wendyw
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Any still boxed Lego sets I have are just that way because my brick room is tiny and disorganised and I need to sort it out before I can open them up. Oh, and one small set that was a freebie, which I haven't felt the need to open yet.
I have a few models which I've kept built, a couple of classic space vehicles mostly, but a lot of it never ends up built to the instructions in the first place. As for keeping things in their packaging generally? Eh, I have a couple of things, but they're things like action figures that even if I opened them would just be sat on a shelf looking pretty and hey they have transparent packing anyway, so why not have them hanging on the wall looking pretty instead?
Lego though, that gets opened and played with.
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I'm definitely a geek, because none of my knowledge is even vaguely useful except for answering other geeks' questions.
it includes a sexual dimension as well.
It does?
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I remember a few years ago hearing about people getting 100 of the Uruk-hai polybags by going to several stores early in the morning and cleaning places out of stock. It's one thing if you wait a few days and no one picks these things up, it's a whole nother story when you rush out and buy em all leaving none for other kids or AFOLs. I'm not really sure if pre-orders would help this problem or make it worse.
That really doesn't surprise me. I've seen listings on eBay before for bundles of 20 or 30 of the same promotional polybag.
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Yeah, there's really no reason to worry about the quality of any replacement materials. Trying to find something with the same qualities as ABS is why the time scale is so long and the price so high. There are plenty of plastic substitutes available already, but they just don't behave the same way.
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There's another one with a minifigure as a little kid and one with one as a doll from '78 as well, so I guess they might have been designed to be used as both adults and kids.
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I disagree on the 8x8, 8x16, 4x16, 12x12, and 10x20 bricks. They're great for floors (in multistory buildings) and bridges.
Yeah, definitely. They can be really useful structural pieces. Arguably you could use plates instead of bricks, but sometimes thicker floors/ceilings/whatever make more sense and stacked plates can be a pain in the butt to get apart again sometimes.
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That is brilliant. :)
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I finally got around to watching it last night and it was interesting, but I definitely got the impression there was a strict list of things they were and weren't allowed to discuss and I don't just mean company secrets. Also it would have been nice to see more of the design process, if not things people were actively working on then things like sketches and sculpts and prototypes for existing items.
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I can think of Brick 1x1x3
Or Brick 1x2x2
I agree with the 1x2x2 but I like 1x1x(whatever) bricks because it's so easy for a stack of 1x1s to end up all misaligned and wonky looking.
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I would say the Click Brick mega stadium, which is currently selling for £30 in The Works. It has some 2200+ pieces, most of them plain dark grey admittedly. But amongst those pieces are hundreds that are useful to train collectors mostly including several dozen plain glass 2x2 windows. It's a clone brand, but Click Brick are the closest I have ever seen to Lego quality, for the most part. Their white bricks are awful, but apart from that their bricks are a decent match for Lego. For the price I can't complain
I'm not sure about the current ones, but Star Diamond used to make the old Click Brick sets. Their sets tend to be really good.
Character Building (which are made by Cobi) are another really good one, particularly their Doctor Who sets. I agree about Enlighten. The first few things of theirs that I got weren't that great, but they've really come far since then. Mega Bloks are usually really good. I don't really care for their game licenses other than for parts, but I'm a big fan of their Hello Kitty sets and the Barbie line has some great animal sets.
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That is one cool hover car. : )
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A non-battle based animal theme with Chima style heads, but more of a modern City theme with houses and families and... basically Fabuland mark 2 please.
Also, a new space theme that isn't Star Wars. That would be nice too.
Ooh, and some Danger Mouse sets to go with the new cartoon. That would be awesome (and hugely unlikely).
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Those helmets are really cool. Not sure if I know what I'd do with them, but they do look really cool.
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I don't know. Hour glasses are pretty commonly associated with the Reaper. Death of the Discworld has an hour glass for every living thing, it's pretty common for the Death card in tarot parks to depict Death with one and there were multiple pirate flags that used a skeleton with an hour glass, or sometimes just an hourglass alone, to represent death.
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At the risk of breaking forum rules by making a political statement, I'd like to point out that in the recent general election they received three times more votes than the utterly loathsome ultra-nationalist BNP. I love the fact that the totally nutty Monster Raving Loony Party did three times better than the BNP. Makes one proud to be British!
I like that. I missed that at the time.
I was once mistaken for a member of the MRLP when I came along to watch a political debate. Thinking about it I was wearing pretty much the same outfit as the time someone asked me what I was cosplaying as at a con.
It was probably mostly the purple top hat that did it. It's quite a Loony Party hat.
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I forgot to mention Brick Warriors. They do a mohawk in colours that LEGO don't do.
Those are cool. I might have to grab myself a couple of those for something I'm working on. :)
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Arealight does some interesting hair as does Kre-O. Apologies if mentioning the latter here is verboten.
Cool. Thanks for the suggestions. : )
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Other than Brick Forge, what are some good places to get interesting/unusual minifigure hair?
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Sounds interesting. Thanks for the heads up.
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Thanks. : )
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Nice redesign of Benny's ship and those twin fighters look really cool. :)
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Anybody want a Blacktron fan-girl torso?
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There's a novelty political party in the UK called the Monster Raving Loony Party. A couple of years back I decided to do a take on them for a comic strip including designing this guy who I'm still pretty proud of.
If anyone wants it I've uploaded the decals too. : )
It works with red, orange or blue torsos.
Lego won the minifigures patent. So what now?
in Minifig Customisation Workshop
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I'm surprised they won this actually. The argument I've seen before was that because they patented the design (which then expired) they couldn't trademark it, the same design could not be covered by both patents and trademarks. To be covered by a patent it must be a functional design and that functional designs could not be trademarked. By applying for and receiving a patent on the minifigure they essentially ruled out the possibility of getting a trademark on it.