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Re: Lego Ideas Typewriter

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Post by bombcar »

wongarsu wrote: post #49
Tomte wrote: post #7

At least the keys are printed. Those would have been a nightmare to center. Only two stickers in the set. (You can't take that for granted, even the 700 Euro set #75252 comes with a sticker)

All printed keys, and a new fabric element. I couldn't believe today's Lego would splurge like this, until I got to the "Includes Note from Chairman Thomas Kristiansen, based on the typewriter of founder Ole Kristiansen". I guess the executive still gets nice models without stickers.

Printing LEGO is one of the modern improvements that they’ve implemented - it is substantially easier and cheaper to print an element than it was twenty years ago.

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Post by JohnWhigham »

bombcar wrote: post #69
cainxinth wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my problem. I very badly want to build some of these (particularly the Saturn V and some of those huge Technic supercar models), but I really don't need another tchotchke collecting dust on a shelf.

Buy - build - sell. Used in box sells quite well - especially if you sell after they’ve gone from store shelves. eBay or BrickLink.

What do people usually do, just break it down and put all the bricks in one bag? I feel like it'd take even longer to do that than put it together...and then to put it back together when you have to sort through thousands of pieces?

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Post by bombcar »

thrower123 wrote: post #10

I'm somewhat depressed by how explicitly Lego is marketing towards 30-something man-children who build things to put them on the shelf. The worst part is that this model-kit design style is spilling over and infecting their actual toy themes. It's harder for kids to repurpose a set that's built 40% out of small tiles and cheese wedges and little greebly bits.

I still remember as a child loving the “customized” pieces - printed, rare - much more important that the normal bricks

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Post by thrower123 »

Tomte wrote: post #11
thrower123 wrote: post #10

I'm somewhat depressed by how explicitly Lego is marketing towards 30-something man-children who build things to put them on the shelf. The worst part is that this model-kit design style is spilling over and infecting their actual toy themes. It's harder for kids to repurpose a set that's built 40% out of small tiles and cheese wedges and little greebly bits.

Buy Lego Minecraft. Lots and lots of 2x2, 2x4 and 2x8 bricks in sensible colors.

Might have to look at this. The Classic boxes don't actually have the classic colors in much sufficiency, and are likewise full of tiny 1x1 and 1x2s to bulk up the part count

e.g. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/creative-building-bricks-...

It's a less than useful selection of pastel colors to really do anything with.

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Post by seattle_spring »

scoopertrooper wrote: post #20
samizdis wrote: post #2

That's a lovely piece of kit, and I am sorely tempted to put in an order, but LEGO's promotional video and associated text descriptions seem to be a little deceptive. As far as I can tell, the model - which has a "LEGO first" - Black and red ink spool ribbon is a new fabric element. - and each key has a letter, and the carriage moves, etc ... doesn't actually type.

This may shock you, but none of those lego ships are sea worthy either.

WHAT. this changes everything, as I was planning on taking the summer off to take my Saturn V into orbit.

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Post by sharkweek »

slowmovintarget wrote: post #65
cainxinth wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my problem. I very badly want to build some of these (particularly the Saturn V and some of those huge Technic supercar models), but I really don't need another tchotchke collecting dust on a shelf.

Have children. Then you get to buy as many Lego sets as you want, but they're really for them... honest. The Saturn V set is excellent, BTW.

My oldest, 3.5ish, is just starting to get into the little LEGO sets. To say I’m not beyond excited to uh… buy more kits for “him” would be a huge lie.

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Post by thrower123 »

loudmax wrote: post #51
jbrnh wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My dad complained about modern specialized lego bricks 30 years ago. I got some of his old bricks from the 50's. They got some weird shapes too. Nothing changed.

Totally agreed. I have several single function pieces from sets from the late 70s and early 80s: - spring actuated forklift loaders - boat hulls that actually float in water - airplane/helicopter rotors (incompatible with technics because they predate it) Not to mention all the doors, windows, trees, wheel axles and pulleys that can really only do one thing. There was a period in the late 90s/early aughts when Lego r…

This argument is about a decade out of date, and I'm completely uncomprehending how someone could not come up with a way to repurpose doors and windows and wheel axles...

There was a terrible period in the late 90s/early 2000s when they did make a bunch of really chunky large pieces that were impossible to do much with. Now the pendulum has swung to the other extreme, and designs are littered with a ridiculous number of miniscule pieces, which do little but bulk up the part count and add baroque detailing.

A terrible example of this style of design is the most recent X-Wing (https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/luke-skywalker-s-x-wing-f...). Clearly a model marketed at children. But the whole thing is incredibly fragile, made up of fiddly bits, with a couple spring-loaded shooter thingies tacked on to give it a modicum of play features. The entire segment aft of the cockpit is a complicated mass of technic beams and pins with a facade over the top, to make the wings fold open, except that the wings don't actually lock open. It looks really pretty, but as a Lego set, it's a big failure.

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Post by bombcar »

JohnWhigham wrote: post #72
bombcar wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buy - build - sell. Used in box sells quite well - especially if you sell after they’ve gone from store shelves. eBay or BrickLink.

What do people usually do, just break it down and put all the bricks in one bag? I feel like it'd take even longer to do that than put it together...and then to put it back together when you have to sort through thousands of pieces?

Usually, yes. Most people just dump all the pieces out anyway when building.

It’s actually not as bad as it seems especially if you have space to spread out and roughly sort while working (special memory works well).

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Post by mtmail »

cainxinth wrote: post #61
sharkweek wrote: post #36

A lot of people in this thread are forgetting that it’s not necessarily about the actual completed object but more the process of putting it together that often brings the most joy with LEGO. I don’t think I’m more at peace than the few times a year I sit down with a new LEGO kit and build it. It’s a delightfully enjoyable break from just about everything else that keeps my mind busy and is such a calming activity.

This is my problem. I very badly want to build some of these (particularly the Saturn V and some of those huge Technic supercar models), but I really don't need another tchotchke collecting dust on a shelf.

In Germany we have two companies that will send you a set (or 3, depending on plan) every month. It's like the old Netflix DVD model. Each sets gets washed, they added extra pieces and there's insurance for loosing pieces. (https://www.bauduu.de/)
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