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From the link inside your link: https://www.newelementary.com/2019/08/review-lego-ideas-21318-treehouse.html They are self-kragle-ing! Staking a bunch of transparent plates together is very audacious. Bonus points if you don't have a brick separator to remove them. Taking apart the ship in a bottle set definitely required more work than normal but I don't think I've gotten any of the newer-material transparent pieces discussed here yet. Regarding the lightsaber pieces pictured above I think the matte ones actually look better, at least for lightsabers. Plus they don't seem to have nearly as many bubbles inside.

Yes thats what I meant! Mixels joints; here I am calling them balljoints . Thanks for the clarification on that part.

Incredible build and construction! At a glace it looks like it could be fragile but then seeing the interior structure its incredibly strong and robust. Amazing geometry with the Technic frame and the exterior rainbow color is a blast. Absolutely fantastic!

I don't believe the walls are meant to open like on some of the older pirate ships (Skull's Eye Schooner had the swing-open walls of the captains cabin). It doesn't show this in any images and TLG likes to highlight functional play features. The walls use the hinge pieces in order to achieve the shape and angles necessary for a more realistic looking ship but once the rear wall of the cabin is flipped up and snapped into the ball joints it is assembled. Pulling it apart one must start at the rear wall and pull it back and down as its hinged at the bottom. I think the cabin is really meant to be accessed by the pull-up ship's wheel deck. I would go back and check that everything is snapped into place. I had an issue with one of the sloped angle walls but went back and realized it wasn't fully clipped into place.

That is amazing. Monochrome Minifigure spreadsheet superhero right there!

They must be actively seeking it out, the aggressive purists. I've never noticed it myself, its always pointed out by someone else. I don't think I can tell unless the studs are exposed and photographed from an inch away with a macro lens or the resolution is 5000 pixels+ like you said.

You're not alone! One of the challenges of achieving a certain aesthetic or connection technique while also making the overall construction stable and strong. I'm constantly working with this in every build, wanting to overlap pieces for strength for example but hitting snags and needing to compromise. Your results are always fantastic though so a slightly less than "ideal" connection is perfectly acceptable IMO! I'm always looking for areas where multiple gaps of brick ends line up in official sets for example, if TLG does it then we can too.

Thanks Man with a hat! Thanks neonic! Yes was going for a northern Mediterranean Sea/Tyrrhenian Sea coastal village/town architecture. Sometimes also generalized under "Spanish Revival" style. I had a more accurate plan for the flag but I don't have the one necessary piece in the right green so I'm glad it was still understood as being from that area. Thanks! Thank you JintaiZ! Grazie legomanijak! Yeah I just love that style of roof as well and was excited when we finally got those pieces in Nougat and Dark Orange to pull it off. Thanks again! Thank you so much ExeSandbox! Really wanted to create a warm and cozy aesthetic that was true to the style that inspired this. Took kind carebear, thank you friend! Thanks Western Outlaw, wanted to have a little fun with some extra scenes so I'm glad you like them. Haha, yes totally ok. They do know where all the bathrooms in town are but I should squeeze in a small toilet and sink under the first floor stairwell like the tan building. When you gotta go you gotta go. Yay, then it was a success! Thanks Jerry! Thanks ReplicaOfLife! I get pretty excited when the exteriors are complete and then the daunting task of creating an interior sets in, really glad you like the result! Thank you peedeejay! I always appreciate when you're fond of something I build. It means a lot! And I'm glad you like the roads, I'm particularly fond of the black asphalt ones you were designing in the Modular 2.0 thread, I think those offer a better contrast in a city build with how little black is used in most buildings (and how much grey is used). Thanks again!

Ugh. Last time I saw that going down here was 5 years ago; dude was building 26-foot long scale models of battleships and the thread spiraled. Unbelievable. What I don't get is how the heck anyone can tell, are they taking magnifying glasses to the photos?

Yeah so not even assembling/disassembly. Have you tried contacting Lego? I'm sure you could get replacements for free, I know it'll take time to get them but Lego has been fantastic with customer support in my experience. Sorry that's happening.

And there you go just melt my heart. Thank you. I got back into Lego as an adult initially as a form of stress relief and a small side hobby, but after being inspired by what everyone else builds it has ballooned into something much more special. That's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said. To inspire others is the greatest part of this thing we love. Thank you. And to anyone looking and lurking, you too can do it, build with love and share your creation and you'll inspire. Its really the best part of this.

Those bricks are almost indestructible but the clutch power is a little too strong for today's safety considerations IMO, especially if they're left assembled for a long time. Some kids would just have too much trouble pulling them apart even with a separator and its been discussed here how TLG has adjusted the clutch power over the years to find a sweet spot between strength and removability. I used to pull pieces apart with my teeth as a kid in the early 90s, marred many a plate doing that and couldn't have been good for teeth even if they'd eventually fall out and be replaced. That said I think the quality of the bricks today is much better than those older pieces; even if as an MOCer who regularly assembles and dissembles just about everything I occasionally damage a piece and toss it. Was just talking in another thread how certain colors from certain years seem a tad more fragile but admittedly I think all of my damaged pieces are user error. Not saying that's the case with your pieces though as I have seen a number of pictures around the web of reddish brown clip pieces broken.

