that original?

>>6513427
it looks like a bucket handle so yeah probs original

>>6513427
The set had the handlebars already, yeah. I just added a black lever.

>>6513421
back fin things look ugly desu

>>6513442
That was the change I was least sure about. I need another way to make the backend less "boxy".

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>>6513259
>$50
Or $500000000 if you're BrickMania. But thanks for your input!

>>6513386
All hail mtron

>>6513446
it's okay to be boxy. don't let the memers on here trick you

Any of you watching that Lego Masters show on Channel 4?

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So I threw this together the other night to try out an idea I had. Nowhere near done by any means, but I'd like some input/ideas on it so far.

>>6513389
>little brum brum

this made me laugh and I'm not sure why

Nice build. Bonus points for the double cannon on the right side.

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>>6513342
>opinion: lego needs to make a new rts game, preferably without much licensed stuff
>>6513367
>lego should make a moba
It should be an RTS MOBA, and done before Mega convinces 343 to actually make the Halo Mega Construx game!

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>>6513446
I'd just add short extensions to the sides, like pic related

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>>6513477
>>6513503
Made some changes. I'm happy with it for now, just need those extra parts to come in.

>>6513516
I like that look! Good job anon. I've been saving all these pics as inspo for when I pick my own little pod up. But I don't really feel like spending full price, so I'm holding off for a bit.

>>6513528
They definitely did a good job with it. I like it when an official set already has a smooth exterior.

>>6513499
so something like fat princess, but with lego?
like what if the universe franchise gets revived to make that happen? that'd be incredible

>>6513516
I like this, both sides.

Now I really want to build something like it in Classic Space colors.

>>6513490
The roller-legs have a lot of potential.
Judging from the double-clips sticking at the side of the feet makes me think you are already trying to make some posable coverup on the sides of the feet of sorts. If some sort of rounded shaping can cover up atleast the upper technic-axle it might look smoother.

Have you thought about making the torso part slightly bigger? 5-wide or something?

So it's my birthday today but Uni already started and most family is away unavailable or whatever. I planned to order Ninjago City the first of september as a gift for myself, but then let it slide thinking it wouldn't be that fun without celebrationtraditions surrounding it.
>suddenly make 11 brinklink orders probably worth the same price in total
well fuck

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>>6513555
Happy Birthday, anon!

huh, lego actually made a cake set
also you're 12, should you really be buying things on the internet?

>>6513490
Torso needs to be bigger for the legs, or the legs need to be bigger for the torso
I'd keep the torso the same size, but I like the shields as wheel armor

>>6513568
Thanks anon, you guys are always sweet.

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i'm probably done fucking with this...for now

at least until the ragnarok sets go on discount

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>>6513555
Most of the parts in the torso so far is just a substitute for pic-related, since it's not in LDD yet. I'll probably replace it with something else down the line.

>>6513580
Honestly I'd just keep that part. Sort of keeps the nexo knights thing you have going. I like the idea of everybody getting an upgraded battle mech. Are you going to keep going for the rest of the group? And if so, still centaur-based? Or more closely themed with their weapon?

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>>6513540
>so something like fat princess, but with lego?
>like what if the universe franchise gets revived to make that happen? that'd be incredible
INDEED!

>>6513245
That piano is so cool and very cleverly designed. I love the way you did the black keys, also really dig the whole thing in general great job bro.

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>>6513098
>no black faun legs nor black devil tail for qt xeno waifig

sigh

>>6513587
but wait, what would happen to the hero class characters? eg units like the king, gemma, and captain brickbeard? and each of the faction leaders, potentially?
being a moba, would they even be playable, seeing as one person would have to be the cornerstone for their entire team?

>>6513595
>no black faun legs nor black devil tail
Vinyl dye is your friend.

>>6513595
It's okay, there's no appropriate head either.

>>6513599
>not realizing how game balance works
can you really be this dumb?

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>>6513599
>but wait, what would happen to the hero class characters? eg units like the king, gemma, and captain brickbeard? and each of the faction leaders, potentially?
>being a moba, would they even be playable, seeing as one person would have to be the cornerstone for their entire team?
Well how I figure it, you'd be playing a "Tower-Defense" style of game.
Your character would build Defenses, Resource Generators, and Mob/Vehicle Spawners around a particular Objective, then either go on the Attack with their Mobs Swarms or stay on the Defensive, giving simple orders to Mobs as needed.
A Player Character dying won't directly loose them the game, but respawning might cost a side time or Resources.

