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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by Prototype » Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:42 pm

I don't think any of the lego sets I've ever owned are still built, they usually get torn apart soon after I finish building them. Though that said the only one still in a state of construction is the Mindstorms, which is still set up as a machine gun type whatsit.
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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by Error » Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:58 pm

Accuracy is good when aiming for a specific design... but 90% of the things I built with lego were original designs.
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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by  ҉  » Sat Jun 13, 2015 5:23 pm

I'm sure this says something horrible about my creativity, but ehh, so what. I don't think I have to tell you guys that I absolutely love LEGOs, as the pictures of my house earlier in this thread should have gotten that across, but I've never had any desire to use them the way that you're "supposed to" use LEGOs. I derive great pleasure from having all of my sets assembled completely and correctly and displayed.
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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by Error » Sat Jun 13, 2015 5:37 pm

Sounds far closer to a hobbyist / modeller thing than lego, but to each their own.

And yes, it does say your creativity is ither dead or dormant.
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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by  ҉  » Sat Jun 13, 2015 6:38 pm

Error wrote:Sounds far closer to a hobbyist / modeller thing than lego, but to each their own.

And yes, it does say your creativity is ither dead or dormant.
I actually like assembling 'normal' glue-and-paint style models too, although I have zero interest in the models themselves; usually I throw them away pretty much as soon as I'm finished building them. In that instance the journey is all that matters to me, but I don't see LEGOs the same way. I don't mean to say that I've never built anything of my own, but I haven't in several years at least, and keeping models together has always been more important to me. Which is a bit of a problem now, actually; since I don't disassemble sets into my bins of loose parts, the flow of parts larger than those included as spare pieces into them is functionally zero, meaning that every time I root around for whatever bit I'm missing from some set I'm rebuilding I become marginally less likely to find the next one I look for. This is a long-term problem, but it worries me. At some point I may need to buy a bunch of fairly technical non-Star Wars sets and just use them for parts.
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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by Saravanth » Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:38 am

I once built a big ass fish from bionicle parts, about a metre long. It's body was basically just limb parts glitched together, but it held quite firmly and damn was I proud of it. Unfortunately, it ate almost all of my supplies, so I had to disassemble it. Really wish I hadn't.
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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by Error » Sun Jun 14, 2015 11:19 am

Most of my sets barely survived a week. But they generally got put to use building something just as neat, so there is that.
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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by Vinyl » Sun Jun 14, 2015 12:36 pm

I always build a set to specifications. Then, after an arbitrary period of time I will either customize it, gradually take pieces off of it, or "disassemble" it (break it apart for battle damage or something but never put it back together). After another period of time, I may feel compelled to rebuild a long dead set, although it's only recently that I've had such success with reassembly. Many times I've tried to rebuild my LAAT, Juggernaut, and Jabba's Sail Barge (never met success with the sail bare though).
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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by  ҉  » Sun Jun 14, 2015 1:07 pm

I haven't really played with my LEGOs in ages because I won't feel properly able to do so until I've got my collection back in proper condition. It was badly damaged when my house was destroyed in 2009 and in the subsequent moving and year in storage. Many of the sets had to be broken down then, and I've been gradually getting everything back together since 2011. Once everything is as it ought to be, some policies may change.
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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by  ҉  » Sun Jun 14, 2015 1:58 pm

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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by  ҉  » Mon Jul 13, 2015 4:38 pm

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Very pretty indeed.
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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by  ҉  » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:15 pm

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Re: Star Wars LEGOs

Post by Tell » Wed Jul 15, 2015 9:31 pm

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