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WhooHooo!
that looks great!
Makes me think that this is what the old RoboForce sets *should* have looked like.
And I usually Hate the EF human minifigs, but your custom guy manages to look pretty good. *y*
Careful with that 'laser sword' tho, dont wanna get sued by Lucas.
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:-D HAHAR
For a second you almost got me there!
I thought that Maybe, just Maybe TLC had taken my advice and gone back to its roots.
I was thinking Yay! no more SW, Avatar, Batman. Just Pure old Town and Space!
Especially since in my timezone it is still March 31... took me a moment to realize that April 1 is actually coming up... :-P
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Well, sometimes when you get a little 'blocked up' on your Space MOCs. You try out different things.
I've never owned an actual Town building set. So I decided to Digitize an old one in Lego Digital Designer 2.0
Here's 6365 Summer Cottage
Picked it out because it seems to be the most interesting of the Small houses. All you need is to add a TV and it'd be complete(assuming that minifigs dont ever use the bathroom X-D )
The interiour has been updated, with an actual kitchen sink ( I guess it might be an old hand-pumped water faucet) slightly different stove, and a storage cabinet (which I thought was a better choice than the original 'sticker' refrigerator)
And from a slightly different angle, we can see a tiny bedroom. With a cool modernized lamp.
There are also a few minor changes, the chimmeny, the colors, windows have glass...
Costs about 19.50$USD and due to the limitations of LDD2.0 bricks, you supply your own baseplate and minifig.
Interestingly enough, the roof slopes take up nearly half the cost. It was staying below 10$ nearly up to the full height of the walls...
I'd estimate that once you buy a baseplate to go with it, its about 25$USD.
I guess at that price you probably won't want to purchase this one online; most of the bricks are pretty common that you can probably just build it already... or after a trip to a Lego Shop PaB..
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...i'm still looking for some inspiration, honestly...
Plenty of unusual hull shapes in here: http://www.wcnews.com/ships2/p2pirate.shtml
Can you really go from inspiration to complete MOC in just 2 days remaining? If you can pull it off so fast I'll definetly be impressed...
been staring at my own fighter's concept skeleton for the past week with no real progress X-D
I'm mainly drawing a blank on the main body... I dont want to end up with a big block of 'dead bricks' but not having any good ideas on how to add special features...
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Alright
I finally broke down and bough some of these....
I swore I never would -they cost as much as the Creator Cool Cars set but less parts |-/ but curiosity has gotton the better of me.
The answer is:
The wheels are identical; just a new version of what we used to have but with a technic axle connector instead of a pin connector. -this potentially allows you to motorize the small technic rubber tank track btw.
The Tyre is new though. This is how they managed two seemingly Different tyres to be compatible on that same wheel hub.
What looked like a small VR Balloon tyre is actually Solid rubber; essentially a smoother variant on the ones you've seen in Heavy Loader and other places... I'm not sure I see the benefit in this yet...
sorry, no camera...
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Unfortunately most of the pull-back motors give out more rotations forward than reverse, so the LEGO horse might get a bit wound up ;-)
I was thinking (along the lines of the windup toy) that you could use a differential and ratchet so the motor windup crank and the output are along different shafts. Potentially you could give them different gear ratios, to help with the backward/forward unbalance.
Not sure exactly what you mean by the horse though...
I'm sure you remember those little tin walking windup toys? where they have two oversized feet and a windup key on the back? usually resembling a frog or something that hop/walks along...
Another idea, what about using the pullback to store mechanical energy?
Suppose you've got a mindstorms robot with electric motors... maybe you could have a slow yet powerful motor, be used to wind up the pullback, and have a release mechanism so that the pullback could be used to power a fast acting device.
quick example: robotic scorpion's fast tail strike.
for some applications, this could potentially be simpler than gearing the motor for higher speed; in the hypothetical scorpion example, you'd also be decoupling the expensive electric motor from a potentially damaging motion when the tail actually hits someting....
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Yes, Racers.
Every once in a while one will have some nice parts or wheels that I just Must Have.
Unfortunatly, each time I do this... I get stuck with a big useless pullback motor brick. |-/
I actually don't like using the motors to make other racecars... because they take away from the playability... can't push the car around while making 'vroom vroom' noises, since the motor prevents going in reverse and tries to get away from you and whatnot...
So, has anyone ever seen a way to make these things useful?
