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  1. The_Skirrid
    It's also pretty easy to predict what parts will be printed and which will be stickers. Take the Legend Beasts as an example; the printed elements make the models look like animals [eyes etc.] and the stickers add extra detail. LEGO seem to want stickers to cover the non-essential decoration, and printed elements [some of which are really well printed these days] for the essential, 'as close as we can get to the final box image without printing everything' look. I actually prefer this, you get some re-usable printed elements, if you don't apply the stickers the set still looks pretty good, and the costs are kept sensible by the optional stickers.
  2. The_Skirrid
    Rebrickable and Brickset have the full inventories, Bricklink have four of them, check them out! PS: I got them all for the new joints, mostly, but the eagle and lion haven't been dismantled yet, they look very good.
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    Great idea. Trans-clear would be awesome...
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    We've had the inventory since 23/01... just sayin'
  5. The_Skirrid
    That's like choosing between your mum and your granny to give you a lapdance, either way it's just not right...
  6. The_Skirrid
    The vine piece was in Duplo first, but niiiiice! Edit: Learn to link
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    I did want to stay quiet on this, but when you say in public, on a completely free site "I perfectly understand I have to make way for paid for mocs and artificially inflating the scores will make a little money, that is until people catch on to your policies and they will I'll make sure of that." I got upset for Nathan, and angry with you. I don't know where you get this sense of entitlement, but there is no score fixing. I can't believe it needs to be said, but you're obviously feeling persecuted because your views dropped off. Put on some big-boy pants. Get upset about something that actually matters. I put in four hours a day, every day, unpaid for Nathan, and I dread to think how much he puts in. Expecting remuneration from that work seems fine by me. HOWEVER the scores are never fixed, altered, skewed or otherwise adulterated, and income from MOCs doesn't cover a week of hosting. If you insist on making such baseless accusations please do it privately in future, you can PM me or Nathan here, or email support@rebrickable.com.
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    And a shameless plug for Rebrickable. If there's any inventory error pointed out, it'll be fixed within 8 hours. By me. Unless I'm asleep. BUT we don't have up-to-date minifigs for most sets, that's not really what Rebrickable's for [but we are getting there]. And we've certainly got the most accurate sets we can have, as we're always fixing old ones, and we aim to have no undetermined parts for any sets.
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    133 stickers? That's more than the first 5 Fast and Furious movies put together
  10. The_Skirrid
    The radomes are inverted minifig ice skates, everything else looks normal. I make it 19 STAMPs a side, plus the one on the back. *Weeps for humanity*
  11. The_Skirrid
    I got more depressed the more I scrolled, so many STAMPs I miss real maersk blue even more now.
  12. The_Skirrid
    If you use one of the many wayback sites and look at the old Bricklink TOS, you'll see the changes were added early September, along with the removal of the "Images and data you supplied are yours" disclaimer at the bottom. That's when they claimed ownership. Before that the whole purpose of the catalogue was as a non-commercial community resource. Given that the entire catalogue comes from roots in 1993 when Pete Miller first decided to collect lego part numbers on alt.toys.lego, then rec.toys.lego, Peeron, LDraw, MLCad, LUGNET and more there's no way they can back up their threats, it's simply too difficult to prove what's theirs and what's inspired. Having said that, who's going to challenge a multi-millionaire son of a billionaire as a test case? I don't agree BO was asking for trouble, they simply referenced what became THE de facto community catalogue as do many many other sites. The fact BL feel threatened by this, and decide that the catalogue is now theirs simply shows the way the new owners feel. His public statement "we welcome competition" he made when buying BL is obviously not true, and he's prepared to use the work of thousands of people as his own to enforce this.
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    Yarp, that's all their sync does, hoovers up your store data, and throws it in BO. I can't honestly say how BO started their catalogue or populated their DB. I don't think that's the problem though, I think BLL see the catalogue as an extra piece of leverage over a competitor. So something that BL themselves took from many, many sources [LDraw, MLCad, Peeron etc], and that was added to by their users, is now being used as a legal tool against a competitor. NOT COOL. Considering the state of BL, especially post-hack, it's not surprising there's bad feeling. BO has done more in three months than BL has in 18.
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    When BL first kicked off Daniel wanted the catalogue to be open to all. They started with LDraw and Peeron items and designations [which were inspired by a community project on alt.rec.lego]. There was part number and image sharing between sites, as the BL community realised that a better catalogue drives sales. Their catalogue is full of community supplied images and data. So BLLtd have now decided that their DB [even though it's based on LDraw conventions, and LDraw came from a project on alt.rec.lego], naming conventions [most of which are Lego or LDraw or Peeron], names [all of which are Lego based] and pictures [almost all of which are community supplied or LDraw renders by the community] are proprietary. Sigh. VBBN: BO certainly uses similar part designations [but who doesn't, all BL did was to change an x to a b for printed bricks from Peeron for example], the only syncing is for stores AFAIK. They don't even accept images that aren't from Lego or a users own.
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    As ^^, newer whites use more modern retardants. The old bromine heavy stuff was pretty unstable.
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    The photo's a bit crap, but they're white. These early white parts brown like a bitch in the sun though.
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    I'd be ashamed to admit to having bought more than two. The two per customer limit seemed fair and sensible. Bypassing it doesn't.
  18. The_Skirrid
    Chilly try using some silicone bands. I get mine from ebay in packs of 100 from hairdressing suppliers. Ones designed for afros are perfect for replacing the small white belts for example. I double them up. they last longer then as they slip a lot less.
  19. The_Skirrid
    Don't forget Bricksafe - no messing about waiting like brickshelf et al.
  20. The_Skirrid
    AFAIK 01 is the mould number not the year [48989 didn't appear 2004], and the other digit is mould position. Decent BL sellers will split stock for you if you want matching parts if you email them before you order [in the UK Yellow Farm and TechnicNXT have done this for me before]. I'm off to check mine now !
  21. The_Skirrid
    AKA Part 973pb668c01 about £1:50 on BL.
  22. The_Skirrid
    Lego games are also handy for parts. The harry potter game has 4 8x16 tiles for example, I always pick one up if it's at a fiver on evilbay. The new Batman game [massively limited production run and only in Europe] has 2x2 trans-yellow bricks.
  23. The_Skirrid
    Да, это правда. Техника нуждается CUUSOO любовь тоже. Too right, Technic needs some CUUSOO love :-(
  24. The_Skirrid
    There's a few photos of the winching team kicking around, but I can't find one of the horse attempt. Quick, Bricklink 14 horses
  25. The_Skirrid
    Here is a scan of the article in Nature magazine. They tried shifting it with a team of 14 horses before bringing in a monster winch.
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