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  1. anothergol
    I recently got 2 Ideas sets, Doctor Who & Wall-E, and was really surprised by this one. I won't comment on "the flaw" since I too got the fixed version (& I find it weird to call flimsiness a flaw in a set that has more to do with a MOC than a toy for kids). I just love how this thing sits on a desk, it's spot-on. I hate Disney, I haven't seen Wall-E, while I kinda enjoy Dr Who. And yet, I was disappointed with Dr Who's set, which ends up being a bunch of things that has more to do with a playset than something for the adults it (also) targets. It didn't even include David Tennant which is a sin. But Wall-E, it's big, it's one solid chunk, it's really great. It's also one of the rare Ideas sets that Lego enhanced - the shaping around the eyes is just great, better than in the original version. It's not flawless (I wonder why the arms has those 2 1x4's instead of a 2x4 which could have been printed), but it's a set I didn't regret buying. I hope Johnny Five will be accepted & be this great (I'd be Lego I'd redesign it bigger).
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    What makes no sense to me: in the past years Lego had castles(-like) everywhere, between the genuine castles, LOTR/Hobbit, & Pirates of the Caribbean, & I'd even include Harry Potter. There it would have made sense for Lego to have discontinued castles for a while, because they were a little redundant, just like SW has more or less replaced other space themes. ..but no. It's when there is no more castle-like license around that Lego choses to discontinue castles. Unless another castle-like license is to be expected, I don't understand the logic. Unless someone thought "Lego has always been about castles & spaceships, let's merge both!", actually destroying the last thing that Lego has always been about. Maybe Angry Birds's castle can be seen as this year's castle. It's certainly more a castle than Nexo's one, but I don't know..
  3. anothergol
    Talking about sets 70226 (Mammoth) & 70227 (King Crominus) (& also 70225), I've never seen Lego sets be at a constant -50/60% sale for so long (even though it seems to be the end for the croc), they have been at the top in Brickwatch for months & months. Has Lego flopped worse than this recently? When they went out, I thought, ok they're very ugly, but Lego does market testing, surely kids loved those sets. But apparently not, and the parts are so big & useless that no one even seems to want them for the parts either. I wonder why these were made.
  4. anothergol
    Sure, but the legs on the real one (which are gribbled too, only not carved as much) are thin, and if you keep the legs simple with only the technics bits, it will be full of holes & pins which is worse than gribbling. The gribbling on the thighs (the bar, disks & handle) is genuine, though. And since that makes those quite bulky, you need a transition, which is why the third leg segment isn't as thin as it should be. If shipping wasn't involved, BLinking it would cost the same as in a Lego set (like, 70eur). So all the extra comes down to how many shops will be involved where you are. If you substitute the 2 rare parts in the back and the LBG paint roller, you may get it for 100. Just keep in mind that it's nowhere as solid as Lego's own will be, it's for display.
  5. anothergol
    yep, except printed but the 1x1 black round tile is now available at B&P!
  6. anothergol
    This update is big news, even though most have been available at BL by now, and half of them for cheaper. But that still leaves the other half.
  7. anothergol
    Pretty nice pictures, over white like that. I don't know if it's the perspective, but it looks like you managed to balance it to the front better than I could (perhaps the "real one" was balanced with the weight of an engine in the back, even though the movie's maquette had nothing in the back) The long tube under the body is indeed hard to find in black, here I've used a 4mm black tube, cut to 17 (or 16) L. (btw the 1x2 slopes in LBG are pretty easy to find for cheap at Bricks&Pieces)
  8. anothergol
    Lego had plans for a Monty Python set??
  9. anothergol
    I'm just noticing what's possibly black 1x1 round tiles on BMO's feet. Pretty rare, only to be found in the Porsche so far I believe.
  10. anothergol
    The problem has never been the feet, themselves, though. It's the balance on the ankles, so securing the feet wouldn't change anything. Add a high-friction extender to the ankle joints and it will be very secure (& look worse). But I've had mine for a year and it never moved, except once when one of my cats messed with it. true, I hadn't noticed cool idea Did you already have those 2 LBG curved parts in the back? Funny how there were still dozens on BrickLink for like 20 cents, just a few months ago. But because the last ones were in a store for like 7eur, every new one that pops up costs as much now.
