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The LEGO Movie Sets News and Discussion
badbob001 replied to Itaria No Shintaku's topic in Special LEGO Themes
The movie sypnosis page refers to Wyldstyle as Lucy: http://www.lego.com/...xplore/synopsis I guess when Emmet gets to know Wyldstyle better, she'll ask him to call her Lucy. But I suspect he won't be calling Batman Bruce any time soon. I wonder what one has to gain from 'gluing' everything together. I suppose you can sell more products if the consumers can't build it themselves. -
The LEGO Movie Sets News and Discussion
badbob001 replied to Itaria No Shintaku's topic in Special LEGO Themes
It will be interesting to find out if the vehicles were first designed for the movie and then later ported to real sets. Or first designed with real lego bricks and then recreated in the movie. It's seems like a major design guide for the movie is to not cheat and to have realistic LEGO builds and movements (excusing the sometimes impossible but needed movement of minifigure arms). I would not be surprised if they used something equivalent to LDD to get practical builds and then imported the models into the movie. -
The LEGO Movie Sets News and Discussion
badbob001 replied to Itaria No Shintaku's topic in Special LEGO Themes
Would it be a first for LEGO if you have to buy each of the sets to collect parts to make a combined model? They can also divide up the pages of the combined model's instructions among the sets. It would be cool if all the pieces from the black Micro Managers can be used to make the Batmobile. Maybe this is thinking too far ahead, but I wonder what cool figure they will include in the DVD/Bluray release. -
The LEGO Movie Sets News and Discussion
badbob001 replied to Itaria No Shintaku's topic in Special LEGO Themes
Save some for the home video release? -
The LEGO Movie Sets News and Discussion
badbob001 replied to Itaria No Shintaku's topic in Special LEGO Themes
My guess is that Emmet's red block on his back is actually an 'i' (for imagination) and anything it touches get transformed into something wacky. Wait a sec, didn't the Transformer movie have something similar where anything it touches will turn into a transformer? Hmm. -
The LEGO Movie Sets News and Discussion
badbob001 replied to Itaria No Shintaku's topic in Special LEGO Themes
With all the vehicles, I suspect a big scene in the movie involves some sort of cannonball-run-esk race or an attack run by a rag tag collection of heroes. Most of the vehicles transform into an alternate/attack mode, which is pretty cool and reminds of me of galaxy squad. And it looks like Wyldstyle will have a new hoody that has her signature hair peeking. Must get that! -
The price per piece is pretty bad.
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[MOC:] Back to the Future DeLorean (Upgrade)
badbob001 replied to BrickRally217's topic in Special LEGO Themes
This is my compromise between using tiles and the big boxy slope. -
This looks pretty cool. Is this based on any real gas stations? I've never seen a gas station with an overhead parking lot and I would feel rather claustrophobic under there. I think you could bring down the second floor and put it side-by-side with the firs and it'll still look good. One detail I wished it had were stairs to the second floor.
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The same thing was done with the Corner Cafe (of course, it's by the same designer):
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The LEGO Movie Sets News and Discussion
badbob001 replied to Itaria No Shintaku's topic in Special LEGO Themes
I'm going to guess that the box will highlight the 'boy' appeal for this set, which is the flower launcher and all those circular targets. That snail is so duplo. Now won't it be crazy if they actually have a set with some duplo pieces to correspond to a duplo scene in the movie? Seriously I suspect this line of sets will be all over the place in terms of weirdness and the only thing keeping it grounded are the well done minifigures. -
LEGO Collectable Minifigures - The LEGO Movie Series Discussion
badbob001 replied to Klaus-Dieter's topic in Special LEGO Themes
I was wondering how the coffee cup in the trailer was made with real parts and now I know: it's a new mold. I guess we will need to buy the sets to get access to the Space guy and the Morgan Freeman character. I definitely need to get a set with WyldStyle's hoody. I wonder if the cop has both his bad and good face. The Taco Tuesday guy looks almost like a straight reissue Maraca Man, which is pretty unimaginative. Abraham Lincoln is cool... he can go vampire hunting. I really wished the cat lady had white hair. Oh, here's a pic of the uni-kitty set: -
I just bought a used set and the pieces require more force to put together and there is a creaking sound in the process. This is especially the case with large or long plates. Does this indicate any specific type of environmental damage? The set should not be more than 6 years old. The plates seem to bend more easily than new plates so I'm not sure if this just from play or if it indicates some sort of deterioration. The white bricks don't show any apparent yellowing.