>>6512994

some people, man

can't you just talk them down into letting you send them that one last brick for free?

>>6513635
when you say moba i think tf2
the only thing i've seen of league are the salty players

but i was thinking it was gonna stay an rts, with each unit being controlled manually a la fat princess
to introduce a hero unit with a higher priority than any other would screw up the balance

>Get crackling order in
>It's missing two parts, not a huge deal because I ordered extra and they were only a few pennies
>Send seller an email about the missing parts
>No response
I don't want to make a huge hassle over $.08, but they technically didn't fill my order.

>>6513643
How long have they had the message?
I'd just wait longer for a response before you rate them or anything

>>6513646
>How long have they had the message?
I was gonna give them a week or two before I do anything.

>>6513641
First of all, why is your example of an RTS a weird indie PS3 title (or the less good sequel)

Second., just give them different abilities than the base class. It's an RTS, so something like Starcraft? Different units can do different things. Where did you get the idea that you can only have low-tier minions?

>>6513649
>>6513641
>tf2 is a moba
Smells like underage to me

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>>6513585
>Are you going to keep going for the rest of the group? And if so, still centaur-based? Or more closely themed with their weapon?
That's something I've been working towards since around April, actually. Lance will probably end up being the only one with anything centaur-based, though.

>>6513649
another anon said fat princess would be a good example for gameplay

i think i might be confused on the second part
in lego battles there can be only one of the hero class, balanced out by the fact that they can automatically heal units in close proximity and can use spells to increase defense, attack power and whatnot
so they're more of a supporting role to the rest of the army's raw strength
that and there really is no "base class" in lego battles, its just soldiers and vehicles

>>6513666
Alright I am super confused, because there are more people in this discussion than I thought (the starcraft comment was my first time chiming in)
I've never played lego battles, but I didn't think you'd be restricting yourself to that style of gameplay

>>6513672
okay here's my understanding
i posted >>6513342
this guy >>6513499 suggests it should be an rts moba, and i immediately thought of fat princess since it fit the type

but he more than likely meant something else

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Put a couple more residential floors together last night and today. I'll have to wait to finish the detailing until I get my 190 flickfire missiles. I estimate I'll be able to wire up about six floors with those.

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Back looks pretty unfinished without the piping; I will likely change it up a bit as I add more flickfire wiring.

>>6513750
Looks great. Very nice use of those gray corner panel whatsits.

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>>6513042
Depends on the fig and hair piece I guess. Some look good, some don't.

Speaking of hair pieces, I love the new Lloyd one.

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Just messing with Axl's battle suit.

after seeing >>6513490 I want to make it a centaur.

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What do you guys think of this
I honestly hated how the boat was lacking playability and something that actually made it unique
Any feedback is welcomed

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>>6513803

>>6513803
I like it, even though it doesn't look very boaty at all. Swap the red for yellow and it could be a Blacktron set.

That canopy's not printed, is it?

>>6513808
It is actually, it's the one that comes in the batwing set so I decided to use that one instead of the original one
Im trying to make a batwing that can ditch the wings and fold the sides to make it into a boat/submarine

>>6513750
Coming together pretty great!
You just need some shops and shit for sweet sweet retro sci fi signage

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>>6513367
$30/month

>>6513943
seriously
the concept and story were and still are cool and all
but fuck if i cant say the pay-to-play mmo didnt doom the game from the start

they should make a lego board game like heroica using this concept

>>6513077
The newer one looks way better even though it's smaller, so what's your point?

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Did anyone think of this, too?:

2012:

Dino, Monster fighters

2015:

Jurassic World, Scooby-Doo

2018:

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and it was going to be S.C.O.O.B. but because it was delayed for a 2020 release we don't have any monster theme. The only case can be the new 2018 cartoon Ghostbusters:Ecto Force or another Scooby doo cartoon.

I made this because there's a Dino and Monster theme every 3 years from 2012.

What do you guys think?
Also,there is a Ghostbusters animated movie coming in 2019....

>>6514124
Doesn't Playmobil have the Ghostbusters license now?

>>6514124
Isn't a Gremlins movie coming in 2018? I also heard about a Beetlejuice movie coming in 2018 too.

>>6514131
Playmobil aren't building blocks. Lego still has the license. On Scooby Doo we do know they still have it.

>>6512976
I didn't forget Jack Stone or the sort of ugly vehicle aesthetic of the early 2000s which emphasized both fewer parts as well as LOTs of studs on top. Versus today's policy of SNOT everywhere, non-technic vehicles looked butt-ugly unmodified.

