Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies Re: Forum Reforms - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Yes, that’s why new ones are always popping up. [...] And there are no notifications for private messages (took me months to see I had some), and those can’t [...]
(54 months ago, Nov 8, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Forum Reforms - SylvainLS (46) | [...] My point was that forum.bl.com uses a modern, off-the-shelf, forum engine (and, if I’m not mistaken, phpBB (it uses the Ariki style, designed for phpBB 3.0)). [...]
(54 months ago, Nov 8, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Forum Reforms - SylvainLS (46) | [...] On the other hand, 200 comments of “Good!” and “+1” aren’t fun to read either ;):P I also believe that, as there are other forums that specialize in that sort of [...]
(54 months ago, Nov 8, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Undetermined 3183 - SylvainLS (46) | [...] The four I have are the same length but as one has two slots and the others 4, I guess they are all “long.” The length is a bit more than a stud: you can’t put a brick [...]
(55 months ago, Oct 11, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Brick Color - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Yes. The “Bluish” aren’t bluish, they are really grey. They only appear bluer than the old greys because those were actually yellowish. But they already had a name [...]
(55 months ago, Oct 10, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: Brick Color - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Depends, what do you have? ;) If it’s post-2005, it’s DBG. If it’s pre-2004, it’s DG. In between, well, the Big Colour Shift happened in 2004 but LEGO used their stocks [...]
(55 months ago, Oct 10, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: 49699 a Panel?! - SylvainLS (46) | [...] I don’t quite follow the logic here :? Half an arch might be a slope but, surely, an arch + an inverted arch is not a slope, it’s a cylinder! ;):P [...] Okay but [...]
(55 months ago, Oct 10, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: 49699 a Panel?! - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Well: 1. Window (or door) frame implies you could put a glass or panel (or door) inside. That seems very unlikely with the technic holes in the way. [...]
(55 months ago, Oct 10, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: How rare is a flat silver 2x4 brick? - SylvainLS (46) | [...] :? Looks like Devil.R is not alone¹: they answer multiple times to the same messages and they keep answering to themselves. (¹That expression may have a figurative [...]
(55 months ago, Oct 8, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: Change time zone - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Very simple: everything is stored in UTC and presented in a local/chosen TZ. The UTC → local TZ conversion is done with a standard, well tested library. There. The complexity [...]
(56 months ago, Sep 12, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: found wrong category - SylvainLS (46) | [...] There are lots of reasons why something isn’t automatized. The main ones are: 1. You have to realize it’s stupid work. 2. “You can automatize that?!” The users don’t [...]
(56 months ago, Sep 7, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Excel - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Ah, okay, my fault: no quotes around the region. And to get the correct values for the region, try this: — start editing the cell by deleting the region, — do not validate, [...]
(57 months ago, Aug 25, 2019, to Inventories) |
| Re: Excel - SylvainLS (46) | [...] For the first part: 1. Download the set inventory as Tab-delimited (should give you a “S-NNN-1.txt” file). 2. Open Excel, open the file from Excel (or drag [...]
(57 months ago, Aug 24, 2019, to Inventories) |
| Re: Excel - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Actually, you could also import the XML version but the tab-delimited file contains the items current names ;) Colours are only numbers though. So you’ll need to [...]
(57 months ago, Aug 24, 2019, to Inventories) |
| Re: Cardboard sleeves in inventories - SylvainLS (46) | [...] (Snide: BL doesn’t even have _one_ working website. ) There was a second website where users (mainly sellers) were encouraged to go when BL2 was to [...]
(57 months ago, Aug 21, 2019, to Inventories) |
| Re: 4460 a/b: wrong height - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Or that the size be formatted as “2 x 1 x 3 (studs x studs x bricks)” or, better, “2 studs x 1 stud x 3 bricks.” And these suggestions have been made almost every [...]
(57 months ago, Aug 11, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: 928 wrong plate? - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Considering Greek gods are far from paragons of perfection, subject to their whims, inconsistent, unreasonable, and uncaring of us, mortals, I’d say “most of us” are [...]
