Bar angled hollow stud
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Thank you! I spent hours on this, I should have known it was better to ask an expert.
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More knowing how to find out rather than knowing the part. I uploaded the photo to a brick identifier. First it gave me the minifig so I cropped the photo to the piece in the hand and that time it worked.
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The LEGO Mario sets have been using green ones as stems on the apple-like fruit Yoshi eats, like in this pic:
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Lego? Or jaded perspective on nightlife dating?
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The kiddo has Monday off from school. I have to have my students’ grades submitted on Tuesday. My plan was to marathon final grading while he was at school today so I wouldn’t have to worry about it over his three-day weekend. Instead, we got a couple inches of snow last night and this morning, his school is canceled today, and I am embracing the snow day vibe by sitting in front of a fire building the Santa “minifigure.”
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Thanks. Bricklink (which I did know about, unlike Brickognize) used to order this, which has 14(!) of the part he wants.
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Happy Imperial Invasion of Hoth Day, to those who celebrate…
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While this is (according to my partner anyway) a really nice set (that is still in its box over here).
The parts in question can easily be acquired separately if you want. He mentioned that Bricklink may be better stocked here and since the parts are small could be sent via letter.
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Yeah, we needed a birthday present, and to diversify and expand on his pool of robot parts.
(Also, for example, we later found that another part he had two of, one is nowhere to be found: but luckily there are two in this set. That’s the kind of thing I was assuming would come up.)
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I saw that set, it looks awesome. Comes with a gingerbread Vader, too, right?
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I did a lego.
I rarely ever. I don’t have much space to put finished builds and my childhood legos are with my nephew. But I had to have the Going Merry from One Piece (I might put the crew into my new gaming computer as decoration)
I made a huge mistake somewhere in the first quarter and it came back to bite me 50+ pages of manual later. I was lucky that my partner helped me debug the issue and even more lucky that I was able to fix it without having to start over.
Other than that it was really fun. There are several rooms inside the ship that can be accessed through easily removable parts.
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My partner received an almost 4k pieces car (not lego) today.
(a Lotus car model)
One more thing I would like to note. A constant criticism I heard from the one reviewer my partner used to watch on youTube is that most models contain off-color pieces that aren’t visible on the outside but are often printed in cheaper colors like plain red or blue rather than the model colors.
Lego apparently claims that these are supposed to help build the models.
The reviewer claims that lego is just being cheap.
As a beginner, these colored blocks were super useful after I had made that mistake. And even before. (My lighting was a bit bad). I could hardly distinguish the different shades of brown in many of the images. Knowing where that bright blue block was or finding the page where the red one was clearly visible made things much easier to deal with.
As often the reviewers are experts and tend to forget that these color blocks make things more accessible to beginners/casuals like me.
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I can’t imagine the color you dye abs has much impact on the price. To make it, at least, what it costs at retail or in the secondary market is another thing entirely.
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As I understand it, the real cost tends to be in the logistics of having to manage (N+1) colours of a particular part rather than (N).
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my partner says:
- color mixes are definitly different and pigments cost different
- color mixes are also chemically different and lead to different results in the quality of the bricks
- plus as you mentioned logistics and common colors are definitely cheaper
(he also mentioned that ‘Held der Steine’ the reviewer I mentioned, has at some point put together a whole guide on how colors are different, but I cannot seem to find it.)
Also found this link on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/pv5vux/oc_a_complete_guide_on_lego_brick_cost_and/
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The ‘light violet’ brick costs $4.5!?!?!?!
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Those are all secondary market prices. The prices in secondary markets have nothing to do with cost of production, they are a function of the supply and demand. Rare pieces, whether a rare shape or a rare color, are generally going to be more valuable than common ones. Pieces collectors want will be more valuable than ones they don’t want, even if they’re the same scarcity.
There is no way Lego saves money by putting an off color piece or three in a large kit. It probably increases the complexity of packaging the kit because it is another part to make sure gets in the right bag. (I assume it is all automated, but part count drives how big a achine you need.
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