Lego Otaku

It just happens there is a Samsonite store near me (Birch Run, MI outlet mall) so I need to print out a few of these old flyers and take it to the store and really mess with the employee there. I bet most of them are too young to remember actual Samsonite branded LEGO sets.

I have a large lot of pearl grey bricks and plates (1x2, 1x3, 1x4, and some plates) I suspect LEGO had planned something some years ago like all silver model (a silver jet perhaps?) and had lots of those parts but never released any set using them. They probably ended up in a few lucky LEGO stores. It is fairly rare but pearl grey do exists in unusually large quantity despite not being used in official sets.

Here's another one: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=auditt-1 The 2 curved chrome tube bricks connected together using illegal connection. After that set was released, LEGO started clamping down on any 3rd party design so no more illegal design would escape. LEGO themselves have used a few illegal designs. Often it's in older sets that "got away" with it before LEGO added the method to illegal list. Because of this, people have had trouble recreating old set using LEGO Digital Designer because LDD program sticks to illegal build restriction (but LDD itself have allowed impossible build before :D )

It is possible to connect to baseplate. LDD doesn't allow much wiggle room but when I built a physical version there is some wiggle room. There are 4 studs that can be connected: 2 with jumper plate when other 2 are on regular stud. The rest of the spot on the bottom would need tiles to hide the gap. 4 studs should be enough if it's mostly new bricks on new-ish plate and not insanely tall. Older bricks and plates may have trouble with clutch strength.

$600 wow what are you trying to recreate? The marketplace? Or the UCS Millennium Falcon?

Expensive is right. I just recently went to make a second car to add to my 10173 holidya train set so I could have one with PF battery, IR, and motor all in one without modding the rest of the train. One problem? Window is $3.50 each, USED and I'd need 10. I went with the newer style 1x4x3 window frame, clear glass, and some printed transparency sheet to simulate the train glass (original train glass didn't fit well in newer window due to small size difference) I also bricklinked 375 yellow castle. I made a few changes such as the red 1x1 window (40-60 cents each) with plain vanilla headlight bricks. It won't be accurate but one would have to look close to notice that.

I dream of extra Monorail parts that LEGO patented but never released: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5087001.pdf and http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4861306.pdf I want the "Y" track and cross track (both in first pdf), a fix for the current switch that tended to get stuck due to worn part, and the extension for chassis (second pdf, first image.

Until the recent version of LDD, I couldn't make a tree out of 1x2 log bricks due to improper collision box. LDD treated 1x2 log brick as having same dimension as regular 1x2 brick. With the current version I was able to do it. It was still tricky to make it work though. I couldn't use align tool because it really messed up. I had to compute the angle of each bricks, and set each one and even then, the last brick had to be re-adjusted by just a degree before I could fit the final brick in. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Lego-0taku/ldd/log_tree.lxf Feel free to steal this log tree for your project.

Or someone who works at LEGOLand park? I wanted some 1x1x4 ariel (#3957, the one that's been around for over 30 years) in green color but it was never released in any set yet a seller has 270 of it. (too pricey IMO) #2580c01 old 2x2x5 lattice pillar was also seen in green, blue, yellow, and while when only black, old-grey, and red are the only ones in official sets.

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Took me a while, it was called "Shape Selection tool" but it did find the offending error brick.

I just put together a little recreation of classic Yellow castle using modern bricks (1x1 headlight instead of old style 1x1 square window, 2x2 corner brick where a 1x1 and 2x1 bricks were used) mainly so I can make a nice looking reproduction to bricklink. However LDD Manager reported I have a 1x2 brick 3065 in yellow. 3065 has no tube on bottom and is used exclusively for transparent bricks. almost 600 bricks, where would I find one incorrect brick? I would love to see an option in the future that lets me show specific brick. ie I type in 3065, it'd hide all bricks used except for those so I can isolate error brick.

I built myself a copy using online instruction. According to step 12, http://www.peeron.com/scans/375-2/19 all 4 corners are supposed to swing out but on my project I recreated in LDD, only the front corner swings out. In step 2, http://www.peeron.com/scans/375-2/3/ a pair of 1x4 bricks were placed across the plates, and it is still there at the end: Was those supposed to be removed? Why are they there in the first place? Error in instruction or what? When I removed those 2, the back corners can swing out.

Too tall? It's too short!! If you were to go with the movie the LEGO tower would have to be a lot taller to fit the proportion. 5 or 6 feet maybe?

It's not much of catalog. Just a few items related to the set you have. I do remember the separate catalog before my dark age in early 2000, and not seeing any since then when I came back to LEGO. Stand alone catalog had to have been phased out in early to mid 2000.

I don't think I've seen this building variation before. Since it's more suited to castle theme, I figured it'd better in historic thread. A little less bland than the regular round tower using 1x2's and round 1x1's but it'd have to be a bit bigger due to need for some flat sides to support the "support" beam. The smallest I could make this was using 24 1x2 per row, each bent at about 15 degrees. With the design above, a max of 8 "support" can form complete tower if you used every 3rd brick. Maybe 12 support at every other bricks (if it's still allow enough flexing to form round tower). Or 6 support at every 4th bricks. Any less frequent and it'd start looking bland again, and any more support, the tower would be too stiff to form round tower anymore.

I am not happy with the situation. BrickOwl seems easier to use but it's still new and with too limited available selection, plus as someone said above, BL isn't happy with BO. Bricklink has far more stuff and usuallycheapest around but I keep getting long wait and non-responding connection, I think they are able to fire the current internet service connecting BL server to the internet. eBay is still overpriced and too limited. Sellers there wouldn't hestitate to charge you $10 to ship one piece. The high fee of eBay isn't helping, something like around 12 or 13% of total cost, including shipping

I think I found an error. I finally got around to putting this one together after it sat untouched for around 18 months. I don't know if LEGO fixed this in later print but in instruction manua page 8, step 8 it instruct to place 2 green 1x2 technic bricks. The picture shows the part with the grey axle rod already inserted. In step 9, it instructs to insert the grey axle rod into the green brick. Oops, grey axle was pictured a step too soon.

http://hackaday.com/...fespan-of-lego/ Someone cooked up a rig that tested LEGO brick to see how long it lasts before it loses clutch power. Video at the source

Still nothing in Michigan that's closer to me than Troy.

Register with Peeron, it seems to get rid of waiting period. If you are getting a time out, it's probably something new or bugged since the last time I used peeron I didn't have any waiting to do.

Hoping they get something interesting before May 4th. I'm planning to make my annual trek to Troy for Star Wars promotions and if their PaB wall is bland, I'll leave my cups in the car.

I'd like to add more of missing minifigs. I saw a bunch of Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 on clearance sale $20 each. All of them had flaps that were opened and when I checked, all of them were missing santa version of Darth Maul and a few other little bags. No wonder it's still on the shelf 4 months after the clearance sale started, no one would pay $20 for a (remaining of) 100-piece set with no minifigs.

I used my Asus Transformer to build 10030 Star Destroyer. I did have the original instruction book but it was huge, heavy, and worth more intact so I put it aside and used my tablet (with keyboard dock to hold it up), I could see just fine plus I could zoom into specific area if I'm having trouble figuring exactly where a piece goes.

I am a little slow, I missed yesterday and didn't realize some other people are slow like me. The site still says Ameribricks and when I first saw that, I thought you had dumped LEGO for the old brick toy American Brick: http://www.architoys.net/toys/toypages/ambricks.html