(57 months ago, Aug 1, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Plant 2417? - SylvainLS (46) | [...] No, they couldn’t. Most of the parts are ABS, not PE. Different plastics, different processes. PE can be made from ethanol. (Ahoy matey, sugar cane is rum!) [...]
(58 months ago, Jul 23, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: wish list on checkout - SylvainLS (46) | [...] There already is a link at checkout for searching your order in your WLs. And you can do it whenever you want from your WLs with the order number, or from the order summary [...]
(58 months ago, Jul 17, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: wish list on checkout - SylvainLS (46) | [...] You can create a WL from the cart (so just before checkout). Or simply open the details of your order and there’s a button “Add Order Items To My Wanted List” [...]
(58 months ago, Jul 17, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: parts - SylvainLS (46) | [...] In LDD, look at the Part # / Design ID in the status line. Use that as a search term. To catch patterned or composite parts, add a star. “MINI ALIEN PET” = 95204, [...]
(59 months ago, Jun 11, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: 'Prefer My BrickLink Classic?' - SylvainLS (46) | [...] It’s because the ones they don’t do on a Friday as they are leaving for the weekend are either: 1. not breaking anything because they weren’t made by sleep-deprived, eager [...]
(59 months ago, Jun 8, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Interesting - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Sorry :) I try to wait for others to answer but sometimes: (URL) ;) [...] Nah, it’s LEGO which’s above them ;)
(60 months ago, May 16, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: Interesting - SylvainLS (46) | [...] You read the wrong sites ;):P UVs don’t tan the plastic. UVs accelerate or make possible some chemical reactions in the plastic. Other things may accelerate the [...]
(60 months ago, May 15, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: New Rigid Hoses flex - SylvainLS (46) | [...] First, the dedicated forum for Studio is (URL) (which, despite the generic name, isn’t this one). Then, you can simply rotate the hose’s head with the arrow keys [...]
(60 months ago, May 9, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Set 71040 Disney castle - SylvainLS (46) | [...] (Set 71040-1) (Original Box for Set 71040-1) Maybe just a US / EU difference on the boxes: number of parts is an obligation in the USA, it’s rarely on EU boxes. For [...]
(60 months ago, May 8, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Coral - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Are you talking about the colour of the fresh flesh, the cooked flesh, or the smoked flesh? At what time of the year the salmon was killed? What did the salmon eat? [...]
(60 months ago, May 2, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: Shipping adress Belgium - SylvainLS (46) | [...] We had the same problem with French addresses (compounded with the use of wrong names for the régions :| ). It only took 2 years of nagging to be fixed. In the [...]
(60 months ago, May 1, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Lengths in “L” and 18654 - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Because there’s no constistence to the catalogue? [...] Okay… provided we agree on what a “L” is and out-of-system dimensions like “2/3 L” are verified before being [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 17, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Lengths in “L” and 18654 - SylvainLS (46) | [...] But (Part 6232) has only one pin, or is the other half considered hidden inside the brick? And (Part 15100) (Part 6628) and the like are “pin”s, not “half-pin”s and there’s [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 17, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Lengths in “L” and 18654 - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Yes, and wes say “stud” for the distance between the centers of two studs / the width of 1-stud-wide brick or plate. [...] Exactly, “BEAM 1X1” is its LEGO name. And [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 17, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Lengths in “L” and 18654 - SylvainLS (46) | I’m wondering what’s the rationale for having changed the name (and dimensions) of (Part 18654) from “1 L” to “2/3 L”. I can’t see where it’s 0.67L. Especially if I [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 16, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Grays & Browns - SylvainLS (46) | [...] There was a “Great Colour Shift” around 2004. The main colours that were replaced were Light and Dark Grays, and Brown, but the other colours were also slightly modified. [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 13, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: inconsistencies - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Indeed. But what I’m against, and I wasn’t clear, is the use of the term “jumper” for a tile with studs + plate without studs category. For me, “jumper” is specific to [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: inconsistencies - SylvainLS (46) | [...] The database won’t allow it. A part can only be in one category. Because they are “categories,” not “tags.” A tag system was asked for, many times.
