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    fred67 replied to Stelario's topic in LEGO Historic Themes

    Me neither, although it's an interesting technique and took me a minute to figure out what was used. I also think the snot plates making different patterns in each section is interesting. It all just seems like a big block of gray - which might actually be a more realistic structure. The tops of the towers and the gates are great.... I guess it's that middle section, going top to bottom, that just seems a bit too much of that technique to me. but otherwise it's really quite good (and substantial formidable). Also, this thread title is not good.
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    fred67 replied to Rick's topic in LEGO Town

    So... I like it. A lot. The detail is really quite nice. I'm not big on interiors, since it will eventually sit on a train layout display, but the interior and roof elements and little details on the exterior made it quite nice, IMO. I honestly can't figure out what a lot of those pieces are. Cinema had stickers... I'm doubting this will be printed on clear, but what do I know?
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    WOW! Think of all the money I'm going to save not buying these! Awesome!
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    Me, too - it's OUTSTANDING. A lot of pieces for a "micro!" The details are just absolutely amazing - congratulations.
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    I think the drill looks incredible. The whole thing just has so many little details - really well done; Congratulations on an incredible build!
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    +1 MiloNelsiano for a grade trade of old sets for new.
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    ^^ Those do look expensive. I use these. Right now they are $0.87/each at my local Target. That's even cheaper than the comparable (but smaller) version they sell at WalMart. When I did a complete overhaul of my LEGO, I bought at least 30 of them for temporary (for the most part) storage while I sorted them into my other organizers. Some remained with certain types of pieces that I had a lot of ("overflow" when I couldn't fit all of a part into the organizer), and most are now being used to store old sets so that I can build and display new ones. I put a sticker on the end with the set name and number, and a "X of Y" when a set takes up Y number of boxes. EDIT: Bonus - the indented top fits the bottom, so they stack well.
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    ^^ Yes, it's true that under those circumstances, it can be annoying and not very convenient. And yet, if you go with Akro-Mills (or the other brands that make those kinds of things), you lose storage space. So one simply has to choose what works better for them. When I need to "store" the extra little bits that come with a set after I'm done building it, it's really damn annoying. When I'm building my own stuff, I pull out two or three cases and have nearly everything I need at arms length.
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    I really like this one; I have the first minifigure size one, and this color is a lot better. The hair is also fine - I think it looks more like Bruce Banner hair from Avengers, so I think it's a good fit. I won't go out of my way to get this one, but I wouldn't mind having it.
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    ^^^ the last set I built was the Mystery Machine, and it did seem quite tedious given how small it was. Before that, the Kwik-E-Mart had very long instructions, but it was a large build; It didn't seem to me to be that drawn out or too simplified, but there were definitely steps that could have been combined. As far as boxes having a lot of empty space, it quite obviously was the case at one point that companies would fight for shelf space in stores. The size of the boxes definitely tried to give the feel you were getting a lot more for your money. The last box I opened - the City Square, is an enormous box (I actually un-boxed it to use to ship another LEGO set to someone else). Now, if you debagged all the parts, they'd take up a fraction of the space - but in the bags, they filled almost the entire box. There was maybe a fifth of space left. I was actually pretty impressed. EDIT: I'm now deboxing a Medieval Market Village, and I open the end - and the box is somewhat less than half full. So I do think they are improving in that area. With smaller sets, they need something to fill shelf space and large enough to catch the eye of the shopper.
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    I do not think there is anything to complain about with LEGO boxes or packaging, personally. I find the boxes to be quite good; the smaller boxes might be difficult to open without tearing the box - but they're usually perforated for just that purpose anyway. In other words, they are explicitly designed to be torn open. The larger boxes have tape... I carefully cut the tape and there's absolutely no damage to the box, and those boxes usually have tabs (like cereal boxes) to close them, so I don't see the problem there, either. If anything, when I first read this thread, I thought the complaint was shipping. TLG often does a terrible job packaging things for shipping, even to their own stores.
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    ^^^ Wow, nice job. You look like you can store a ton of LEGO in an easily accessible way. I know a lot of people like the Akro-Mills style cases (and so do I), but if you don't have room for a wall of them, you can get much denser storage this way. I find that, when I build, I pull two or three of these out and have the vast majority of pieces I need.
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    No, S6 was "normal," in the sense that you got at least three full sets plus extras - and you didn't get six of some undesirable figure. S11 HAD to have an even number of each in a box of 60 because they wanted it to match exactly two boxes of 30, which couldn't have two full sets in it - so you got SIX of some, and only TWO of others - a horrible distribution. Now, why it wasn't four of most, and two of some is beyond me. Like I said, S11 had a worse distribution than the others. So I'm not referring to desired or not, or female or male figures, but that the S11 distribution model made it worse because some figures could only have two of each. It was a terrible distribution, and people complained, and they went back to including at least three of each again after that.
