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Hi everyone, recently i found that there are many fan-made MOC guides available on the www, some free and some paid. Now i would like to know from you what you consider to be the best MOC guide website, in particular for "standard" bricks without many specialized bricks. Also, im not looking for movie/brand models, just simpler standard models would be fine. Thanks for your time and help! Temperche

Hi everyone! My daughter is now developing an interest in LEGO and we want to foster that interest by getting her a base collection of LEGO beyond just super specific lego set pieces. For this purpose, pick a brick seems perfect. However, there are thousands of bricks on there. Which brick types do you consider to be the most versatile to bring out children's creativity beyond the basic 2x4, 1x4, 2x3, 1x1 rectangular bricks? Thanks for any input!

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Some years ago I found in a garage sale an amazing Power Miners set, 8709. The box was opened, but the plastic bags were intact, instructions a bit crumpled, but everything else was in perfect conditions. I snagged it at a ridiculous price, like 30 euros for this and other random stuff.

I put it up on sale online, I wanted to make some money from it, but didn't want to ship it. Nobody has asked me about the set for 3 years, until last week a guy asked me if I was available to meet for the transaction. At that point, I had lost all interest in buying reselling stuff, I can say that I still enjoy flea markets, but the idea of taking advantage of people on the internet gives me the ick.

I met this guy yesterday, sold him a set that's nearly impossible to find and at a ridiculous price.

Today, he sent me this picture. I am so glad that I made a person this happy, he couldn't believe it and kept on thanking me, I felt like Santa Claus.

I just put this together, and I'd really like to mount it on something that looks like or similar to one you'd see in a store. All the real "gumball machine stands" are very heavy duty looking, and too short for this model, so around 33" would be perfect. Has anyone found anything like this?

The plan is to glue a plate piece to it, and stick the machine on, maybe with more glue that isn't too difficult to separate.

I recreated the Treasury, Petra and submitted it to lego ideas! Let me know what you think! https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/c8a059e9-3563-4001-bb0c-f27587c001d9

cross-posted from: https://gregtech.eu/post/17279275

Made out of 1x1 round legos.

They only have 66 subscribers and I thought you guys might like them.

I'm not affiliated in any way.

The one I linked is particularly short but the others are longer.

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🧱 Expo #LEGO 🧱
C'est officiel !
Elle aura lieu le dimanche 21 septembre lors de la prochaine édition des “Talents Orxois”
(par les enfants des 2 écoles)
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Here’s a post from my son that might just make you smile!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31922927

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/456729

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I'm in Denmark with my family, we visited Lego House and I have to admit it helped with my love for Lego in a time where my anti-consumerism is much stronger than ever. The activities are exciting, different and crazy fun. The absence of external IP sets helped a lot (if we don't consider the shop).

But above all the attention to disabilities and neurodivergent needs. It's wholesome, expecially given how Lego is important in the lives of many people with disability. In the pictures some of the devices at your disposal for sensory accessibility (headphones, fidget toys, mood tables), braille explainations and video in two different sign languages, danish and international.

Edit: I forgot to talk about free tampons and pads in the bathroom. I see so few of them in Italy, I was nearly in tears.

Instructions: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-220890/zachpieces/breaking-the-fourth-wall/#details

Free instructions for generic ball cap: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-220914/zachpieces/ball-cap/#details

Free instructions for golden deagle: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-220910/zachpieces/golden-desert-eagle-handgun/#details

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/372778

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I've been tinkering with this one for a while, it all started because I thought the two red canopy pieces would flow well together, which they did. Instantly screamed "the Bentley of flying cars/space shuttles," then it devolved into a conversion job - refitted with much larger thrusters and a positronic core to aid with ship systems and manoeuverability, oversized nacelles to house proprietary power generators for each thruster (the rest of the ship runs on the stock power source, haven't made one up yet), interior pretty much pulled out and replaced with increased storage options, a workbench, a full-on tac and field research center, and generally repurposed for infiltration and overall stealth shenanigans.

Not that happy about the main ingress, I built it so that it could dock with a much larger ship (still WIP) based on those half-stud rails visible on its sides, under the nacelles, and I had envisioned a sort of emergency hatch in the mothership's main corridor through which the crew could drop right into the shuttle. Might reconsider that as I build the engineering bay on the other ship.

And, of course, it's parking friendly!

Gotta say I’m really disappointed with all of the specialty large molded parts. It feels like Nintendo doesn’t understand what makes LEGO special compared to competitor brands and is trying to push them toward the Megablox or COBI direction. These specialty pieces is part of what almost killed LEGO as a company in the early 2000s.