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You forgot to include Pretend Space.
I’m not sure that Sorting & Organizing is going to be an adequate badge for Nancy. You might need to create a World Champion Triple Platinum Elite VIP Plus Sorting & Organizing badge just for her.
When I was done selecting badges, at the top, it said “12 of 30”. I did in fact select twelve badges, but I’m not sure what the “of 30” is referring to. It’s occurring to me just now that maybe we’re capped at 30 badges? (It took me a while to get there.) Cause there’s definitely way more than thirty choices. I went to Gabe’s profile and his says “18 of 30.”
I assume you put in the Time Cruisers badge so that we know which LUG members to avoid. (#justkidding #nocomparison)
Do you do zombie builds? Citizen Bricks makes a “zombie beaver torso”, but they don’t make a non-zombie version (or I would buy one):
Hello Justin, and welcome. To my knowledge, you are the group’s first Bionicle person. It only took us 14 years. Presumably you have been made aware of the Q3 meeting in August.
Is there a GoFundMe? I found info for the Bingo, but I didn’t see how to donate.
Excellent music choice.
>> hey Good-man, how many unicorn girls do you need?
One, assuming it comes with a unicorn.
Whoo hoo, congrats! More glory to the LUG!
I’m curious, did Lego contact you ahead of time to let you know, or did you find out this morning with the rest of us?
On one hand, I don’t want to steal his thunder, but on the other, I’m not sure he’s necessarily planning on posting anything about it here. So I’ll just say: for anybody who knows @twrt0es Jason Middaugh, you should ask him if he has any big news for us.
Are you doing Series 29? I don’t need a whole set, but there’s specific minifigs that I am interested in.
>> Stumbled on this- did we already see this?
Haha, sweet! I did not know about that one. I did know that there’s a photo of it on the brick-convention-dot-com Gallery page, which for a long time was part of the home page.
I did notice on their list of FB Reels, that except for the most recent ones, the reel for my build had the lowest view count of anything they’ve posted. It looks like their coverage of their own events is rather erratic there, since I know they’ve done dozens at this point.
I also don’t know if that really counts as “blogged”, since they’re just using the vid to promote their own event. I’m pretty sure that the one I was at was the very first one they ever did, so presumably they needed material to put on the website to make sure people knew that it was a real event that was, like, real, and not some sort of Willy’s Chocolate Experience situation.
Anybody have any advice for removing the panes from windows? Specifically, I’m talking about the 1x2x2 window:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=60592&idColor=48#T=C&C=48
This is not a new problem for me, yet I remember that it wasn’t always this way. I’ve tried a variety of solutions and none of them work reliably, and so I have a whole bag of windows with panes in them that I haven’t gotten out yet, waiting to be added to the Apocaclarence pile.
They also did one for the end of the month:
I’m looking at your profile pic and trying to figure out what it is exactly, there’s no way to make it bigger.
>> Great first post!
You only need 449 more to catch up with Greg’s thread.
I wasn’t really thinking of it in terms of trains-only, or even only what goes into a public display. It did occur to me that a lot of the train people also buy a lot of train and model train-related memorabilia and whatnot, and there’s probably a lot of options and a lot of them are expensive.
>> There was a running joke as to who’s hobby is more expensive. In the end, we called it a draw.
Ha, this made me el-oh-el. And my immediate reaction was to argue that Lego is more expensive, but then I realized, I don’t know train prices, so I can’t really say. Since Lego builds are more likely to get tall, though, I would think we’d at least win on a cost per square foot basis. Although I don’t know that “win” is the right word here.
>> Many of the train shows I have been to are typically anti-Lego.
That’s interesting, I have yet to run into that. For years, our biggest show of the year was the Greenberg Train Show, and we also did the Ligonier Valley Railroad shows a bunch of times, and they definitely loved us.