I'd love to see some innovations... *y*
So far my only idea is.. Wind-Up toys. :-D
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Just keep in mind when watching, that this video is distributed by the Human side as Propoganda.
So take it with a grain of salt. ;-)
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I consider the story to be that at one time there was a futuristic society (seemingly inspired by japanese culture and philosophy) where humans live lives of luxury thanks to Robot Worker technology.
Eventually an experimental robot with an advanced Learning program becomes sentient 'alive' in a sense and spreads his programming to other robots (mecha one, the gold robot). They realize that they are essentially slaves, and decide to rebel against the humans.
So the storyline is about the freedom fighter robots, versus human oppressors.
Except, most of the story is set far into the conflict where the humans are now almost defeated. And the focus is on the individual human character development rather than the background of the war. Thus the humans are portrayed as the 'good guys', and the robots as the 'bad guys'.
Pretty much the same background as Animatrix Second Renaissance...
Anyhow, I personally don't like the simplistic good-vs-evil storyline that the comics are trying to portray... as you can see above the morality of each side is a large gray area...(yes, the humans claim the robots 'malfunctioned' but its a cover-up I tell you! designed to solidify their cause) :-)
For my own EF MOCs I stay away from the comics but retain that basic background premise...
gives you much more room to work with, and a lot less silly
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Oh I am serious.
'Mermaid's Cave' 10-15$USD
I'd totally buy something like that.
I guess you could do it yourself tho... take the mermaid tailpice from that Harrypotter set... take princess leia's metal bikini... there you go, mermaid. Add a whole lot of treasure pieces... pirate coins, jems, toss in some clickit's transparent pieces for good measure... Too bad I dont have either of those parts...or even a spare female head/hairpiece
Point being, if ever created as a real set it'd be a nice way to get lots of little accessory and ornamental pieces, and a much lacking female minifig (toss in some normal human legs as a bonus)...
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Not exactly a set, but a female Aquaraider.
An Aquaraider hiding in a cave, or other alcove, with some tools and a sea creature to study.
How about cover both those ideas at once?: Mermaid's Cave *wub*
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Well
I still haven't quit figured out what to do about my spacefighter's main body.
But, in my quest for inspiration, I did find this cool webpage that you all might want to see.
http://members.ync.net/jam/cutaways.html
It has cutaway views, showing off the internals of some realworld Aircraft.
Cool stuff for considering overall layout and logical greeblie placement.
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I coulda sworn I saw those rocket launchers in my Lego Shop, and I live in USA, CA.
They looked pretty bad actually.
Its mostly made of cardboard. Dont get it wet!
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Hi,
Anyone here bought any of the new Pull-Back Motor Racers yet?
I haven't... mainly because of the useless motor they give you :-P
But I did see them on display at my Lego Shop; and they seem to have New Wheel pieces.
So, anyone actually bought one who can comment on how the new stuff is?
They have what looks like the new wheels (as seen on Heavy Loader (bridge truck)), except with a technic + axle instead of a smooth hole.
Now at first glance, thats not too impressive.
But then notice, that on Phantom Crasher, this wheel is using a VR Balloon tyre http://media.peeron.com/ldraw/images/0/6578.png
while on the Night Blazer, its using one of these tyres http://media.peeron.com/pics/inv/custpics/....1108166108.jpg
So Somehow, this is a new Magical Wheel that can use two different types of tyres! X-O
Or maybe its really Two New Pieces that look almost the same.
So, is this driving anyone as crazy as it is me?? :-D
I Want to Know... but I dont want to waste 10$USD on a stupid PullBack Racer...
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New Problem.
I'n my first post I raved about how awesome this thing was? and How it's CAD capability was accurate enough to do that bizzare (but real) angle connection I showed?
Well that accuracy is a Double Edged Sword:
Remember that "Illegal" building techniques presentation? About how theres a tiny height increase on studs due to the Lego logo on top, and how this makes snot bricks on top of studs Not Fit?
Well, LDD 2.0 apparently read that same presentation.
It Wont let you do that. 8-
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Maybe they want to keep the doors from slipping open while its racing along the tracks? Look nice more than be usable?
I notice a latch on the door, do they click shut?
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I've never owned or made a minifig house like that before.
But it sure does look like fun :-D
I'm almost considering taking some time away from microscale and spaceships to try making one now...
