Yoggington

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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, DonQuixote said:

    But that's just my taste. What are your opinions for  this color scheme?

    I wasn't sold on the olive in the pics, but in person it works really well. I would have considered maybe Dark Blue for the roof, but then you are really getting into Parisian Restaurant territory.

    If anything I think it benefits from removing some of the clutter. Remove the two posters, move the window cleaner to a different modular, - maybe even lose the statues?

    I like the tan surrounds for the windows (differentiating on different levels was a nice touch too), and I like the dark brown horizontal detail lines. I'm less sure on the white - could be worth replacing.

    My only big qualms with the set are the bareness of the inside - it's begging to be filled out a bit with some more displays, and the use of the 6x6 tiles in the roof. I am thinking of replacing those with 2x4s or 2x6/2x2 alternating strips.

  2. Posted

    4 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

    P.S. You have Downtown Diner in the wrong place, and it should be way higher :wink:

    As a standalone building, DD is a really good looking set.

    However, as part of a street made up of all the modulars, it's just way too out-of-sync for my taste - it looks like it belongs in a different city or continent to the rest of the modular line. Like an American diner dropped into a European town.

    All IMO of course.

  3. Posted · Edited by Yoggington
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    Having now bought and built the Museum, I have to say I'm a lot more impressed with in person than I was just seeing the pictures. There's something very grand and regal about the front pillars & roof set up that only comes across in person.

    As mentioned in the last page or two, it's not exactly mind-blowing by any means, but it's a pretty damn solid design overall.

     

    For the ones I own, it slots in about here;

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    Which is fine, pretty good actually. However for a 48-stud piece, you'd want it to be a great addition. It's just a little too bare, a little too square.

  5. Posted · Edited by Yoggington

    Looking at the new Space "crossover-theme" - where toys in many different lines are space-themed and united under a common flash on the boxes - I have to wonder if we might see similar initiatives for Castle & Pirates in the next few years. Maybe not the full-fledged relaunch that hardcore fans want to see, but still a nice idea, that would produce plenty of useful parts & sets.

    For example, I can see a Duplo bath-time pirate ship with water cannon for. Maybe a treasure map in the Art line, or a technic working sextant.

    Any thoughts about how we'd see 'Pirate' into other themes? Dreamzz and Creator are easy pickings, but where does it fit into City or Friends?

     

    Examples of the 'Space' crossover-theme: https://htxt.co.za/2023/12/06/forget-fortnite-legos-toys-are-crossing-over-with-themselves/

  8. Posted

    19 hours ago, Horation said:

    How does this stop anything? Now instead of making things fair it makes them truly unfair; people who show up first get the figs they want, and that stops everyone else. Say if I want to get a bunch of knights, I show up and buy all the knights. Then the next person shows up and they can't have any, instead of random luck it is speed that determines who gets what.

    Sounds like a supply & demand issue. Lego can make more of a high-demand figure easily enough.

    If they find the knight fig is selling as much as the rest combined, they can increase the amount produced. These aren't a one-&-done production batch.

    Sell them direct from Lego.com too. Good luck buying 'all the knights' on there.

  9. Posted · Edited by Yoggington

    This is a strangely antagonistic thread :pir-laugh:

    It sounds like you don't care too much about damaging the cardboard if you're willing to cover it in tape. This is the only part any pests might be interested in - they'll stay clear of the bricks. I'd say you'll be absolutely fine just storing them in the closet with a few mothballs.

    I just want to mention you can get special tape that is less damaging than regular sellotape/scotch tape. It's still not perfect, especially over a longer timeframe - I wouldn't be putting it on a priceless comic for example - but it's distinctly less gummy with less residue left behind and less chance of pulling the cardboard to shreds when you try to remove it. I use it on items that I want to reopen in the future (e.g. repackaged lego boxes).

    If interested, search for 'removable tape'.

     

  10. Posted

    Very impressive work. I very much appreciate the style of the video - leaving the errors in to see how you learned from them. Too many videos are perfect first time, or "here's one I made earlier".

    As for ideas, the first one to mind is that I think a "splash zone" could be worked in. Since you have already raised the ground level, you could have the coaster dip below that level, and motorise some 'splash' effect each time a cart passes that point.

  11. Posted

    Looks to me like YouTubers drumming up talking points for the sake of keeping busy. Gotta feed that algorithm with fresh 'content', and the more controversial the better, for the clicks.

    In reality, it's a storm in a tea-cup, nothing to see here. We have some flesh-coloured minifigs because they represent real-life people, specifically the kids from that ad. That's in line with Lego's policy for a long time now. I strongly doubt Lego will ever move away from yellow figs completely.

    Is there anything to actually suggest a change apart from speculation?

  13. Posted

    7 hours ago, Jim said:

    There is no option to switch to a regular editor. That would be the Html/code view of the default editor. This is turned off to avoid other issues.

    I know this can be a pain in the behind. I have experienced it myself.

    Can you click on the arrow in the square to select a quote and delete it?

    Close, but not quite. Right click + cmd gives you a pop up option to remove the quote.

    Which is a painfully long way around but hey, at least I know now. And I also know I will never try to visit this site on mobile :v

  14. Posted

    I can't seem to find it on a quick search. Is there any way to get out of the rich text editor for replies and just use a plain text editor? It causes all sorts of minor inconveniences in it's current set up. I'd much prefer to just manually add tags as needed.

    Specifically I'd like to remove these empty quotes, which I can't find a way to do. Even leaving the thread and returning as them pre-saved there somewhere.

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  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, idlemarvel said:

    I'm sure they were trying to be helpful but unfortunately on this forum posts aren't numbered or dated so you can't refer back to a specific earlier posting, like "see post #24" so you can only be rather vague.

    So you can perma-link to any particular post by clicking the 'posted on' section and then copying that URL.

    Like so for the stickers post:

     

     

    Or if you turn off automatic embedding ('display as a link instead') you get the straight link and you can see the comment number (3660073 here)

    https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/195019-lego-21344-orient-express/&page=18&tab=comments#comment-3660073

     

    Or of course you can always just quote a post to reference it.

  22. Posted · Edited by Yoggington

    8 hours ago, jodawill said:

    There's a great red headed face in production right now that would be perfect for the forestmen, but it has an almost identical face on the opposite side, so it can't be used with the forestmen hat. I'm tempted to brasso it off, but I'm too much of a purist to bring myself to doing that.

    Have you considered using the hat with hair too?

    or is that against purist rules :pir-huzzah2:

  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, iragm said:

    Unbelievable that this isn't designed to be motorized out of the box.  I'm not buying a train unless it can be motorized, and I'm sure others feel the same. 

    I'm afraid that's the box I'm in.

    I love how it looks - I'm not so into trains that I really see the issue. But an engine with no engine?? What's the point?

  24. Posted

    I think this goes back to being limited by Prize count. If there are only six possible prizes at most, and we're already dividing into three categories by size - and there's a winner and runner-up in each... well then there's no way for further sub-divisions - be that physical v digital, adult v child, or any of the other subdivisions mentioned.

    Maybe if the physical v digital split is more important than the size split, or more important than having a runner-up prize, then it can be a runner.

    Personally, I don't think it's more important.