Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Dhobeck  | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 20:12 | | Subject: | Re: Barad-Dur officially revealed!! | | Viewed: | 6 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, Ziegelmeister writes:
| | In LEGO products, rickcraine writes:
| | What do you guys think about the set and the GWP? As a Massive LOTR fan, I am
VERY excited!
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Wow, I gotta tell ya, I'm really impressed with the design of the Eye. What
do we think is going on with the two pillars on the sides? It looks like one
solid piece with different colors injected. I can't find any seams.
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Something like this
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 20:07 | | Subject: | Re: Barad-Dur officially revealed!! | | Viewed: | 6 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, rickcraine writes:
| | What do you guys think about the set and the GWP? As a Massive LOTR fan, I am
VERY excited!
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Wow, I gotta tell ya, I'm really impressed with the design of the Eye. What
do we think is going on with the two pillars on the sides? It looks like one
solid piece with different colors injected. I can't find any seams.
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| Author: | Firecracker_ | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 16:18 | | Subject: | 30 studs or 12 studs in one direction? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Designer Program | |
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| Hi everyone.
One of the guidelines for Series 5, under "Building Instructions", says
"Don’t build more than thirty studs in any direction unless it’s one full
element". I believe this used to be 12 studs, and the corresponding image
still says 12 studs. I just want to make sure that 30 studs is correct?
Thank you.
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 15:29 | | Subject: | Re: Buying something but I can’t | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| In My Own Creation, Indominus6083 writes:
| | Can someone help, I need to buy a piece, but I don’t have the correct currency.
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during checkout Paypal will let you pay in your own currency using their exchange
rate
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| Author: | Indominus6083 | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 15:27 | | Subject: | Buying something but I can’t | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| | Can someone help, I need to buy a piece, but I don’t have the correct currency. |
| Author: | rickcraine | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 12:17 | | Subject: | Re: Barad-Dur officially revealed!! | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, SylvainLS writes:
| | In LEGO products, SylvainLS writes:
| | In LEGO products, rickcraine writes:
| | What do you guys think about the set and the GWP? As a Massive LOTR fan, I am
VERY excited!
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My wallet is saying “meh, it’s not as good as Rivendell.”
My LEGO room is saying… well, I don’t know exactly, something like “mmmhhffhhmmfff!”,
its voice is muffled, like it’s coming from behind a lot of plastic….
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Also, it’s Barad-Dûr 
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Well, thanks to your message, I know how to put that accent on letters 
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 12:09 | | Subject: | Re: Barad-Dur officially revealed!! | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, rickcraine writes:
| | What do you guys think about the set and the GWP? As a Massive LOTR fan, I am
VERY excited!
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My first time seeing it be like - 
Not really pleased with another licensed set, but whatever.
Figs could be nice though.
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 12:07 | | Subject: | Re: Barad-Dur officially revealed!! | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, SylvainLS writes:
| | In LEGO products, rickcraine writes:
| | What do you guys think about the set and the GWP? As a Massive LOTR fan, I am
VERY excited!
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My wallet is saying “meh, it’s not as good as Rivendell.”
My LEGO room is saying… well, I don’t know exactly, something like “mmmhhffhhmmfff!”,
its voice is muffled, like it’s coming from behind a lot of plastic….
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 12:06 | | Subject: | Re: Barad-Dur officially revealed!! | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, SylvainLS writes:
| | In LEGO products, rickcraine writes:
| | What do you guys think about the set and the GWP? As a Massive LOTR fan, I am
VERY excited!
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My wallet is saying “meh, it’s not as good as Rivendell.”
My LEGO room is saying… well, I don’t know exactly, something like “mmmhhffhhmmfff!”,
its voice is muffled, like it’s coming from behind a lot of plastic….
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Also, it’s Barad-Dûr
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 12:04 | | Subject: | Re: Barad-Dur officially revealed!! | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, rickcraine writes:
| | What do you guys think about the set and the GWP? As a Massive LOTR fan, I am
VERY excited!
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My wallet is saying “meh, it’s not as good as Rivendell.”
My LEGO room is saying… well, I don’t know exactly, something like “mmmhhffhhmmfff!”,
its voice is muffled, like it’s coming from behind a lot of plastic….
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 11:53 | | Subject: | Re: Barad-Dur officially revealed!! | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, rickcraine writes:
| | What do you guys think about the set and the GWP? As a Massive LOTR fan, I am
VERY excited!
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The one figure helmet/armor combo is legendary. Hands down gotta be in the running
for one of the best figures ever made
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| Author: | Cob | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 11:22 | | Subject: | Re: Barad-Dur officially revealed!! | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, rickcraine writes:
| | What do you guys think about the set and the GWP? As a Massive LOTR fan, I am
VERY excited!
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WOW!
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| Author: | rickcraine | | Posted: | May 14, 2024 11:19 | | Subject: | Barad-Dur officially revealed!! | | Viewed: | 87 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| What do you guys think about the set and the GWP? As a Massive LOTR fan, I am
VERY excited!
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| Author: | novabrick | | Posted: | May 13, 2024 05:53 | | Subject: | Re: 1932 wooden Yo-Yo | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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I have seen some old wooden LEGO but I haven't seen this. It seems similar
to the unpainted one. But it's a very low quality image provided in the catalog.
Christian
novabrick-team
In LEGO products, Tiroler333 writes:
| | Hello everyone,
I collect movie and TV sets as well as vintage Lego products from the 30s, 40s
and 50s.
