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  1. Pinnacle
    I say: 'Prost'
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    Thanks
  3. Pinnacle
    Thanks. Thanks for your kind words. Thanks for your kind words.
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    Tower of Babel VIII Building the MOC. (03) Finally, the Tower of Babel has reached its highest point. That is to say, the point that Pieter Bruegel depicted in his painting of the Tower of Babel. The original painting can be seen in the 'Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen' in The Netherlands. It doesn't mean that the Tower is almost finished. On the contrary. I have still to do the third part of it. Especially the outer walls with the evenly ascending gallery or stairway are far from finished. Eleven years seems a long time, but I did not build every day of course. Sometimes a whole day, and sometimes I didn't build for weeks Fact list. Start of construction: March 14 2011. Dimensions: In bricks: 303 x 294 Height 232. In mm: 2424 x 2352 Height 2227 mm. Amount of bricks used so far: 443267. Weight: 645 kg. Number of hours worked: 1468.
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    You take the words right out of my mouth. I’m also a builder and need a lot of bricks and parts to make my MOCs. Therefore, I barely visit a LEGO store and is BrickLink my primary source for parts. I wonder why TLG don’t want to sell parts in bulk. Afraid they will sell less sets? I have no idea.
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    This is gorgeous. Simply bricks! I like this so much...
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    That is certainly a point you have. The problem of separating the LEGO parts into LEGO parts and non-LEGO parts when you want to sell your LEGO for some reason. A brick 2x4, for instance, is a brick, provided it has the same quality as the genuine LEGO brick. For me, as a builder, there will be no difference. But for potential buyers, it can make all the difference in the world. That is why I stick to the original LEGO parts as long as TLG make these parts. But only when I can buy pieces that LEGO doesn’t make, I see no problems doing so. Because then you see in a moment the difference between LEGO and non-LEGO
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    I didn’t know that. Thanks. It goes that LEGO didn’t make uneven parts because it is too difficult for little children. But now, older kids play also with LEGO bricks, and even many adults create great things with them. So I think it is time that TLG will reconsider this argument and make more uneven and 'difficult' architectural parts. In my opinion, it would be more challenging for more people to build with LEGO bricks.
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    So far, I have only LEGO parts used in my MOCs. But my main goal is building things and as another company can make parts that TLG doesn’t and have the same quality as the genuine LEGO parts, Then I will not hesitate to buy those parts. I think about nx5 or nx7 bricks and plates and arches, door and window types, and so on. When it comes to architecture, there are lots of different parts I can think of…
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    I have to say, I like both. At first, I want to draw my MOCs with a LEGO-drawing programme. And when I’m satisfied whit the virtual result, I start with the realisation of the actual MOC. It is the ideal combination for me, and it works very well.
  11. Pinnacle
    Thanks for your quick response This was a fast and straightforward solution to solve the problem. Thanks a lot.
  12. Pinnacle
    I have a little question. I was making a kind of mosaic and used 5000 round plates 1x1 in different colours. Now I want to change all those plates into square ones 1x1 but while retaining the colours. What is the quickest way to do so?
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    No, I never sell MOCs. I don’t even sell parts. This is due to two main reasons. At first, my MOCs tend to be rather large and therefore, too costly for most buyers. But foremost, I have parts that LEGO made a long time ago and are hard to come by nowadays. Yes, I am an old guy, and I had many years to collect all those parts. And now I have the pleasure of it. My advice: don’t sell your parts if you are a typical builder. There will be a moment you will regret it. Unless you are a seller, of course.
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    Since LEGO was available in The Netherlands in about 1957, it was enormously popular from the first moment. I was ten years at that moment and got my first LEGO on my birthday. And I loved it immensely. And all my friends also got LEGO. And as far as I know, almost every dutch child got the plastic bricks. And this has been going on until now. Also, almost nobody throws their LEGO away. It travelled from father to son or brother to brother. Or it was stored in attics or cupboards to be found later on. I think that thát one of the reasons is that er so many LEGO is around in The Netherlands.
