Lego Otaku

Have never seen any 1x1 flowers (sprue of 4) other than red. My local store sucks for flowers and plants They never had any plant since I hauled in huge load of 1x1 bamboo plants a year ago.

TRU Express is bad, they have extra high markup to make up for small store footage and sometimes high space rental.

From a movie: If you build it, they will come. Make a model of the ship and post it on Cuusoo. See if that brings in the demand for LEGO to make this or similar Artichect-type series for older ships. I'd like to see USS Constitution ship as it's over 200 years old and still serving US force. No other countries got a 200 years old ship still in active service.

My opinion: LotR will do better and longer. LotR: is not really limited to sex or age, anyone can enjoy it. Even if you're not Hobbit or LotR fan but are fan of castle theme in general, this can work. Friends: most boys would rather eat soap bar than to be caught touching the set. Also it doesn't seem to appeal to older people, mostly younger girls. The only good thing is for lots of small animals. Pastel colors don't seem to sell well on BL anyway. I'd be surprised if Friend sets lasts more than 2 years before it gets axed.

If the 3 stud and 1 stud angled bricks are overlaid in staggering pattern, there shouldn't be a 'weak' point. Alternatively you could make 2 stud version with "wings" at both end to fit in between 3 studs brick for better clutch power and still fit. However the wall would be a little loose if it's not more ta=han 3 layers high. I also have a foam roller from craft store that is handy for flattening uneven bricks like mossiac and for wall like this should LEGO release it.

Now that was weird. Looks like LDD twisted the hose so much it melted into thin string.

Looks like LDD doesn't handle complex multi-hinged construction very well. I was trying to build a portcullis as LEGO didn't make one big enough, and when I tried to rotate, every part tried to rotate in different direction and the result was a mangled mess. (331x392) Started out as all flat, one click and 1/2th of a second it bunched up. The green arrow were spinning like crazy. If I place the brick on a baseplate, then try to twist it the first set of arm won't move but other bars still bunches up quickly. LXF file for your pleasure

Looks like that melting clock painting to me. Have the correct video driver installed? It's possible if Windows installed a generic VGA driver, everything looks ugly and with very poor 3D video speed. HD3000 should be able to handle 3D video from LDD without a problem. Mine does 3D Blu-Ray without a problem.

pretend they got jaundiced.

You need these: www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=6126 not these: www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=6126b

You could probably say the same for people who speeds on the road and doesn't cause accident or injuries, why chase them and possibly arrest the driver when there are murderers and drug dealers to search for. Shoplifting and other form of theft from stores are multi-billion dollars a year loss for USA retail stores. Not to mention damaging store's reputation when they unwittingly sell multiple sets that have been carefully opened, pilfered, reclosed to look sealed, and returned. Stores will go after anyone that are caught stealing in any form, yes even over a $1 candy bar, and then turn over to the police if it's a large value item. In Michigan, the store are allowed to charge the accused a penalty of 10x the value of the item (maximum $200) and can impose additional penalty if the person does not pay in certain time frame. This is in addition to criminal fine and/or jail time. It may seems excessive to someone who steals a candy bar and gets caught but the penalty is geared toward those who stole repeatedly and/or steals high value items. SO yeah the police do have a good reason. The fines they collect from court pays for them.

nvm probably means never mind. And nvm have been used as far back as Everquest and other MMORPG, long before SMS came about. But yeah people should avoid using short hand typing as they don't translate to other language and not everyone would know some like afaik, hth, fwiw, and etc.

I am curious. There are a lot of bricks from early 2000's that are not in LDD. Yet there are part 6072 which came in only 6 sets and have been out of production since 1997. So I was wondering how does LEGO decide what obsolete part to add to LDD? Do they use a dart board or roll a 100 sided dice?

There already is a special hell for those who steals minifig and returns the set as new and "sealed". They get to spend the next 10,000 years opening LEGO sets and finding only Megablocks part (well chewed, covered on candy goo, etc) and the only way out of that is to get forgiveness from every single children the thief ruined.