>>6514134
>Beetlejuice movie coming in 2018
There is a Beetlejuice movie announced every few years, there was "supposed" to be one last year and the year before. The last time I took any of that serious was about five to ten years ago with the proposed Beetlejuice goes to Hawaii

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>>6513042
They look like any other newer hair piece.

>>6512820
I don't see Classic on here. Man, I love Classic sets.

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>>6513595
That's why you make a brick-built one instead.

>>6514431
Does anyone else think the one on the left looks like Weird Al?

>>6514477
Because it is

>>6513754
>>6513750
Really really killer stuff man, keep it up. Looking forward to seeing the piping greebling

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>>6514512
>>6513933
>>6513763
Thanks anons!

These are getting to the point where they're unwieldy to move around. I'm thinking about getting a new three-drawer Sterilite just to keep these floors in once I get a few more made.

Detective Office for scale.

>>6514469
We get sets too,I just forgot about the line.

>>6514536
What color is the yellow that makes up the bulk of the second and third floors?
I'm digging the "ice creamy" palette

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>>6514546
>What color is the yellow that makes up the bulk of the second and third floors?

Just regular "tan"

>>6514546
>I'm digging the "ice creamy" palette
Thanks! I'm working primarily with the Friends scheme + greys and bleys.

>everyone is probably sick of seeing this picture by now

>>6514558
>Just regular "tan"
I'm pretty sure he meant if the balcony of floor 2 and the small side porch (I have no clue what it is)
Also, do you plan to make more, because I love the design of the building

>>6514565
>I'm pretty sure he meant if the balcony of floor 2 and the small side porch (I have no clue what it is)
Ohhh...

That's Bright Light Orange.

>>6514565
>>6514558
Yeah looks tan now that you say it, just looks different with the brighter colors near by

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>>6514565
>Also, do you plan to make more, because I love the design of the building

Thanks! Yeah, I picked up about $700 worth of Friends sets for $75 a couple months ago which was an amazing find because I had been spinning my wheels on where I was going to acquire the pieces in bulk to be able to make this idea come true.

My plan is to keep making these until I run out of parts.

>>6514375

There has literally been a new Beetlejuice move in some form or another since the first one was a hit. So don't get your hopes up.

Anybody interested in buying some brickmania instructions? I've got the Corsair, stuka, spitfire, p51, ft17 and ldd files for the Cromwell.
Email if you've got any questions:[email protected]

>>6514763
Also got the zero and an older version of the Sherman Firefly

>>6514766
Oh also got the huey instructions

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Kinda wish star wars would offer more repaints of clone troopers. Really want these guys

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>>6514786
and these guys

>>6514787
>>6514786
as soon as kids want them ;)

HOLY CRAP, why didn't I notice new Zane's alt face before? MGS Grey FOX!!!

>>6514815
I don't see the resemblence.

>>6514786
The geonosis troopers set had phase 2 variants of the scouts.

>>6514786
Just use a sharpie

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>>6514897
Get those eyes checked.

>>6514984
...
GREY FOX!

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Bricktober weeks 3 and 4.

>>6514992
>>6514984
>>6514897

Best part, the movie bag set 30425 is cheap as dirt, you get both him, the chick, and some decent elements!

>>6514997
>green rival cheerleader

uh oh

>>6514997
>winking sailor
LEL

The 6 new qualifying Ideas projects up for review have been announced. I predict exactly none of them will advance.

>>6515067
Star Wars one might, but I doubt they'd put Vader in that small of a set.

>>6515072
Aren't existing licenses explicitly against the rules?

>>6515083
Yup. Ideas from active licenses will no longer be considered. Hasn't stopped people from pissing in the wind and doing them anyway.

>>6515072
Spoilers!

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>>6514124
It's not a "monster theme", it's "gothy/spooky/halloweenie theme" so Harry Potter fits the bill

How do I make room for the Falcon if I still live with my parents? Should I buy the set if I can't put it together for a couple years? How long will it be around?

>>6515229
God I hope you're right. I would buy every set

>>6515262
see >>6514925
if you don't open all the bags at once (which means less fun) i'm pretty sure it's manageable even with little space, but storing without unbuilding it would be a problem

>>6512820
Voltron...

>>6515276
Yeah I don't think I would ever have to deal with unbuilding it. I'll probably just save up and buy it next summer. If it's not available then, oh well.

