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***The Official OcUK Lego Thread***
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My last Lego purchase for a while came today. Boxed and unopened bags. Surprised that a kit this new doesn't come with numbered bags!
It's my fav ship from the clone wars era, so I have forced it onto my son!
Got the same set myself the other day, went to the National Space Centre in Leicester as they had a lego weekend.
That Kwik-E-Mart is only £10 less than the Simpsons' house but has about 340 less pieces. 
Seems a tad expensive. Maybe the extra cost is in making the individual items inside the shop?
Actually working out the price per piece on the House (£0.07134) the Kwik E Mart works out at £155.45.
Seems a tad expensive. Maybe the extra cost is in making the individual items inside the shop?
Actually working out the price per piece on the House (£0.07134) the Kwik E Mart works out at £155.45.
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2 months till Kwik-e-mart !
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Moe's Tavern - Lego and alcohol establishment?
Nuclear plant/School - will be way too big if you make it to minifig scale.
Krusty Burger could happen though.
Minifig scale? Is anything scale in Lego? It's not like A Star Destroyer is in scale to an Xwing
They can scale it how they want, no one will care.Anyway loving this build. Just a shame we have got used to numbered bags. Having to open everything and spread it out on a big model has been a *****. Literally to do the first couple of pages I had to open and split about 7 bags!
Really nicely put together, feels sturdy and best of all only cost me the retail price when it was out. Which is lucky for an unopened kit.
New lego tables for my son, to tidy his room up and provide a play area. Perfectly fits 3 of the large plates and allows room underneath to hide the kits when he's not at war.
Few recent builds and a work in progress, with the new sets. The lego movie set was very good value. The sith fighter was only to get malgus. It worked out cheaper to buy the whole set than the figure but it's a well built model.
Great idea with the tables/shelf unit. Can I ask where you got that? Would be great for my kids!
So what is it because none of my sons Star Wars sets are to any kind of scale. Jabbas skiff is half the size of an x wing. Forget the ucs being to scale non of the kits are as I can see? A snow speeder is over half the size of the Atat and so on. The x wing is almost as long as the star destroyer. The battle of hoth base is smaller than an x wing. The sand crawler is the same size as the Republic gunship. I don't get how any of this is scaled.
No one cares so why care about this mini fig scale with a power plant.
No one cares so why care about this mini fig scale with a power plant.
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Great idea with the tables/shelf unit. Can I ask where you got that? Would be great for my kids!
They are from ikea. The coffee tables where what we were after but 6 large grey plates was too big. You can configure the ones I got to have drawers, the base and legs worked out to be 40 each iirc.
Exactly. Same with the school - a classroom (Edna Krabappel fig), principle's office (Seymour Skinner fig), hall/canteen (Willie fig), toilets and playing area (Kearney fig) is all it would need. Sure it would cost more than the house and the Kwik-E-Mart, but I'd imagine it would be similar or less in price than the Avengers thing; pretty much just a double-sized modular that sell for £120 or so.
Repeat the process with the Nuclear plant (Burns fig, Smithers fig, Carl fig etc) and the Simpsons theme is a lot more appealing.
Minifig scale means a model is to the scale of a minifig. It's not about being to the scale of other sets. I.e. the models are scaled to life size at the same ratio as a minifig is to a human.
The UCS Falcon is minifig scale. I dont know if Red 5 or Slave 1 are? Most UCSs aren't (for obvious resons, isn't an SSD a few miles long?). The Simpson's house and Kwik E Mart are minifig scale in that they are to scale to the buildings and people in the show. Making a powerplant that wasnt huge would mean either making it to a smaller scale (maybe microfig, like the Helicarrier) which means you couldnt play with the characters inside, or making a set to minifig scale that didn't match the building from the show (I.e. much smaller or only part of the buildings).
Edit: Googling suggests minifig scale is about 1/43ish.
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I guess I'm being thick but if the minifig size stays the same then the ships scaled to minifig would still mean the ships scale should be relative
Anyway it still wouldn't work out would it? I just checked that with my sons sets and the only one remotely close to spec sizes is actually the x wing. Anyway I don't care about scale and if people think they won't do a powerplant because of it then fair enough....
Definitely one of the best made sets in our house. Solid, loads of features. Decent compartments with gun turrets and escape pod etc. Above all a carry handle. Such a shame they didn't make the classic SD as good as this
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A Power plant not to mini fig scale will be like the architecture series, ala, not that fun, to build as well to play with. It's a cone so can't imagine it is a fun build at all.
The school will also looses it charms if it's like the architecture series after having the Simpsons house and Kwik-E-Mart will of details. I am sure they and I would love them to continue that theme, make Krusty Burgers instead or do Moe's !
The school will also looses it charms if it's like the architecture series after having the Simpsons house and Kwik-E-Mart will of details. I am sure they and I would love them to continue that theme, make Krusty Burgers instead or do Moe's !
I know a lot of the Star Wars stuff isn't minifig scale, its sized to a price and playability point.
But were talking about the Simpsons sets. Both the house and the Kwik E Mart are minifig scale and they have produced 2 sets of figs. Clearly minifig scale playability is a key aim of the series. Producing a large building like the school or powerstation at the same scale would be hillariously massive and expensive (your looking at 1+ meter tall for a cooling tower). One option is to build to a smaller scale, but then it wouldn't match the other 2 and wouldn't be playable with the minifigs which are a key element. Another option is to build reprisentstive sets of parts of the buildings, like a lot of the other themes play sets, where you get a wall or two, a bit of furniture, and then your imagination makes up the rest. Or the 3rd option, don't make a set of a large building.
But were talking about the Simpsons sets. Both the house and the Kwik E Mart are minifig scale and they have produced 2 sets of figs. Clearly minifig scale playability is a key aim of the series. Producing a large building like the school or powerstation at the same scale would be hillariously massive and expensive (your looking at 1+ meter tall for a cooling tower). One option is to build to a smaller scale, but then it wouldn't match the other 2 and wouldn't be playable with the minifigs which are a key element. Another option is to build reprisentstive sets of parts of the buildings, like a lot of the other themes play sets, where you get a wall or two, a bit of furniture, and then your imagination makes up the rest. Or the 3rd option, don't make a set of a large building.