Knock off legos

waggy · Mar 28, 2016

Slew Foot said:
Heh, I aint spending $200 on a star destroyer to see it get lumped in with a bunch of cheap sets

/this

The expensive sets are made and put aside. the kids do play with them but they aren't going in the lego table.

MongGrel · Mar 28, 2016

Fritzo said:
That's what ultra-precision costs. One of our clients has a gauge that can detect variances of 1/5000" using a small bubble on the end of a pin. It cost $1.2 million. A mold that's designed to make millions of units and hold them to a 1/64" spec for $250K is actually not a bad deal.

Yeah, that is an electroprobe I imagine, I used to use those.

Is basically a high level indicator. A indicator is a general purpose mechanical shop tool for calibrating things, before anyone goes that route.

Inter Rapid, Swiss, makes some of the best mechanical ones.

We used to have several of those around to work in microns in QA when the tool shop needed one.

The small bubble is a ruby I imagine.

Homerboy · Mar 28, 2016

Slew Foot said:
Heh, I aint spending $200 on a star destroyer to see it get lumped in with a bunch of cheap sets

$200? Man I wept when my son tore apart the $400 Death Star. Now that he's older, he understands my anguish (and wants to rebuild)

Red Squirrel · Mar 28, 2016

MongGrel said:
Building Precision Molds is serious business.

Yes, many are polished to mirror quality for a seal when they are under pressure when the plastic it injected, and have removable inserts.

Like the vast amount of things that are made out of plastic.

They are high end tooling, you should see some of the high speed progressive dies out there.

Consistency is the biggest factor too, it's incredible that Lego has been able to keep consistency throughout the years. A new block will fit on an old block. Now days you rarely see consistency in products. They'll do a batch, then the year later the product is totally different. This is a big bummer for something like lead acid batteries where you want one that has the exact same characteristics as one that you already have, if replacing one cell in a string for example.

dank69 · Mar 28, 2016

Homerboy said:
$200? Man I wept when my son tore apart the $400 Death Star. Now that he's older, he understands my anguish (and wants to rebuild)

When I first looked into Pley they had the Super Star Destroyer. I don't see it anymore. :'(

Fritzo · Mar 28, 2016

MongGrel said:
Yeah, that is an electroprobe I imagine, I used to use those.

Is basically a high level indicator. A indicator is a general purpose mechanical shop tool for calibrating things, before anyone goes that route.

Inter Rapid, Swiss, makes some of the best mechanical ones.

We used to have several of those around to work in microns in QA when the tool shop needed one.

The small bubble is a ruby I imagine.

Not sure what it is, I'm just told never to touch it or I'll never be able to afford to replace it

waggy · Mar 28, 2016

dank69 said:
When I first looked into Pley they had the Super Star Destroyer. I don't see it anymore. :'(

A friend of mine has that. When he got married he wanted to sell it. I passed because i didn't have room to show it. so his GF/wife tossed it in the garbage.

Now i enjoy telling them that it was worth a grand..

rockyct · Mar 29, 2016

Homerboy said:
$200? Man I wept when my son tore apart the $400 Death Star. Now that he's older, he understands my anguish (and wants to rebuild)

Don't worry though. There's a $500 one coming out in the fall

XavierMace · Mar 29, 2016

Fritzo said:
That's what ultra-precision costs. One of our clients has a gauge that can detect variances of 1/5000" using a small bubble on the end of a pin. It cost $1.2 million. A mold that's designed to make millions of units and hold them to a 1/64" spec for $250K is actually not a bad deal.

Yep, that's what I was saying about good molds vs bad. My dad's company does the ultra-precision ones. Being a few thousands off means the mold gets scrapped. Larger ones are way over $250k.

Jaepheth · Mar 29, 2016

videogames101 said:
OP: LEGOs are expensive.

ATOT: Spend several thousand on a 3D printer instead!

You don't come to ATOT for good advice; you come to ATOT for over the top comic relief advice.

Everyone knows this.
:colbert:

Blue_Max · Mar 29, 2016

Slew Foot said:
Heh, I aint spending $200 on a star destroyer to see it get lumped in with a bunch of cheap sets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuxM-avNfLo D:

dank69 · Mar 29, 2016

waggy said:
A friend of mine has that. When he got married he wanted to sell it. I passed because i didn't have room to show it. so his GF/wife tossed it in the garbage.

Now i enjoy telling them that it was worth a grand..

Should have thrown her in the garbage instead.

Homerboy · Mar 29, 2016

rockyct said:
Don't worry though. There's a $500 one coming out in the fall

I KNEW you'd chime in on this thread!!! How's it going bud?!

$500 huh? Just in time for Christmas. I want a sneak peak!

Slew Foot · Mar 29, 2016

dank69 said:
Should have thrown her in the garbage instead.

Seriously, bitches dont mess with a man's Lego bricks

Sonikku · Mar 29, 2016

I always liked the Lego Pirate ships but could never afford them when I was a kid.

BarkingGhostar · Mar 29, 2016

Someone needs to make a Death Star to scale of the Super Star Destroyer

Ns1 · Mar 29, 2016

Sonikku said:
I always liked the Lego Pirate ships but could never afford them when I was a kid.

same. their old school train sets too.

Sonikku · Mar 29, 2016

The Black Seas Barracuda. That was the one that got away. No amount of begging could persuade my mother to get it for me. No doubt to a parent $120 for a building set must have seemed positively ludicrous in 89.

Ban Bot · Mar 29, 2016

I need to find a source for affordable LEGO TECHNICS.

We have a couple handfuls of the smaller sets + Mindstorms. We find them much more enjoyable than the LEGO bricks.

Homerboy · Mar 29, 2016

Sonikku said:
The Black Seas Barracuda. That was the one that got away. No amount of begging could persuade my mother to get it for me. No doubt to a parent $120 for a building set must have seemed positively ludicrous in 89.

How does $250 sound to a grown man in 2016?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/351681223311?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true

:twisted:

Ns1 · Mar 29, 2016

Homerboy said:
How does $250 sound to a grown man in 2016?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/351681223311?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true

:twisted:

$250 isn't TOO bad after inflation and interest I guess...

...but I'd have to buy all the ships on that page, and then I'd be out a few thousand.

Homerboy · Mar 29, 2016

Ns1 said:
$250 isn't TOO bad after inflation and interest I guess...

...but I'd have to buy all the ships on that page, and then I'd be out a few thousand.

A man(child) must do, what a man(child) must do.

Ns1 · Mar 29, 2016

Homerboy said:
A man(child) must do, what a man(child) must do.

I must build an empire.

//edit

omg, google image search for Legos is a terrible idea. FUCK YOU NOSTALGIA, FUCK YOU.

Homerboy · Mar 29, 2016

Ns1 said:
I must build an empire.

//edit

omg, google image search for Legos is a terrible idea. FUCK YOU NOSTALGIA, FUCK YOU.

I saw your post in my email notification.
I LOVED the trains

There is a guy around here that has a table at all the local model train shows and it's all Legos... HUGE train setup and an entire city of Legos. It's just incredible

Ns1 · Mar 29, 2016

Homerboy said:
There is a guy around here that has a table at all the local model train shows and it's all Legos... HUGE train setup and an entire city of Legos. It's just incredible

yeah that's what I'm afraid I'll turn into. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm-7-vmOzAA

O_O

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