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    This is where I wished Lego HAD messed more with someone's Idea project (even if they visibly did). I find it weird that the brick-built Dimension's BMO looks much better than the one in there. I love Adventure Time, but I'm not sold on this one (again, except Dimension's BMO), and the Dimension Finn & Jake look weird as well. This said, it's all 3D, let's wait for reviews. Even there I'm disappointed, on Dimension's one they seem to be in DBG (or maybe sand blue), that's as rare as they could be.
  12. anothergol
    Not too fond of googles on the helmet, though, as it means that both pilots will have them on the helmet. Works better to have both with different heads, since it needs 2 (but I guess Lego's one will only seat 1 as usual). But I'll probably swap the heads & keep the new bodies. I hope it will have printed 2x2 round tiles in the back, though.
  13. anothergol
    Really? I've only seen a tiny tiny pic of it (& I'm not seeing plates). Has there been more recent pictures?
  14. anothergol
    well yes, using a 47905. So you'd have to manage to attach a stud for the middle slope, & antistuds for the 2 others, which could be tricky.
  15. anothergol
    While it works better because the steps are parallel to the other axis, it's still steppy though. I didn't know about part 2744, seems interesting. Otherwise there's a combination of both, which has a "cut" instead of a "step", & is only better because it preserves the line. If you managed to adapt the first slope here, it'd look much better. Note that it doesn't work in the LDD because the 1x2 slope snaps to half studs, but that's only in the LDD.
  16. anothergol
    On one hand I hate stickers, and I don't use them, unless they're critical and it takes me forever to be sure I won't screw up. On the other hand, I'm glad there are stickers & not every part is printed, because that would ruin new part colors for me, as a MOCer. But really, Lego could do better: -2 sheets per set. It's not like it would cost anything, and it would give people another chance after screwing up. -waterslide decals maybe (only, pre-cut, if that even exists). Not as straightforward, but at least they allow easy centering, and look much better. But I hate it when a set looks totally different with no stickers on. Like, the Audi R8 relies on stickers for everything, and without them it has absolutely no detail, not even headlights which Lego normally makes out of parts.
  17. anothergol
    Nope since it has no room to expand (I wonder if such a round brick with room for pins would be technically doable, probably not). I was inserting pins in round bricks all the time when I was a kid, eventually they wouldn't pin anymore, not that I really cared about rules back then. Only to have the wings less steppy, whatever the mean. Of course another way is to use plates, I'm not sure what's worse, studs or steppy slopes.
  18. anothergol
    hum, what do you even see of it from that distance? It -might- be a gem when zoomed in, but we all know it isn't. Funny thing reading its comments, one says "Love this smart work! Great work and images". Unless I'm missing the images, that proves that those projects get some copy/paste comments. Another even says "Nice little set" :)
  19. anothergol
    Yeah but it's mainly a ball-joint ball-to-bar (with friction, I dare to hope - I never touched any). Ball joint parts have been extended this year, they're precious.
  20. anothergol
    I think the reason they look like troll projects is that they all have descriptions in proper english, -but- this is because Lego is very harsh on that requirement (like, I got a rejected project because not every word in the title was capitalized). That makes you wonder about what has never passed.
  21. anothergol
    The connection isn't "illegal" because the pin doesn't snap/isn't secure (at all), but because it basically ruins the part over time, so I'd say the bottom one. As for improvements, my only problem with your design would be the ends of the wings, which are very "steppy". Have you considered making that side of the wing fully flat by rotating the whole wing itself?
  22. anothergol
    Make this pass on Lego Ideas and you'll be my hero one eye for sadness, the other for pain
  23. anothergol
    Not for collectors, but for MOCers, get ready to order this wonderful piece that comes out of nowhere in DBG (while yes, pretty much every other new part is still not orderable)
  24. anothergol
    I own a brand new, freshly opened set from the 80's, and all I have is the memory of that same set I had in the 80's (+ that still that very set, but so much chewed up that it can't be compared to) - it's the same thing to me. I also own an "adventurers" set when it was still old grey, still the same to my eyes.
  25. anothergol
    For techniques: https://www.flickr.com/groups/788191@N24/
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