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(...) -snip- (...) Hmmm, something is dawning on me. I mean I think I see the same principle our MOCs are derived from in real life. When we see someone's My Own Creation, we look and say wow, look that spaceship has 40 monkey left arms! Oh wow, (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, this is probably the kind of system that Jake prompted us to imagine when he asked us to ponder where this system might be 6-10 years down the road (provided it is sucessful). As you brilliantly put it, in the "World of next Thursday." I (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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In lugnet.cad, Thomas Main wrote: snip (...) I agree. (...) One other possibility would be allowing us to use existing bulk packs in our models. If I am building a house with a black roof, then I could upload a black roof tiles pack and use that. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, not necessarily. My Railroad Crossing (rats, it seems that there are no URLs for individual models, so I can't point you directly to it) model uses parts from all five bricksets, yet the cost is $18.95. So I don't think you're buying (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) And that is a feature we really need, at least at some point. How else can we talk about stuff (except by asking people to search by name?) More importantly, how else are we going to publicise our models and drive incremental sales into the (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hmm. If you dig around in the page source for the model pop-ups, you can find the lxf file: (URL) the thumbnail: (URL) course, an URL that goes right to the model would be a lot nicer. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Being a minimalist, the first model I uploaded was a single piece priced at $3.99. It came with 77 spare pieces. I find that reasonable for a custom set. (URL) I captured the S@H screen here: (URL) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Good hacks. Can someone else follow those links and buy the model though??? I'm thinking not. (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Well, try this: (URL) went to the gallery, found the railroad crossing, opened the popup and did a price check...that gets you to a webpage. You can also email your model to someone. For use on LUGNET, though, this would be the way to go. Joe (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) LOL! I love it, having that available next to somebody's model that took them three days to build. Now, if somebody were really evil, they'd create a separate model for each piece available and name it with the LDraw part number or something. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hmm, then what would be nice is a way of telling when you are openning a new bag. For example, I built a Red Pickup truck, and my model set basically works out to be the Designer set that builds cars, but my model set costs 24.95. Now, if I (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Cool! And the 'Building Instructions' link gets you the .lxf file. Great work! Replacing everything after "mid=" with everything after the last slash in the .lxf and .jpg links gets me a link to my Yellow Jet: (URL) looks like you can't buy (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote: (snip) (URL) (...) Now that's a problem. Joe (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Except... Limit 1 per customer :( ROSCO (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Thomas, You must have been reading my mind.... I was thinking about building a Lego Factory Skyscraper with 8 black 1x4x3 windows on each floor, and making it 10 stories tall. Well based on the fact that only 6 come in a baggie, I can only (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) To test your theory and see how bad it would actually be, I built your tower. (2 URLs) 10 Story Tower (window frames only): Total Pieces: 637 (Pieces used in set: 78) Price: USD 72.67 You are buying window frames at $0.93 each and getting 559 (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) That depend's on whether or not the clear glass panes for the windows come in the same baggies. Or will it require another 13 baggies! That black window is one of the few Brick Factory parts that I don't mind paying a premium on. Of course, (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) As you got me thinking about this... Just uploaded a "test" window. One black window with one glass insert. Total cost: $11.98 Pieces used in set: 2 Total pieces: 121 Either it's one big ol' bag of parts, or methinks it's two seperate bags. (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Kris! That would make $11.98 X 13 = $155.74 (plus the 8 scadzillion other pieces you get) ..... YIKES!!! Now add into that all the white bricks for making it a decent looking model.... it starts adding up! I can say this much, before I (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Tack on a white 2x4 and the price goes to $15.27. You do get 22 white 2x4's apparently in the next bag, which incidently, if you just make a model of the above mentioned bricks it costs $4.99. So apparently there is savings there with the more (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Keep your eye on (URL) BrickWiki>, then... As discussed in this (URL) LEGOFan thread> there is some serious hacking into these mysteries, and perl coding, going on as we speak. The bags have been inventoried (perhaps not quite correctly for My (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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