LEGO

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45392785

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/lego/p/969974/moc-us-constitution

Roughly 85% the size of the original document, this MOC illustrates the 13 stripes of the nation’s flag being etched into the parchment and leaving a trail of dripping red blood. The process of methodical destruction is led by an orange separator, which represents an orange separator, and it is aided by a number of red crooks (AKA crowbars), which represent red crooks. To the left are some shrugging blue crooks, which represent shrugging blue crooks to the left. The scale and placement of text and lack of text is as accurate as possible to the actual handwriting on the document.

As always, it was a great turn out, and a terrific experience! A few highlights that I can currently recall. A child saw my battle scene and said, “I love this!” The mother replied with a perplexed tone, “you do?” The child responded with an astounding “yes!"🤣
I feel I may have scarred a few attendees, both parents and kids. I signed a few autographs and caught up with my regulars I see at Indy. Another thing I can recall on Saturday was a mother and her 2 kids stared at my display and their eyes glazed over with bewliderment. After 10 minutes or so of utter disbelief they walked away and about 20 minutes later they came back. The mother exclaimed, “Every other display we kept going to the boys kept saying I want to go back to the squ1ddos display, over and over.” I felt quite special after hearing that, so I gave them 2 tokens I created for the displays I liked. Their eyes lit up sooo wide and she greatly appreciated the gesture. As I can recall more I will comment.

This insane mechanical computer plays tic-tac-toe without electronics by implementing simple memory, AND, and OR gates with LEGO.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/memes/p/1217879/thanks-for-nothing

https://sheets.works/data-viz/lego-colors

I pulled color data from Rebrickable and tried to visualize the full history of LEGO’s color palette.

Since 1949, LEGO has produced 228 solid colors (excluding transparent ones). Today only 56 are still active, while the rest have been discontinued over the years.

The visualization shows when each color first appeared, how long it lasted, and when it disappeared.

A few things that surprised me while building it:

• The palette stayed really small for decades
• The late 90s introduced a huge wave of new colors
• Around 2004 LEGO replaced several classic colors like Light Gray and Brown
• Some colours lasted 50+ years while others only appeared briefly

Curious what people here think, especially if you’ve been collecting long enough to remember some of the older colours. --u/Mastbubbles

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/lego/p/937316/moc-challenged-myself-to-make-an-eye-of-sauron-plus-a-micro-sauron-using-only-the-parts

I met a lot of fellow displayers and they were amazed of what I brought to display. Most of the people that checked out my builds were confused, blown away and a few said they're true art. For those attendees that read the lengthy stories, they really enjoyed how they elevated the builds. A few even said I should write an actual story about the Veinhart... The reactions from most of the kids were astonishment, scared, or mesmerized by my creations. I even had a few adults and kids keep coming back to just stare in bewilderment at my madness. It was a great weekend and even met a fellow imgurian. He said it was an honor to meet me and that my builds were surreal. I shook his hand and gave him a sticker. He was tickled pink from our brief interaction.

Our MichLUG collab with the cyber cubes was a big hit as well. I am glad we're enticing more people to create these fun cubes. I felt that adding my 4559 train helped the layout come to life a bit more. All in all, it was a great time for everyone!

Paint becomes plastic in Lego’s thoughtful new homage to Monet, a build that rewards slow looking and patient hands.

Here's our MichLUG display at the Saline Train Show, from last week.

Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/FZP3mws

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/lego/p/872090/after-about-2-1-2-years-and-a-lot-of-help-from-a-contact-of-mine-at-bricks-minifigs-i-fi

https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-156808/zachpieces/micro-lucrehulk-with-theed-palace-great-grass-plain-and-underwater-scenery/#info

I know y’all are probably tired of seeing this build come up on your feeds, but I just wanted to show it off one last time. Currently the build is dismantled and I am prepping it for transport to Brickbash Ann Arbor and Brickworld Indy. I received a lot of gripe and disdain towards me posting this revamped version. Mainly due to the fact it was just posted a month prior, saying that it was complete. A lot of the other comments were about how you can’t tell what it is or its “just a mess of parts.” I just have to remember my monolithic builds require at least a video minimum. In person would be the best way to hopefully understand and appreciate them. However, I guess there were enough upvotes for Beyond The Brick to pick up the post and share it, so that’s something? This will be the last time I post this build until I decide what I will do with it later on. This build is my masterpiece and brings me a lot of joy. I also need to revamp the story behind the build as well.

Quick video https://imgur.com/zCjSW5A

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/836241

Not sure how tacky plastic foam shoes fit into Lego’s quest to improve their environmental impact. This press release looks straight out of “The Onion”.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/sustainability/environment?locale=en-us

As a Beatles fan from probably 4yo or so, they'll always have a special place in the music of my heartstrings. And while I don't listen to them much anymore, maybe I'm amazed that their songs are so locked in to my little head that I don't need to, anymore. Or so I flatter myself, hah.

Yellow Submarine was one of their two critically-acclaimed movies, and I greatly appreciate how in late 2016, LEGO published a set! (officially LEGO Ideas #21306) Let's take a closer look...

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/yellow-submarine-21306

It seems the count was 553 pieces, and was retired in late 2017, for a publishing run of ~one year. Going by Ebay, sets seem to go for anywhere from ~US$150 used to ~US$250 sealed in box. Altho I'm guessing there might be some tomfoolery involved in some of those sets, who knows?

I definitely feel that my masterpiece was in need of a proper revamp. albeit not everything was changed, the presence is much better. Sure the original build was more subtle, that's not me... I wanted something that properly portrays the essence of this build. I want the build to feel alive and that it actually is trying to consume everything. I also need to rework the story that I wrote, to fit the concept.

Here's a quick video - https://imgur.com/a/fjWj1IX

Original build - https://imgur.com/a/1HqlYdi

Some of my creations are on display at the Dearborn Heights library for a month. They seem pretty excited and amazed by my work. Let’s see what everyone thinks of it.

https://imgur.com/a/UVLywBF - video

I decided to re-revamp the happy plants set. So we have Frick and Frack. More abominations added to the nightmare realm.

Will it be a flop? Is it actually innovation or does Lego need more cash?

I personally find it interesting but not really needed. But I will have to see it in person to judge.

I still haven't figured out how to add multiple images to a post, so below is a link to my year in review. All of the builds are in ascending order as well. We'll see what 2026 has in store for me. I honestly thought I made more this year. Granted there were a handful of builds I did that weren't significant to me, and did not make the cut.

https://imgur.com/a/gMLSzBF Enjoy :)

Here's the build before I added the bottom section from the sacrificed Swarm Node. As you can see it didn't have enough detail and required expansion! :P This was also before I made the build properly modular. Now, aside from a few bits, it can be reassembled quickly. Also, if all goes well, the complete build will be on display at Brickbash at the end of February!

https://imgur.com/a/3woKgrT - pics

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/57732364

The BrickLink website, which now has apparently been subsumed by LEGO, requires your birth year to enter – you can't enter at all if you input a year.

I don't know you, but I refuse to give this kind of information. So bye bye BrickLink!

I contacted their customer service and told them that I'll simply avoid the BrickLink website if it requires my birth year. Their loss.

If you also disagree with this I encourage you to get in touch with them as well.