>>6515262
It should be available for about a year or so, probably more if it sells well enough. You have some time; hopefully you'll figure out a solution to your space problem by then (Or at least build up some VIP points for it).

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>>6515229
>Had that set
>Gave it away or something
>Want to buy it again
>Cheapest is on Bricklink for $89
>That's with no minifigs and a few pieces missing, and from the Netherlands

>>6515398
I miss that set. The only pieces I still have of it are the skull on the far left and Voldemort's felt cloak.

>>6515229
Holy shit nostalgia rush

I remember seeing that in the lego catalog

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delivery arrived for a total of nine living skeletons + two dead ones, excluding skulls i have on regular minifigure bodies (jack o lantern, grim reaper, etc.)
just waiting on the parts for the big guy now.

>>6515229
Holy fuck that set was amazing and only 30 bucks... i still regret to this day not buying it

>>6515398
whatever happened to buying just the parts you need? arent fences like 50c each?

Why doesn't LEGO focus more on adults? I Think that LEGO would make a pretty substantial amount if they made LEGO sets catered to adults, like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones. I also think it would have sold to people that aren't usually into LEGO (how that now is possible)

>>6515067
one of the space themed ones could. not both of them, but i can see one or the other.

>>6515587
Because star wars is more enduring than breaking bad and game of thrones

>>6515553
aesthetic

>>6515587
I think they'd rather just have a "family friendly" type image.

>>6515587
They already do. Or how many kids you think will save their allowance so they can buy modular building or UCS set?

Hell, even Ninjago City is aimed towards adults, more so than any other Ninjago set

>>6515587
You know, something like Westeros architecture series could be kinda cool.
As long as it's based on the books and not the show.

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/aboutus/news-room/2017/september/interim-results/

It's over, Lego is finished

>>6515640
Nope, it just needs to reconsider all fhese licences. And movies. Hell, this year we got two of them.
Also, this is why next year Nexo and Elves are EU-only and Super Hero Girls is US-only. They're doing the right choices to try reducing losses.

>>6515640
I think that a lot of lego sets are unaffordable for children these days, and lets face it, afols make up 1% of lego buyers. Lego should make more 10-50$ range sets and sell them in large quantities rather than making 300 dollar sets. Few years ago most expensive and flagship sets costed around 100 dollars and that is top price most parents would spend on a toy. Only few 100+ dollars should be made in a year

>>6515635
I'd recognize that Punch Tank chassis anywhere!

>>6515642
Did you even read the article? It says the " LEGO Batman movie products also saw a great response from consumers."
>>6515691 is right though. There are a lot more $100+ sets on shelves than there used to be. It's hard to pump out entire waves of $15-20 sets though,(like with Exo Force) without there being some loss in quality. Something has to give.

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>>6515640
Brickset commenters as usual managa to come to the conslusions the most disconnected from reality

Nobody cares about epic nerd reference Ideas sets and 200+ USD piles of SW garbage beyond very few people who are vocal online but pretty clearly don't provide much profit

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>>6515010
Now there are two of them

>>6515067
I like the idea behind the Peru one but the actual thing looks like shit. Maybe we'll at least indirectly get a CMF Inca out of it.

>>6515640

I fint it quite sad that after 10 years of amazing growth and new profit records one year with a 3 % loss means they Will fire almost 10 % of their employees.

>>6515721
>I hope they start listening to there non-target market more

Literally why would they do this

>>6515735
A convenient excuse.

>>6515721

Every single time I bother to pay attention to others in the toys aisle, it's parents letting the kids pick out whatever. Then they negotiate on price, 'get something smaller' not 'get something that's a Real Castle Theme™ reee'

>>6515721
If anything they should make more 5-30$ sets from themes kids are more likely to buy. I hardly see small City, Ninjago or Friends stuff shelfwarming, but big SW or superhero sets are still arund after two years quite often. Some of the stores in my area still have the First Order transporter.

>>6515744
Both Bonkle and Mixels had whole lot of $5-$10 sets.

Both themes were cancelled

>>6515746
Mixels were on shelves for three years, though, isn't that a standard for most themes nowadays?

>licensed sets save LEGO 16 years ago
>now licensed sets cause LEGO's demise

It's like pottery

>>6515746
>>6515748
Bionicle was a shitty wave so it's no surprise it fizzled out, but it had normal run especially for a resurgence of the theme
Models also had a normal theme time line
Not every theme is ninjago and willlast a decade

>>6515713
Lego has become more status symbol than a toy for every kid. Lego should just ditch the luxury and make smaller sets affordable for children and put main characters like boba fett and vader in smaller sets so people would not bother ordering bootlegs from china. But that's just my opinion

>>6515791
What if lego also owns the bootleg factories?