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    Reading this topic, I begin to understand the problems LEGO have with pleasing every possible customer. So many AFOLs, so many wishes. Speaking for myself, The only colours I really want are Red, Reddish brown, Dark red, Tan, Dark tan, White, Grey, Black, Sand red and Sand green. Bur others want to have as many shades of purple. Or all kinds of transparent parts. But then with all the parts imaginal. Slopes, Plates, tiles, Arches, and so on. It all depends on what type of MOCs one wants to make. Of course, how more colours, the better it is. But has TLG the capacity, and do they have the will to make all the part forms in all the known colours? That is the question.
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    In principle, you're right. But I like to take pictures, and therefore I use the right colour preferably. And the Tower will not really be finished because the painting of Pieter Bruegel shows red brickwork on the top of the Tower. That brickwork is not entirely red but also contains brown and dark red bricks. So that I can also use reddish-brown arches. Arches that can not be seen are mainly black. One has to improvise sometimes.
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    I also like it when the sand red etc., returns. But then all the basic bricks and the less basic bricks such as arches, slopes, etc. And that also counts for the other ‘natural’ colours. It is not that I don’t want more colours. On the contrary. But as it is too difficult for TLG to make all the parts in all the colours, then I prefer to choose for lesser colours but a complete set of parts
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    Well, is that not just characteristic for every human being? Thanks to that, we live as we do nowadays. If people were already satisfied in the stone age, then we still had to hunt with a club to eat.
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    LEGO is so versatile; everyone can enjoy it. A child of 5 years but also adults of every age. Adults can even reach great heights en become artists who create great works of art. I think that that is the most significant merit of The Lego Company.
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    For me, Building is a hobby, and LEGO provides an excellent building material. Why do I buy more and more LEGO-parts ? Well, I see it as a challenge to build a greater and greater and more complicated building every time. That is the reason I need more parts as I start a new project. Well, you can say that you cannot be in a pub or something when you are building. And that saves money you can spend on LEGO.
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    For Dutch people, “legos” sounds very strange, and I have never seen one Dutch person who uses the word legos. I may have tons of LEGO-bricks or LEGO-parts. But I have still LEGO ( singular). Because it is a brand name. And not the name of the parts themselves. But I don’t know how it is in other European country’s.
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    In my humble opinion, I think that LEGO has far too many colours on its palette. Worse, they make not all the parts in the colour in question. Not even the basic bricks, so it will never be possible to build a MOC in pink, for instance, or another ‘exotic’ colour. More annoying is the short period that they produce certain parts in the “normal” colours like red, tan, grey and the like. For example, the 2339 Arch 1 x 5 x 4 - Continuous Bow Red, and the 3684a and Slope 75 2 x 2 x 3 - Hollow Studs Tan, are hard to come by because LEGO doesn’t produce them anymore. And I need lots of them. Or I can’t finish my last MOC. Not a disaster, of course, but annoying it is..
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    A little too big, I'm afraid. It becomes challenging to reach the top columns. But that also has to do whit age
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    In my opinion, it depends on the number of parts one has. For me, it is almost a necessity to have a sort of inventory to keep an overview. I use BrickStore, and for me, it works well. It also counts the parts used in my MOC’s. The programme also gives the weight of the parts, so I also know how heavy my creation is.
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    A little update about my Tower of Babel. Summer is the time to work in the garden, so work on the Tower of Babel has been relatively quiet. But in the last few weeks, I have started building again. The south wall has now been raised to the floor of the first part of the second circulation and the floor of this has been added. Another 92 columns have been placed. It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the right parts in the required quantities. Especially tan slopes 75° tan and the Arch 1 x 5 x 4 - Continuous Bow red is becoming rare or too expensive. It looks like the construction of this Tower of Babel will not be stopped by God but by LEGO itself. They should be much more concerned with producing the ordinary base bricks for a much more extended period. But alas, they don't.
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