tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32872759849731609482024-02-19T05:24:39.232+00:00Lego Design by MeA blog about the experience of designing and purchasing a custom design lego set using the Lego Design By Me Service.smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-81611041218017463862012-01-25T10:41:00.000+00:002012-01-25T10:41:02.145+00:00Lego Design by Me Star Wars Sets.I've love to do some Star Wars themed Lego Design by me, but you can't use Star Wars Mini figures in Lego Design by me because of intellectual property rights.<br />
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I helped my daughter build the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=351639048197929">Lego Star Wars Lukes Landspeeder</a> at Christmas, that was a great set. Now she keeps pestering me, demading she wants the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=154290861351671"> Lego Star Wars Droid Escape Pod </a>all the time!<br />
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Personally I'd really like to buy and build Bobba Fett's Lego Space Ship 'Slave 1' I keep thinking about letting off Design by me and getting the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=288937164495948">Lego Star Wars Slave 1 Set</a> but despite it looking great, I think the fun is as much in the design as the building.<br />
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I'm, still working on my giant battle cruiser design with crew quarters - that should be my most impressive Lego Design by Me set to date! But It's not going to be cheap, it's going to cost over £200 in parts I reckon and It's a long way from finished...<br />
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My daughter also keeps going on about the Lego Death Star, It looks fantastic - but £300 for Lego !?smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-48990224741325957382012-01-23T14:40:00.000+00:002012-01-23T14:40:26.954+00:00Lego Cuusoo : The 2 Man Star Raider.I've had some really positive feedback on my 2 Man Star Raider craft as shown in last weeks post.<br />
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People particularly seem to like the design of the cockpit.<br />
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</tbody></table>If you'd like to see this two seater patrol craft in production you can vote for it on<a href="http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/8269"> Lego Cuusoo </a><br />
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It would need a tiny bit of work to make it production quality - mainly the canopy over the cockpit. I did the best I could with the Lego Design by me pallette, but a there isn't a decent two seater hinged canopy in the Lego Design by me pallette - so I had to improvise.<br />
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Despite design by me ending I am still working on Design by me sets, the next project is a large battlecruiser, with pilots seat, co-pilots seat, captains control chair, 3 command stations, 6 berths, a galley and an officers mess.<br />
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How will I order it? With no more Lego Design by me the only way will be through the pick a brick service. <br />
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I'm experimenting with this by buying a second copy of the LCX1 Fighter I designed for my nephew - he's built it now but I still haven't seen it - so I'm getting my own through pick a brick - but with no instructions or box...smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-57325092171830086972012-01-09T22:13:00.001+00:002012-01-11T16:55:11.753+00:00Lego Design By Me : The 2 Man Star Raider SpacecraftLego Design By Me has been good to me. I ordered the set as described in my last post, and though not as impressive as my original set I'm still very pleased with the final result. It's a very solid model, which looks functional and would fit my 'Black' new interpretation of the classic Lego Space theme well.<br />
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The only real compromise with this Lego Design By Me set is the canopy over the cockpit - it would really benefit from a specifically moulded single piece. My original intention was to use the green domed pieces which went onto the single seater Lego Design By Me LCX1 Fighter I made for my nephew, but the piece is tricky to get to fit right and when it did it made the craft wider than looked sensible. Besides that I really wanted a genuine two man cockpit - a bit like a flying sports car with guns sort of thing. Seperate domes didn't really give this feel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Canopy open.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Rear view </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Occupied Cockpit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Occupied Cockpit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Square on front view</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Square on front view</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Side on view</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Rear view showing engines.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Square on Rear view</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Showing undercarriage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Top down view</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Top down view<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design By Me 2 Man Raider Craft : Top down view<br />
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I had to order another set though, so I decided to get my hands on the 2 man Star Raider Craft which I started showcasing the Design By Me process on this blog with.<br />
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</tbody></table>I haven't taken any pictures of this Lego Design By Me set in the bricks yet, but as soon as I do I will post them. It does work well as a model though and is very sturdy - you can hold one wing adn shake it up and down and it stays together.<br />
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The only real criticism is the canopy for the cockpit - it works, but a moulded single piece canopy might look better.<br />
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Pictures will follow soon!<br />
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Please support my Lego Cuusoo Projects:-<br />