>it's an "AFOLs think they know anything about business" episode

>>6515628
> Westeros architecture series
>based on the books and not the show
Truly you have your finger on the pulse of the people

>>6515796
classic town, castle and space made Lego what it is, they just need to go back to their core clientele

>>6515791
I do wonder why Lego stopped making sets like Final.Duel 1 & 2 and whatever year it was that if you bought several smaller sets, you'd get Jabba's palace

>>6515795
That's where the CMFs are made.

>>6515640
>>6515746

Just a reminder that Lego is seeking fansites like TTV and BZP to help make an effort to better sell their SW Ultrabuilds. Why? Because they're overpriced (around $10 more than a Bionicle set of the same size) and as attractive as Galidor figures. Reminder that they prematurely cancelled Bionicle G2 due to poor budgeting and most likely not wanting their SW figure having any competition with any in-house theme. Reminder they brought this on themselves.

>$700 UCS set has 7 minifigures
>2 of them are new

>>6515640
Does anyone feel like they're releasing so much stuff now that it's hard to keep up with it all? I have a feeling that may be why there are more unsold sets. They're all cool, but there's no way the average person can buy all of it. The price points are on the higher side also, so parents might only get one from a given theme and that's it. Themes that have a lot of cheaper sets could move more product probably.

>>6515824
And they have made cool small harry potter sets which could be joined with hogwarts castle to make expansion, sets like clasrooms and dorm rooms, those were nice.

Also, what do you think, do lego employees browse lego general on /toy/ for feedback or is it pretty unknown

>>6515843
I'd rather have shitiest and worst of bionicle than star wars junk. Also those star wars buildable figures are shelf warmers for few years, at least in my country and no one is willing to buy them even when they are discounted, and usually they are discounted on former bionicle price, i hope lego star wars will die one day

>>6515932
My gf bought me a build a figure as a gift, I laughed at her and told her I didn't want it. I feel bad thinking about it now desu

>>6515878
It's actually 800
And there are idiots willing to buy that set for that price... it is beyond my comprehension that such idiots exist
For 800 dollars you can buy 15-20 really good sets and end up with 40 minifigures and fuckload of parts for mocs. Also you can buy lots of cmfs and so on... that millenium falcon is such a stupid set only degenerate consumerist could buy. 800$ can make all your childhood dreams come true and some idiots would burn it all on a single ugly grey statueshit which is unswooshable and only use for it is sitting on a shelf

>>6514965
Those are ugly
>>6514978
>>6514813
I hate you

>>6515938
Maybe you were little too harsh with her, she seems like a good girl, but she could have asked you in first place whether or not do you like it. But yeah, i can completly relate on how you feel about that. My gf sometimes gets me polybags and you pretty much can't miss with that

oh boy I sure can't wait to go back to blue spaceship, black spaceship, red castle and blue castle

fuck off morons at least star wars ships are different models

>>6515957
>millenium falcon being released 8 times

>>6512976
>The whole boat is a single piece, 1987.
Because it fucking floats, you dingus.

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>>6515957
Needs more tan, lavender, and azure castles.

>when a totally bollocks colour scheme I didn't expect to be buildable actually is

>>6515962
last one was a really good playset and this one is a display piece, your point?

You know what would save Lego tons of money? Ending the current Ideas program. Half of the approved projects that have gone into production were based on licensed IPs that Lego did very little with outside of Ideas (BBT, WALL-E, Beatles, I'm looking at you). The majority of projects that reach the review stage are rejected outright due to Lego's internal criteria, but it's still a waste of time and resources to go through the motions and consider them. Ideas gives lie to "the wisdom of the crowd." What 10,000 individuals like does not necessarily reflect what the public are willing to buy.

Lego should move Ideas to a "pay to play" model like a crowdfunding platform. It would be harder for shit projects to reach the review stage if everybody had to put their money where their mouths are to support a project, and there would still be no guarantee that a project would go into production. Funds collected by the rejected projects could even go to defraying the production costs of the approved projects.

>>6515940
>swooshing sets
>only caring about minifigs

you must be 18 to post here.

