dr_spock

There is no shortage of work for the LEGO® and Disney's IP lawyers. Job security.

I let others in my LUG build the modules. I like building things that move. I am not a building or scenery person. Other people in my LUG like doing buildings and scenery (and have bigger incomes). There are options to keep costs down depending on your display's target audience. The general public doesn't really scrutinize what you have hidden underneath. An AFOL convention is a different environment.

It is not "hard" to develop code so that sellers can specific what languages they work in. Buyers can specify what languages they want. The software can be written to match them up. The sellers would have to create their store terms in the languages they support.

Keeping play experiences in the realm of fantasy... Day 065 of 365: Four Shades of Grey by dr_spock_888, on Flickr No guns in this Star Wars experience.

The polybag would be hard since there is printing on the bag right up to the seal line. The heat sealer would put a new seal line on the printing. If you're sneaky, you could cut a hole in the bag and cover it up with a price tag sticker. The numbered bags in my picture above could be done without too much giveaway. Your bag might lose a few millimeters in length.

Avast, me team: Sea Rats Smileys https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/174529-btsc-619-sea-rats-smileys/ Licensed as small education.

The Sea Rats Smileys, No. 1 head team have arrived from Bastion. Their coach is Captain O'Smiley. He used to be a star player until a shark got the better of him. Their goal keeper Handy Smiley is kind of green in goal. We think he'll do alright in the tournament. Center forward Suzie Smiley is known for her hard head-butting head. She sometimes misses the ball and hits the opponent's head. Watch your head and keep smiling. The Sea Rats have rented the auditorium in the Mesabi library for their strategy planning session. Captain O'Smiley brought along a plank to stand on (and to carry players off the field after close encounter with Suzie). This session is SR confidential, please exit the area if you're not a member of the Smiley team. I'm going to live dangerously, make my team stats randomly.

It appears that LEGO® uses plastic number 5 PP (polypropylene) bags. At one time my area didn't take #5 in the curbside recycling bin but they do now.

I use a sharp razor edge knife and a straight edge to make the cut perfectly straight and clean. I do it when I review sets just in case I have reshoot some photos of the box contents. I don't reseal the bag but I'd arrange the bags in such a way the openings don't show up clearly in the reshoot.

No Black Friday sales for me. Still waiting for the new black rims with winter tires to show up in the credit card bill. I 3D printed the hub caps for them. The hole in hub cap is the size of a LEGO® 8x8 round plate. If I attached bricks to the plate, I wonder if they will fling off at highway speeds.

It is not always black and white. There are many shades of grey in the world of business decisions (at least 4 with LEGO®). The decisions are made by people and different people at different times depending on how they are structured and authority delegated. Consistency can be all over the map like some yellow bricks. It's just business...Lord Business as President Business likes to say in the LEGO® Movie.

It is common to use relays for certain applications. I used relays for my Arduino to control power to my PF motors. You can also use MOSFETs to do the same thing.

Would marking Technic videos as 18+ content work keeping kids out? Unless they lied about their age.

Appeal to kids or not, aren't your video setting telling Google is ok to collect personal data on the viewer of your video or not? If the viewer is under 13 and parents not consented, then it's a violation of COPPA?

Joining a LUG (LEGO User Group) may help (or make the addiction worse).

The simple weapon test. If you can see the particular weapon used in current real life war conflicts such as Syria,Ukraine, etc., then it is pretty much no go. Also if some parent complain about your AFOL Superheroes display in a LEGO Store, then they call you in fix the weapon issue. It's basically LEGO® management's discretion what they permit or don't in their LEGO® world.

If you have an air compressor, you can try blasting the dust off with an blower attachment.

Great job.

That's the anti-cybertrk.

I guess it remains to be seen what they'll do. Then again anything can still change in future. Learning to design and print your own stuff may not be a bad idea in the long run.

If you take care of the plastic sets, they should age fine. Software can be more challenging if it depends on an external service or server to work (ie. LEGO® Universe) and that service is no longer available in the future. The kids who have the sets today will probably get all nostalgic about them when they're adults.

Everyone is different. Try out each method and see which works best for you.

Thanks for the info. I should find some time to cut open the blown 9V adapter and see what happened inside.

To save costs on baggies, some bricklink sellers reuse the bags from the parted out LEGO sets. Weird, getting numbered bags with your BL order.

Would they have a say in Bricklink's seller fees?