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<a href="http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/5384">http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/5384</a> (My Space Patrol Ship)smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-32575840222131955122011-12-07T09:16:00.003+00:002011-12-07T10:34:26.748+00:00New Hope For Lego Design by me...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Space Patrol Ship Lego Design by me set - interior shot.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Well, it's not really Lego Design by me... In some respects it's something even cooler!<br />
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A chance to get your Lego set made into a full production set which gets full proper production and advertised and sold - and you get 1% commission on the sale of your design?<br />
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I'd love for this set to be made, if you want to see 'Space Patrol' in production and show me some support - go to this page:-<br />
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sign in with facebook - and click on the support button the like button and tweet it!<br />
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Maybe I should offer to buy a copy of the production set and offer it up in a prize draw? I'll think about that one... I don't know how much the set would be as a production - I'm guessing about £60, I had to pay £90 for it as a Design by me....<br />
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Anyway, please, please do me a huge favor and earn eternal gratitude... And help get my Space Patrol set made production!<br />
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Thanks!<br />
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Some images to tempt you? Remind you what the set I want made into production looks like?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Space Patrol model with the Lego Design by me box</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-73874980326047965892011-11-24T12:03:00.000+00:002011-11-24T12:03:55.648+00:00Lego Design by me : A Swan song...Lego Design by is closing up shop on January 16th 2012. Why is Lego Design by me closing shop on 16th Jan 2012? Who knows...<br />
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They've cited cost reasons, frustrated children with models that fall apart... With the demise of Lego Universe I can only assume Lego Chief Executives have had a meeting and decided that to maximize profitability withdraw any products or services which aren't as profitable.<br />
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Personally I think Lego Universe is a great game - but the wrong game. Lego Design by me is a great service though - the problem is it is too expensive. There are better ways Lego Design by me could have addressed this than shutting up shop though! <br />
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First of all, offer several levels of Lego Design by me service. A basic where you get a bag of bits and print your own instructions and box cover off. A Lego Design by me 'silver' where you get the bag of bits, the standard box and printed instructions and a gold Lego Design by me service which includes the glossy cover for the box with your custom lettering.<br />
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I just hope Lego Design be me is continued in some similar form once they've got their act together. The prices were supposed to come down once more people were buying and auto-picking robots could be used - but Lego Design by me never had enough customers to warrant the cost. A vicious circle really...<br />
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My nephew was very impressed with my Space Patrol Set when he saw me building it a few weeks ago. So because Lego Design by me is ending I decided to design and build him a Lego Design by me custom Lego Set for Christmas. An expensive present - but it's my last chance to order a set and his last chance to own one.<br />
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I don't think he'll read this blog - so I think it's safe to show you an image of the model. I called it the LCX1 Fighter (His initials are L.C.) and I just had room to make the box say Designed by MS for Luke.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design by me Custom Lego Set : LCX1 Fighter</td></tr>
</tbody></table>All in all I'm very sad that Lego Design by me is ending, Lego Design by me was probably the best service or product that Lego was offering. I can see the issue - designing models looks easy - but to make sure your Lego Design by me model will be solid and not fall apart needs an eye for detail, a lot of patience and a great deal of thought.<br />
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It's not easy - but it's enjoyable, whether I shall enjoy Lego Digital Designer as much now that you can't purchase your Lego Design by me model - I really don't know...smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-74862911932851372612011-11-22T09:19:00.001+00:002011-11-22T12:03:15.470+00:00Lego Design by me : Plagiarism, in the gallery?I've found increasingly a number of people have been copying and re-branding my Space Patrol set in the Lego Design by me Gallery!<br />
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They say imitation is the purest form of flattery, but taking my Lego Design by me set and renaming it - then implying it's YOUR Lego Design by me set isn't cool! I may be over reacting to this - I'm not sure how it works - maybe people are downloading it and calling it something else because they want to name it something different or add a different crew... I don't know... It does annoy me!<br />
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If you want to help and vote for my model then you need to create a Lego Design by me account to access Lego Design by me, then go to the <a href="http://designbyme.lego.com/en-GB/gallery/default.aspx">Lego Design by me Gallery</a> Then do a search for :-<br />
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Click on the one that looks like my model and the username should read martynstanley, I'd appreciate any votes incredibly! Even if just to rank it higher than the copies!<br />
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Incidentally, if anyone likes Lego and would like to own my Lego Design by me Space Patrol set - then go ahead and buy it! - I would be really flattered, and would love to think there's a small fleet of 'Space Patrol' Lego Design by me ships around the world.<br />
