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Thanks on the left it's 15395, on the right 18674+4740

These were my entry to the digital contest (I was gonna wait until it ended, but votes have more or less stopped anyway). For this one I'm pretty happy with how the parts merged smoothly at the top. https://www.flickr.com/photos/137434519@N08/albums

Pretty cool & looks nice in both forms. I'd have liked it better all in grey, though.

Ah indeed. What he calls nanofig is indeed the microfig, & the trophee is the nanofig.

but there's no argument to have about nanofigs, since they are purely scaled-down minifigs (unlike microfigs). Without counting their base which is 1 plate thick, they're around 1/3.7 of a minifig - but certainly not 1/2.

There has been a new batch of crap. I particularly like this telescope. The idea of wiring isn't even that bad in itself, though.

The ones from Lego's own AT-ST, 4150px19 They're not important - in version 1 I had used grill-printed ones.

For those who own it, anyone knows what kind of slopes the ball will/won't take? In other words, is it even possible to have 2 or 3 bricks-tall stairs? And does the weight matters much - would too much weight on one side make the plate tilt by itself? Also, has anyone tried rails? I'm wondering if the ball can pass over the clips (and which type of clip, and can it pass over 2 clips at the same position or maybe just one at a time) I have no doubt that a glass marble would, but Lego's light balls would probably need a lot of speed to pass over, no?

No they're not. They're making their version of SW stuff. Besides, it's people who vote for SW stuff, so don't get mad at SW entries, users decided this. I've had 4 entries so far. 3 weren't based on licenses: max 150 votes. 1 is SW: 1700 votes. Whenever someone suggests a project well knowing that it's not gonna get votes (not because he thinks his project is crap, but because he's realistic), he'll be accused of "using Lego Ideas as a gallery". Whenever he suggests a project to get votes, he can only do that with licenses, only licenses will garantee that many people will be interested, and he will be blamed for that as well. If your entry is NOT based on a license, and it IS voted, it means that your project was good enough (but there are hundreds of good projects), and that you got a lot of LUCK. So whenever people get mad at good entries that weren't there to be voted.. it's pretty stupid, because no one adds an entry & really expects it to be voted. People add entries that they like, the rest is luck, and that's how it should work. Hum, no they're not (anymore). As a matter of fact, Lego Ideas is our only chance to get castle stuff these days. But that's already in the rules. No rock&roll?? & I'd like to know how those sets are annoying you, while they're 1 for 100 crap children-made entries. Hum.. Ghostbusters, and as you said, Minecraft. hum, Lego has just released the maze set

Well, the fact that Lego has much more pieces does the opposite, it takes a lot more creativity to re-use those pieces (which were mostly minifig accessories) in ways that they weren't intended to be. Most MOCs are much more creative than those all-brick-made statues in Lego parks (which is just using bricks as pixels, their design is even partly computer-assisted). However, the fact is that Lego used to make (when I was a kid, in the 80's) construction sets, now they make toys. I'm pretty sure that these days a kid disassembles his Lego much less, for these reasons: -too strong assembly. It was pretty easy to disassemble a set when I was a kid, because it was all bottom-up assemblies, there was only 1 kind of bracket (rarely used), it was nothing like today where disassembling classic sets looks more like disassembling a technic set. -sets look better nowadays, that's another good reason to keep them assembled -sets also have more pieces, thus take more time to assemble, another reason to avoid disassembling But I think you have to be over 50 to remember Lego as "piles of bricks". In the 80's, Lego already had many different pieces & large specialized pieces. Edit: that guy is 43. I'm 41 - the only way he was getting "piles of bricks" when he was a kid, would be that he only got "pile of bricks" sets. And since those still exist today..

