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If you happen to have weight problems btw, a trick is to substitute 1x1 or 2x2 plates for round ones, and 1x1 bricks by cones, which weight less. For hidden areas, it can't hurt. I don't see much hidden room in the head, though. (a cone is only 55% of the weight of a brick, always good to know)

It's a special color, I had bought 2 months ago from (BL) MagicBricks, and was wondering where to use them. Seems to be out of stock now. For the ones who are gonna build one: You can just swap it with a square flag. Since the pic I also got rid of the print on the square one btw. You may also have problems finding the DBG car roof (with headlights) that's used under the body, as it's becoming rare. Other than that, all the rest is more or less easy to find.

I use wifi. And it would be ok.. if you didn't have to select all of your 100's of pictures *one by one*, with even no way to move instead of copying. (but maybe I'm missing something and you can select all pictures in some way?) With my DSC, I was using USB, not only because it was charging (which this bloody Panasonic doesn't do either), but also because I could remotely delete images, which the Panasonic doesn't allow either for some reason. Yeah I could buy a mem card reader, but really we shouldn't have to do this. If it wasn't for the amazing lens & image quality, this camera would be rather bad.

I don't know much about photography, so I'll just say what I recently bought for my MOCS: a Panasonic DMC-LX100. It's rather noobproof / all automatic, and is reputed for good pics even in low-light, and gives a nice bokeh effect. Its OS pretty much sucks though, and it's a pita to send pics to your PC, especially compared to a 15-years older Sony DMC.

but they are it's just that I don't know how much balljoints (especially the extender parts) wear off when you play with them

great

really cool, especially knowing how difficult it must be in Lego

I'm generally not a fan of hacked curves, but I must admit the result is beautiful here.

Thanks Around 20 people have requested the LXF, I'm hoping to see one or 2 builds, to see how posable it is for others. Mine hasn't fallen over, but I haven't really "played" with it either.

These are 2 recent good examples of what really shouldn't be on LA, IMHO: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/116673 https://ideas.lego.com/projects/79181 (last one is hilarious, it has like 20 bricks and they're not even assembled properly) At the same time, there are 2 happy kids somewhere because their crap appeared on a website & the whole family voted for it, so why not? You have to admit, the very bad ones are also a good laugh. And yet you never know.. The Little Prince project isn't far behind, as for not-even-looking-like-a-planet. It looks like it started as "just an idea", and added more serious builds as the project got interest. This is where I think that it's all about ideas & not builds.

I don't think it has anything to do with size but yes, of course it doesn't make sense for things that don't have a "center" or aren't designed to be turned around. But I'm pretty sure that more than half of MOCs out there (all vehicles, bots, towers maybe) are suitable for a rotation. For your build, I'd more imagine a slow camera motion upwards (& thus not a loop).

Animation works perfectly! It's gonna change the way we show MOCs. (I'm having troubles making a proper youtube vide but hey, nothing to do with the function that works perfectly)

any ETA for a new version? Would love to try a rotation animation.

ah, well it's clear then but I can't see what's inappropriate for Lego in that rather harmless (& good) movie. But don't worry, they accepted this crap :) https://ideas.lego.com/projects/110824

As dumb as it sounds, your first title most likely didn't pass because not every word started capitalized. Yeah, they didn't make that automatic, and they don't tell you that precisely either. There's certainly nothing wrong with the theme of the movie. Revenge killing? That's in about every movie. Like.. SW to start with.

well, that clears it up then, it's totally possible for a SW-based project to pass. It's well understandable that, say a Millennium Falcon isn't gonna be produced when one is already planned for release. It's still all eventually in Lego's hands - other ways of providing MOCs will never really work, or only for small builds that use very common parts. When you see the amount of shops you have to buy from, when you're building a MOC.. it shows how pointless BL's MOC shop is. But if, one day, Lego manages to bring back & improve the LDD's "buy it" feature, even if it's only for currently produced parts, that would be amazing.

I like dark & light greys, and I wish Lego would produce *every part* in those 2 colors and sell them in their PaB. And then lime, such a vibrant color.

That's something I don't like, btw. I think Lego shouldn't do that. Well, there's already that DeLorean which they took from bad to worse. I may even have bought the original. I don't even understand why the roof was changed - it's not like that front piece was a retired one(?) Then there's the exo-suit which was completely remade, although they can't be blamed for that if the original is full of retired pieces/illegal techniques or is fragile. Thankfully it ended up as good, but it makes you think, you voted for a model and Lego produced another one. But still justified in this case. Thankfully they didn't alter the Ghostbusters car too much, and only improved it slightly.