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I don't promote myself to be the greatest Lego Design by me designer ever - I just like doing Lego Design by me and wanted to share. It is a good Lego Design by me set - the guns fall off too easily - but apart from that it's great, and your 8 - 12 year old Lego Space fan will love it, even though it is a Lego Design by me set.smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-28674269094626225562011-11-20T20:38:00.001+00:002011-11-20T20:52:07.639+00:00Lego Design by me packaging and box quality.One thing I haven't talked about yet is the quality of the packaging and the print quality of the box you get when you buy a Lego Design by me set. First things first, I'll explain what you get with a Lego Design by me set. What you get is a large, standard Lego Design by me set box - with a glossy, printed wrap around cover to go over the top.<br />
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I presume this keeps the costs down for Lego Design by me, but the overall quality is excellent. If anything the finished printed Lego Design by me box is better quality than it looks like it will be when you design it.<br />
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The Lego Design by me, box design interface is pretty easy to use - easier than the Lego Digital Designer you used to create the model anyway. You can add a title and who designed it - I would say more characters to use in the title would have been nice. On the Lego Design by me box interface you get a series of graphics and backgrounds you can add - and you can create a different picture for the front and the back of your custom box.<br />
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I was very pleased with my Lego Design by me set, from the model, to print quality of the box. It isn't like a production set - you get all 500 bits in one bag and you take a while to sort them out. The Lego Design by me auto generated instructions are not perfect - they are good!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design by me - back of box</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design by me - Model with removeable roof off.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design by me - Crew comprising Pilot, Navigator, Captain and Gunner from left to right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design by me - Pilots cockpit </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Design by me - Front view - Pilot in foreground</td></tr>
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The roof section comes off really easily - it's great for accessing the interior and I really love the functional looking interior - it looks like it could work as a multi crew spacecraft.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>My Space Patrol set with the vintage Lego Space Transporter craft shown for scale. (Set 918)<br />
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Rear view of the craft, the engines and the gunners viewscreen are shown.<br />
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This is how the roof section is removed, the large window at the front is easily removed too for better access to the pilot.<br />
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The interior of the craft, shown top to bottom are the gunner, captain and navigator.<br />
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Close up of the pilots cockpit, not the large amount of computers and controls compared to traditional Lego Space sets - realistic for a large space ship, at least in comparison to the vintage four dials and a steering wheel setup!<br />
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Another view of the interior of the ship, showing the pilot mainly, with the navigator in the foreground.<br />
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View of the gunners rear facing window and his two joy sticks.<br />
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Main interior shot, showing gunner, captain navigator and pilot, along with some of teh computer consoles.<br />
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View of the interior - not the fire extinguisher on the captains side of the ship.<br />
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Full interior view - not the ladder for the gunner to get into his seat.<br />
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Comparitive shot of the Set 918 Transporter and my 'Space Patrol' Lego Design by Me Set.<br />
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Front on view, here you can see the pilot, the navigator and the captain, their seats can be swivelled to face forwards.<br />
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Close up view of the gunners seat.<br />
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Side on view of the whole craft, there is a small window, going across for the captain and navigator and a large window on either side of the gunner so he can better orientate himself.<br />
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Rear 3/4 view, not the large amount of small booster rockets and similar in addition to the main engines.<br />
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The top mounted rear gun rotates through 360 and tilts up to 45 degrees.<br />
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Front 3/4 view - all guns forward facing, the ones at the front will tilt outwards by 45 degrees.<br />
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These images are actually pretty good quality, you can zoom in on any image by clicking on it - then again a second time for full size.<br />
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It's the long ship with big guns on either side and on top, that you find my looking in the gallery for 'space patrol'.<br />
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I spent a long time checking and re-checking that it should produce a solid useable model, and I was making fine corrections up until the day I ordered it. <br />
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530 pieces! It's a big set, it cost me nearly £100, but I'm really, really pleased with it. The quality of printing on the box is fantastic and looks better than you can appreciate from the design screen.<br />
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It actually only just fit into the box, so unless they do bigger boxes I would consider restricting sets to at least less than 700 pieces or they might have to ship it in two boxes. <br />
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The pieces also come in one huge bag with a picking list. So it's harder to build than a normal set, you have to spend some time sorting out the pieces. <br />
