Your making a lot of fuss about pronouncing "Gogh" correctly, never realizing that you're pronouncing the "van" wrong; the v is an f sound, as in German.
Your making a lot of fuss about pronouncing "Gogh" correctly, never realizing that you're pronouncing the "van" wrong; the v is an f sound, as in German.
The v is a v-sound, the f is an f-sound, according to my son's teacher. Not sure if English differentiates between the two sounds, but it's definitely there.
Your making a lot of fuss about pronouncing "Gogh" correctly, never realizing that you're pronouncing the "van" wrong; the v is an f sound, as in German.
The v is a v-sound, the f is an f-sound, according to my son's teacher. Not sure if English differentiates between the two sounds, but it's definitely there.
The Dutch QI guy pronounces the v closer to an f-sound. And the (German) car manufacturer is pronounced folksvagen.
Your making a lot of fuss about pronouncing "Gogh" correctly, never realizing that you're pronouncing the "van" wrong; the v is an f sound, as in German.
Am I at least saying "Vincent" correctly?
No. No I am not.
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The set will seemingly retail for $99.99 / £99.99 and will release on August 1, 2022. The set apparently contains 1062 parts.
The set is likely to be revealed during Star Wars Celebration, which is currently ongoing and is scheduled to include several Lego reveals.
EA officially announced a sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order in January, along with two other new Star Wars projects in development at Fallen Order development studio Respawn Entertainment.
Earlier this month it was claimed that the sequel would be titled Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
I made a clock using mangle rack mechanism using LEGO bricks.
Please watch with subtitles.
Japan Brickfest 2022 will be held on June 11-12, 2022. I am planning to exhibit this and GBC there.
Chapter:
0:00 Opening
0:28 Making the second hand of the clock
3:30 Making the minute hand of the clock
5:53 Making the hour hand of the clock
8:25 Operation
11:05 12-hour time-lapse
A bunch of these I got because I thought my kids would enjoy them when they're older, but who knows?
Okay, that's perfect.
However, when it comes time to give these to your kids, be careful about how you go about it. My dad doing something like that is how I realized there was no Santa Claus.
Growing up, my dad's office/den was awesome. A huge computer desk, an electrical workbench on the back wall, a tv up high for background noise, an entire wall full of programming manuals and other job related stuff. There was also this small closet in the back where dad kept his assorted wires, tools, and other things that he would use in his work and hobbies. It had a really cool sliding door, because it was just too narrow to have a real door. And of course because it was full of electronics and equipment and random junk (and later in life I learned dad kept his sport rifles back there), I wasn't allowed in there.
When I was somewhere between 5-7, Christmas rolled around. My gift from Santa was the GI Joe mobile space launch platform, the Defiant. It was just sitting under the tree, given to me by Santa, fully assembled. This was my pride and joy, and I loved everything about it. I used to even ride around on it, back when I was small enough to do that.
Well, as I was playing with it on Christmas day, I noticed something odd. See, there were giant turrets on either side of the vehicle, as seen here:
The one on the outside there, upside-down. One was present, but the other was missing. I was confused as heck, so I went to my dad. "Dad, something's wrong. Santa didn't give me a piece! There should be a gun here!" Dad looks at me. He then gets up, disappears back into the closet, closes the door, and then comes back out with the turret. I'm like "OMG, that's awesome, thank you dad!" ... and then my little brain was like. Waitaminute. Why would Santa have left that part back there? That makes no sense.
I still got gifts from Santa for a few years. But the final really big year I remember, and what kind of killed it off from me, was the year I got a drummer's throne. That was, IMO, the lamest gift ever. I still have that throne because it is BUILT LIKE A ROCK. I do not still have the Defiant, which broke, piece by piece, over many years of love.
Speaking of my storage, Lego boxes on their side is best, right? So the box doesn't collapse in?
I usually store all of my unbuilt Legos on their side. Although I did have some stacked on top of each other like pancakes, but usually the smaller boxes.
