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LDD does have a way of exporting to LDraw but I found it to be a bit messy if you have several rotated parts or flexible parts. AFAIK there isn't a way to get from LDraw to LDD because LDraw has far more parts in their library and many would get deleted as unknown in LDD.

Actually I think that piece started with Tyco. I've seen them and have a few somewhere.

7. Oky - The Ultimate Showdown 3 points. I'm a sucker for humor 13. ACPin - Yoda's Legacy 2 points EDITED: missed the part where it stated 3 points max per entry out of 5 points total. Dumped 2 point in another worthy entry.

So any idea if it'll be out for sure on May 4th? I usually make a trip to local LEGO store to pick up freebies along with whatever I can waste money on. :D

Not likely to pass :(

Defiantly not the Black Friday thing or the recent history. I haven't bought any LEGO (online or from LEGO store) since August 2012 and I got the keychain fig yesterday. Probably spent about $600 from May to August of that year so not big spender compared to some of you.

requiring IDs on returning would help. Many store already keeps track of customer returns by credit or debit card and if they find out someone's returning a lot they can start refusing return or disallow the customer from returning. It shouldn't be hard to block return by ID card, especially if the sets were originally paid with cash. The thieves will soon start running out of stores they can rip off and be forced to quit. Better seal like the holo tape that leaves hard to conceal message such as OPENED or VOID that retailer can use to check, and tell the customer they can't accept it and they should contact LEGO about missing part. Such tapes are next to impossible to remove without defacing and cutting then re-taping would be somewhat obvious.

Almost 5 and 1/2 days of non stop rendering to do on a 20k piece train station set someone did. Some transparent windows, lots of technic parts (= whole lot of bevels) A cheap computer from Walmart would likely take up to 2 months of nonstop rendering for the same 1600x1200, no AA image. Image posted below was reduced 50% to conform to forum rule. PS sorry, no request. My computer uses about $75 per month in electricity.

Pro: no more dumb Jar Jar jinx Con: lens flare galore

Yes they are amazing provided you don't abuse them. I've had a few missing pieces that were all replaced plus a service kit for the space shuttle set to fix the weak fuel tank. I very rarely get piece that don't belong to a set but here's that I can remember: 5580 Highway Rig, one 1x4 technic brick in black was missing, and an extra 1x4 technic brick in yellow was included. Officially the set only had trans-yellow, no solid yellow piece. a castle set I can't remember which one had a partially formed red plate, looks like a 4x4 plus one extra stud on the edge, possibly incomplete 4x6? I don't remember if I still have it or not. 7931 T-6 Jedi Shuttle was missing a bag #4 and had 2x bag #1. The single most expensive service was when I bought $75 worth of PaB pieces last May (to get the chrome droid). The box arrived but it was half a box, missing the whole bottom and everything inside. Showed them pictures, they sent me replacement quickly. The second box arrived safely and if it was the exact same box style, then the first one likely fell apart when the plastic strap on it broke off and the bottom fell out.

Pretty amazing that LEGO made the first baseplate 20 years in the future when they released them with the classic space sets. I'm sure you meant 1979 ;)

My desktop is a dual XEON X5650, and that gives me a total of 12 cores, 24 processes with hyperthreading. it takes my very little time on simple design. Right now I'm doing one that has almost 20k total bricks with lots of transparent elements. Current progress: 72% completed after 2 days and 15 hours. It would have taken a cheap Walmart junk computer around 3 weeks at 24/7 to finish the same thing. I should warn you, using XEON (or Option from AMD) and multi-CPU board can get rather expensive and it's more for people who needs power. I do a lot of 3D rendering so I can use mine. But when I play a game on my desktop, it's like having a Formula-1 engine on a push mower... too much power. If you have the money to burn and really want powerful computer, look up Intel socket 1567. Very expensive but you get 10-core CPU and support for 4 or 8 CPU to a single motherboard. That would make Tim Allen envious.

