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  1. danth
    Awesome and double awesome. Thirded!
  2. danth
    Hearing rumors of a Viking Village set in October.
  3. danth
    🤣 I wanna see someone's list where it's all these cool specialties and then "Blue: Men".
  4. danth
    Pretty awesome. Love the mech especially. I forgot Exploriens got a big white panel with the huge logo print. Probably because the original Exploriens base set was so, well, basic. Wasn't memorable at all. But MRYJ seems to have fixed that!
  5. danth
    I was surprised to find out recently the original Blacktron Invader thruster was light gray. So the gray engines are actually in theme. How mad would people be if someone made a black & white Blacktron 1 MOC based on Meteor Monitor colors? 😁
  6. danth
    Nice! There are yellow 2x2 triangle tiles now, which don't have the curve, but obviously require more space for a bigger logo. You may have already seen those.
  7. danth
    PM'ed you!
  8. danth
    I have a stud.io file that is mostly up to date. I remember trying to generate instructions in stud.io but it didn't work very well. Let me know if the file interests you and I can dig it up.
  9. danth
    My brain can't process what's going on with the minifig's mouth.
  10. danth
    I never knew the British names. In this case I prefer Prowler over Battrax. I know what a prowler is, but what the heck is a Battrax? Alienator, Invader, and Renegade all sound vaguely menacing. Battrax just doesn't fit. Prowler fits in more with the theme, IMO. Like a lurker, right outside your window... Alienator is like the creepiest name ever. Like a psychological warfare thing. It will make even your dearest friends hate you. Yikes! That naming scheme is what led me to name my Renegade MOC "The Betrayer".
  11. danth
    They're not stickers?
  12. danth
    Nobody answered my question but I think it's a clear 1x2 half circle tile. When the designer holds it up in the video you can see it, but they're gray instead of trans clear. I guess it's new in trans clear and he doesn't have it yet?
  13. danth
    This is what a brick-built Bionicle GWP set could look like: 363 pieces according to the entry. Similar piece count to the Blacktron Cruiser. A brick-built mask would add some more pieces of course.
  14. danth
    Nice article, thanks for the link!
  15. danth
    I'll give you this, the space shuttle is "toyetic" as all heck. The opening bay, the robot arm, grabbing satellites. And it's more "space-shippy" than say a rocket with a capsule inside. You can fly it around in space, and then back to the ground, instead of parachuting back to earth which is what I think the new vehicles do. I'm still tired of them though. 😝
  16. danth
    Oh crap, sorry, that wasn't meant as a direct reply to you. I didn't even realize you had just commented on the shuttle set. Now I see how incredibly dickish my reply looked! I had just happened to see a post on the shuttle set on reddit. You're right, in fairness, the City stuff provides a more modern alternative. Still seems like the shuttle is prevalent somehow, especially in Creator sets. Well, except we don't get castles or pirate ships as often as space shuttles. Especially in the Creator theme. The space shuttle is a specific vehicle*. Imagine getting a classic VW Van set every year, forever. I guess to be fair, there are lots of cars, but very few real life space vehicles to choose from. *I know there are different space shuttles but they all look exactly the same.
  17. danth
    That's an interesting idea! Thanks for the compliment, I finally posted my MOC here:
  18. danth
    Oh yay, another space shuttle! I would just die if I didn't yet another one. 😒 Hasn't the space shuttle been retired for over a decade? Do kids even know about them? Astronauts go up on the Soyuz now or the Space X Dragon, right? What's the deal with space shuttles, over and over again?
  19. danth
    Ha! Sorry. It went over my head!
  20. danth
    The recent Mars Spacecraft Exploration Missions set was almost a Space parts pack. And it had all prints no stickers! Except it had a very orange planet on its space logos, not gold, so not technically Classic Space.
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    That's part of my point. Printed parts are no worse than other specialized parts, like modified plates that you have to turn around in your MOCs. In my experience, prints are the rarest issue, it's all the other parts you don't have at all or in the right color. Ouch, I would hate removing stickers. In my mind, once a sticker is on, it's like a print, and removing it feels like destroying something. Were they old stickers by the time you removed them? Wondering how they held up. Maybe it doesn't feel as bad if they're already peeling or scuffed up. Anyway, I think if Lego decided to get rid of stickers, they wouldn't replace them all with prints. They'd replace essential stickers with prints, and just not print all the silly stuff. Then you probably wouldn't need to remove stickers anyway. To be fair, building big blank walls to make films sounds like a rare case.
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    No way! I just picked the one that looked the most like, well, nightmare fuel. Yes! I think if Lego ditched stickers, they wouldn't replace them all with prints, they would replace the necessary ones with prints. So you would kill, say, three or four stickers with one print. And get cleaner sets.
  23. danth
    Oof. That's a toughy. Wait, was it this guy? Because that would be terrifying to see on your six in a dogfight. Seriously though, those prints are pretty bad. If that was my first experience with prints I might have hated them too. But I never had those, so I don't hold the badness of those prints against the existence of prints in general. If you were like me as a kid, any other print would have just added detail to your starfighter. I remember using ones like this on my spaceships: What's the two for? I dunno, but it was cool, it was detail, and it had speed stripes. I will say this though. If you were forced to use a McDonalds slope as your nosecone, that means that literally every other part in your collection was also not the part you wanted. The print was no less useful to you than any other part in your collection. Like I was trying to say before, that sounds like a small collection problem, not a print problem. As a kid, I never had all the parts I needed. Not the right parts or the right colors. A part with a print to me is no different than a modified plate when you really want the unmodified plate. I also think your specific example is incredibly rare. That's literally the worst print ever. And you had literally no other slopes. Even as a poor kid with most of my Lego from yard sales, I always had a few blank slopes. I get the point though. A sticker would have saved your MOC. But removing a sticker is one option of many, if you have other bricks. If you had them, 2 1x3 slopes would have also saved your MOC, or a 2x2 slope if you were willing to go snubbier, or curved slopes if you had them on hand and liked the look. Maybe your collection didn't give you those options. Personally, I'm not willing to trade prints for the the one option of removing stickers, I'd choose anything else over losing prints.
  24. danth
    Wait, so stickers are better because if you put them on wrong, you can get replacements? I don't get it. You can't put a print on wrong because they're already on... Or is it that it was easier to replace the sticker than turning the piece around? I'm talking about the logistical problems you raised. The ones that Lego themselves described. That they described, in fact, as a response to complaints about stickers. Lego isn't going to craft a PR response to complaints about stickers if they're not getting loads of them. So obviously using stickers is a problem for many AFOLs. Look on reddit, or here, or Brickset in all the Galaxy Explorer or Blacktron Cruiser sets. One of the most repeated comments was "yay no stickers!" for the Galaxy Explorer. And "boo stickers!" for the Blacktron Cruiser.
  25. danth
    Don't be, it's just a word. The problem is one someone else brought up. Specifically, logistical problems with printing Lego parts. It's definitely a problem for the Lego company, since they're the ones who original framed it as the problem. If you mean stickers. No, not a personal problem. A problem a huge portion of AFOLs have. Even if it is just an opinion, it's one we're allowed to have. Especially in the "We hate stickers thread". Which we're in. :)
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