Thank you! Far too kind! Taking off the walls and planning all the shots is a challenge but I'm glad the effort is appreciated. Thank you Htrag! One love! Lego building!

Mediterranean Way The Plummer brothers live in the white building together: Enough with the emails and lets play video games: Game time: Up to the second floor kitchen for a snack brake: Pizza hotdogs and sushi: Third floor bedroom: The cartographer and botanist live in the tan building: The cartographer has a small workspace upstairs: Botanist playing with their dog: Now everybody: The woman from the earthquake authority is not happy about the new cracks after a small temblor: The postal service under immense pressure: The high-end car thief just boosted an exotic: She loves manual transmissions: Today is the day they close down some city streets and let cyclists take over: Rats!: Enjoying the view and a drink: The blue bird likes pizza too:

Mind uploading to the Lego Matrix. The minifigure is your residual self image, the mental projection of your digital self. What do you need? Bricks. Lots of bricks.

I will never Kragle!! Yeah, shouldn't have pried that way. If one is careful it can work with 1x plates but using the spatula end at the corner in an anti-stud is always safer when removing from below. Far too often I need to get to a plate on the bottom of a build and can usually tell when a piece just isn't going to budge and try another route but pushed it too far on this one. The studs were holding on like crazy and that thin wall was like 'I'm done" :snap: I have anecdotally seen more Reddish Brown and New Dark Red breaks posted but they were all from years ago.

Pried this one from below with brick separator studs doh, crunched. Pulled the others from the corners of the plate using the flat spatula-end. Gonna chalk this one up to operator error but it did seem to flake off pretty effortlessly.

Thats brilliant using the minifigure book and newer briefcase pieces like that.

Only one I know of that's 4-studs wide and taller than 3 bricks is this one: 60808 1x4x5 but it has the castle style window hole (and doesn't have the open sides like 4215). All the other 1x4 panels I know of are only 3 bricks high. Maybe someone else knows.

Well that's just a wild idea right there! What kind of world is this!?

Lots of great responses so far. Here's two videos of how the Lego factories work and the crazy logistical challenges they face. If you haven't seen these I recommend watching the entire 3-part series from the beginning. This is the making a new Lego set documentary so they go all over and it'll skip around through the entire design-to-retail process but the factory floor segments showing the assimilation of all the pieces into boxed sets is what's relevant here: The very end of this video (this is part 2 BTW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN3BVWHrPWw And continuing into this video (part 3): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kw-YTF4JSM The reason I bring this up is that's just the set-making side. Putting together product of which they know the contents of each 'order' and the robots can work as efficiently as possible picking out all the hundreds or thousands of pieces each set requires, for the hundreds of different sets available at any given time. Even with a finite number of sets and thus different pieces required its still incredibly complex and there are limitations on production. Any of the companies in question can only produce so many different sets at any time. Custom orders on the other hand become significantly more difficult and time consuming. The closest thing to what you're talking about with a 'print on demand' service that Lego currently offers is Bricks and Pieces, a special-order parts service where one can choose specific pieces they want and build a custom order of parts. You can download a shared LDD file or have a list of parts for an MOC or buy someones instructions on ebay and enter the pieces you need on B&P. That's as easy as it currently gets (or doing the same thing on Bricklink). I'm not aware of any of the knockoff companies offering a special order parts service. The discontinued service that Makoy pointed out and the possible reasons for its discontinuation, along with everything else mentioned here so far by everyone are very likely as to why this idea hasn't gone any further than being able to special order parts.

Woah never saw that, that is a bit misleading. But you can get the rat head on bricks and pieces.

I like every building you've ever created but this is easily a favorite. Really feels like a lively bustling city street. The scale is impressive as always. And very Parisian. Its beautiful; the color combinations, the building facade details, the sidewalk elements. Fantastic work Jalemac34, a constant source of creative inspiration.

Needs some suspension work and shocks and uh brakes, brake pads, linings, steering box, transmission, rear-end. Only $4,800, maybe new rings, also mufflers, a little wiring.

Its worth noting that the chemical they said that's listed on the product is one that is being used a lot more now specifically because of shortages of other ingredients, namely ethanol/alcohol. "During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, from time to time there have been shortages of hand cleaner containing ethanol or isopropanol as active ingredients. The FDA has stated that benzalkonium chloride is eligible as an alternative for use in the formulation of healthcare personnel hand rubs.[9] However, in reference to the FDA rule, the CDC states that it does not have a recommended alternative to ethanol or isopropanol as active ingredients, and adds that "available evidence indicates benzalkonium chloride has less reliable activity against certain bacteria and viruses than either of the alcohols."[10]" But I agree isopropyl is tricky because it can be perfectly safe for some plastics while permanently damage others.