I mentioned your previous blog page about it (the page is gone?) a few months ago, and I'd say you were right about it. (http://www.eurobrick...pic=120770&st=0) The fact that my AT-ST needed to be this wide to fit 2 minifigs, and ended up this tall, makes a minifig scaled around 1:29. Now you say 1:42, but that seems too much. If I put a minifig next to Bandai's 1:48 AT-ST, it does not fit at all. It also comes with its own pilot models, with tiny tiny heads compared to Lego's. Your old page is now gone, but you were at some point suggesting 1:28 or something, I think that was more correct. And yes, that makes minifigs tall as human midgets, but in order to have details scaled properly, and such big heads, I think that's what they should be considered as, midgets. Let's also consider that the minifig was also used as a toddler the first year it appeared (but also as adult the same year, I don't know which came first, maybe someone knows the full story). Now I'd say that 1:42 is probably closer to Lego's own view/own scale of vehicles. But: -it varies a lot -they can't go too big to spare parts -it has changed over time (most cars are now 6 or even 8 studs wide, they all used to be 4) And here's the comparison. Again, the AT-ST is scaled 1:48 & is recognized as the best kit at the moment, probably all well thought. So comparing heights only, it would be about right (except that Lego's Chewy isn't much taller than a minifig), but no, it just does not fit. Lego Chewy doesn't look like an overweight one, it looks out of scale. I think that for this to look "right", the minifigs would have to be nearly twice smaller. And as for the nanofig scale, it's pretty easy here, because the nanofig is pretty much a 1/3.7 minifig, thus whatever you conclude for the minifig, applies to the nanofig.

But what is it in a license that can't be re-negociated? How is it not easier to renegociate with contacts you already have & know, than with new people for a new license? I don't understand why you think that a license is carved in stone. I don't think Lego has ever stated that projects based on their existing licenses were forbidden, and they never forbid such entries. It more looks like people based that impression on the few rejected SW entries, that had other reasons to be rejected (like the piece count alone). Now if *another toy company* owned an exclusive license, then yeah that would be a good reason.

To think of it, the best proof that this is all made by adults, is that the descriptions are all proper english. And Lego probably proofreads all of it, since I've had an entry rejected because not every word in the title started with an uppercase. I think Lego really checks if it's adult-made from the description. So.. can you imagine what does NOT pass? A gem from the last batch: "The only valid excuse why you wouldn't support this is, "You hate Yo Kai Watch". If that is your excuse I feel very bad."

Well the LXF is on page 1, you will need the Lego Digital Designer.

This looks close, even though you can't have the slope & the tile at the same time, but maybe the end result is a tight fit that doesn't work in the LDD http://www.fiastarta.com/Lego/Test.lxf

haha he listed assault on hoth

I think not, because -there are much much less of those large entries -they're generally cool, I didn't feel like I wasted my time when I browsed them -Lego now has an idea that some people would be ready to buy that R2D2. There is a market for that - I know, I myself bought a lifesize T-800 for 6000eur (& I think SideShow's lifesize R2D2 was around the same price). So a 1500eur Lego R2D2? There would be buyers (not me - I'm not so much into SW and I find that project not smooth enough). Consider that but half of the projects that passed are based on licenses - why would Lego then forbid this?

But here it's sold by amazon.de, with low price & free delivery. Of course it already was on amazon in every country, sold by resellers at crazy prices - that didn't count. Since it's not sold in any other shop yet and not in stock at amazon yet, I believe amazon is simply taking preorders for it. In any case, I got it for 150eur - 20 less than in my country.

Looks like Brick Bank finally is on amazon.de, for 150eur (although not in stock, but I could order it). So not D2C for that long.

well, it worked in the sense that the guy on the left looked like he was about to eat the one on the right. Anyway, if this was really not intentionally bad, keep doing it, because it's funny. Like 70's BBC.

you know I wouldn't even be surprised if it got to 10k.. because.. internet

There's most likely a clip (1x2, with bar) piece under each wedge (or body), attached to a 1x1 clip. That, or an old hinge (2 & 3 fingers), as those have the advantage of being flatter & won't require a 1-plate offset as the clips will. Also, for the best minigif-scaled Ferrari (308 GT here): https://ideas.lego.com/projects/114636

nah, it all smells "The Office" humor & I'd say well done. 0:35 was the most funny bit.

Isn't it a little too soon for such a contest? I'm not sure that everyone got his hands on the maze set yet (well I haven't yet). This said, since I don't like the colors of the official set, this contest might (well, already did) end up with versions that I'd rather build.

Would like to see what it does (knobs get back to center when released?), aesthetically it's perfect.