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I had a great time building it, with my 4 year old daughter (She loves space ships) and the finished model was fantastic, my 11 year old nephew says HE wants to order it too!<br />
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What I might do - is get my nephew my smaller less expensive set for christmas. The one I am documenting the build of here.<br />
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Overall, I am reallly pleased with the service, and the quality of the set. I would say though - if you are ordering, spend lots of time checking and re-checking the set by going through the building instructions online and making sure it will fit together and form a solid model. If you don't - you could end up with an expensive lego set that falls apart in your hands!<br />
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Thankfully, I hadn't made any errors and it formed a really solid, functional set - the only weak point being the guns falling off at the slightest knock, but I kind of expected that so...<br />
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A few more pictures of the smaller model that I might order my nephew for Christmas:-<br />
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smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-74071887541905719452011-08-16T11:00:00.000+01:002011-08-16T11:00:12.338+01:00Set on order!Well, I finally finished the Space Pirates Lego Set I've been designing. The problem is, the finished product comprised of the 2 man raider craft I'm showing at the moment on this blog, a base and a large capital ship with an interior and a 4 man crew...<br />
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Total price? £200 more than I'm happy to spend on a toy at the moment :P<br />
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I decided to go with the one I created first, the capital ship, it's in some respects the most interesting model and it's my first attempt so it seems a good place to start. I went over the design meticulously trying to make sure everything interlocks properly and that it will be a good solid model with some play value once it's finished.<br />
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Of course whether I've done this properly will only tell once I get the thing and start building it. Which takes a while as they have to print the box and instructions to your design... Then hand pick all the bricks and pieces, in my model there are over 500 pieces so...<br />
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In the meantime I'm trying to stray away from designing more - I've been watching the my gaps in the Harry Potter series (Goblet of Fire and Phoenix Order) and spending more time on the <a href="http://www.sw-e.com/">star wars roleplaying board</a> which is fun...<br />
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For now I'll leave you with a couple more images of the 2 man raider craft nearing completion.<br />
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smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-74982570381782810402011-08-09T09:21:00.002+01:002011-09-16T08:31:08.355+01:00More sedate activities...Apart from Lego, I'm finding myself drawn to other more sedate activities lately. My burning desire to stay up late and drink and play video games is dwindling. Last night I sat up with a cup of tea, idly writing <a href="http://www.sw-e.com/">star wars fanfic</a> and on a <a href="http://www.sw-e.com/">star wars roleplaying</a> board which I've been a member of since 2003...<br />
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Maybe it's getting old? Maybe I'm finally growing up... Hang on a minute I'm, talking about taking up Lego as a hobby again?!<br />
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Okay, speaking of Lego, here wave the wings started and the pilot and co-pilots seats and controls starting to take shape.smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-40371592640706939882011-08-08T10:37:00.001+01:002011-09-16T08:30:37.486+01:00What building to Minifigure scale means.I did have an ambitious thought as to whether I could build an Imperial Star Destroyer to minifigure scale - only a fleeting thought though, because once you start working it out - it becomes a daunting task.<br />
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Firstly, an ISD is 1.7 km long, if a 2 metre person is represented by a 2 cm minifigure then that's a 1:100 scale. So were talking of 1700 metres, or 170,000 cm knocking two noughts off makes it 1700 cm or 17 Metres.<br />
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So even if detailed plans of what the Imperial Star Destroyer interior was like existed, you would be aiming to build a lego set nearly 20 metres long, and it's probably half that wide at the widest point. To test the costing of such a large model I built a layered twin wing section last night in Design by me. I grouped and duplicated it until I had about 45 cm of wings - the price £50 Now you would need an upper and a lower for this so for the wings outer edges, you have to think £200 per metre. So for the basic outer shell, super structure we would be talking about spending in excess of £4000 with no interior, command bridge, hangar, fighter craft or crew or even exerior detail.I can imagine the cost would actually run up to in excess of £40,000 minifigures alone would be a problem. Including the pilots and Stormtroopers an ISD had over 45,000 staff on board. Considering buying used Starwars Lego figures is the only way to get the correct crew at the moment without buying sets, assuming you used that method to crew the entire crew at what seems to be the going rate of about £5 you would spend £225,000 on crew alone... Assuming there were enough used Stormies and Imperial Officers to crew it in existance and avaialable to buy.<br />
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What would be nice was a collaboration between Lucas and Lego and a full minifigure scale Lego Star Wars Theme park, with minifigure scale ISD's, Super Star Destoyers and a Death Star (Officially the first one was 160 km diameter so that's 16,000,000 cm diameter so minifigure scale makes it 160,000 cm or 1600 M - 1.6 km making the volume about 2,144,660,584 cubic metres....) Of course the second Death Star was supposedly 900 M diameter so that makes it 90,000,000 cm diamter, minifigure scale 9 km diameter... Volume... Oh forget it... You get the idea!<br />
