BirdOPrey5

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  1. Posted

    I had been building (as an adult) for a couple years and finally ran out places to keep sets, of any size. I still have a handful of sets to build, some large like the Ferris Wheel and a modular, but there's just no where to put them. I'm tempted to start taking apart some older sets and selling them but garage sale season is coming to an end.

    What do you do when you run out room?

  5. Posted · Edited by BirdOPrey5

    Hello, I still got problem with figuring out that color. It is not medium blue, because I found finally medium blue to compare and it is different.

    Here is the photo, doors are medium blue, and other bricks are:

    Blue

    ???

    Medium Blue | Medium Azure

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    If the bottom left 1x1 is Medium Blue then that door is Medium Blue. It's the same color, even loaded it into my photo editor just in case I'm color blind, the only difference in color between the door and the bottom left 1x1 brick is from the shadow caused by those bricks being on top.

    Here i copied a circle from the door to the 1x1 brick, aside from the shadow it's identical.

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  14. Posted

    The problem is it's too small. LEGO is cheaping out. Oil Prices are at the lowest price in over a decade, I know it takes time to see it on their books, but it has been falling for a long time and they still raised the price on this smallest modular to date. They're going to keep doing it as long as people enthusiastically keep buying it and even buying more than one to enlarge it to proper size. We need an organizes resistance to get the larger modulars back and we should stop buying this one until they cut the price and get to work on a Grand Emporium or Fire House sized building. #BoycottTheBank

  18. Posted

    There is just no way LEGO would make changes to the packaging thickness to squeeze in a few extra bricks for a particular set.

    Based on what? They continue to raise the price of modules while making them physically smaller and using smaller pieces?

    The purpose of the company is to profit and if they thought they could effectively sell sets without a box at all, they would.

  19. Posted

    I guess the problem here is, if you don't believe in the project enough to (or cannot be bothered to) promote it, then why should it get any more passive attention than any other project submitted to the site? How would the website know of the projects merits more than any other project? They can highlight fast risers (but for this you need to get initial votes), staff picks (but this needs knowledgable staff intervention, etc), but if the submitter is not going to do any work to promote the project, which is part of the process, then why should they get rewarded?

    Because Lego Ideas is promoted as a place to share Lego Ideas in hopes of one of yours becoming a real set, it is not promoted as a place where you can (nay, need to) engage social media spamming.

  20. Posted

    I decided a while back that,other than buying the end products, I was pretty much done with Ideas. I'd been with it since the early days of Cuusoo and watched the rules and expectations change, watched a lot of good projects get lost in the noise and clutter of "non-starters" and, in general, gotten very disillusioned with the whole thing. There have been a number of good kits to come out of the pipeline, but the cynical side of me thinks that Ideas has becomes more about guerilla marketing than about genuine crowd-sourcing. It wasn't so much about, "share your great idea" as much as it was about "go on social media and talk about Lego." Granted the nominal reason why you'd be burning social capital on Twitter, Facebook, Pintrest, etc. is to gain support for _your_ project, but at the end of the day its the Lego brand that gets the most exposure and free press.

    Of course, no sooner had I decided to swear off Ideas, than people started nagging me about submitting stuff (and resubmitting projects that had expired). After a year of turing people down and seeing the Ideas people pushing for non-IP proposals, I've decided to try a little experiment. This evening, I submitted a little non-IP-related kit (that's of sufficient quality to have won an award already), has a comparable part count to existing/successful Ideas sets with crossover audience appeal ( in this case, model trains). I plan on advertising none of this personally. I won't be pandering for votes in any of my usual internet haunts, I won't be posting links to it all over the web and, to be honest, if the whole thing ends up stillborn, I'm okay with that. I'm just going to track its support (or lack thereof) and compare it to the data I have from the days when I _was_ actively pushing some IP-related, quasi-popular stuff. I wonder how the curves will compare.

    Can a generic idea with no cult following and no active backing from its creator get noticed and sustain itself amid all the noise of weak projects and hub-bub of IP-related, 15,000 piece MOCs, or will it slip quietly off the end of "Most Recents" page 1, never to be seen or heard from again? I guess only time will tell.

    You might become a "staff pick" but that isn't enough to get a quality project 1,000 votes let alone 10k. More than likely without your own push it will get a couple hundred votes, maybe 500 if really good, and be archived in a year.

  25. Posted

    In my experience they start selling them on lego.com earlier than they update the free/giveaway for the month. So if you order immediately you get last month's giveaway in the cart (if any.) I've had to wait to 9AM to 10AM Eastern time in the past to get the polybag for the month in my cart.

    Never wanted to risk ordering without it showing in my cart.