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Spot the Lego. Here you go Shadows and Ricecracker photographic comparison. Sluban, Best Lock and Lego. But which one is which?

Well, it seems to have been closed itself. So it should be ok for this one to be open.

I was being a little factious. As AFOL are wont to when conversing about mundies (muggles) and their interactions with Lego. Anyway, my point still stands. There was a thread not six points from the top.

Here is one on the exact same subject. Plus that is nowhere near a Lego gun, silly people.

Yes, but we are still talking about parts we are fond of, for no good reason and that are often derided... So, you have any parts you like to use?

I wish Lego would stop changing the pin and peg colours all the time. It looks neater to have the frictionless ones in grey (normal and hybrid) the friction pegs in black and the axels in grey or black (I do like the light grey of the axles because they haven't replaced black totaly) having red, blue and tan just adds too many colours and can also mean I have to sit and devise panels to cover them all up. Everything else is great though . Multiples of figure heads and torso's are fine, I mean, give 'em different hair and its a new person, treat them like Nurse(s) Joy(s) and Officer(s) Jenny(s) The torsos? Have you not stepped outside of your house and seen the high concentration of one sort of coat or shirt? Makes it a more realistic scene if there are a large number of people in variations of the same outfit.

Have we had an example of Lego purism yet? I am sure there are several threads about it and your degree of purism but I'll post a quick explanation: A purist can exist to several degrees, you have the total purist who will not do anything to their Lego, no additonal string, paper, fabric, elastic or stickers and no modification of parts. You have a slight purist who will use their own fabric, paper, string and elastic and stickers but will not modify any of their Lego. You have a modder who will cut, paint and sticker as they see fit. There are all sorts variations ranging from brick colours (old or new grey?) to use of even official stickers on sets. Then there are heathens like me who do all of it and like to play with brick based construction toys that arent lego . "Purism" as the first post sees it is merely a set collector, with some peculiar hang-ups and who hasn't encountered Bricklink yet. Oh, I must add (on topic) that I do feel bad about taking a super awesome set or MOC apart. If it breaks then beyond simple repair *shrug* and sort but for some I prefer to keep together as they are just so cool.

Hmmmm. Not anymore. My first sig fig was me 100%, my current figure is not so much. I do not have an eyepatch (they are cool though and turn up on all my "avatars" on the web) I do have lots of purple clothes but not so much gold. My hair is mid-long now but it used to be long enough so that I could wear it like my sig-figs. Siegfried, you've ruined the mystique Here I thought you were an anthropomorphised walrus!

zOMG Pic plz!! Well, I am an odd one for sure. I mix figures. I almost never keep the set figures as they came. I have always mixed and matched any figure to create a cooler figure. I suppose it's sort of that "playing dolls" mentality some of us have (it's also my sister's favourite thing to do with Lego). I swap arms from torso to torso, I have cut and painted parts for figures (but only when I have more than three). I sometimes keep a figure for a while, until I need something off it, then it's gone. All my figure parts live in a stack of "Plas" from Ikea. With sets however... When I was small, I never had really big sets. Mixed boxes of bricks and hand-me downs alongside the five or so impulse sized sets I had in a year. The rare occasion when I had a huge set it was to be treasured. I would keep it on one piece for weeks and weeks, feeling bad when I took it apart. I still get that feeling with some sets but not others. So, I don't mind super-altering figures but still get that twinge of guilt? whenever I take my largest sets apart. Also now I am an AFOL, taking a set apart or a MOC fills me with sorting related dread.

I like the Bucket. I in fact have a pink one from my sisters belville which I can't find an image of, even though I do have one I love the dynamite. It so 'splodey looking Also the gem, many a MOC had it as a power crystal

Ohmygod. Zach, all these people dieing and the blood.... I thought everything Grandma said was just a bit of horror for halloween. *clutches locket with both hands*

You also get tags out of staff mischief (note goat). Tags are special rewards (even the silly ones) as it means you are someone the community (i.e the moderators and staff) regards as a valuable member. KimTs latest Star Wars tag is an example of this. I would love a MOC expert tag, got to get cracking on my collectionton to earn one I do love my little goat

It gorgeous! And it matches my locket. *Big kisses etcetera, waves hand under the moonlight to watch the ring sparkle all silverly*