(61 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: inconsistencies - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Against. I don’t know why “jumper” was chosen. The similarity with electrical jumpers (little wires that “jump” over the main circuits, or little thingies to connect [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: inconsistencies - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Me too. Well, except for the example, as there are plates with grooves (Part 3030a) and tiles/plates variants with and without groove ;) (Part 41740) (Part 92593) [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Keffiyeh vs Turban - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Me too ;) (I lack the courage.) [...] Well, I’m sure there’s peacockery somewhere (bad, bad pun) but “corne” is a common term in French for angled/folded [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 8, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Keffiyeh vs Turban - SylvainLS (46) | [...] I’ll excuse your French as it so happens that “%^^$%@” could indeed be replaced by “French”. Bicorne = two horns There are tricorne hats too (three horns). [...] [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 8, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: inconsistencies - SylvainLS (46) | [...] I’d have said it’s the number of studs (or ratio). Something like 50%+1 of studs missing means it’s a tile, but some “tiles” have 50% of their studs and some [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 8, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Grouping Parts - SylvainLS (46) | [...] You can edit submodels without “breaking” them (“release” in Studio’s terms). You can nest submodels (make a hierarchy of them), copy/paste them as if they [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 5, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Old (classic) light gray - SylvainLS (46) | [...] There’s one reason for discolaration: degradation. (And plastics degrade differently depending on their compositions, as we all know because we all heard about the [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 2, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: List of known part-color-combinations - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Simpler: (URL) , and choose “Colors”. But OP wants parts too. So, on the same page, select “Part and Color Codes”. That’s the table of (Part+Color) = LEGO’s [...]
(62 months ago, Mar 30, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Studio QOL things - SylvainLS (46) | [...] (URL) See the red Studio icon up there? Hover over it, there’s a direct link to it named “Builder Forum”. [...]
(62 months ago, Mar 20, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Helmet 90392pb01 metallic gold or tan? - SylvainLS (46) | [...] I’d say it’s the regular version: Metallic Gold isn’t a plastic colour, it’s coated on another colour (generally Tan). On the other hand, I thought the coating [...]
(62 months ago, Mar 11, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: How should i name this set? - SylvainLS (46) | [...] There are two meanings for the statement. One of them being “I wouldn’t want that movie to be the topic when playing Jeopardy against that guy” ;)
(62 months ago, Mar 8, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: paint in studio 2.0? - SylvainLS (46) | [...] We are talking about a format created in the 1990’s. Maybe you aren’t old enough to remember how slow personal computers were at this time. I am :| Drawing a simple [...]
(62 months ago, Mar 6, 2019, to Inventories) |
| Re: paint in studio 2.0? - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Longer answer: soon. [...] LDraw (the underlying format for parts in Studio) is an old format. It’s not a bad thing but it explains why, at the time it was [...]
(62 months ago, Mar 6, 2019, to Inventories) |
| Re: Why is Finch Dallow sw1005 from 2017? - SylvainLS (46) | [...] If minifig dates work the same way than for parts, they are automatically set from the (oldest) set they are from. So, unless the new version of the set gets its [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 20, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Aren't these differences ridiculous? - SylvainLS (46) | [...] The database isn’t made for this, and the only way now is to have “undetermined” variants, which just adds another variant, fouls the price guide, and makes half the [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 12, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Aren't these differences ridiculous? - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Three variants. Don’t exaggerate, you’re showing them ;) (Part 3307) (Part 15254) (Part 12939) [...] Yes, the variants are important: 1. You can fit some parts [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 12, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: My Pet Peeve of the day - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Nope, a new, blank sticker sheet already has the backing. The backing is like a sprue. LEGO doesn’t put the sticker on the backing, they print on the sticker while [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 4, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: My Pet Peeve of the day - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Or you if you get them directly from LEGO (or their supplier) before they are filled. Unless in that case you call them “pre-new” or “not-even-new-yet” :D
(63 months ago, Feb 3, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: A Smidgen of Lego History - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Indeed, Happy Birthday! [...] Well, the first train that looked like a train and had tracks to roll on. There were Duplo connecting cars before 1980. Even without tracks, [...]
(64 months ago, Jan 29, 2019, to Catalog) |
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