splatman

I do this too. Where's the Like button!?

What's up with a new page with a 404 error opening up every time I click on the video (when starting, closing the ad, pausing, etc)? Browser: Firefox 28. OS: Windows XP SP3.

Yes. I've built a large 4-wheeled thing that's about 16" wide by 24" long (40.5 x 61cm) weighing about 10lbs/5Kg (no pix, unfortunately), and I, at one point, swooshed it to my fave tunes, thinking nothing of its weight. It is something that rolls, not flies, but imagination knows no bounds. Of course, I've swooshed other things, too. You asked "Swooshed to your fave tunes?" Take some sheet music, draw a curving line through the notes, like connect-the-dots, but as a spline, not a series of straight lines. Now, imagine that line as a roller coaster track, hills for high notes, valleys for low notes, and you're riding the coaster as the music plays; a ride set to your favorite song, or, in this case, not as a RC track, but as a flight path, and you follow it with your Galaxy Explorer or your X-Wing or anything in between, while the song is blasting on the stereo. Fire the lasers? Never done that.

I've yet to hear any of the negative comments everyone mentioned. So far, I've only got positive comments on my LEGO hobby, and the products thereof (buying sets, showing MOCs, etc.). I once brought a LEGO house to church (Yes, I did, believe it or not!) Everyone in the congregation of 40 or so, thought it was cool. Including the pastor. I have had, however, got less-than-positive comments on the fact I do not partake of anything containing alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine (save for the one-or-twice-a-year soda). Or profanity. ("You can swear, because you're an adult") I'd rather be an adult, and not swear, curse, or cuss. The lesson here, is anyone that thinks ill of you or your hobby(ies) is sure to make a lousy friend. Especially after you've shown/explained them the joys of doing this or not doing that. You could end up with someone you could brick with, else, just go home and Brick On. Yep, borrowed that one from the electric striped cat from Down Under.

Chicken Little. The ceiling is falling.

Zer0. Did have to chase a few bricks almost every time I did the PAB thing, though.

I'd go for R88 for starters. R104 being #2. I agree with Duq about R56, so save that one for later. I voted for 9V, but if this can be better started with all-plastic rails, then go for it. The reason I voted for 9V, is because it can be used to power PF equipment, with custom pickups. A custom power supply (no need for the regulator) would provide the juice. Doing so would eliminate batteries, while keeping the best of the PF world. That link is 404.

Replace Coffee with LEGO, and would probably describe most of us.

I wonder if Tacoma Mall in Wa has been considered? That mall is buzzin' like a beehive almost every time I'm in there. Sets and bricks in a LEGO Store would be flyin' off the shelves and out of the bins like pollen out of a flower in a swarm! I know, there's already 2 (Bellevue and Lynnwood), but TacMall definitely has potential. Maybe not, because there's a Toys "R" Us next door.

I seen that Octan ice cream, so I was thinking, what would a real life equivalant be? Shell ice cream? It might satify the oil sheiks in the desert, but me? No thanks. No oil-flavoured- or oil-flavored ice cream 4 me. Suggestion: You shoulda wrote Ice Cream backwards on the front.

I store most of my minifigs assembled. I never remove their arms. Suggestions: Leave arms attached, unless a project calls for a torso/arms combo you don't alrady have. If you have unattached arms, leave them unattached until needed.

I'll go with this. I've done stuff like that myself. Saved bits of plastic (and other materials), mainly from things I've junked, for use in various projects. Almost never with LEGO stuff, tho. Cathode-ray tube windows, anyone?

About Chinese and other "ideograph" languages: Their words can be romanized. Once you do that, you can count them the same way. Whether you can do that in the strictest sense, however, is another story.

The build·a·bag part was my fave . Could not handle the counting-the-pieces part. Had to skip that. Wish I could do Pick-A-Brick that way: Build a box on a 32x32 baseplate, and fill it up with bricks. Then cap it with 2 layers of plates, to make a 10" cube that has about the same volume as 15 large PaB cups. And would be rung up as 15 large PaB refills.

If slopes cannot completely fill the gaps on the bottom, try this: 2 or 3 rows of bricks, or bricks and plates, with tiles on top, as long as the stairway, resting on top of the stringer, covering up the gaps, secured to the wall wherever the center of a brick in the sloping rows lines up with the center of a brick in the wall with a technic pin thru technic bricks. Use bricks with pin in the sloping rows to make hidden connections. Do the same at the top. Edit: By "rows", I did not mean width/thickness. I should have said "courses" (actual masonry term). So, think of a wall 1-row thick, 3 courses high, joined along the bottom of the wall, like a piece of molding. Thought I'd clear up any misunderstanding.

Was that bridge built by the Orwell Construction Co.?

Barring any of the questions asked above; sounds like a classic case of Carrying Coals to Newcastle. Or is that Carrying Bricks to Billund?

No. I was thinking I would see those, too. Then realized the title says Court of Justice, not Hall of Justice.

They think with portals.

Try visiting the site thru a proxy.

I treat old and new gray as separate colors. Like yellow and orange. DG/DBG and B/RB likewise. Telling them apart is usually not a problem.

A few adapters are available on Shapeways.

Like the saying goes, "When life hands you spam, make spamcake" Of course, some of you will say, "When life hands you spam, hand it back. I don't want your _____ spam!". Fill in the blank with the silly expression of your choice.

What is it, when you build an official set up to a point, then build your own way from there? Case in point: I've built the frame of 6989 M:Tron MCM (just the frame and wheels), and built my own thing on that. No pix, unfortunately. Kinda the same as building your own car body on an existing automobile frame (non-LEGO).

"Do you have any Grey Poupon?"