That's a hard one. I work a 30 hour week in University term time with a 9-5 day at university (out of term time I work a 37 hour week), add in the rough hour each day spent on uni work/revision, so 7 hours and 5 hours a week on another commitment... You get a total that means nothing. I can spend upwards of 3 hours on a single MOC without noticing. I am sorting in dribs and drabs so that doesn't take much time. Only the really big sets take any significant amounts of time and I get those once or twice a year but I buy a smallish set at least once a week with an average of three a month (guessing) over a year. I suppose in a week I can spend 4 hours over the working week and 6 on weekends. In the spring and autumn that can extend to 12 hours a week as the temperature in my building area is comfortable for long stretches, unlike the cold in winter and heat in summer. Then again, if I have no ideas on what to do then I spend as little as two hours in the week with Lego. If you counted EB time then it would probably work out that I spend a days worth of time here every week. As Lego is my major hobby, writing occuring in my lunch break at work, I spend a lot of time with it. My friends are all spread about the country at the moment so I don't get a chance to go out often, so I have more time with not much else to do, Lego is my default activity.

Oh my word! Zachy! *gasp* Of course I will!! You are the best thing that has happened to me in a long long time..

It's all interactive these days and plenty of sets have a link to their website on Lego.com which is full of alternate and two set combination instructions. There aren't long comics in the instruction manuals because there are full length animated features on the internet. Simply put, the Internet has out paid to any need for extras on or in the box (apart from a leaflet all about joining the Lego Club online). It costs less, cuts down on complaints and helps Lego see their popular themes (i.e. Those theme sites that are for the most popular have the highest traffic). All this said, Sluban has alternate models on the back of the box. Carrying on the trend of being a bit wacky because they only use parts from the set.

There is a thread in Community for this Here. Odd place I know, but there are several pages of discussion

You know, I have never found a Lego set hard to build. I have built a fair few large sets (nothing as big as the blocks of grey that are the Star Wars UCS sets) over the years but even if I have found sections frustrating or repetative they have never been hard... I suppose I just enjoy the building so much, even if it is "hard" I don't notice

Wow. See, that is Lego distilled into one image. Studs and all.

Why do people go to such lengths to cover studs anyway? I understand tiled or SNOT roads, real roads are smooth (or we highways operatives do our best to ensure they are anyway) plus it can allow roadworks to look accurate. Tiled rooves I understand, they are tiled when not thatched. All the space craft and other things that seem to strive to be as smooth plastic as possible seem to be held up as a disireable standard. But they just look like whole moulded toys, not something you built. Sure, it's technicaly impressive but it doesn't look LEGO, which is the most important thing. I have now realized that all my MOCs with tiles are the ones using printed or stickered designs and their symmetrical partner (I prefer symmetry unless it is fantastic a-symmetry) to add a little character to a MOC. Plus with Ralph's explanation I have realised SNOT and Studless are different things

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Yeah, the wheel is too fat at the front, I wanted to use the right sort but I don't have any skinner wheels to hand, I have to look into finding one somewhere. I might have something that looks ok in my boxes, I just wanted to build and finish it while I still had the idea in my head. Now I have something to go on all I have to do is check what I have. I want to make the whole front, apart from the handle bars, narrower.

I like a mix. I love the studded Lego Look but then if it looks "cooler" to cover all or just certain studs then I'll do that. It all depends how I feel at the time, looking through my MOCs I don't have any studless ones, but plenty of mixed MOCs.

I have started finding and buying the Arctic Technic figures to go with my sets, this guy was a very lucky eBay find and to celebrate his arrival I decided to make him a vehicle. A Chopper seemed like the coolest thing to make. So I did. This is my first Technic MOC since I turned some slizer and Bionicle into a quad bike to prove to my brother that you couls do things with it other than make other Bionicles. More photos at MOCpages

Heh, that is funny. To the mildly confused: Fail does mean mistake, on the interwebz anyway. Like stepping on a paving stone which pushes down and squirts you with old rain water is a "Floor Fail" (It was so funny when my friend did that). Or when you post a sentence with bad spelling and poor grammer it is "Sentence Fail". My friend is a reader of I Fixed It, no wonder he has been bugging me to make him a Lego Guitar.