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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I turned off the you-filter so I can show you how easy it is to filter out whatever you like, be it whole instances, communities, or users.

    spam is whatever an individual deems it to be. if 90% of posts from the last week are from one user, I call that spam. I don’t want “content” for its own sake. I prefer quality or originality over quantity.

    side note: reddit stomped the individualism out of their users, the very source of their success. like others have said here, I’m not interested in seeing posts from there copied to here.

    I’d like to see more engagement and interaction on here, I want this place to grow, but I also don’t want this place to only try to imitate the reddit board. I’m sure I come across as ‘old man yells at clouds,’ that’s fine, whatever. however, I think most people here would agree that there needs to be a balance. why even come here, if everything is copied and regurgitated from reddit?


















  • that’s their secret: it all sells. some better than others, but once sets start going on sale (moreso clearance), that shit disappears. beyond the standard 20% off, if the prices are 40-50% off in stores, it’s all sold pretty damn quickly, ime.

    there aren’t a lot of flops, afaik. the recent Black Panther bust was a bust, and the foosball set was more of a boosball. I really liked the Queer Eye set, but I think Lego misjudged the level of interest it would have. I’m happy I picked up a few of those, though; great set for parts!

    I’ve also heard that Walmarts will sell off palettes of sets to employees for really cheap. either way, it all sells, and often eventually find its way back into the Lego ecosystem, ie bricklink.




  • Ah, yes, now I can see it. Hard to tell the scale of some of it, it looked like it was larger than that.

    I just noticed on that lower jaw, is that gollum’s arm connecting the jaw? Again, really cool details. The longer I look, the more I notice.

    I’m working on a castle MOC with some pretty elaborate brick work, and hope to post pics soon.




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    1 year ago

    Very cool. I’ve always loved all the castle wizards, but of course, I like the original Majisto with the glow in the dark wand. I do like the new wizard from this year, too.

    The flames around the fire… are those, like, wings from a fairy minifigure? What’s the part number?

    Edit: wait wtf. Another recent post here (the really car) has those same flame pieces!