Lego Otaku

A few years ago, LEGO introduced an ez-start system by breaking down large set into sections with numbered bags. Supposedly it helps build the set faster by reducing the number of pieces you need to sort through from over a thousand to under a hundred. It may be fine for kids but what about us AFOL? Do you: eschew them and mix all parts? The fun is in finding the part, not the actual building ignore the numbers and sort pieces by either color, size, and/or type follow the numbers as directed by LEGO manual Personally I like the old way where all the pieces are not pre-sorted because that's part of the fun. But I do sort by sizes (big pieces one side, etc), then by type (plates, bricks, etc) for really large sets.

Great set! Excellent work on making that window close to the movie. If there's one nitpick, you're missing a catwalk above the set where Luke jumped to before Darth knocked the whole catwalk down with his light saber.

And imagination. Sometimes you'd need to get creative to get the way it looks so it looks right.

I was thinking the same when I saw sopwith camel on the front page. I was thinking that how it didn't look like a dog house.

Did not find anything resembling a bracket 2x2-1x4 (part #2422) and could also use something like 2x4x2 winch assembly (part #73037) These are used fairly often in the 80's and 90's era sets. A lot of official LDD'd sets could be made more accurate with this. Oh yeah still like to have complete Monorail tracks, bogies, motor, etc so I can recreate the 3 sets in LDD. Since LEGO doesn't offer the option to buy your custom creation through LDD, hiding obsolete parts is moot point.

it does look like the later version that can fly in atmosphere. But with Jedi color.

Huh I looked for 10000 at the front page and didn't get anything... So that's 2 duplicates that I remade for legend series. I blame thread starter for not mentioning this

Over 27k piece count? Is that all in single file or split across multiple files? LDD tended to stutter at over 5k and rarely works good at over 15k piece count even on a good computer.

A lot of LDD RCB could end up on Cuusoo but considering many of them are hitting 5k+ piece count, the cost will be rather high. Probably starting at $500 a set. The high cost is usually a turn off for many people.

I've been a bit busy as I was bored. I decided to look through the sets numbered 10000 range and compared with the list already done. Some of the "sets" in the 10000 range are not real sets but more like service packs such as 50 trans-clear 1x2 bricks. Probably back before PAB was made available? Anyway here's a few I did. All errors are missing print, no other error unless noted otherwise. Set 10000-1 Guarded Inn (Legends series) LXF ---- Set 10037-1 Breezeway Cafe (Legends series) LXF ERROR: windows 1x4x5 part # 2493 did not exist in LDD, used 60808 (1x4x5 panel) in trans-clear. ERROR: cannot place 4 1x1 round plate underside of the arch, 4 plates left next to the arch. ERROR: red 1x1 tile does not go into pot, left aside. Note: this is pretty much the same as 6376-1 released a decade earlier. I only searched for 10037 and did not think to check for original number until after it's been done. -_- Oh well. ---- Set 10042-1 USA Flag (Holiday series) (note, no instruction exists, I had to make best guess from pictures and part list to make it) LXF ---- Set 10071-1 Mr. Bunny (Holiday series) LXF ---- Set 10090-1 Turkey (Holiday series) LXF ---- Set 10168-1 Mrs. Bunny (Holiday series) LXF ---- Set 10169-1 Chickens and Chicks (Holiday series) LXF ---- and now off to bed.

I bought a set off eBay for a bit under $630 total shipped. I was mainly going for the set 10030 which was nearly complete and had lots of mixed in Star Wars and Harry Potter stuff (all incomplete, no box or manuals) Ihad planned to put together the 10030 and resell the extras. However one of the extra was a Boba Fett with arm and leg print which is valued at over $300 used on Bricklink. I nearly fainted when I looked it up and saw how lucky I got it. Edit: looking through the extra pieces, I could probably get close to complete Cloud City set 10123 (Lando is still MIA). I also got a complete mini Falcon 4488, a near complete Jedi Starfighter 7256, General Grevious set complete minus a lizard head 7255 and also several pieces that came from Harry Potter sets including 4757 and 4758. All these on top of boxed 10030 Star Destroyer (with manual and 4 white boxes inside)

I just replaced an older video card in my main rig with dual GTX 580. I saw very little improvement in overall performance in LDD. It still starts to stutters at over 15k bricks and becomes very slow at over 20k. I used set 10179 UCS Millenium Falcon posted in official LDD project list, then copied and pasted the ship multiple times. At 4th ship (20k total bricks) it was slow to position and place it even on empty spot. At 5th MF (26k total bricks), it'd take me 3-4 minutes before I could place it. I gave up waiting at the 6th MF (31k bricks total) I did notice bigger improvement in overall performance when I overclocked the CPU from stock 2.6GHz to 4GHz. However overclocking is not for everyone. Now if only LDD could support multi core CPU, then my main rig could really fly. After all dual Xeon X5650 has a grand total of 24 processes running at 4GHz. A full multicore support would mean theoretical project or over 350,000 pieces before I start to lose speed.

someone posted a good detailed picture about the tree: http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=628430

Can that be used to make Cypress tree for less than $10 a pop?

And beside, there's some parts in color that aren't available at all. Check the 6x5 limb element in LDD, "officially" there are 9 colors of them in 3 green, black, yellow, white, and 3 trans color. LEGO PAB has only plain green version.

Don't forget the auction ended on Friday the 13th... At $14.50 per like-new tree, the buyer got a good deal.

Looks like the new horses will be compatible with most of the existing horse gears (saddle, trailer harness, etc)

There's a number of factor that can decide this. If you're buying to resell on bricklink or eBay, the time spent may not be worthwhile in the long run. Spending oh say, 45 minutes to pack in extra $5 worth of pieces seems a bit of a weak saving. OTOH if you're going to keep them and have lots of time, pack it up. It helps if you're also good at Tetris game. I regularly reach level 12-13 on gameboy before I start breaking in sweat.

Probably someone forgot to pay the hosting bill or something. I hope it comes back it's a good place to sniff out LEGO sales.

Seller is hurting himself on that 46 tree auction. USA only?? Whoever snaps that for reselling is looking to make big profit.

I had thought of using the technic turntable but the narrow opening makes it hard to build a strong and secure connection with both front and rear section of the ship. I'm not planning to make it swooshable but still it needs to be able to hold up itself while the section spins.

Updated one of my older model: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41226&st=705&p=817303entry817303 set 6961-1 is now more accurate with correct color and correct pieces that did not exist previously. AND http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41226&view=findpost&p=817244 still a few issues but a lot more accurate.

fixed (with the proper 512 max size) And LDD may remove it when you load it next time because it isn't valid connection. I'll leave it for now until LDD is reprogrammed to allow pin inside brick.

7958-1 Advent Calendar 2011, Star Wars LDD file: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Lego-0taku/misc/7958-1.lxf Errors: Day 02: no print Day 04: technic pin will not go in brick, possible illegal connection? Placed next to spider droid (and shame on LEGO) Day 06: missing Chewbacca's head Day 08: no print, wrong helmet Day 11: no print Day 13: no print Day 16: no print Day 17: no metallic silver (chrome) light saber hilt Day 19: no print Day 24: no print

2x2 tiles on 1/2 pins fastened to thick lift arm, which is then connected with 3/4 pins to tread link with 2 holes I can only remember it being more difficult and unfortunately it'll get expensive compared to using 1x2 brick and 1x1 round brick.