Building LEGO

Just have to say this is pretty incredible. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57577773-1/behold-an-amazing-200000-piece-lego-alien-city/ Crafted out of more than 200,000 Lego pieces and taking over 600 hours to build, the sculpture, designed entirely by Doyle, depicts a wondrous alien civilization. There's something Gothic about his soaring spires, bridges, buttresses, and villages clustered about the city's base. 600 hours!!! Good for you buddy! I wonder if he will sell it to me for $500?

Well gang, it's already that time of the year once again for Vic Viper mania. A little more than a week into the month and already we have a slew of grand designs. Who will be featured on the massive collage for the end? Who indeed. >Syris1 - perspectives by Sylon-tw, on Flickr >Soviet Hellion VTOL Vic Viper by Genghis Don, on Flickr >RM-als14 fighter by Legonardo Davidy, on Flickr >Intergalactic Girl's Vic Viper by SpirituInsanum, on Flickr >Outlaw Vic Viper by Genghis Don, on Flickr >Vic Punisher - Space by Brixnspace, on Flickr

Lego has updated their minisite for The Lego Movie with a section called Create & Combine. Basically, it is an area for builds Lego has come up with that only use pieces from two different sets to make something new meaning it is quite easy to do these yourself. So far there is a total of six different designs, one of which is just instructions and a parts list. Anyway, you can see what the two sets needed for the combination are after downloading the instructions or just check out the attached images here. Via The Brick Fan

I stumbled upon this today. Amazing!

As the title suggests....When and where possible, once built, I display my sets in a glass cabinet so the dust is never a problem. For shelved displays, what do you guys do to keep your sets looking fresh and like new? A co2 keyboard duster seems like an obvious choice, but I'm still curious if there are simpler, better ideas?

I am going to put together a winter village this year and need some white baseplates. Any recommendations on a source for white baseplates? Any other suggestions for Winter Village layouts?

The Black Raven Inn by Ben Cossy

Hi all, I had a look to my LEGO collection over the weeked and had to note that I have really a lot of LEGO sets and to less space to build them up or to buy newer sets. Long story short I have to reduce my collection. Now I have a dilemma HOW to do it? a) Should I sell all sets from a theme which I don't like as much as other themes b) Should I sell all sets from a theme beside one or two great (exclusive) sets (e.g. Imperial Flagship from Pirates II theme) c) Should I sell some sets from a theme and keep simply all sets that I like Therefore i would appreciate to hear how do you collect your LEGO sets from a particulat …

Just finished my latest moc. I plan to decorate it with series 12 minifigs when they get released.

The new sets for the past few years have been too organized with their bagging. The bags used to be unnumbered to at the most from 3 bags each numbered from 1 through 4. Nowadays the sets goes from bag 1 to bag 13. The builds now seems to dumbed down since the bags are so organized. When I build I just dump everything into 1 big pile to slow it down. Does anyone else feel the same way with your newer builds?

You are a lego investor. And suddenly you have only 24 hours to live. Which lego set in your warehouse will you open to build for one last time?

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I like to build at the kitchen table, but I always seem to bump/drop parts I like to build on the floor, but my back gets sore ? Anybody found a good table/surface to build on? Most of the stuff I see seems designed for kids. Thanks?

I just finished building MS using the downloadable instructions from Lego on my ipad. It was very hard to for me to differentiate some of the elements, colors, and placement, especially the black roof slopes. I am going to do the CC next and would like to use printed instructions, but I am not paying $250 for them. I tried using the Staples Laser printing service for just the parts list and it still has poor clarity. Any tips on where to find a better file and/or how to print them in a higher resolution?

What are the best looking lego sets out there that make excellent display pieces?

Hey everyone, So I had this vision to build a very small minimalistic black tiled frame that would be mounted behind my sets and lifted enough to be scene above the set. (rough sketch attached). I was curious if anyone had any idea on how to build these? Or have seen any sample builds out there? I figured I'd ask before I just jump in and start from scratch. I tried googling some, but a lot of them featuring gluing bricks ON existing frames and thats not what I want. I want to build something simple, all out of legos. That can "pinch" the print in a frame somehow. This frame does NOT need glass, I just need something that will hold maybe a 4"x6" print in place …

Hey guys and gals I wanted to know if anyone has had any experience in building a stadium? Honestly I'm really not sure where to begin. Not even sure how big I would like it. I'm thinking similar to a modular in relation to approximate size and brick number. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I was thinking about Bricklinking a 10179 at one point, and if you don't know, the Lattice pieces in the back cost about $320 for ONE PIECE of Lego. What do you think? What is the most you would pay for one piece to complete a set? I would just use a substitute. Assuming it didn't make a huge difference, I would spend maybe $20 on one piece before I went elsewhere. What about you all?

It's amazing the things you can do with enough LEGO bricks. http://www.superawesomemicroproject.com/

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/02/lego-fan-creates-5-foot-u-s-s-enterprise-with-18000-bricks/

Hi all, an interesting question to all of us. Do you collect all sets from a particular theme or do you collect only the interesting sets for you from one line? For me personally it differs: 1. When I "love" a theme then I try to have all of theme (e.g. Indiana Jones, Fantasy Era...) 2. When I only like a theme then I try to have all sets without the old sets that have been remade (e.g. Star Wars UCS without old X-Fighter/Snowspeeder or Winter Creator theme without 10199) 3. When I don't like a theme (to much) I am only buying sets that are wonderful and interesting for me (e.g. Temple of Arjitsu from Ninjago or the ships from …

I’ve been working on the new AT-AT and I’ve got an issue that I just can’t figure out. On step 111 it acts like I should just be able to push the belly down onto the frame but when I put the belly in place it just sits there. It’s so loose if I turned the frame over it would just fall right out. I can’t see anything in the manual or on the frame that should hold the belly in place. If you can help I would really appreciate it, this is driving me nuts

I am asking myself what the majority of AFOLs without kids do with a set when it is built? It's clear that there are sets meant to be played with, others rather meant to be displayed only and some qualify for both. What do you buy sets for? Which are the ones you play with (on your own), which do you only put up to display?

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