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Giant-Man from the Avengers Super Hero Airport Battle (Bricklinked)

Last bags wrapped up this morning. Not bad, but not great. Nevertheless a great addition to my modular buildings collection.

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Obviously a rectangle isn't the hardest piece, but this example shows my general strategy and also a pitfall of that strategy. These stickers would look best rammed right up to the center edge, but my default is to center side to side and then leave that much room at the end. Hopefully this diagram makes sense? Also there is a lot of dust in Apocalypseburg.

Went to Walmart and they have the new Batman sets priced 20% off on the shelf as was previously posted by another member. They scanned full price with scan and go and at the register so I left them. Didn’t feel like it was worth dealing with a Walmart human.

I try to center it. Also, I've seen a lot of people have success with putting the sticker on the flat end of the brick removal tool to assist with applying it.

Pretty awesome build

40492 La Catrina Brickheadz

What other hobbies do people have? I love cars, just sold a 1978 Pontiac Trans am and picked up a 2002 Trans Am.

I’m about to start working on this… hope to have it running in 12 months. Frame off restoration.

Sams Club ( Walmart’s version of Costco ) Mario 2 in 1 Superpack 66677 $20 clearance. Basically 71360 + 71393 combined. Scooped up a few. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Amazon: Star Wars Mandalorian Battle Pack 75267, $11 (27% off), limit 3.

In my "plans I have that will probably never happen," when I tear down my tower bridge, I am going to rebuild it into the MOC corner-modular version that is on Rebrickable.

Pretty cool

That is a cool little build. I was able to purchase just the ant man in it's sealed bag with instructions and sticker sheet from BrickLink in 2019. Once I finished the build I decided to add some extra stickers I made from cutting some of the remaining tidbits from the sticker sheet. (Yes I know the tiny ones are a bit crooked) Ill probably open a 76192 for an actual tiny one. Then I can build that sweet van too.

thanks - able to change my 5 day handling time down to 1 now on the lambo listing lol. was able to add mos eisley cantina and ucs ISD which i was gated on previously. thank you lordoflego for your generous dispensation of highly useful information.

I build the set and apply the stickers after using a weighted long tipped Xacto Knife. Sometimes I will have to disassemble a few pieces to reach and get things aligned up properly, but doing it this way you can place the stickers so they display best which is not always centered as seen above. If it is just 2 stickers I have them touching but when it is 3 in a row I try to center the middle and have the ones on the sides as close to the middle sticker as possible if that makes sense. For concave and convex elements I will use eyeglass spray cleaner to wet the element first and then align it. For translucent stickers I will always clean the elements first with the eyeglass spray as fingerprints show through, and for translucent stickers on translucent elements that are highly visible I will wear nitrile gloves and use the spray. If I am being my usual OCD self I will try and apply them as close to reality. On the Ford GT lego uses 2 stickers for the front grille air intake with an orange gap in between. Sometimes vehicles do have a splitter in the body color so you want that gap but looking at the real GT it is not there so I aligned the 2 stickers touching and along the bottom edge of the elements. Lego shows them centered which looks nicely aligned but like arse to me. Probably a lot more than you wanted to know, and this adds a lot of time to the build but the results are more realistic. https://www.walmart.com/ip/X-Acto-No-1-Precision-Knife-Z-series-with-Safety-Cap/21778184

How much was the item? Forget and move on I’d say. $10 this way or that way for shipping, not worth it. Check your lambo gate And all others

Gotta up your sticker game, Alpine!

God gravy, Ming-na Wen does not look like she’s 58!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://www.brickfanatics.com/vincent-van-goghs-the-starry-night-painting-is-being-turned-into-an-official-lego-ideas-set/ pretty stoked this got approved I feel like the recent "2-D" art sets from LEGO have been seriously lacking and tries to do what LEGO is not (2D). This set brings what LEGO offers to a new motif...this one is classic, recognizable and very well done. If it takes off so many more possibilities in the "fine art" theme

I can throw the two Minifigures in the palace cinema. Close enough for me. Yay LEGO!