Been a while since I put something together but I couldn't pass this one. For those of you not familiar: Bocce on Wookie Bocce on Wiki

This. A thousand times this. When my $2,000 desktop performs about the same as my $200 laptop while handling really large LDD project, something's not right. My desktop rig has dual XEON (12 cores total, 24 processes with hyperthreading), plus 24GB RAM currently installed and yet I start getting slow down at about 100k bricks and rarely can do anything at over 500k If LDD was properly multicore capable I should be able to handle a few million bricks on my desktop before I start getting slowdown. PS yes it's overpowered for LDD but I do use my desktop for other 3D stuff. Plus I know people that has more power than my desktop. quad Optron and even octo socket 1567 XEON populated with 10 core CPUs for example.

I've said it before, I'd love a feature on disabling F1 help option. It's been a thorn in my side since some early version of LDD 3. F1 key and escape key are often very close together and a stray finger trying for escape key can hit F1 key by mistake, switching out to browser and interrupting your work flow. Right now the temporary solution is to pop out F1 key. It might be fine on cheap keyboard but I'd rather now hack in my $100 keyboard just for one key

Because of an old saying "A sucker is born every minute" As long as there are "suckers" on eBay, scammer will keep milking them. eBay and Paypal already put a 21 days hold on fund for new sellers but with international sellers it's too easy to claim the item hasn't arrived yet and get the money out before eBay figures it out and shuts down the seller. International sellers are also counting on the fact it's often next to impossible to send debt collector or police after them when the buyer is not in the same country. For now all we could do is to make sure all eBay buyers are aware of scam and to avoid anything that is too good to be true, and to keep reporting suspicious auction to eBay. Years ago I was a victim of a scam (not LEGO related). I bought a valuable collectible card off eBay at a price that was the low end of average selling range. Nothing seemed suspicious of it until 2 weeks went by with nothing. I asked the seller, seller said it was shipped. I asked for tracking, DC#, or copy of receipt showing it was shipped. Seller said it was shipped (notice how he avoided mentioning tracking ot such). I asked again for numbers or copy, he said again it was shipped. Filed complaint, won PP claim but PP said nothing can be recovered as the account was empty. So I filed chargeback with credit card company. Got the money back, and the scammer's PP account likely ended up a negative $600. The one really nasty profanity laced message I got from the seller got his eBay account banned, and pretty much told me there's debt collector after him because I won CC chargeback. PP was also mad at me for going over their head to credit card company but I told them I qualified for buyer protection and they failed to hold their end of contract promising full refund under buyer protection, their fault. It's probably a coincidence they changed the protection requirement to be harder to qualify next time. This was long before eBay started offering buyer protection service.

Not if the cashier is not paying attention.

Motorcyclist celebrating the repeal of Michigan's helmet law by tossing the helmets in the trash.

Minifig utensil screwdriver or wrench with flat end could also be used to pop tiles off provided there's a way to get it under the tile's groove. So no removing a tile in middle of tiles.

A steal? You're getting ripped off! In USA that little cup is only $7.99. A little bit more than a $5, 50 piece polybag. I've posted my detailed list a few times in this thread if you wanted to see what I got, how much it would have been if I bought it from online sources, and occasionally to brag about special piece like trans-clear 2x2 slope or a big load of green 1x1 bamboo bricks.

<snipped> You're assuming all submitted works are done by adults. What if that "embarrassing" box was done by a 5 year old? Anyway there won't be an easy solution for this. Some just wants a chance at making money by submitting a design, getting 10k votes, and all. Lottery probably offers better chance than getting your designed approved all the way through. I still look through Cuusoo and occasionally I do vote on something that isn't going to cause problem with license (ie no Star Trek stuff obviously), and something that I think is worth it.

Headlight brick also works for half plate offset gap solution LXF

There are 2 2x2 slopes that I like and has been used in many sets for more than 2 decades: SLOPE 45 2X2 with computer screen pattern SLOPE 45 2X2 with computer panel pattern

Problem with putting multiple projects together, LDD wasn't designed efficiently and only uses single core so it starts to slow down on good computer when you get to around 10k parts. I've put together one that had over 30k pieces and it was running at anemic 1 frame per second when I tried to add just one brick somewhere. My rig has 24GB RAM and dual XEON CPU, it rips graphic rendering, and run games at very high settings with little problem but LDD makes my computer cry. LEGO should see about a complete re-do of LDD code for LDD 5 to make it work with multi-cores when computing multiple connection points, especially on an extremely huge project.