Unofficially one exists. A 3L bar and a little blow torch to heat it and bend the end to make a handle. :D *runs and hides from puritans*

PotC may have been good but there's just a few movies, no TV series, not a classic like Star Wars, and not much else until the next movie comes out so LEGO version of PotC can fizzle after a while. Oh, and let's not forget some sets never matched the movie such as the fountain of youth due to some major changes from when the movie was scripted until it was shot. PoP was all by itself and the movie wasn't exactly a smash hit so LEGO series fizzled a lot worse. Star Wars is a major movie with huge cult following, had 30 years to ferment, got reissue coming to big screen (in 3D) and still has continuing TV show Clone Wars. Star Wars themed set will continue to be around for many more years.

It's probably being replaced by a next generation set. Original NXT set 8527 was replaced by version 2.0 set 8547. LEGO may be about to release the 3.0 or something soon and has to kill off existing set first. I saw something about new servo motor but not much else.

Rolling back to noon sorted out the mess as it was hard to un-merge accounts. And BL is back up but the password function has been changed a bit, the remember feature has been disabled and you'll be auto-logged off after a period of inactivity. You'll be fine. The hacker affects the seller more by making it hard for them to do any business while the site's down.

A good practice is different password for everything and nothing obvious like '12345' or your name. All of my password (BL, email account, paypal, ebay, etc) are different so if hacker got one of them, they only get one thing and not all of my stuff. If you need help making a random sonding password: you could start with this site http://www.pctools.com/guides/password I do keep all of my password on paper (index card) in a well concealed index box. Hackers can't reach through the computer to steal my password card box, and even if someone knew my home address, I live on a 40 acres farm and that's a lot of places to hide password files.

I do have one guess. Someone who is not of legal age to have BL account and was upset that he was ratted out, vilified, kicked out, and humiliated. I've seen a few underaged account owners get banned and one had something like 20 merged accounts because he kept coming back under new account.

Some licensed themes like PoP should have not come out. Other than a large load of tan and dark tan parts, there wasn't much demand for it. LEGO could probably have made it a generic Arabian Night theme and still sold about the same but without licensing fees. Other licenses like Star Wars and LotR are great as you have familiar and popular characters to play with in sets or just to display. Beside if what I heard is correct, Star Wars kept LEGO from going bankrupt at the turn of century.

Round 3 just happened. I noticed something was off when I got the message my account was terminated. Then I saw the name of a few well known members on their forum becoming legoman77 as some of the top 10 or so in feedback total got ninja-merged. Then BL was shut down (disconnected or powered off) and twitter reported that someone had hacked into admin's account and causing more trouble. *sigh* Another roll back incoming from 12:45 PM BL time to 12:15 PM. https://twitter.com/#!/BricklinkAdm for the latest info. I really hope the hacker lives in USA, it'd be very hard for this hacker to escape the long reach of FBI

I didn't notice that, I blame broken formatting due to too many links on the first page Added in bold, with ]duplicate] included. I do have an idea about the first page that got broken. How about a new thread that can only be edited by moderator and contains the master list of all sets, and leave this existing thread for user submission?

Just recently (last few days) LEGO dumped a whole bunch of new instruction manuals in PDF format including most of the new 2012 sets and many older sets not previously available. There were 3 sets that I had never heard of but only one is available to download and others (4000005 and 4000012) gets me 404. Maybe it was listed too soon?There's also 4000001 moulding machine listed but not downloadable either The one new mystery set is the 4000002 LOM Moulding (click to download manual) 4000002 LOM 2011 Moulding - Theme: Miscellaneous [duplicate] Few more pages in the instruction book. You should download and read em. LDD file Errors: no printed tiles: - 1x8 tile with "September 2011" printed - 1x8 tile with "LOM Moulding" printed And before you ask, yes it is British spelling moulding with an u. The instruction book looks like they were made in architecture style with back story on the building (in English and Spanish). I copied the first couple paragraphs below:

Out of all the sets I tried (haven't tried '73 or '76 yet), Shelob seemed to be the best of the low cost sets with excellent brick built spider and I had fun building it. On the high end, Helm's Deep with great building technique and beautiful curved walls