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Wookienopants

LivDiv wrote:

Just finished building The bonsai tree set.

Really nice build, clever techniques for the trunk especially.

It comes with green leafy foliage and pink cherry blossom made up mostly of frogs.
I built the green version and will swap to blossom in spring. It is built around little foliage modules so once each set is built it's just four bits to swap, rather than every piece individually.

I think it tends to be on sale a lot so if you see it and are tempted it gets a big thumbs up from me.

Oh I have this too. Got it as a birthday present.

It's a lovely design, sits on my desk at work. Love the use of over 100 pink frogs for blossom.

LivDiv

Yeah I didn't realise they were frogs until I got the set. Excellent stuff.

hylian_elf

Boy and I did his Razor Crest (not the UCS one!) earlier in the week, that was a fun build.

LivDiv

Looks like a good set that one.

Bob

Austy got the home alone house set for chrimbo

Wookienopants

Amazing!! Post pics when it's done

hylian_elf

Boy was drooling over the Avengers tower set built and displayed in Lego store. Then he saw the price. It does look good. But either they made it wrong or the curves with straight pieces is shit.

Unlikely

My Lego backlog is getting out of hand. I now have the Batman Tumbler, Mindful Garden and some digger thing as WIP, with two more Speed Champions and a Ford GT40 build unopened. Best finished one recently was the Death Star Trench Run which is comprised of 99% tiny ickle pieces, which made a nice change from the bigger models.

I need to just accept that E isn't massively committed to these projects and I should probably be brave and try them unsupported by a child.

hylian_elf

I have the Technic Ferrari from around March time, Mario ? Block from around April, and bought Bowser in Black Friday deal. Dammit.

Kids wanna do the Mario ones with me so I’ll have to find a free weekend which is usually very very hard.

LivDiv

Please send any backlog Lego with stamped addressed return packaging to my PO Box. Thank you.

DrewMerson

hylian_elf

Fucking hell.

Bob

Wow

Unlikely

DrewMerson

Blue Swirl

DrewMerson wrote:

I can’t wave a button mushroom.

Post of the year.

Raiziel

I built a Technic McLaren for my nephew a short while ago. Gotta say, as someone who loves putting Lego sets together, I’m not sure I’m a fan of Technic. It feels like there’s so little there that can be reused, and that’s such a crucial part of Lego.

EvilRedEye

Raiziel wrote:

I built a Technic McLaren for my nephew a short while ago. Gotta say, as someone who loves putting Lego sets together, I’m not sure I’m a fan of Technic. It feels like there’s so little there that can be reused, and that’s such a crucial part of Lego.

A licensed car set’s gonna be the worst for that though because the design focus will be on accurately replicating the contours of the car. Technic do actually have a 2-in-1 range that is a bit like the Lego Creator 3-in-1 range - you might prefer those.

DrewMerson

Diluted Dante

I'd guess it's the Senna GTR, because that's a much cheaper set. I'm not a big fan of that, I don't think it does the car itself justice.

yourfavouriteuncle

I was under the impression that a lot of the Technics stuff had an alternate build within the set? Don’t know if they still do it but it certainly used to be a thing. Personally I’m not a fan of the Technics range, it feels a little too serious to me somehow, like it loses the joy of the standard stuff a bit.

mk64

yes or you can buy additional "plans" online which others have created for alt sets

EvilRedEye

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

I was under the impression that a lot of the Technics stuff had an alternate build within the set? Don’t know if they still do it but it certainly used to be a thing. Personally I’m not a fan of the Technics range, it feels a little too serious to me somehow, like it loses the joy of the standard stuff a bit.

Yeah, they have an orange 2-in-1 symbol on the box.

Bob

About six bags into the home alone house at this stage

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LivDiv

Am jealous.

On Technic. Never really clicked (pun) with me but my brother loved it when we were kids. Unsurprisingly he is now an engineer. Similar thing with Meccano and my dad, he loved it as a kid and became an engineer. I found Meccano to be fiddly bullshit.

There are some cool things in Technic though. I remember my brother getting a truck set that had a hydraulic crane on the back, found that fascinating as a kid. Similar with the engine and piston systems.
There are all the Mindstorms computer stuff as well, I think for a certain mindset Technic is a great introduction to more complex coding and engineering principles.

edit: It also allows some of the big UCS sets to exist. Cant imagine the massive star ships without the Technic internals.

The Daddy

I was well into Technic growing up. One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the Control Centre, made loads of contraptions with that bad boy:

LivDiv

I was watching a review of the new insect set yesterday and Im very tempted. Looks to be a really nicely designed collection. £70 is still a bit much for me but Ill keep an eye out for any offers.

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/the-insect-collection-21342

mk64

just seen that one of the yt'ers i watch has won Brick Masters

Blue Swirl

LivDiv wrote:

I was watching a review of the new insect set yesterday and Im very tempted. Looks to be a really nicely designed collection. £70 is still a bit much for me but Ill keep an eye out for any offers. https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/the-insect-collection-21342

Ooh, they'd look great nestled among some of the botanical stuff.

LivDiv

It's not really shown there but all three insects easily come off the stands. The mantis and to a slightly lesser extent the beetle can be posed to stand independently as well so you could have the mantis climbing the pot of another plant or something. Or you can just swap the stands around.

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