antp
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Does it have to be made from scratch, or can it be a heavily modified version of an existing Model Team vehicle? -
Not sure where I should post this, but today on http://www.qwertee.com/ there is a t-shirt on the Lego Movie theme (more precisely, about the spaceship spaceship spaceship). (only available today, 13h left from now)
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promo sets from 2012 now available in Germany: http://brickset.com/article/12023 was it the best moment for releasing that? (thought that it was probably planned since some time...)
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You can always do it with your first/main FB (it is what is Lego is made for, after all) If you do not like it, you rebuild the FB If you really like it, you keep it that way and you have a good reason to open the second box: to rebuild the original FB
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Yes, there were glasses available in addition of the frames (I took a little more glasses than frames, in case I get glassless frames later in sets or from bricklink)
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Today's haul from Wijnegem (Belgium) store : I more or less updated http://www.brickbuildr.com/view/pab/side/off/119/ I couldn't list on it the trans-light-blue crystal/gem and the 1x1 black brick with studs on 4 sides. About these bricks with studs on 4 sides, I took maybe a little many, I do not know what I'll do with all these :D Those with studs only on 1 side would have been more useful if they were available.
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such trays can be easily found in do-it-yourself shops (where they sell tools etc.)
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Indeed, it was only used for baseplates, trees and flowers. Green parts only started to appear as 2xN plates for basis of some Castle sets in mid 80s, then for a few other parts in early 90s in the Octan sets. It became more common in second half of 90s. These color lines are also missing the old grey, which became common in the end of the 70s I think.
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Indeed, my bad. I thought these sets were in 2011, it seemed to me it has been already several years.
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I really think that Lego should have replied "our last action with Shell was in 2011, there is nothing active", and let the thing calm down, even if they were planning in future actions, instead of replying explicitly that they will keep the relationship :/
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LEGO restoration - 20+ year old space / trains
antp replied to WhiteHexagon's topic in General LEGO Discussion
There were already 12V (electrified) rails in the 70s, they were blue back then. They switched to grey in the 80s keeping the same models of rails. So both colors can be mixed when building tracks. -
Cornwall beaches where the tide brings in Lego
antp replied to williejm's topic in General LEGO Discussion
There was another thread about that: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=98016 -
Indeed, last time I was in a store a little girl "stole" the stairs that she found in the cup I left unattended, to go show them to her mom (then I just picked new ones from the wall)
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http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3039pb041 (it was mentioned in the PaB thread just less than three hours ago :D)
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I'm curious to see what MOC will use so many computer-pattern slopes :)
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However, the technic part without "Lego" on the stud (3651 as said above) can be a real one: it is a rare case (maybe the only one?) of fullstud part that hasn't "Lego" written on it. Maybe it isn't really considered as a "stud", even if it can be used as one.
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Back to the living room. The kitchen area was already shown at the beginning. Since then I added a bar on the wall, to which hangs the paper towel roll and other towels (only the roll is in the Lego version). I also made a little longer the wall between the sink and the "dinning room" area, which looks like this : And in the Lego version : I think I'll raise the table by at least one plate, it seems too low. The grey thing on the left, with a yellowed 2x2 tile on it, represents a folded stepladder/stool, like that : http://media6.troc.com/produit/213/10/05/21311208211/max_213_11208211_1.jpg (I chose an old tile on purpose, the surface of that stool is kind of greyish and scratched) How I made the freezer in the back : The floor before furniture :
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Yes I should have taken more of these and less of the other plates :)
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I had the same scary thought That's when you chose the bricks that you buy, not when you buy random mixed parts in bulk. As said above, indeed 10 € / kg is the normal basis price for second-hand parts. If they are like-new and more interesting parts, that may go higher. But selling complete sets may be more interesting.
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Indeed that's what I did in Köln :D It took me some time, but I found for example a few glasses for 1x2 windows, always useful. The pic I posted back then: http://i.imgur.com/bk6Kvm6.jpg
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All these random parts were in Wijnegem's pick-a-brick? I should go there again :) It looks like they dumped there the rest of sets. I saw that in the store in Köln. I went to Wijnegem store on the 2nd or 3rd day, and there weren't masonery bricks anymore indeed.
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Indeed, sometimes the large ones are surprisingly hard to correctly "snap" together.
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Do TLG really buy oil for making plastic? It seems more realistic that they buy already-made plastic, without link to the original oil company. For them Shell is just a commercial partnership for promotional sets.
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Indeed, but that was 15 years ago... http://brickset.com/.../subtheme-Shell (I forgot those in my previous post, between the 70s/80s regular sets and the more recent Ferrari sets)
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They did in the 70s and 80s in Europe. There were several Shell sets in the normal product range, like we have Octan since the 90s. e.g. these three that I had/have: http://brickset.com/...-1/Tanker-Wagon http://brickset.com/...Shell-Tow-Truck http://brickset.com/...Service-Station and others with Shell logos: http://brickset.com/sets/6394-1/Metro-Park-Service-Tower In North-America there were equivalent Exxon sets: http://brickset.com/sets/6375-2/Exxon-Gas-Station vs http://brickset.com/sets/6371-1/Shell-Service-Station http://brickset.com/sets/554-1/Exxon-Fuel-Tanker vs http://brickset.com/sets/671-1/Shell-Petrol-Tanker and a few others Also, the more recent ones were not sold by Lego and seemed more of a Ferrari licence, were still related to Shell, made for them, distributed in Shell stations and had Shell logos. http://brickset.com/...ubtheme-Ferrari It is not as "bad" has if they still had regular Shell sets sold in toy stores, of course, but in a way I would agree with Greenpeace on the point that they should stop such commercial products. I just find bad the way all that story occurred, since they made it look like if they were still making sets like those from the 70s/80s.