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Worst car ever! Features: none. Worst in-class cargo capacity. Zero star crash safety rating. Clown-car aesthetics. Who wouldn't want to drive this? I created this out of boredom but thoroughly enjoyed making a ridiculous little car like the stuff we all grew up with but utilizing more modern pieces. Decided to share it if anyone else wants to have a build that may generate laughter. 63 pieces without minifigure, remarkably solid for its size, absurd by today's standards. Lego Digital Designer file to build from: Worst Car Ever.lxf - LDD 4.3.10 Brick Version 2248

Nice work! That's why they stopped that color cause they finally got a color checker chart and did some white balance calibration, went "whooops that's not right" and came out with the Stone Greys.

Head: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=bb0153pb05#T=C Still looking for tan piece.

Even using google translate, notoriously bad for accurate translations, doesn't make that mistake. But given the benefit of the doubt if it was a translation error then a correction would be in order, but it's still there. "The term originates from the Greek: βάρβαρος (barbaros pl. βάρβαροι barbaroi). In Ancient Greece, the Greeks used the term not only towards those who did not speak Greek and follow classical Greek customs, but also towards Greek populations on the fringe of the Greek world with peculiar dialects. In Ancient Rome, the Romans adapted and used the term towards tribal non-Romans such as the Berbers, Germanics, Celts, Iberians, Thracians, Illyrians, and Sarmatians. In the early modern period and sometimes later, the Byzantine Greeks used it for the Turks in a clearly pejorative manner." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian And still all the other comments about why they're even included have yet to be answered. One was responded to as "thanks for the feedback" and yet left in.

You chose to call your Native American caricature figure "barbarian".

Fantastic little sweeper! Great details in a very cleanly built 4-wide.

Oh this should be good, and disgusting. Just one hair?! Lucky you! All my Lego has hair. Have to do a hair check before posting anything.

The link is at the top but it's to the PNG. Here's the link to the main page, the LDD file (.lxf) is on the right. I just opened it and confirmed it still works. https://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=486055 All the work done since that starting point was converted to MLcad. You should be able to use LEOcad if non-Windows but I can't seem to get the MPD file to open. The other .dat files work. Edit: proof that it still works, this is obviously the original LDD and not any of the updated file work. I painted it pink.

Thanks friend, and looking forward to your next creation as well! Thanks Evancelt! The options were a bit limited at that scale. Thanks Feuer Zug! Really glad the story came out acceptable. Thank you Professor Thaum! The Pirates forum is the best, such a great crew!

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Haha touche. All those cheesy plaster flying saucer props, dusty old Willys MBs and general mid-20th-century tchotchkes cluttering up their stores couldn't keep Fry's afloat. Lego does local homages with Lego-built display pieces. They don't need to source Sequoioideae for baseboards in San Francisco, concrete from the Berlin wall, or shelf steel from old London buses for regional nods. Lego store Paris: New York: London: Beijing:

It's called brand, it makes it instantly recognizable and literally every retailer does it. Walgreens, Target, McDonalds, Toys R Us, Best Buy, Walmart, your regional grocery store, Chase bank, Mobil gasoline they all look pretty much identical. These are businesses, for-profit companies; they're not in business to have a soul they're in business to make money. Corporations are not people. So they should ask the mall, which they lease from, to bust out the ceilings and get permitting from the city for skylights, install pointless wooden furnishings and dim rusting artisanal lighting so you can't see anything. You go to a Lego store to purchase Lego, it's not a local heritage site. It's the brand's color. You can immediately identify an employee unlike the Apple store.

That's another good solution. But yeah those 1x1 technic axle bricks are still pretty new and rare. I don't think I even have any of those yet whereas your original solution with the faucet/spigot-like piece and clip bricks are much more abundant.

This is why you should always apply moisturizer to your bricks. Sure it makes separating pieces nearly impossible because of how slippery they become, but dang they're so silky and smooth afterwards.

Unbelievable. When it doesn't even look like Lego then you know you've gone beyond master builder to some sort of omnipotent-tier creator. One of those truly jaw dropping builds. Incredible.

Exceptional scene! It ain't all cannons and maps and buried wooden chests; maybe the real treasure is the fun they had along the way. Outstanding interior architecture!

Yeah this is a super cozy little woodland cabin. Very fantasy wizard vibe, that roof and the rounded/angled walls really make this great. Awesome MOC!

There is always something just a bit lacking in the City trains, but it leaves room for modding improvement. Perfection. Especially love that these designs don't rely on stickers for the colored lines like so many of the official sets.

This is a really cool idea, always like seeing new modular standards developed. Like the collaborative Moduverse road/train terrain standard. You have a great point about the Technic pins; they work ok for the modular buildings because of the size, spacing and mass of the structure but at this scale they'd become difficult and there's the annoying factor of the pins always pulling out on some sides and sticking to the other so you have to keep swapping the pins back and forth. A Technic alternative to ubiquitous black pins and system clips would be to use the captive one-ended axles so they can't be pulled out and offer less resistance than the click-pins.

My goodness these are all so awesome. You're a train maniac! There's a strong preference for ye olde steam trains around here but as one who prefers advanced high speed commuter trains these are without question some of the best I've ever seen. That bullet train is so sleek top to bottom and your latest one with the helicopter-nose is perfection. Well done and fantastic building!

How do you do this, by scanning VIP card at time of purchase or what? If its tied to the VIP account then it would also give TLG SKU level sales data from Target tied to specific customers which retail stores have historically vehemently resisted sharing, especially with credit card providers/banks. All they see is total purchase amount.

Oh man I can't believe I missed your stunning MOC. Its amazing! And your comic is professional quality. Your creativity is mind blowing and inspiring and your title of Cunning Linguist is absolutely deserved! And thank you for the kind words. You have motivated me to continue, perhaps a fort is in order! Thanks again friend!

Thanks ExeSandbox! I was leaning heavily towards just posting the pics with no comic, so I'm glad it turned out to be enjoyable because I was really doubting my story abilities. Very relieved, thanks! Thanks Mister Phes! Yeah I went a little bit more towards the fantasy and absurd with some aspects hoping that would carry some of my inability for textual humor. And I haven't thought of a captain of the ship, gives me something further to do! I debated the apocalypse babies vs nano figs (there's a pirate-painted nano figure that came with the lego minifigure factory GWP in 2018) but as I only have one of those I went with apocalypse babies. Originally was just going to do them talking from inside the house but realized that would quickly get repetitive. Felt the babies would be a humorous figure for the scale. More smaller-than-minfigure size stand-ins would allow us to make larger pirate builds with fewer pieces. Thanks Marooned Marin! My goodness that software would have come in so handy. After the first two text bubbles I made a preset for them but it was still pretty tedious. I'm checking that out right now it looks like it'd relieve a lot of the effort on the layout. Really appreciate the suggestion! Thanks Thomas Waagenaar! Really glad you like it. The micro scale can be a lot of fun working around the limitations and allow for a grander appearance with fewer pieces.

This is an absolutely gorgeous MOC. Super detailed, very Spanish, love the style and especially warm, clean and sharp photography. Fantastic!