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Minifigure scale large Lego Star Wars ships are basically impractical to the point of being ridiculous.<br />
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As for my set - the second engine in place, the flat bit will be where the pilots sit.<br />
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It's funny I'm considering getting into Lego as an adult, as a hobby. For a long time all my spare time was thrown at Taekwondo I even made a <a href="http://tulfacts.net23.net/">taekwondo</a> website to help people with patterns. I ought to start training again. Lego is fun but it doesn't get you fit!smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-81405144249405128912011-08-05T11:49:00.001+01:002011-09-16T08:29:57.455+01:00The Principles of Design and Good ToysThe design objectives for my lego set is that it should be built to minifigure scale, it should appear to be functional, so there should be space for things like fuel tanks and there should be adequate controls for the minifigure crew.<br />
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Having built some more Classic Lego Space with my daughter last night - I built 6882 the Astro Walker, but it's a two legged version as so many bits are missing :P - I've come to the conclusion that Lego is a really well designed and engineered toy. There's a great guide to buying toys that echoes this thought at <a href="http://choosingpresentsforchildren.net46.net/">Choosing Presents for Children</a> I think all in all, a good toy should be;<br />
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Constructive, and teach children manual dexterity.<br />
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Facilitate imaginitive play.<br />
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Be robust and able to withstant the abuse given to it by toddlers.<br />
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If you look at successful toys, for example Playmobil and Lego, they fulfill this criteria nicely. The interesting thing about Playmobil is that its designer originally pitched model planes to the makers, his idea was turned down but he was asked to design little people which became PlayMobil.<br />
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Next stage of my lego build - again, I'm going to try and start with a small two man craft.<br />
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I've not got a base, a solid under structure and I've started positioning the engines. The cockpit should be big enough for two.<br />
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Next I'll be adding the wings, building up the super-structure and starting work on the cockpit.smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287275984973160948.post-18244060890917360222011-08-04T09:33:00.001+01:002011-09-16T08:29:02.461+01:00Lego Design by MeSo what is this blog about? It's post number 1 so I should explain it. I have nothing to do with Lego and I'm not promoting their products or services in anyway. What I am involved in is the design and sale of <a href="http://www.portableheatingandcooling.co.uk/">portable air conditioners</a>.<br />
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The Lego part comes in because I recently got given a huge box of Lego brom my childhood - to clean up and give to my four year old daughter to play with. Whilst sifting through the pieces it struck me there was probably not a great deal missing, and I could probably rebuild some of my old classic Lego space ships for my daughter to play with.<br />
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So, after scouring the net for a while, I found lots of instructions and inventry lists for building these classic sets and I managed to build two spaceships, including the transporter set 918 with only minor substitutions. I found this process to be very satisfying and started looking at modern Lego sets that are aimed more at adults. This lead me to the Star Wars Lego UCS series, which are all impressive and I'd love to have the space and money to build some of them - but I don't really. The Super Star Destroyer is over 1.2 Metres long and costs £300... And it's way off being minifigure scale, if it was minifigure scale and we assume minifigures are scaled 100 - 1 (Assume person is usually about 2 Metres, a minifigure is around 2 cm) so the SSD was 17 km in the film, 17,000 Metres, or 1,700,000 cm knock this down to 1% the size, and it's 17,000 cm converted into metres gives you 170 Metres. That would be an incredibly expensive Lego set and I don't think I know anyone who would have space to store it.... Thought I'd love to see it built!<br />
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This lead me to look at Lego's 'Design by Me' service - which looks really cool. The principle is simple, you down load their software, design your set, then they print a box and instructions for you and assemble the pieces by hand before shipping it out to you.<br />
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So I decided to have a look at what I could design in the spirit of the classic Lego Space sets. I even had a look at Lego Cad, which gives you more freedom than Lego's software - but it's clunkier to use and you can't have that magic of holding the pieces in your hand and putting it together physically to test your design.<br />
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Obviously the aesthetics aren't the only part of designing a Lego set. When a set is being prepared for release, hours of play test are done on the completed model. The criteria for UCS sets is more focused on aesthetics than normal Lego - but they still have to be something which doesn't fall apart in your hand!<br />
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In this blog I'm going to cover the experience of designing and hopefully eventually building a Lego Design by me set. I've decided on a theme, having looked at the available pieces the best selection of wings and space themed parts are coloured black - so I'm going to them it around 'Space Pirates' and try to design craft which appear to be functional working craft... Let's see how it goes...<br />
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This is going to be the landing gear and bottom of one of the engines. I'm going to start by building a small fighter-like craft, but to make it interesting and different, it's going to be designed to have a pilot and co-pilot like modern light planes.smokemarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903125453001900595noreply@blogger.com0