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Just curious, but has any official LEGO stores ever closed?
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I've noticed cracks in white bricks more often than with other colors. Coincidence or does the process of coloring the bricks white weaken it more than other colors?
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LEGO Collectable Minifigures - The LEGO Movie Series Discussion
badbob001 replied to Klaus-Dieter's topic in Special LEGO Themes
Which is pretty annoying for people using matching brick colors for the display. Maybe I can use transparent blue for this one. -
The LEGO Movie Sets News and Discussion
badbob001 replied to Itaria No Shintaku's topic in Special LEGO Themes
I hope the her actual Wyldstyle minifigure has her raised collar as a separate piece and not have it be a printing. And I just realized that Emett's hair is not just the traditional male piece but has a tuft of hair sticking out a back corner. There is a new video for him as well: -
How do you wash your LEGO... Seriously?
badbob001 replied to DrJB's topic in General LEGO Discussion
I just came across this project called Retr0Bright, which talks about restoring the color of ABS plastic via 'a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, a small amount of an “Oxy” laundry booster as a catalyst and a UV lamp'. Note that Retr0Bright is essentially a recipe and not a product you can simply purchase. -
I'm a little disappointed in that these sets seem far too simplified in design and realism compared to the Friends sets... feels like it's merely a step-up from Duplo. Cinderella's Castle looks too squat, especially if you want to compare it with the iconic Disney one. And her coach looks like a decorated box on wheels. Rapunzel's tower is also looking rather sad. They need to at least double the piece count to makes these a bit more interesting during the build. Please get the Friend's designers onto this theme. Then at least you are guaranteed to have bathrooms in each set.
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How do you wash your LEGO... Seriously?
badbob001 replied to DrJB's topic in General LEGO Discussion
For the occasional stain or mark, I wet a folded paper towel and add some baking soda on it. Then gently rub the stain in a circular motion. The slight abrasiveness of the baking soda really helps remove marks such as crayons or markers. Also works great to remove crayon marks from walls. -
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 Rumors & Discussion
badbob001 replied to just2good's topic in LEGO Licensed
It would be very interesting for LEGO to come out with a set that only has the two girls from the show and none of the turtles. I would certainly buy it because girl minifigures are usually the minority in anyone's collection. And I would love to own more of those scooters. -
A problem I see with submitting a theme with several sets is that you don't know if people are voting for the initial set or for the whole theme. If after the initial set no further sets in the theme are produced, then the people who voted for the theme would feel that their vote didn't really count. And the major problem with licensed creations is that you don't know if people are voting because they like the design or because they just like the source material. There is a difference between 'This is a really cool Ghostbuster set that I will buy.' and 'I would love for LEGO to license the Ghostbuster brand and see what they can do with it.' I suppose it comes down to what you expect from Cuusoo. A way to showcase the creativity of LEGO users? Or a suggestion box of what are the hottest trending brands that will sure to sell well in a short time?
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Is your LEGO Room getting too cold?
badbob001 replied to splatman's topic in General LEGO Discussion
I thought this thread was going to be about being shun by the spouse or for being banished to the basement or shed. -
And regarding the complaints of LEGO changing the original design, I think LEGO still consults with the original designer during the process and tries to get at least some sort of blessing on the final design. Else we will have the designers blogging about how LEGO butchered their work and then use their 1% royalties to fund their hate campaign against Cuusoo and LEGO.
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Maybe LEGO will use the exo-suit as basically a showcase kit on how to use non-traditional building methods to create super detailed robots. Almost like a mash-up of architecture studio and technic and creator. Maybe it'll find traction with bionicle fans that want to go to the next level. And it would be rather refreshing for a cuusoo project to be popular purely for its design and technique rather than for the popularity of the third-party brand it is based on (isn't the latter like most of the stuff on cuusoo?).