Lego Otaku

That works. I thought it was odd that what worked with real thing wouldn't work in LDD That one should be reported to LEGO.

I'd watch for reflection next time. i could see a person holding a camera off the space minifig's visor. Wouldn't want to have a repeat of that infamous eBay teakettle incident ;) Nice set :)

1912 minifigs? Either I misread something or that's a typo. Ignoring pieces, the box has about $2 per minifig and would be a great cheap way to build up Ep1 army

My, my, someone quotes the link but didn't use proper punctuation. ;) :whistles:

With other merchandise, we could have a say on how we wanted it produced and style by boycotting crappy models. But with LEGO, they may simply discontinue UCS and focus only on smaller sets more for kids. :/

<snipped> BWAHAHAHA Nice collection BTW. 20km is like 12 miles. With an average car that is easily around 1 gallon or 4 liters per round trip. About $4 in USA, no idea what the gas price is like in Canada. That would be a short trip worth doing once in a while (maybe once or twice a month) depending on how much money you have to spend on LEGO. I have to do a lot longer than 20km. It's 90 miles or about 145 km one way to my nearest store :(

I checked: http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=85&itemID=737 There aren't many UK sellers but if you don't mind ordering from Germany, there's one with lots of baseplates at about 2.69 Euro each

Dang he's not near Michigan or I would have gone over to check the lot and pat 5 grand if it's good and about 1000lbs (that's half a ton!)

For really large design (over 10,000 pieces), LDD could theoretically benefit from multi-core support rather than slow to a crawl because it's already maxing out a single core.

It will be a real model eventually. I'm using LDD to get an idea of brick count and to get an idea of what things would look like before I commandeer a table and not be able to eat there for a month or 2. I'm not going to put in finer details like plants, furniture, etc. just the walls, windows, and door. I eventually got the rounded brick towers to work in LDD but it seems to work only when the bricks are 18 degrees (1/20th of a circle). Any other (10, 12, and 15) does not work, and I didn't go with smaller angle as the resulting tower would be huge. I made 2 versions, using 1x2 bricks and 1x3 bricks: download While the joined wall section would be slightly off set, I believe the tower will still have some wiggle room needed to make the walls squared onto the main walls, and onto the baseplate.

File: download As seen in the SS, when I move over the treadmill, it does "align" to the holes but won't go in it at all.

Silver Chair and Magician's Nephew is listed as coming in a few years according to IMDB.com. So it may be possible that all 7 books will be done eventually. I did read somewhere that the studio is doing the movies in the order the books were written.

Not sure if this is a bug but I was trying to reproduce the tower as seen here: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/92430 Track #57518, 3/4 pins #4274, and 7L lift arm #32524 will not go together. I can use 3/4 pin on the track but the arm will not fit. I can use the 3/4 pin on the arm, they will not go on the track. Eyeballing it, it looks like legal but may be broken due to touchy collision?

I loaded up a monster 30,000 pieces set, then used the explode feature while watching performance monitor. The total CPU usage onmy desktop system never went past 16% even though it took LDD several seconds just to start, then another 10 seconds stutter before it could un-explode. I also tried the same thing on my laptop, and never got past 50% 16% of AMD 1090T happens to equal to just one core. 50% of Intel C2D happens to be just one core. SO I am pretty sure LDD is using only 1 core of a multi core CPU. Using LDD 4.17 BTW. Any reason LEGO won't tweak their LDD to use more cores? Multi-core CPU has been around for more than 5 years now and almost all mainstream computer sold today has multi-core CPU. Only really cheap model (some Walmart sub-$200 models) may have only 1 core CPU. If LDD were optimized with multi core support, it may help ambitious users build insanely large project without having their computer crawling along.

I've tried that in LDD but it won't play nice and let me make a complete ring. :/ Even if I entered the angle number manually, it seems after a few bricks there's an error in fraction of a mm that prevents bricks from joining to form a circle, and align tool doesn't work for me here.

lxf file: Download Ok I'm using technic lift arms to make a semi-rounded castle tower much bigger than any of official LEGO castle panels. Those panels aren't big enough for a bed, and the smaller half round would be more like a prison than anything. The rounded wall is easy, and I can do roof using wing plates and hinged bricks on top. But window is stumping me a bit. I originally wanted to use 2L and 4L arms but 4L does not exist at all (hint LEGO!!) so I had to use 3L and 5L instead. This created a bit of new issue: windows 3 studs wide are all older than I am and won't be easily found or cheap either. So is there a suggestion for medieval type window that could fit there with minimal gap? Also there are no 1x1 round piece that can fit in between lift arm, and LDD would not let me use regular brick (flipped to side) because it seems stud doesn't "fit" there at all. Not sure if it's an error with LDD or if it's illegal but works. If using brick sideway does not work, is there a simple trick to filling in the gap in between lift arm and let me attach it to the corner or side of the castle? Thanks for any tips you can provide.