Been working on an LV426 Hadley's Hope diorama for my Colonial Space Marines APC and Aliens minifigs.
Still a work on progress but it's getting there. Pretty happy how it's turning out. Need to find more dark bluish gray grille tiles (I ran out, lol), and adding more greebly tech details to the walls and maybe an opening door mechanism. Oh, and blood. Lots of yellowish green acid blood.
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A brand store in China has provided us with the first glimpse of a forthcoming gift with purchase.
40567 Forest Hideout plays homage to 6054 Forestmen's Hideout from the beloved Forestmen Castle subtheme.
It looks to be a faithful reproduction which has leveraged the new parts and techniques that have become available since the original was introduced during 1988. It has more pieces than the old version and two minifigures, one of whom appears to be female.
A brand store in China has provided us with the first glimpse of a forthcoming gift with purchase.
40567 Forest Hideout plays homage to 6054 Forestmen's Hideout from the beloved Forestmen Castle subtheme.
It looks to be a faithful reproduction which has leveraged the new parts and techniques that have become available since the original was introduced during 1988. It has more pieces than the old version and two minifigures, one of whom appears to be female.
Looks great! I hate that these Castle GWP and sets won't be going on at the same time as the Optimus Prime set (off by 2 weeks or so, I believe).
I'm looking forward to seeing the reveal of the Lion King's Castle, which reportedly does not even come with a king minifigure, oddly enough (wth, Lego?). It's being referred to colloquially as the Lion's Queen Castle since it will at least include a queen minifig.
Either way, I have such fond memories of the Lion knight minifigs as a kid when Castle was still a thing. The set should be pretty big and come with loads of minifigures!
Been working on an LV426 Hadley's Hope diorama for my Colonial Space Marines APC and Aliens minifigs.
Still a work on progress but it's getting there. Pretty happy how it's turning out. Need to find more dark bluish gray grille tiles (I ran out, lol), and adding more greebly tech details to the walls and maybe an opening door mechanism. Oh, and blood. Lots of yellowish green acid blood.
Man. Just look at those two pics and see how far Lego's come in our lifetimes.
I have one of the old sets where the Minifigure doesn't have any moving arms or legs and has no face. Lego has indeed come a long way since then. I still have lots of love for the old sets as much as the new stuff. Can't wait to get this GWP.
Been working on an LV426 Hadley's Hope diorama for my Colonial Space Marines APC and Aliens minifigs.
Still a work on progress but it's getting there. Pretty happy how it's turning out. Need to find more dark bluish gray grille tiles (I ran out, lol), and adding more greebly tech details to the walls and maybe an opening door mechanism. Oh, and blood. Lots of yellowish green acid blood.
I can hear the movie lines in my head right now.
"Game over, man, game over!" RIP, Bill Paxton (Pvt Hudson) and Al Matthews (GySgt Apone).
And I just ordered a crap ton of 1x2 flat silver grille tiles from BrickLink to finish off my diorama MOC. I think the flat silver will help break up all the dark bluish gray a little bit.
A suggestion: Remove one of the grille tiles and replace underneath it and the surrounding plates in acid colored plates, and have a wounded alien above.
As a small diversion from my Star Wars helmet collection, I got the 1960s Batman cowl. I had planned to get the other, more modern Batman cowl so I can put them on either side of my shelf, though the shelf has been repurposed as a laptop desk since then.
The build itself is quite simple, though the secret heart hidden inside Batman's head is an interesting Easter egg. One neat feature of this set is that the helmet just rests on the stand, so you can take it off and hold it easily. All of the other helmets I have are fixed into the stand, even the Red 5 helmet which came out later. I'd like to see this addition done to future sets.
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A few weeks ago I committed to posting pictures of my Lego Star Destroyer fleet. Technically it's not complete as I need to find the polypag star destroyers manuals and rebuild them, but it's close enough. So, from the top:
From top left to right, we have:
75190 First Order Star Destroyer
6211 Imperial Star Destroyer
75055 Imperial Star Destroyer
10030 (UCS*) Imperial Star Destroyer
75252 UCS Imperial Star Destroyer (2.0)
10221 UCS Super Star Destroyer
*edit* I forgot about the 75315 Imperial Light Cruiser
*UCS moniker didn't exist in 2002.