Though, with the minifigs I'd have availabe from recent themes -construction, police, ete -No Women... Somehow I think the people I put inside would resemble the Village People... :-P
And those are some awesome pictures for a cellphone camera 8-
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alternate model of one of the waggons of 7727 and noticed that it used SNOT:
Really awesome the way they used it to mount those sliding doors there.
I'm going to have to seriously think about using that kind of door (mounted sideways like that) in a Space MOC sometime. A nice thin airlock sliding door, a roof hatch in a cargo bay, maybe a bomb bay door in the bottom of a bomber....
Plus, those sliding doors are now readily available with the new LDD 2.0 update :-)
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Okay.
Most of the bricks are the same... I see a few new ones... Mainly the BattleDroid torsos and arm pieces, which I guess might be cool to have; lt me get a few without having to buy the ugly figs...
I'm happy to see that the cliplight1*1plate snot brick has been repaired. loading an old model that used the bad ones forces deletion of conflicting bricks. Which is smart i guess.
The pageup/pagedown keys to do vertical brick placement are Missing |-/
On the plus tho, brick placement seems smarter, with green hilights indicating what it think's youre trying to click onto. So it may not be that bad a deal, i used pageup/down to 'work around' dumb placement issues...
Oh, and technic seems a Lot Smarter, they'll let you slide a technic rod till you get it just right. No more, Random click locations for technic.
rightclicking does not rotate bricks anymore, instead it targets the camera
kinda messes me up when you change a basic interface thing like that...
OH, 2.0 totally wins!
Look what it can handle!
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Racism is not the correct Term, as it is not based on race; both regions consist of many races which overlap.
maybe 'Nationalism' is more accurate? since its based on country and location, not skin color?
At any rate, I buy legos for the bricks not the licensing.
I consider all those SW specific minifigs to be a waste of my brick space; this fancy gold plated one even moreso since he's not even made of plastic and you can't take him apart to make into non-SW characters!
So, to put this annoying situation into Perspective, ask yourself: Are you a Lego fan or a SW fan first and foremost? And if its more about SW for you, to the point that you'd get worked up about this kinda silly promo; why aren't you out collecting Hasbro action figures instead?
Keep bricks simple and happy.
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I have built an automatic looping machine, where motors controlled by one PF receiver move the levers for a PF handset. This in turn controls another PF receiver, whose motors move the levers of another handset, which controls the first receiver.
So you're essentially using the Big Expensive Motors, to accomplish the work of simple Relay Switches.
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How to link it up with the clips though?
I figure, since the hull plating is long 2*8 plates anyway, the 1*3's would just jam into their 'tube' holes. The tubes that are inbetween the normal studholes? what do you call them?
The same thing you're doing already with the 1*1rounds.
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2 Months?? :-X
How could anyone survive so long without legos?...
well... if 1*4's take up too much... 1*3's ought to take up about the same space as what you have now.. with still some strength benefits.. compromise solution. but where would you find so many 1*3's?
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I think I get what you mean about the connection. I'll try it when I get near my parts again, but the problem I would think with that is that it wouldn't hold the 2x8 panels as well, since the supports would be closer to each other rather than further away. It may not be an official technique, but I found that sticking a small bit of tissue paper on top of the stud causes them to stick almost like glue :-D Though I would rather find a more plastic-y solution.
Well, at the moment the rings are..2studs apart, as are the 1*1rounds that the hull plates fit onto.
My suggestion of making 'clip sandwich beams', would spread them to 5studs apart (I hope there's room in that hull, might need to compromise), with 4studs on each beam for connecting to the hull plates. So this potentially solves the tissue paper issues as well.
Not entirely sure if I'm saying it right, and my camera's broken... I guess I'll have to wait and see how it turns out on your end...
As for the TIE fighter resemblance... hmmmh, Now I'm thinking that a TIE and a Droid Starfighter had children. :-D
I'm thinking the best way to break those associations...
is to change the two 'wings' into something wider and more claw-like to help make it look less rounded.
TIEs and their derivatives seem to be small and round to easily fit into egg cartons, know what I mean?
How about something like this: http://www.wcnews.com/ships/wc3strakha.shtml (yours would be symmetrical of course..)
Help on ideas?
in LEGO Town
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Alternatives to a big plain box include....
a box with a mosaic design on the side
a tanker truck
a flatbed
a car carrier