This is reminding me of an article I read several years ago, about people who frequented estate sales and auctions in order to slowly collect specific but maybe hard-to-find that items they wanted in order to assemble their dream home; examples given included cabinet handles, stoves, and French doors. If I had the money, I’d rather just design my dream home and build it right away, and so I remember telling Rachel that I thought that the whole process sounded miserable, except that I’d almost immediately recognized that I have been doing essentially the same thing with Lego for two-plus decades, via BrickLink, Lego store PAB walls, LUGBulk, set purchases, and the BrickFair yard sales. At ILD last month, Frost was telling me about a major score he had on rare parts, and I was comparing it to back in the early 90’s, when I sometimes had to do a lot of searching for certain music and books. When Amazon came along, it made all that a lot easier, but it also eliminated that thrill of discovery.
More to your point, I also know of no such feature that checks you out of multiple stores at once on BrickLink. I have to wonder if what you’re really remembering is the Wish List feature. BrickLink lets you create a Wish List, and then you can have it search among the stores and consolidate the order to as few stores as possible. If you’d used this feature, and it was able to find everything in a single store, then you would have only had to check out one time. (I don’t use it much, so I have a small sample size, but I’ve never once had BL find my entire list in a single store.)
I agree that if cost doesn’t matter, the way to go is Lego’s PAB online. If you’re ordering very ordinary parts, you should be able to find what you need, although Lego will cap you at 999 of any given part per order. Shipping is incredibly cheap, but anything coming from Denmark can sometimes take really long to arrive.
>>> Oh it gets even better: all the Recent Threads, which should be the most-recently started threads compared to Recent Replies’ most-recently replied-to…. Are from 2022. Even though threads have been started since the migration.
I’m actually not seeing that, my Latest Activity list on the home page is showing 2026 stuff, including your post above. Unless you’re looking at something different… Oooooh, I see it. On the home page, it’s fine. But now that I’m the Threadjacking page to post, the Recent Threads is down to the right, and it’s… different. It’s like a trip down memory lane, I totally remember when I got my Galaxy Explorer at half off from Walmart in the fall of 2022.
Bonus bonus post, since I just noticed this: Under Recent Replies on the right, it gives how long it’s been since the listed post was made, in hours and minutes. Frost posted to what the heck is Greg doing? thread 18 hours, 6 minutes ago, etc. But for a several of them, it just says “sometime ago”. Is that an error? Is that a new thing? I’ve definitely never noticed it before.
As a bonus post: this one’s less inconvenient but it also makes no sense to me, and it’s been going on for years: when I either post to Threadjacking or click on an email link taking me to somebody’s post in Threadjacking, it always takes me to the penultimate page in the thread, instead of the last one. For example, right now we’re well into page 64 of Threadjacking, but when I clicked on Greg’s link, it took me to page 63. I then went to page 64, wrote my post, clicked submit, and the page refreshed with me on page 63 again. I can’t specifically remember if it’s ever happened on any other thread here other than Threadjacking, and I can’t remember if there was ever a period where it stopped doing it.
Right, you entered the keyword, but then you had options on where it would pull the results from. Your choices were: Topics, Replies, or both.
I always set it to Topics, because I got much better results that way. For example, if I searched for Build Day at Walter’s using Replies, as far as I can tell, it would bring up any post that contains “day” in any context. Even using Topics, I got a lot of results over the years that I couldn’t explain. Earlier this evening, under the current format, when I searched for Threadjacking, the first two results on the list were posts that were not from the Threadjacking thread.
It probably doesn’t help that it’s been clear in the past that when some people pick their thread names, they do not take into consideration that people might need to search for it at some point, and that they might need to make sure it’s differentiated from similar topics.
I don’t know where else to post this:
When I search the forums, I’m no longer given the option to search by message or by topic (or if I am, I can’t find it). So I’m once again getting results that don’t make sense to me, and I’m not able to find the topic that I currently need.
Bonus observation – the way the home page is showing up on my screen, the ‘latest threads’ and ‘newest threads’ boxes have a lot of empty space at the bottom, presumably so that their length matches the ‘who is online’ box, which is full. So it seems like more topics could be added to the other two lists without changing the layout.
Sweet! Needs space plants though.
