Lego Otaku

I need to revise my estimate for orange flame pieces. I made an estimate based on the box weight but when I used the scale (removed the box's weight) I got slightly more than my estimate. Revised estimate: about 10,500 flame elements (or more than $2,000 worth from Lego web site). I have not sorted the cups or weighted the other box yet, been busy with food preparations.

The micro motor has extremely low RPM and it can't handle heavy work because the pully knob pops off the motor very easily. There are many uses for this but not as a heavy crane or for moving vehicle. I have 2 working motors both from 6979 (UFO series Interstellar Starfighter) along with the lighted parts.

I went back to Troy. Originall I wasn't planning on it but rather was going to go garage sale hunting. I kept following signs and making stops and by about 10 AM I noticed I ended up almost half way from my house to Troy so I decided to run the rest of the way. The staff there were especially nice today. They let me pick bricks that weren't on the wall by pulling some boxes out of their back room. I ended up with 2 boxes ($70 each) and 8 tightly packed large PAB cups. Among the notable haul: white horses and black scorpions, brown 1x2x3 window frame (rounded top) and pearl gold window that went into that frame, dark red bricks, 2x2x2 barrels, dark blue 2x2 slopes (corner), and too many more. The entire haul ended up nearly 50 pounds total (about 23Kg for non Americans) Yes I asked about other bricks but they didn't have other animal or some bricks or slopes in certain colors :( I ran out of time (wasn't planning to spend 2 hours packing!!) and I have to get kitchen cleaned and ready for making food for wedding shower tomorrow. But I will post one detail: one very hot $70 box contains about 8,000 neon-orange flame pieces that goes $0.20 on Lego web site and averages $0.03 new on BL. 8,000 would be $240 from BL or $1,600 from lego web site. :D It's the newer style with round base, not with pin, so it can't be chained into long flame but I couldn't resist huge load of bright orange pieces. :D A cheap way to really inflate my collection by piece count. Today's haul probably got me enough to build a good sized castle on 32x48 base plate with mixed white and dark grey bricks. Picture and detailed piece counts coming in a day or 2... PS today plus May 4 purchase combined was over $600... will a generous moderator please change my title to "Spent too much money on Lego" ;)

I think a few changes daily depending on when it runs empty. Your phone would be ringing every day. ;)

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=H_K2Oo1idcM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_K2Oo1idcM When I build it, I will have printed out transparent sheet and cut to fit inside the display area. The MOC is of an arcade machine for 2 players head 2 head in combat game (like Mortal Kombat or some air combat) or strategic game (like Risk or something) and the large rotating holo display would be for spectator to watch the game. Did the whole thing in like 10 minutes after watching a Star Trek: TNG episode where Data was able to force a never ending tie with an alien. If the console part for the player looks familiar, I stole it from Tantive IV set ;) The clip on top and bottom should be enough to hold the small sheet in place. Now I need a good suggestion on what game "screen" to print out. (PS good time too, Amazon has a sale on 50 pack transparent paper for laser printer, less than $10 USD) EDIT: forgot LDD file: http://personalpages...at/big_game.zip

Dark purple and lime green is also used on a certain dinosaur in a child show. Maybe replace all the black parts with purple? Then the train would be real popular with toddlers and pre=schoolers

Take for example I want to build a small army of 20 snow troopers for a MAC, one battlepack has only 2 snow troppers and 2 other figs that may not fit in my MOC. I would need to buy 10 of that battle packs (over $110 plus tax) to get 20 snow troopers. I could sell the extra figs but it may take a few weeks to months to sell of all of them on BL, and eBay has that greed issue that keeps driving small sellers away. If Lego were to release 10 pack set with all 10 of the same fig that are commonly part of an army, then I would need to buy just 2 of them and it'd be a lot less than $100. Just an example. I know such sets would sell fairly well for some of us who wants to build a big army quickly.

It would be very nice if they did. I don't want to buy the metal rail version when all I got are 70's and 80's battery train and modern RC/PF trains. I may eventually pick up a cheap cross that has bad or worn metal but still usable for self powered trains.

10 minifig pack of: battle driods stormtrooper snowtrooper scouts clonetroppers etc LEGO could probably sell em well at $30 or $40 a 10-pack, and it'd be a cheap way to build an army

$50 each yikes!!!Did Lego discontinue crossover tracks already or what? Last fall while on vacation in Canada I found a few at Toys R Us and bought 3 for $30 CDN each.

It happens once in a while that I bump F1 key when I try to press ESC key, which switches me from LDD to web browser with the help HTML. It gets annoying after 8 or 9th time in the last hour, almost to the point of ripping the offending key out. Alas I use F1 a lot in MMORPG game so removing it is not an option. Is there a way to completely disable the help? Or reassign F1 to something else that has virtually no chance of accidental activation, like alt-ctrl-shift-scroll lock?