Actually, not really. I'm often surprised by the "staff pick", it's generally stuff that I have missed. Either because it was suggested before I started browsing (no way I'm gonna spend a day checking all the old crap), or simply because I didn't pay attention/because the smaller thumbnail didn't look attractive. Also, a Lego Ideas entry has zero chance by its own, if it's only voted by the few who check the website frequently. Don't you think that the success of a project is held in the hands of a few bloggers? It's the Osaka Castle I was talking of, and really, I don't have anything against the sources (the real castle does look great), only the execution. If someone comes with a perfect rendition of Howl's moving castle (& it would be really hard), I vote for it. But I won't vote for it hoping that Lego will eventually improve it, or just because I liked the anime. But why do you wanna filter these entries? There aren't that many on Lego Ideas, they're not polluting. Sure, it's not gonna be produced. But it brought attention to a nice MOC, what's wrong with that? It's certainly not entries like this that waste my time when I'm browsing on Lego Ideas. But have Lego *really* said that the few SW entries were rejected for licensing reasons? I haven't seen anything official about it. Do you seriously think that Lego hasn't produced a 6000 pieces AT-AT for licensing reasons only? Why does Lego even report, during any SW project, that they have made a pre-check and that there is no licensing conflict? It's not about presentation. BOTH Golden Girls projects, which let's face it, are the same thing, are presented the same way. The difference is in social media - one got promoted by big bloggers, the other didn't. The success of the Golden Girls project didn't require you or anyone who was checking Lego Ideas regularly, the whole 10k are brand new registrants coming from a few massive blogs. (I'm 40 so I do remember the Golden Girls - oh it was a big show. But even for me, and I'm not young, it's corny (it was well written, though) and I can't imagine buying a set of that). A (good) father isn't gonna refuse posting his son's masterpiece for just 10 bucks.. Btw, there's also good-enough tiny entries that, IMHO, aren't even worth bothering to vote. Maybe, for those, there should be a "vote as polybag" button - just as a polybag is an impulsive buy, this would be for impulsive votes. There are really nice tiny entries that I haven't voted for, that I would buy as a polybag if I happened to pass by one. Like this tiny thing: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/19515 or one of these cute animals, maybe the elephant (possibly already too big): https://ideas.lego.com/projects/115018 or the beebot alone: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/73177 Can't really imagine them in a box.

because it's all wasted on the base, which isn't very interesting. That's what the guy says, 3000 pieces for the base. (plus I don't get it - the moon isn't filled with many pointy rocks like that) really? I've seen so many amazing castles, I don't see what's great in this one (& it's all bottom-up build - could be so much better IMHO) Here's a castle that I've supported: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/18935 I think the amount of bricks is better used here. Of course, Lego is never gonna do this, or castles in general, because they eat a massive lot of parts, without caring like Lego does, thus they will always look "too expensive for what they are". I've also supported this nice scene from Monkey Island: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/94072 or this nice ship (with a nice base): https://ideas.lego.com/projects/50825 I like ships & mechs & I think they're ideal for this, you can get something great for <500 parts. But they don't seem to get much love.

Aside from the vespa which is a nice build (for which I wouldn't vote because I'm not interested in that in general), and the Howl's castle (which I find an ok attempt, but it looks too random for my taste, I don't recognize anything in there).. those 3 in the middle, I don't get it. I see so many sins in those.. Worse, you know yourself that Lego is never gonna put 3000 bricks in a silly random moon landing base(?)

ah, too bad :( well I live too far from that only belgian lego store anyway.

Yeah but you're not voting for "ideas" either, you're voting for a *build* (well, I hope so), so you're yourself not voting in the spirit of the site. "Ideas" are worth nothing, I mean.. I've just voted for Magnum PI's Ferrari. Is that an "idea"? Of course not, everyone can think "Magnum PI + Lego". Take a random show, add "Lego", that's not an idea. And there have been many Magnum PI MOCs & figure packs. I voted for it because the Ferrari looks good, better than the usual minifig-sized (well, as small as it can be) Lego car, and that would be cheap enough for me to buy. If people vote for "ideas", that's sad, and that leads to ugly things like the BTTF car. "Lego + BTTF", that I was ready to buy, but not when the end result looks this poor, while there are other MOCs of the DeLorean that are spot on. (pretty sure that many bought it just for the minifigs) So I hope that people aren't voting for "ideas" either, thinking that Lego will end up improving the model, because in the case of BTTF they actually made a poor model even worse (looking at it again, it's even worse than in my memories, that thing is a mockery). (of course, the "good" MOC also reached 10k.. but too late, and most likely wasn't produced because of the first one)

that's weird, they're different people? They both sure look nearly exactly the same.

I love the claw(s - there is a new, recent version of it), I've used it a lot. But just assume that the extra stuff is just greebling. I don't have a problem with greebling, *unless* it seriously brings troubles, like this part that is a nightmare in the LDD. Lightsaber hilts are of those rare bits to connect bars together, and while the detail does look nice, it looks like it's designed for collision troubles.