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Re: LEGO!
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:18 pm
by vynsane
Jargo wrote:Huw is a pompous idiot. He's one of my older Brother's friends in the real world and is quite full of himself. I agree with him up to a point though. there is an awful lot of ridiculous projects on CUUSOO that need to be nipped in the bud and Lego really need to step in and tell people from the get go whether their project is worth developing or dropping. Why let people put in time and effort for nothing.
The Space Marines project has been getting a lot of abuse in the comments. Snarky keyboard warriors taking advantage of the fact that there's no moderation. And it's a damn shame because Space marines is probably the only full blown theme idea on CUUSOO that has legs. Most other stuff is just fanwank bollocks or retarded ideas put forward by people with zero creative ability.
Ultimately I think the only real use for CUUSOO is for Lego as a company to find talented new designers to mentor. People like Tyler Clites (Legohaulic). Who is a fucking genius where design and bricks are concerned.
All these piddling little novelty set ideas are not worth bothering with. It needs to be about the big ideas and the cream of the crop.
well, that's why it's still in beta. there's a LOT of kinks to work out. they've already instituted the new vetting process when you submit a new idea, so it doesn't just go into the flow immediately. there will be continual refinements to the system, i'm sure. that said, if they make the standards too high, the entire thing could implode and not get any more submissions, so it's a double-edged sword.
meanwhile, this:
HOLY HELL, i love this theme. interesting to note how CMFs1 had the ninja, and the Ninjago came out, and every CMF series so far has had a 'classic monster' and now this. i wonder what else will come out of the CMF line...
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:24 pm
by RoIIo Tomassi
I think overall I'm not too excited about that line, but that Hearse is the shizzle!!
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:34 pm
by anarky
Holy fuck, a pompadour! Can an Elvis Lego man be far behind?
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:42 pm
by RoIIo Tomassi
Me thinkest that pompadour is not new.
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:46 pm
by anarky
Really?
How do we live in a just world if there is a Lego pompadour and no Lego Elvis?
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:56 pm
by Ran
The mechanic from Mini Figure Series 6 has that hair.
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 6:35 am
by Jargo
It's a damn shame Lego don't do proper leg printing in themes because the female character could benefit from having some kinky boots.
The Ghost train carriages let down the train. I wish I'd bought a black train when the 'My Train assortment was out years ago. combining that with the ghost train would be kickass.
I think my favourite part of all this is Major Quinton Steele and his tan car. Ridiculous design but it looks like fun. So does his blunderbuss type gun.
The Zombie graveyard is another cool set.
http://www.brickhorizon.com/boardz/view ... =32&t=3207
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:53 am
by vynsane
HA, yeah, kinky boots would work well for her.
i was just popping in to post the high-res images of the Zombie Graveyard care of GRogall, king of high-res LEGO image finding:
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:54 am
by Jargo
Seeing all this makes me wish Lego had got a license to do Adams Family and Munsters sets. The castle and monster lab are ripe for modding into that. There is of course still the mystery haunted house set seen in a promo video for That new big R2-D2. Perhaps that's due out in time for Halloween.
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 9:13 am
by vynsane
and now for something completely retarded
VP of Palo Alto's SAP Arrested in LEGO Bar Code Scam
An executive at a Palo Alto software giant was charged Monday with four felony counts of burglary, after authorities said he allegedly made his own bar code stickers, switched the tags, and then bought boxes of LEGOs at Target stores for huge discounts.
Thomas Langenbach, 47, who lists himself as the vice president at Palo Alto's SAP Labs Integration and Certification Center on his LinkedIn profile, is expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Santa Clara County Court .
[...]
Supervising Deputy District Attorney Cindy Seeley Hendrickson said Monday that internal Target security spotted something awry with Langenbach's purchases from their stores --that's three alleged burglaries from the Mountain View store on Showers Drive and one from the Cupertino store on Stevens Creek Boulevard over the last month or so.
Wylie, of Mountain View police, said Target security had captured Langenbach performing the "ticket switch" on camera, and had been onto him because the company pays very close attention to LEGO sales.
[...]
Langenbach was formally charged with four counts of burglary totaling seven boxes of LEGOs worth about $1,000.
When police searched his home, however, Hendrickson said they found "hundreds and hundreds" of LEGO boxes inside. They also discovered that since last April, he had allegedly sold 2,100 LEGO items totaling about $30,000 on eBay using the handle "tomsbrickyard." Inside Langenbach's car, Hendrickson said, were 32 pre-made barcode stickers.
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 9:52 am
by Slicker
I'm about a week away from the largest nergasm I'll ever have when I build my sets that are just waiting for me. I'm not sure if I just wanna have a nergasm orgy and build them all at once or spread it out into a nergasm marathon and do one per day.
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 1:14 pm
by RoIIo Tomassi
If they're all big sets, you'll space them out. Building LEGOs is damn exhausting.
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 1:31 pm
by vynsane
RoIIo Tomassi wrote:If they're all big sets, you'll space them out. Building LEGOs is damn exhausting.
someone hasn't been following along... it's the UCS star destroyer and R2, death star playset, and most recent iteration of the falcon...
but yeah, you're gonna want to space them out, there, slick, if only to let your fingers callus over from all the bricklaying.
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 2:41 pm
by Jargo
RoIIo Tomassi wrote:If they're all big sets, you'll space them out. Building LEGOs is damn exhausting.
Lego. LEGO. L. E. G. O. in the singular
AND the plural.
Re: LEGO!
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 2:55 pm
by anarky
Ass. ASS. A. S. S. in the singular
AND the plural!
(Sorry, couldn't resist.
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