I'd still like to have the full Monorail parts: cars, bogey, motor, 9v battery box, straight track of all 3 sizes, long curve, both short curves, both switches, both part of ramp, and both short and tall support.

Classic space ranked very high for me back then, and I believe I still have most of the original manuals. And many more, which ended with I also had almost all of the Forestmen sets- loved Robin Hood themes. (anyone donate me a river crossing to make it complete? ;) ) I kind of lost track in early 1990 but I played with Blacktron and Space Police 1 before I went into the dark side.

Yes defiantly. It would probably have to be a team build to get Midi Executor. Just think, this huge nearly 3m long ship was bought down by an A-Wing fighter that would have been the size of a grain of sand in Midi scale.

13293 gets nothing 1329 gets nothing 3293 is a duplo set Can I trade numbers? ;) OTOH I can wait until Lego runs out of 10xxx numbering and start doing 11xxx, then 12xxx, finally 13xxx but at about 220 numbered sets every decade, it'd be about 140 years before number 13293 gets used for a set. :(

There's one possible problem with using 1 stud = 1 foot. At least in USA, most houses are built with walls being 6" thick so you'd need half a brick width to build walls. Walls are built with typical 2x4 beams which is closer to 3.5" wide, then add in drywall which can be as thick as 3/4" or 1" thick (depending on location and type needed) so you're pretty close to 6" in the end. How about 1 stud = 6"? The wall would be to scale but the house may end up a tad large. My house is about 30 feet at the widest, which means 60 studs, 480mm or almost 19 inches wide. PS I just may have to build my own house after all... The roof would be a bit tricky as half of my house is 1 story only and the peak of the lower meets the bottom part of the roof of second floor so a bit of awkward angle there.

Those are great designs, while keeping them all in the same scale and still retaining plenty of details. I dare someone to build the Executor in this scale. One source says 19 km in length, which would mean ISD Midi scale would be 380 studs long. 118.75 inches long or a hair over 3 meter total. With any luck, half a million grey plates would be needed just for the skin of the ship. OTOH Millennium Falcon would have to be really small. At best you could use a single 1x1 round plate for the whole ship, and someone would complain it's bigger than proper scale. ;)

Great job making a good looking shunter with the PF gut stuffed in. Makes me want to build one myself. i did take a few picture of a local shunter for reference if I wanted to build an American style diesel model.

All 3 Chronicle of Narnia movies. The new ones, not the icky BBC version. Then I dug up my Chronicle of Narnia book to read the rest: 4 books, supposedly Magician's Nephew and Silver Chair are next to hit the big screen. Since Magician's Nephew takes place before rest of the series, the only reoccurring elements are: Aslan, the witch, lamp post, and wardrobe. Silver Chair takes place some 70 years after Dawn Treader and only Eustace and Aslan returns from previous series (along with a new character, a girl from Eustace's school)

Yep. eye-melting outfit. If I ever come across those, I will strap every one of that ugly minifig to an M-80 and light em then run.

Back before my grandpa passed away, he used to work on the farm and had his own wagon. It was green color, not a John Deere green but lighter shade. I do remember the side having a wheel the person turns to open the hopper and a folding chute that directed grain from the side down to the where it needed to go. Occasionally he'd rent an extra one but he owned one. I've seen tandem locally during harvest time but rarely more than 2. I think the state law limited the length and number of trailers that can be pulled at once.

Today picked up 2x 8061 sets, they were on clearance sale at Kmart for $30. I also picked up 3x mini TIE fighters 8028 and 1x mini X-Wing 30051, all that was left at a local Walmart. I might put these mini's away, forget about it for 10 years, then resell it for $20 each (with inflation, it'd be the same as $4 I spent each today ;) ) Walmart had lots of Atlantis sets on clearance sale, 8077 Atlantis Exploration for $30 each. Didn't want to spend $150 for all 5 of them so I left em behind.

I choose Dwarf Warriors. Replace that itty bitty leg with regular legs and you could have an army of vikings. :D

Since I don't collect any collectable minifig and nearly all are for playing with or to store & forget, I use a large tub for minifigs (and separate tub for loose minifig utensils, weapons, accessories, and separate one for animals) The entire minifig collection I have that goes back to late 1970's fill a large tub (2 gal size, or about 7.6 liters) with 1 quart (0.9 liter) for accessories, 1 quart for weapons, 2 quarts (1.9 liters) for animals. Those dragons from late 1990's to early 2000's takes up a lot of spaces. The only thing I have that are considered collectable and worth keeping separate is the sealed shadow arf trooper I got free last week. From the sound, many who ordered online didn't get it because of unexpectedly high demand for these minifig.

Somewhere between not enough time and too much time. ;) It mostly depends on my more important part of my life.