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Built the Fiat 500 and it was actually a decent build. It is somewhat small but after looking at pictures of the real thing it is also very small. One build technique I found interesting was the use of the technic arms that have minifigure hands on them as a way to secure the bottom of the seats to the chassis, I didn't expect that. The light yellow color is beautiful, very pleasing to the eyes I love it. Might get another set just for the pieces. One complaint I have has nothing to do with the vehicle itself, but the easel, it's very unsteady and insecure. There is no side horizontal brace. So it doesn't take much of a touch to begin to split the legs and the painting falls off. I know that's not the focus of this set but a single 1x4 plate or something could have helped to 'fix' the legs into position. It seems like a cheap addition to the set. If it was going to be built so poorly then give us a printed painting not a sticker. I may end up disassembling the easel and absorbing the pieces into my collection. Otherwise, a nice build and helped contribute to my free 40th train promo.3 points
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CNN has been a joke of a news network for quite some time now but that article is the least of their crap. It's mind boggling how psychotic people are getting with this thing. I guess it's just human nature to have to have something to freak out about? Maybe they figures the climate change EOTWAWKI wasn't moving along fast enough?3 points
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There are a whole bunch on internet trolls trying to scare people. They make money from clicks and picking up likes and followers. Ignore those fools. I can list a whole bunch from Twitter that promote "end of days" scenarios. Be smart. Stay out of large gatherings. Wash your hands. Use sanitizer. But don't stop living. I am at work today, dealing with hundreds of customers, but I will constantly clean my hands and stay just a little farther away from people. This is the new norm.2 points
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**** I keep downing cases of Corona trying to build up tolerance. Please don't tell me I'm doing this all wrong too.2 points
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I wanted to create a new thread in order to give progress on my site updates. I want explain a bit on what happened and what I am doing. What happened with the site? Honestly nothing really exciting or dramatic, overall in the end, I did not want to support the host I was with for the past four years after not really offering too much help with managed servers. They would spend 30 seconds looking, say they can ping the server so its up and then just say, "hey not my problem". I was on aging hardware, paying the same amount of money, so I took the opportunity to move to a new host with better/faster hardware and a staff that does help to support you when run into an issue that you can't handle on your own. I have been doing this a long time and pretty good monitoring and handling 99% of what comes my way, but there are issues that you need the next level up to help figure out what to do. I wasn't getting anything like that, but paying for it. Not anymore. What my goal is... I know more than anyone that the site needed some TLC. It's been a while since I have done any drastic updates, the site looked tired and I know the site can be so much better than what it's current state was. LEGO investing has changed since Ed and I launched the site and it's time to remove the dead content and bring more of what people are looking for. Below is the short term list of items planned for updating. I have been working on the nightly, just like the early days and enjoying seeing parts of it coming to life. Fix the login. This has been messed up and quirky for a while. This has been resolved and working well. It's a simple thing overall, but nice that it actually works how it's supposed to Overall price guide site design update. The site was tired and disjointed. I hated it and pained me to look at it. Time to start over. Brickfolio update. All the Brickfolio data is safe. I have close to three million rows of data for Brickfolio entries. Time to bring this thing to 2020. I will probably create another thread at some point to solicit some feedback on some new requests for the brickfolio Fix the data syncing with Brickset. A lot of people used this feature, but it's time to make it work the way it should. Later I will work on the content portions. The news and blogs. I have some good ideas for this, but want to get the price guide and brickfolio to you sooner than later. What I am asking for if possible... If you can, please stop asking where the brickfolio is. Again, the data is safe and I am working as fast as I can to bring it all back to you. It won't be a few days, but more like a few weeks, but it will be worth it. I setup my dev environment to push releases quick and easy. I want to create a true changelog so that you can follow updates to see what was done/fixed/new/removed, you know like what real software companies do. I really do appreciate your patience with this. It wasn't planned, but if there was going to be a time to do it, it was going to be now.1 point
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It’s possible you have pressure balanced mixing valves and they are seeing all the pressure on the cold side. This would be similar to an anti-scald feature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-balanced_valve1 point
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Just a reminder: Tonight we can start to double dip at lego.com, for those interested. March 1-15: Free LEGO Trains 40th Anniversary Set (40370) with purchases of $99 or more, while supplies last. March 9-22: Free LEGO DOTS Mini Frame (30556) with purchases of $35 or more, while supplies last.1 point
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It might have something to do with the price guide and Brickfolio. I'm not sure if someone has asked in a while if it will ever come back up. Better ask1 point
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I have been watching A LOT of Street Fighters V videos on Youtube. I never even play it or own the game for that matter I am becoming one of those lazy millennials1 point
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Yes, but I bought a key chain to guarantee the train shipped immediately.1 point
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I like it but can definitely see what you mean about the skin. My son got 75248 Resistance Awing for Christmas. He’s not much of a Star Wars guy tho, and I got tired of seeing it partly built so I finished it today.1 point
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CHANGE IN LEGO RAFFLE DRAWING DATE!!!! Due to factors outside of our control, we will extend the BRICKPICKER LEGO RAFFLE until Saturday April 11, 2020 at 11:59 PM EST. The recent server issues with the site has forced Jeff to move the entire site to faster and more reliable servers. This has also affected our exposure of the LEGO raffle. Jeff is planning to start releasing the "new and improved" Brickpicker.com over the next few weeks. He will be posting more on this over the next day or two, with images and information on improvements and changes. By the end of March, we will like to promote the new site improvements and LEGO raffle together. Also, the Coronavirus situation has put a damper on many activities across the globe and I am praying that it calms down and people can focus on fun things once again. Any questions or comments, please feel free to ask and let me know. Thanks...Ed Mack1 point
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