aabbee 150 posted a new topic:
So I've been curious to what are your guy's favorite LEGO color? Least favorite?
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LEGO color LEGO 18 June 2013
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BW 2013 ‘Who built this?’ thread Brickworld 18 June 2013
bruce n h posted a new topic:
Hey all,
Could any of you who were at BW give some insight into the following MOCs. Who built them? And can you point to their Flick/Brickshelf/MOCpage?
dragon (maybe Smaug?) mosaic
geometric shapes
Miniland scale AFOL gathering
Nativity scene
big orange Batman mosaic
other Batman mosaic
large shields
Thanks!
Bruce -
Legends of Chima Online LEGO 17 June 2013
Proudlove posted a new topic:
Those of you who know me probably know by now that I've been in Montreal for the last year and a bit working with WBGames Montreal, and have been working on this game. Well, we're in closed beta right now for a couple more weeks and I'd like to see what you all think.
apps.facebook.com/couponshq/contests/325552
So check it out and be sure to give feedback. I'm super proud of what our team has done with the game and I look forward to hearing what other Lego fans and gamers think.
Cheers,
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Favorite Lego Video Game? LEGO 13 June 2013
[Aaron K.] posted a new topic:
I was looking around yesterday, and came across a few Lego video games I had gotten a few years back. I played a bit of each, and enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. This brought a question to mind I thought I would ask here: What is your favorite video game that Lego has released?
Mine would have to be Bionicle Heroes. It had great gameplay, fun levels, and felt really fulfilling when you finished the game. But with mine aside, I want to know what your favorite is! -
Grumpy ‘Legos’ LEGO 12 June 2013
:Bob: posted a new topic:
usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/11/18904238-do-legos-nee...
By Gillian Spear and Tracy Connor, NBC News
BEGIN Quoted Article:
Do Lego Minifigures need an attitude adjustment?
A team of academics who studied hundreds of the plastic people prized by children and collectors thinks a little anger management might be in order.
In 1980, all the figurines that came in sets of interlocking bricks were “smileys” — with seemingly sunny personalities to match their bright yellow visages.
But in the mid-1990s, only about 80 percent of figurines were putting on a happy face, and by 2010, the proportion had dropped to 50 percent, the researchers found.
In place of enigmatic grins, scowls, grimaces and knitted brows increasingly appeared below those molded plastic toupees.
“Things have changed a lot since I was a kid,” said the study’s lead author, Christoph Bartneck of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, who briefly worked for Lego in the 1990s and declared himself an AFOL – and Adult Fan of Legos.
He and another researcher from the school’s Human Interface Technology lab culled photos of all the figures produced between 1975 and 2010 and had study participants describe the facial expressions of a representative sample of 628.
They plotted the emotions — happiness, anger, fear, disgust, surprise and sadness — on a time chart to illustrate how the two-inch toys have gotten crankier with the passing years. By 2010, about 30 percent of the figurines were hot under their removable collars.
“We cannot help but wonder how the move from only positive faces to an increasing number of negative faces impacts how children play,” Bartneck wrote in his study.
While he said there is no conclusive research to suggest grouchy Legos beget grouchy children, he sounded wistful that the halcyon days of Minifigures are fading.
“The children that grow up with Lego today will remember not only smileys but also anger and fear in the Minifigures’ faces,” he wrote.
Lego did not return a call and an email for comment on the study.
Young fans, however, were unperturbed by the playthings’ perturbation.
Victor Hudson, 13, of Raleigh, N.C., correctly noted that glad still outnumbers mad in the Lego production line, and the increase in angry faces accompanied an explosion in the number of different Lego characters.
“The robbers are obviously mean,” he said. “There’s lot of characters, so some are mean, but it’s mostly smiles.”
Jeanette Collins, a mother of a 6-year-old girl from Hinsdale, Ill., had not noticed grumpiness creeping into her daughter’s collection but isn’t worried.
“It’s better than watching TV,” she said. “As long as it doesn’t affect her behavior.”
Bartneck believes the harder edge is a response to consumer demand for less generic, more character-specific Minifigures.
“Can you blame them?” he said of the toymaker.
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Contest over at the Zoids Lego group! MECHA HUB 12 June 2013
◄SAGE► posted a new topic:
First off I would like to say if this is crossing any borders or considered spam by any mods, feel free to close/delete this thread.
I am one of the admins over at the Zoids Lego group. We're currently holding a contest (with prizes) to see who can build the best Zoid! It's in a 1v1 champion type format where two people go at it and the winner goes to the next round.
This group is full of great mech builders and although most of you build humanoid style mechs don't be afraid to try out building a Zoid! They really aren't that different, well only if you're good enough that is. ;) So if any of you want to learn more go here and check it out!
And if any of you were wondering what the prizes are:
Each trophy features a Judgeman minifigure as well as $20 in chromed bricks from ChromeBlockCity! -
A Cry for History Historical LEGO 11 June 2013
Shadow Viking posted a new topic:
Okay seriously guys. I was just looking through the pool and half of the stuff in here is fantasy-- invented events with invented people on invented worlds, with invented technology and fashion.
Don't get me wrong, that's awesome. But there are sooo many other groups for that. Can we not have one group for history? Things from our own true past? I see some civil war stuff in here, which is great (not really my period of interest, mind you) but it sits right next to MOCs from the LCC (which, again, is great, but is fantasy through and through).
If the group is so open as to allow anything resembling "Ye Olde Times", it seems a little redundant... sword & sorcery should be no more allowed than steampunk. -
bricks for history on www.hmb3design.com LEGO 11 June 2013
hmbecodesign shapeways posted a new topic:
I need your opinion on my historics minifig
I would like to create a vercongetorix minifig! -
Eurobricks is down at this moment? Eurobricks 8 June 2013
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Purism poll LEGO 7 June 2013
r a p h y posted a new topic:
Bricktrix suggested to me that I open up another thread because the other was too confusing. Please limit your responses to the form, and other comments to the other purism thread. LEGO administrators, feel free to delete this if I'm cluttering things up, which I suspect I am a bit. ;)
CUTTING refers to anything cut, snapped, broken, engraved or carved out of a LEGO brick or product.
STICKERS refer to any stickum, tape, TLC/non-TLC (custom) sticker work.
AFTERMARKET PARTS refers to any part from an aftermarket producer like BrickArms or BrickForge.
GLUE means any adhesive required for sticking to bricks together.
PAINT is any non-TLC colored substance applied to a brick.
FRICTION refers to bricks attached in unorthodox manners, such as a pair of claws holding a 2x2 brick through pressure.
OTHER MATERIALS - this is anything not TLC and not already listed - wire, non-TLC string, non-TLC rubber bands, melting bricks, adding water or other substances, etcetera.
DEPENDS ON EXECUTION means exactly what it sounds like - you have your opinions on all these other things but in the end it all matters on what the overall impact is on you.
COUNTRY & LUG - I'd like to make an infographic with all this info sometime, as so many of these polls seem like an excuse to type something in a form, it would be nice to have some interesting information out of it.
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Other materials (wire, rubber bands, etc.) -
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LUG - (if you belong to one, this group counts for example)
Fill in the form with Y for Yes, it is purist, N, for No, it is not purist, and S for Sometimes, it is purist/I find this okay. "Not purist" would mean you don't approve of it.
Please limit your responses to the form, and other comments to the other purism thread.