>>6515971
Atleast castle sets could be rebuilt into something else unlike falconshit

>>6515983
>my grey box is better than your gray box

>>6515978
Who the fuck would pay for that shit

But i agree, lego should ditch the ideas completly or design few sets, and let fans decide which should go in production

Beatles one and wall e were horrible, fishing store is the only good one. And they approved some abomination for 2018, something like gundam or transformers but i cant remember how is it called. Only weaboos could buy that retarded set

>>6515957
I'll take red vs. blue over grey vs. grey any day, you swine.

>>6515983
>buying sets for the sole purpose of rebuilding them

>>6515998
And we would not pay didney tax on top of that

>>6515925
>but there's no way the average person can buy all of it.
You're not supposed to buy all of it. There's a huge amount of sets and variety so that ideally there would be something for everyone.

The height of LEGO popularity is coming to an end. I've reentered a dark age and am telling a lot of my sets.

>>6516034
>other people stopped liking lego
>wow i guess i have to sell of all of my sets

buy in after the crash you retards

>>6515735
It almost seems like cheating. Like they become addicted to a certain profit margin that they just start firing people to make up for the loss. It's drug addict type of behavior

>>6515962
>millenium falcon being released 8 times

>almost the exact same Resistance X Wing released in two consecutive waves with only some minor changes
>an enlarged version of 1/5th of a ship released as a standalone set
>more or less the same fucking Stormtrooper buildable figure released for the last three years like six times, only with some slight changes in build and a different head

>>6516038
I hate that fucking "lego is appreciating in value more than gold" meme, because every nigger thinks that their 4 years old set should be worth double in value now, reality is most sets are worth less than their original price. Thing with 80' sets is that a lot of people didn't keep their old sets and thats why they are so expensive and rare today

>>6516067
And dont forget fucking desert skiff, that was also released few times before, the only difference with previous version is that each new version becomes more expensive for same shit. Eventually they redisign 1 figure from that set

>>6512813
>set includes two kakamora
>we have no idea how the rest got here
tee hee

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What's that one figure you put off getting for many years until recently?
Pic related for me, I always loved the Fright Knights Witch but I didn't buy her until last week. She's awesome in person and I love the evil little face they gave her (along with her spider cloak and dress), such a nicely designed minifig.

>>6516003
>Buying the millennium falcon for the 8th time
>At least if you rebuild a castle set it's not just grey on grey action
>No licence tax

>>6516103
It would not suprise me if lego made 9th millenium falcon for upcoming han solo movie and all these sw fags would continue sucking legos dick and be happy about it because old one needed redesign so much and new one is so great

>>6516117
I seriously miss the days of Lego making cute caricatures of SW vehicles and locations. Small, compact, and simple. I miss when the idea was to take the Lego aesthetic and transform something and make it different. Not make fucking scale models that need to be super accurate to the source material right down to the fucking vents and control panels.

>>6516138
Yeah, that aestethic was great, it was in spirit of lego and lego version of star wars,with very little special pieces. Now it's overdetailed and overdone. It feels like lego is forced to adopt to star wars aestethic rather than translating star wars iconic moments and locations to lego

>>6516144
It's not just Star Wars. If we're going to discuss Lego sets being too expensive, you can translate the trend of hyper realism to almost all the themes. Where? Scale. A LOT of sets make huge vehicles and whatnot to be 1:1 with minifigures. I say in the world of Lego, cars can be tiny, planes can be 6 studs wide. Starter sets with lines like City are all I ever feel like buying these days. Why? Because a $10 buggy with a set piece is way more fun and affordable than a single huge ass something for like $30+

The main problem i see with licenced Lego sets is they are "good" to make to make vehicles and ships but for some scenes recreation, they suck.
Now ok, for Star wars it kinda works, people mostly wants spaceships and stuff. And kids prefer to buy ships than scene. But they just don't try for scenes, remember Assault on hoth. A disaster. The only one actually good i remember was Ewok tree village.
Now the Super Heroes series, they try to apply Star wars logic to that, almost no scene but vehicles. I bought nothing in 2017 in that serie and i'm fan of comics. Last set that really excited me was Web warriors bridge. Why selling the hulks with horrible motos ? They barely fit on it. Oh and that Thor ragnarock arena... 60$ for a wall + figs. This is airport hero battle 2.0.
Then again i can understand, kids love everything that roll or fly. But for me, i just reduced this year to buying stuff for my city.