The first Lego product was a yo-yo and is very hard to get.
But maybe someone knows their way around: Is the yo-yo in the photo from Lego?
I can't find 100% information at miniland.nl or on google.
Kind regards,
Daniel
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| Author: | Tiroler333 | | Posted: | May 13, 2024 05:23 | | Subject: | 1932 wooden Yo-Yo | | Viewed: | 83 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| Hello everyone,
I collect movie and TV sets as well as vintage Lego products from the 30s, 40s
and 50s.
The first Lego product was a yo-yo and is very hard to get.
But maybe someone knows their way around: Is the yo-yo in the photo from Lego?
I can't find 100% information at miniland.nl or on google.
Kind regards,
Daniel
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| Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | May 11, 2024 18:36 | | Subject: | Re: Has the quality of lego bricks gone down? | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, BrickDeals writes:
| | In LEGO products, dethkruzer writes:
| | So I pretty recently bought the GWP Tahu and Takua set, and have been noticing
an alarming number of cracked parts. I put the set together, occasionally pose
it a little, but haven't done anything like repeatedly disassembling and
then reassembling the set. Most of the time the set is just standing on my little
shelf, not under any direct sunlight. Yet it seems like every time I pick the
build up, I find a new cracked piece. All three side-stud pieces in both takua's
and tahu's head are cracked. both the ingot pieces on Tahu's, cracked.
One of the arches making up takua's arm? Cracked. One of the half-pound tiles
that makes up takua's toes? Cracked.
And that's only what I've found. I have a suspicion that if I were to
take the set apart, I'd find even more cracked pieces.
So my question is, well, in the title.
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Yes. For over a decade.
The 80s and 90s were really the golden era of LEGO quality. The Samsonite bricks
of the early era warped terribly.
There are tradeoffs though, the variety of molds and colors have increased.
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Agreed. I just don't find broken vintage parts. Even with heavy playwear.
The new still cracks just being in storage. It's mindblowing the difference
Crystal
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| Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | May 11, 2024 18:34 | | Subject: | Re: Has the quality of lego bricks gone down? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, Nikilyn writes:
| | My latest purchase direct from lego has tan pieces that appear to be made out
of a new material? They are different but the same. I'm not sure how to explain
it. I figured this was going to happen at some point with new ingredients, different
factories etc etc. Tan is just not a color you notice differences in but I guess
it now will join reddish brown and pearl gold with shades varying. Curious to
hear if others have seen quality issues or changes to pieces in recent orders.
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I build a fair number of Minecraft sets and have noticed problems with tan cracked
parts.
These are adult owned sets, they aren't cracking through play, they are cracking
just existing, unassembled
Crystal
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| Author: | dethkruzer | | Posted: | May 11, 2024 16:53 | | Subject: | Re: Has the quality of lego bricks gone down? | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, Elkenwood writes:
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I think a lot of quality control issues happens during the pigmentation process.
In the 90s, lego used pre-colored abs pellets, now it's all clear plastic
that is dyed in-house by lego.
So the product of the 90s was superior, but it had too many limitations in terms
of colour selection and material cost.
Lego also has a much, much larger parts catalogue now, with a lot more small
parts and some of them really push the limit of the capabilities of the plastic.
I recently bought a 1997 set that had it's box torn open but all of it's
parts mostly sealed and had the opportunity to build a brand new, vintage set
and it reminded me of how good everything felt back then. I think clutch power
isn't as good as it used to be.
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Clear plastic. That does sound like it would explain things. What I know from
transformers is that clear plastic tends to be harder and more brittle than opaque
plastic.
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| Author: | Elkenwood | | Posted: | May 11, 2024 16:49 | | Subject: | Re: Has the quality of lego bricks gone down? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, dethkruzer writes:
| | So I pretty recently bought the GWP Tahu and Takua set, and have been noticing
an alarming number of cracked parts. I put the set together, occasionally pose
it a little, but haven't done anything like repeatedly disassembling and
then reassembling the set. Most of the time the set is just standing on my little
shelf, not under any direct sunlight. Yet it seems like every time I pick the
build up, I find a new cracked piece. All three side-stud pieces in both takua's
and tahu's head are cracked. both the ingot pieces on Tahu's, cracked.
One of the arches making up takua's arm? Cracked. One of the half-pound tiles
that makes up takua's toes? Cracked.
And that's only what I've found. I have a suspicion that if I were to
take the set apart, I'd find even more cracked pieces.
So my question is, well, in the title.
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I think a lot of quality control issues happens during the pigmentation process.
In the 90s, lego used pre-colored abs pellets, now it's all clear plastic
that is dyed in-house by lego.
So the product of the 90s was superior, but it had too many limitations in terms
of colour selection and material cost.
Lego also has a much, much larger parts catalogue now, with a lot more small
parts and some of them really push the limit of the capabilities of the plastic.
I recently bought a 1997 set that had it's box torn open but all of it's
parts mostly sealed and had the opportunity to build a brand new, vintage set
and it reminded me of how good everything felt back then. I think clutch power
isn't as good as it used to be.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | May 11, 2024 16:23 | | Subject: | Re: Has the quality of lego bricks gone down? | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, dethkruzer writes:
| | In LEGO products, tec writes:
| | Have a look at your dark-red parts for a definitive answer.
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Any particular ones I should be looking at?
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2x2 and 1x4 tiles have been horrific for me. The 2x2's have two distinct
colors and the 1x4's have white stress marks.
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