A better view of the non-UCS Star Destroyers:
Surprise! Behind every (UCS*) Imperial Star Destroyer lies a midi scale 8099 Imperial Star Destroyer:
Sir! They've located the Imperial Fleet!
LAUNCH ALL TIE SQUADRONS!!!
The Tie Fighters are built from 17 pieces, and I bought enough to make 20 Tie Fighters. I also have a polybag Tie Interceptor.
This has been a really fun and welcomely distracting journey over the past few months. Next up...where in the F*** do I display these.
This has been a really fun and welcomely distracting journey over the past few months. Next up...where in the F*** do I display these.
That's easy: hang them all from the ceiling in a giant squadron diorama.
Just leave space on the ceiling for the rebel fleet diorama on the opposite side.
"Let's take a look at the scores! The girls are at the square root of Pi, while the boys are still at a crudely drawn picture of a duck. Clearly, it's anybody's game!"
A few weeks ago I committed to posting pictures of my Lego Star Destroyer fleet. Technically it's not complete as I need to find the polypag star destroyers manuals and rebuild them, but it's close enough. So, from the top:
From top left to right, we have:
75190 First Order Star Destroyer
6211 Imperial Star Destroyer
75055 Imperial Star Destroyer
10030 (UCS*) Imperial Star Destroyer
75252 UCS Imperial Star Destroyer (2.0)
10221 UCS Super Star Destroyer
*edit* I forgot about the 75315 Imperial Light Cruiser
*UCS moniker didn't exist in 2002.
A better view of the non-UCS Star Destroyers:
Surprise! Behind every (UCS*) Imperial Star Destroyer lies a midi scale 8099 Imperial Star Destroyer:
Sir! They've located the Imperial Fleet!
LAUNCH ALL TIE SQUADRONS!!!
The Tie Fighters are built from 17 pieces, and I bought enough to make 20 Tie Fighters. I also have a polybag Tie Interceptor.
This has been a really fun and welcomely distracting journey over the past few months. Next up...where in the F*** do I display these.
That is the most beautiful random layout ever. EVER!
I actually have two of the midi Star Destroyers by accident. Last year I was surfing bricklink and discovered that they made one. Thinking I never had one I scoured eBay and watchlisted a bunch. One day one appeared from a low feedback seller (although all positives) saying they were selling off their kids sets and they weren't sure if they were complete. He took a lot of photos and it seemed that it was nearly complete so bought it since it was a steal just for the parts alone. Got it in hand, took it completely apart and discovered that it was 100% complete, just put together wrong. I was so happy to have one.
Flash forward six months later. Cleaning up the house in anticipation for a puppy and going through all the Lego boxes to stuff more in the closet. What did we find? A boxed midi Star Destroyer. Apparently my wife bought me one and I just stuffed it into the closet. So one day I'll have two on display.
Edit: I just realized I need to track down a third to display them together with the midi Falcon diving away from them. Dang it.
A few weeks ago I committed to posting pictures of my Lego Star Destroyer fleet. Technically it's not complete as I need to find the polypag star destroyers manuals and rebuild them, but it's close enough. So, from the top:
From top left to right, we have:
75190 First Order Star Destroyer
6211 Imperial Star Destroyer
75055 Imperial Star Destroyer
10030 (UCS*) Imperial Star Destroyer
75252 UCS Imperial Star Destroyer (2.0)
10221 UCS Super Star Destroyer
*edit* I forgot about the 75315 Imperial Light Cruiser
*UCS moniker didn't exist in 2002.
A better view of the non-UCS Star Destroyers:
Surprise! Behind every (UCS*) Imperial Star Destroyer lies a midi scale 8099 Imperial Star Destroyer:
Sir! They've located the Imperial Fleet!