>>6516236
i agree with you, but i think you forgot to mention LotR, which i think had pretty good scenes

>>6516245
Harry potter had some pretty decent locations because there isn't much vehicleshit except for hogwarts express and ford but those were good actually and we rarely get cheap trains. Also potc had some really good sets too, shame we only got silent mary from this movie, it could have been made instead of fucking moana

>>6516245
And i forgot to mention, lotr was absolutely the best, but lego really is retarded for missing barad dur and minas tirith opportunities and balrog set, i believe army builders would sell like hotcakes also.

>>6516245
Well i won't mention dead series for today problems, but yeah it was nice for "Medieval" building. Only point i didn't like is we didn't get any "full castle" but only front gates.

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>>6516094
Always wanted these guys, finally ordered a red one and a blue one

>>6516513
I always thought those guys looked like the closest we would get to Lego Vorlons.

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>>6516094
That IS a nice evil manic grin.

and I finally bought one of these guys, should hopefully get here this week.

>>6515970

I can't get over the angled engine pods
Looks awesome, otherwise, and then what, why

>>6516524
Nice, he was one of the stand-outs from S.15.

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>>6516539
The props would collide if they were parallel.

(the real reason is it's a rough translation of this silhouette)

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so this giant rainbow monstrosity was the biggest piece in my megacity for awhile. pretty terrible. nice big fort at first, but an overall eyesore. chantges inc.

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>>6516094
>What's that one figure you put off getting for many years until recently?
>Basil. After finishing off this paint study I felt the childhood void and BrickLinked 3 helmets (black, black, grey) to mess around with. Haven't been home in ages so have not been able to properly create him yet.

Finished the new Batlord painting yesterday. Just lying in bed procrastinating over what I want to do next.

>>6516701

Destroy it in a fit of despair and fury before breaking down and slumping into a pile of human sackcloth to sob gently at the sight of destruction while trying fruitlessly to ignite the soggy gaulouses that is glued to your bottom lip

Or put it on ebay my man

>>6515640
Maybe they could try, I don't know, releasing some cheaper sets for once?
Hell, I'd buy a ton of battle packs if we actually got 4 clones or stormies in them and not 2 troops and some randoms like officers or Jedi.

When you order torsos on bricklink do they come armless?

>>6515997
I like the ideas project personally. But they could be a bit more strict with the rules for uploading.
It's not a project they have to put very much effort into if they don't want to. It's basically a waiting game of people having fun with an arbitrary milestone to weed things out. I got my aunt the beatles sub and she really loved it and built it together. The fishing store is great. While the mech wasn't for everyone, we got a classic space set out of it.

Also Voltron is probably the least Weeaboo gook IP around. It's the 80's nostalgia equivalent of calling Pokemon or Powerrangers Weeaboo.

>>6516174
I have the same right now, sort of. My own cars and models tend to be exactly in the middle of them. Way more dense and detailed than city, but much smaller than the giant overscaled stuff.
For buildings this isn't really the case though. Modulars make me cream myself a little, while the price is very very high, the attention to detail and complexity demands my respect and appreciation. Made just a small spacedoor diorama the some time ago with the partsbudget of a current 80+ pricerange set.


>>6515691
This guy is spot on. Much like why i thought people female figures were so rare (this has really changed in the last years though) and might have sold less, pretty much all female figures were in the €20+ sets. Not everybody buys the more expensive sets, i had for the most part had 90's equivalent of smaller up to €20ish sets growing up with maybe one big castle or technic set. I do absolutely love the superdetailed extravagant sets we see today though, we truly live in a goldenage for Lego at the moment.

>>6516629
>The siege of fort gaiety and tomfoolery gathered the most brave knights from all over the kingdom
>Defending the throne of their great king, they expected a most fierce battle was to be inevitable
>the moment of leisure, had concluded

>>6516800
You have two categories
minifig torso (armless)
and minifig torso assembly (with arms)

>>6516800
Only if you order them as such. Always order "Torso Assembly".

>>6513143
Just remove all the black tiles. It'll look better then.

>>6516805
>>6516803
Fuck. Probably should've asked before adding 24 to the watchlist

>>6516845
I usually have arms a plenty. (the unprinted/dualmolded ones atleast)
When i really want a torso, i tend to add both the loose torso as well as torso assembly to my wantedlist if i know i have some of those arms and hands. That way you have a bigger chance you can find some store that has the most you need in one go.

>>6516864
>When i really want a torso, i tend to add both the loose torso as well as torso assembly to my wantedlist if i know i have some of those arms and hands. That way you have a bigger chance you can find some store that has the most you need in one go.
This is what I do either way, just because it means more hits for that torso.

