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Technic General Discussion
rollermonkey replied to Jim's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
OK, just finised the A model(s), and it's every bit as ugly as the picture on the box suggests. Very much not a fan of all the panels with large holes. Bricklink shows the 3/4 pins as dark gray, but they seem to be the same Pearl Dark Gray as the panels with holes? (Eyes probably just playing tricks.) Anyways, while not really a goot set, it is a great parts pack for black axles, black 3L pins with friction ridges (23) and black 2L pin/cross axle.(22) as well as some lift arms in dark gray and light gray. (NOT LBG or DBG) There's an orange connector or two I don't think I've ever seen before in that color, too. Trans-red axle connector's probably uncommon, too. Interesting. Dark Gray Rubber Band / Belt Holder 2 x 4 x 2 1/3 is an extra thing, I thought maybe it was part of the SLAMMER of the B-Model build. -
Technic General Discussion
rollermonkey replied to Jim's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
Sorry. 8473 This set is wild. It's got the old light gray, not LBG. Dark grey metallic half-pins, and the instructions are really weird. I just thought Id started at step 1 on the second vehicle, and when I got to step 11, I realized that I was on a sub-assemble, because the next step was 26. The font size is a little different but I didn't even register it. Plus the colors look awful. There's rubber bands in the set, and they are just stretched around a Bionicle piece. I don't remember the 16T double-bevel gear ever being in gray, either. Bag #1 was a bag, but #2 is a box of bags. I'm kinda having a blast because it's so bad in some old-school ways. -
Technic General Discussion
rollermonkey replied to Jim's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
So... I wanted some black 2L pin/cross-axles and 3L pins to replace the blue ones in the Dune Ornithopter set, and since these are long discontinued, they're a bit pricey on Bricklink. As a work-around, I saw that the old LEGO Racers set 8437 had large numbers of both, so I bought one of them, new and sealed. It also has the 6L and 2L axles in black to replace those in yellow and red, too. It arrived and, wow! What a neat set. All kinds of Bionicle parts I've never seen before and something that confused me for a minute. It's been so long since I saw this, I'd forgotten that they used to do it all the time: The instruction book has B-models in it, too. -
Picked up the UCS AT-AT for $153.86 ...and $713 worth of points.
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This just got weird. I just got into bags # 22, and I have three missing pieces and two extra pieces of unusual size. I got 3x of the black 5x5 studded Technic beams in this bag, not 4. I only got one of the black 1x1x3 bricks. Also short by one black inverted bracket 1x2-2x2. For extras, I have an LBG 2x3 tile and a third DBG 2x8 brick. I can see them possibly cancelling each other out weight-wise, but there isn't supposed to be any tiles of any size or color in this bag. Checked the inventory, and there's not even 3 of the 2x8 LBG in the whole set. I could go into another bag for one of the 5x5 bricks and the bracket elsewhere, but there's only two of the black 1x1x3 in the whole set, so although I can get past step 1162, I'd be stuck again at step 1182. Neither seem like typical Pick-A-Brick wall items, either.
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Thank goodness. I thought based on the colors it must be on the interior somewhere, and I was going to have to half disassemble everything to get it placed. I'm sure that I just skipped over the blurg pages, thinking it couldn't posibly be there.
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Weird question, and maybe not the perfect place to ask, but... After the first box / bag 19, does anyone remember how many stickers were left? (I don't see sticker 15 get applied in any of the 4 books.)
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It took me forever to get this since it was sold out every time I looked, and when I did finally get it, I had a long line of sets ahead of it to build. Anyways, it was bugging me that between the 2014 Cantina and the 2020 one, we neither got enough Bith musicians, nor all of the instruments for the band. So, Tech'Mor is on the left with his MOC'ed Ommni Box. The rest have the instruments that they came with. We knew the Cantina was a dive bar, and even though the stage really is too small for Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, I did get them squeezed in there. Then I went and hid Figrin himself in the back, like a nerfherder. Sorry about bumping an old thread, didn't really seem important enough to warrant a new thread of its own.
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LEGO Star Wars 2021 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!
rollermonkey replied to MKJoshA's topic in LEGO Star Wars
Wow, but that outer box for 75309 is ridiculously oversized. I just easily put ALL of the bags 2-17 plus the axles and unnumbered bags into the white inner box. If it was 2 cm thicker, I could get the instructions and #1 bags in there, too. -
REVIEW | Creator Expert 10273 Haunted House
rollermonkey replied to VBBN's topic in Special LEGO Themes
Just wondering: Is this the first ever handicap accessible building in LEGO history? -
REVIEW - #70828 Pop-Up Party Bus
rollermonkey replied to Bob De Quatre's topic in Special LEGO Themes
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Heaven forbid a military group have ships that color match. Oh, and that bomber was the most satisfying build I've had since Poe's X-Wing. The TIE was ok, but it's still just another TIE. My guess is that you're a First Order loyalist who misses the good old days when the Emperor was still in power. ;)
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It depends on how strong you want it. I recommend that you look at the instructions for the Sydney Opera House and the UCS Millennium Falcon for some ideas how to create a rigid internal frame to a large model using Technic beams. I've built both, and the internal frames are key for each model.
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Resistance Bomber and Kylo Ren's TIE
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LEGO Star Wars 2017 Pictures and Rumors
rollermonkey replied to Stash2Sixx's topic in LEGO Star Wars
Just finished building 75188. I'm guessing everyone is too busy building the Force Friday II sets to talk about them... Initial impressions: I like it a lot. It's almost big enough to be a capitol ship. Kind of weird that it has three rear-facing cockpits and only one forward. I thought that the black bomb spheres were the same size as the basketballs and soccer balls, but they are actually larger by a noticeable amount. So much for another source of GBC balls. It reminds me a little of the Nebulon-B due to its vertical orientation and larger scale than that of B-wings. (It has seats for all 5 figs and room for two more, easily.) I can't wait to see it in action in December now. Next up, 75179.