LAUNCH ALL TIE SQUADRONS!!!
The Tie Fighters are built from 17 pieces, and I bought enough to make 20 Tie Fighters. I also have a polybag Tie Interceptor.
This has been a really fun and welcomely distracting journey over the past few months. Next up...where in the F*** do I display these.
That is the most beautiful random layout ever. EVER!
I actually have two of the midi Star Destroyers by accident. Last year I was surfing bricklink and discovered that they made one. Thinking I never had one I scoured eBay and watchlisted a bunch. One day one appeared from a low feedback seller (although all positives) saying they were selling off their kids sets and they weren't sure if they were complete. He took a lot of photos and it seemed that it was nearly complete so bought it since it was a steal just for the parts alone. Got it in hand, took it completely apart and discovered that it was 100% complete, just put together wrong. I was so happy to have one.
Flash forward six months later. Cleaning up the house in anticipation for a puppy and going through all the Lego boxes to stuff more in the closet. What did we find? A boxed midi Star Destroyer. Apparently my wife bought me one and I just stuffed it into the closet. So one day I'll have two on display.
Edit: I just realized I need to track down a third to display them together with the midi Falcon diving away from them. Dang it.
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The v is a v-sound, the f is an f-sound, according to my son's teacher. Not sure if English differentiates between the two sounds, but it's definitely there.
The Dutch QI guy pronounces the v closer to an f-sound. And the (German) car manufacturer is pronounced folksvagen.
Am I at least saying "Vincent" correctly?
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-lego-set-images-appear-online/
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DLC sold separately.
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my god the engineering behind this
Thanks. Put a pre-order in there. Will decide if I want the VIP points or $10 off later.
Great. Now it is triggering me too.
Steam: betsuni7
It flips back again at the 50
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Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
I honestly have no answer, and that's probably a big reason why a lot of clocks don't bother.
I was gonna go "Oh, that isn't so bad", until I saw the Falcon. Yup. You win the backlog, easy.
(Please do not look in the Gunpla thread in recent weeks.)
Okay, that's perfect.
However, when it comes time to give these to your kids, be careful about how you go about it. My dad doing something like that is how I realized there was no Santa Claus.
Growing up, my dad's office/den was awesome. A huge computer desk, an electrical workbench on the back wall, a tv up high for background noise, an entire wall full of programming manuals and other job related stuff. There was also this small closet in the back where dad kept his assorted wires, tools, and other things that he would use in his work and hobbies. It had a really cool sliding door, because it was just too narrow to have a real door. And of course because it was full of electronics and equipment and random junk (and later in life I learned dad kept his sport rifles back there), I wasn't allowed in there.
When I was somewhere between 5-7, Christmas rolled around. My gift from Santa was the GI Joe mobile space launch platform, the Defiant. It was just sitting under the tree, given to me by Santa, fully assembled. This was my pride and joy, and I loved everything about it. I used to even ride around on it, back when I was small enough to do that.
Well, as I was playing with it on Christmas day, I noticed something odd. See, there were giant turrets on either side of the vehicle, as seen here:
The one on the outside there, upside-down. One was present, but the other was missing. I was confused as heck, so I went to my dad. "Dad, something's wrong. Santa didn't give me a piece! There should be a gun here!" Dad looks at me. He then gets up, disappears back into the closet, closes the door, and then comes back out with the turret. I'm like "OMG, that's awesome, thank you dad!" ... and then my little brain was like. Waitaminute. Why would Santa have left that part back there? That makes no sense.
I still got gifts from Santa for a few years. But the final really big year I remember, and what kind of killed it off from me, was the year I got a drummer's throne. That was, IMO, the lamest gift ever. I still have that throne because it is BUILT LIKE A ROCK. I do not still have the Defiant, which broke, piece by piece, over many years of love.
Now I can't unsee that either, thanks!
I usually store all of my unbuilt Legos on their side. Although I did have some stacked on top of each other like pancakes, but usually the smaller boxes.