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    There's been several discussions about it on EB; this one has the answer. The one on my avatar is actually suede microfiber; I think it looks like worn leather at minifigure scale.
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    I'll try not to repeat the stuff I wrote about BL-ing Market Street. I will say that a lot of the color choices in MS are just bizarre, and while I was 99.9% complete, I ended up not using a lot of the pieces - including some expensive ones - because MS is really not pretty. Look at the the dark blue arches... they are used on the "lesser" side building, including TWO in the BACK, and the dark blue doesn't make much sense there, especially the front (under the the odd design over the gates, where TWO are used) because it's not even adjacent to the dark blue of the building part. Moreover, there are parts in medium blue that weren't available before - like the tan arches over the windows in the original can now be found in medium blue, as can the "headlight" bricks that were originally in tan in Market Street. Some of the tan ones are nice, stylistically, but the ones used to hold the bar for the designs over the second floor windows looked terrible. The tan arches over the windows in tan looked terrible, IMO. You might save money (and debatably have a better looking building) if you read my post about it (link in signature).
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    Both. It is feasible - because you don't necessarily need to split up all the parts immediately. I've realized it's sort of an organic process, and it depends on how your collection is growing. Example: your first sort, you look at your collection and half of it is white. Maybe it's enough to just split the white out... and then you look at the white pieces and half of them are 2x4... so you split out the 2x4 from the rest of the white. If you have very little of some less common colors, you can split them out and keep all the various parts together for just that color. When you start getting a lot of a certain part OR a certain color, you split them out from the rest. Then, let's say you split off all your 1x2s, if you find you have a lot of one color, you split that color off. As the previous post said (and I've said it before), just sorting by color - if you have a lot of various pieces in that color, is bad... finding a red 2x2 in a bucket of 2x2s is easy; finding a red 2x2 in a bucket of red is very difficult. The whole point is to make it easy to find pieces, after all... so the answer is most certainly "both," but that you don't have to do everything all at once. Just once you get a lot of "something," you split off that something to it's own separate bin. That "something" can be a color OR a part type.
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    It's obviously quite true, but you can't use Series 11 as an example because it was an anomaly. At least the other series contained at least three of each figure. With S11 they stupidly tried to match the "half" boxes of 30 so that two of them would be exactly the same as getting the full box of 60... it was dumb. And they stopped doing it.
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    They shouldn't - the LOTR/Hobbit sets were, overall, very disappointing, IMO. This is coming from someone who, when announced, would never in a million years think they wouldn't want every single set. Some of the builds were OK, but the end results were really not what I wanted (I wanted visual beauty, I got play sets - I can't complain, but I wasn't really happy with the sets). Orthanc is really quite impressive - once built. But I imagine building it is mostly just a lot of bricks, level after level.
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    "Won't Let Go" T-shirt. Thought it was amusing. I'd probably get it if I didn't already have so many woot t-shirts that I can't wear to work.
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    Just fantastic, and while everyone is (rightfully) applauding you on your scene, I will also say I think your London street is also a work of art... congratulations on a great MOC. Someone here did a Little Shop of Horrors MOC with plant guy... it's as good as this one; some of the people here are really impressing me this Halloween season.
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    I don't know. People still submit World Trade Centers from time to time, sometimes mentioning it as a "tribute" to the victims (although the boat is saying "to the ship," and not the victims). I wouldn't vote for it, but while I don't want to stray from your point, I notice something else that bugs the hell out of me... why do people think they have any say in the price of the set?
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    I don't understand why you guys think a non-committal, "hey, go take your idea to the ideas site" reply is a hint of anything except some public service rep. trying to gently let you down.
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    I had just finished reading The Name of the Wind, and making a custom cloak. It's microfiber suede, which keeps it from fringing up where it's been cut, and at the minifigure scale looks like leather. So I put the figure together to make "Kvothe." He's not described as wearing armor, but he's got red hair and wears a cloak.
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    Court Jester (I work in television).
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    There's no value in PAB online. They know it. It's expensive because someone has to hand fulfill your order. If they are serious when they say they are not marketing sets to us (so stop whining!), then the kids would keep buying Castle sets while the adults bought the buckets. But they know we're buying - that's the point. They could also keep castle buckets for sale a lot longer than normal sets, and on top of all that, they don't have to pay a designer to come up with a set. Moreover, the "Castle Bucket" would mainly just be basic bricks - the greebly interesting elements - chains, weapons, the figures themselves... they'd still be in sets. It would be more like you'd buy sets, and then supplement them with the bucket.
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