Probably a local thing as I didn't find any clearance sale at my local Target. The reason(s) for clearance sale could be: local store's not moving any PotC set... an idiot employee... or a dishonest employee trying to get really cheap LEGO sets to resell?

Rotate tool, on top of the screen. Looks like a mini fig hand with a circle arrow around it. Click the hinge piece you want to rotate, then click and drag the mouse to rotate it. LDD is smart enough that if you click (for example) the hinged 1x2 brick in the middle of a set, it will rotate the whole section with the hinged brick. Alternatively, you can enter number in degrees on top of the screen, useful if mouse dragging isn't working well or if you need precise angle. Occasionally it rotates the wrong way though. Once I wanted to raise minifig's arm but when I rotated it, the arm remained stationary. Instead, the whole 2000+ piece MOC got flipped upside down. :/ ctrl-Z works to fix that odd rotate mistake.

I build for myself. Classic space set appeals to me the most but it's been out of production for some 30 years now. And why?.. Because it's... FUN!!!

I'd like to add just one more picture: If your store has some really nice employees, they can bring out open boxes from the back room for you to add to your PAB cup. I wasn't limited to what's on the wall that day. I went through a total of 8 opened boxes. It's best to ask them early in the morning when there's few customer and they aren't busy at all.

You mean that corridor in the first picture is made of Mega Bloks or Tyco bricks??? ;) j/k

I gave up relying on LDD instruction process. It kept making an impossible order involving several floating pieces before the underlying support are assembled.

Got some free time before I sleep so I got the rest in and counting them. Second $70 box is white 1x3 bricks, about 1641 pcs total. Also got: White Horse: 12 Black Scorpions: 210 2x2 cream corner plates: 630 2x4 dark red bricks: 78 4x6 black plate: 102 1x2x3 window frame with rounded top, red-brown: 209 pearl gold lattice window for above frame: 418 2x2 dark blue convex slope: 317 (did not see price guide when I checked BL) ladder gray with clip one end: 20 2x2x2 red-brown barrel: 71 1x1 dark grey brick: 331 1x3 dark grey brick: 43 2x2 dark grey corner brick: 56 1x2 dark grey brick: 164 1x1 trans plate mixed red and yellow: 1006 (too lazy to sort those!) 1x1 round trans-light blue plateL 1441 Grand total piece count: 17249 No wonder the whole lot were so heavy. OTOH this haul adds about 15% to my total collection by weight. (about 300lbs 136Kg before, 350lbs 159Kg now) Two picture to show part of my haul: (assuming I got the link right) Since I had many pictures, you can view them all at Includes spreadhseet of piece counts, cost if I bought them new at BL or at Shop @ LEGO.

I'm not sure if this was covered as I'm not going through the last 90 pages. But it was shown several times throughout the 2 trilogy that when someone is cut with a light saber, the wound are cauterized right away. Such as Anakin's hands during his fight with the Count in Ep 2. But in Ep 4, ANH when an alien was causing trouble with Luke, and Obi Wan has to rescue Luke by cutting off the alien's arm, there's a lot of blood on the floor. Was there an "official" explanation why this case is different?

I'll add my feedback (already voted) I've had problem with manual but it's rare. Back (and still an issue at present) when Lego had black and dark grey, sometimes they are hard to tell apart in the manual and I've used the wrong one or spent the last 10 minutes looking for it only to realize it's the other color. Just black and dark grey. Manual is usually easy to follow but like someone said, technic manual can be tricky if it doesn't point out specific alignment at all. One good example are the wheel alignment in Emerald Night set, if someone doesn't notice that one wheel has to be 90 degree off the other wheel, the result is bumpy and jerking movement with the wheel and piston arm. There's a long thread on this specific issue somewhere. I've had a few missing elements (Lego always replaced them) and only 2 deformed piece: technic 1x3 beam that was squished half the normal thickness as if it came out of the mold a little hot and got caught in the rollers somewhere, and a red 4x6 plate that's missing a few studs like not enough plastic was injected or had air pocket inside. I still have these deformed pieces. The only gripe with the missing or damaged pieces are the few weeks of waiting for replacement to arrive. I have not experienced this but there are numerous complaint about bricks cracking after just a few months, particularly the white cheese slopes. So a bit of quality issue here, possibly too small pieces and too tight fitting? Overall I would say the biggest problem is the black and dark grey in manual can be hard to tell apart.