Lego Otaku

If you're willing to try eBay, try them. A lot of large lots are generally post 2002 so it would have many newer color and parts. Do check picture closely to make sure it's real LEGO and not some junk. A typical lot of near pure LEGO can go about $5 per pound. Do factor in shipping. If you see (for example) a large 50 pounds lot and seller lists about $50 for shipping, max bid would be about $200 but it's really up to you to decide how much it's worth. Most people who buys to part out and resell usually sticks with $5 a pound. If it's mixed with Hot Wheels, megablocks, etc don't go more than $2 per pound. Lots sold from various sellers that has Goodwill in the name is almost always mixed lot as Goodwill drones don't have the knowledge or expertise to clean it. On the average it's about 315 pieces per pound so a 50 pound lots would have around 15,750. You would have spent over $1,500 for new LEGO sets at stores to get about 50 pounds.

The tap part 4599 seems to have geometry issues. It completely ignores any collision at the tip: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Lego-0taku/misc/broke_geometry.lxf

mega SHIP would be: You have so much parts some tubs storing extra hasn't been opened or even needed for a few years. ---> has like 8 or 9 5-gal tubs that is filled, around 50 pounds each tubs. Some haven't seen sunlight for maybe 4 or 5 years now.

3mm flex tubes are often cut down to size because either smaller size in specific color is crazy expensive or because it doesn't exists. I've also cheated a little on the 3x2 tiles with clip by grinding the clips off making it a regular 3x2 tiles. LEGO never released regular 3x2 tiles, and using either 2x2 and 1x2 or a pair of 2x2 corner tiles may not work (not enough room for a 2x3 plate for example) I only modify current production part and only when it's not rare. Definitely not anything that's out of production like medium blue minifig hands, Momorail specific parts, or cypress tree as people would probably kill me for ruining them

Have run Windows 7 for some years, still ran Windows 7 on my old laptop before it blew last week, and Windows 8.1 right now on my too-big-for-laptop desktop, and I've never experienced issue with Aero theme and LDD. It does sound like video driver is glitching somewhere or LDD is running in odd mode. Try resetting LDD to default.

I don't know if I found a glitch but something isn't right: http://www.bricklink...em.asp?P=30359b ends up looking like: Where did that 3mm grey disk come from? And the stud on top of the bar, below the mysterious disk looks like it's cracked. Using LDD2POV 1.2.11.42814 and POVRay 3.7.0.msvc10.win64 (yes both are 64 bits) and running on Windows 8.1 64 bits (obviously ) Update: another run from a different angle also revealed more issues: inverted slopes also have floating discs. It seems to be over any hollow studs. It is odd that one side is glitched but other side is not?? maybe because the pieces are at an angle that is slightly awkward? Not 45° but some odd number.

Look over official sets made in LDD thread and see if you can cook up a few older sets not done yet. I would say people didn't do most of the older sets (mainly 80's and 90's) because it required a part or 3 that isn't available in LDD. I wanted to do all of Monorail sets but no track, no bogies, no motors, etc. Brick-built solution can be done and if one used grouping they can remove brick built version and swap for a new part when LDD makes it available. Bigger challenges would be the early Technic sets, it uses a lot of parts not in LDD yet like 1xn plates with holes at both end, older style steering racks, square block often used as piston, etc.

One of the LotR set Mine of Moris has around 30 stickers. I think... There's also maybe 100 stickers in book 6000 but it's all optional fortunately.

Smart phone version would be cool but it'd be limited. A 1000 piece model might be fine on desktop and laptops but the phone might be reduced to a crawl.

I would be demanding replacement only if the custom opened and damaged a MISB UNICEF box 106. http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?S=106-1 Complete one is more than a MISB 10179, imagine what a MISB box would be worth, much less actually finding one to replace and avoid shelling out easy over $5000.

Let's not forget there would have been early LEGO SW short video that would have been done with stop motion photography and not with computers. Computers used for Tron and Last Starfighter was pretty expensive just to make film, I doubt it would have been used for LEGO animation for many years, mid 90's at the soonest.

*In Darth Vader's voice* I want that ship

Bumping this back to the first page with my latest humor: One nice thing about a light saber, no waiting for popcorn to pop.

It will update when there's update.

Seems if you click on an element, the pop up on bottom covers the text and makes it hard to read the message. The workaround is to click an empty area to the right side to deselect the element to clear the pop up box. I suspect it's due to Window's feature as I saw this often when Windows 7 first came out, in Display there's an option to make text and stuff bigger. I usually have mine set to 125% because otherwise the desktop icons would end up too small:

I remember posting that issue a few years ago. I guess they still haven't fixed it.

This is cool! LDD was originally created for LEGO to make money off little kid's work and it's now reduced to free game :)

MacOS have supported shortcut since oh I think System 7 which was back in '91 or '92. A lot of nice "features" available on Windows were often implemented long after Apple started using it.

Sound like you got there a bout a week after I did. There were many empty bins. :/ Were there many empty bins or did they finally get more stock to fill the wall with? I might have to go back in a couple weeks if they did get fresh stock. If not, I'll probably take my money elsewhere. Other LEGO stores are too far. Like 8 hours to Toronto (if I don't get stuck in traffic!) or 5 hours to Chicago.

I know what you mean by inflating the stuff. I could say I found a 2x4 brick and claimed I found a rare brown and blue marbled brick with $10,000 when it's only a $0.03 blue brick covered in dirt.

I prefer it completely unassembled. A couple years ago a seller tried to slip me an older classic space set that had a few new and cheaper parts hidden inside. Only fools would mix old grey and bley in a set that did not have them mixed (such as 10030 UCS Star Destroyer)

I was able to get a few images this morning (USA eastern time) but that was all. There's an LDD file I'm trying to get and it keeps getting error last night and right now. I suspect something blew on the server and the morning uptime was only a test before it went back down.

Ok your problem was the posts were half a stud too far. I moved the whole end half stud forward using temporary jumper plates so the ropes were aligned then I fixed the connection a bit. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Lego-0taku/ldd/creating_bridge_for_cloud_nine.lxf

Starting in early 2000, LEGO stopped using pre-colored pellets and got one generic milky-white pellet plus a bunch of colored dyes so they could make whatever color they needed. This also had the side effect of inconsistent color variations. I've seen this in yellow and dark red as well. Good luck replacing them, the newer colors (light bluish-grey, dark bluish-grey, "new" dark red, etc) were not available before the change.

Use LDD. Open it when POVRay is not running, change the camera angle and position and when you're happy, save it. Then run it through LDD2POVRay. I'd suggest using low res like 320x240 so you can check if the project is correctly centered and in view before spending many hours waiting on the computer.