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  1. danth
    This thread has me stressing about melted and/or stolen Lego. 😱
  2. danth
    HOLY @#$%! Awesome! I wonder if the black air tank in 10497 was a hint! Er...and the Blacktron radar thing as an obvious hint of course.
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    Well, I mean they were fine enough with yellow meaning white people for the first three years of Star Wars sets, and then fine with yellow meaning white but not black for another year. But yes, they obviously saw that it didn't really work. It's possible that they were transitioning to fleshie white people in 2003, since they had already started to make them in the Sports sets in 2003. My main point is that they were forced to admit that yellow minifigs don't really work at representing everyone. But they were fine ignoring the issue while they could.
  4. danth
    If Lego truly thought yellow minfigs really represented "everyone", they wouldn't need the different flesh tones in licensed sets. They actually released 4 years of Star Wars sets where all the human minifigs were yellow. Funnily enough, when they finally made Lando Calrissian in 2003, he was released as a brown minifig in the same set as yellow Luke, Han, and Leia. So Lego was totally fine with yellow = white people and special colors for everyone else. So the whole "yellow is neutral" was never true, it's just sort of a ret-con. I honestly don't think Lego really thought about non-white people that much before 2003.
  5. danth
    FabuSoldier01 by Mako:
  6. danth
    Oh dang! I meant to post to the Inspiring MOCs thread. Er, sorry all.
  7. danth
    FabuSolider 01 by Mako: EDIT: Moved to the Inspiring MOCs thread.
  8. danth
    Well, I've completed my trifecta, and have built all three versions of 10497. I really love all three builds. They're all gorgeous. My only nitpicks would be minor coloring things like a bit of a white brick peaking out in a few spots but you just can't complain about alt builds these good over something that petty. Although I did notice the white ingot pieces in the cockpit of the mid-sized ship (added in step 155 on page 94) interfere with the closing of the cockpit. You simply can't close the canopy all the way without removing those two white parts.
  9. danth
    100% agreement on all of that! 😁
  10. danth
    I have to agree with TeriXeri. And I don't think they need to stick with blue & grey & trans yellow. An Ice Planet or Blacktron themed Creator set would be amazing. Or just any other Classic Space color scheme (white & trans blue for example). Oh and I think Creator Castle and Blacksmith were same year too, or very close.
  11. danth
    Still hoping for a Space themed Creator set.
  12. danth
    People say this, but I disagree. The AT-AT is obviously a giant cat. Whereas the Alien Moon Stalker is more like a mechanical dinosaur. I rest my case. 🙂
  13. danth
    This was great, I was cracking up immediately. I'm kind of sad you gave the game away at the end; I would have loved to see the angry responses!
  14. danth
    I can only think of one well known counter-example, Fry's Electronics. But they went out of business so...
  15. danth
    Yup, same here! And the other computer tile has a blue dot out of place. Didn't notice either issues until now.
  16. danth
    Oh man I love these recolors!
  17. danth
    I would love to see a re-imagining of 6970 with the new track; it's an amazing set. I finished the alt build for 918 (One Man Space Ship) last night! It's just amazing. I did a similar mod to @icm to get the pilot & steering while upright. Pretty trivial mod. But I noticed the Technic brick used to hold on the main thruster is red! And the red is very visible from the back. There's another red brick used in the removable antenna unit that is also visible. I can't remember if others complained about this...did they? The weirdest part is there are blue versions of both bricks that aren't used! So I just swapped them out for blue, solving the problem. But why didn't the instructions use the blue bricks? Weird! Also...boy is it tougher to build the alts! I had a hard time finding a few of the smaller parts. Can't go by bag number. And I didn't really have enough room to sort all the pieces out ahead of time...there are a lot!
  18. danth
    However, we have something better than the designer's commentary: the actual sets themselves. As early as 1978 we have red spacemen driving buggies, and in 1979 we have white spacemen piloting space ships. So the red & white job assignments go right out the window, pretty much immediately. It is true that the bigger spaceships from '78 to '81 were always shown with a red spaceman piloting, but that didn't last. And the red dudes were just as often grounded. Yellow astronauts being scientists doesn't make a lot of sense considering in 1983 they were piloting the flagship, and the red spaceman was in its science lab. And try to find any indication from the sets themselves that blue or black spacemen had any specific duty. There's none. So while it's fun to hear the designers recollections, those job assignments didn't make it into the sets themselves, other than the reds generally piloting the bigger spaceships in the first couple years. Any job assignments, if they were even official at all, were lax in the beginning and abandoned totally pretty quickly on.
  19. danth
    Interesting. I'm gonna need some examples.
  20. danth
    Nice, you got the pilot & his steering wheel in the smallest ship sitting up straight! I also see some sort of landing gear. This pic may have convinced me to get a few more copies of this set...
  21. danth
    Nice set of troops! Any plans to do a Nexus Force version of set 10497? 😀
  22. danth
    Thank you as well; that's good to know.
  23. danth
    I'm almost certain Lego has software that iterates over designs and offers suggestions for either reducing cost or improving structural integrity or both. That internal structure looks like it was optimized by an AI.
  24. danth
    So I built mine last night. I think it took my 5 hours! It was glorious. I definitely had some "you can do that with Lego?" moments. The way the wing leading edges were held on with headlight bricks and these, the whole air lock (I didn't know there were rails that slide over studs, and I didn't know you could use an inverted cheese slop in the other kind of rail). The way the canopy hinges were attached was kind of surprising too. I think word I muttered to myself most while building this was "unreal". So much genius and perfection. And the way everything fits together and all the gimmicks work flawlessly. The thing is just a masterpiece. And it feels like way more than a $100 set! The thing is an absolute steal at that price. I think the red, white, and yellow pieces used in the internals have to be some kind of epic troll. Something about it is hilarious. Like, are those colors cheaper, so the designer used them to save budget for elsewhere? Or was it for ease of building/using the right parts in the right places? Or was it an intentional "Hey, remember when all the parts were just these primary colors?" nostalgia trip? Because it definitely felt like that! It reminded me of when I mixed my non-space colored bricks with my other space pieces, or the old Idea books that encouraged just that:
  25. danth
    Thanks for the review! The black & yellow always made me want to believe this was a pimped out Blacktron ride.
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