Steam: betsuni7
Frick.
Still a work on progress but it's getting there. Pretty happy how it's turning out. Need to find more dark bluish gray grille tiles (I ran out, lol), and adding more greebly tech details to the walls and maybe an opening door mechanism. Oh, and blood. Lots of yellowish green acid blood.
https://brickset.com/article/77292/first-image-of-90-years-of-play-gwp
Looks great! I hate that these Castle GWP and sets won't be going on at the same time as the Optimus Prime set (off by 2 weeks or so, I believe).
I'm looking forward to seeing the reveal of the Lion King's Castle, which reportedly does not even come with a king minifigure, oddly enough (wth, Lego?). It's being referred to colloquially as the Lion's Queen Castle since it will at least include a queen minifig.
Either way, I have such fond memories of the Lion knight minifigs as a kid when Castle was still a thing. The set should be pretty big and come with loads of minifigures!
I have some from when I moved here in my pile of books and boxes as that's why I call Lego the accidental investment
Uh, it comes out on August. So everyone's orders are backordered.
Steam: betsuni7
I can hear the movie lines in my head right now.
I have one of the old sets where the Minifigure doesn't have any moving arms or legs and has no face. Lego has indeed come a long way since then. I still have lots of love for the old sets as much as the new stuff. Can't wait to get this GWP.
Steam: betsuni7
Steam: Feriluce
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"Game over, man, game over!" RIP, Bill Paxton (Pvt Hudson) and Al Matthews (GySgt Apone).
And I just ordered a crap ton of 1x2 flat silver grille tiles from BrickLink to finish off my diorama MOC. I think the flat silver will help break up all the dark bluish gray a little bit.
The build itself is quite simple, though the secret heart hidden inside Batman's head is an interesting Easter egg. One neat feature of this set is that the helmet just rests on the stand, so you can take it off and hold it easily. All of the other helmets I have are fixed into the stand, even the Red 5 helmet which came out later. I'd like to see this addition done to future sets.
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From top left to right, we have:
75190 First Order Star Destroyer
6211 Imperial Star Destroyer
75055 Imperial Star Destroyer
10030 (UCS*) Imperial Star Destroyer
75252 UCS Imperial Star Destroyer (2.0)
10221 UCS Super Star Destroyer
*edit* I forgot about the 75315 Imperial Light Cruiser
*UCS moniker didn't exist in 2002.
A better view of the non-UCS Star Destroyers:
Surprise! Behind every (UCS*) Imperial Star Destroyer lies a midi scale 8099 Imperial Star Destroyer:
Sir! They've located the Imperial Fleet!
LAUNCH ALL TIE SQUADRONS!!!
The Tie Fighters are built from 17 pieces, and I bought enough to make 20 Tie Fighters. I also have a polybag Tie Interceptor.
This has been a really fun and welcomely distracting journey over the past few months. Next up...where in the F*** do I display these.
That's easy: hang them all from the ceiling in a giant squadron diorama.
Just leave space on the ceiling for the rebel fleet diorama on the opposite side.
That is the most beautiful random layout ever. EVER!
I actually have two of the midi Star Destroyers by accident. Last year I was surfing bricklink and discovered that they made one. Thinking I never had one I scoured eBay and watchlisted a bunch. One day one appeared from a low feedback seller (although all positives) saying they were selling off their kids sets and they weren't sure if they were complete. He took a lot of photos and it seemed that it was nearly complete so bought it since it was a steal just for the parts alone. Got it in hand, took it completely apart and discovered that it was 100% complete, just put together wrong. I was so happy to have one.
Flash forward six months later. Cleaning up the house in anticipation for a puppy and going through all the Lego boxes to stuff more in the closet. What did we find? A boxed midi Star Destroyer. Apparently my wife bought me one and I just stuffed it into the closet. So one day I'll have two on display.
Edit: I just realized I need to track down a third to display them together with the midi Falcon diving away from them. Dang it.
Steam: betsuni7
Woe is you.