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Sagrada Família Lego set
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#142Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of i…
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#143With those prices LEGO is leaving a massive opening for their Chinese competitors.
it's already a thing in China, you can buy Lego clones for 1/10th - 1/3rd of the original one
it's crazy how much ask Lego for few order of plastic, I couldn't believe how cheap rest clones are in China, it's shame they are not that cheap on AliExpress
lego doesn't have patent on brick, so they can be exactly same and compatible, from my experiences only difference is in manual
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#144With those prices LEGO is leaving a massive opening for their Chinese competitors.
Question is, are Lego fans going to buy a similar-quality chinese product or do they only buy Lego?
why not if it's the same thing for 1/3rd to 1/10th of the price? I mean you can buy some of them for one tenth, at that price is no brainer, I wonder why nobody imports them to Europe, it's same fun, no matter the brand
we bought for son among others some motorbike model for like 10€ in China, same thing grim Lego would cost here in Europe like 50-80€
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#145somebody outta make a cheaper affordable lego alternative its a god damn crime what lego is getting away with
there are tons of them in China, you can buy them on AliExpress, though that are expensive there for 1/2-1/3rd of Lego
but you wouldn't believe if I told you how much it cost in China, you can buy sets with hundreds of pieces for like 3-4 euros, I couldn't believe it when I saw the prices, Lego prices are highway robbery for piece of plastic
and don't tell me about paying for their creativity, there are alternate builds made by fans for free which are better than the original sets
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coloring books give you some freedom; to pick your own colors and texture. If we were to draw an analogy, it would be using the LEGO pieces in this kit to build something else. But nobody is going to do that, so it is like a color-by-numbers book, which exercises little creativity. It's a mindless activity to pass the time.
Yeah, what's wrong with that exactly?
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#147$800?!
I wonder if Gaudi gets a cut!
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
The shape doesn't matter for the scaling as long as it is a 3-dimensional object that is scaled in all directions. And I think for the actual value you get, scaling by volume would actually be more accurate.
The original took 144 years to build, and this model is anywhere between 153 to 278 times smaller. If one were to scale by volume, the build time would take at most 22 minutes, and at least 3. I think scaling linearly works better here
Well that’s because you’re building alone and there were multiple people at once doing the real thing, and it’s a different construction method.
That only determines a constant factor though, the scaling of build time for a given method should roughly follow volume.
Would you say that building a Lego version that’s twice as high takes double the time?
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to see the back of that if you actually integrated the LEDs into the main engine (and I apologize if you did post other photos, I have X mostly blocked so I can only see the directly linked post.) I've been hacking at adding some lights to a few sets that I thought would look great with actual lighting on them, and my biggest challenge has been the routing of all the wires in a way where the lights actually…
I don't think I have pictures of the back specifically but the route was: Started on one side of the engine framing, all the way across, inside through the body then around the round section holding the bottom gun turret, then along the front bottom edge, back into the body and around the top round section of the gun turret, back into the body into the bridge and across the ceiling ending there. The LED string itself…
Ah I see. What I've been trying to do is integrate the LEDs into specific pieces instead, so I've mostly been using individual ones rather than strips. I was actually inspired by a Lumibricks set for my method of routing the pieces. Currently I'm trying to add lights to the modular Cinema set, which I think would be great, and I've had to resort to cutting out parts of bricks to get things routed around.
> The LED string was ~$60 and it was a silly amount of work but I have it sitting over my left shoulder during conference calls and people ask about it constantly so it was fun.
My first experiment with adding lights was to the Technic Porsche set, and interestingly, in meetings it doesn't get blurred as much as the rest of the background (probably due to the lights I put in it) so I often get asked about it as well.
Thanks for sharing!
Re: Sagrada Família Lego set
#150Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of i…
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Came for this - happy to see it here...