Have been staying away from this thread until I watched the third episode last night. Everyone's posts are spot on. Weakest episode so far. That chase seen was downright awful. I'll leave this pic as my contribution to this thread for the week.

Power Rangers Boba Fett was ridiculous this week. Kind of hard to defend. but...

Lol. I didn’t do it. I just announced it. See…that’s why I keep other secrets to myself lol

That same Xacto knife is also a great tool (and so is a razor blade like the one building contractors use) to lift misaligned stickers and place them again. Even works with older stickers; I used it on my recent slate of 2nd hand Hobbit sets that needed adjustment. Sent from my SM-A326U1 using Tapatalk

Another "retired" set back in stock: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/skull-sorcerer-s-dragon-71721 17% Honey. Add a filler and get the Year of the Tiger gwp. With all these sets coming back, I'm hoping some will make it to the Taxi gwp at the end of the month. Year of the Tiger not that interesting, especially with it popping up at Walmart.

Most of the main cast have been picked it would seem and should be company with the present Sesame Street characters (plus any future possibilities). With Animal and Janice here, we are only missing Dr. Teeth, Sgt. Floyd Pepper, and Zoot from Electric Mayhem. Also, PIGS IN SPACE!!!!

I think I would use a box picture frame and build that wall from the tv show for a display:

Anyone out west missing their order?

Oh god. I can’t unsee that. And now you’ve just flipped it from bad to OMG I need that.

NSFW tag please!

The ship is here.

A restock at Sam’s Club

That had to be one of the slowest moving chase scenes I have ever watched. It looked like someone could have been going at a light jog and kept pace. I guess Vespa "speeders" can't go too fast. If I didn't love all things star wars so much I would be giving up on this show after episode 3. Sent from my SM-G996U using Tapatalk

40543 St Bernard Brickheadz

For those of you not keeping track this theme got “canceled” as lego is looking into reports of workplace issues at Activision. Don’t really care but needed to setup the joke:

Haslab RazorCrest just got the confirm your shipping address email Come to papa!

21226 Art Project I built this with my daughter twice. Once for the 3x3 art design and once for the classic spaceman. I wanted and kept the spaceman and she kept hers with the 3x3 art. Started with the 3x3 art, this was one of her Christmas presents. She'd loved making art patterns when she was aged 4-6 with 1x1s of all varieties so now as she is going on age 9 I thought she'd really love this art project and she did. It was fun enough I found a 2nd one at Target locally next to the Lego clothes in the clothes section. So glad it can be built little by little, I thought this project would drive me nuts. But I was able to commit to one panel at a time for like 15-20 mins per panel and stage it out when I felt like it and no rush. NOT interested in the World Map! Ha, after two of these I think I'm done placing 1x1 tiles for a while. Edit: Okay kind if interested in the World Map but wow it goes from 3x3 panels in this project to 5x8 panels in the World Map. That's 31 additional panels!

I found most of the pieces of the 2006 version of the Slave I (set 6209) in a bulk lot I got for free from a neighbor years ago (paid them $50 anyway and have more than recouped my money on selling parts of it) and bought the few missing pieces from BrickLink. My quest to complete this started with finding the trans-black windscreen. This one is a keeper! Only the Boba Fett minifigure and the Han Solo in Carbonite brick are original, and the rest are from advent calendars or random buys over the years. This set of is larger than I thought and was a fun build. I am glad I had the instruction book since building it from a PDF is near impossible since it hard to differentiate the colors. It was interesting not having each part on each page identified like it is now for each section of the build. Lego has made us lazy, I guess. LOL! I will be interesting to see the size difference between the UCS version once I build it and this one. The wings do rotate automatically as the ship flies.

Some recent builds. 70612 was one well put together set! Disassembling took considerably longer than usual for that piece count.

I don't play the game at all. I liked Dva and Reinhardt (which I've built) and Bastion (in my "to build" pile). I *love* that Wrecking Ball. I have no context for it, but a hamster in a wrecking ball? Done deal.