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>>6516034
I hope you found a nice way to tell them, it seems like an awkward conversation.

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>order 190 flickfire missiles
>get 189 flickfire missiles and a 4L bar with a Technic pin hat

I'm not complaining, just laughing. It was a bit of a mindfuck when I suddenly had a 4L bar in my hand (sans hat) after I finished hand-counting all the pieces.

>>6516902
It's like that fucking yu-gi-oh card meme holy shit

>>6516913

???

>>6516913
lolwut

The only yugioh meme I know is black guy trap card

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>>6516629
apologies for the shitty pics, still working on it and too lazy too clear an area for better framing

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>>6516923

>>6516923
>>6516925
Looking very nice so far

Press F to mourn rainbow castle

>>6515940
Lamenting of a Poor Fag

A novel by anon

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>>6516928
lel, i was dumb when i first built that. had a crapton of creator bucket stuff leftover, decided to keep stacking until i ran out. once i did i just added more unique pieces to frame the roofs and shit and by the time i was done i had kind of an "oh, fuck it" moment and just left it as is....for five years.

>tfw i finally translated majisto's scroll
>tfw you're being judged by a plastic wizard

>>6516923
Reminds me of the Aachener Dom a bit.
The classic colourscheme and clean use of surfaces is very nice.

I personally wouldn't have used tan for the lions. Also the white squares that are flush to the black/red timberframing next to it feel a bit abrupt. Maybe using one consistent colour for wood elements might make it more cohesive. Now the back tower has both brown, white and black for wooden elements.

>>6516936
Wait what does it mean?

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>>6516938
>I personally wouldn't have used tan for the lions
nor i, but they're remnants of an old castle set, 2005ish i think.
>Now the back tower has both brown, white and black for wooden elements.
the larger tower/keep? are you talking about the railings and such? pic related is how it looked a few days ago. i can change a bit of it back. some of what i did was to tie it in to other elements of the surrounding wall, i'm open to suggestion.
>Wait what does it mean?
i was kidding. pic related on >>6516936 was the translation, because i had a rainbow castle

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>>6516094
Space pimp.

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>>6516916
>>6516921

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New Nexo concept art. The 2018 might not be EU exclusive at all because OPs picture was found in the Lego Life US magazine.

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Tech Infection in 2018.

>>6517025
That's straight warhammer.

>>6517025
Do you have more of this?

>>6513391
That's pretty cool Anon

>>6516902
Do you have a particular use in mind for them?

>>6517025
Those are fucking awsome, especially top two left and center. Goddamit it is straight out of 40k. And those bigfigs are amazing

>>6515741

I think Lego needs more open-ended themes that don't already have a story built in. I remember liking the more generic pirates, castle and ninja themes as a kid as I could really create each character and make my own adventures from scratch.

>>6517111
I dont know why lego ditched all those classic lego themes, sure we've got ninjago and it has got some great sets, but at first ninjago was made in some fantasy setting than it was later set in some futuristic world, but at least it is the best theme with city nowadays. Atleast we could get 1 classic theme every 1-2 years, i mean playmobil is doing just that and i dont see them bankrupt or something
Also i would really like those themes return aslong with western which everyone forgets about and in my opinion it was a great theme

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>Lego Will Cut 1,400 Jobs as Profit Dips, Despite Big-Screen Heroics

It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down

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>>6517050
Yes.

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Lava monsters

>>6517131
They brought this upon themselves, because they removed their own themes so they would not make competiton for licenseshit. At first licences saved lego now it will be their doom if they dont make changes to their business. Also with more licences the price of sets go up, and less parents are willing to buy those sets and find something cheaper instead because they dont see value in those sets. For example in my country jokers balloon escape costs 20€ and small city starter set is 10€, is that joker balloon escape worth twice as much and is twice as good as the city set? I dont think so and so do a lot of parents, this was just one example and there are many more

>>6517172
>>6517171
>>6517166
These concept arts are sick and it is really a shame we didnt get all of it despite first nexo knights wawe having cool minifigures.
I just hope they will pull something awsome from their sleeve with character designs for new sets, and i would like just one location set that isnt 100 dollars... is that too much to ask for
Damn this pics really hyped me up for nexo knights sets and now i cant wait for that shit

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>>6517177
It's indeed sick. Sadly we'll never get cool stuff like this. Let's hope for the dragon warriors to come in Ninjago.