JesseNight

@SNIPE Did you manage the transparent taillights mod you talked about? I'd love to see it, I want my lights to be transparent too but haven't succeeded a stud reversal in something this small without ruining the overall aesthetic.

Nice! I hope you can fine tune the doors some more so they open the full 90 degrees like the real car? Can't help noticing you have one of the right side wheels on your front left (yes, left and right use mirrored wheel designs)

I'm just guessing here, but I think the size and complexity (and potential breaking) of the part might just not be worth the functionality in this size. Do correct me if I'm wrong. I think it's not that easy. Considering we're working with pneumatic rather than hydraulic system, air compression in the leads is a thing and the force is often not transferred as smoothly as we would wish. Not to mention hard to equally divide over multiple cylinders. Have you seen any footage about the CaDA Mercedes-AMG GT3 that has a pneumatic lifting system? That pretty much proves this point. While cool, in case of ride height the worm wheel method gives far better accuracy and control. Not even mentioning how you'd need to hide the pump somewhere, while still reachable for operation.

Mistakes can happen, but yeah it's frustrating if you happen to be the unlucky buyer. Just curious, did LEGO take responsibility for the shipping costs of the return? If that's the case I'd say perfect service.

I can confirm them not working for us, gives a 404 "The requested URL was not found on this server". I'm guessing the public share links may have expired, while still letting you in as owner. Nice to see this old review back, from before I even joined EB (which happened somewhere between the Daytona and the P1).

I have never used BrickStore myself so I can't say much about it. Personally I find the Rebrickable website pretty convenient to catalogue my stuff simply by adding all the sets I own. It has a good comparing tool too, intended for people to see what they're missing to build custom MOCs but it can be used to compare any sets, MOCs, or your own collection or custom list. I haven't gone much further than that, but I think you can easily make a custom list from missing parts to export to Bricklink for example.

I plan to either make it all black, or get a second to make all black like one of my own cats. I have a tuxedo cat too but that one's a bit hard to match because she is a long haired, her fur alone makes her appear twice as wide as most cats Would take a crazy amount of modding to match her, so far my attempts haven't been looking good. Ohhh I would love that as well! Although I'm not sure if I would buy it. Ngl I've always had a love/hate thing for LEGO trains. I love trains in general, but I hate how much space is needed to make something realistic in that scale, it's near impossible.

Ideas is a very wide range of different themes and settings so obviously it's a matter of personal favor. So far the Tux Cat was the only Ideas set I've purchased because I'm a cats person and it appealed to me. I've seen many Ideas sets that were appealing and very original, but that just don't fit into any of the themes I put on display. And with the exception of former mentioned cat, I like my sets to play a part in a bigger whole. For that reason I am unlikely to buy the Jumanji set, even though I think it's well made and a very recognizable movie prop to anyone who was there in the mid 90s. Just a matter of choices and priorities I guess, I've long accepted that I don't have space for everything. My appeal to mostly larger sets isn't helping there

I can't even find them. What have they done to the old Ideas site? It was well structured, and it's so chaotic now... Where did they hide that oversight of the sets currently approved or in development per quarter of each year? [Edit] Nvm found them after a long strugglesome search. "Smart" filters auto assuming things I didn't set, and the Jumanji set was in the wrong category (still "in review"). Anyway, love the Jumanji set! Sure brings me back.

Let's not even start about those who make a model in Studio and think bc it sticks together there it will in reality as well.

Curious how you're gonna build that. Alternatively, there are inverted curved slopes in trans red available from a third party that I was considering if I can't figure out another way.

Don't be afraid to share them, the Edit button is within reach now!

This is very convenient since I catch myself making and correcting typos all the time

(double post, apparently I can't delete it)

Interesting, had that happen with a non-Technic set before. So that's not entirely uncommon. Soooo much better! How unfortunate this didn't get addressed, considering how easily it was fixed by modders on all the previous 1:8 hypercars.

Happens with all popular releases, big Icons and licensed sets too.

Here we go again, still about "$200k worth of LEGO" which was already proven to be inaccurate. Don't get me wrong, I want the right thing to happen and any evildoers to be punished. But it keeps getting fueled by false information.

Sure it can. This has actually been done once for a 10 years old kid who passed away.

[Dark humor] Or build our coffin from it. Blue pins everywhere!

Making it more complicated isn't a solution, it's only shifting the problem. AI keeps improving at making fake pictures too nowadays. Even videos. So what's next? And meanwhile the only people suffering from it are the honest ones, who are required to give up their privacy and do more actions to get in, to the point it does become torture. Or real people get banned because the AI get so good that every human who writes decent language or is structured in their work is automatically assumed to be AI by automated security algorithms.

The wheel size is often not the best way to scale LEGO models. The reason is simple: a real car has a lot of space underneath those wheel arches to allow for the wheel rotation, that's usually not there on a LEGO model. So if they want to include steering, they often have little choice but to make the wheels slightly smaller. Looking at the comparison pic, the wheel size might really be the only thing that's off. Sure the curves aren't perfect, but that's a limitation we'll always have with LEGO.

This kinda weirdness is becoming more and more normal considering people are accepting it and businesses love collecting data. I think it gives buyers a (false?) sense of security too, knowing sellers are verified at this level. I agree 100% on it being an invasion of privacy. Rule #1 about internet security remains "don't share what you don't want to leak out". What's in the cloud stays in the cloud. Therefore I would never submit this stuff if you value your privacy & security, and just find another site like ebay or any local marketplaces to sell your stuff.

They finally did that right? Victory indeed!

Right! Remind me never to try fixing my own car...

I like it. Nice to see the 1980s castle theme helmet plumes still function a purpose today (spark plug cables)